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Mark Smith

Mark Smith

Head of the Oxfordshire Pension Fund and its newly appointed Senior LGPS Officer.

Sep 9, 2026

5:55
Tell me about the year before Wreckfest.
6:00
Yeah.
6:01
Yeah.
6:02
So thank you.
6:02
And this is the second only time, you know, I'm really speaking about it in this type of more social forum, you know, as well.
6:11
And mostly it's been just smaller one-to-one conversations, but the, yeah, RepFest was in the planning for that.
6:21
I looked at the agenda and most of it was kind of AI tech and, And a little bit repetitive in terms of the theme.

11 MINS LATER

17:14
You did say you picked up some life lessons you really looked back on how you were working beforehand and how perhaps many people work and decided that although you came out of it and are you know not 100 largely back to where you could be and you can go back to that world of distractions you've decided very deliberately not to go back to where you are talk to me about what you learned
8:37
How ready do you as a fund feel that you are able to provide that training to your committees and how much again how much would
8:46
that practically change? Yeah really good question and I guess well firstly I was quite sad because I'm a pensions nerd so I was really excited.
8:55
And as soon as it popped up, because I was actually devil's advocate at the conference, and it was there and popped up, and I kind of did have a brief read through there.
9:02
So super excited, and I was reading that last night.
9:05
I still need to go through in more detail.
9:07
But I think the Keith and Cox, which has always been really focused on supporting committee.
9:12
Last year, we had an entirely, nearly entirely new committee.

7 MINS LATER

16:19
How evolved are you in the

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