Major estate agency brands, conveyancers and lenders are to deliver a masterclass in how the home buying overhaul is going to reshape their operations.
The event will take place when Novus Strategy stages Digital Disruption Live in Manchester this September.
The transformation consultancy for the mortgage and home buying industry is bringing together some of the sector’s trailblazers to lift the lid on how lenders can take full advantage of a reimagined mortgage journey in the wake of Smart Data and Home Buying Reform.
Hosted at the Everyman Theatre on 23 September, DD Live is designed to be the the last word on digital transformation, from the traps and opportunities awaiting lenders to the first steps they can take towards industry-wide interoperability.
Speakers include:
- Thomas Chaplin, senior product owner at Lloyds
- Robert Stevens, head of property risk at Nationwide
- Leanne Grange, head of home ecosystem and smart data integration at NatWest
- Simon Farrell-Roberts, Head of Mortgage Lending at Skipton
- Charlotte Raw, Head of Mortgage Lending at Newcastle Building Society
- Matt Lowndes, transformation director – customer experience at Mortgage Advice Bureau
- Travis Scholes, commercial director from LMS
- Stephen Ward, director of strategy and external relations, Council for Licensed Conveyancers
- Jeanette Coughlan, home conveyancing director, Connells Group
It comes in a busy year for the sector, with the Government’s home buying reforms recently published by MHCLG and progress on trust frameworks, digital ID and Smart Data schemes gathering pace.
All these advances are ultimately designed to reduce time to completion and cut fall-throughs, and the event will address each of these in detail.
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The commercial benefits of home buying reform promise to be extensive for lenders, but they’ll also reverberate around the sector, extending beyond lenders to brokers, agents and conveyancers too. Given lenders’ legal and financial role, they will hold a great deal of influence over how interoperability will manifest, enabling trusted data and evidence to flow across organisational boundaries to all market participants simultaneously.
Guests at DD Live will gain intelligence on how the Government’s home buying reforms, centred on binding agreements and upfront property information, will interact with trust frameworks and Smart Data. They’ll learn about data exchange and orchestration layers, how they’re different and the roles they play, alongside the data strategy that will underpin this next phase of transformation. Crucially, they’ll establish the foundations for strategic, value-driving AI adoption to maximise efficiency gains, with the highest margins and capital velocity.
Claire Van der Zant, chief executive of Novus Strategy, says: “Anyone who has been to a Novus event will know that we are about sharing deep intelligence that is practical and actionable, and this event is designed to do exactly that.
“We’ve got a fantastic line up and content that will genuinely help lenders plan for the seismic changes unfolding in home buying. Attendees should come away excited about the power they hold in their hands to completely reimagine their mortgage journey and operations to great effect.
“The timing of the first ever DD Live is no accident. This has been the year when public and private sector initiatives have fired the starting gun on a mission so far-reaching that lending and home buying will never be the same again.
“This is all gathering speed, so it’s really important lenders understand not only how it will affect them but how they will shape it. ”
