Delivering safe, sustainable, and high-quality homes while managing costs and compliance is the ultimate challenge for housing professionals today. The Quality Homes 2026 conference is your gateway to practical strategies, emerging standards, and innovative approaches that help you future-proof your stock and investment plans.

Join us to explore how to balance decency, energy efficiency, and resident outcomes, get updates on regulatory developments including Decent Homes 2 and MEES, benchmark your asset management practices with peers, and hear how leading organisations are tackling long-term planning, data-driven decision making, and ethical disposal.


Explore the programme for Quality Homes 2026 below.

6:00pm

8:30am

Registration opens

Duration: 30 minutes

9:00am

Breakfast Briefing

Duration: 45 minutes

10:00am

Opening remarks from the chair

Duration: 10 minutes

Chair:

  • Paul Dolan

    Paul Dolan
    Riverside

10:10am

Duration: 40 minutes

Speaker:

  • Kate Dodsworth

    Kate Dodsworth
    Regulator of Social Housing

10:50am

Future funding frameworks for decarbonisation

Duration: 40 minutes

Speaker:

  • Selvin Brown MBE

    Selvin Brown MBE
    Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

11:10am

Networking break and meet the exhibitors

Duration: 30 minutes

11:40am

Duration: 40 minutes

Speakers:

  • Richard Blakeway

    Richard Blakeway
    Housing Ombudsman Service

  • Christine Blackett

    Christine Blackett
    Gateway Management Team (resident)

12:20pm

Breakout sessions – please select one option

Duration: 40 minutes

Speakers:

  • Sam Asamoah

    Sam Asamoah
    Redbridge Council and Peabody resident

  • Lucy Hancock

    Lucy Hancock
    Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Duration: 40 minutes

Duration: 40 minutes

Speakers:

  • Ruth Dent

    Ruth Dent
    Regen-Group

  • Tom Arey

    Tom Arey
    Places for People

  • Lynsey Sweeney

    Lynsey Sweeney
    Communities that Work

1:10pm

Networking lunch and meet the exhibitors

Duration: 1 hour

2:10pm

Breakout sessions – please select one option

Duration: 40 minutes

Duration: 40 minutes

Speaker:

  • Becky Ritchie
    Clarion Housing Group

Duration: 40 minutes

Speaker:

  • Jenny Danson

    Jenny Danson
    Healthy Homes Hub

3:00pm

Breakout sessions – please select one option

Duration: 40 minutes

Speakers:

  • Philippe Demougin
    Bromford Flagship

  • Matt Bellamy
    Vivid Homes

  • Sonji Nurse

    Sonji Nurse
    Hexagon Housing Association

Duration: 40 minutes

Speakers:

  • Liz Blackwell

    Liz Blackwell
    L&Q Group

  • Gemma Brookes
    Orbit

  • Matthew Scott

    Matthew Scott
    Chartered Institute of Housing

Duration: 40 minutes

Speaker:

  • Melissa O’Donnell

    Melissa O’Donnell
    Golden Lane Housing (GLH)

3:40pm

Networking break and meet the exhibitors

Duration: 30 minutes

4:10pm

Duration: 40 minutes

Speakers:

  • John Hughes

    John Hughes
    Ongo

  • Alistair Smyth

    Alistair Smyth
    National Housing Federation

4:50pm

Duration: 40 minutes

Speaker:

  • Steve Sze

    Steve Sze
    Lloyds Banking Group

5:30pm

Chair’s closing remarks and end of the conference

Chair:

  • Paul Dolan

    Paul Dolan
    Riverside