Fringe Events
The conference will also be host to a variety of fringe events running alongside the main event. These have been created to provide more interactive and provocative discussion linked to the conference themes, and will be presented in a less formal environment and format.
Fringe themes to date:
Site Visit
Each year BIFM Conference delegates are offered the chance to go 'behind the scenes' of a major site or building with a facilities manager as your guide. Previous visits have included a Cambridge University research campus, a PFI hospital and a science park. This year's site visit will be announced soon.Wipe Out Waste
Facilitated by Karen Ford, Founder of Footprint Friends.Social Media
Martin Brown and Paul Wilkinson, Co-Founders of be2camp will facilitate a barcamp style session on the use of social media and Web2.0 in the built environment and FM.Pecha Kucha
'There is no place for an intelligent client unit in the post recession world', facilitated by David Millar, International SIG.CSR and FM
Facilitated by Anthony Zuniga, Operations and Maintenance Manager, Interamerican Development Bank.
Sustainability In FM
Sustainability in FM is a website that shares the knowledge and experience of FM's in their practice to implement sustainability in their working environment. The website shares good practice case studies, all reviewed by a Steering Group comprised of experts in the industry, as well as articles and links ranging across an academically research-based sustainability framework.
