OUR FOCUS IS on FUTURE GENERATIONS

We explore five channels relating to education for enabling NextGen:

CURRICULUM LEARNING & pedagogy

ARTS, CULTURE & music

INDUSTRY, BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP

TECH, GAMING & ai

SPECIAL EDUCATION - INCLUSION, NEURODIVERGENCE & EMPLOYABILITY

within a participatory format

DAY 1

Day 1 begins at the Warwick Schools Foundation campus:

Opening event
Interview with NextGen representatives
Five speaker streams:

Curriculum, Learning & Pedagogy - forces for change
Arts, Culture & Music - the importance of arts in schools and the workplace
Industry, Business & Entrepreneurship - of the future
Tech, Gaming & AI and virtual learning post-Covid
Special Education - Inclusion, Neurodivergence & Employability

Student-centred ‘town hall’ discussions
The day ends with an evening reception at Warwick Castle

DAY 2

A morning focused on change: future-ready education for future generations

Participants will spend the morning in discussion hubs working together as teams to progress the themes of the previous day
The conference ends after lunch, with tangible take-aways from the morning’s deliberations.

Warwick Castle

featuring a WIDE range of experts, including:

2022 Speaker: Will Fairbairn

McKinsey & Company

RACHEL SANDBY-THOMAS CB

Registrar, University of Warwick

MARIANNE PICKLES

Head of Assessment Development, Cambridge University Press & Assessment English

anita gleave

CEO, Chatsworth Schools

olly newton

Executive Director, The Edge Foundation

ADAM WHITTAKER

Head of Pedagogy, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

JEREMY DIBB

Delivery Lead, Warwick - A Singing Town

tom ravenscroft

CEO, Skills Builder Partnership

jonathan harper

CEO, Future Foundations

DR. steven berryman

President, Chartered College of Teaching

nick evans

Head, Evergreen School

diane vernon mbe

CEO, EmployabilityUK

RUSSELL WINNARD

COO, Young Enterprise

PROFESSOR CHRIS WHITE

Director of Industrial Policy & Insight, MTC Coventry

DR. LUCY GILL-SIMMEN

Vice Dean, Royal Holloway, University of London

TOM DURST

Executive Director, Institute of Imagination

FIONA ALDRIDGE

Head of Insight - Economic Delivery, Skills and Communities, West Midlands Combined Authority

james leggett

Managing Director, MTM Consulting