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Day Four
Thursday 30 January, 2025

The AI Productivity Opportunity

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

Day One
Monday 27 January, 2025

Bridging the gap between UK firms

This event explored 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.

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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 – presented major policy findings.

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Day Two
Tuesday 28 January, 2025

Beyond Technology: CIO Perspectives on Boosting Productivity

This event at 9am at The Shard brought 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.

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Day Two
Tuesday 28 January, 2025

Delivering a Step Change for Productivity in the North West

This event explored 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

Worldwide expert on rapid-innovation-based industries, Professor Dan Breznitz, and a panel discussed the meaning of ‘innovation’ within global business.

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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.

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Day Two
Tuesday 28 January, 2025

Unlocking AI: Practical Strategies for Business Productivity

This hands-on workshop with industry leaders Connect Three explored how AI can be used to unlock productivity for your business.

Day Two
Tuesday 28 January, 2025

Redefining Productivity: Smarter Ways of Working

This workshop with The Productivity Institute Scotland Forum explored 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 explored how good people management practices can contribute to improvements in firms’ productivity and employee wellbeing.

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Day Two
Tuesday 28 January, 2025

Construction Productivity Conference

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

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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

This roundtable with Prosper and The Productivity Institute Scotland Forum brought 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

The Productivity Institute Scotland Forum and Connect Three delivered this workshop 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

This event focused on unlocking 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, featured 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 launched its new insights report, Wales’ Productivity Challenge: A Focus on the Future, at this event.

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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 brought experts and founders first-hand experience on tasks prioritisation, time management and people best practice.

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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.

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Day Four
Thursday 30 January, 2025

The AI Productivity Opportunity

The Productivity Collective held 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 organised a webinar focused on productivity issues in Midlands.

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Day Five
Friday 31 January, 2025

London and the South: Becoming Productive Places?

This event explored 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.

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Day Five
Friday 31 January, 2025

Northern Ireland Productivity 2040

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

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Day Five
Friday 31 January, 2025

Innovation and Infrastructure in the East

This event focused on the role that innovation and infrastructure plays in supporting inclusive growth across East Anglia.

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Day Five
Friday 31 January, 2025

Boosting Regional Prosperity: Productivity in the Rural Economy

This event looked at 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, spoke 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.

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Day Five
Friday 31 January, 2025

Unlocking the UK’s Productivity Potential

This event from The Productivity Institute Midlands Forum sought 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.

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Day Five
Friday 31 January, 2025

Unlocking Productivity: Insights and Strategies from C-Suite Leaders

This webinar with CIMA and AICPA discussed how senior leaders can collaborate better to unlock their firms’ productivity potential.

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