• Why cross-party talks can deliver a more sustainable social care system, backed up by a long-term financial settlement.
• What must be done in the short term to fix the care system?
• What key reforms will deliver a solution for social care that lasts a generation and more?

Niall Dickson, Chief Executive, NHS Confederation

• How can the sector ensure people are receiving care that is consistently safe, compassionate, effective and high quality?

Kate Terroni, Chief Inspector – Adult Social Care, Care Quality Commission

• Building an integrated person-centered, co-ordinated care system.
• Embracing technology to ensure an individual-centered approach. 
• Investing in building a stable workforce that is sustainable for the sector.

Professor Martin Green, Chief Executive, Care England

• Why sector partners such as local government, the NHS and the provider sector must work together to ensure better social care provision for future generations?
• How should the commissioning and management of care services for older people by local government evolve to build a system fit for the future?

Rosie Seymour, Programme Director, Better Care Fund

Deborah Alsina MBE, Chief Executive, Independent Age

Charles Tallack, Assistant Director – Health & Social Care Sustainability Research Centre, Health Foundation

More speakers to be confirmed shortly

• Dementia as the vanguard of social care reform
• Ensuring the funding issue is not the overriding concern at the expense of care quality
• The role of charities in positively impacting the broader social care agenda

Jeremy Hughes, Chief Executive Officer, Alzheimer’s Society

• How are Government promises to fix social care and the lives of older people shaping up?
• Are we nearer to a clear agreement over where personal responsibility for social care ends and public contribution begins?
• What needs to be done to enable answers for tackling the long-term funding challenge facing adult social care?
• How can funding be provided consistently over time?

Dr. Eileen Burns, Past President, British Geriatrics Society

• Balancing the requirement between high quality care and greater efficiency.
• Understanding the political and economic drivers for change that impact the sector.
• Better records management to evidence compliance.
• Embracing regulation as a positive business process.

Taffy Gatawa, Chief Information and Compliance Officer, everyLIFE Technoogies

• With a £3.6 billion funding gap by 2025 what should be done to ensure councils have certainty for both the immediate and long-term?
• What are the long-term sustainable funding solutions for adult social care?
• Why councils cannot reply on one-off funding injections?
  

Sally Burlington, Head of Policy, Local Government Association

• How can the sector ensure equality, diversity and human rights are evident for all groups?
• How should workforce training evolve to meet the needs of all communities?
• What dies the care home sector need to do to attract more diverse talent in the future?
  

Dr. Sharif Haider, Lecturer in Social Work, Open University

• How will the sector attract and retain workers to the industry post-Brexit?
• Is the sector any closer to attracting and retaining a person-centered workforce through pay, working conditions and access to professional development?
• What more needs to be done to professionalise the sector?
• Skills development and assurance – what more needs to be done to invest in education and training?
• How can the way the sector operates change to make it work for its army of carers?

Speakers to be confirmed.

• What about the human aspect – can robots really improve better outcomes for older people?
• What are the barriers to utilising robots to the care sector? What do older people really need?
• What are the prospects that robots will drive improvements in patient safety?
• How can the sector embed a culture of innovation?
• What needs to be done to address poor standards in the sector?

Speakers to be confirmed

• What lessons can be learned from overseas regarding funding of care?
• How can failing homes be turned around?
• Developing sustainable care models for the future.

Mike Parish, Chair, Care UK