DeliverCon 2026
DeliverCon is a gathering for delivery managers in and around the public sector. We follow an unconference format, where the agenda for the day is set on the day by the people that are in the room.
DeliverCon is back for it’s 10th intstallment
Key Details
📌 Defra, Foss House, Kings Pool, 1-2 Peasholme Green, York, YO1 7PX
📅 Friday 22nd May 2026
🚪 09:30 - Doors Open
🎬 10:00 - Event Starts
🏁 16:30 - Event Finish
📃 Notes (Photos) - Google Photo Album
📚 Notes (Written) - Google Drive
📷 Photos from the day - Google Photo Album
Agenda
Subject to change
Session 1 - 11:00 to 11:45
| Room | Title |
|---|---|
| A | How can we be agile when senior management are waterfall? |
| B | Psycology of Delivery (Makeing Estimation / Forecasting work for you team) |
| C | How to foster goods conversation and guide your team to clear decisions? |
| D | When the heirachy is the blocker what do you do? How would you handle it? |
| E | How to further enhance comms with stakeholders? |
Session 2 - 12:10 to 12:55
| Room | Title |
|---|---|
| A | What has happend around DeliverCon? Births, Deaths, Marriages… Lets get to know each other |
| B | What career paths are there before and after Delivery Management? |
| C | How to make a change to your department? |
| D | How will AI change delivery? |
| E | How to build and interactive and engaging community of pratice where people contribute (and use camera’s) |
Lunch - 13:00 to 14:00
Lunch is not provided, so please bring your own food for the day. There are various food outlets within 10 mintues of the venue.
Please ensure you are back on time for 14:00
Session 3 - 14:00 to 14:45
| Room | Title |
|---|---|
| A | How to best get outside teams to engage? |
| B | Do we need a new model without practices/professions - Now that everyone is T-Shaped? |
| C | Build a DM Workshop - What makes a DM Great |
| D | How do we meaningfully measure the impact of delivery leadership? |
| E | What is the impact of AI on recuitment? |
Session 4 - 15:00 to 15:45
| Room | Title |
|---|---|
| A | What if you PM doesn’t want or value their DM? |
| B | How do you improve how teams discuss + take accountability of risk? |
| C | How to support people who want to move into delivery roles from other areas of the business? |
| D | How to approach planning with no set deadlines or milestones, where project scope is unclear or changing |
| E | Breakdown siloed ways of working - move towards high performing multi disclipinary teams |
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Past Events
For more details on previous DeliverCon’s, check out our past event pages