To take advantage of the early bird rate on the upcoming COTAC ‘Connecting Conservation’ conference in London on 12 November, supported by the IHBC and other COTC partners, please be sure to book by 1 October.
The conference covers three main areas:
• Capacity building
• Advocacy
• Growth
IHBC Director Seán O’Reilly is speaking at the conference on ‘winning new generations of heritage leaders’.
Ingval Maxwell of COTAC writes:
‘Connecting Conservation’ is the fifth in a series of crosscutting annual one-day events arranged by COTAC. It is being held in the context of significant changes currently happening across the conservation sector. Designed to engage with the full breadth of specialist and non-specialist interests in conservation and related matters, it will address how these might impact on COTAC’s wide-ranging membership and practitioner interests.
Previous successful COTAC events have included an examination of Building Information Modelling in Conservation Practice, Digital Technologies, Disaster Management, and Improving Thermal Performance in Traditional Buildings.
The ‘Connecting Conservation’ theme will focus on what is happening across the UK’s heritage sector, and how these changes are being promoted through management initiatives in social media and other innovative schemes for knowledge transfer and capacity building.
The 2015 COTAC Conference is also privileged to have as its Keynote Speaker, Prof. Dr. Jukka Jokilehto of ICCROM, Rome, who will deliver a presentation on ‘Capacity Building in Conservation’ from an international perspective.
