Header Banner

the biggest celebration of care in the capital is back and registration is live!

29-30 April 2026 Excel London

2026 conference programme

Explore the 2026 conference programme here

Loading
.
Keynote Theatre
  1. Sponsored By
    From insight to action: how PCS is building the future of intelligent care
    • Regulation, Quality & Compliance
    CQC’s Journey and our priorities for the future of regulation Adult social care: What do we know about the wider sector
  2. Sponsored By
    All together now: how connected digital systems support connections in care communities
    • System, Policy & Government
    • Regulation, Quality & Compliance
    Join us to talk through CQC’s requirements of registration and our expectations Get an inside look at the common pitfalls of prospective providers Hear directly from CQC’s registration team
    • Specialist Area
    • Technology, AI & Digital Transformation
    A session that will cover an incident case study with interactive discussions on every stage of the response, highlighting key considerations, mitigations and preparatory steps we can all take to make businesses stronger, more secure and effective in responding to incidents.
  3. If care is built on foundations, are yours strong enough? Four pillars underpin healthier life in care: nutrition, movement, social connection and recovery. When aligned, outcomes shift measurably. Th ...
    Sponsored By
    Four pillars for happier, healthier residents
.
People & Business Theatre
    • Specialist Area
    ?
  1. Administrative technology in care services can dramatically reduce time spent on paperwork, scheduling, and compliance tasks. By automating routine processes and centralising information, teams gain v ...
    Sponsored By
    Less admin, more culture: using technology to prioritise people
    • Workforce, Leadership & Development
    • Regulation, Quality & Compliance
    eGovernance+ is a pioneering software solution designed to provide a structured, systematic approach to governance within your organisation. This platform utilises a comprehensive 7-step Cycle, empowe ...
    • Business Sustainability & Future Planning
    • System, Policy & Government
  2. Rachael Cook built and sold her own care business. Now she's helping 100s of providers grow theirs. In this session, she'll share why the smartest expansion strategies in care start with people — and ...
    Sponsored By
    Talent is your expansion strategy: here's how to harness AI to deliver it
    • Business Sustainability & Future Planning
    Discussion on how you can grow your business, one decision at at time, supporting growth despite the ongoing messages regarding social care. Building a successful business in the sector is possible an ...
.
Technology Theatre
    • Technology, AI & Digital Transformation
    This session will cover three case studies to help you understand what good looks, feels, and sounds like when approaching EPR providers. Justine’s experience with EPR activity in the Channel Islands— ...
    • Technology, AI & Digital Transformation
    AI has the potential to support care providers, but successful adoption depends on applying it to the right problems in the right way. This session will explore the practical realities of implementing AI in care, including where it can deliver meaningful value today, what safeguards need to be in place, and how providers can get started without creating unnecessary risk or complexity. The panel will discuss how to focus on operational impact rather than hype, and how to bring teams with you so that new tools are introduced in a way that is trusted, useful, and sustainable.
  1. Supporting stability, wellbeing and retention through confident, values-led leadership.
    Sponsored By
    Leading and celebrating our care workforce
    • Technology, AI & Digital Transformation
  2. Modern platforms enable organisations to integrate data, AI, and workflows. This fosters collaboration and drives better outcomes for care users and providers. While we can't reveal all the details ju ...
    Sponsored By
    Reimagine outcomes in care: embed AI, data, and intelligence in every workflow
  3. AI is moving fast, and its impact on care operations is growing each month. This session looks at how providers and operators can make real use of AI today — from improving efficiency within existing ...
  4. Sponsored By
    Getting ready for regulatory change: digital solutions to future-proof governance
    • Technology, AI & Digital Transformation
    • Technology, AI & Digital Transformation
    Please speak to Heather from National Care Forum about this
  5. In this session we’ll explore the critical role of customer success in technology. After all, adoption is only as effective as the people using it. Our ambition is to go beyond being a technology prov ...
    Sponsored By
    Choosing the right digital transformation partner: how Sensio delivers customer success
.
Catering, Hydration & Nutrition Theatre
    • Specialist Area
  1. Explore how catering providers can deliver nutritious, sustainable, and engaging dining experiences for older adults through innovation, hydration and digital innovation in catering. During the sessio ...
    Sponsored By
    The future of nutrition in later life
    • Specialist Area
    Discover how personalised mealtimes and tailored movement can transform resident wellbeing. Join Bailey Greetham-Clark, Founder and CEO of BeGreatFitness, James Leigh, General Manager of Care Homes at ...
    Sponsored By
    The power of personalised mealtimes and movement
    • Specialist Area
    NACC Chef of the Year Finalist, Dawn Brown, will take to the stage to demo a plant-based, nutrient-dense lunch menu which challenges the notion of traditional British cuisine in a changing multi-cultu ...
.
Care Providers' Voice Masterclasses
    • Business Sustainability & Future Planning
    The future of care businesses: how to build a viable sustainable service in a changing sector
    • Workforce, Leadership & Development
    A forward-looking session examining how emerging technologies, digital referral models and workforce analytics are reshaping recruitment and retention in social care and the practical steps organisati ...
  1. Panel Chaired by Tajinder Singh Bains (QHS) A forward-looking discussion exploring how technology, demographics, new roles and workforce expectations will shape the care sector by 2030, and what provi ...
    • Workforce, Leadership & Development
    Insight session for social care providers on the importance of identifynig and managing safeguarding related conduct concerns effectively with a view to preventing safeguarging failures and avoid esca ...
    • Workforce, Leadership & Development
    Care providers are under growing pressure to balance workforce sustainability with legal and financial responsibilities. This panel explores common workforce dilemmas in social care, focusing on emplo ...
  2. Care homes thrive when they are designed holistically around the wellbeing of residents and caregivers, aligned with clear operational and investment strategy. This session explores how architects and ...
.
The Outstanding Society Learning Lounge
    • Technology, AI & Digital Transformation
    • Regulation, Quality & Compliance
    • Regulation, Quality & Compliance
    • Specialist Area
.
IHSCM Leadership Theatre
    • Workforce, Leadership & Development
    Objectives: Explore compassion in leadership during uncertainty; inspire leaders to embed empathy in culture. Learning Outcomes: Understand impact of compassionate leadership; identify strategies for ...
    • Workforce, Leadership & Development
    Objectives: Examine change management principles; provide tools for navigating uncertainty; explore adaptive leadership. Learning Outcomes: Apply structured approaches to change; recognise barriers an ...
    • Workforce, Leadership & Development
    This session will look at high pressured environments especially in health and social care. Understand communication at different levels, in different scenarios. Explore different communication strategies, highlighting diverse communication styles, relative impact and how they affect health outcome, relationships and patient satisfaction.
    • Workforce, Leadership & Development
    Objectives: Share practical approaches to compassionate communication; “how to” strategies that empower teams to self manage with trust and empathy; and explore inclusivity and psychological safety as ...
    • Workforce, Leadership & Development
    Objectives: Discuss systems leadership; explore practical examples; highlight collaboration across boundaries. Learning Outcomes: Understand systems leadership principles; identify opportunities for c ...
    • Workforce, Leadership & Development
    Objectives: Explore practical applications of compassion; provide tools for embedding empathy; highlight authentic behaviours. Learning Outcomes: Apply compassionate leadership daily; recognise impact ...
    • Workforce, Leadership & Development
    TBC
    • Workforce, Leadership & Development
    Objectives: Explore leadership behaviours that strengthen team resilience in challenging or uncertain environments. Demonstrate how compassion, clarity and consistency support staff wellbeing, confide ...
  1. By the end of the session, participants will be able to: Identify the core behaviours that enable effective leadership across organisational and professional boundaries; Recognise how to maintain infl ...
.
Keynote Theatre
  1. Care teams are stretched — and every missed enquiry call is a family left waiting. This session introduces Eliza, Lottie's AI enquiry handler, which responds to calls and chats 24/7 so no family goes ...
    Sponsored By
    Families always answered: meet Eliza, the AI enquiry handler for care providers
    • Specialist Area
    • Workforce, Leadership & Development
  2. How can we design information that truly meets the needs of people with a learning disability - and those close to them - when they are facing a terminal illness? Join us to learn: How we researched a ...
    • System, Policy & Government
    • Business Sustainability & Future Planning
.
People & Business Theatre
    • Regulation, Quality & Compliance
  1. What does modern governance look like? Being fully digitised has been the goal within the health and social care, however the data that comes with that has the unspoken knock-on effect of removing the ...
    Sponsored By
    Care managers are not data analysts. What is the solution?
  2. Explore how aquatic therapy provides highly beneficial and additional rehabilitation in a care environment. Beyond physical gains in managing age-related conditions, water-based exercise boosts confid ...
    • Specialist Area
    This session explores why we must move beyond viewing death purely as a medical event and instead recognise it as a shared human experience. Through conversation, we will consider how healthcare professionals, families and communities can create space for discussions around faith, spirituality, comfort and meaning at the end of life, ensuring that care remains compassionate, inclusive and deeply human.
  3. Beverley Jones (Corporate law Partner) will lead the conversation and will be asking questions to Jenny Wilde (Regulatory Healthcare Partner) and Juliette Franklin (Employment Partner). Jenny and Juli ...
    Sponsored By
    When staff speak up: whistleblowing and regulatory risk in care services – a legal perspective
    • Workforce, Leadership & Development
    • Regulation, Quality & Compliance
    Overview of CQC’s safeguarding responsibilities and regulatory framework Learning from safeguarding Organisational abuse – what is it?
    • Regulation, Quality & Compliance
    This session will look at real life case studies of deaths occurring in care settings to highlight common themes and aid improvement and changes to avoid similar issues arising.
    Sponsored By
    Unexpected deaths in care settings: case studies, health and safety, common themes and lessons learnt
    • Workforce, Leadership & Development
.
Technology Theatre
    • Technology, AI & Digital Transformation
  1. Families are at the heart of great care - and your most trusted advocates. New research from Log my Care and Care England shows how giving families better visibility and connection doesn't just improv ...
    Sponsored By
    Your greatest asset: the families you already serve
    • Technology, AI & Digital Transformation
    • Technology, AI & Digital Transformation
  2. How can connected care and AI support both staff and service user experience and what should you be doing now to prepare?
    Sponsored By
    The future of care delivery: balancing care, cost and workforce pressures through connected care and AI
  3. Digital transformation in social care is about people learning, adapting, and growing. This panel explores how the Liverpool City Region Adult Social Care Testbed is bringing together care providers, ...
    • Technology, AI & Digital Transformation
  4. Digital transformation in social care has made strong progress, particularly through the widespread adoption of Digital Social Care Records. However, the real opportunity now lies in connecting data a ...
    Sponsored By
    A north star for digital social care: from paper to digital to interoperable care
.
Catering, Hydration & Nutrition Theatre
    • Specialist Area
    • Specialist Area
  1. Explore how catering providers can deliver nutritious, sustainable, and engaging dining experiences for older adults through innovation, hydration and digital innovation in catering. During the sessio ...
    Sponsored By
    The future of nutrition in later life
    • Specialist Area
    As nutritional needs intensify with age, Vitamin B12 plays a crucial role in supporting energy levels and cognitive function. During this cookery demonstration, Clinical Nutritionist Eva Humphries rev ...
.
Care Providers' Voice Masterclasses
    • Workforce, Leadership & Development
    Care providers are under growing pressure to balance workforce sustainability with legal and financial responsibilities. This panel explores common workforce dilemmas in social care, focusing on emplo ...
    • Technology, AI & Digital Transformation
    A concise look at how AI-driven attacks and new digital threats are emerging in social care, and the practical steps providers can take to stay secure.
    • System, Policy & Government
    A real-life scenario brought to the stage by unpaid carers to shine a light on the hidden reality of caring. This thought provoking, improvisational performance speaks emotionally, visually and powerf ...
    • Technology, AI & Digital Transformation
    • Regulation, Quality & Compliance
    We know CQC are changing the framework (again). Some changes we know, some we are waiting to find out about. This session gives a clear overview of where we currently are, what to expect during the re ...
  1. For care providers, occupancy is one of the most important indicators of organisational health. Yet many care websites fail to generate the volume of enquiries needed to keep beds filled across multip ...
    Sponsored By
    How care providers can use their website and PPC to increase occupancy
.
The Outstanding Society Learning Lounge
    • Regulation, Quality & Compliance
    • Regulation, Quality & Compliance
    Join us to discuss balancing innovation with safety, including the voice of the provider and CQC's role in supporting innovation rather than acting as a barrier.
    • Workforce, Leadership & Development
    • Regulation, Quality & Compliance
    • Workforce, Leadership & Development
    Well-led pride in care: delivering person-centred support for LGBT+ communities
.
IHSCM Leadership Theatre
    • Workforce, Leadership & Development
    In today’s fast-paced workplace where people are on constant information overload, easily distracted and engrossed in their own personal devices, managers need to adopt a new skillset to ensure that t ...
    • Workforce, Leadership & Development
    Objectives: Explore how marketing, recruitment and compliance can work together to build strong, confident and resilient teams. Demonstrate how clarity, consistent standards and values led communicati ...
    • Workforce, Leadership & Development
    Objectives: Share a real world case study of how a values driven, happiness focused culture can strengthen team and organisational resilience. Demonstrate how culture, recognition, and psychologically ...
    • Workforce, Leadership & Development
     Objectives: Share strategies for building resilience; explore wellbeing and sustainability. Learning Outcomes: Recognise resilience as leadership priority; apply resilience techniques; strengthen cul ...
    • Specialist Area
    Objectives: Explore medicines related challenges across the hospital–community interface. Highlight the operational and emotional impact on nurses, patients, and multidisciplinary teams. Share practic ...
    • Workforce, Leadership & Development
    Objectives: Share lived-experience and real-world examples of courageous leadership; provide inspiration; highlight resilience in adversity. Learning Outcomes: Recognise importance of authenticity; ap ...