The UK is on a mission to build the public services of tomorrow, with projects underway and in the pipeline for new hospitals, schools, prisons, social housing, defence estates and more, while the Government has also been working to improve digital infrastructure and extend gigabit broadband coverage across the UK.
The Public Infrastructure Stage at UKIS will host a series of sessions discussing the future projects and programmes happening across the public sector, as well as the opportunities available for organisations looking to join the supply chains.
Confirmed Speakers
Issy Greenfield
Social Value & Legacy Manager
Issy Greenfield is the Social Value and Legacy Manager at EKFB, overseeing social value initiatives on HS2. She is a dedicated advocate for social value and legacy management, leveraging her expertise to make a meaningful impact on communities and projects alike. In her role, Issy collaborates closely with internal teams and external stakeholders to identify opportunities for community investment and social value. She emphasises the importance of integrating social value into commercial conversations, recognising its potential to drive business success while aligning with ethical principles.
Caroline Romback
Director - Construction
A strategic communicator, Caroline draws from more than two decades in the built environment and the public and private sectors. She has worked on some of the UK’s largest infrastructure projects including HS2 and Crossrail. Caroline focuses on devising powerful campaigns to engage diverse audiences and stakeholder groups and obtain consensus views. Commercially astute, she provides highly effective and intuitive bid development support, as well as brokering viable approaches for both clients and contractors. No matter the length of the project, Caroline motivates her team to deliver best practice year in, year out. Highly resilient and adept at steering projects through sudden change, challenge and crises, she offers an insightful approach to reputation protection and promotions, Caroline is also highly skilled at resolving conflict and removing contention. As a director, Caroline has oversight and manages the delivery of existing projects while maximising our commercial performance, driving growth and new business acquisition.
Andrew Crudgington
Climate Change Associate
Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT) is a charity, learned society and membership body with 12 UK regions and a number of international groups. CIHT represents and qualifies professionals who plan, design, build, manage and operate transport and infrastructure. We offer routes to qualifications including Chartered Engineer, Incorporated Engineer and Engineering Technician, the SoRSA Certificate of Competency and Transport Planning Professional. CIHT is the leading voice of the highways and transportation infrastructure profession. We are the prime source of advice for national and local government and other national and local government and other strategic stakeholders when they are seeking technical expertise and knowledge to guide future policy and investment.
Kristen Green
Head of Sustainability - Transport and Large Infrastructure
Kristen joined Crown Commercial Service (CCS) in 2013 and has worked in various roles across the business over the past 10 years including project management, commercial strategy of £bn frameworks and business development. Kristen recently followed her passion for the environment and took on the position of Head of Sustainability, working to decarbonise the £30bn annual spend through CCS. Kristen works closely with public sector buyers, suppliers and industry bodies to help accelerate the journey towards achieving CNZ by 2050 at the latest. Kristen is MCIP-qualified.
Jon Davies
Director
Jon is a Chartered Ecologist and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM), and has been an ecological consultant for almost 30 years. Before that he worked at the Natural History Museum in London, researching beetle diversity in the tropics. He set up RSK Wilding (part of RSK Biocensus) in early 2020, with a primary focus upon biodiversity net gain (BNG), biodiversity offsetting and habitat restoration. Wilding works with developers, landowners and local authorities alike to ensure successful implementation of BNG whilst at the same time maximising other ‘natural capital’ benefits (such as carbon sequestration, water quality improvement, flood risk mitigation and improved public access to nature).
Guy Battle
Chief Executive
Guy Battle is the CEO and founder of Social Value Portal, Co-Chair of the Public Sector Chapter for The Sustainable Procurement Pledge and Facilitator and Associate Manager for the National Social Value Taskforce. Guy also is a Chair of Riversimple; which builds hydrogen fuel cars to deliver net zero carbon personal mobility. Guy is passionate about the contribution that business can make to improve our society. This has been one of the driving motivations behind Social Value Portal, which was set up in 2015 to provide cloud solution for measuring, procuring, and managing social value. Guy is the creator of the TOM System that has become the most widely used methodology for measuring and reporting social value globally. Guy is serial social and environmental entrepreneur having previously set up and sold and number of businesses, including dCarbon8 which was acquired by Deloitte in 2010.