Programme

MONDAY 11th JUNE
09.30 hrs onwards	Arrival and registration
12.30 hrs	CBCE Exhibition Opens Buffet Lunch in Exhibition Area
14.15 hrs	Opening of Event by Lord de Mauley, Honorary President, The Cremation Society of Great Britain and Councillor Edward Latham, President, The Federation of Burial and Cremation Authorities
14.25 hrs	CBCE 2018 Bursary
14.30 hrs	The Digital Opportunity Leona McAllister, BA, Chief Commercial Officer, PlotBox
15.15 hrs	Refreshment Break in Exhibition Area
15.45 hrs	Reforming the Law and the Dead: Insights and Practical Guidance Dr Heather Conway, LLB, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Queen’s University Belfast
16.30 hrs	Grave Concerns – A new project exploring the management and maintenance of cemetery space c. 1700-2000 Dr Elizabeth Craig-Atkins, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Human Osteology, University of Sheffield
17.00 – 18.00 hrs	Networking in Exhibition Area
Evening

TUESDAY 12th JUNE
09.15 hrs	NOx in the City Tony Brookes, BSc (Hons), Group Sales Manager, Facultatieve Technologies Ltd
09.45 hrs	The cremation industry – an all encompassing survey Steve Gant, Crematoria Director, Crematorium and Memorial Group & Simon Cox, Head of Insight and External Affairs, Crematorium and Memorial Group, and Tom Johnson, Managing Director, Trajectory
10.45 hrs	Refreshment Break in Exhibition Area
11.15 hrs	The Changing Face of a Profession – Funeral Directors in Modern Times Natalie McKail, Inspector of Funeral Directors
11.45 hrs	Cremation in Scotland Robert Swanson QPM, Inspector of Crematoria Scotland, Scottish Government
12.30 hrs	Buffet Lunch in Exhibition Area
14.00 hrs	Ministry of Justice Update Judith Bernstein, MA (Oxon), LLM, Joint Head of Coroners, Burials, Cremation and Inquiries Policy Team, Ministry of Justice
14.45 hrs	The funeral discourse – drivers of change in Scotland John Birrell, MA, LIB, BD, Bereavement Consultant, JohnBirrell Consultancy
15.15 hrs	Refreshment Break in Exhibition Area
15.45 - 16.45 hrs	Presidents’ Panel Chaired by Harvey Thomas CBE
19.15 hrs	Pre-dinner Networking in Exhibition Area
19.45 hrs	Event Dinner

WEDNESDAY 13th JUNE
09.30 hrs	Designs on Death: UK Twenty-first Century Crematorium Design Professor Hilary Grainger OBE, Dean and Professor of Architectural History, University of the Arts London
10.15 hrs	Procurement – A dark art or just plain common sense? Martin Street, RICS, Managing Director, Rose Project Management
11.00 hrs	Refreshment Break in Exhibition Area
11.30 hrs	Innovation in the Coffin Industry Simon Rothwell, LLB (Hons), MBA, Managing Director, LifeArt
12.00 hrs	History helps deal with the future Howard Hodgson, MBIFD (Dip), Ass RSH, Chief Executive Officer, Memoria Ltd
13.00 hrs	Event closes Buffet Lunch in Exhibition Area

(All timings are approximate. Programme and speakers are subject to change.)