
Online Webinar
Building a Future-Proof Data Strategy for Housing Organisations
Discover how modernising your digital approach can help your organisation navigate complexity, increase efficiency, and maximise impact.
Thursday 21st August 2025
2.00pm – 3.00pm
This event is a webinar
Are you a social housing organisation looking to unlock the full potential of your data and achieve digital transformation?
Join us for our webinar on Thursday 21st of August, where we’ll explore how modernising your digital approach can help your organisation navigate complexity, increase efficiency, and maximise impact. Discover practical steps to transform your social housing operations, see how industry leaders are leveraging cloud solutions, and understand how you can start small without needing to “boil the ocean.”
Featuring insights directly from Andrew Stuart, Head of IT (Data & Insight) at Flagship Group, who will share their real-world journey. We’ll also hear from Maddie Parker, an Azure Infrastructure Specialist at Microsoft, who will shed light on leveraging Microsoft technologies to build strong digital foundations and explain the collaborative process of working with a consultancy to achieve these goals.
Agenda
This session will provide you with a guide to modernising your data landscape, covering:
- The Criticality of Data Roadmap: Understand why a clear data strategy is essential for housing organisations in today’s evolving landscape.
- Assessing and Modernising Your Current Data Setup: Learn actionable steps to evaluate your current social housing data strategy and identify opportunities for modernisation.
- The Cloud Transformation Journey: Explore the transition from traditional on-premise systems to agile and scalable cloud solutions, focusing on a successful cloud transformation strategy.
- Unifying Your Data with Microsoft Fabric: Discover how Microsoft Fabric can serve as a powerful tool to consolidate and integrate your diverse data sources, forming a strong foundation for your digital initiatives.
- Flagship Group’s Experience: Gain valuable insights from Flagship Group’s real-world social housing digital journey, highlighting each of these key stages, their experience with Fabric, and first steps into Purview.
This data strategy webinar will be hosted by:

Nick Evans
Account Director: Simpson Associates

Ash Armstrong
Chief Technology Officer: Simpson Associates

Maddie Parker
Azure Infrastructure Specialist: Microsoft

Andrew Stuart
Head of IT (Data & Insight): Flagship Group