What is a Challenge Event?

Tackling challenges that arise from shifts in policy, technology or culture requires deep collaboration outside your organisation. Our one-to-two day Challenge Events provide you with the space, connections and process you need to make meaningful change in your industry.

We design and facilitate activities that enable participants to interrogate complex challenges and find opportunities for development with experts across disciplines.

Testimonials

It was fascinating to get a cross-industry group together to look at the challenge of tackling embodied carbon in the built environment. This is important work and it’s only by talking to each other that we will be successful.

Joe Dowley, Senior Policy Advisor Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

I thought it was a wonderful event and very uplifting to see so many key figures come together to discuss the issue. I am interested to build on this with targeted follow-up sessions, which would be a valuable way of moving this important work forward.

Alex Lochead, Policy Advisor for the Clean Heat Directorate at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

Some challenges we’ve already helped address

improving diversity and inclusion within British agriculture

We brought together more than 70 stakeholders from the farming, education and food sectors to collaborate on solutions to attract and support those from ethnically diverse communities into agriculture.


Tackling the housing crisis

We brought together a diverse group of over 30 industry leaders to address one of the most pressing issues of our time: the UK housing crisis. We explored how cross-sector collaboration can drive the development of resilient neighbourhoods that meet the needs of future generations and the challenges they will face.


Decarbonising Schools and enabling communities

We helped schools across Solihull to determine what role they can play in building climate resilient communities and lowering emissions to meet Net Zero​.


Decarbonising Schools and enabling communities

We helped schools across Solihull to determine what role they can play in building climate resilient communities and lowering emissions to meet Net Zero​.


Harnessing Heat Pump Technologies

We helped businesses and organisations from across the Built Environment sector to explore how they can enable a smooth transition to low-carbon heating in residential properties​.

Be seen as a thought leader

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OUR INNOVATION CAMPAIGNS HAVE REACHED UP TO 3.6M PEOPLE

How does it work?

Our team works with you to bring together subject matter experts from across industries and communities to define challenges and discover opportunities for innovation.

We take care of the space, tools, methods and event management, so you can focus on making connections and finding solutions.

What we provide

A BESPOKE COLLABORATIVE PROCESS

Under your guidance, we’ll create a process that delivers real outcomes and make collaboration easy and accessible for everyone involved.

A DEDICATED INNOVATION MANAGER

One of our team will work closely with you every step of the way, ensuring the event is a success from recruitment to delivery and evaluation to reporting.

INSPIRING SPACES AND LATEST TECHNOLOGY

STEAMhouse has been built to make collaboration happen. Access light-filled contemporary spaces, and if it’s needed on the day, use our co-working and dedicated meeting spaces.

INNOVATION TOOLS

We’ll help you a fellow participants to skill up in innovation practice.

Turn your talk into action

Find conferences all talk no action? Our Challenge Events help you get the right people in the room, and create meaningful action.

How to activate a Challenge Event

Get in touch with our team to propose a Challenge Event. Every event requires a sponsor, sometimes that’s one organisation, other times a number of organisations will contribute in partnership – either way, we’ll work with you to fund, promote and amplify the event.

Complete the form below and one of our Innovation Specialists will be in touch.

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