🕐 09:00-09:30

Registration and refreshments

 🕐 09:30-09:40

Welcome

North West Lead

🕐 09:40-10:15

APM Update

Professor Adam Boddison OBE - Chief Executive Officer, APM

 🕐 10:15-11:00

Opening keynote | From Eurovision to Taylor Town

Susan Finnegan - International - City Development

Susan’s keynote will explore her vast experience in creative leadership having played leadership roles on transformative projects in the event industry, including Liverpool’s European Capital of Culture in 2008, the Eurovision 2023 Visitor Experience, and the innovative Taylor Town project.

 🕐 11:00-11:30 

Break

  🕐 11:30-12:15

🕐 11:30-12:15 Theme 1: Creative Media and Storytelling

Behind the Scenes with Liverpool Film Office:
Managing Projects in the Film and Television Industry

Zoe Rubert, Helen Morgan and Gemma Ward, Liverpool Film Office

An exclusive insight into the dynamic world of film and TV production management. From coordinating the logistics of blockbuster shoots to supporting local independent filmmakers, the trio will showcase the critical project management skills that keep Liverpool at the forefront of the screen industry.

🕐 11:30-12:15 Theme 2: Innovation and Infrastructure in Communities

Interface and Project Integration in the Transpennine Route Update Project

Lohith Vaddi and Faisal Farooq, Transpennine Route Update

Discover how interface management operates at the strategic level and supports the successful delivery of the Transpennine Route Upgrade Project (TRU).

🕐 11:30-12:15 Theme 3: Sustainability and Social Value

The Power of the Badge: Improving Communities through Sport

Tim Dwyer, Liverpool Football Club (LFC)/LFC Foundation

How the LFC Foundation impacts deprived communities and unlocks potential by connecting with marginalised groups in a way other organizations can’t, through the power of the LFC brand.

  🕐 12:20-13:00

🕐 12:20-13:00 Theme 1: Creative Media and Storytelling

Eight Days a Week: Delivering Excellence in Cultural Tourism

Karuna Gaur, The Beatles Story

Discuss how you balance the demands of multiple simultaneous projects while keeping the guest experience at the forefront.
Key Points: • Juggling short-term upgrades with long-term strategic goals.
• Time management strategies for peak visitor seasons.
• Continuous innovation to stay relevant in the competitive cultural tourism space.

🕐 12:20-13:00 Theme 2: Innovation and Infrastructure in Communities

Collaboration to deliver infrastructure – LCR Connect and its benefits

Lorna Rogers, Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA)

LCR Connect is a joint venture providing a gigabit capable fibre network to deliver backhaul connectivity to businesses across the city region. To deliver the network, the partners utilised a dig once approach and are now working to leverage the completed network to drive economic growth.

🕐 12:20-13:00 Theme 3: Sustainability and Social Value

Procuring social value: It’s about time

Professor Jo Meehan, University of Liverpool

In this talk, Professor Jo Meehan will share the latest evidence and insights from her work on social value in public procurement. Following the talk there is an opportunity for Q&A.

🕐 13:00-14:00

Lunch

🕐 14:00-14:40

🕐 14:00-14:40 Theme 1: Creative Media and Storytelling

Project Management at the BBC – opportunities and challenges

Sophy Jacob, Louise Blythe, Jane Porter and Moujan Piri Pirnagh, BBC

Project Management at the BBC covers a multitude of areas and requires a varied skillset and approaches to deliver. In this presentation we will share just some of the projects we are working on from major sporting events and mandatory training on AI to culture change and major transformation.

🕐 14:00-14:40 Theme 2: Innovation and Infrastructure in Communities

Collaborative Innovation: Biopolymers in the Circular Economy

Lisa Mansell and Richard Clarke, United Utilities

This presentation will effectively showcase the creativity, innovation, and collaboration driving the Biopolymers project, highlighting its potential to transform wastewater treatment and contribute to a sustainable future.

🕐 14:00-14:40 Theme 3: Sustainability and Social Value

Creating a positive future – sustainability

Richard Collins, CSR Accreditation

We will explore anacronyms, initialisations and industry jargon to try and make sense of this rapidly evolving sustainability landscape. We can then explore the four key steps to help you build a sustainable and profitable business.

🕐 14:45-15:30

🕐 14:45-15:30 Theme 1: Creative Media and Storytelling

A creativity strategy modelled from Walt Disney

Tim Lyons, APM People Interest Network

How creative do you need to get, in order resolve challenges effectively? This presentation will explain how Walt Disney’s ‘imagineering’ process can be used in any problem-solving scenario. It doesn’t need any specialist skills, just your team’s own intimate knowledge of the project and the Imagineering framework.

🕐 14:45-15:30 Theme 2: Innovation and Infrastructure in Communities

The Forces Transition Group (FTG) – Bringing Social Value to Military Service and the User

John Stephenson, Forces Transition Group

The FTG is designed to bring organisations and military top talent together efficiently, without the use of stereo-typical recruitment tools.

🕐 14:45-15:30 Theme 3: Sustainability and Social Value

Procuring social value: It’s about time

Professor Jo Meehan, University of Liverpool

In this talk, Professor Jo Meehan will share the latest evidence and insights from her work on social value in public procurement. Following the talk there is an opportunity for Q&A.

🕐 15:30-16:00 

Break

 🕐 16:00-16:50

MusicFutures: A Programme Driving Innovation and Growth in the Liverpool City Region Music Ecosystem

Kevin McManus, Culture Liverpool, Liverpool City Council, Kirsty Connell and Dr Jennifer Davies, University of Liverpool

This panel will feature key stakeholders representing MusicFutures, a programme that brings together academia, industry, local government, and the region’s extensive network of freelancers, musicians, and artists.

 🕐 16:50-17:00

Closing comments

North West Network Team