DIN is pleased to invite you along to its annual member briefing on its 2025 offer to share with you what you can expect from us in the year ahead. At this session hear from our Founder and CEO Ian Wright on our 2025 offer and why he thinks it's the best one yet.

DIN is now well established as the largest and fastest growing corporate innovation community in the social housing sector; with fresh leadership insights, experimentation, testing, learning and challenge for our members.

We understand your operating environment and the constraints to deliver services, so what is new for 2025?

• 4 in person conferences covering, Digital and Data, People and Culture, Property and DIN Chief Executives - DIN members get free places to each of these events throughout the year
• Leadership networks for first time CEOs and Directors with ambitions to become CEOs
• Innovators assemble - Our expert corporate innovators group who throughout 2025 will be available to support members with their innovation challenges
• Customer focus channel - Working across our four channels we have teamed up with Big Picture Training to offer members a year of practical customer insights, training, and development to help you deliver the best customer experience for tenants and residents
• AI in Housing capability forum – AI is probably THE technology of our time and this forum will ensure that DIN members understand the potential of AI are ready to deploy it across their housing business
• Building the workforce of the future - How to prepare your organisation for the next generation of young people from GenZ to Gen Alpha entering the workforce and the very different requirements they will expect from an employer
• 2 x Specialist practitioner groups - led by expert practitioners from the DIN membership focussed on delivering service transformation and understanding your customers through psychographic segmentation
• Hits the fan - Increasingly leaders are having to deal with situations which, when things go wrong, require rapid responses to manage both operational and reputational impact on the business. In this series of sessions, we will help leaders improve their responsiveness and resilience.

We’ve also reviewed and enhanced those service you have told us you value, ensuring DIN is your go to place for fresh ideas, content and inspiration, highlights include:

• Inside Innovation Study visits - Discovery learning is a key part of DIN’s DNA and for 2025. We have curated a fantastic collection of the very best experiences to take members inside a range of best-in-class organisations and businesses, from AO.com to Microsoft's innovation lab to Alder Hey Children's hospital to the National Robotarium, to a 3D concrete housing estate.
• Strategic foresight briefings - Led by DIN’s futurist in residence, Tracey Follows, CEO, Futuremade. Members receive comprehensive briefings in the Spring and Autumn on all things around emerging trends, mega trends, new customer insights and behaviours
• Learning the lessons - Our series of learning from leaders with practical lessons in what works, what happens when things go wrong and how to put them right
• In person roundtables - Bringing DIN members together with a variety of thought leaders from outside the sector, government and regulators and the world of academia and business
• 3 network meetings - Held in person in London, Manchester, and Edinburgh - An opportunity for DIN members to come together and hear and learn from each other and expert practitioner
• DINnovation day - An annual event offering members the chance to discover new innovations and insights, share lessons in failure and deployment of new tech
• Practitioner forums - From data science to property innovations to tech hot topics
• Webinars - on topical themes from regulation, complaints, new operating models to interviews of corporate explorers, content which you just won't find anywhere else
• Regular newsletters - summarising key issues on channel themes as well as DIN exclusive research and good practice examples