| 7th October |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Registration | |
| 10:30 - 10.45 | Introduction | Neil Robertson, Chair, IED |
| 10:45 - 11.20 | The Changing Global Economy - sectors for the future (or Foresight Revisited?) | Prof David Bailey, Coventry University Business School |
| 11:20 - 11.40 | Coffee | |
| 11.40 - 12.15 | Regional Economic Development : policy cycles and economic cycles | Nigel Jump, Chief Economist, South West RDA |
| 12.15 - 13.00 | The Green Knowledge Economy: an MAA Agenda for Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole | Prof Mark Hepworth, Geoeconomics |
| 13.00 - 14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 - 17.00 | Field Trips (a choice of one) | |
| Impacts of the Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy (via Jurassic Coast tourism impacts) | John Tweed, Chief Executive, National Sailing Academy |
| Boscombe Regeneration/Surf Reef | Roger Brown, Service Director of Leisure, Bournemouth Council |
| The future of business tourism and conferencing | Tony Rogers, Chief Executive British Association of Conference Destinations and Peter Gunn, Managing Director, BIC Pavilion |
| Poundbury - a sustainable community | Simon Conibear, Development Director, Duchy of Cornwall |
| 19.15 | Reception |
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| 19.45 | Dinner | tbc |
| 8th October |
| 9.00 - 9.35 | Resilience, recession and regeneration : UK tourism prospects in historical perspective recession | Prof John Walton, Institute of Northern Studies |
| 9.35 - 10.10 | Workforce Skills - development for productivity in the longer term |
Michael Davis, UKCES Director of Strategy & Performance |
| 10.10 - 10.45 | What can we do to get incapacity benefit numbers down? | Prof Stephen Fothergill, Sheffield Hallam University |
| 10.45 - 11.10 | Coffee | |
| 11.05 - 12.25 | Workshops 1 (choice of one) | |
| Economics and the development of tidal power and other renewables | Nafis Amhad, Senior Economist, Arup and Stephen Bussell, Arup |
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Adapting regeneration skills and knowledge to recessionary conditions | HCA Academy |
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Responding to economic crises |
Ian Brinkley, The Work Foundation |
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Challenges in evaluating economic development projects and programmes |
Geoff White, SQW |
| 12.30 - 13.30 | Lunch | |
| 13.30 - 14.45 | Workshops 2 (choice of one) | |
| Benefits, responsibilities and compliance costs of implementing Climate Change Bills | Amie Fulton and Lorna Jarvie, Local Footprints, Sustainable Scotland Network |
| Adapting to changing trends and segments in tourism | Paul Ogden, World Class Stratford |
| Medium term challenges for SME credit finance policy |
Peter Kelly and Richard Roberts, Barclays Bank |
| Applying the National Local Authority Sector Guidance on Economic Assessments | LPIA |
| 14.45 - 15.00 | Coffee | |
| 15.00 - 15.35 | Engaging local businesses for growth - implementing the Solutions for Business Portfolio | Sumeet Kanwar, Business Support Team Manager, East Midlands RDA |
| 15.35 - 16.10 | Implications of CAA consideration of the strength of local economies and local areas' responses to that and the recession | The Audit Commission |
| 16.10 - 16.25 | Conference Overview | IED Chair |
| 16.30 | Close and coffee | |
