Time Event Location Speaker Name , Job Title, and

Company

13:45 - 20:00 Conference & Bedroom Registration & Enquiry

Desk

Kindly sponsored by Account-Ability

Private Dining Room, County

13:45 - 17:00 Rolling tea and coffee

Excursions kindly sponsored by Warwick

Employment Group

13:45 Excursion: Energy Centre

14:45 Excursion: Trim Trail

14:45 Excursion: Lancaster Castle

15:15 Excursion: Afternoon Tea

n/a Excursion: Sports Centre Please make your own way there:

Bigforth Drive, Lancaster, LA1

4YW

18:30 - 19:30 Pre-dinner drinks

19:30 – 20:30 Informal Dinner & Bar

Kindly sponsored by Royal London Asset

Management

Barker House Farm, Lancaster

University

20:30 – 22:00 Entertainment

Late Bar

07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast Barker House Farm, Lancaster

University

08:45 - 17:15 Conference Registration & Enquiry Desk

Kindly sponsored by Account-Ability

09:15 – 09:25 Welcome to 2015 BUFDG Conference Bob Rabone, BUFDG Chair

09:25 - 10:00 Welcome to Lancaster University Professor Mark E. Smith, Vice-

Chancellor, Lancaster UniversityChaired by Simon Jack, Business and

Economics presenter on BBC Radio 4

Today programme withPeter Scott, Professor of Higher

Education Studies, UCL Institute of

Education,

Alison Wride, Provoc, GSM and

Chris Millward, Director (Policy), Higher

Education Funding Council for England

(HEFCE)

11:15 - 11:40 Refreshments

Kindly sponsored by Lloyd's Bank

11:45 - 12:55 Power Hour: (allowing for 10 minutes

contingency time)

Barker House Farm, Lancaster

University

12:55 - 13:50 Lunch

Kindly sponsored by Lloyd's Bank

Sunday 12th April

Monday 13th April

10.00 – 11.15 Plenary Session 1 : 'Reviewing the past and

looking to the future' - Three panellists will

speak on their knowledge of the past, present

and future issues facing the sector with

interview from Simon Jack and time for

audience questions.

Workshop 1A: Future Learn – start-up business

of the year in the British Interactive Media

Awards

Miles Hedges Finance Director, the Open

University and colleagues from Future

Learn

Workshop 2A: E-procurement – how Lancaster

have implemented e-procurement, driven

down transaction costs and improved efficiency

across the university

Larissa Morrish, Head of Procurement,

Lancaster University

Workshop 3A: Information Management

systems – how planning and finance are using

systems to plan and implement business

strategy Workshop 4A: Lancaster’s wind turbine – the

full story.

Mike Sheppard, Former Deputy Director

of Facilities, Lancaster University

14:55 - 15:55 Plenary Session 2 : Health and Wellbeing in the

Workplace: Managing the Pressures

Professor Sir Cary L Cooper, CBE FAcSS

15.55 - 16.25 Refreshments

Kindly sponsored by Lloyd's Bank16:25 - 17:25 Plenary Session 3: SLC visions from the Fraud

Working Group

18.45 - 19.45 Drinks reception

19.45 - 22.30 Gala Dinner

Kindly sponsored by Uliving

LICA Building, A27-A29,

Lancaster UniversityLate Bar

07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast Barker House Farm, Lancaster

University09:00 - 13:00 Conference Registration & Enquiry Desk

Kindly sponsored by Account-Ability09:15 – 09:45 BUFDG AGM George Fox LT 5/6

09:45 - 09:55 Conference Highlights Video

Workshop 1B: Using crowd funding for research

and product development - LSHTM has raised £70k

in a matter of days for innovative research and product

development that will benefit millions of people

John Garnham, Director of Finance,

LSHTM and colleagues

Workshop 2B: Explaining financial statements

post FRS102

Andrew Connolly, Director of Finance,

University of Exeter (and colleagues)

Andy Goor, Finance Director, University

of St Andrews and

Peter Michaelis, Head of Equities,

Alliance Trust InvestmentsWorkshop 4B: Achieving Investors in people

Silver in one step at the University of Edinburgh

– why we did this in Finance

Phil McNaull, Director of Finance,

University of Edinburgh

10:55 - 11:25 Refreshments

Kindly sponsored by Lloyd's Bank11:25 - 12:25 Plenary session 4

12:25 - 12:35 Closing Remarks Bob Rabone, BUFDG Chair

12:35 Packed Lunch available to take away

13:50 - 14:50

Workshop

session A

Tuesday 14th April

09:55 - 10:55

Workshop

session B

Workshop 3B: Ethical Investing, or investing

ethically – a case study