Session overview

In response to member feedback about showing new and innovative things across the sector, join us for an inside look at how Clarion Housing Group is finding new ways to tackle old/existing problems and building a new Asset Management system.

It is a familiar moment for housing leaders. Your board or the regulator asks a straightforward question about the homes you manage, and the honest answer is that it will take days to find out. The information is there, spread across teams and systems, and good people spend their time stitching it together. Each new regulation adds to the load and makes the answers harder to stand behind.

Clarion set out to change that, and chose graph-based data models and graph databases as the foundation for a new Asset Management system.

It is the same technology that helps banks catch fraud rings and Google understand how people, places and things connect. The technology is proven at a global scale, from complex supply chains to cybersecurity to biological research.

That same graph structure gives AI insight tools a reliable base to work from, and AI is also supporting the team through the build by accelerating their software development capacity. Whether you lead digital and data or asset management, you will leave with a clear sense of why Clarion chose graph and how AI development is helping them build innovative tools faster than ever before.

By attending this session, participants will:

• Hear why Clarion needed a new way to understand its homes across a large and complex estate.
• Understand why Clarion decided to build a new asset management system, and how the case was made.
• Learn where traditional SQL reached its limits for Clarion, and why graph databases suit asset management.
• Discover what graph brings to asset management: complex queries, flexible reporting and room to adapt as obligations change.
• Watch a live demonstration of the system in development.
• Hear how AI supports the build, and why a graph gives AI tools a reliable base.

The session will include:

• The challenge Clarion faced and its decision to build a new asset management system.
• Why graph, and the limits of traditional SQL it addresses for reporting, flexibility and complex queries.
• A live demonstration of the system in development.
• How AI is supporting the build.
• Questions from members, with time for open discussion at the close.

Speakers:

Lisa Buckingham, Director of Digital and Transformation, Clarion Housing Group

Lisa is a senior transformation and technology leader with deep experience in regulated social housing. As Director of Digital and Transformation at Clarion Housing Group, she leads across change, IT and enterprise applications with a strong focus on making complex organisations work better for the people who depend on them.

Jon Hay, Director of Technology Solutions and Experience, Clarion Housing Group

Jon is a technology leader with more than 16 years’ experience in technical development, solution design and delivery. As Director of Technology Solutions and Experience at Clarion Housing Group, he leads multi-disciplinary teams that bring together technology, data and user experience, turning good ideas into products people use.

Who should attend?
This session is designed for technology, data and asset leaders in social housing organisations, including:

• Chief Information Officers and Directors of Digital, Data and Technology
• Heads of IT and Technology
• Heads of Data & Analytics
• Enterprise, Solution and Data Architects
• Data Engineers and BI Developers
• Software Development teams
• Digital Product and Delivery leads
• Heads of Asset Management and Asset Data
• Transformation and Change leads

Whether your organisation is weighing up graph technology or rethinking how it manages asset data, this session shows what the work looks like in practice.

Joining Information

Your joining link will be sent via Eventbrite 7 days before the session, and you will also receive a reminder from events@dinetwork.co.uk approximately 2 hours before the session.

Sessions are recorded where possible; however, slides and presentation materials are not guaranteed to be shared afterwards.

If you have any questions about the event or your booking, please contact events@dinetwork.co.uk.

Delegate fees

Free for DIN members to attend as part of your subscription.