Date: Saturday 14th January 2012
Venue: Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL.
Venue: Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL.
Price: £30/£15 (concessions)
Over 1,000 people attended our New Year Conference 2012 to discuss how Labour can make the case for the Economic Alternative.
There was extensive media coverage of the Conference with the frontpage of the Guardian, TV coverage on all major networks and over 4,000 tweets on #fab12.
9am – Registration Starts
Refreshments served in the main foyer
9:45 – Conference Opening
Location: Logan Hall
Welcome: Suresh Pushpananthan (Chair, The Fabian Society)
Introduction: Andrew Harrop (General Secretary, The Fabian Society)
Introduction: Andrew Harrop (General Secretary, The Fabian Society)
10:00 – Keynote – Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls
Location: Logan Hall
Location: Logan Hall
After the speech there will be a short Q&A with Andrew Harrop
11:00 – Morning Plenary: Crisis and Response
Location: Logan Hall
Location: Logan Hall
Neal Lawson (Chair of Compass)
Caroline Lucas MP (Leader of The Green Party)
Deborah Mattinson (Founding Director, Britain Thinks)
Deborah Mattinson (Founding Director, Britain Thinks)
Chuka Umunna MP (Shadow Secretary of State for Business)
Kitty Ussher (former Economic Secretary to the Treasury)
Chair Anthony Painter (author of ‘Barack Obama: The Movement for Change’ and ‘In the Black Labour‘)
12:00 – Morning Breakouts
Four parallel sessions covering different themes of the Economic Crisis and the left’s response
The European Crisis: How Does the Left Respond?
Location: Elvin Hall
Location: Elvin Hall
Featuring: Helen Goodman MP, Prof. Stephany Griffith-Jones (Economist), Chris Leslie MP (Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury), Lord Roger Liddle (Labour Peer and Chair of Policy Network) & Linda McAvan MEP (chair).
In partnership with: FEPS
Women, the crisis and politics
Location: Drama Studio
Featuring: Vera Baird (former Solicitor General, pilot of the Equality Act), David Coats (Research Fellow at the Smith Institute), Seema Malhotra (Labour’s newest MP), Polly Toynbee (Guardian) & Ivana Bartoletti (Editor of Fabiana) (chair).
In partnership with: The Fabian Women’s Network
In partnership with: The Fabian Women’s Network
Credibility vs. Compassion: How can Labour win the economic argument and still defend victims of the cuts?
Location: Logan Hall
Featuring: Stephen Beer (Author, The Credibility Deficit), Tessa Jowell MP (Shadow Minister for London and the Olympics), Peter Kellner (President, YouGov), Lisa Nandy MP & Kate Groucutt (Labour Councillor and Fabian Executive) (chair).
Inequality, Class and the Crisis
Location: Jeffrey Hall
Location: Jeffrey Hall
Featuring: Lord Maurice Glasman (Labour Peer, Blue Labour pioneer), Owen Jones (author of ‘Chavs: TheDemonization of the Working Class’), Stewart Lansley (author of ‘The Cost of Inequality’), Baroness Ruth Lister & Emma Burnell (Scarlet Standard) (chair).
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13:00 – Lunch break
The Institute of Education is by Russell Sq tube station in the heart of London, there are a variety of eating alternatives by the tube station less than five minutes walk away
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14:00 – Afternoon Breakouts
Four parallel sessions covering the future shape of our Next Economy.
Next Generation: What should today’s young people want from a fairer capitalism?
Location: Elvin Hall
Featuring: Patrick Diamond (Senior Research Fellow, Policy Network), Zoe Gannon (High Pay Commission),Gordon Marsden MP (Shadow Business Secretary), Prof. Mariana Mazzucato (Sussex University) & Sara Ibrahim (Chair, Young Fabians) (chair).
In Partnership with: The Young Fabians
Business, Unions and the Next Economy
Location: Drama Studio
Location: Drama Studio
Featuring: Vidya Alakeson (Resolution Foundation), Sunny Hundal (Liberal Conspiracy), Clare Moody (Unite),Stephen Timms MP (Shadow Minister for Employment), Erika Watson (author, ‘Labour’s Business‘) & Jessica Asato (Labour Councillor and Fabian Executive) (chair).
Ethics in Business: Finance and the new Capitalism
Location: Jeffrey Hall
Featuring: Michael Izza (Chief Executive, ICAEW), Hopi Sen (author, ‘In the Black Labour’), Kitty Ussher(former Economic Secretary to the Treasury), Lord Stewart Wood (shadow cabinet and advisor to Ed Miliband) & Suresh Pushpananthan (Chair, The Fabian Society) (chair).
In Partnership with: ICAEW
What are we Good at? Britains Future Growth
Location: Logan Hall
Featuring: Michael Jacobs (former special advisor to Gordon Brown and former Fabian Society Gen. Sec.), Vicky Pryce (Economist, FTI Consulting, Author Restarting Britain), John Smith (General Secretary, The Musicians Union), Will Straw (IPPR) & Rowenna Davis (The Guardian) (chair).
In Partnership with: Unions21
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15:00 – a 15minute refreshment break
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15:15 – Afternoon Plenary: Next Economy
Location: Logan Hall
Will Hutton (Observer and Deputy vice-Chair of the Work Foundation)
Lord Oakeshott (Liberal Democrat Peer)
Rachel Reeves MP (Labour’s Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury)
Polly Toynbee (Guardian)
Chair: Jason Cowley (Editor, The New Statesman)
16:15 – Dragons’ Den: What Does It Mean to be Labour when there’s no money Left?
Location: Logan Hall
Location: Logan Hall
Featuring: Sally Bercow, David Lammy MP and Mary Ridell (Daily Telegraph) with Sadiq Khan MP (Shadow Justice Secretary) in the chair.
17:15 – Closing: Keynote by Ken Livingstone
Location: Logan Hall
Location: Logan Hall
17:30 – Close of Conference and Informal Social
