This masterclass equips General Counsel with the tools to forecast and manage legal demand, and optimise supplier relationships. With increasing pressure to deliver more for less, GCs must balance internal and external resources, maintain quality, and drive efficiency. The session covers how to align legal resourcing with business needs, apply procurement best practices, and manage performance across the legal supplier lifecycle.
SPEAKERS
Chris Fowler, Chief Operating Officer – Legal, Governance and Corporate Affairs, Rio Tinto | Bjarne Tellmann, Former SVP General Counsel, GSK Consumer Healthcare, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
This meeting will provide trustees with valuable insight into what “running on” might look like in practice for their scheme. Through a combination of actuarial and investment perspectives, the session will explore the key considerations involved, with a particular focus on funding strategies, investment approaches, and covenant-related aspects of scheme management.
CHAIR
Lynne Stewart-Brindle, Deputy Chair, PAN Trustees UK LLP
Modern Recruitment: What Top Candidates & Employers
Recruitment has changed dramatically in recent times, and success now depends on understanding what really works for both sides of the hiring process. In this interactive webinar, we’ll reveal the strategies that set exceptional employers apart—from building authentic employer brands to implementing fair, effective selection processes.
SPEAKERS
Helene Usherwood, Senior Partner, Anderson Quigley
The Future of Productivity & AI: Kunal Guha – The Google Leader
Join Kunal Guha, Director of Platforms & Devices at Google. Kunal has spent his professional career building and leading organisations that stand at the intersection of technological innovations, trust & responsibility, and societal impact. At Google, Kunal leads diverse, multi-functional, global teams responsible for pioneering the next generation of the internet and the advancements into an agentic AI-driven digital economy.
CHAIR
Edward Guest, Senior Operating Partner, DBay Advisors
SPEAKERS
Kunal Guha, Director, Privacy – Chrome & Android, Google
Join us at this highly participative and engaging masterclass on the characteristics of high-performing boards and how board practice is changing across a range of types and sizes of organisations. The session will be led by Patrick Dunne OBE, an experienced Chair, author of the award-winning book “Boards” and member of the Higgs review.
Affordable Housing Breakfast Briefing with the Ministry of Housing, Communities
We look forward to welcoming members to this breakfast briefing session to discuss the recently published strategy, ‘Delivering a Decade of Renewal for Social and Affordable Housing,’ and the autumn announcements. The plan outlines £39bn of long-term investment, the largest boost to grant funding in a generation, alongside reforms to strengthen regulation, improve tenant outcomes, and reinvigorate council housebuilding.
SPEAKERS
Joanna Key, DG for Regeneration, Housing and Planning, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | Emma Payne, Director of Social Housing, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
As the deadline looms there are some residual concerns for trustees on what the Regulator is looking for from an ORA, even among those who have done the work in good time and with the understanding that the ORA is an assessment of work in progress not evidence of the finished article.
CHAIR
HOST – Edward Brown, Partner, Hogan Lovells International
