Sarah Weir OBE to speak at Omada Breakfast Brief on 29th November
We’re very excited that our 29th November Omada Breakfast Brief will feature Sarah Weir OBE. We met Sarah back in August 2011 when Omada took a client team to visit the Olympic Delivery Authority and construction partners CH2M Hill in Stratford. Sarah, then Head of Arts & Cultural Strategy for the Olympic Delivery Authority, and her colleagues were the reason we left the Olympic Park that day entirely confident that the Games of the 30th Olympiad would be ‘happy and glorious’. And so they proved to be.If the task of transforming the heart of East London and turning an industrial wasteland into Europe’s largest urban park for 150 years wasn’t daunting enough, the organizer’s pledge to deliver the ‘first sustainable Games’ surely was. Sarah will share with us her insights on the planning and thought that went into the development of that industrial wasteland; she’ll also provide an excellent ‘behind the scenes’ understanding of how the culture of the Park and Games was developed, and how art and design has been able to play such a central part in engaging the communities of the six boroughs.In her new role as Chief Executive of The Legacy List, a charity set up to ensure that arts, culture, education and skills play a specific role in the legacy of the Park, Sarah will reveal how many of the features of the Park’s post-Games development were built into the architecture of the Park seven years ago.We know this Invitation Only event is going to be an enthralling Breakfast Brief … a great opportunity to hear from and ask questions of one of the key architects of London 2012’s Olympic & Paralympics Games, the legacy of which is set to ‘inspire a generation’.The venue for this event is St John Restaurant, Smithfield. St John Restaurant is consistently voted one of the Top 50 restaurants in the world and recognised as the specialist in 'nose to tail' eating. The evening before our August 2011 visit to the Olympic Delivery Authority, we took the same client team mentioned above to work the line at St John. We knew the parallels between the two would prove hard to deny - a clear focus on 'excellence without extravagance'. We're pleased to say that refreshments and St John's renowned bacon sandwiches will be available for all invited guests on the day.Numbers are limited but do register your interest by dropping us a note at leaders@omadaconsulting.comIn the meantime, you can read more about just part of our 2011 visit with the Olympic Development Authority on our Stories page.