9.00am – 10.00am: Registration and coffee

10.00am – 10.30am: Craig Rachel, director at leading advisory firm AlixPartners, examines how consumer and structural trends are influencing the outlook for pub and bar prospects and deals, and discusses transactions and asset values in the market.

10.30am – 11.00am: Mark Bentley, business development director at HDI, talks about the areas where the pub sector is and has been performing strongly and where the opportunities are for the sector to drive growth.

11.00am – 11.20am: Jamie Allsopp, the founder of Allsopp’s Taverns and former City fund manager, discusses why he opted for a career change during the pandemic, swapping hedge funds for reviving his family’s old beer brand, Allsopp’s Ale, and then launching a pub venture.

11.20am – 11.40am: Bex Wilkins, co-founder of Makers of Hospitality, talks about leaving her role as marketing director to start her own pub company with wife Sarah, launching an award-winning debut site, opening a second site, and looking at further growth opportunities.

11.40am – 12.00pm: Dominic Jacobs, founder and managing director of Ardent Pub Group, formerly JKS Pubs, discusses securing new investment, expanding in the capital, and how the new generation of pub operators coming through are standing out.

12.00pm – 1.00pm: Lunch

1.00pm – 1.25pm: David McDowall, chief executive of Stonegate Group, talks about the continued evolution of the UK’s largest pub company, as it looks to become a “partnership-led pub portfolio”.

1.25pm – 1.50pm Kevin Charity, founder of the Coaching Inn Group, talks to Propel’s Mark Wingett about his life in the sector, growing Coaching Inn Group into a 36-strong group with more than 1,000 rooms, to this year being named hotel group of the year, how the business balances F&B and accommodation, and his take on the wider industry.