The International Housing Summit 2011 is fast approaching.

Book your place now and start connecting with your international colleagues to shape your organisation, and the sector, for the future.

Make the most of your stay in Rotterdam

With just seven weeks to go, it’s time to start planning your stay. With our new online planning tool you can find out who is attending the Summit and arrange meetings before the conference begins, making the most of the knowledge sharing and networking opportunities on offer.

Why attend?

In two intensive days of highly practical sessions, the International Housing Summit allows you to share learnings with more than forty-five expert speakers from all corners of the globe. Alongside the two conference tracks, working lunch sessions provide additional focused debate on key issues, providing further opportunity to learn from the experience of your international colleagues.

Visit the website for more details on topics and speakers addressing the most pressing challenges around:

Policy and strategy

• Claudio Acioly, UN-Habitat delivers a global perspective on affordable housing strategies and solutions moving forward

• David Cowans, Places for People is part of a senior panel asking whether affordable housing is a sector in crisis and what the future might hold

• Andrew Heywood, Housing Finance International, joins colleagues asking where affordable housing sits in the broader housing landscape and how greater cross-sector collaboration could be achieved

• Ulf Nyqvist, Botkyrkabyggen in Sweden and Rudy de Jong, CECODHAS are part of a panel looking at the impact of recent housing policy in different countries and the impact of decisions around competition and eligibility for housing

Financing and business transformation

• Paul Tennant, Orbit looks at the leadership, training and financial management decisions that can make or break a housing business

• Steve Binks, Places for People shares his experience of the pros and cons of financing vehicles, including aggregated and retail bonds, private placements and institutional investment

• A panel of investors including Paul Stevens, Santander and Esa Kallio, of Finland’s Munifin offers advice on the new financing realities and alternative funding sources

• Wolfgang Beck, Deutsche Annington, explores how Germany’s largest residential property company learned from more commercially efficient industries to successfully transform the business

Sustainable development

• Chiel Boonstra of Trecodome, Corné Koppelaar of Global Habitat, David Adams of Willmott Dixon/Zero Carbon Hub and Dr. Michael Scharp of IZT discuss issues around funding, tackling fuel poverty and the long-term feasibility of wide-scale retrofitting

Housing and communities

• Les Clarke, Housing 21 and Janet Menard, a commissioner of Human Services from Canada explore the impact of public spending cuts on housing and care provision

• Steve Stride, Poplar Harca participates in a topical panel looking at how housing providers can make a major difference to young people’s lives in the wake of unemployment and cuts to youth schemes

• An international panel including Jon Lord of the Housing and Migration Network looks at how different countries approach challenges around housing diverse migrant and refugee communities

• The benefits of Co-ops, self-build and CLTs are explored in a session on alternative housing models

• A senior panel, including Jane Ashcroft of Anchor Trust, addresses how we can tackle the challenging funding and care needs of older people

Special focus country case studies

• Senior speakers explore key issues around reform, cuts and new business opportunities in a diverse range of countries including India, The Netherlands, China, Hong Kong, the UK, Australia and Brazil
  

Speakers include:

Who will you meet?

More than 300 housing professionals are expected to attend from countries worldwide. Join us in Rotterdam and be a part of the global housing community.

Study tours

Don’t forget to book one of the three unmissable post-conference tours when you book your delegate place.

Focusing on innovate projects in urban development, integrated communities and green building, tours visit some of the best examples of affordable housing in The Netherlands and offer the opportunity to meet with housing
providers and tenants.

Join the housing world in Rotterdam – Book your place today