Hear expert speakers discuss challenges and opportunities facing our towns and cities.
Urban Revival is the CBI’s first conference of 2021 that focuses on how the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic have touched all parts of society including our towns and cities.
The way we live, work, travel and socialise has been transformed overnight with potentially long-lasting impacts on society and the economy.
Hear expert speakers from business and civil society to examine the changing nature of property, the future of transport, the role of technology on the high street and consider how UK towns and cities can rise to the challenge of tackling net-zero and competing globally.
Day 1:
Panel discussion: The changing nature of towns and cities
The assumptions about why and how we use high streets, offices, retail and recreational premises have been turned on their heads by COVID-19. What, then, does this mean for towns and cities? Has the pandemic accelerated changes that were always coming? And are we ready to adapt?