Chairs and speakers include:

• Jim McGough
  Former Chief Immigration Officer , UK Immigration Service
• Ian Westwood
  Director , The Westwood Organisation Ltd.
• Arjun Medhi
  Staff Fraud Advisor , CIFAS
• John Philpott
  Chief Economist , CIPD
• Louise Fernandes
  Professional Support Lawyer , Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP
• Julian Bild
  Solicitor, Supervisor of Tribunal Review Unit , Immigration Advisory Service
• James Warren
  Solicitor , Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP
• Patrick Wintour
  Director , Employability Forum
• David Price
  Managing Director , Anglo Polish
• Kenneth Hanslip
  Head of Professional Standards , NCP Services Limited
• Laura Devine
  Principal , Laura Devine Solicitors
• Peter Larkin
  Director , Active Immigration
• Neil Foames
  European Recruitment Manager , FirstGroup Plc.

Profiles:

Julian Bild

Julian has specialised in immigration and asylum law since qualifying in 1997, and has worked both in private practice and in not for profit organisations.  He currently supervises the IAS's Tribunal Review Unit, a team of lawyers that drafts applications to the AIT and to the High Court for the review of Immigration Judge decisions. The Tribunal Review Unit also represents its clients at Reconsideration hearings before the AIT. 

Julian is an experienced advocate and trainer and has a wealth of experience in running cases before the AIT and higher courts.

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Louise Fernandes

Louise is the Professional Support Lawyer in the Employment Group at Field Fisher Waterhouse.

Louise trained and worked as an employment solicitor in the City, and has broad experience of both contentious and non-contentious employment law issues. She has advised on a wide variety of matters, ranging from employee status, managing sickness absence, and the conduct of disciplinary and grievance procedures to whistleblowing and harassment allegations, TUPE transfers, collective redundancies, unfair dismissal and complex discrimination issues.

At Field Fisher Waterhouse, Louise is responsible for producing a variety of client-focused publications on employment law issues, including briefing notes, newsletters and fortnightly email updates on recent developments. She organises both internal and external training, and co-ordinates the Group's client seminar and workshop programme. Her role also entails producing guidance and precedent documentation for use within the Employment Group and assisting solicitors with technical legal queries.

Louise has written widely for recruitment, HR and legal publications on a variety of topics, ranging from the developments in family-friendly legislation to disability discrimination. She has also co-written and edited a specialist employment law text for the HR and legal market.

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Jim McGough

Jim is a Chief Immigration Officer with the UK Immigration Service currently based at Gatwick. He has over 30 years experience in all areas of immigration including working abroad as an Entry Clearance Manager and as training manager. He was instrumental in setting up the first in country enforcement branch of the Immigration Service: The London Enforcement Unit.

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Arjun Medhi

Arjun Medhi is the Staff Fraud Advisor for CIFAS, the UK 's Fraud Prevention Service.

He started as an Accredited Counter Fraud Investigator and then as an Accredited Counter Fraud Manager in the Department for Work and Pensions and London Borough of Lambeth. He has worked in partnership with Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, Home Office, Metropolitan Police and a variety of local authorities combating social security and insurance fraud. He has worked on and led large scale multi-agency investigations resulting in prosecutions, huge monetary savings and cases receiving media attention.

Arjun also worked in Fraud Consultancy providing training to Government and Local Government in investigation techniques including investigative interviewing and surveillance.

He is currently implementing the CIFAS Staff Fraud Database. This database was welcomed by the Financial Services Authority, the Confederation of British Industry, the Trades Union Congress and the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development to help organisations vet prospective employees and to act as a useful deterrent to those involved in fraud.

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John Philpott

John has been Chief Economist at the CIPD since November 2000.

Prior to joining the CIPD John was, for 13 years, Director of the Employment Policy Institute (EPI), an independent policy think-tank.

John writes a quarterly statistical Work Audit for the CIPD and prepares the CIPD's quarterly Labour Market Outlook survey. His regular Perspectives essays provide accessible analysis of the changing world of work.

John holds a Doctorate from the University of Oxford (1985) and is Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Hertfordshire , a Fellow of the RSA and a member of the Society of Business Economists. He is a former Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Select Committee on Employment (from 1993-1996) and has also advised numerous other UK and international bodies, including the United Nations, the European Commission, the IMF, the OECD, the TUC and The Prince's Trust.

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James Warren

James qualified in New Zealand in 1998 and gained two years' experience there specialising in employment law. Prior to joining Field Fisher Waterhouse in 2003 James was based with the London Borough of Southwark's in-house employment law team, dealing with a broad range of both contentious and non-contentious employment work.

James has experience in the handling of several long-running and complex unfair dismissal, discrimination and trade union victimisation cases, from the Employment Tribunal level through to the Court of Appeal. He has carried out extensive contractual and policy document reviews, and advised particularly on disciplinary and grievance procedures. He has assisted both employers and employees with their approach to disciplinary investigations and proceedings, whistle blowing and harassment complaints, and sickness management and disability issues.

James has also advised on a number of outsourcing and public service reorganisation transfers including the high profile Southwark Education contract.

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Ian Westwood

Ian worked at the Home Office from 1993-2003. He was an operational Immigration Officer serving at Heathrow, Gatwick and Dover before being promoted to Chief Immigration Officer based in Croydon. Since then he has set up his own consultancy business, providing training and immigration advice to a variety of corporate and private clients on the subject of Immigration.

He is regulated by the Office of the Immigration Service Commissioner to provide immigration advice in the UK . Ian's training credentials include the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development's Certificate of Training Practice and the Belbin Team-Role Accreditation.

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Patrick Wintour

Patrick has been Director of Employability since it was set up in 2000. He has previously worked in senior management roles for The Prince's Trust and The Industrial Society, and in the private sector with Christie-Tyler plc and Bowater. He is a member of the Central Council of the Royal Commonwealth Society. He was appointed as a member of the new Advisory Board on Naturalisation and Integration in 2004.

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David Price

David Price is the founder and managing director of Anglo-Polish, one of the UK 's fastest- growing recruitment companies specialising in placing Polish workers into the construction and demolition sectors.

Anglo-Polish is recognised by the Home Office and Business Link as an exemplar of best practice in terms of  the quality of its selection and recruitment processes , its focus on training and health and safety, and its ongoing Worker Support Programme. 

Founded in  2005, Anglo-Polish has grown rapidly as a result of its commitment to both candidates and clients. Candidates receive comprehensive support so they can focus on their work without worrying about integration issues. Clients benefit from focused, committed and productive workers.

A graduate of Oxford University and a former Rotary Foundation Scholar at USC in Los Angeles , David is an experienced and successful entrepreneur who has been establishing and running his own businesses for over 15 years.

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Kenneth Hanslip

Ken Hanslip is the Asset Protection Manager for NCP Services Ltd, the leading supplier of on street parking enforcement services to Local Authorities throughout the United Kingdom . Ken has extensive fraud investigation experience having worked both in the London Metropolitan Police and the Benefit Fraud Investigation Service. Ken is a member of the Home Office's Illegal Working Stakeholder group, an advisory body to the Home Office on illegal working legislation and prevention.

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Laura Devine

Laura Devine is recognised internationally as a leading UK immigration authority. She is head of a niche immigration firm rated in all legal directories as in the top tier of immigration firms and Laura is personally included in the top tier. She is the UK representative of the International Bar Association Immigration Committee and a member of the Law Society
Immigration Committee.