We are continuing to organise full-scale virtual conferences which retain all the features of physical seminars, including full programmes, presentations with slides, panel discussions and live delegate questions and comments sessions, person-to-person and group networking, and a permanent record provided to all delegates afterwards. New events are coming on to our conference programme all the time, so there are plenty of opportunities to join us if you haven’t already, from wherever you are. For booking-related queries or information on speaking please email us at info@forumsupport.co.uk, or contact us using one of the following numbers: +44 (0)7538736244 / +44 (0)7951044809.
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Forum seminar sponsors receive a range of benefits (subject to our core proposition of impartiality) - including:
See below for a summary of sponsorship and exhibition packages offered by Westminster Forum Projects - for more details, or to discuss other partnership arrangements, please contact Peter van Gelder.
Positioning:
Editorial involvement:
Acknowledgement:
Communications:
In addition to our four main sponsorship packages we do also offer a range of standalone promotional options which may be purchased individually or alongside one another. Each of these options is available at every seminar run by Westminster Forum Projects
If you would like to discuss any of these options please contact sponsorship@forumsupport.co.uk.
We have been pleased to have our current group of Forum core sponsors for several years now. Before any new core sponsors could join the group, we would of course, be required to check that any incumbent sponsors are comfortable with the new arrangement.
Our longstanding group of Core Sponsors across our forums are an invaluable source of advice and support.
For the core sponsors themselves, the relationship demonstrates at the highest level their strategic commitment to the impartial and constructive discussion of some of the most important issues in UK public policy, through a widely recognised vehicle which commands trust and respect from policymakers across Parliament, government and regulation, and from the other stakeholders.
For further details about how to join the Core Sponsor group for one of our forums or to begin the process of signing up please contact us at sponsorship@forumsupport.co.uk or call the sponsorship team on 01344 864796.
The Core Sponsors of the Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum are AECOM, Burges Salmon, and Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
Burges Salmon is the independent UK law firm which delivers the best mix of advice, service and value.
Everything the firm does is driven by the needs of its clients. By focusing on the markets and areas of expertise where the firm has extensive knowledge and experience, Burges Salmon is able to achieve the best outcomes for clients, who range from large organisations, entrepreneurial businesses and public sector bodies to private individuals and families. The firm provides these sophisticated clients with a wide range of services, often at critical moments when astute legal advice and commercial guidance is needed. Working collaboratively, in partnership with clients, Burges Salmon forms its thinking around their needs to ensure delivery of the right solutions when it matters.
We understand the legal and commercial challenges inherent in any project and are renowned for our creative approach to problem solving. We combine market-leading experience and legal expertise to help clients overcome the challenges of their sectors, particularly in the delivery of energy, environment and transport infrastructure projects in complex regulatory environments.
Drawing on a pool of expertise from across the firm, our collaborative approach allows us to build the right team for each client. Our team of specialist lawyers is one of the largest and most diverse in the UK, providing a seamless service throughout all stages of the project life cycle – from financing, planning and real estate through to construction and operation.
“The team are client-focused, friendly and extremely practical, they go well beyond reasonable expectations." Chambers UK 2021
Sector expertise
Energy
We are known for ground-breaking work in the energy sector and understand the opportunities, technologies and challenges that the sector presents.
The energy sector moves quickly. Our clients need advisers who understand not only where the sector is today, but also where it will be tomorrow. Our award-winning energy lawyers innovate and deliver creative solutions. From ground-breaking infrastructure projects to unparalleled regulatory insight, we provide the very best advice on all aspects of energy law. We work at the cutting edge of the sector. Our reputation is built upon first-of-a-kind projects and deals, and we provide expert advice throughout the project/plant life cycle.
Environment
Our Environment team is nationally recognised, operating across natural resources, the built environment and, increasingly, in the environmental regulation of products. This is a challenging area as the UK adapts its environmental regulation post-Brexit and we are on top of those changes.
We work with the full spectrum of clients, from government and regulators to private sector funders, developers and infrastructure service providers. We are well known for our expertise across utilities, water, waste management, urban regeneration, social infrastructure and producer responsibility both for contentious and non-contentious work.
We combine specialist expertise in energy efficiency, carbon law, water law, environmental risk management and compliance with award-winning real estate, projects, corporate and construction procurement teams. This has made us the firm of choice for complex regulatory advice, contentious regulatory work and ground-breaking projects across the fast-changing natural resources and built environment sectors.
Transport
With decades of experience in the sector, we offer in-depth legal expertise across all modes of transport and transport infrastructure.
The transport sector remains vital to the country's economic health and there are ambitious plans in place that will continue to enhance the UK's passenger and freight systems in the years ahead. Our industry-leading transport lawyers have deep insight into the sector and unparalleled expertise in transport law. Our advice covers all aspects of transport law from the development of cutting-edge autonomous vehicles to more traditional transport infrastructure, road and rail, airports and ports.
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers was established in 1847 and has some of the world’s greatest engineers in its history books. It is one of the fastest growing Professional Engineering Institutions. Headquartered in London, we have operations around the world and over 115,000 members in more than 140 countries working at the heart of the most important and dynamic industries such as the automotive, rail, aerospace, medical, power and construction industries. By working with leading companies, universities and think tanks, the Institution creates and shares knowledge to provide government, businesses and the public with fresh thinking and authoritative guidance on all aspects of mechanical engineering.
The IMechE’s Engineering Policy Unit works with our expert Industry and Special Interest Groups to develop policy positions of the Institution. Our latest publications can be found on our website:
https://imeche.org/policy-and-press
Follow us on Twitter for the latest news and developments:
https://twitter.com/IMechE
The Core Sponsors of the Westminster eForum are Arqiva, BBC, BT CityFibre and KPMG.
About Arqiva
Arqiva is at the heart of the broadcast, media and utilities sectors in the UK and beyond, providing critical communications infrastructure and media services.
Arqiva provides much of the infrastructure behind television, radio, mobile and other wireless communications in the UK and we are at the forefront of network solutions and services in an increasingly digital world.
Arqiva is the only national provider of terrestrial television and radio broadcasting and provides a machine-to-machine connectivity network for smart metering within the utilities sector.
Arqiva’s history can be traced back to 1922 when it broadcast the world’s first national radio service. In 1936 it carried the BBC’s first television broadcast. In 1978 it enabled Europe’s first satellite TV test. By the 1990s Arqiva was working with the UK’s mobile operators to bring mobile telecommunications to UK businesses and consumers. In the 2000s, it launched the UK’s national DAB radio and Digital Terrestrial Television networks. Most recently, Arqiva has played a pioneering role in the roll-out of the national smart energy and water metering networks.
Our teams are, behind the scenes, delivering millions of vital connections every day for our customers, the major UK and international broadcasters, independent radio groups as well as major utility companies and networks.
Arqiva is owned by a consortium of infrastructure investors and has its headquarters in Hampshire, with major UK offices in London, Buckinghamshire and Yorkshire and operational centres in the West Midlands and Scotland.
The BBC's mission has remained the same for almost 100 years; to enrich people’s lives with great programmes and services that inform, educate and entertain.
The BBC is the most-used brand in the UK for media. We are used by almost 100% of adults on average every month, making us one of the most-used UK public services. BBC services are used by 90% of UK adults and 80% of young adults on average per week and BBC News remains the source people are most likely to turn to for news they trust.
The Corporation is funded through a television licence fee and 95% of our controllable spend is focused on content and delivery with just 5% spent on running the organisation. The BBC delivers £2.63 of direct economic impact for every £1 spent, with 50% of that economic impact outside London.
The current Royal Charter, which started on 1st January 2017 sets out five purposes for the BBC. They are:
The BBC word mark and logo are trade marks of the British Broadcasting Corporation and are used under licence. BBC logo © BBC 1996
An introduction to BT:
BT Group is one of the world’s leading communications services companies. We’re based in the UK but we serve customers in around 180 countries.
We develop and sell communications propositions and services, and build and operate the networks that are essential to modern lives, businesses and communities.
We operate as a single business, made up of organisational units. There are customer-facing units that sell propositions and services and corporate units that support the whole group.
Consumer
Our three brands – BT, EE and Plusnet – connect UK consumers to information, entertainment, friends and family, at home and on the move. Between them, they provide the whole of the UK with connectivity.
Global
Provides managed network services to large businesses and multi-site organisations in 180 countries.
We buy access to fixed-line and broadband infrastructure from Openreach, and we use EE’s mobile network to provide mobile phone services.
Enterprise
We connect more than 1m business customers and public sector organisations with our extensive portfolio of communications and IT solutions. We also provide network products and services to communications providers operating in the UK and Republic of Ireland.
Openreach
Openreach builds, and sells access to, the network that connects the UK’s homes and businesses. Openreach also provides wholesale ‘last mile’ fixed access from homes and businesses to exchanges, and installs and maintains the fibre and copper communications networks.
We are a leading business connectivity, communications and IT services provider to major multinational corporations in around 180 countries. We own an extensive global voice and data network providing managed services, security and network and IT infrastructure services, enabling customers’ digital transformations.
We partner in countries worldwide for access to voice and data infrastructure and we buy enterprise technologies and equipment for our customers from the world’s leading technology providers.
CityFibre is the UK’s third national digital infrastructure platform. With existing networks in more than 60 towns and cities, CityFibre provides wholesale connectivity to multiple business and consumer service providers, local authorities and mobile operators.
CityFibre has network rollouts underway with plans to pass up to 8 million homes and businesses with open-access full fibre infrastructure. A growing number of Gigabit City projects have been announced for full-city rollouts and CityFibre continues to prime its existing network assets for expansion.
CityFibre is based in London and is jointly controlled by Antin Infrastructure Partners and West Street Infrastructure Partners.
KPMG LLP, a UK limited liability partnership, operates from 22 offices across the UK with approximately 17,600 partners and staff. KPMG is a global organisation of independent professional services firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. We operate in 147 countries and territories and have more than 219,000 people working in member firms around the world. Each KPMG firm is a legally distinct and separate entity and describes itself as such. KPMG International Limited is a private English company limited by guarantee.
Within KPMG’s Technology, Media and Telecommunications practice we focus on the most pressing issues faced by our sector clients in this period of unprecedented disruption. In recent years, the mass-adoption of over-the-top (OTT) video platforms has been sending shockwaves through the television and film business. Social media and online search have continued to take revenues away from traditional ad-funded media. News and information publishers have sought to diversify through digital subscriptions, e-commerce and, pre-pandemic, live events. Throughout 2020 and beyond, COVID-19 has turbo-charged the transition to online business models. Mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic partnerships have become even more crucial tools for market participants to gain scale and acquire complementary capabilities.
The launch of 5G networks and accompanying gigabit wireless speeds and ultra-low latency will enable further redefinition of the boundaries between linear, online and live entertainment. Cloud gaming and e-sports, IOT-enabled devices, AR/VR applications, HD mobile video are just some of the emerging services and use cases that compete for consumers’ attention and share of wallet. Media executives are striving to develop sustainable business models balancing short term financial goals with long term ambitions.
KPMG has a 360-degree understanding of these hot issues and the specific threats faced by each of the media segments – television and radio broadcasting, advertising, music, film and news publishing. Our collaborative approach across key international hubs such as London, Silicon Valley, New York, Shanghai and Tel Aviv brings to our clients a powerful lens and repository of insights to help tackle the strategic and operational challenges ahead.
The BBC logo is a trade mark of the British Broadcasting Corporation and is used under licence. BBC logo © BBC 1996.KPMG International's Trademarks are the sole property of KPMG International and their use does not imply auditing by or endorsement of KPMG International or any of its member firms.
The Core Sponsors of the Westminster Media Forum are Arqiva, BBC, BT CityFibre and KPMG.
The Core Sponsor of the Westminster Health Forum is Boehringer Ingelheim .
We are Boehringer Ingelheim - a different kind of pharmaceutical company Family-owned. Purpose-led. Innovation-driven.
We serve mankind by improving health for people and animals.
In 1885, in the southern German town of Ingelheim, Albert Boehringer started a small bio-technology company founded on innovation and responsibility. 135 years later, Boehringer Ingelheim is a global pharma company, nowadays making medicines for people and animals. Today’s world is vastly different from Albert’s, but our founding values remain the same. We remain driven by a desire to improve health. This profound sense of purpose is in our DNA.
Boehringer Ingelheim is still a family owned company, which is unusual and valuable in the broader landscape of pharmaceuticals. We are not beholden to the stock market like many others, instead we answer to society. We plan in generations, not quarters, meaning we can take long term decisions that may not drive profit overnight but will ultimately benefit patients.
In 2021, the way we deliver healthcare improvements is inherently more sophisticated than Albert could have imagined. When we look at the specific challenges of improving health for patients here in the UK, they are complex. However, we are clear about how our unique strengths can deliver value, focusing on three core areas: scientific innovation, sustainable healthcare and digital transformation.
When it comes to scientific innovation, we take on the biggest challenges in medicine. We are at the forefront of advancing research through open innovation, and sharing compounds for research with the wider Life Sciences community. Our clinical trials are becoming increasingly patient focused as we continue to invest in finding solutions to unmet medical needs.
We are committed to sustainable healthcare, planning for the long term alongside the NHS, helping it meet objectives outlined in The Long Term Plan.1 We run numerous Joint Working projects, piloting new models of care aiming to improve the patient pathway experience and reduce the burden on hospitals.
We are committed to tackling the challenge of climate change and are one of the first pharma companies in the UK to become a carbon neutral organisation. We are continually looking at ways to reduce our carbon footprint, to offset unavoidable emissions and to think innovatively to find answers to the most pressing questions of our time.
Today, technology plays a huge role in helping us deliver scientific innovation and sustainable healthcare solutions. We are driving digital transformation by pushing the capabilities of artificial intelligence, partnering with start-ups and backing initiatives to ensure technology is an enabler not a barrier. Again, our family-owned status gives us freedom to invest where we feel it matters most, following the science – not the market.
Today we employ over 700 people around the UK, committed to improving health for patients and animals. As we look to the future, we can’t pretend it’s going to be easy. But just like Albert all those years ago, we believe that challenge is the seed of innovation, from which progress will flourish.
For further information, please visit www.boehringer-ingelheim.co.uk
The NHS Long Term Plan: https://www.longtermplan.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-long-term-plan/
The Core Sponsor of the Westminster Business Forum is Economic Insight .
Economic Insight is an economics consultancy that provides an unrivalled level of client service. Our unique proposition is that we combine the rigour of technical economics with the consultancy skills of leading strategy houses. We use economics to provide our clients with a fresh perspective on the issues that matter most to them and to support superior decision making.
Our expertise is in helping clients solve critical, real world, strategic problems across the areas of business strategy, regulation, competition law and public policy. Our track record of delivering value-adding results means that we are trusted by major private and public sector organisations to advise at the most senior level. We work across all sectors, from fast moving consumer goods and retail through to regulated utilities. Our breadth of experience allows us to offer cross-sector insights that help our clients achieve their objectives.
As you would expect of a firm of specialist economists, our advice is underpinned by rigorous economic, statistical and financial analysis. But it’s how we use our analysis that makes us different. Our focus is on translating it into clear and valuable advice for our clients. In our opinion, that’s what makes economics relevant.
The Core Sponsor of the Westminster Education Forum is OCR .
OCR (Oxford Cambridge and RSA Examinations) is a leading UK awarding organization and is part of the newly merged Cambridge University Press & Assessment. This merger creates a larger, global organization that offers world-leading academic research, learning and assessment, backed by the first-class teaching and research departments of the University of Cambridge.
We are committed to ensuring that all our assessments are fair, have sound ethical underpinning, and operate to the highest technical standards. Our organization is not for profit.
We provide GCSEs, A Levels and vocational qualifications to schools, colleges and many other types of institutions. OCR believes in a broad and balanced curriculum providing choices that can meet the needs of different learners and which support different approaches to teaching and learning. We provide GCSEs and A Levels in over 40 subjects and offer over 450 vocational qualifications, including Cambridge Nationals and Cambridge Technicals.
We develop our qualifications in close consultation with teachers, industry leaders and government to ensure they are relevant for today’s students and meet requirements set by the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual).
Our heritage is long established and provides us with expertise across the full range of academic and vocational qualifications. Since becoming OCR in 1998, our experience, knowledge and skills have enabled us to build a reputation for reliably high standards.
We are proud to be part of the University of Cambridge and we are at the forefront of education. We support teachers, schools and Governments around the world
We actively seek out high quality innovators in education and work with them in partnership to develop qualifications/assessments that supports their activity.
We are always busy producing our forward events calendar for new conferences on areas of evolving or emerging policy. If none of our existing seminars were what you were looking for, we always welcome pitches from sponsors to run an event on their preferred sector.
So long as it meets our impartial, professional and commercial criteria we could go forward with the suggested event in close consultation with the sponsor.
To discuss any further information or to suggest a conference please either submit the information below or contact us at sponsorship@forumsupport.co.uk.
Westminster Forum Projects prides itself on professionally organised and run impartial conferences. However we also lend our expertise to supporting bespoke conferences under client’s branding through our separate Westminster Policy Conferences division. Using our sector-leading organisational skills, access to best pricing on facilities and support, and extensive contacts database we produce white-label seminars to order and to full client specifications.
Westminster Policy Conferences has a long record of organising conferences, receptions and other events on behalf of Parliamentarians, government departments, regulators, NGOs, higher education institutions and business groups.
Our input can be in the form of the total organisation of an event, or more simple customised support to suit individual requirements.
All seminars produced by WPC are treated like one of our own and of the upmost importance to us. They are conducted to the same standard we expect from events under our own brand - currently with over 240 conferences a year attracting speakers and delegates at high levels in Parliament and Whitehall; the education, legal and health professions; the business community and their advisors; third sector and community groups; academia and the reporting media.
To get in touch about working with Westminster Policy Conferences please either use the form below or email us at info@westminsterpolicyconferences.co.uk.
