08.30       Registration

09.15           Welcome and Presidential Address

Richard Longson, ICG President

10.00       Keynote Speaker
                Professor Deian Hopkin, Vice Chancellor of London South
                Bank University, Chair of the Universities UK Skills Task Group
                and Learning and Skills Council Board Member
                'Education Policy and the emerging Skills Agenda
                - convergence or divergence?

11.00       Exhibition
The leading career guidance exhibition in the UK. An opportunity to visit representatives of Sector Skills Councils, educational institutions, and suppliers of careers related products and services. Refreshments will be available.

12.15           Workshops - Session One

This year the range of workshops should provide something for everyone! Workshop participation can help you identify new initiatives in career guidance, assess the future of the profession, develop your knowledge and skills and hear the results of relevant research and projects. A workshop session can be selected from the list - available by clicking here.

13.15           Exhibition

Lunch and refreshments will be available.

14.15           Workshops - Session Two

Delegates have the option of attending one of the listed workshops or the symposium.

Symposium - Real Benefits of Career Guidance - Measuring Impact

The symposium will demonstrate examples of work done to identify and measure the impact of career guidance on individuals and communities. Contributors will come from organisations from around the UK.

15.15           Exhibition

Refreshments will be available.

16.15           Open Debate

A facilitated discussion, open to all, in which everyone will have the opportunity to comment on some of the major policy and practice issues facing the career guidance sector in the UK and internationally.

17.15           Annual General Meeting

Open to all delegates and exhibitors the AGM is an important part of the governance of the ICG. It is the event at which the Board and Council are held to account by members; it will include any proposals for ICG policy and action which emerge from the previous Open Debate session. To finish at approximately 17.45.

19.30           Drinks Reception

20.00       President's Dinner

To begin with the Installation of the new President,

Vivienne Brown

Dinner will be followed by entertainment including Twmpath Dawns (Welsh Folk Dancing) with the Pluck & Squeeze Band.

08.30           Registration

09.15           Welcome and Introduction

Vivienne Brown, ICG President

09.30           Keynote Speaker

John Griffiths, Deputy Minister for Skills, Welsh Assembly Government

'The place of career guidance in a developing Wales'

10.00       Workshops - Session Three

Delegates have the option of attending one of the listed workshops or the symposium.

Symposium - All Age Policy into Practice; a UK Dimension

An exploration of how all age guidance policy is implemented in the four home countries with contributions from major career guidance organisations in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

11.00       Networking
                Refreshments will be available.

11.30           Workshops - Session Four

Delegates have the option of attending one of the listed workshops.

12.30           Networking

Lunch and refreshments will be available.

13.30           Keynote Speaker

Ann Beynon, Director Wales, BT
'Managing Talent in a Global Marketplace'

14.30           National Career Awards

The context of career guidance continues to undergo significant changes which offer huge challenges to managers and practitioners in terms of service delivery, this year's awards will reflect these new challenges.

15.30           Looking to the Future

Vivienne Brown, ICG President

Refreshments will be made available at the end of the conference