The Worcester Summit 2022

Speakers

• Professor Stephen Chan
• Dawid Konotey-Ahulu
• Tim Marshall

  Journalist, Broadcaster and Author

  Tim was Diplomatic Editor and a Foreign Correspondent for Sky News. After thirty years’ experience in news reporting and presenting, he left full-time news journalism to concentrate on writing and analysis. He reported in the field from Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia during the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Following 9/11, he reported from the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria. He has written for many of the national newspapers including the Times, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, and the Sunday Times.

  Tim’s first book, Shadowplay: The Overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic, was a bestseller in former Yugoslavia and continues to be one of the most highly regarded accounts of that period. His book Prisoners of Geography has been published in more than 20 countries and languages and has sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide. This year the follow up, Power of Geography, was released and spent 12 weeks in the Sunday Times top ten chart.

  Tim has been shot with bird pellet in Cairo, hit over the head with a plank of wood in London, bruised by the police in Tehran, arrested by Serbian intelligence, detained in Damascus, declared persona non grata in Croatia, bombed by the RAF in Belgrade, and tear-gassed all over the world. However, he says none of this compares with the experience of going to see his beloved Leeds United away at Millwall FC in London.

• Christine Armstrong

  Author and Researcher

  Christine is a researcher, author and vlogger on the future of work. By exploring workplace culture, diversity, work-life balance and remote working, Christine examines the new challenges to the old ways of doing business.

  She previously co-founded Jericho Chambers, an early example of flexible and hybrid work. She writes regularly for the Times and Telegraph and is a contributing editor of Management Today.

  She is also the author of ‘The Mother of All Jobs: how to have children and a career and stay sane(ish)’, published by Bloomsbury. The book is based on six years of interviews with working parents, employers, leadership experts, and carers. The book was a finalist in the Business Book UK awards 2019.

• Professor Martin Elliott

  Speaker, Writer and Surgeon

  Martin has a life-time record of clinical and academic success and an international reputation. He has held leadership roles in one of the world’s great children’s hospitals. He is an experienced Board Member of three public sector health care organisations and has private sector experience with consulting, software, and pharmaceutical industries. He is an experienced and popular public speaker in clinical, academic, public, and business settings. His experience has resulted in a network of contacts across healthcare. Martin is committed to the provision of optimal quality of care and service to patients and has had primary responsibility for that in several roles. He is committed to the objective measurement of team performance and to transparency. He has managed large budgets and delivered service, reform, and efficiency.

  Martin graduated Medical School at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1973. After academic internships, he taught anatomy for a year in Newcastle, before entering surgical rotations in Southampton and Newcastle. He started cardiothoracic surgery in 1978 and simultaneously studied for his Doctorate (MD), studying the effect of open-heart surgery on intermediary metabolism. Martin then specialised in paediatric cardiac surgery from 1983, moving to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London in 1984 where he was appointed Consultant in 1985, and retiring in 2019. He has operated and taught throughout the world.

• Paris Lees

  Journalist, Campaigner, and Author

  Paris is the Author of the critically acclaimed memoir What It Feels Like for a Girl, published by Penguin. She is also a Contributing Editor at British Vogue, and has written for the Guardian, VICE, and the Telegraph. She has received multiple awards for her journalism and work as an anti-bullying campaigner and an honorary doctorate from the University of Brighton. She was the first openly trans woman to present on BBC Radio 1 and Channel 4 and also the first to appear on Question Time.

Program

1. 12:25 PM Registration & Check In

   We will endeavour to check-in all guests in advance of the Summit where possible. Please note, there may be a handful of rooms that are not available on arrival. For those guests we will store their luggage and deliver to their accommodation, which they will then be able to access at the mid-afternoon break.

2. 12:45 PM Lunch

3. 1:45 PM Welcome Address

   Dawid provides an overview of the speakers and key themes for the Summit.

   Speaker

   Dawid Konotey-Ahulu, Co-founder of mallowstreet

4. 2:00 PM Geopolitical Risk in a Multi-Polar World

   We live in the interim period between two bi-polar worlds – the Cold War, and the fastapproaching form of cold war between China and the USA. In this period some countries are showing which side they will favour, others are hedging their bets, and a few are using the multipolar dynamic to advance their agendas before the discipline of a bi-polar world kicks in. This presentation looks at the forces pushing and pulling the movements of people and the volatility of regions such as the IndoPacific and the Sahel. A 'Biden Doctrine' appears to be slowly emerging – so far it is a nebulous concept, but behind it is the notion that the democratic world can offer developing countries, and others, a viable alternative to China's increasing dominance in a number of fields.

   Speaker

   Tim Marshall, Journalist, Broadcaster and Author

5. 2:45 PM Session Transition

6. 2:50 PM Investment Masterclass I

   Delegate split into six Investment Masterclass sessions over the course of the Summit. Investment Masterclasses hosts to be confirmed.

7. 3:35 PM Tea, Coffee & Networking

8. 3:55 PM Making the New Ways of Working Actually Work: Current Trends

   In this first session of our four part series, Christine will look at how people are working now, specifically policies versus what are we seeing in practice.

   Speaker

   Christine Armstrong, Author and Researcher

9. 4:10 PM mallowstreet Summit Case Study: The GoPower Pension Fund

   Stuart will give an overview of the GoPower Pension Fund Case Study – a bespoke scenario analysis created for this Summit and highlight the key questions that need to be addressed in the two case study sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday.

   Speaker

   Stuart Breyer, mallowstreet CEO

10. 4:20 PM Session Transition

11. 4:25 PM Investment Masterclass II

    Delegate split into six Investment Masterclass sessions over the course of the Summit. Investment Masterclasses hosts to be confirmed.

12. 5:10 PM Delegate Leisure Time

13. 6:15 PM The mallowstreet Wine Challenge

14. 7:30 PM Evening Dinner

15. 9:00 PM Evening Drinks

16. 12:00 AM Tuesday 28th June

17. 7:15 AM Breakfast

18. 9:00 AM Welcome to Day 2

    Speaker

    Dawid Konotey-Ahulu, Co-founder of mallowstreet

19. 9:05 AM The Future of Medicine

    Humans long for a healthy, long life. In 200 years, we have moved from witchcraft to science and seen the rate of progress accelerate. Whilst some of the biggest changes (materials science, computing, biochemistry) have been in our lifetimes, what is happening now is transformative. In this talk, Martin will discuss (with examples) the impact and potential significance of developments in genomics, immunology, medical devices, drug discovery, cell biology, AI, data science and personalisation of care. All are dependent on easily available, accurate population data. Charlatans have been part of medicine since its inception, damaging its reputation. These new developments must be conceived and shared with transparency to develop and sustain trust from the public and investors. Sorting out the balance between individual privacy and wider public access to data will be critical. Martin hopes to make you think about the moral and societal consequences of these changes, as well as marvelling at what is to come.

    Speaker

    Professor Martin Elliott, Speaker, Writer and Surgeon

20. 9:50 AM Session Transition

21. 9:55 AM Investment Masterclass III

    Delegate split into six Investment Masterclass sessions over the course of the Summit. Investment Masterclasses hosts to be confirmed.

22. 10:40 AM Tea, Coffee & Networking

23. 11:00 AM Making the New Ways of Working Actually Work: The Productivity Conundrum

    Despite Jacob Rees-Mogg’s convictions, the productivity data is complicated. In our second instalment, Christine will look and establish what we do know. 

    Speaker

    Christine Armstrong, Author and Researcher

24. 11:15 AM Session Transition

25. 11:20 AM Investment Masterclass IV

    Delegate split into six Investment Masterclass sessions over the course of the Summit. Investment Masterclasses hosts to be confirmed.

26. 12:05 PM Lunch

27. 1:05 PM Horatius Saves the Ukrainean Bridge

    The Victorian poet, Macaulay, wrote a stirring poem of how a tiny band of warriors defended Rome against the legions of Tuscany. The lengthy poem became the memorised recitation of defiance even on Robben Island Prison during Apartheid South Africa. Nelson Mandela knew it by heart. When Russia invaded Ukraine, almost every strategist thought it would fall in a week. Weeks later, the heroism against huge odds is plainly visible, and the terrible quality of the Russian forces was visible both on land and in the air. Unable to defeat the Ukrainians, terrible vengeance was wrought through atrocities against unarmed civilians. All laws of war were broken. What will happen now? Is there still a sting in the Russian tail? Will the West up the ante by accepting what may yet be only two thirds of pre-war Ukraine - after Russian conquest and likely annexation of Donbas - into NATO? Will the Russian economy recover from drastic sanctions and re-integrate itself into the global financial system? And what will be done to the Russian military machine after its dismal showing? To mix classical metaphors, have the Ukrainians sewn the teeth of the Hydra and in fact instigated a new Cold War with a Russia determined to upgrade its aggressive capacities - knowing now what its weaknesses are?

    Speaker

    Professor Stephen Chan, Professor of World Politics at SOAS University of London

28. 1:50 PM Session Transition

29. 1:55 PM Investment Masterclass V

    Delegate split into six Investment Masterclass sessions over the course of the Summit. Investment Masterclasses hosts to be confirmed.

30. 2:40 PM Tea, Coffee & Networking

31. 3:00 PM Making the New Ways of Working Actually Work: New Working Practices

    Lots of things that worked when everyone was in the office five days a week, don't work in hybrid. In our third instalment, Christine will look at what do we need to update it to make it work, encourage collaboration & build culture? 

    Speaker

    Christine Armstrong, Author and Researcher

32. 3:15 PM Session Transition

33. 3:20 PM Case Study Session I

    For the Case Study sessions, delegates will assume the role of the Trustees of our fictional pension fund. Placed into pre-assigned groups, delegates (the ‘Trustees’) will work collaboratively, with discussions based on what we have learned so far in the Investment Masterclasses and Keynote Presentations. The first session will focus on a) the risks facing the corporate sponsor and their potential impact to the pension fund b) the actions the trustees need to take today to help the Pension Fund achieve its net zero pledge and c) what questions should the Trustees be asking of, and what information should they be requesting from, their asset managers.

34. 4:20 PM Delegate Leisure Time

35. 7:30 PM Evening Dinner

36. 9:00 PM Evening Drinks & Summit Quiz

37. 12:00 AM Wednesday 29th June

38. 7:15 AM Breakfast

39. 9:00 AM Welcome to Day 3

    Speaker

    Dawid Konotey-Ahulu, Co-founder of mallowstreet

40. 9:05 AM Making the New Ways of Working Actually Work: Loyalty & Retention in a More Remote World

    The final session asks the vital question, how do we keep our best people in the most competitive talent market of a generation? 

    Speaker

    Christine Armstrong, Author and Researcher

41. 9:20 AM Session Transition

42. 9:25 AM Investment Masterclass VI

    Delegate split into six Investment Masterclass sessions over the course of the Summit. Investment Masterclasses hosts to be confirmed.

43. 10:10 AM Tea, Coffee & Networking

44. 10:30 AM Case Study Session II

    A key priority of our fictional pension fund is achieving sufficient returns within a sensible risk framework. In this context, the delegates (the ‘Trustees’) will identify the strengths and weaknesses of each asset class and manager, and decide if they should allocate to the strategies presented.

45. 11:35 AM Session Transition

46. 11:40 AM A Life in Transition

    ‘People at school told me I’d never be a girl, would never be pretty enough, would never be accepted. Well, here I am being celebrated as a woman in Vogue’. From growing up as a small boy on a council estate to becoming the first transgender woman to grace the pages of Vogue UK, Paris talks movingly about her life, her battle for acceptance and the societal walls and barriers that she has had to overcome.

    Speaker

    Dawid Konotey-Ahulu in conversation with Paris Lees, Journalist, Campaigner and Author

47. 12:25 PM Close of Summit with Q&A

    Speaker

    Dawid Konotey-Ahulu, Co-founder of mallowstreet

48. 12:35 PM Lunch & Networking

49. 1:30 PM End