The National Productivity Week | Productivity in the Midlands: Insights and Actions
We are delighted to invite you to a special webinar hosted by Loughborough Business School as part of National Productivity Week.
This online webinar session brings together leading experts and practitioners to discuss critical themes shaping regional productivity with a focus on the East Midlands.
Join us for a series of focused perspectives on bridging the skills gap, advancing industrial decarbonisation, and reimagining supply chain productivity to drive sustainable growth in the Midlands.
Agenda
| 10am |
Welcome and Context Setting Nigel Driffield, Professor of International Business at Warwick Business School, Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor for Regional Engagement at Warwick University and Co-Leader of Midlands Productivity Forum |
| Focused perspectives | |
| 10.10am |
Bridging the Skills Gap: Lessons from the National Retraining Scheme and the Path Forward for Workforce Development Jamie Cater, Head of Employment and Skills Policy at Make UK |
| 10.20am |
Insights from the Black Country Industrial Decarbonisation Zone Matthew Rhodes, Director of Camirus and Black Country Industrial Cluster (Repowering the Black Country project) |
| 10.30am |
Reimaging Supply Chain Productivity: Planning Hubs and Circular Economy for Regional Growth Jan Godsell, Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Strategy, Dean of Loughborough Business School, Co-Leader of Midlands Productivity Forum and Director of MIT SCALE Centre |
| 10.40am |
Key Takeaways and Call to Action Arman Mazhikeyev, Senior Research Associate at Midlands Productivity Forum and Loughborough Business School |
| 10.50am |
Panel Q&As Thomas Triebs, Lecturer in Economics at Loughborough Business School, and Associate Researcher at the Energy Policy Research Group at the University of Cambridge |