Inflation. Interest rates. Austerity. Climate change and embodied carbon.

How do we overcome these hurdles and still deliver to Wales what the built environment needs for it to secure a legacy for future generations?

That’s what we want to address at the CEWales 2023 Construction Summit on 7th February in Cardiff. It will be an interactive conference led by keynote speakers from Government, leading economists and technologists with plenty of time for panel discussions and Q&A. But the conversations need to be shaped by you. We will ask what does Wales need in terms of housing, infrastructure and policymaking and what role does construction play? We will ask where is the work coming from and how best to deliver it.

Provisional Agenda:

• Welcome – Cat Griffith-Williams, CEO, CEWales

• What does Wales need vs what Wales want – Welsh Government

• The economics of construction and the built environment – market context to contend with – James Butcher, Director of Policy, NFB

• How do we transform construction – Ian Nicholson, Value Toolkit Delivery Lead, Construction Innovation Hub

• How do we that – response from the industry – Jo Charles, Head of Sustainability, Willmott Dixon

• Panel discussion/Q&A

• Break

• How do you win the CEW Awards? – speaker tbc

• How we won the CEW Awards – CEWales/National award winner speaker tbc

• Panel discussion and Q&A

• Lunch

• West Wales needs a new hospital: how do you build that? Lee Davies, Executive Director of Strategic Development and Operational Planning at Hywel Dda University Health Board

• Workshop – West Wales needs a new hospital: how do you build that?

• Feedback & Q&A with plenary team

• Break

• Can we build what does Wales need vs what Wales wants? – Summary and facilitated session

• Panel discussion and Q&A

• Close

There is an opportunity to sponsor this event which will secure a speaking slot, exhibition spaces are also available see below:

£1k secures a speaker slot of 10-20 minute, an exhibition space and three free delegate tickets.

£500 secures an exhibition space and a role as a panellist in one of our discussion sessions

£300 secures an exhibition space only

It is important that a separate email address is used for each delegate booking to ensure all individuals are listed at the event. If you use the same email address for each delegate previous details will be overwritten. Can you also ensure your name, company, email are spelt correctly as these details are automatically uploaded to a delegate list.