Additional session information and speakers will be added in due course

ZONE 1: Knowledge & Networking 

A bright future for Enovation with Legrand Care
Hear the latest news from the Managing Directors of both Enovation UK and Legrand Care UK about how the Enovation UMO and Jontek Answerlink teams are joining together under Legrand Care, learn about the future of both the UMO and Answerlink monitoring products, and understand the benefits that this will bring to our customers.

Session Speakers:

• Paul Shead, Managing Director, Enovation UK (Session Chair)
• Chris Donnelly, Managing Director, Legrand Care UK

ZONE 2: Knowledge & Networking 

Transforming Housing Through Innovation and Collaboration
Transforming Housing Through Innovation and Collaboration explores how the housing sector can seize a critical moment of change to reshape the delivery of care. With less than a year remaining before the Analogue to Digital switchover, and data indicating that fewer than 25% of housing providers have yet to transition, this event highlights the challenges, opportunities, and practical pathways for rapid modernisation.

This session showcases integrated solutions that are already delivering significant real-world benefits. Attendees will gain insight from a broad range of stakeholder perspectives, demonstrating how transformative technologies can help organisations stay ahead of the Analogue to Digital deadline while enhancing service delivery, improving operational outcomes, and enabling safer, more effective support for residents to age in place.

Session Speakers:

• Stuart Carroll, Sales Director, Chiptech (Session Chair)
• Holly Peacock, Managing Director, The CCTV Company
• Jonathan Cross, UK Sales Manager, Skyresponse
• Su Baines, Head of Customer Support Services, Chiptech
• Sam Boothroyd, Sales Consultant, Chiptech

ZONE 1: Knowledge & Networking 

From Delivery to Demonstrable Value: Simplifying TEC Benefits Realisation
Delivering Technology Enabled Care is only part of the challenge. For local authorities, demonstrating measurable benefits is essential to sustain investment, build confidence, and move beyond pilot delivery. Too often, benefits realisation relies on manual processes, fragmented data, and retrospective reporting, limiting its impact.
This session will explore why we collectively need to shift from claims that aren’t reflected in the bottom-line to using believable local-authority published evidence using standardised methodology with local costs. Transparency builds much-needed trust so that we can collectively shift efforts and focus from pilots and calculating benefits to scale deployment and service models that realise benefits.

Session Speakers:

• Paul Berney, Principal Associate, TSA (Session Chair)
• Nerys Hebdon, Head of TEC Customer Enablement, Access
• Robert Franks, Managing Director, WM5G
• Vivien Danks, Project Manager, Digital Office for Scottish Local Government
• Kelly Kafarski, Assistant Director, Home First, Sheffield City Council

ZONE 2: Knowledge & Networking 

Protecting the Most Vulnerable: Fire Detection Requirement for Housing
There are many factors that increase fire risk in housing to above the norm, including complications arising from getting older or having some form of disability. This session explores how comprehensive LD1 fire detection systems, aligned with BS 5839-6 and NFCC recommendations, provide early warning and save lives. We’ll discuss the distinction between sheltered and supported housing, upgrading legacy systems, mitigating nuisance alarms, and linking detection to telecare monitoring services. Special focus will be given to inclusive solutions such as vibrating pads and visual alarms for deaf residents. Attendees will leave with a clearer strategy for specifying, upgrading and managing compliant, connected fire safety systems that truly protect vulnerable communities.

Session Speakers:

• Helen Loveday, Head of Quality and Improvement, TEC Quality (Session Chair)
• Andrew Sturgess, Regional Director, Aico

ZONE 1: Knowledge & Networking 

Consumers and Technology in the US: The role of the Connected Health & Safety Association
With digital health becoming a standard worldwide, classic care models are constantly being replaced with innovative solutions. In this session, we will discuss how the Connected Health & Safety Association has aimed to stay ahead of the expectations of consumers and the constraints of the US healthcare system.

Session Speakers:

• Simon Arnold, Non-Executive Director, TSA (Session Chair)
• Shea Gregg, Board Director and Committee Chair, Connected Health and Safety Association (USA)

ZONE 2: Knowledge & Networking 

Designing Roles That Deliver: Technology, Trust and Workforce Stability
As services adapt to growing demand and increasing use of technology, there is a clear need to shape a workforce that is confident, purposeful and fit for the future. This session reflects briefly on the wider workforce challenge and the importance of moving with intent when designing roles that support stability, trust and effective use of technology in people’s homes.
It will then use the Care Technologist role as a practical exemplar. Drawing on real service experience, the discussion will explore how the role is being introduced, what helps it embed well and how clarity of remit, training and support influence the strengthening of teams and outcomes.
Delegates will leave with a clearer sense of how purposeful role design can contribute to workforce stability, improve outcomes for people at home and help services adapt to technological change without losing sight of relationships and trust. The session will provide practical reflections on how the Care Technologist role fits within the wider workforce picture when implemented with intention and care, and what this signals for future workforce development across the sector.

Session Speakers:

• Julie Stone, Workforce Lead, TSA (Session Chair)
• Heather Taylor, National Digital Projects Lead,National Care Forum
• Lindsey Biggs, Chief Innovation and Skills Officer, East Kent Colleges Group
• Debra Edwards, Lived Experience Adviser