About us
What is the HE Transformation Expo?
📍The only destination for mapping your university’s business and operational transformation
📋Designed around the needs of senior leadership teams across higher education working to drive financial resilience through long term transformation
💡Exploring the big strategic solutions needed to develop next-generation operating models
🚀This is no talking shop. We are ready to move the dial on what bringing organisational change to life means.
🔊Achieved through a dynamic 2-day show bringing together real innovators reimagining service delivery across higher education
Why does HE Transformation exist?
To provide university decision makers with transformative solutions that will be vital for designing an operating model fit for the future.
Our Vision
To be the essential destination for university leaders to make impactful decisions on the long-term organisational transformation of their institutions.
The Big Question in 2025
What are the strategic and financial decisions needed now to support the resilient business, operating and delivery model for the long term?
Ready to Unleash Transformation
2
Days of Networking
30+
Expert speakers
40+
Action led sessions
60+
Innovative suppliers
500+
HE Leaders
What does it look like?
💭2 days of strategic thinking with 500+ higher education leaders
🔎Change-makers sharing new ideas and examples to unleash transformative solutions
⚙️Deep-dive discussion for c-suite leaders, VCs and PVCs examining the decisions ahead
🎟️Free to attend opportunity to map organisational change
🗝️The one stop shop for driving business planning, all under one roof at the NEC, Birmingham (19 - 20 November 2025)
Who delivers the HE Transformation Expo?
This 2 day show is delivered by HE Professional and GovNet Education. We have been working with HE leaders for 15+ years delivering high impact conferences, policy forums and bespoke training.
HE Professional has a well established and highly engaged community of 2,000 + higher education leaders and practitioners.
We have been working in close partnership with senior leaders to design this new free-to-attend show responding directly to the need for organisational change and mapping the HE business model of the future.
The home of education decision making
The HE Transformation Expo will be co-located with the Schools and Academies Show, EdTech Summit and Independent Schools Conference. All under one roof at the NEC, Birmingham on 19-20 November 2025.
In partnership, the shows bring together the largest gathering of education decision makers in the UK with 5,000 attendees, 400+ speakers and 300+ suppliers.
Through our HE Professional brand we work closely with major sector bodies and institutions driving change across higher education.
Here are just some of the organisations we have worked with as speakers in the last 12 months on HE Professional …
