NIPIM is Nottingham's answer to MIPIM, the international property development conference held in Cannes every year. This year's NIPIM will take place on the 13th October.
We may not have the weather of the South of France, but we do have the inside scoop on the biggest and boldest property developments taking place in Nottingham right now.
This breakfast event will see speakers from six key locations deliver updates of 7 minutes each about the projects currently defining the shape and future of our city.
Read on for more information on the guest speakers who will be joining us on the day.
Sajeeda Rose
Sajeeda Rose
The East Midlands is home for Sajeeda having grown up in Leicester and spent her working life in the region. Sajeeda is no stranger to Nottingham City Council, in her current role is Chief Executive of the D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership she has been involved in many of Nottingham's flagship developments and is a member of the Nottingham Growth Board.
Sajeeda brings a lot of relevant experience for the role of the Corporate Director for Growth & City Development, she led the transformation and organisational change of D2N2 following the 2018 LEP review and put in place stronger governance, accountability and a culture of performance and delivery. She has been influential in successfully delivering the LEPs £250m Local Growth Fund and securing an additional £44m of Getting Building Funding to support the regional economy.
Most recently she led the successful bid for an East Midlands Freeport, the only inland Freeport in the country. Sajeeda is really looking forward to taking up this new role with Nottingham to shape the future direction of the city.
Tristan Hessing
Tristan Hessing
Tristan Hessing is a cultural producer and Nottingham Trent University, Fine Art BA, graduate of 2004. Hessing is currently working in partnership with property developers Blueprint to launch a new venue named Future_Makers, as part of the placemaking offer at Trent Basin Makers Yard. Launching in 2021, Future_Makers will see a 9,000 sq ft industrial unit converted into a new street food, drink and live performance venue with an ambitious in house art & design studio.
In 2004 Hessing co-founded Stand Assembly, a collective of visual artists that formed a collaborative studio on Dakeyne St in the Sneinton area of Nottingham. From 2005-2010 Hessing co founded & co directed Moot, a not-for-profit limited company providing exhibition and event space within Stand Assembly.
Following a relocation of Stand Assembly and Moot to One Thoresby Street premises in 2008, Stand Assembly was later formalised as a not-for-profit limited company in 2011. Trading as One Thoresby Street, Hessing maintained the position as Director throughout until June 2021.
In 2014 Hessing formed a private limited company under his own name, specialising in project management, consultation, custom fabrication and technical facility to the creative industries to include V&A, Southbank Centre, Magnum Photography, and the Korean Culture Centre.
Hessing became a director of The New Midland Group in 2015, a consortium of three artist-led organisations, Backlit, One Thoresby Street andPrimary, working in partnership to develop contemporary visual art in Nottingham.
Andy Wright
Andy Wright
Andy Wright, is one of the volunteer trustees of Flo Charitable Trust, the charity that operates Flo Skatepark, the award winning facility that is part of the city’s Trent Basin development.
Andy has a background in Sport, playing and coaching Tennis across Europe before building a career at Sport England, specialising in grant investment and funding programme design.
After being diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson’s Disease, Andy left a senior role at Sport England in 2018 to focus on his health. He has become an active part of Flo’s development, helping it
grow rapidly under charity operation, Flo is now established as a key part of the City’s leisure offer and a lead facility in the development of skateboarding in the U.K.
Everyone at Flo is excited for NIPIM 2021. We can’t wait to share more about what we’ve been up to, our vision for the future and why we believe Flo is so important to the future regeneration of Nottingham.
Chris Hale
Chris Hale
Chris is an experienced development manager working for 10 years in planning and development. He represents Watkin Jones Group, established 1791, one of the leading residential for rent developers in the UK, developing in excess of 50,000 units since inception, and a specialist in purpose built student accommodation. In September 2021 Watkin Jones Group was granted planning permission for their site at 135-137 Lower Parliament Street, which represents the company’s first venture into Nottingham. Once completed, the building will include 354 new student beds, a prominent commercial unit, the reprovision of the Nottingham Arena car park as well as a new public walk way linking the city centre to Sneinton Market.
Thomas G. Huffsmith
Tom Huffsmith is a member of the Project Management Team for The Island Quarter, a mixed-use regeneration project located in Nottingham, UK. He is a founding partner in Beacon Hospitality Partners, a global hotel investment asset manager and advisor. Prior to Beacon, he was a Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer for CNL Income Properties, Inc., a public REIT that invested in lifestyle real estate. Mr. Huffsmith’s experience also includes serving as President of Regent International Hotels, where he was responsible for leading the worldwide expansion of the luxury Regent Hotel company and serving with InterContinental Hotels Group as head of Development, Asset Management and Technical Services in EMEA and Asia/Pacific. Mr. Huffsmith holds an M.B.A. from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He also received a B.S. in Hotel Administration from Cornell University. Mr. Huffsmith was an accredited instructor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, Office of Continuing Education from 1995 to 2003
Liz Cartwright
Liz is managing director of Nottingham-based PR, marketing and digital company Cartwright Communications – a specialist property and construction communications company based in the Creative Quarter. Liz has been working with the project management team at The Island Quarter for more than three years with PR, stakeholder management and communications advice. Liz is a former award-winning journalist, working on regional and national publications.
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