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09:00 Breakfast & Street Exhibition - Shopping for Ideas that Work Part 1: The town story so far... 10:00 Chairs Welcome - Ross Martin, Policy Director, Centre for Scottish Public Policy & Board Member, Scotlands Towns Partnership 10:15 Ministerial Opening Address - Derek Mackay MSP, Minister for Local Government and Planning, Scottish Government 10:30 Local Solutions for Local Change Daniel McKendry, Principal Regeneration Ofcer, East Renfrewshire Council 10:45 Towns Review Update, Pecha Kucha style. Following the recent initial gathering of the Towns Review Group, we hear short provocations from participants sharing their feedback & views from a social, cultural and enterprise perspective. On social: John Lord, Director, yellow book On cultural: Maggie Broadley, Creative Executive, Craft Town Scotland & Artist On enterprise: Iain Scott, enterprise guru and the foremost expert in intrapreneurship in the UK Part 2: Tough Talk - agreeing, together, today, the key ingredients for successful towns... 11:00 Creating our Framework for Mess! Robert Rae, change scenario planning expert & founding Director of 3rd Horizons leads this Futures Session with the entire audience, to reach agreement on 10 key ingredients (facilities, services,assets) that will create new stories for our towns. 12:00 Lunch & Street Exhibition - Shopping for Ideas that Work 13:00 Fringe Events: The Big Lottery Fund, Local Data Company, Employment Enterprise 13:45 Fringe wrap up and head back to the hall

Part 3: The Talking Stops Now! Implementing Alternative Futures 14:00 Pledge your allegiance to Scotlands towns! Ross Martin 14:10 How you implement alternative futures. An Open Space session with Diarmaid Lawlor, Head of Urbanism, Architecture + Design Scotland. Weve agreed on 10 key ingredients. Now were going to agree on 10 things we need to do to implement alternative futures. What is an Open Space Session? - Its a quick way to enable all kinds of people & organisations to input on a single theme, working in parallel groups in one big space. At each table, for a few minutes at a time, youll work in pairs, then fours, then the whole table, then the whole room. 14:40 Civic economy expert, Joost Beunderman of Architecture 00 & Author, Compendium for the Civic Economy, on Putting in Place the Conditions to Scale it up 15:00 Chris Wade, Chief Executive, Action for Market Towns How to measure it all, so you make it credible with examples from Wales 15:20 Quickre Question Time & Round Up with Diarmaid, Joost & Chris, led by Ross Martin 15:40 The Last but important word! From Jenn Minchin, Head of Horsecross Arts Creative Learning & Malcolm Fraser, Architect and Chair of Scottish Government Towns Review We hear from a fantastic group, well and truly embracing the diversity and enthusiasm thats needed to change places. Then we pass the baton of the days learnings to Chair of Scottish Government Towns Review, Malcolm Fraser. 16:00 16:30 Street Party. Dont forget to hand in your pledge cards!

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BIDS Scotland
Business Improvement Districts Scotland (BIDS) has been established to support and encourage the development of Business Improvement Districts across Scotland. BIDs are not restricted to towns and city centres and can be used to stimulate sustainable economic growth in, rural areas, tourism and visitor areas (DMOs), agriculture, business parks and single business sectors. BIDS delivers the Scottish Governments BID programme and is the national organisation for BIDs in Scotland. Business Improvement Districts Scotland brings together the operational and developing BIDs, sharing knowledge, information and good practice, whilst encouraging collective working across the country. Working with the local BIDs and partners the aim is to improve the trading environment for the businesses involved in the BID whilst contributing to sustainable economic growth and the wider regeneration aspirations of the local community and public sector. BIDS is an outward looking and developing organisation with links to colleagues in Norway, Sweden, Northern Ireland, Wales, England, The Netherlands, Germany, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the USA. The Scottish Government is supporting the development of BIDs across Scotland and in addition to the central support given by BIDS is offering a development grant of up to 20K, as announced by Mr John Swinney MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth. There are currently 15 BIDs in operation and a further 18 in development, with considerable additional interest from across Scotland. For more information visit the BIDS stand or contact Ian Davison Porter (07801 064733) or go to www.bids-scotland.com

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Employment Enterprise
Introduction Employment Enterprise is an Employer Engagement & Job Brokerage Organisation dedicated to the eradication of poverty and the provision of opportunity for all of Scotlands citizens. EEC were founded in 2003 and we have delivered ERDF and ESF funded projects across the central belt of Scotland, generating in excess of 3,500 job outcomes in the past 3 years alone. EEC delivers Employment and Community Engagement Programmes on behalf of various Local Authorities, all with the sole aim of increasing employment opportunities for local people.

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Enterprise Screen
Enterprise Screen is a multimedia, training and interactive development company specialising in video-based products. Our team of professionals works across lmmaking, training & teaching, technology & web creation, graphics and creative arts. Enterprise Screen delivers video and training products to the private, public and voluntary sector. This can include: Video Education and Learning; Promotional and Marketing Films; Live events, Awards and conferences recording/webcast; Campaigns and public information for NHS, Local Authorities, Charities; Arts Promotion. If you are thinking of a video project, for online, DVD or broadcast, please contact us. Enterprise Screen is pleased to be providing video support for Scotlands Towns Conference 2012.

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Land Engineering
Land Engineering delivers external projects and services across Scotland ranging from civil engineering, public realm, stone restoration and renewable energy projects to grounds and winter maintenance services, working predominantly with local authorities, regeneration companies and other public sector organisations. Innovative solutions, coupled with a exible approach, ensure the infrastructure constructed is t for purpose, delivers the greatest value for investment, enriches the environment and promotes well being in communities.

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Central to delivering successful public sector infrastructure projects, is the companys 12 year track record in providing community training and employment opportunities, with a particular emphasis on reaching those who face most barriers to employment. A partnering approach with public, voluntary and community sectors ensures measurable economic benets as an essential part of project delivery success.

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Littoralis
Littoralis has built on its expertise in online publishing, secure intranets, document management solutions and selfcertication systems to become the UKs leading supplier of online internet-based data sharing systems for crime reduction schemes. Littoralis has developed online publishing systems for commercial publishers and corporate intranets, developed Knowledge Management Systems to support GxP intranets in elds such as pharmaceutical trials management, manufacturing, nancial audit and others and, since 2001 has been combining online publishing and document management with tight user-certication of Standard Operating Procedures and key Must Read documents. Its secure internetbased information sharing systems combine this expertise with secure encrypted access systems. Littoralis clients include large and small companies, county constabularies as well as the Metropolitan Police, local authorities and business crime reduction partnerships throughout the UK. It is a member of the Association of Business Crime Partnerships.

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Perth and Kinross Council

Perth and Kinross Council is committed to the economic, social and physical regeneration of its communities, recognizing the key role that the City of Perth and the burgh towns play as service and employment centres. Our towns are facing undoubted pressures but with their strengths in independent retail and tourism they are well placed to meet the present economic challenges with the Council supporting a range of initiatives to drive economic growth - from environmental enhancement schemes to community led events and marketing activities. The Perth and Kinross area continues to enjoy a strong reputation as offering a high quality of life and vibrant towns and communities are central to our proposition as a location to live, work, visit and invest.

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Springboard Company Prole

Established in 2002, Springboard is the leading authority on measuring the performance of high streets, providing automated footfall counting, sales tracking and Milestone, the only source of comprehensive performance data for town centres (www.milestoneuk.org). Springboards National High Street Index and Night Time Economy Index, together with its quarterly national Vacancy Rate survey, are regarded as key benchmarks of town centre performance by practitioners and the national media. Contact Diane Wehrle, Director Springboard Research Tel: +44 (0)1908 547858 Email: diane.wehrle@spring-board.info Website Link: www.spring-board.info

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A+DS
Architecture and Design Scotland (A+DS) is Scotlands champion for excellence in placemaking, architecture and planning. We are an Executive NDPB of the Scottish Government. A+DS aims to support the creation of places that work, which provide people with real choices and, are ultimately, places where people want to be. We champion the highest standards in architecture and placemaking across all sectors, advocating a better understanding of the importance of quality design in both the public and private sectors. A+DS works through our established programmes to champion excellence and advocate the benets of excellence in design. Our programmes are Urbanism, Design Review, Sust, Access to Architecture, Schools Design and Healthcare Design. Find out more at www.ads.org.uk/

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Scottish Government
Scottish Government announced a national review of Town Centres on 9 September please go to our website for more information http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/ Built-Environment/regeneration/ town-centres/review

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