30 March 2021 
Martin Higgs, Communications Officer
Coronacoaster: Conference Pathways
AUDE21 is the biggest conference we’ve ever run. More sessions, more workshops, more speakers, more delegates – and with the whole estates and facilities team able to attend for the cost of a Team Ticket, more ways to learn and gain value from the event. With so many options, and with busy working diaries to accommodate, how will you make the most of the AUDE Conference?
Delegates can now check the programme and add sessions to their calendar. Some of you will dip in for just a session or two. Some of you will want to attend as much as possible. In this article we’ve highlighted six “Conference Pathways” – options based on particular themes or types of content. Why not discuss your path through #AUDE21 with colleagues, so as a team you manage to see as many different sessions as you can?
It’s time to book your own personal programme.
Conference Pathways 1: Plenaries
Of course – and we aren’t exactly recommending this – you could experience a fantastic conference just by engaging with our plenary sessions. We’ve made it as simple as possible by scheduling these at the same time every day: 9.30am and 1pm. Across the week there are ten great sessions, and while we aren’t going to pick favourites at this point, we’ve aimed at a mix of the practical and the inspirational that we think you’ll enjoy. We’ve all been riding the Coronacoaster for the last 12 months and many of these sessions give more than a nod to the current challenges – economic, cultural, institutional. And within the plenary sessions there is a real thread to be found about the personal and psychological stresses of this pandemic year. With teams to manage and our own wellbeing to maintain, this is as important an aspect of estates leadership as any. Our headline speakers are at the heart of the AUDE Conference experience, this year as every year, and we really hope you’ll add more than just a couple from this list as you build your own personal programme.
Monday 12 April
9.30am: Psychological Wellbeing at Work: causes, consequences and solutions – Professor Ivan Robertson (Robertson Cooper Ltd)
1pm: The economic headwinds facing higher education post Covid-19 – Dr Gavan Conlon and Maike Halterbeck (London Economics)
Tuesday 13 April
9.30am: Universities and These Uncertain Times – Professor Andy Westwood (University of Manchester)
1pm: How Higher Education Can Keep Pace with Growing Sustainability Aspirations – Ron Yanosky (EAB)
Wednesday 14 April
9.30am: The Experience Revolution: the great opportunity - Linda Hausmanis (IWFM)
1pm: The future of contracting: a decade of disruption – Rick Willmott and Tim Carey (Willmott Dixon)
Thursday 15 April
9.30am: Hopes, Dreams & Sleepless Nights: 10 future student trends you really need to know about – Jim Tudor (Future Index)
1pm: Fire, Water and Collapse: the unholy trinity of threats to your estate - Gary Jebb (University of Edinburgh), Professor John Cole, Dawson Stelfox (Consarc Design Group)
Friday 16 April
9.30am: Leading through disruption, change and uncertainty – Julie Hickton (Natures Coaching)
1pm: Future Human Behaviour in a Post-Covid World – Thimon de Jong (WHETSTON)
Conference Pathways 2: Future trends and the post-Covid world
There’s more than a touch of crystal ball gazing about our second Conference Pathway. We’ve all needed to do plenty of learning to cope with the shifting sands of a year of Covid. But 12 months on, what do we make of the changed landscape? How will we need to plan and build in the future? How and where will our students learn? What does Covid mean for space management, or for our ability to manage successful commercial activity? Follow this pathway for great input from estates directors and architects too.
Monday 12 April
2.30pm: Future Research Design: Academic Led, Servant of Industry or Both - Peter Dudley and Kevin Bates (Scott Tallon Walker Architects)
Tuesday 13 April
11am: Beyond the Perfect Storm: Integrated master planning and the future sustainable estate - Charles Dokk-Olsen (Shepheard Epstein Hunter) and Bryan Thomas (CPB Projects)
11am: A Vision for a Learning Landscape - Magda Mostafa (American University in Cairo), Shirley Dugdale (Dugdale Strategy) and Rory Sheppard (Hassell Studio)
2.30pm: A Transformed Estate in a Post Covid World - Sue Emms (BDP), Daniel Ladbury and Sinead O’Toole (Sheffield Hallam University)
Wednesday 14 April
4pm: What’s the Future for Commercial Activity in Universities? – Jan Capper (CUBO), Jo Hardman (CUBO and Lancaster University) and Kirsty Woodward (CUBO and University of Leicester)
Thursday 15 April
11am: Large learning spaces: What does the future hold? - Russell Day (Sir Robert McAlpine), Emma-Louise Hannigan (HLM Architects), Dr Jos Boys (UCL), Rupert Goddard (Sheppard Robinson), Stafford Critchlow (WilkinsonEyre), Ian Taylor (Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios)
2.30pm: Where Next for the Office? - Mat Oakley (Savills UK) and Trevor Payne (University of Birmingham)
4pm: Informing future-facing HE design - David Patterson (Make Architects), Ziona Strelitz (ZZA Responsive User Environments), Phil Armitage (Max Fordham) and John Treble (The Green Consultancy)
Friday 16 April
11am: More Diversity, Better Estates? – Simon Fanshawe OBE
Conference Pathways 3: The smart campus
“The smart campus” has been an ever-growing theme for AUDE over recent years and in this Conference Pathway we are highlighting sessions around the IoT, data, campus transformation through collaboration between estates and IT teams, and more.
Monday 12 April
11am: The Intelligent Campus: Collaboration between Estates and IT - Trevor Payne, Daniel Lawrence, Matt Beveridge and Sam Harrow (University of Birmingham) and Mark Perrett and Kevin Brownell (PTS)
2.30pm: Will the IoT revolution outpace CAFM/IWMS evolution? – Garry Metcalfe (Invida)
Tuesday 13 April
11am: The connected campus - Nick Tonge (UPP) and Rob Williams (Planon)
2.30pm: Knowing me, Knowing You - Analytics, Hierarchy, Application: using data for good decision-making in universities - Helen Groves and John Ridgett (Atkins)
2.30pm: Delivering a Secure, Smart & Sustainable Campus: Today & Tomorrow - Daniel Guest, Simon King and Tracy Wilson (Mitie)
Wednesday 14 April
11am: The evolving smart campus: what's next? - David Evans, David Pownall, Charlie Stennett and Brett Spindler (Schneider Electric), Brett Plant (Coventry University) and Richard Bellairs (Planon Software)
Conference Pathways 4: Sustainability
A conference diary focusing on nothing but sustainability sessions would still be a very full diary, which just emphasises how good an idea it is to co-ordinate with colleagues to make sure the team covers as much as possible from these very useful and interesting sessions.
Monday 12 April
11am: Don’t Demolish, Re-Use: How to Make an Impact with What Already Exists - Rupert Goddard, Renza La Sala, Alex Solk, Richmal Wigglesworth and Eugene Sayers (Sheppard Robson Architects LLP)
11am: Sustainable Campuses: Our Ten-Year Journey with the University of Manchester - Ian Aldous (Arcadis) and Helen Cutts (University of Manchester)
2.30pm: The future of Net Zero Carbon for Higher Education Estates - Conor Storkey, Alice Ashpitel and Terry Spraggett (Mace), and Charles Joly (LSE)
4pm: Sustainable Campus - Emma Deraze (Times Higher Education) and Andrew Nolan (University of Nottingham and Chair of AUDE Sustainability Advisory Group)
Tuesday 13 April
11am: Route to a truly net zero carbon university campus – Alan Fogarty (Cundall)
2.30pm: The benefits of MMC: Carbon & Quality - Oliver Milton, Louisa Bowles, Julia Roberts, Negar Mihanyar (Hawkins\Brown) and Trevor Wills (Nottingham Trent University)
Wednesday 14 April
11am: University of the West of England: Low Carbon Residences - Matt Tarling (Stride Treglown) and Professor Martin Boddy (UWE)
2.30pm: What has the pandemic taught us about achieving net? – James Tiernan (Unite Students)
4pm: How to transition a campus to net zero – Simon Burgess (Siemens)
Thursday 15 April
4pm: How the HE Climate Action Toolkit can help you build back better - Professor Jim Longhurst (University of the West of England, Bristol and Climate Commissioner) and Manveer Gill (CDP)
Conference Pathways 5: AUDE initiatives
Our next conference pathway helps you catch up with AUDE-led initiatives. Make sure you and your team are getting best value from your AUDE subscription, and get up to date with some of our latest plans and projects. Three sessions at 4pm on Monday 12 April have a distinctly AUDE flavour.
On Tuesday 13 April, our Annual General Meeting is at 4pm, and we hope you’ll stay with us after the business of the day for the Virtual Quiz at 5pm. Time to get the competitive juices flowing!
On Thursday 15 April, keep an eye open for:
On Friday 16 April at 11am AUDE Chair Stephen Wells and Chair-elect Umesh Desai will be leading an informal wrap-up session on conference – the ideal way to pull your ideas together and think through the lessons and highlights of your time on the Coronacoaster.
Conference Pathway 6: Freestyle
With so much to choose from there’s no need to stay on any particular pathway, and we really want to encourage you to build your own personal programme made up of whatever sessions suit your current need. But under the Freestyle pathway you’ll find a fantastic pick-and-mix of sessions looking at a wide range of management issues from procurement to hospitality management, to BIM and social value. There’s something here for everyone, and with your Team Ticket, everyone is welcome.
Monday 12 April
11am: Social value: a university context - Peter Masonbrook, Marcus Lyon and Jaime-Louise O'Donnell (Faithful+Gould)
Wednesday 14 April
11am: Reducing costs with the power of procurement – Phil Woodhead (Fusion21)
11am: The Construction Playbook: What can it offer Higher Education? - Jerome Kearns (Balfour Beatty) and Robert Hutton (University of Sussex)
2.30pm: Delivering the Sir William Henry Bragg Building, University of Leeds - Jonathan Conway and Stephanie Whittaker (BAM Construct UK), Jon Roylance (ADP) and David Oldroyd (University of Leeds)
2.30pm: Reinventing Hospitality Management - Suzanne Carey (HOST RHM) and Matt Bennion (Reds10)
4pm: Successful Insourcing – Gordon Parker (Coretex International)
4pm: Building Information Modelling (BIM) for Estates - Hadeel Safaa Saadoon and Brett Plant (Coventry University)
Thursday 15 April
11am: How Modern Methods of Construction Can Add Value to HE Developments - Andy Macfarlane and Dan Evans (Curtins)
What next?
Head to the full conference programme and visit the tabs for each date. Click the green cross to add sessions to your diary.
Summary
We know you’ll find your own way through the AUDE Conference and we encourage you to build your own personal programme, and to collaborate with your colleagues so that as a group you get as much value as possible from #AUDE21. Many of the sessions will be recorded, and we’ll make the recordings available for delegates as soon as we can. If you miss a session, there’s no need to miss out. We are very grateful indeed to those supporters who have made the conference possible this year and we encourage every delegate to check out the supporter activities and exhibition. Hopin is a great platform for connecting around the sector – we really hope you’ll make the best of it. And if you are having a good time, or if we can help you, let us know. The AUDE team will be around through all five days of the event to make sure everything works well for you.
