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- Strategy & Leadership
Main RoomWhat will a sustainable MAT look like in 2030? Drawing on emerging demographic trends, financial mod ...
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- Outcomes & Impact
Main RoomHow trust leaders can build a coherent 1–9 curriculum that secures stronger outcomes for all pupils ...
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Main RoomOur signature ‘Dragons’ Den’ session provides each solution provider with an opportunity to deliver ...
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Networking and business meetingsNetworking Area15 minute meetings with suppliers who are offering solutions most relevant to your challenges. Pleas ...
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- Strategy & Leadership
- Finance & Sustainability
Main RoomAs pupil numbers decline, SEND costs rise and executive capacity tightens, the structural sustainabi ...
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BeReady 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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With energy remaining a major operational consideration, organisations are increasingly looking at how buildings, assets and infrastructure can operate more efficiently.
A more strategic approach to energy can help identify unnecessary consumption, reduce operating costs and inform future investment. Energy efficiency is not just about consuming less. It is about using energy more intelligently and ensuring investment supports both financial and sustainability priorities. -
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This workshop, led by Scott Gregory, explores the growing challenge of online defamation and reputational threats facing school staff. With 83% of leaders reporting increased complaints, the session highlights real-world scenarios, legal consequences, and proactive strategies for schools. Attendees will learn how to respond to false accusations, support affected staff, and implement protective policies. The workshop introduces Education Mutual’s legal protection service, offering rapid support and safeguarding staff wellbeing. Designed for school leaders, this session empowers communities to defend professionalism and restore trust in the digital age. -
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In a climate of increasing workforce pressures, skills shortages and budget constraints, strategic workforce planning has never been more important. This session introduces LevyIQ, a new workforce intelligence platform designed to help schools and trusts turn apprenticeship levy and workforce data into actionable insight. Discover how understanding workforce demographics, skills gaps, levy utilisation and development opportunities can support more informed decision-making, strengthen talent pipelines and maximise investment in workforce development. Through practical examples and live platform insights, you'll see how data can move beyond reporting and become a powerful tool for building a sustainable, future-ready workforce strategy.
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Networking lunchMain RoomAn 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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- Workforce, Skills & Culture
- Outcomes & Impact
Main RoomWith recruitment and retention continuing to challenge trusts nationwide, many leaders are searching ...
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School budgets remain below 2009/10 levels in real terms, while staffing costs keep rising — and simply adding more central headcount isn't a sustainable answer.
In this fireside Q&A, Daniel Giardiello (Robin) and Ather Abbas, (E-ACT) explore how agentic tools are starting to change that equation, freeing up capacity rather than adding it.
Ather will discuss the importance of data and trusting AI with real work, including compliance tracking with Robin — speaking candidly about transactional vs transformational AI, and what he'd tell another MAT leader starting today. -
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BTG Eddisons Director Jenny Fram has over a decade of experience in finding the best real estate options for schools and trusts across the UK, that are looking to improve both the sustainability of their estates - as well as the outputs on their P&L sheets. This session will explore the current state of education estates and some ways in which schools we have worked with have maximised their value through commercialising their estates -
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Integrated Curriculum and Financial Planning (ICFP) is becoming an increasingly important part of effective trust leadership. This session explores how trusts can bring together curriculum, staffing and financial planning to make informed, sustainable decisions that support educational outcomes. Drawing on practical examples and benchmarking data, attendees will learn how to use key ICFP metrics, understand the context behind the numbers, and identify opportunities for improvement. The session will also examine the growing emphasis on ICFP within the Academy Trust Handbook and provide actionable advice on embedding integrated planning into regular strategic and operational processes across the trust. -
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Trusts can no longer rely on reactive reporting and manual oversight in an increasingly complex risk landscape. This session explores how to move from reactive to proactive and ultimately predictive risk management, replacing fragmented reporting with connected assurance, better signals and a clearer, joined-up view of risk across the organisation.
By focusing attention on what has changed, what matters most and where action is needed, leaders can anticipate issues earlier, prioritise action and make more informed, confident decisions.
The result: fewer reports, faster insight, stronger governance, and greater control. Because ultimately, it’s all about making informed decisions. -
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Scrutiny on trusts, and the questions it brings, is rising constantly. Visibility isn’t. Seeing staffing, pupil and financial data as one picture has never been more necessary, and the real 2030 question for trusts isn’t size or structure, it’s whether they actually have the visibility to answer them.
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As early years provision becomes increasingly central to school communities, leaders need the confidence and knowledge to champion quality. This session explores what head teachers and executive leaders need to understand about effective early years practice, provision and the crucial role of pedagogical leadership; while recognising the competing demands and challenges of leadership, and evolving external expectations.
Drawing on research into head teacher knowledge of the early years, it will identify gaps, clarify what high-quality provision looks like and offer practical ways to strengthen leadership capacity; replacing uncertainty with informed, strategic action for children, teams and communities.
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Networking and business meetingsNetworking Area15 minute meetings with suppliers who are offering solutions most relevant to your challenges. Pleas ...
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An opportunity to hear about the progress of the national CPD standards review and what it might mean for Trusts and Trust leaders. There will also be an opportunity to hear about how you can contribute to shaping the standards.
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- Strategy & Leadership
- Workforce, Skills & Culture
Main RoomA candid conversation In a sector that often celebrates success, this session creates space for some ...
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Drinks reception and networking dinnerMain RoomNetworking sessions – throughout the event we host a networking lunch as well as a dinner and drinks reception 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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The disadvantage gap continues to be the most pressing challenge in the UK education system. This session will explore the most effective ways MATs can work to close the disadvantage gap and ensure every student has the opportunity to succeed. Explore:
- The impact of the disadvantage gap on academic performance and future opportunities for students.
- Evidence-based interventions to develop support networks for both students and families.
- The role of personalised learning and practical approaches to effectively differentiate learning.
- The importance of a school culture that sets high expectations for all students and ensures that inclusion and diversity are at the heart of every school’s ethos.
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Main RoomStepping into the CEO role after a high-profile predecessor brings both opportunity and pressure. In ... -
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Breakout Room 1In today’s challenging education landscape, attracting, developing and retaining great people has never been more critical. In this session, Mandy Coalter shares how trusts can become great places to work by building purposeful, high-impact people strategies that strengthen culture, improve retention and drive organisational performance.
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AI is moving fast. But driving real change and getting teachers on board is hard. In this session, Andrew James, Chief Strategy & AI Officer at Olex.AI, speaks with Samantha Jayne, Head of English at Clevedon School, part of Futura Learning Partnership, about how one Trust went from tackling marking workload to gaining Trust-wide insight into its KS3 curriculum. Samantha shares real stories from the classroom: 10,000 essays marked across five secondary schools, more frequent assessment with no extra marking load, and a hybrid model that gives teachers more time to teach, from Year 7 through to Year 11.
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Discover 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. -
Digital consistency that drives outcomes: A blueprint for cyber secure and successful MAT technologyBreakout Room 1
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This 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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When learning depends on a device, attainment starts to depend on household income. Most low-income families say their child struggles to access a device or connection at home, and three in four teachers see pupils falling behind as a result. Generative AI is widening that gap. This session asks how trusts can design 1:1 provision around learning rather than hardware: every pupil with equal access, protection and continuity, in school and at home. Richard Harris explores how Device as a Service can support homework, engagement, safeguarding and closing the disadvantage gap, and how leaders can test the impact this year. -
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As a multi-academy trust leader, there are two questions you need to be able to answer: “Are we compliant?” and “Can we prove it?”
Policies, certificates and completed audits are important, but on their own they don’t guarantee that health and safety is being managed effectively. This session looks at where trusts often fall short, from leadership accountability to keeping assurance consistent across every academy, and at how gaps can go unnoticed without robust monitoring.
Trustees and senior leaders will learn how to spot the gaps in their health and safety arrangements before they become problems, and how to make sure compliance is backed by reliable evidence. We’ll also show how WorkNest’s experts can help you strengthen assurance across your trust.
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Networking and business meetingsNetworking Area15 minute meetings with suppliers who are offering solutions most relevant to your challenges. Pleas ...
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- Strategy & Leadership
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- Strategy & Leadership
- Operations & Service Delivery
Main RoomThis interactive session places attendees into live scenario simulations based on real-world trust c ...
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