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
💬Meaningful networking and discussion
🍷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
🚀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
HE Transformation Leaders’ Reception
7pm - 10pm | 19 November 2025
A vital opportunity to engage with 40+ leaders making decisions now on operational and business transformation in HE
Explore fresh ideas on designing new approaches to operating models and service structures in HE ahead of the set-piece main stage on 20 November 2025