NWUPC & NEUPC Annual Conference

 
 
 
On June 17th 2021 NWUPC and NEUPC held our first joint online conference together. Bringing together delegates from across our combined membership into a virtual conference. We aimed to bring the best parts of a face to face conference to our Members in a safe manner to follow current Government regulations during the current situation.

Hosted on the Whova platform, we had a wide range of workshops on offer, as well as a virtual supplier exhibition covering all category group areas, and opportunities to network with fellow HE pocurement professionals in the North of England. We are currently collecting feedback from Members and exhibitors but we feel it was a great success with our key aims to engage our Members in a varied programme of workshops and networking opportunities met.

To start the day we held a Work from Home Workout with 139 Members joining Kingsley to start the day with a bounce and a bit of sweat and a high attendance was followed throughout the day for all our workshop sessions. We also held several social activities bringing Members and suppliers together and had a community board hosting conversations and sparking debates throughout the day.

Some statistics from the day:

• 499 people in attendance • Over 270 delegates • 50 exhibitor booths

• 18 workshops • 4 dedicated exhibitor sessions

• Over 700 messages sent through the Community Board

• Over 1000 images shared! • 165 attendees participating in Meet Ups

Attendees to the conference can still access all of the workshop sessions, conference content, presentation slides and documents, and these will be available to delegates via your login for the next six months. You can find them by signing in as you did on the day of the conference through this link and going to the Agenda for the day. We’d like to say a special thank you to Colin Maclachlan our keynote speaker and to all the presenters who delivered a succession of great workshops during the conference, our headline sponsor Banner UK, event sponsors Arco and BOF and all of our suppliers who attended.