Industrial Strategy Symposium: defining the region's future for people, jobs and skills
- Date: Friday 11 May 2018, 09:00 – 16:30
- Location: Park Plaza Hotel, City Square, Leeds, Boar Ln, City Square, Leeds LS1 5NS
- Type: Ideas in Practice, Conferences
- Cost: Free
This is an Ideas in Practice Symposium hosted by Leeds University Business School
Leeds University Business School invites you to a one day Symposium on regional industrial strategy. Politicians, representatives from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy together with experts in business and industrial regeneration have accepted invitations to participate. Discussion will be based around themes identified in the recent government White Paper on Industrial Strategy.
A particular focus on the Symposium will be on the People Theme within the Industrial Strategy White Paper and this will be discussed in the context of the overall strategy document and its implications for the northern region. The rationale for the symposium is to generate debate on the desirability and nature of industrial strategy in the region and through the world class business research generated by Leeds University Business School, to offer support to regional politicians and business leaders in their development of strategy.
The event is hosted by Leeds University Business School
Event format
| 9.00am | Registration and refreshments |
| Session 1: People, Jobs and Skills | |
| Chair: Professor Mark Stuart, Montague Burton Professor of Human Resource Management and Employment Relations, Director of Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change (CERIC) | |
| 9.30am | Professor Timothy Devinney: Welcome from Leeds University Business School |
| Professor Mark Stuart: Welcome and introduction to the day | |
| 9.45am | Peter Box, Leader Wakefield Council |
| Presentation Title: The Industrial Strategy: The Local Dimension | |
| 10.00am | Alasdair McDiarmid, Operations Director, Community the Union |
| Presentation Title: Fighting to Save Our Steel | |
| 10.15am | Andrew Battarbee, Area Director – Yorkshire and Humber and the North East, BEIS |
| Presentation title: Local Industrial Strategies and People: A Government Perspective | |
| 10.30am | Q&A and Open Discussion |
| 11.00am | Tea/Coffee break |
| Session 2: Industry and Manufacturing | |
| Chair: Ian Greenwood, Associate Professor in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management | |
| 11.15am | Paul Johnson, Policy and Research Officer, The Industrial Communities Alliance |
| Presentation Title: The Narrow Sectoral Focus of the Government’s Industrial Strategy Won’t Benefit The North | |
| 11.30am | Tony Burke, Assistant General Secretary, Unite the Union |
| Presentation Title: Industrial Strategy: The Future of UK Manufacturing | |
| 11.45am | Richard Halstead, Membership Engagement Director - North, EEF, the manufacturers' organisation |
| Presentation title: UK Manufacturing and the 4th Industrial Revolution | |
| 12:00 noon | Q&A and Open Discussion |
| 12.15pm | Networking lunch |
| Session 3: Regional Economic Policy | |
| Chair: Professor Steve Toms, Chair in Accounting, Director of Research for Accounting and Finance | |
| 1.00pm | Hilary Benn MP, Central Leeds |
| 1.30pm | Mark Goldstone, Head of Business Representation and Policy, West and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce |
| Presentation title: Why 'Place' Matters - A Regional Business Response to the Industrial Strategy | |
| 1.45pm | Q&A |
| Session 4: Group Discussions | |
| Chair: Joanne Cutter, Lecturer in Management Consulting, Work and Employment Relations Division and Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change | |
| 2.15pm | Regional Industrial Strategy Groups: Themes to be decided on the day subject to the presentations and discussions with facilitators Faye McAnulla, Andy Brown and Iain Clacher. |
| 3.15pm | Report back from discussion groups |
| Session 5: Plenary Session | |
| Discussion led by Mark Stuart and Ian Greenwood | |
| 3.45pm | Next steps |
| 4.30pm | Event close |
For further information, please contact Naomi Colhoun at n.colhoun@leeds.ac.uk