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28-30 April 2026
NEC Birmingham
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28-30 April 2026 | NEC Birmingham
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Gain the practical know-how and insights you need to build a healthy culture and environment in the workplace. Our esteemed speakers will share best practice and expertise on how culture, health and wellbeing can contribute to the success of your workplace and employee engagement. Discover proactive solutions and initiatives to drive positive change.
Workplaces are evolving from purely functional environments into destinations that offer meaningful experiences. As organisations rethink the role of the office in a hybrid world, hospitality-led food and beverage services are becoming central to how people connect, collaborate and feel valued at work.
This means moving beyond traditional catering models to deliver experiences that elevate the workplace. From curated food moments to flexible dining formats and sustainable nutrition, food has the power to transform everyday interactions and bring people together.
This panel will explore how workplace hospitality can go the extra mile, using food to create vibrant social environments, support wellbeing and reinforce organisational culture while delivering sustainable and future-focused dining experiences.
Many organisations invest heavily in wellbeing initiatives, leadership training and HR processes, yet still see rising absenteeism, conflict and employee disengagement.
Why?
Because there is a leadership blind spot that traditional management training rarely addresses. In this thought-provoking session, Caroline Strawson shares a powerful perspective on the hidden dynamics influencing workplace behaviour, stress responses, and leadership impact and why understanding this may be one of the most important strategic shifts organisations can make.
The future workforce isn't waiting, they're here now! So what do young professionals really want from work? Spoiler: it's not just ping pong tables. Join our panel of students and young professionals as they get real about mental health, meaningful mentorship, workplace culture, and what it takes to build careers worth having.
Workplaces have never stood still. Over the past few decades, Softcat have evolved from uniform, one‑size‑fits‑all workspaces into dynamic Destination Offices shaped by technology, global reach, changing demographics, and a deeper understanding of human needs. Yet as Softcat champions diversity in its people, the spaces around them can often lag behind, reflecting assumptions about how individuals think, work, and belong.
In this talk, we explore why that gap matters and how working with Softcat inspired Claremont to rethink the very foundations of workplace design. As Softcat continues to build a culture where people feel valued, supported, and able to thrive, the physical environment must be held to the same standard. That belief led us to apply DIBE360 – our pioneering audit tool evaluating how effectively a workplace supports Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Equity together.
We’ll share the journey behind DIBE360: the research that shaped its application, the principles guiding decisions, and the criteria enabling us to measure inclusion meaningfully. You’ll hear how Softcat’s teams used the tool to uncover blind spots, inform evidence‑based design choices, and create environments elevating everyday experiences for colleagues, not just in theory, but in lived reality across offices and varied working patterns.
This session will challenge assumptions, spark new thinking, and show how Claremont and Softcat use intentional design to build workplaces where people truly belong. It’s not about better spaces; it’s about better outcomes for colleagues and culture alike.Menstrual health is a workplace issue and a sustainability one. This session explores how organisations can rethink their approach to menstrual products towards sustainable alternatives that reduce environmental impact and align with corporate ESG goals. We'll look at how a workplace menstrual product scheme can support employee wellbeing, reduce presenteeism, and demonstrate that a truly inclusive organisation.
We often hear inclusion described as a “nice to have.” It isn’t - In a climate of tight margins, talent shortages and rising expectations, organisations that overlook inclusion are overlooking performance.
Inclusive workplaces attract and retain talent more effectively, reduce recruitment and attrition costs, strengthen client relationships, improve engagement and productivity, and ultimately deliver stronger financial results. Inclusion isn’t about ticking a box or polishing your values statement - it’s about building environments where people perform at their best.
This isn’t just a conversation for large corporates with big HR teams. Whether you’re an SME, a growing business, or an established organisation, culture impacts your bottom line. Reduced absenteeism, higher engagement, stronger reputation, better collaboration - these aren’t “soft” outcomes. They’re commercial ones.
Join us as we explore the data, challenge the myths, and share practical ways to make inclusion part of how your organisation succeeds.
Workplace Reimagined, created by Bevi, has been bringing together end users across EMEA and the US for open, peer-led conversations under Chatham House rules. These sessions have created space for honest dialogue around the evolving world of work and the growing importance of workplace experience in shaping culture, performance, and belonging.
This time, we’re breaking the mould.
Join us for a special fireside chat hosted by Bianca Angelico, who will moderate a candid and thought-provoking discussion alongside Rod from UKTV, Chloe from LinkedIn, and Sarah from Lloyds Banking Group. Together, they will explore workplace experience through the lens of culture and strategy, asking whether it is simply another industry buzzword or a genuine business driver.
Expect an open, engaging conversation that moves beyond theory to real-world insight, examining how organisations are reimagining the workplace to create environments where people can connect, collaborate, and thrive.
Wellbeing is no longer about offering standalone initiatives; it’s about understanding what truly supports employees and how that connects to organisational performance. This session explores how health touchpoints can move beyond individual health checks to become part of a wider wellbeing ecosystem, embedded within workplace culture.
Attendees will gain practical insight into how wellbeing data can be translated into action. Helping organisations close support gaps, improve uptake of benefits, and align wellbeing strategy with core KPIs including engagement, retention and absence.
As workplaces continue to prioritise wellbeing, safety, and performance, gambling related harm remains one of the least recognised risks. This session highlights how gambling can impact both employees and employers, influencing decision making, concentration, safety behaviours, culture, and overall organisational stability.
The session explores how gambling harm can lead to unsafe shortcuts, reduced situational awareness, emotional strain, financial vulnerability, and compliance risks. Attendees will gain practical insight into how workplaces can recognise early signs, reduce stigma, and introduce supportive, preventative measures that protect people, performance, and organisational integrity.
A no‑cost, high‑impact way to deliver compliance, operational resilience and social value across your own and client estates.
Facilities Management (FM) teams oversee vast, multisite estates, giving them a unique ability to transform national defibrillator readiness at speed and at no cost, all within their business‑as‑usual activity. This session explores how FM organisations can drive compliance, strengthen operational resilience and deliver meaningful social value by registering the defibrillators across their own estates on The Circuit, the UK’s national defibrillator network that tells ambulance services exactly where the nearest device is during a 999 call. It also shows how FM teams can extend this approach to clients, helping them ensure their devices are emergency ready and visible to 999 call handlers when every second counts.
The session opens by setting the national picture: the number of devices already registered, the significant gap that remains, and why rapid access to accurate data is essential for effective emergency response. A deep‑dive case study from the John Lewis Partnership shows what good looks like - streamlined processes, empowered staff and a single, trusted view of every device, leading to faster 999 access. Lives have already been saved.
The session closes with a clear call to action: make registration and logged checks routine - to unlock operational and societal benefits. FM companies can lead the way, starting today, with full support from British Heart Foundation.
Tess is someone organisations turn to during periods of growth, acquisition or strategic change when culture is under pressure.
For over 15 years, Tess has partnered with boards and executive teams across the public and private sector, known for her systemic approach to addressing root cause rather than surface level issues.
Her research reveals that over 40 percent of senior leaders fail in the first 60 days of a new role because a critical piece is missing from how organisations onboard and integrate leaders.
Today, Tess will share hot off the press insights into what truly makes or breaks senior leaders in those early days, drawn from her forthcoming book, Your First 60 Days.
Culture isn’t what’s written on the wall. It’s how people feel at work, especially when things are uncertain.
In today’s workplace, change is constant. New technologies, restructures, AI adoption, and shifting expectations ask people to adapt again and again. And in these moments, culture is revealed, not through values statements or engagement surveys, but through the emotional experience of everyday work.
Despite decades of leadership models and culture initiatives, organisations continue to struggle with the same blind spot: emotion. Leaders often focus on the culture they want to prescribe, while overlooking the emotional signals that shape the culture people actually live.
For some employees, change feels energising and full of possibility. For others, it creates anxiety, fatigue, or quiet disengagement. These emotions don’t just affect morale, they define trust, belonging and performance. Over time, they become the real culture of the organisation.
This is where culture, health and wellbeing intersect, not as programmes or perks, but as outcomes of how emotion is led every day. When emotional signals are ignored, pressure builds, psychological safety erodes, and wellbeing conversations start far too late. When emotion is understood and addressed early, people feel safer, more engaged, and better able to cope with change.
Drawing on the core ideas from Jennifer Bryan’s upcoming book, this keynote explores how leaders shape culture, intentionally or not, through the emotional experience they create in times of change. Jennifer reframes emotion as a leadership capability that directly influences culture, trust, and sustainable performance.
This is about closing the gap between prescribed culture and lived culture, and giving leaders practical ways to lead emotion with clarity, confidence, and humanity so change strengthens culture instead of draining it.
Stress causes 52% of workplace illness, yet many businesses lack the one document the HSE actually wants to see. While 14,000 inspections now demand a formal risk assessment, paperwork alone isn’t enough to satisfy the law. We strip away the jargon to show how our A.C.T. approach turns legal requirements into human action. Learn how to satisfy the HSE while giving your team the confidence to truly support one another.
What happens when the lights go out, the building next door catches fire, or disruption hits and your team can’t even get to work?
In this fast-paced, interactive session, the audience will tackle real-world scenarios inspired by genuine incidents affecting businesses today. From power outages and transport disruption to neighbouring incidents shutting down entire buildings, participants will help shape responses live during the session.
Designed for facilities and operational professionals, this practical session cuts through the theory and explores a simple question: is your business continuity plan part of your culture or just sitting on a shelf?
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