Presentations and Speakers

Lee Burke joined Aareon in 2020 and has more than 14 years’ experience in the housing sector. He is supporting positive changes for customers, helping to build further relationships and drive value through technology.

Sam Sharples is the digital solutions programme manager at Southdown Housing, a small housing association in Sussex with a portfolio that includes learning disability support and care homes, community mental health support and 500 properties. Having project-managed the organisation’s migration to Microsoft 365 in 2022, she now manages Southdown’s systems team and is working with the head of IT and the director of housing & business development to develop and implement Southdown’s new digital strategy.

Over the last 25 years, Stephen Hall has applied his expertise gained from wider digital-first sectors to lead many successful digital projects across the UK housing sector, instilling best practice for digital transformation programmes, developing and empowering resident self-service. 

Justin Fisher has worked in social housing for 30 years, specialising in IT, asset and repairs management but has crossed sectors including highways, infrastructure and environmental services. He has worked with over 100 housing providers, including a diverse range of social landlords. He is a board member for a community-based housing association located in East London.

As chief product officer at Daizy, Nick Gyles is responsible for the company’s platform strategy around enterprise IoT. With 20 years’ experience in mobile technologies, he works with a number of housing providers, commercial landlords and solution providers on the implementation of low-power, WAN-based IoT projects. As chief product officer at Daizy, Nick Gyles is responsible for the company’s platform strategy around enterprise IoT. With 20 years’ experience in mobile technologies, he works with a number of housing providers, commercial landlords and solution providers on the implementation of low-power, WAN-based IoT projects.

Kayleigh Gordon has 15 years’ experience in housing and is a subject matter expert in low-cost home ownership. She has led the implementation of three CRM/sales systems to ensure effective working practices and compliance with government policies. 

Ciara McMillian has extensive experience in the social housing sector and takes pride in providing Microsoft technology that solves the top housing problems to improve the lives of tenants across the UK. 

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Co-founder and chief product officer of FireAngel Safety Technology, Nick Rutter worked as a product designer for Philips in Hong Kong, before returning to the UK and channelling his passion to improve safety in our communities through technological solutions.

IT & change director with over 20 years’ experience in senior roles across multiple sectors, working in the UK and internationally. Home Group is his foray into social housing. Given the choice, he’d rather be dancing. 

Chris Jones co-founded HomeLink in 2018, with previous careers spanning technology strategy, advisory, and commercialisation.

Peter Marcus is the assistant director for research, development and transformation at Poplar HARCA. 

Gary Haldane graduated from Napier University in 2015 with a Master's degree in ICT Strategic Leadership. He is responsible for implementing Kingdom’s digital strategy and thrives on disruptive technologies, focusing on making everyone's jobs easier and improving customer outcomes. 

Nathanial Ray joined Karbon Homes in 2020 to lead the organisation’s ICT function and push forward its drive towards digital change. He has led transformation projects with a range of organisations, helping build better ways of working and driving improved customer engagement. 

Joining Mobysoft as CTO in 2021, James Davison has an extensive background as a CTO and has held many senior technology roles across a range of organisations. Before joining Mobysoft, he was part of the leadership team at ITV that drove a fundamental IT transformation as part of a ‘back to basics’ strategy. While at Mobysoft, he has been instrumental in developing Mobysoft into a multi-product business and has helped the firm become a Microsoft Partner. In his spare time he is a keen (if not always successful!) cook and loves exploring cities with beautiful architecture. 

Kay Aston has spent many years working with the social housing sector. She is focused on working with NEC’s talented team to bring innovative solutions to the market and work with customers to maximise the value they get from them.

Steve Morgan has 25 years’ experience in data analytics, and for the past three years he has been working with NEC Housing, building innovative reporting platforms. He has a background in health informatics and statistical analysis of large complex databases, having helped in the publication of numerous public health indicators. He is currently involved in the development of a predictive risk model for damp and mould.

As the CEO of Switchee, Tom Robins is responsible for setting Switchee’s strategic goals and then enabling the Switchee team deliver them. He has spent his career in scale-up leadership roles and has been working in housing since 2015. He believes in the power of technology to improve the quality of residents’ lives while transforming housing providers’ operating models.

Kristin McIntosh and Wendy Banks are the key leads within their respective organisations for online repairs reporting, driving the product direction from user research, implementation and ongoing improvements within their organisations and the project team. 

Danny Codling is a highly experienced professional in the housing sector, with 20 years’ experience under his belt. He joined ForHousing in 2019 and uses his vast expertise in leadership, strategy and programme delivery to enable the organisation to deliver its goals. He is a true visionary who is passionate about using technology to transform businesses for the better. He is dedicated to ensuring that the organisation’s data and systems remain secure and always protected.

Goher Mohammad made his mark as one of the youngest IT leaders in Omnicom Group back in 2004, and has a huge passion for technology, information and cyber security, with a drive not just do things well but in an innovative and better way. At L&Q Group, he has brought information and cyber security to the forefront to meet the demands and ambitions of the group in an agile and future-proof way to deliver a world-class information security function. A keen diver and traveller, Goher also loves play retro video games and is a complete tech geek.

Arturo Dell has 20 years’ experience working with local government and housing providers. He is passionate about delivering excellent, customer-focused services and the potential for the sector to transform lives and communities through the effective use of data and technology. During his time as director of data and technology at Housemark, he was responsible for data, technology, product development, consulting and cybersecurity. While working with the London Borough of Camden, Arturo led key projects such as the digitisation of repairs, the redesign of the housing allocation system and the development of a new tool for managing service charges. Arturo chairs housing networks such as the G15 Data Forum and the Information Security Forum (HP WARP) for housing providers in partnership with NCSC.

Richard Holland is focused on technology transformation and cybersecurity to provide smart, innovative and cost-effective solutions for both internal and external customers. He is a dedicated senior IT professional with over 20 years’ experience spanning various business sectors.

Rob Fletcher leads on evaluating and improving Platform Housing’s data quality, security and compliance. He has spent 25 years in the housing sector within digital and IT leadership. Most recently, he was with TSG, a Microsoft Gold Partner, working specifically on housing projects. 

Martin Honeywood is a programme director who has worked in housing and the public sector for more than 20 years, delivering transformation programs, target operating models, service improvement and IT architecture solutions across multiple platforms. 

Chris Pinfold is an IT with experience working for the BBC and British American Tobacco before moving to Raven Housing just before the pandemic. 

Emily Walshe has worked at Raven Housing for 11 years, first as a front-line housing officer and then moving into the exciting world of digital transformation. 

Combining her experience of working in social housing, a charity and an ALMO over the past seven years, Roch Ottaway-Schollij champions best practice and delivers value-driven outcomes across continuous-improvement and change-management projects. Before this, Roch spent 15 years growing and running a successful service business in South Africa. 

Danny Nicklen has over eight years’ experience in social housing, including in M&A and integration environments. Specialising in people-centred change, Danny leverages his experience and knowledge of the sector to lead and deliver transformation projects, using and championing lean tools and techniques with a focus on driving benefits and customer value. 

James Mullenger is an experienced transformation director, CIO and board member with over 20 years’ experience in defining and delivering outcome-driven business and digital transformations, customer experiences, strategies and customer services solutions to both the public and private sectors.

Mark Birch is an experienced IT leader within social housing for 15 years. He is working as part of the leadership team and the board to transform Broadacres to become the best rural housing association, delivering great customer experiences to customers across North Yorkshire.

Tom Lancefield is an experienced technology professional, working with non-profit social housing providers to align Salesforce and its global ecosystem of customers, partners and ISVs to support the sector and address society’s biggest challenges.

As head of innovation at Coastline Housing, Mark England’s passion for technology and innovation has helped drive improvements for customers. He has built partnerships to improve homes by lowering utility costs, increasing thermal capacity and lowering carbon to improve the environment. 

Dr Tamaryn Menneer leads the work developing models for extracting patterns and relationships in Smartline’s environmental and survey data. Having originally studied Cognitive Science, Tamaryn completed a PhD in Computer Science and worked as a lecturer in Psychology before joining Smartline.

Rob Mottram has worked to support social housing providers for 23 years. Cloud telecoms and SaaS have opened opportunities to innovate and integrate services together. We’re here with 8x8 and We Build Bots to demonstrate the next level innovations available to you. 

With 25+ years’ experience working in the IT sector, Kirsty Marsden has been focused on TSG’s work in social housing since 2017, ensuring engagement at various levels around technology, use cases and building valued partnership with TSG’s clients. 

Tony Hughes has worked in IT for over 25 years, primarily in data, document and content management, and building Microsoft 365 productivity solutions in social housing.