UK Sport has announced that its 2009 conference will take place from Monday 9 November to Wednesday 11 November, at The Belfry in Warwickshire.

The annual conference, previously known as the World Class Coaching Conference, has been renamed from this year onwards, to the World Class Performance Conference.

First held in 2001, the World Class Coaching Conference accommodates chief executives, performance directors and sports science and medicine practitioners from all over the UK.

The conference provides a forum to network, debate and share best practice, aiming to equip delegates with the skills and knowledge to make sustainable changes to a sport's World Class Performance Programme.

UK Sport's Director of Performance, Peter Keen, said: "The name change to the World Class Performance Conference reflects this event's evolution into a key development opportunity for everybody working with athletes in the UK high performance system. It also supports the fact that all members of performance programme staff work together as a multidisciplinary team.

"We are currently exploring innovative ways to ensure the conference is more interactive for delegates this year, as well as identifying specific themes we would like to carry through to each conference between now and 2012.

"The aim is to ensure our high performance workforce is provided with a development opportunity that can have the most impact on athletes' performances in three years time and beyond."

Image: UK Sport chair, Sue Campbell