Archived Events

23rd June 2010 - IPFA London: Commercial Skills for Complex Government Projects Workshop

8.45 Registration
9.00 Welcome and Introduction
Chaired by: Richard Armitage, Partner, Simmons & Simmons

9.10 Commercial Skills - Why this is Essential to Successful Government Projects
The findings and recommendations of the NAO report on Commercial Skills for Complex Government Projects
David Finlay, Director, National Audit Office Corporate Finance and Infrastructure Team
The challenges the public sector faces in developing commercial skills
Nick Prior, Partner, Deloitte
Discussion

10.10 Coffee Break

10.25 A Private Sector Perspective
Richard Dyton, Partner, Simmons & Simmons

11.00 Workshop Discussions
The commercial skills that the public sector need to develop
How the public sector can better deploy its existing commercial people
What can the public sector learn from the private sector

11.45 Feedback from Workshop Discussions

12.00 Conclusions

12.15 Networking Lunch kindly hosted by Simmons & Simmons

This session does not take the usual format of an IPFA briefing. It has been designed to be a large focused roundtable discussion for both the public and private sector. Spaces are limited and will be on a first come first serve basis. Please contact Daisy Brooker e: dbrooker@ipfa.org if you would like to attend.