The UK’s Real Estate Investment & Infrastructure Forum 2025

The UK’s Real Estate Investment & Infrastructure Forum (UKREiiF) will be taking place from 20th to 22nd May 2025 in Leeds. The conference brings together the real estate and infrastructure sectors. Built around the Build Back Better and Levelling Up agendas, the event is used to help the sector engage, develop and build relationships, share insight and create solutions to industry problems.

This three day-in-person event provides a forum to connect the public sector, investors, funders and developers to bring regeneration and development across the UK and provides an online platform connecting landowners and public sector to investors and developers to unlock future schemes.

The event will see 500+ speakers (including OPDC’s CEO and other senior leaders) and 150+ exhibitors, allowing attendees to listen, get involved in key
discussions, debates on ‘Building better communities’, the future of real estate, levelling up, social value and much more.

OPDC will be represented at a stand on UKREiiF, highlighting the OPDC area as key to West London’s regeneration plans, demonstrating partnership working with both the public and private sectors as well as giving OPDC spotlights to highlight our key aims, objectives, and achievements to key stakeholders, politicians, investors and developers.

By attending and exhibiting, OPDC will build valuable relationships and forge new opportunities, as well as strengthen our existing contacts. Meeting and exhibiting in person at such a large-scale event will help spread OPDC’s message and key aims and is an effective marketing tool to build confidence and trust.
 

Supporting and attending this event will allow a number of positive outcomes for OPDC, which will create a platform to help to further our development plans by raising awareness and building advocacy. This includes

• Marketing and exposure for OPDC to a broad audience of industry and businesses, to promote and build recognition and support for the brand. This will allow us build support and awareness of OPDC’s core mission.
• Providing an engagement opportunity with a wide range of businesses, wider public and stakeholders. Building stronger relationships, enabling us to have conversations and a platform to build on existing relationships, but also, cultivate new ones.
• Ensuring OPDC colleagues stay up to date with the sector across the UK and connect with people, places and businesses, including junior staff.
• Enabling OPDC to profile its ambitious plans for Old Oak West, providing engagement opportunities with a wide range of businesses, industry decision makers and the wider public, building support for our plans.

Expenditure of £25,000 will include:

• Exhibition space at the event and promotion including print and postage of marketing collateral
• Passes for OPDC colleagues, secured at discounted rates
• Accommodation, train travel, secured at discounted rates, and expenses
• The additional expenses of travel, printing and preparation materials

Attendance at UKREiiF will allow us to further engage and meet with important stakeholders, prospective partners and developers, as well as putting OPDC on the map and helping to promote both London and OPDC to wider international audience.

Attending this conference allows colleagues across the organisation to engage with
various stakeholders and make crucial connections and partnerships to further develop our vision.

By joining forces with key stakeholders and partners to exhibit, OPDC can share the cost of exhibiting with prominent exposure, as well as demonstrating partner collaboration and profiling the West London region on a UK platform, as well as supporting the Mayor’s aims around London as a global destination. Old Oak Common Station is a major new development and represents the scale of investment happening in London, and we will be able to showcase our work to date in support of the Mayor’s aims.

Our attendance at UKREiiF will support the London Priority Missions by advocating London, amplifying London voices and championing city wide objectives and investment opportunities, profiling the UK’s largest regeneration project on a national scale to the 10,000+ attendees and 3,000+ investors and developers.

OPDC has also ensured value for money by ensuring discounted rates as a public sector organisation and Opportunity London ambassador wherever possible.

All associated costs and opportunities will be approved by the Director of Communications, Engagement and Strategy and will be closely monitored at all times.

Risks and issues

UKREiiF is managed by an external organisation and therefore there is a risk that the 3-day event could be cancelled which would mean that we’re not able to spotlight OPDC and our work as planned. We mitigate this risk through our membership to Opportunity London, which provides us with invitations to networking conferences, roundtables and discussions and numerous high-profile speaking opportunities at LREF, MIPIM and various other conferences.

Under Section 149 of the Equality Act 2010, as a public authority, OPDC must have ‘due regard’ to the need to eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment, and victimization as well as to the need to advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do not.

UKREiiF champions inclusion by ensuring diverse representation through providing discounted rates for public sector and charity organisations as well as free passes for groups with protected characteristics, including those under the age of 25.

There are no other considerations in respect of this decision.

No one involved in the preparation or clearance of this Form, or its substantive
proposal, has any conflict of interest.

The expenditure of £25,000 for OPDC to be represented at UKREiiF 2025 will be funded from 2024/25 CEO, Communications and Strategy budget.

Payment will be split across PA.0100.001, PA.0110.002 and PA.0110.003.

All associated costs and opportunities will be approved by the Director of Communications, Engagement and Strategy and will be closely monitored at all times.

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