Black History Month ICS Conference

The conference will be on Wednesday 11th October at Edgbaston Park Hotel from 9am-4:30pm.

This year we will again be joining our partners from across the Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care System (ICS) to host a Black History Month conference.

The system-wide conference, which is being led by the Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board (ICB)

This will be a Joyful celebration day with networking and guest speakers

Host - Nicola Beckford , Award winning BBC Presenter, Midlands Today, BBC Breakfast, BBC Radio 4, self-described as 100% Brummie

Keynote speaker – Scott Morrison ‘the Boom!’, Scott has a unique set of experiences working in, on or on the board of some of the world’s most recognised brands including Saatchi and Saatchi, Wieden and Kennedy, Nike, Levi’s, Xbox, Activision and Diesel. He is now the founder of the Boom!

Full agenda below

Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board

Celebrating our Sisters / Saluting our Sisters / Matriarchs of Movements

#WEMATTER

#BSolBHM

1. 08:00-09:00 Registration

2. 09:00-09:10 Host – Nicola Beckford, Award Winning BBC Journalist

3. 09:10-09:30 Welcome - Professor Patrick Vernon, OBE - Chair of the Birmingham and Solihull NHS Integrated Care Board (BSOL ICB)

4. Morning Session 09:30-13:00

5. 09:30 – 10:45 Scott Morrison “Mr Boom” - Unblock, Unlock and Unleash

6. 10:45-11:15 Mid-morning break - networking, music

7. 11:15 11:20 – Amanda Hemmings, Poet (1)

8. 11:20-13:00 – Scott Morrison “Mr Boom” - Unblock, Unlock and Unleash

9. 13:00-14:00 Lunch, networking, music

10. Afternoon session 14:00-16:30

11. 14:00-14:10 - Amanda Hemmings, Poet (2)

12. 14:10-15:10 Hearing from our Sisters

a. Role Model Speakers followed by Panel Discussion

i. Jacynth Ivey, Lindsay Meeks, Dr Onyi Okonkwo and Juliet Herbert

ii. Chair – Nicola Beckford, Award Winning BCC Journalist – Q&A

13. 15:10-15:25 Mid-afternoon break – networking, music

14. 15:25-15:30 Amanda Hemmings Poet (3)

15. 15:30-16:20 – Anti Racism

a. Cliff Faulder, CEO About Face

b. Individual table discussion and feedback

16. 16:20-16:30 – Close

For more information contact: inclusion@uhb.nhs.uk

Black History Month ICS conference