Speakers at the upcoming conference in October include:

• Iain Standen, CEO of the Bletchley Park Trust, which was awarded Gold in the category of ‘Large Visitor Attraction of the Year’ at The Beautiful South Awards for Excellence 2023-2024. In telling the stories of the past, how this also highlights their ongoing relevance and how this can be used to activate discussion and interest in the emerging technologies of the future. 

• Felix Hale, Director, Tax, Heritage and UK Museums, at Sotheby’s, London, who works with UK museums and galleries on all aspects of their collection management will talk about how museums can both acquire works for their collection and how they can dispose of items that are surplus to requirements.

• Tom O’Leary, Director of Public Engagement, Historic Royal Palaces, Tom will share some of his top tips for engaging the public based on the highs and lows of his career to date. 

• Claire Wallace, Curator, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Regiments Museum speaking on the recently launched refurbishment of their museum at The Keep in Bury St Edmunds. 

• Jeremy Fowler, Army Heritage – Current funding and other issues, as well as what help the MoD can give to museums 

• Matthew Holden, Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum – Museums as tourist attractions rather than bastions of military history? 

• Lt Gen Sir Philip Trousdell, Chairman of AMOT – Updating and shaping our future 
• Ed Sayer, Co-Founder and CEO, Amazing History Enterprises and AMOT Trustee

Other subjects covered will include: army heritage, measuring impact, commercialisation and digital exploitation.