KEYNOTE: Hannah Woodhouse, Regional Schools Commissioner for the South West at Department for Education

Session summary coming soon

Trevor Finlay, Managing Director, Vision Asset Finance

In this seminar Trevor will provide insight into setting up Operating Leases within the current guidelines, and discuss the considerations associated with setting up an effective 1:1 computing scheme for students.

James Weatherill, Chief Executive, Arbor Education

James will talk about some of the successful strategies schools and MATs have been using to manage remotely during the COVID crisis, using examples from some of the 1,100+ schools and 100+ MATs Arbor works with. Go back to your trust with practical ideas for next term and beyond to ensure your school or Trust can adapt nimbly to change.

Chris Rothwell - Director of Education, Microsoft UK

Chris will be talking about what schools were doing with technology before Covid and what the opportunities and requirements are now as we emerge from the other side.

Will Jordan, Co-founder IMP Software

The past few months have shown that School financial-management can be turbulent; with moving goalposts and changeable priorities providing a constant battle for finance teams, this session demonstrates how robust, real-time financial reporting can empower leadership decision making whilst minimising finance team effort to produce.

Michael Heard, SCOMIS

Empowering staff to have access to SIMS to manage school data is increasingly important. This session will focus on how to remove the burden of managing SIMS, FMS and Discover onsite and for teachers to focus on pupil attainment and school improvement.

Hector Minto, Microsoft

Microsoft has a mission to Empower Every Person and Every Organisation on the planet to achieve more.  Accessibility is core to this mission as we strive to build technologies and workplaces that include the 1.3bn people on the planet with a disability.  In this session, Hector will share how Microsoft approach this within our Corporate Responsibility function and the importance of accessibility across functions at Microsoft: our people, our processes, our training, our products and our innovation – and how every element is critical to successful inclusion.

Anthony Salcito - VP Worldwide Education, Microsoft

Session summary coming soon

Chaired by Ty Goddard, EdTech Demonstrator Programme

More information coming soon

Adam Watson, Director - Sandgate Systems, Every

Knowing where your assets are going was probably the last thing on your mind when setting up home working for your staff. That said, some thought will need to be given to how to manage the return of your assets that have been assigned or distributed. In this session I’ll cover the main considerations around your asset management strategy pre and post return to work. In addition I’ll discuss a pragmatic approach to risk in your organisation as well as the impact your new COVID related assessments have on other key policies and documents.

Carl Sheen, Lead Trainer - InVentry Ltd

Session: Safely Managing the Return of Visitors, Staff and Pupils to Your School

As schools are beginning to reopen to a larger student body, workforce and external visitors / contractors, there are many considerations that need to be made on how to safely manage the entrance, exit and awareness of people on site. In this session we will look at the guidance available from official bodies, how you can practically implement this guidance and how InVentry can assist with some of these elements.

John Laramy - Principal and Chief Executive, Exeter College

Session summary coming soon

Michael Heard, SCOMIS

Empowering staff to have access to SIMS to manage school data is increasingly important. This session will focus on how to remove the burden of managing SIMS, FMS and Discover onsite and for teachers to focus on pupil attainment and school improvement.

Michael Kimber, MIEE, Cornerstone

Our age of communication and connectivity can be highly exciting but also full of professional noise and a seemingly ever-expanding email inbox.

Having led on Devon's STEM Science Learning Partnership and supporting in the organisation of a number of significant DfE projects - including the English Hub, EdTech Demonstrator School, Teaching School and Computing Hubs here in Devon, Michael will demonstrate some of the power of project management apps and services offered by Microsoft and how they have helped keep projects more efficient and collaborative, enabling our team to spend more time on what matters.

Richard Grazier, CEO, Community Brands

a thesis about education and the role technology should play in giving time back to schools, administrators, teachers, teaching assistants, leaders, parents and learners.  

Exploring thinking about time before, during and after lockdown, not least how our perception of time may have changed as a result of the events of 2020.  And how we might make time for serendipity to nurture the pastoral heart of the school community.  

Community Brands only deploys technology and products which free up time, so that schools and teachers can do what they do best.