Events
Forthcoming events
Kent Conference 2025
We’re delighted to hold our 12th annual conference once again on Tuesday 1st April next year. The event provides a superb opportunity to enjoy a fantastic day of education, debate and networking. It is always our aim for you to have plenty of take-aways and thought provoking insight from our brilliant speakers. The event is relevant to issues the sector faces and is an enabler to further your knowledge and understanding to assist you within the scope of your role and share within the workplace or even outside!
From feedback ‘as the one to attend’ we cover off a wide range of topics from a variety of presenters with lunch and refreshments and certainly recommend you bring along your colleagues or contacts and gain CPD.
Tue 01 Apr 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Kent Showground, Events Centre, The Clive Emson Building, Maidstone
Previous events
Bolted Steel Connections in Fires
Join Hawkins for an interesting topic for all underwriting, broking and claims professionals who deal with customers in the construction sector.
Bolts are critical components in structural steel connections that effectively govern their performance, particularly during fires where robustness becomes an important factor.
In this webinar, Civil Engineer, Andrew Foster, explores the fundamental ways in which bolted connections can fail and some of the options available to achieve better performance.
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The council of the Insurance Institute of Royal Tunbridge Wells Standards. Professionalism. Trust.
Thu 12 Dec 9:30 am – 10:15 am
Reliance on Manufacturers' Advice: Is it Robust Enough to Rely on?
Join Hawkins for an interesting topic for all broking and claims professionals who deal with customers in the construction sector.
When developing their designs for buildings, designers and other specifiers seek information and advice from manufacturers, and suppliers, about their products. This information not only informs the design decisions made by them, but it also influences the decisions made at the various stages of the procurement process. Margaret Wright discusses some of the risk management steps specifiers can take to help mitigate the associated risks.
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The council of the Insurance Institute of Royal Tunbridge Wells Standards. Professionalism. Trust.
Thu 28 Nov 9:30 am – 10:15 am
Structural Engineering Design
Join Hawkins for an interesting topic for all broking and claims professionals who deal with customers in the construction sector.
Jolyon demonstrates how deficient structural engineering design can cause damage to properties. He will also discuss cases where structural engineering design has not been performed where it should have been and how this can also cause damage to properties.
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The council of the Insurance Institute of Royal Tunbridge Wells Standards. Professionalism. Trust.
Thu 14 Nov 9:30 am – 10:15 am
If These Walls Could Talk: Understanding Historic Buildings
Join Hawkins for an interesting and relevant topic for all broking and claims professionals who deal with customers that own this type of property.
The construction and behaviour of historic buildings is significantly different to modern buildings. This is often misunderstood, which leads to unsuitable repairs and unsympathetic alterations. Jamie will review typical issues affecting historic buildings and the techniques that can be used to investigate them.
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The council of the Insurance Institute of Royal Tunbridge Wells Standards. Professionalism. Trust.
Thu 31 Oct 9:30 am – 10:15 am
Joint Learning and Development (CPD) Conference
Our annual Learning and Development Conference takes place on Thursday 17 October and is once again hosted jointly by the Insurance Institute of Sussex and North Downs Insurance Institute.
Delivering 5 hours of quality CPD, the event will be of interest to all general insurance professionals and will cover the following range of topics:
artificial intelligence;
brokers' professional indemnity insurance;
modern marine risks;
terrorism;
cyber;
emerging climate risks and opportunities
Thu 17 Oct 8:45 am – 4:00 pm
Lingfield Park Resort
Employee Engagement in the Hybrid World
Keeping up to date with discussion and current trends we have Jacqui Turner from Nick Thomas & Associates to deliver a session called 'Employee Engagement in the Hybrid World'.
Jacqui will look at the common challenges employees face and provide a variety of ways to create a high-level of engagement between colleagues that support employee well-being and customer satisfaction.
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The council of the Insurance Institute of Royal Tunbridge Wells
Standards. Professionalism. Trust.
Wed 16 Oct 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm