Kent Conference 2026 - Insuring Tomorrow: Building Sustainable Success

Insuring Tomorrow: Building Sustainable Success

Sustainability isn’t a trend – it’s a business model

We are delighted to host our thirteenth annual conference once again on Tuesday, 24 March. The event offers a fantastic opportunity to enjoy a day of education, debate, and networking. Our goal is for you to leave with plenty of thought-provoking ideas to implement and share.

Insuring Tomorrow: Building Sustainable Success will explore how the insurance sector can play a vital role in shaping a more sustainable future equipping attendees with fresh perspectives, practical insights, and the drive for meaningful change within their own organisations.

Learning objectives:
1. How insurance works with sustainability
2. How attendees can drive sustainability in the workplace
3. Understanding better sustainability practices

Speakers Announced!

Ahead of the 13th Annual Conference, we’re delighted to confirm three inspiring speakers joining us for this year’s one-day event.

Luke Quilter, CEO, Sleeping Giant Media

Leading with a passion for marketing, innovation, and human behaviour.

With nearly two decades in digital marketing, Luke runs three Kent-based businesses and regularly lectures, coaches, and speaks on SEO, PPC, social media, and business growth. His career began at Holiday Extras, where he advanced from Paid Search Manager to Brand Manager before founding Sleeping Giant Media at just 24.

Engaging, energetic, and insight-led, Luke brings both practical expertise and forward-thinking vision to every stage and classroom he steps onto.

Abena Akuffo-Kelly, Director & Founder, Kanea Consulting

Abena Akuffo-Kelly is a speaker, councillor, social entrepreneur, advocate, and leadership coach whose work spans equity, ethics, tech, education and systems change. She supports executive leaders with evidence-based strategies and delivers inclusive leadership training across sectors. A passionate STEM educator, she empowers teachers and schools to raise aspirations in science and tech, while also championing AI ethics, decolonisation, and responsible innovation.

Abena is committed to diversifying the construction workforce and creating access for underrepresented communities in any industry. She trains women to step into political leadership and founded a sustainability-focused CIC offering free repair services and free sustainably sourced meals to reduce waste and build community cohesion.

Her work spans race, gender, neurodiversity, mental health, and LGBT+ rights - always centering intersectionality and inclusion.

Hari Budha Magar

As a champion of removing limits around disability, demonstrating resilience and innovation and showing the effects of a positive mindset, Hari is now trying to break new boundaries in mountaineering and become the first double above-knee amputee in history to complete the 7 Summits (the highest peaks on each continent) - a recognised feat only 500 people in history have ever achieved.

In completing this monumental challenge, Hari hopes to raise awareness of disability around the world and positively change how people with a disability are perceived and how they perceive themselves.

Hari wants to show what the human spirit can achieve when you remove limitations. Through his climbs he hopes to motivate others to push beyond their own limits and inspire them to climb their own ‘mountains’ no matter the adversity.

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Please note: This event is a regional collaboration between the local institutes in the area. Your booking details will be shared with the Insurance Institute of Mid Kent, which is acting as the host institute for this event.