25 - 26 June 2026, East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham
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Registration Desk45 mins
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Main Room5 mins
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Main Room30 mins
- Strategy & Leadership
- Workforce, Skills & Culture
Explore why diversity and inclusion are not just moral imperatives, but strategic necessities for effective MAT leadership. Drawing on insights from Herstory – A Leadership Manifesto, this presentation will challenge leaders to rethink power, representation and culture at the top, and offer practical inspiration for building more inclusive, high-performing trusts.
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Main Room20 minsThis customer-led discussion focuses not just on the why but on the how. Ann Probert, Director of Education at the Park Federation Academy Trust will share how the trust has successfully implemented and embedded Magma across their schools. We will focus on what has worked in practice and what advice they would give to other trust leaders looking to adopt Magma.
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Main Room40 mins
Our signature ‘Dragons’ Den’ session provides each solution provider with an opportunity to deliver a 60 second pitch, explaining why they are here and how their services can help tackle some of the sector’s ongoing challenges.
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Networking and business meetingsNetworking Area75 mins
15 minute meetings with suppliers who are offering solutions most relevant to your challenges. Please check the schedule on the back of your delegate pass for your meeting timings.
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Main Room20 minsBeReady is a trusted delivery partner to hundreds of Multi-Academy Trusts, providing fully funded, trust-wide staff development built “by schools, for schools” and directed by subject matter experts.
This session spotlights a fully funded career pathway that enables colleagues without an existing degree to achieve QTS, strengthening recruitment and retention and supporting strategic workforce planning across your trust.
SEND and safeguarding training are embedded throughout BeReady’s programmes, helping MATs build consistent inclusive practice, improve outcomes, and increase capacity to meet rising levels of need.
An invaluable session that will enable you to unlock funding to tackle your trust’s biggest challenges
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Main Room30 mins
- Finance & Sustainability
- Operations & Service Delivery
As funding pressures tighten and operational demands rise, the strongest trusts are redefining what efficiency and effectiveness look like. This panel explores how CEOs, CFOs and COOs are aligning resources, systems, and strategy to deliver sustainable impact. Panellists will share how they balance financial discipline with long-term investment in people, technology, and learning environments.
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Main Room20 minsMock season. Hundreds of papers. Weeks of lag before students see a mark. And by the time they do, they have moved on.
Amanda Tupper, English Strategy Lead at TKAT, knows exactly what that costs - in teacher time, in feedback quality, and in student progress.
In this candid Q&A with Olex CEO Lucien Bowater, Amanda shares what actually changed when TKAT embedded AI-assisted marking across 32,000 essays - the teach-assess-feedback-reteach loop that transformed results. At one TKAT school, Literature Grade 5+ mock results improved by 19% in a single year. No new staff. No new curriculum. Just a faster feedback cycle. -
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Breakout Room 120 minsThis session will explore how Multi Academy Trusts can strengthen teaching, learning, and student engagement through standardised, robust technology ecosystems. We will demonstrate how consistent platforms reduce complexity, improve staff confidence, and create simplified digital experiences for all learners.
The session will also highlight how to achieve essential cyber security roadmaps that will help to protect data, reduce risk, and ensure continuity across all Trust sites. By adopting unified, secure, and future ready technology, Trusts can drive sustainable improvement, maximise value, reduce costs, and empower educators to focus on what matters most - excellent learning.
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Breakout Room 320 minsPayroll and pensions rarely fail overnight, but small gaps can quickly become significant risks. Based on insight from over 100 MATs, this session highlights areas where trusts are most often exposed: key person dependency, pension compliance, and limited data visibility. Aimed at senior leaders, it offers practical insight into how high-performing MATs are improving oversight, reducing risk, and building confidence.
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Networking lunchDownstairs45 mins
An opportunity to connect with your peers and suppliers to talk over the learnings from the event. Lunch is served buffet style and a range of options are available to cater for different dietary requirements.
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Main Room30 mins
- Strategy & Leadership
- Outcomes & Impact
The most effective trusts have moved beyond reactive intervention models, they build cultures of continual improvement rooted in evidence, collaboration, and trust-wide learning. This panel brings together experienced CEOs and education directors to explore how strong MATs are reshaping the school improvement conversation, balancing autonomy with accountability and support.
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Main Room20 mins
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Breakout Room 120 minsThis session cuts through the limits of 5x5 risk matrices and shows how Monte Carlo simulations give a clearer, financially grounded view of real cyber risk that leaders can understand and act on. -
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Breakout Room 220 minsThe DfE's Education Estates Strategy signals a fundamental shift in how trusts are expected to manage, evidence, and report on their estate. From mandatory annual returns this autumn to the CIF reform on the horizon, the stakes for trust leaders have never been higher. This session unpacks what the strategy means in practice, what it will take to be ready, and how the trusts best placed to meet these new expectations are already operating. We'll show you what that looks like in practice. -
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Breakout Room 320 minsThis informative seminar explores the growing legal and reputational challenges facing school staff in an increasingly digital world. Drawing on current data and real-world case studies, it highlights the rise in online defamation, its impact on staff wellbeing, and the complexities schools face when responding. Attendees will gain a clear understanding of the legal framework surrounding defamation, along with practical guidance on early intervention and effective response. The session will equip school leaders with the knowledge and confidence to mitigate legal risks, implement robust policies, and protect staff from escalating reputational harm.
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Networking and business meetingsNetworking Area75 mins
15 minute meetings with suppliers who are offering solutions most relevant to your challenges. Please check the schedule on the back of your delegate pass for your meeting timings.
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Main Room20 minsWhat if you could see every application, offer, and enrolment across all your schools in one place and act before places slip away? In this session, Amanda Grainger shows how leading trusts (33 already in the room) are going "trust wide" with Applicaa to defend every place. You'll see how MAT leaders get a single command centre for live pipeline tracking, feeder-school and marketing insights, centralised events, and trust-wide retention - spotting at-risk students early and pulling every in-year enquiry into one view. With schools growing applications by 30% in two years, you'll leave knowing exactly what trust wide could mean for your numbers. -
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Breakout Room 120 minsIn this 20-minute demonstration, see how Verkada’s cloud platform modernises school security by replacing traditional on-prem servers with a single, intuitive dashboard. We will explore how smart video, access control, and environmental sensors work together seamlessly to keep your premises safe. With real-time alerts and instant insights, you can protect your students while simplifying your IT infrastructure. -
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Breakout Room 220 minsThis session will explore the growing importance of Integrated Curriculum Financial Planning (ICFP) within multi-academy trusts, and how meaningful, relatable data can support stronger strategic decision making. The session will demonstrate how aligning curriculum, staffing and financial planning enables organisations to make informed and sustainable decisions whilst reducing reliance on disconnected spreadsheets and manual processes.
The talk will also highlight the value of system integration, including how syncing ICFP with finance and HR systems can reduce duplication of data, improve accuracy and provide a more efficient and joined-up approach to planning across the organisation. -
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Breakout Room 320 minsMost schools still recruit the same way: post a vacancy to a job board and wait. But in 2026, the candidates you need aren't searching — they're scrolling. This session shows MAT leaders how to close the "exposure gap" by reaching passive talent where they already spend their time. We'll cover social media advertising, programmatic and other targeted methods that drive measurable engagement, applications and hires — and why your ATS should enable every channel, not limit you to job boards alone. Practical, evidence-led, and built for the realities of trust-level recruitment in the year ahead.
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Main Room30 mins
- Strategy & Leadership
Explore how Pillar 5 can be put into action to build strong, transparent, and accountable governance across Multi-Academy Trusts. This session offers practical insights and real-world approaches to developing boards and structures that drive better decision-making, stronger oversight, and improved outcomes for every school.
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Main Room10 mins
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Networking dinnerDownstairs120 mins
Networking sessions – throughout the event we host a networking lunch as well as a networking dinner to give you ample opportunity to connect with your peers and suppliers over the learnings from the event. Dinner is served in formal-style seating to a set menu. Our delegate team will speak to you to ensure we cater for any specific dietary requirements.
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Main Room5 mins
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Main Room20 minsStudents are already using AI every day, yet many schools are still working out how to realise its benefits while managing the risks. In this session, James Roach, CEO of Inclusive MAT, shares his honest view on what actually works when bringing AI into schools for both pupils and staff.
He'll explore the latest thinking from the DfE, why schools need to act now, and how he has introduced a new AI tool across his trust. James will discuss what made it the right fit, how it is helping pupils develop AI literacy and responsible AI habits, and how it is giving teachers the confidence to use AI safely and effectively. Practical, honest and grounded in real-world experience.
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Main Room30 mins
- Strategy & Leadership
Explore the evolving relationship between the DfE and Multi-Academy Trusts in this conversation that will examine national priorities, regional delivery and what MAT leaders can expect in the next phase of reform, offering practical insight into how partnership and performance will shape the path ahead. Expect the opportunity to pose your burning questions directly to the Director General.
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Main Room40 mins
- Outcomes & Impact
Strong trusts understand that a truly excellent curriculum serves every child. This session explores how MATs can achieve both consistency and creativity in curriculum design, enrichment and delivery, ensuring that inclusion and excellence sit side by side. Panellists will share practical approaches to aligning curriculum intent, pedagogy, and assessment while keeping teacher autonomy and local context alive.Speakers
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Main Room20 minsEnergy should power learning, not drain budgets. In this session, we’ll show how forward-thinking trusts are reclaiming wasted energy spend and redirecting it back into revenue budgets. We’ll explain how eEnergy’s £100m funding facility enables fully funded LED and solar programmes with zero upfront capital, cutting costs from day one while improving light quality, estate resilience and carbon performance. We’ll share practical insights on funding structures, delivery at scale across multi-site portfolios, and how to unlock measurable savings that support both educational outcomes and climate commitments. The opportunity is significant. The model is proven. The impact is immediate.
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Main Room20 minsDiscover how Multi-Academy Trusts can reduce workload, strengthen compliance, and drive consistent improvement across all schools through a single, integrated platform. This session will explore practical approaches to centralising professional development, governance, compliance, and people development while maintaining local autonomy. Attendees will gain insight into how trust-wide reporting, streamlined processes, and education-specific AI tools can improve oversight, reduce duplication, and align workforce development with strategic priorities. Delegates will leave with actionable ideas to enhance efficiency, support accountability, and achieve greater impact at scale across their trust.
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Networking and business meetingsNetworking Area60 mins
15 minute meetings with suppliers who are offering solutions most relevant to your challenges. Please check the schedule on the back of your delegate pass for your meeting timings.
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Main Room40 mins
- Strategy & Leadership
- Workforce, Skills & Culture
With workforce pressures intensifying, trust leaders must think differently about how they attract, grow and keep great people. This panel unpacks how MATs are redefining talent strategies, from reimagining career pathways to investing in leadership at every level. From training and development to wellbeing, discuss the key strategies to support your people.
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Main Room30 mins
- Strategy & Leadership
Pick a pillar as a table and discuss how you are approaching this and any insights you’ve gained from the conference which will change the way you approach this pillar in your MAT going forward. CEOs are invited to distil their insights into an “action manifesto” for the next school year.
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Main Room5 mins
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Networking lunchDownstairs60 mins
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