Next Thursday I'm one of the speakers at the Rebuilding hope - the role of communicators in the aftermath of the London bombings conference.

The keynote speaker is leading broadcaster, journalist and commentator Darcus Howe. Others include:

Robert Webb, PR officer at Cardiff City Council who lost his sister in the London bombings

Colin Parry whose son was killed in the 1993 Warrington IRA bomb and has set up the Tim Parry Jonathan Ball Trust to promote peace and reconcilitation through conflict resolution learning programmes for young people

Adeem Younis founder of Singlemuslim.co.uk

Robin Campbell, head of media relations at Westminster City Council

Philip Young from the University of Sunderland who will discuss the ethics of inclusion

Andy Green, the author of Creativity in PR (a very good book that every PR person should read), on using brand communications to help bring communities together.

It promises to be a very interesting event with delegates from the police, health trusts, local councils, PR consultancies and charities. They include both public relations and communications professionals as well as diversity, equality and regeneration specialists.

If you want to attend there are still some places left. See the CIPR website for details.