What to expect
Shift the dial on transformation with 2 days of fresh thinking and insight on leading organisational change across HE
🎤4 Live insight stages
⚡Exhibition showcasing real innovators
💬The Transformation Roundtables
🩺The Transformation Surgery
🍷The HE Transformation Leaders’ Reception
4 live stages featuring leaders at the forefront of business transformation across HE
Main Stage | 20 November 2025
👉Set piece solutions on the decisions needed to design a resilient business, operating and delivery model for the long term
✅ Institution-wide change | business planning | Financial resilience | Operating models | Structural collaboration | Efficiency and cost base | Long term strategic transformation
🎯Vice Chancellors | Pro-Vice Chancellors | Chief Operating Officers | Chief Financial Officers | Executive Leadership Teams
Stage One | 19 November 2025
👉Leading next-generation digital transformation to support new approaches to delivery
✅ Digital transformation amid turbulence | AI adoption and automation | Data and analytics | Digital-led business change | Reimagining digital service design | Cyber security
🎯Chief Information Officers | IT Directors | Director of Digital Transformation | Digital Decision Makers across HE
Stage Two | 19 November 2025
👉Enhancing operational outcomes through business service and estate transformation
✅ Shared services | Financial planning | Operational efficiency | Procurement | Managing risk | Commercialisation | Smart Campus | Net Zero
🎯Chief Financial Officers | Finance Directors | Chief Operating Officers | Procurement Leads | Directors of Estates | All finance, estates and operational leaders
Stage Three | 19 November 2025
👉Transforming products and delivery models amid evolving market demand
✅ Developing a competitive market positioning | International student recruitment | LLE and modularity | Tertiary education | New products | Market demand and attracting new audiences
🎯Directors of Academic | Directors of Teaching and Learning | Directors of Marketing | Directors of Student Recruitment | Marketing and portfolio leaders
Exhibition showcasing the real innovators ready to drive transformation in your institution
🚀40+ suppliers ready to share ideas for implementation
⚙️Fresh solutions on driving change in business operations
💬Meaningful conversations designed real challenges
💡Live advice, guidance and case studies from innovators
Engage in honest and open conversation with senior leaders in The Transformation Roundtables
These application only roundtables are open to executive leadership teams to engage in deep-dive discussion around the real challenges facing the sector. Expect meaningful Chatham house conversations on the mechanics of supporting financial resilience and long term organisational transformation.
Ten Roundtables | 150 Limited Places
Speak to the experts at The Transformation Surgery to explore the real nuts and bolts of managing organisational change in your institution
10 Transformation Surgeries | 50 + Appointments
🤝Workforce and People
💸Managing Creditors and Debt
🧰Restructuring and Organisational Change
⚙️Resourcing and cost structures
📊Business Information and modelling
🌱Demonstrating operation as a going concern
💪Developing resilience across recruitment cycles
💼Leading strategic transformation
⚠️Risk and assurance
HE Transformation Leaders’ Reception
7pm - 10pm | 19 November 2025, Sky Bar, Resorts World, Birmingham
Application or invitation only opportunity to engage with 80+ leaders making decisions now on operational transformation in HE
Speak candidly with VCs, PVCs, COOs and CFOs driving change now
Explore fresh ideas on designing new approaches to operating and business models in HE ahead of the set-piece main stage on 20 November 2025