UK Business Data User Conference 2021 | UK Data Service | 21 September 2021 | Online

The UK Business Data User Conference is a one-day conference jointly organized by the UK Data Service and the Office for National Statistics. The conference will be held online and is free to attend.
Do you want to know the latest developments in UK business data? Are you interested in research using UK business surveys and data?
The conference programme contains a mixture of presentations from the  Office for National Statistics  (ONS), UK Data Service, and researchers who have used data from the UK Surveys covering the areas of business, industry and trade. There will be an opportunity to ask questions in the Q&A sessions.
Attendees will hear updates from the data producers of key UK business surveys and administrative data, such as:

• Business Structure Database
• Annual Business Survey
• Annual Inquiry into Foreign Direct Investment
• Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings
• Business Insights and Conditions Survey
• Inter-Departmental Business Register (and linked data)
• and many more.
After lunch, there will be a panel on use of government commissioned research, followed by three parallel sessions where researchers will speak on their work on business productivity, R&D and innovation, impact of investments and policy, and business trade and international markets.

There is also a lunchtime drop-in session where attendees can ask questions of our resident experts on how to craft an accredited research project.

2021 Speakers

CHAIRS:

Louise Corti
Office for National Statistics and Vanessa Higgins, UK Data Service

Chris Woods
UK Data Service

Nick O’Donnell
ONS

Josh Martin
Head of Productivity, Assistant Deputy Director
Productivity, Research Partnerships and Professional Development, ONS

Ed Palmer
Deputy Chief Economist; Analysis, Micro-data & Engagement,
ONS

Chris Goldsworthy
Co-Head of Subnational Trade, Global Trade and
Investment, Macroeconomic Statistics and Analysis, ONS

SPEAKERS:

Emily Hopson
BICS, ONS

Daniel Robinson
Ecommerce Survey, ONS

Jakob Schneebacher
Management and Expectations Survey, ONS

Lily O’Flynn
UK Statistics Authority, ONS

Alix Taylor
UK Data Service, ONS

Gabor Farkas
SRS

Frances Pottier
Head of Business Statistics, Data
Analytics and Business Statistics, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial
Strategy (BEIS)

Grant Filtzner
Chief Economist and Director, Macroeconomic
Statistics and Analysis, Economic, Social and Environmental Group, ONS

Jennifer C Smith
Economics Department, University of Warwick

Mehmet Ugur
School of International Business and Economics, University of
Greenwich

Maksim Belitski
Henley Business School, University of Reading

Helen Simpson
Commuting Fast and Slow: the Effects of High-Speed Rail, University of Bristol

Silvia Avram
University of Essex, and Susan Harkness, University of Bristol

Anastasios Kitsos
City-REDI, University of Birmingham

Jakub Zagdanski
Economist, Cambridge Econometrics

Joel Kariel
University of Oxford and University of Kent

Jun Du
Aston Business School, Aston University

KEYNOTE PRESENTER:

Donna Leong
Director of Economic Statistics Change, ONS