Convening, Influencing, Doing
Collective Imagination
10:00 - 11:00 at Polo Place
Land and why it matters
Britain faces a housing crisis. Solving it will mean thinking differently about how we use land, yet who owns and controls it is a largely forgotten debate.
Chair: Miriam Brett, Co-Director, Future Economy Scotland
Economic & Physical Regeneration
10:00 - 11:00 at Quality Street
HOW COMMUNITIES CAN SHAPE THEIR OWN FUTURES - LESSONS FOR YORK CENTRAL
Exploring the ambition of community groups and learning from successful projects how communities can shape neighbourhoods and economies through participation.
Chair: Phil Bixby, YoCo
Economic & Physical Regeneration
10:00 - 11:00 at Aero Auditorium
Big Business: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?
Does the private sector have a role to play in regeneration and, if so, what? How can we create a win-win from private sector investment?
Chair: Jonathan Cowap, Formerly BBC Radio York
Better Culture & Conversations
11:10 - 12:10 at Aero Auditorium
Better Conversations
How do we have better political conversations/ build common ground and promote participation in democracy?
Chair: Adela Suliman, Breaking News Reporter, Washington Post
Collective Imagination
11:10 - 12:10 at Polo Place
Reimagining York’s Future 2040
We will re-imagine York in 2040, looking forwards to a just and equitable future when our people and our natural environment are flourishing. We will describe what we can see, hear, and smell as we walk around the City, reflecting on the journey that brought us to this moment.
Chair: Victoria Hughes, Programme Lead - Emerging Futures, JRF
Economic & Physical Regeneration
11:10 - 12:10 at Quality Street
Where did all the workers go?
What has been the impact of Covid, Brexit and the Ukraine war on migration and what should we do about it?
Chair: Jo Phillips, Broadcaster and Writer, Radix Fellow
Sustainable Regeneration
12:20 - 13:20 at Aero Auditorium
Transport for Net Zero
What is the future for transport in the UK to meet net zero targets? What strategy for York and the region? Which innovations can help significantly reduce emissions?
Chair: Nick Love, Presenter, Jorvik Radio
Collective Imagination
12:20 - 13:20 at Smartie Pants
Time for Action on Care
More people need care but fewer people want to do it. Expanding child- and social care will need rapid reform of the care workforce and changing attitudes. What needs to change to forge a care revolution?
Chair: Sophie McBain, Associate Editor, New Statesman
Economic & Physical Regeneration
12:20 - 13:20 at Quality Street
Using Science and Tech to turn York and North Yorkshire Carbon Negative
York is home to some of the world’s leading bioeconomy science and research facilities. Scientists from BioYorkshire talk practically about how their expertise can deliver clean water, vertical farming, and help industry transition to clean processes.
Chair: Joan Cocannon, University of York
Health & Cost of Living
13:30 - 14:30 at Aero Auditorium
A new social contract for Britain's health
How do we stay healthier for longer and reduce the burden on the NHS?
Chair: Prof Stephen Smith, former Dean of Medicine, Imperial College
Sustainable Regeneration
13:30 - 14:30 at Smartie Pants
Tourism, Culture, and Promoting Regeneration
Sir Tim Smit, founder of the Eden Project in conversation with Fiona Laird, Founder of the National Arts Trust.
Health & Cost of Living
14:40 - 15:40 at Polo Place
The Times Newspaper's Health Commission
Come ready to give evidence directly to this influential investigation into health reform. How has the NHS helped or failed you? How do you stay healthy and what are your ideas to improve the system?
Chair: Rachel Sylvester, Times Columnist
Better Culture & Conversations
14:40 - 15:40 at Quality Street
Big Data: Big Opportunity or Big Threat?
The media conversation around big data is about its risks and threats but could it transform our society, reduce costs and improve outcomes across crime, education, housing, health, finance?
Chair: Dr Paul Goldsmith, Founder of digital health companies, MHRA NED, NHS Clinical Senate
Sustainable Regeneration
14:40 - 15:40 at Smartie Pants
Climate Resilience
How do we adapt to the climate changes we are facing to protect our homes, our heritage and our environment?
Chair: Deborah Cohen, Former Science Editor BBC
Religion Education & Civil Society
15:50 - 16:50 at Polo Place
The University and Place based regeneration
What’s a university got to do with delivering regeneration?
Chair: Matthew Reason, University of York St John’s
Sustainable Regeneration
15:50 - 16:50 at Quality Street
Food, Glorious Food
How do we feed ourselves sustainably, affordably and securely?
Chair: Anna Taylor, Executive Director, The Food Foundation
Better Culture & Conversations
17:00 - 17:50 at Smartie Pants
Can business and politics learn to love each other?
Why don’t politicians and business people understand each other? How can they work better together to deliver a better society and economy?
Chair: Nick Love, Presenter, Jorvik Radio
Health & Cost of Living
17:00 - 17:50 at Aero Auditorium
Poverty and the Cost of Living
What does the cost-of-living crisis mean to us and what can we do about it?
Chair: Richard Edwards, BBC Radio York/Politics North
Religion Education & Civil Society
17:00 - 17:50 at Polo Place
Skills: The key roadblock to levelling up
How can we reform education to embrace new technology and equip our kids with the skills that they and the country will need to succeed?
Chair: Piers Birmingham, Chair of Politika, the Radix Youth Wing