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in National Productivity Week around the UK.

Day Two
Tuesday 28 January, 2025

Delivering a Step Change for Productivity in the North West

Join us to explore what the North West’s economy will look like in 2040 at this event with the North West Productivity Forum, the North West Business Leadership Team and Accenture.

Day One
Monday 27 January, 2025

Bridging the gap between UK firms

This event will explore productivity dispersion between firms in the UK, with presentations based on recent work by the Office for National Statistics, The Productivity Institute, and the ScaleUp Institute.

Day One
Monday 27 January, 2025

Making the Future Work – the Closing Conference of the Pissarides Review

The Pissarides Review into the Future of Work and Wellbeing – funded by the Nuffield Foundation – will presents major policy findings.

Day Two
Tuesday 28 January, 2025

Beyond Technology: CIO Perspectives on Boosting Productivity

This event at 9am at The Shard brings together a panel of experienced CIOs and University of Cambridge academic Dr Nina Jörden to explore practical ways for senior leaders to tackle the productivity paradox.

Day Two
Tuesday 28 January, 2025

Delivering a Step Change for Productivity in the North West

Join us to explore what the North West’s economy will look like in 2040 at this event with the North West Productivity Forum, the North West Business Leadership Team and Accenture.

Day Two
Tuesday 28 January, 2025

From Create to Innovate: A Pathway to Productive People, Firms, and Places

Join us for a lecture from worldwide expert on rapid-innovation-based industries, Professor Dan Breznitz, and a panel discussion about the meaning of ‘innovation’ within global business.

Day Two
Tuesday 28 January, 2025

Productivity Pitches: Schools

By highlighting outstanding examples of innovation across public services, Productivity Pitches, hosted by the Institute for Government, aims to share and support ways to improve performance levels in schools.

Day Two
Tuesday 28 January, 2025

Unlocking AI: Practical Strategies for Business Productivity

Join the The Productivity Institute Scotland Forum for a hands-on workshop with industry leaders Connect Three exploring how AI can be used to unlock productivity for your business.

Day Two
Tuesday 28 January, 2025

Redefining Productivity: Smarter Ways of Working

Join this workshop with The Productivity Institute Scotland Forum to explore how evolving work practices are reshaping our working culture.

Day Two
Tuesday 28 January, 2025

Skills, people management and productivity in Yorkshire, Humber and North East

This Yorkshire, Humber and North East Productivity Forum event will explore how good people management practices can contribute to improvements in firms’ productivity and employee wellbeing.

Day Two
Tuesday 28 January, 2025

Construction Productivity Conference

The Construction Productivity Conference looks to address the UK construction ‘productivity puzzle’ head on. The Productivity Institute’s Graham Winch will be speaking at the event about Modern Methods of Construction.

Day Two
Tuesday 28 January, 2025

Amtico International Factory Tour

Amtico is an opportunity to see comparative advantage & productivity in action. The business competes with much larger Far East and European rivals through constant re-invention and strategic decisions on what to do…and what to avoid.

Day Three
Wednesday 29 January, 2025

Public Sector Productivity Roundtable

The Programme for Government references a 10-year public service reform with some specific suggestions, but what does productivity mean in the public sector? This roundtable with Prosper and The Productivity Institute Scotland Forum brings together key stakeholders to explore the challenges and opportunities in enhancing public sector productivity.

Day Three
Wednesday 29 January, 2025

Scaling Up Success: A Hands-On Workshop for Unlocking Business Potential

Join The Productivity Institute Scotland Forum and Connect Three to learn how businesses can identify and unlock their full potential for growth.

Day Three
Wednesday 29 January, 2025

Driving Growth in Scotland: Finance, FinTech, and Funding

Join us to unlock Scotland’s potential with investments that deliver financial returns, drive sustainability, and champion inclusivity.

Day Three
Wednesday 29 January, 2025

Trade, FDI and productivity: how do they interact?

This panel discussion, held at the Department for International Trade in Manchester, will feature Professor Nigel Driffield, Professor Jun Du, Elvin Willgrass, Mark Hepworth, and Kia Gardner of Freedom Confectionery.

Day Four
Thursday 30 January, 2025

Productivity and the Wellbeing of Future Generations in Wales

The Wales Productivity Forum invites you to the launch of its new insights report, Wales’ Productivity Challenge: A Focus on the Future.

Day Four
Thursday 30 January, 2025

Productivity Tips for Tech Businesses

Delivered in partnership with the Eagle Labs and The Productivity Institute Scotland Forum, this interactive session targeted at tech founders will bring experts and founders first-hand experience on tasks prioritisation, time management and people best practice.

Day Four
Thursday 30 January, 2025

Festival of Flourishing Regions

An event dedicated to the advancement and growth of regions across the UK, to promote and celebrate the role that cities and regions play in the economy and prosperity of the country.

Day Four
Thursday 30 January, 2025

The AI Productivity Opportunity

Join The Productivity Collective members for a half-day event focused on AI, tech and productivity.

Day Four
Thursday 30 January, 2025

Productivity in Midlands: Insights & Actions

The Midlands Productivity Forum and Loughborough Business School are organising a webinar focused on productivity issues in Midlands.

Day Five
Friday 31 January, 2025

London and the South: Becoming Productive Places?

This event will explore how current policies around net zero, place-based funding, and devolution offer both challenges and opportunities for communities in London, the South East, and the South West.

Day Five
Friday 31 January, 2025

Northern Ireland Productivity 2040

This event will launch Northern Ireland’s Productivity Forum’s new report, NI Productivity 2040, focusing on how policy can improve NI’s productivity.

Day Five
Friday 31 January, 2025

Innovation and Infrastructure in the East

Join us for this event focusing on the role that innovation and infrastructure plays in supporting inclusive growth across East Anglia.

Day Five
Friday 31 January, 2025

Boosting Regional Prosperity: Productivity in the Rural Economy

Discover how The Crichton Trust Estate, Dumfries, empowers rural businesses with heritage spaces, green innovation, and NetZero solutions.

Day Five
Friday 31 January, 2025

The Power of Purpose in Business

Sheryl Newman, CEO & Founder, Appetite for Business, will speak about the way that purpose shaped her business including leading to the B-Corp certification at this event delivered with Peer Works and The Productivity Institute Scotland Forum.

Day Five
Friday 31 January, 2025

Unlocking the UK’s Productivity Potential

This event from The Productivity Institute Midlands Forum seeks to bring together business, policy and academia to explore how we can both better understand the barriers to productivity growth in the region, and ways that we can collaborate to address them.

Day Five
Friday 31 January, 2025

Unlocking Productivity: Insights and Strategies from C-Suite Leaders

In this webinar with CIMA and AICPA, we will discuss how senior leaders can collaborate better to unlock their firms’ productivity potential.