The HSE Learning Summit – UK is The Global Series’ flagship health and safety event in Britain, held at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole. It brings together COOs, HSE directors and operations leaders for two days of expert-led learning under Chatham House Rules — combining keynotes, interactive skills development and roundtables in a single curated stream. Birmingham is one of the UK’s most accessible cities, with direct rail connections from London, Manchester and Leeds and easy access from Birmingham International Airport.

Our UK events feature a deliberately diverse speaker lineup. Confirmed speakers include Rory Sutherland, Vice Chair of Ogilvy UK, on behavioural science and reframing safety’s reputation; Ian Leslie, author of Curious, on curiosity and smarter thinking; Hilary Scarlett on neuroscience and leading change; and Fawaz Bitar, Senior Vice President HSE & Carbon at BP. Speakers are selected by our advisory council of working HSE directors — not by sponsorship or seniority alone. The mix of voices from inside and outside the profession is deliberate and central to what makes the content distinctive.

Yes — and it is designed to complement rather than duplicate them. NEBOSH and IOSH qualifications build your technical and regulatory foundation. The Global Series operates at the strategic level above that: influencing at board level, making the financial case for safety investment, leading culture change across complex organisations, and developing the leadership capability that the profession increasingly demands. Many of our UK delegates are Chartered IOSH members or NEBOSH Diploma holders who are focused on what comes next in their leadership journey.

Three things: Chatham House Rules, the speaker mix, and the programme design. Chatham House Rules mean delegates speak openly in a way that simply isn’t possible at a recorded or public event. Our speakers include voices from behavioural science, neuroscience and business strategy — not just HSE practitioners. And our programme is engineered by world-renowned facilitators, with interactive development sessions, Pulse AI-curated networking and structured roundtables built in — not just back-to-back presentations. The result is a quality of conversation and learning that a large expo or multi-track conference cannot replicate.

Our UK forums attract senior professionals from across the full range of industries where HSE leadership matters — including construction, manufacturing, energy and utilities, logistics and supply chain, financial services, media and entertainment, real estate, and the public sector. The cross-industry mix is intentional: our advisory council includes HSE directors from the BBC, Netflix, Sainsbury’s, Digital Realty and Places for People, and the breadth of sector representation reflects the diversity of the communities The Global Series is building.