UK Construction Week Birmingham 2026: agenda and talks

George Clarke, TV Presenter and Architect · Jackie Rigby, Assistant Director - Regeneration, Partnerships and Major Projects, Homes England · Saul Humphrey, President, Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) · Tim Balcon, Chief Executive Officer, CITB

Ed McCann, Senior Director, Expedition Engineering and Past President, Institution of Civil Engineers & Chair Infrastructure Client Group Productivity Task Group · George Clarke, TV Presenter and Architect · Rachael Owens, Co-Director, National Retrofit Hub · Sarah-Jayne Pizzie, Deputy Director for Construction Commercial, Ministry of Justice

Ann-Marie Fallon, Co-Director, Passivhaus Trust · Chris Carr, Immediate Past National President, Federation of Master Builders (FMB) · Ed Griffiths, Head of Analytics, Barbour-ABI · Matt Mahony, Policy & Public Affairs Manager, Construction Industry Council (CIC) · Rico Wojtulewicz, Director of Policy & Market Insight, National Federation of Builders (NFB)

David Stevens, Director of Estates, Facilities & Capital Development, East London NHS Foundation Trust & Vice President, CIBSE · George Clarke, TV Presenter and Architect · Olayemi Usman, Cost Consultant, Turner & Townsend · Virtue Igbokwuwe, Programme Manager, Cushman & Wakefield

Rebecca Rickwood, Founder & CEO, Gement Group · Siu Mun Li, Director, Constructing Siu-lutions Ltd

Desiree Blamey, Managing Director, Considerate Constructors Scheme · Emma Richman, Assistant Director - Strategic Asset Management, Altair & Past President, Women in Property · Karina Wood, Project Manager, Women in Construction Anglia · Michaela Wain, Managing Director, Design & Build UK and Founder, Women in Construction · Rashida Rajkotwalla, Direstor, DWIP Consultants & NAWIC Midlands Co-Chair Building · Siu Mun Li, Director, Constructing Siu-lutions Ltd

John Palmer, Director of Operations, Building Safety Regulator

Alison Nicholl, Head of Constructing Excellence, BRE · David Hancock, Construction Director and Infrastructure Practice Lead, His Majesty’s Treasury, Expert Advisory Team & NISTA · Molly Morgan, Procurement Manager, Procurement Hub · Rob Byrnes, Head of Frameworks, Vinci Building

Doug Baldock, Executive Technical Director, NHS Hew Hospital Programme · Emily King, Industrialisation Director, NHS New Hospital Programme

Juliette Enser, Executive Director, Competition and Markets Authority · Marie-Claude Hemming, Policy Director, Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE)

James Tallentire, Delivery Manager - Stakeholder Engagement, West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) · Rossella Nicolin, Head of Sustainability, Laing O'Rourke · Ste Garlick, Strategic Lead for Decarbonisation & Retrofit, BDP and AECB Chief Executive · Will Arnold, Head of Sustainable Materials, Useful Simple Trust

Amy Voce, Presenter, FMB's Build Up Podcast · Carl Goodhew, Founder, G2 Construction and Consultancy · Nicola De Sousa, Central Director, Federation of Master Builders (FMB)

Catherine Hadfield, Strategic Lead, Birmingham Knowledge Quarter · Emily Stubbs, Head of Policy, Birmingham Chamber of Commerce · Shaun Hall, Senior Delivery Manager‑ Construction and Pre‑Employment, West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) · Steve Bowyer, Head of West Midlands Investment Zone, West Midlands Combined Authority

Conor Neild-Crabb, Head of Centre, Centre for Construction Best Practice · Dr Kudirat Ayinia, Lecturer in Construction Management and Programme Lead for the BSc (Hons) Commercial Management and Quantity Surveying programme, LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY · Karen Heigham, Public Sector Director, Wates Construction · Simon Rawlinson, Head of Strategic Research, Arcadis and Deputy Chair of CIC

Marco Bonelli, Head of Digital, Galliford Try Construction · Meghan Davies, Co-Founder, Cammina · Nawal Ali, Graduate Analyst & Data Scientist, AI Implementation, BRE Group · Paul Beeston, Partner – Head of Industry and Service Insight, Rider Levett Bucknall

Darren Richards, Managing Director, Cogent Consulting and Chair of the UK Industrialised Construction Advisory Board · George Mokhtar, Director, Turner & Townsend · Lilian Ho, AI Program Director at ZIGURAT Institute of Technology Regional Lead & AI Ambassador at Women in BIM, AECOM · Trudi Sully, Co-Chair, Building Better: Community of Practice (BB:CoP)

Alison Watson MBE, Founder & Chief Executive, Class Of Your Own · Mark Enzer OBE, Fellow, Mott MacDonald · Philippa Birch-Wood, Head of Climate Action, UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) · Samuel Parkin, Senior Economist, BCIS