Webinar recordings

This presentation by Pat Chapman-Pincher gives an insight into how organisations should be researching and thinking about technological factors that will affect business in the future. Artificial Intelligence in particular has the potential to give an organisation an amazing tool set, if it's approached in the right way. Pat will provide an understanding of the threats and opportunities of AI.

Vanessa Walsh, Head of Sustainability for Jacobs, speaks about the Jacobs PlanBeyond strategy. The strategy aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) and shows how sustainability is personal to everyone, in everything they do. Sustainability isn’t 100 people doing it perfectly, it’s millions doing it imperfectly but improving.

Communicate Smarter is an online panel discussion in which experienced specialists outline how they approach communications in their roles, their biggest challenges and the methods they find most effective to deal with them. They discuss how SMART communication can improve your business and why an effective communication strategy is essential for your business. They also explore the differences between internal and external communications.

Martin Rodgers (Director of Quality at Inmarsat) will be taking us through the evolution of auditing at Inmarsat from, its introduction as a simple health check, its development to conformance validation and more recently a wider expansion to provide a deeper understanding of the efficiency and effectiveness of the business’ processes.

The role of audit is changing so let’s take a look at the views from UKAS / IAF. The conference is delighted to have secured the participation of Kevin. Kevin works at UKAS in the role of Technical Manager, where he is responsible for the technical governance and effectiveness of UKAS's accreditation activities. Kevin is also the current chair of the lAF (International Accreditation Forum).

Richard Green of Kingsford Consultancy talks about the practice, benefits and challenges of remote auditing

This talk will include a candid look at the way that non-conformance is managed in many companies from large to small and how the focus needs to shift in order to better drive the improvements and risk planning methodologies expressed and implied throughout the various ISO standards.

Our speaker Paul Simpson will focus on the need for quality professionals to provide the necessary governance and improvement to enable their organisations to capture the opportunities that exist in their working environments. He will also examine the flip side of opportunity, that of risk.

How Information Management (IM) drives down costs, enables automation and is a key enabler to deliver quality.

Simon Vear of the Oakland Group discusses why Quality professional needs to understand how they can contribute in areas such as data governance, data assurance and data-driven improvement.