Audience
A senior audience for institution-wide transformation
HE Transformation 2026 is designed for senior decision-makers with an active role in shaping, leading or delivering institution-wide transformation across UK higher education.
The audience is curated around strategic responsibility, seniority and relevance, creating a focused environment for leaders who are actively involved in the future direction of their institutions.
Who will be in the room?
HE Transformation 2026 brings together the senior personas shaping whole-institution change, investment priorities and the operating models that will define the next generation of UK universities.
Institutional Leadership
- Vice-Chancellors
- Deputy Vice-Chancellors
- Pro Vice-Chancellors
- COOs and Registrars
- Chiefs of Staff
- Provosts
- Presidents
Finance, Strategy & People Leadership
- CFOs and Finance Directors
- Strategy Directors
- Planning Directors
- Transformation Directors
- Change Directors
- HR Directors
- People and OD Directors
Digital, Data & Systems Leadership
- CIOs
- Digital Directors
- IT Directors
- Enterprise Systems Directors
- Data Directors
- Analytics Directors
- Technology Directors
Operations, Estates & Services Leadership
- Estates Directors
- Campus Services Directors
- Corporate Services Directors
- Operations Directors
- Facilities Directors
- Infrastructure Directors
- Service Delivery Directors
Academic Leadership & Education Strategy
- PVCs Education
- PVCs Research
- Deans
- Executive Deans
- Education Directors
- Learning and Teaching Directors
- Research and Innovation Directors
Student Experience, Growth & Positioning
- Chief Marketing Officers
- Marketing Directors
- Recruitment Directors
- Student Experience Directors
- Communications Directors
- International Directors
- Portfolio Directors
Universities are being invited now
Invitations are being issued to senior university leadership teams to create a high-quality environment built around role relevance, institutional responsibility and cross-functional leadership.
Universities can also make direct applications, with places reviewed around seniority and the applicant’s active role in transformation, strategy, delivery or institutional change.
- Invitation-led attendance for senior university leadership teams.
- Application-based access for leaders with relevant responsibility and seniority.
- A curated HE-only audience designed to support meaningful peer exchange.
- A cross-functional room built to support joined-up transformation discussion.
How attendance works
Attendance is designed to protect the quality, seniority and relevance of the audience, ensuring the event remains focused on leaders actively involved in institution-wide transformation.
Executive team allocations
Invitations are issued to senior university leadership teams and key transformation decision-makers across relevant institutional functions.
Direct applications
Senior leaders can apply directly, with applications reviewed around role seniority, responsibility and relevance to transformation delivery.
Curated attendance
Places are confirmed to maintain a senior HE-only room built for high-quality dialogue, peer exchange and joined-up discussion.
Why this audience matters
HE Transformation 2026 is designed to bring together the people who need to understand, shape and deliver the next stage of institution-wide transformation.
Make senior connections
Connect with leaders responsible for setting priorities, shaping delivery models and influencing the institutional transformation agenda.
Hold candid dialogue
Discuss transformation honestly with peers facing similar questions around strategy, operating models, service delivery and institutional change.
Share ambitious thinking
Take part in real idea-sharing around ambitious institution-wide change, from strategic direction through to practical delivery.
Collaborate for a future-fit sector
Now is the moment for universities to collaborate, share learning and work together to support a more resilient, future-fit higher education sector.
The first platform for joined-up transformation
HE Transformation 2026 is designed to bring all key university functions into one senior leadership environment, creating space to explore what an ambitious transformation agenda looks like across UK universities.
The intention is to move beyond siloed professional conversations and create a shared forum where institutional leaders can explore the future of transformation collectively.
- Designed for leaders with an active role in the future of HE transformation.
- Focused on what transformation looks like across all areas of delivery.
- Built around roundtables, breakouts and candid senior discussion.
- Created to connect strategic ambition with practical institutional delivery.
Take part in the senior leadership conversation at HE Transformation 2026
University leadership teams are being invited now. Apply to attend and join a senior, HE-only forum focused on transformation, delivery and the future of UK higher education.