Programme

MONDAY 1st JULY
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 John Proffitt, President, The Federation of Burial and Cremation Authorities.
14.30 hrs	Crematorium Compliance Scheme – Improving and Developing the Federation’s Approach to its Inspection Process Kate Davidson, LLB (Hons), Lead Officer, Crematorium Compliance Working Group, The Federation of Burial and Cremation Authorities
15.15 hrs	Refreshment Break in Exhibition Area
15.45 hrs	Cruse Bereavement Care – 60 years of supporting bereaved people Steven Wibberley, Chief Executive, Cruse Bereavement Care
16.30 hrs	The National Implementation of the Medical Examiner System Dr Alan Fletcher, B Med Sci (Hons), MB ChB, FRCEM, FRCP Edin, RCPathME, National Medical Examiner, NHS Improvement
17.00 – 18.00 hrs	Networking in Exhibition Area
Evening	Welcome Dinner – Details TBC

TUESDAY 2nd JULY
09.15 hrs	Planning for Burial and Cremation Space Lee Searles, BA, PGDip, MRTPI, Director of Planning, Enzygo Ltd
10.00 hrs	Crematorium transformations: processing bodies and marking lives Professor Douglas Davies, Ph.D., D.Litt., Hon. Dr. Theol, FAcSS, FLSW, FBA, Director of The Centre for Death and Life Studies, Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University
10.45 hrs	Refreshment Break in Exhibition Area
11.15 hrs	Coffin Accreditation Scheme Alun Tucker, Chief Executive, Funeral Furnishing Manufacturers’ Association
11.45 hrs	The good, the bad, and the ugly – the new paradigm of regulating funeral directors Terry Tennens, MBA, Mth, Chief Executive, National Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors
12.30 hrs	Buffet Lunch in Exhibition Area
14.00 hrs	Ministry of Justice Update Judith Bernstein OBE, MA (Oxon), LLM, JP, Joint Head of Coroners, Burials, Cremation and Inquiries Policy Team, Ministry of Justice
14.45 hrs	What have you done David Bowie? Debbie Kerslake, Council Member, The Cremation Society of Great Britain
15.30 hrs	Refreshment Break in Exhibition Area
16.00 - 17.00 hrs	Presidents’ Panel Chaired by Harvey Thomas CBE
19.15 hrs	Pre-dinner Networking in Exhibition Area
19.45 hrs	Event Dinner

WEDNESDAY 3rd JULY
09.30 hrs	What the Public think of Crematoria – Part II Richard Martin, BSc, Director, Scattering Ashes
10.15 hrs	Brief History and Insight into the Pet Cremation Industry Nick Ricketts, Chairman, Association of Private Pet Cemeteries & Crematoria
11.00 hrs	Refreshment Break in Exhibition Area
11.30 hrs	What is the environmental impact of current methods of human and animal body disposal, and what can we do to limit it? Simon Holden, Managing Director, and Dr Caroline Sampson, BMedSci, BMBS (Hons), FRCA, FFICM, EDIC, Consultant in Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Adult ECMO, Faunus Group
12.15 hrs	Funerals, Cremations and the CMA 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.)