15 October 2025

These timings and scheduling may be subject to change

9.00-9.30 Arrival: Registration, refreshments and exhibition viewing

9.30-9.45 Welcome

9.45-10.30 Key Note Speaker: Michael Coughlin, Strategic Advisor and Non Executive Director – Ready for Tomorrow: Change, Culture, and Community

10.30-11.00 Simon Hawkins – Senior Policy Adviser – Death Certification Reforms Policy Lead – Department of Health and Social Care – Death Certification Reforms: One Year On and Forward Look

11.00-11.20 Refreshment Break and Exhibition Viewing

Registration Session

11.20-12.05 GRO Panel Session – Hannah Worth, Civil Registration Service Transformation (CReST) Lead Business Change Manager; GRO, Frank Murphy GRO Service Owner Team, GRO; Christie Junor-Sheppard, Head of Registration Services Westminster Registration Service, Chair of Fees, Funding and Transformation Working Group at National Panel for Registration – Civil Registration Transformation – are you ready?

12.05-12.35 GRO Tabletop discussion

Coroner Services Session

11.20-11.50 James Parker – Hillsborough Law and what it means for coroner services

11.50-12.20 Sarah Flemming – TBC

LUNCH and Exhibition Viewing until 13.20

13.20-13.40 The Role of AI

Registration Session

13.45-14.15 Home Office – Citizenship Update

Coroner Services Session

13.45-14.15 HHJ Alexia Durran – Chief Coroner Update

14.15-14.35 Refreshment Break and Exhibition Viewing

14.35-16.05 Michael Coughlin, Strategic Advisor and Non Executive Director – Change Workshop – Making Change Happen: From Principles to the Practical

16.05-16.10 Closing Words