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Opportunity East – The Infrastructure and Growth Conference

  • ARU Peterborough, University House, Bishops Road, Peterborough, PE1 5BW
  • 13th March 2025, 09:00 - 16:30
  • Entry Fees: Free

This highly anticipated conference builds on Opportunity East: How the East of England Will Drive National Productivity through Innovation, a joint report published in July 2024 by the East of England Local Government Association.

The conference will be held on the 13 March 2025 at Anglia Ruskin University Peterborough, a state of the art, multi-million-pound university that opened in 2022.

It will focus on infrastructure’s role in delivering sustainable economic growth in the East of England and bring together Ministers, Parliamentarians, Government Representatives, senior local authority figures, industry experts and many others to explore key themes, including:

  • Infrastructure investment and financing
  • Inclusive economic growth
  • Project delivery and planning
  • Social Value and Legacy
  • Innovation and Technology

The conference will include keynote speeches, interactive workshops, exhibition spaces, and networking.

Please click here to download a copy of the agenda.

Audience: Ministers and MPs, chief executives and senior planning and economic development directors (from local authorities in the East of England), academia, private sector and third sector industry partners in the East of England. This event is by invitation only.

Cost: This conference is free to attend. However, for cancellations less than 7 working days before the event date, or non attendance on the day, there will be a cancellation fee of £100 plus VAT. Please click here to view the ‘Events Booking and Cancellation Policy’.

Spaces are limited (1-2 per organisation) so we encourage you to register your details below as quickly as possible as spaces are being allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis. 

If you have any queries, please contact Jayne Cole, Events Manager, East of England LGA, email; events@eelga.gov.uk


This conference is being organised by the East of England LGA and Infrastructure Matters.

 

 

Headline sponsor: Jacobs

 

 

Project Sponsors: Anglian Water, Associated British Ports, Savills and Sizewell C

 

 

 

 

Conference Partners: Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority, Chambers East, East of England APPG, England’s Economic Heartland and Transport East.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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