HEPN South 2026

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08:00
  1. Registration Desk
    60 mins
09:00
  1. Main Room
    10 mins
09:10
  1. Main Room
    40 mins
    • Strategy & Leadership
    • Outcomes & Impact
    Universities are facing scrutiny over their purpose, value, and contribution to society. In an increasingly challenging political and economic climate, institutions are under pressure not only to rema ...
10:20
  1. Main Room
    20 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.
10:45
  1. Networking and business meetings
    Networking Area
    75 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.
12:05
  1. Main Room
    40 mins
    • Outcomes & Impact
    This candid session brings together a diverse group of students to share the realities behind the modern university experience; exploring where institutions are getting it right, where disconnects rem ...
12:50
  1. Main Room
    20 mins

    Interested in sponsoring?

    Main and breakout room presentations

13:15
  1. Networking lunch
    40 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.
14:00
  1. Main Room
    30 mins
    • Strategy & Leadership
    • Operations & Service Delivery
    The concept of shared services is not new. However, with the current pressures facing higher education, shared services are emerging as a practical and strategic response to accelerating transformatio ...
  2. Breakout Room 1
    30 mins
    • Finance & Sustainability
    • Outcomes & Impact
    For a decade, universities have operated within relatively predictable recruitment environments. Today, that certainty is eroding. Competition for UK students is intensifying, student decision-making ...
  3. Breakout Room 2
    30 mins
    • Workforce, Skills & Culture
    In recent years, UK universities have been facing a growing financial crisis, leading to an increase in redundancies among academic and administrative staff, workforce restructuring and mounting workl ...
  4. Breakout Room 3
    30 mins
    • Digital, Data & AI
    • Outcomes & Impact
    Students are already integrating AI into how they study – often far faster than institutional policy and pedagogy can adapt. This session explores what leaders need to understand about emerging studen ...
14:35
  1. Main Room
    20 mins

    Interested in sponsoring?

    Main and breakout room presentations

15:00
  1. Networking and business meetings
    Networking Area
    75 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.
16:20
  1. Main Room
    60 mins
    • Strategy & Leadership
    This interactive roundtable session offers attendees the opportunity to select from a range of focussed discussion topics. Delegates will be invited ahead of the event to submit the key challenges, pr ...
17:20
  1. Main Room
    5 mins
19:30
  1. Drinks reception and networking dinner
    Main Room
    150 mins
    Networking 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.
09:00
  1. Main Room
    5 mins
09:05
  1. Main Room
    40 mins
    • Strategy & Leadership
    • Operations & Service Delivery
    The need to rethink how universities operate has never been more urgent. For many institutions, they represent a structural challenge to how universities operate and deliver value in the long-term. As ...
09:50
  1. Main Room
    20 mins

    Interested in sponsoring?

    Main and breakout room presentations

10:15
  1. Networking and business meetings
    Networking Area
    60 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.
11:20
  1. Main Room
    30 mins
    • Strategy & Leadership
    • Outcomes & Impact
    The Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE) represents a significant structural shift for higher education, with the potential to reshape how learners engage with universities throughout their lives. But ...
  2. Breakout Room 1
    30 mins
    • Digital, Data & AI
    • Operations & Service Delivery
    Universities cannot become truly digital-first while operating on fragmented systems and inconsistent data. Yet institutions continue to struggle with legacy infrastructure, duplicated workflows, comm ...
  3. Breakout Room 2
    30 mins
    • Operations & Service Delivery
    • Outcomes & Impact
    Student services teams are under pressure from every direction. Yet, the complexity of student need is evolving, requiring personalised support. This session will explore how universities are respondi ...
  4. Breakout Room 3
    30 mins
    • Digital, Data & AI
    • Operations & Service Delivery
    As universities accelerate digital transformation and AI adoption, cybersecurity is becoming a critical enabler of institutional resilience. Yet many institutions continue to balance innovation with l ...
11:55
  1. Main Room
    40 mins
    • Strategy & Leadership
    • Outcomes & Impact
    Universities are operating in an increasingly complex and politically charged environment. From new OfS free speech requirements and Condition C6 to heightened scrutiny surrounding campus tensions lin ...
12:35
  1. Main Room
    5 mins
12:40
  1. Networking lunch
    50 mins