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Manager in the Innovation team. She applies her knowledge and experience to enable the development of PropTech solutions within the organisation, including the delivery of products for the property industry relating to coal mining legacy and risk.
Alice plays a key role in identifying and developing opportunities that support the home buying and selling process, enabling property transactions to proceed with confidence across the coalfields through innovative PropTech solutions and close collaboration with key partners.
Previously, Alice was Customer Service Leader at the Authority, where she led the delivery of mining reports and supported a wide range of customer enquiries. This experience gives her a strong customer centric perspective, shaping her approach to innovation and her interest in how data, technology and collaboration can improve outcomes across the property market.

Chris Lees is Chief Executive of Data Clan and leading the technical development of Next Gen NLIS. He is a leading voice in information management, workplace analytics, and digital strategy. With more than 30 years’ experience spanning management, IT, and real estate, Chris has advised governments, global corporations, and industry bodies on data, building safety, and digital transformation. He serves as Director of Digital Strategy at OSCRE, a nima Ambassador, and chair of the trustees at Dementia Forward. An award-winning speaker (CoreNet Global Luminary Award), Chris is known for translating complex challenges into practical, innovative solutions that drive measurable impact across real estate, infrastructure, and social housing sectors.

Chris Telford is Principal Development and Planning Consultant at the Mining Remediation Authority, with over 30 years of diverse experience spanning managerial roles within local government, national consultancy, and with the Mining Remediation Authority. His professional background covers planning policy, development management, regeneration, heritage and landscape conservation, and specialist advisory work across England, Scotland and Wales.

A chartered town planner, Chris has led and developed high‑performing teams, notably strengthening the Mining Remediation Authority’s statutory planning function and expanding its non‑statutory advisory services. Since 2024, Chris has provided specialist planning and development support across corporate development projects, property initiatives, innovation programmes, and mine heat licensing. His work frequently involves rapid, high‑quality responses to complex planning enquiries, detailed technical assessments, and strategic input on emerging corporate policy — particularly around mine entries and mining‑legacy risk management.

Dan’s career spans AI, data, and digital transformation across the built environment. He is Director of Alpha Property Insight, co-founder of Digital Property Risk, and leads the not-for-profit Real Estate Data (RED) Foundation, focused on helping the sector better use data. Dan has worked across leading organisations including DTZ, Ordnance Survey, MSCI, and RICS, where he held senior roles shaping data strategy, PropTech transformation, and market innovation. He sits on various industry and government advisory groups, and is actively involved with LandAid, where he is a Trustee and leads the LandAid Tech Network.

Elaine joined West Sussex County Council in 2001, to lead the searches team. Prior to this she worked in banking and has steered the council’s CON29 product to become more competitive. Elaine has a MSc in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and has been able to transform how the County Council deals with the information involved in a highways response to the CON29, making it entirely GIS-based. Elaine advocates for County Councils in the HMLR programme, and is committed to promoting data sharing and exchange, and improvements that GIS can bring to processes.

As Chief Executive of Land Data, the National Land Information Service (NLIS) regulator, Fiona oversees the strategic direction, governance, and stakeholder relations of the organisation. She has over 20 years’ experience in communications, strategy, and business development for complex and changing organisations in information technology, telecoms, and the professional services sector. A Chartered PR practitioner, Fiona has a proven track record of delivering successful campaigns, projects, and partnerships that enhance the reputation, visibility, and value of the organisations she works with.

Jamie leads a programme preparing Local Authorities for the migration of their local land charges onto HM Land Registry’s central, digital LLC Register. The LLC Register improves the homebuying process, as it provides conveyancers and customers with a single resource to check restrictions or prohibitions on the use of properties in England and Wales. Jamie also works with key stakeholders to highlight the benefits of the service to the market, including working with lenders and property technology (PropTech) companies to identify new uses for the data.

John Abbott is the CEO of the Satellite Application Catapult, a world-leading technology and innovation company, helping businesses of all sizes realise the potential from space. His previous role was at the Real Estate Registry in Saudi Arabia, where he was Chief Digital Officer. As employee number two, he was instrumental in delivering the Kingdom’s first-ever land ownership registry as part of a public-private partnership supported by the Public Investment Fund. John was previously Director of Digital Data and Technology and a member of the Executive Board at HM Land Registry, where he led a successful £200m digital transformation programme and the organisation’s pioneering open innovation programme, Digital Street. Before this, he was Head of Digital Products at Ordnance Survey, where he was responsible for digitising and publishing the organisation’s geospatial data as well as the Innovations Lab and Geovation, a successful start-up incubator, which has supported more than 150 early-stage businesses which together have raised £130m. Earlier roles included Product Director at Mimecast, the UK tech company acquired by Permira for $5.8Bn. He has an MBA from Imperial College London, is married with three children and enjoys playing tennis.

John Fitzpatrick is Head of Smart Data – Strategy and Sectors, at the Department for Business and Trade, leading the UK Government’s work to expand Smart Data across the economy. He has delivered major legislation, secured multi‑million‑pound funding, and led cross‑government and regulator partnerships to support secure, scalable data sharing. Previously at the Financial Conduct Authority, he led open banking policy and long‑term governance reforms. John has also held senior roles in education, central government and crisis response, including leading Daily Contact Testing policy during COVID‑19.

Juliet's career began as a researcher in central government, before moving to local government. In her role at the Local Government Association, Juliet leads a team that commissions and conducts research projects and analysis to provide evidence and information for the Local Government Association, in its role to speak on behalf of councils, as well as to support local authorities. The team also delivers a programme of work to help authorities make better use of data. Juliet represents the sector in relation to data, including on data burden and the Single Data List; and she leads the LG Inform programme, a data benchmarking service for councils and fire and rescue authorities/services. Juliet is a long-time member of both the Local Area Research and Intelligence Association (LARIA) and the Social Research Association (SRA): she has served on the executive boards of both and is currently a trustee of LARIA. She also sits on the board of GeoPlace, a joint venture between the LGA and Ordnance Survey, that works with councils to produce street and address data.

With over 35 years of experience across industry and commerce, Kevin has built a career defined by exceptional service and a "get it done" attitude. He began in the insurance sector as a Development Underwriter, mastering the art of navigating complex client requirements. In 1996, Kevin stepped away from the corporate world to compete in the BT Global Challenge, sailing around the world aboard Save the Children, an experience that cemented his approach to teamwork and high-pressure problem-solving.



In 2013, Kevin entered the property search industry as a franchise owner for Index Property Information, where deep knowledge and understanding of the Surrey and SW London environment, and his ability to streamline the search process through strong local authority relationships, earned him a reputation as a reliable partner to his law firm customers.



In 2023, Kevin co-founded On Point Data Ltd with Jeremy Dorkins. Driven by the belief that the legal sector deserves independent, impartial advice, Kevin is committed to delivering honest, transparent communication. Kevin is a devoted family man who spends his downtime hiking, skiing, and scuba diving.

Mark is a partner in the housing team at Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP – which is a top 50 Law Firm . He specialises in acting for registered providers on their acquisitions by way of outright purchase, conditional agreements, option agreements, golden brick agreements and associated development agreements.

Additionally, Mark advises registered providers on their commercial property portfolios include the grant of leases, lease renewals, termination of leases and estate management issues such as assignments, underlettings, and alterations. He has advised registered providers on their assured tenancies and assured shorthold tenancies, and drafted provisions dealing with London Living Rent tenancies and Rights to Acquire and Rent to Buy.

Mark also acts for private clients and companies on a range of transactions, including recently the purchase of sites subsequently developed into housing and offices, schemes, office investment portfolios, and a preparatory school as a going concern from a college, as well as the refinancing of a chain of gyms. Mark has previously advised on the acquisition and development into a boutique hotel of a former grammar school, and has acted for government bodies on the property aspects of the discharge of their statutory functions.

He is a member of The Law Society’s Conveyancing and Land Law Committee, the RICS Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Forum, and Birmingham Law Society’s Legal Tech Committee.

Nick joined the Local Land Charges programme five years ago, after 25 years in the banking sector. Alongside his team of Relationship Managers, who each have a portfolio of Local Authorities and other charge creating bodies, Nick works to ensure an accurate and up to date register is maintained to meet the needs of customers and supports Local Authorities who are migrating their data. Nick collaborates with trade bodies, lenders and end users, listening to their needs and adapting the service accordingly.

Nick is a highly respected location-based systems and services expert with experience advising Local Authorities, central government agencies and private sector businesses. He has a track record in the use of information and communication technologies to improve the activities of both public and private sector organisations. As a member of the original committee for the creation of the BS 7666 Standard for Addressing and a Research Fellow for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), Nick has a deep understanding of the development and adoption of location standards and processes.

Nick has spent over 27 years working in the legal services market with the last 20 years being spent in the legal searches market serving conveyancers. Prior to joining the NLIS Hub in January 2017 as the Hub Director, he was the Group Business Development Director with Searchflow. He has held a range of market-facing and service development roles at Landmark Information Group and Lexis Nexis, the legal publishers, as well as TM Property where he spent over ten years.

Owen has worked supporting the conveyancing profession now for more than 25 years. In his role as head of Severn Trent Searches, he’s leading a business that has supplied more than 2.5 million CON29DW Drainage & Water reports to the property industry. Owen also chairs the Board of Directors of the Drainage & Water Searches Network (DWSN), the trade association representing producers of the CON29DW Residential and CON29DW Commercial. He also regularly provides CPD training to conveyancing professionals on the risks to homebuyers associated with the drainage and water situation at a property.

Becky started work as a Local Land Charges Officer in 2008 at Thurrock Council and has taken on roles of Senior Local Land Charges Officer and Local Land Charges Manager working in both Unitary and District council settings. Becky is currently the Manager of the Local Land Charges Department at Castle Point Borough Council and joined the Local Land Charges Institute’s (LLCI) Board in 2019. Becky was recently appointed Co-Chair of the LLCI board and has played an active role in previous Training and Development Events.

Richard started his career in Local Government in 1994 working for Havant Borough Council, he moved into Local Land Charges in 1997 and rose through the team to become senior LLC officer in 2006. In 2017 he moved to East Hampshire District Council to become Local Land Charges and Address Management Team Leader. He joined the Local Land Charges Institute Board in 2015 and became joint Vice Chair in 2022. He assumed the role of joint chair in June of this year.

Sarah Dwight qualified as a solicitor in 1990 and set up her own practice in 2000, dealing exclusively in residential conveyancing. She continues to run her own practice and is the Co-Chair of the Law Society Conveyancing and Land Law Committee. She is also an Editor of the Law Society Conveyancing Handbook and a CQS assessor.

Shirley joined Land Data in 2022 as a regulation and compliance consultant. With more than 40 years of Local Land Charges experience and knowledge, she now also delivers Land Data training courses and is one of its LLC Experts, answering queries from practicing LLC Officers. Shirley dedicated her career to Local Land Charges at Croydon Council and in 2013 was awarded Land Data’s Special Tribute Award, for her contribution to the profession. On leaving Croydon Council, Shirley worked for the NLIS Hub for seven years before joining Land Data. Shirley also supports LAs who are migrating their data to HM Land Registry.

Tom has worked in DLUHC since 2018 and has been leading work on home buying and selling reform since October 2022.

Tom’s team work on a range of policy issues including opening-up data, consumer empowerment and end-to-end digitalisation. As part of this, the team are responsible for delivering the government’s commitment made on 9 February to modernise home buying and selling to save people time and money.

Prior to working on home buying and selling Tom worked in DLUHC’s Housing Strategy and Homelessness and Rough Sleeping teams.