Urbano Networking Podcast
Urbano has been bringing together company founders, entrepreneurs, directors and senior professionals across all sectors to connect, engage, learn, share, and develop mutual business opportunities from our beginnings in Shoreditch in the early 2000's.
Our podcasts feature recordings of our speaker networking events on a range of topics and themes relevant to businesses, but especially those that create and run SMEs which are at the core of our community.
Urbano events and podcasts are produced by Talent Lab.
Urbano Networking Podcast
Build Speaker & Networking Event with Simon Allford, President of RIBA
Simon is a founding director of global architecture practice, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) where he leads a design studio of 200 architects.
Simon is a frequent writer, critic and advisor, a visiting professor at Harvard, a trustee of the London School of Architecture and the Chickenshed Theatres Trust.
In 2020, Simon was elected the next president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and took up the role on September 1st.
On his election, Simon said he wanted to create "a more open, productive, engaged and reinvigorated RIBA" that addresses "global climate change and architecture's pivotal role in a post-pandemic world."
This event will hear from Simon on his plans to deliver on his priorities and where he sees the future of architecture within the fast-changing landscape of the built environment, leading into an interactive Q&A, with networking to follow.
Our hosts - The Building Society - is a co-working space and collaborative community for everyone working within the build environment sector, created by Urbano Members Structural & Civil Engineers, Elliott Wood. This is a place where we can all start to engineer a better society.