London networking event - Urbano Build networking breakfast with Ed Green

Urbano Build is a programme of regular networking events in London aimed at architects, developers, property investors, designers, interior designers and other professionals associated with the built environment sector to make connections, gather information, create associations and find new business opportunities.

Urbano Build breakfast events are stripped down conferences, exploring interesting themes and built around great speakers, where the the focus is on networking and creating connections and opportunities. You always meet a diverse range of businesses and their representatives in a lively session of informal but facilitated networking.

Previous speakers have included Loyd Grossman (June 2014), Kevin McCloud, Wayne Hemingway, Stephen Hodder (President of RIBA), Mark Bew and David Philp of the Government's BIM Implementation team, The Minister for Architecture, the Chairs of CABE and BURA, Martha Schwartz (landscape architect), Theis + Khan and Jackie Sadek, CEO of UKRegeneration.

For more on Urbano Build, click here: Urbano Build Network

* This event should interest all sizes of companies within construction, especially those charged with bid and tender writing, but also smaller companies who do not currently bid for public sector work and those from other sectors who supply local & national government, NHS, police, MOD, MoJ, colleges, etc.

The event is open to any sector and size of company - film, video, hotels, hotels, catering, finance, software etc, should take advantage to hear first-hand the changes facing all those wishing to supply the public sector. *

About our guest speaker, Ed Green
Ed Green is Deputy Director for EU and Domestic Procurement Policy in the Crown Commercial Service and is the official responsible for transposing the new EU service directivesinto UK law. Previously, Ed was head of the Government's SME Procurement Programme.

Ed will be reporting on the timetable for implementing these wide-raning changes to procurement, which are designed to make the process more transparent, easier to srutinise and open up opportunities for smaller, specialist suppliers by removing some of the cumbersome elements of public sector PQQs, buds and tenders.

STOP PRESS: CONSULTATION JUST LAUNCHED. PLEASE CLICK TO VIEW THE PROPOSED UK ADOPTION OF THE NEW RULES AND ADD YOUR VIEWS DURING THE CONSULTATION PROCESS: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/transposing-the-2014-eu-procurement-directives

Event Format

8:00am – Registration, coffee and pastries

8:30am – Presentation by Edward Green, followed by Q&A

9:15am – Informal and facilitated networking
- 10.30am

Testimonial

"I have a lot of time for Urbano Build network. They have a philosophy of "exchanging value" that I find rather empowering. Urbano Network is a facilitating vehicle, brokering opportunities for smaller companies to get involved, both with each other, and with larger partners. They champion quality suppliers, especially in areas such as BIM, design and new technologies." 
Jackie Sadek, CEO - UK Regeneration

Each Urbano event has a unique online Event Group where every attendee and their company is profiled, accessed through your own Urbano Dashboard. Members get access to full contact details of every attendee. All attendees can access the profiles of people you meet at this event through the Event Group for this event.

* Non-member price quoted on the event page is the discounted rate for a company's first visit. The price quoted on the actual payment page (usually £25 - £35) is the price relevant for you and the events your company has attended. Non-member companies are allowed to attend up to three networking events.

To join Urbano and enjoy this event free, please view the current membership offer.www.urbanonetwork.co.uk/membership