Property Unit head John McCready and British Land chief executive Chris Grigg have been announced today as speakers at the Public Property Summit in November.

Nine headline speakers confirmed for the 1-2 November at the Business Design Centre in London are:

John McCready, Property Unit managing director, Shareholder Executive

Francis Salway, chief executive, Land Securities

Chris Grigg, chief executive, British Land

Nigel Smith, chief executive, Office for Government Commerce

Sir Bob Kerslake, chief executive, Homes and Communities Agency

Ian Ellis, executive chairman, Telereal Trillium

Mike Slade, chief executive, Helical Bar

Chris Kane, head of corporate real estate, BBC Workplace

Sir Howard Bernstein, chief executive, Manchester City Council

The conference is anticipating 2,500 exhibition visitors and 250 delegates from across the public and private sectors. The summit has been organised in response to the efforts of the government to more efficiently manage the £370bn of publicly owned property in the UK.

The event is being supported by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveors, OGC, the government’s Shareholder Executive, Local Partnership, the Association of Chief Estates Surveyors, the British Property Federation and CIPFA Property. Sponsors include DTZ, Helical Bar, Drivers Jona Deloitte, Gleeds, Lambert Smith Hampton and King Sturge.

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