10 October 202409:30 - 17:30 BST
IStructE HQ, 47-58 Bastwick St, London, EC1V 3PS View on Google Maps
Member: From £215 + VAT Non-member: From £295 + VAT Student: £55 + VAT
Designed for SME owners, this must-attend conference explores innovative ways to improve your business’ resilience against the most common industry risks, including multi-million pound disputes, cyberattacks and data loss, and the evolving legislative changes.
With insights from top industry experts on the latest risk-management practices, you’ll learn strategies to confidently drive and sustain your business’ revenue.
The programme includes:
Keynote address: Mark Whitby shares invaluable lessons from building Whitby-Wood from the ground up to become a successful, resilient engineering design and advisory consultancy
Risk management & PI insurance update: Griffiths & Armour discuss effective risk management and what constitutes comprehensive Profesisonal Indemnity (PI) insurance coverage
Digital robustness: Mitigo explain how to achieve digital security, essential for today's cloud-based operations
Workshop on client attraction & marketing: Discover the best techniques to attract and retain your ideal clients, implement cost-effective marketing strategies, and improve profitability metrics
Employment legislation summary: Stay updated on the latest developments in employment law
Q&A sessions to engage with the experts
Networking opportunities throughout the day, to gain informal advice from fellow SME owners and valuable industry contacts.
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After attending this conference, you will:
Understand how the current risk landscape affects your firm and confidently choose a robust Professional Indemnity (PI) insurance solution
Implement risk-management strategies to enhance your business’ resilience against liabilities, cyberattacks, legislative changes, and shifts in the working landscape
Assess and update your business strategy to consider your next steps, whether you are looking to expand your business, maintain it, or phase it down
Attract and retain ideal clients, implement low-cost marketing strategies, and leverage key profitability metrics
Assess what next steps you need to take to comply to changes in employment law
Structural engineers working as sole practitioners and those in small-to-medium-sized firms (SMEs)
Kate's career in engineering began with a university placement at Curtins in Bristol. In her time there, she worked on some fantastic projects, like Shrewsbury Museum, Bristol Old Vic and the Wales International Convention Centre. In 2016 she moved to AECOM in Cardiff and in 2020 she fouded Static Dynamic. Kate’s contribution to the IStructE started in 2007 and she has contributed to the work of many panels and committees, including the Young Members Panel, Education Panel and the Membership Committee. She is currently serving on the Business Practice and Structural Futures Committees. Kate is member of IStructE's Trustee Board, the Institution’s governing body responsible for ensuring compliance with its Royal Charter and Bye-laws, developing its strategy and policy, setting out and maintain a framework of delegation and management of internal processes, and for securing that the Institution's objectives are allocated adequate resources.
In his 50 years in the profession, Mark has led design teams for a huge range of projects. Recently completed examples include the new extension to Tate Modern, the BBC Headquarters, and footbridges in Canning Town in London and Castlefield in Manchester. Past projects include the 1982 British Antarctic Survey base, York and Lancaster Millennium bridges, offices in Finsbury Square in London, the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield, Mossbourne Academy in Hackney, the Craig Ellwood-inspired Brisbane bridge house in Australia, the competition-winning design for Bracken House in London, and British embassies in Dublin, Sana’a and Berlin.
Mark co-founded and led the UK engineering consultancy whitbybird, winner of a Queen’s Award for Innovation. After the merger of whitbybird with Ramboll in 2007, he became chairman and director of Ramboll Whitbybird UK. In 2016 he founded Whitby Wood with Sebastian Wood, followed in 2017 by Whitby Wood Pritamdasani in India with Seb and Mukesh Pritamdasani.
Mark is a past visiting professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, is a co-founder of the built environment think-tank, the EDGE, and founder of the ENGINEERING CLUB in London. He was also a founder/trustee of the construction charity CODEP, which worked closely with the community in Waterloo, Sierra Leone. He is a trustee of the Whitbybird Foundation.
Joining Griffiths & Armour in 2003, Tanya has developed a wealth of experience in professional risks working with our primarily large, complex and/or international clients. As an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute (ACII) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Latin American Studies from the University of Liverpool, Tanya became a Partner in 2022.
Client management and development responsibilities have seen Tanya involved in many collaborative initiatives on behalf of our clients, utilising her close links with Assurex Global Partners. Tanya has board responsibility for our Approved Inspectors portfolio and continuing evolution of our divisional technology offering, applying her unique insight to many of the legal and negotiation challenges faced by our construction clients.
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