Cris Beswick - Housing Innovation Show Feb 2026

My keynote from the #HousingInnovationShow 2026 🏠 Tackling the elephant in the room that nobody wants to discuss: How do you build a culture of innovation when your teams are already stretched to breaking point? Social housing providers face what I call the "brittleness paradox" - you're running so lean that you can't afford to innovate, but you can't afford NOT to innovate either. In my keynote, I show you: ✓ Where to focus your limited innovation capacity for maximum impact ✓ Why leadership behaviour matters more than resources ✓ How AI can create the breathing room your teams desperately need ✓ Practical steps to build innovation culture despite capacity constraints This isn't theory. It's a framework designed specifically for the realities social housing leaders face every day.