PACED26: Shaping What's Next (formerly CISG-PCMG)
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About the Event
Join us in Nottingham this November, as the UCISA Corporate Information Systems and Project and Change Management Communities hosts their annual joint event - Projects, Applications, Change, Enterprise and Data (PACED) Conference.
PACED26 (formerly CISG-PCMG) brings together colleagues from across higher education who are working in and around products, systems, projects, change, enterprise applications, digital services and data.
As institutions navigate growing complexity, financial pressure, AI disruption and rising expectations, this conference is an opportunity for the sector to come together and share practical experiences, lessons learned and honest reflections about what it really takes to deliver meaningful change.
Event Schedule
Day 1 - Wednesday
10:00
Registration opens
10:00
Exhibition opens
11:15
Getting Started: Meet the Community
11:45
Lunch
12:55
Welcome and introductions
13:15
Opening Keynote
Steve Denton, Chief Operating Officer and Registrar, Nottingham Trent University14:00
Panel session: A New Student System Journey
Chaired By: James Smith, COO and CIO, Middlesex University
Panellists:
- Alexandra Hardwick, Deputy Academic Registrar, University of Northampton
- Dawn Mains, Deputy Academic Registrar - Admissions, University of Northampton
- Lottie Robinson, Head of IT Product and Delivery, University of Lancashire
- Paul Withey, Assistant IT Director, Royal Holloway, University of London
14:45
Spotlight on Exhibitors
15:00
Refreshment break
15:30
University of Lancashire and Prolifics: How to use LLM’s & Agentic to migrate unstructured data to a new cloud based CMS
- Danielle McCann - Senior Quality Officer, University of Lancashire
- Fran Haygarth - Senior Academic Quality Manager, University of Lancashire
16:00
AI Governance
- Harry Turner, Head of Digital Programme Delivery, Huddersfield University
- James King, Director of Technology, Royal College of Art
16:45
Q&A on AI Governance
- Harry Turner, Head of Digital Programme Delivery, Huddersfield University
- James King, Director of Technology, Royal College of Art
16:55
Day 1 Reflections: Key Takeaways and Highlights
17:00
Day 1 Close
17:05
Buffet Dinner and Drinks Reception
19:30
End of Dinner
20:00
Informal Quiz
Day 2 - Thursday
08:30
Breakfast Session with TimeEdit
08:30
Breakfast Session with Tribal
09:30
Welcome to Day 2
09:35
Vice Chancellor Keynote
Professor Nick Jennings, Vice-Chancellor and President, Loughborough University10:20
Building a Lean Community of Practice to Enable Sustainable Service Transformation in Higher Education
Patrick Mongey, Lean Process Improvement Lead, Technological University Dublin10:50
Travel time
10:55
Platinum Sponsor Showcases
- Platinum Sponsor Showcase with Clarivate - Building The Digital Front Door - How TU Dublin Is Transforming Student Engagement and Retention
- David Robinson, Director of Planning, Information & Compliance, Technological University Dublin
- Matt Sherlock, Director of Product Management, Clarivate
- Platinum Sponsor Showcase with Stu3 - From Implementation to Innovation: What 60+ Institutions Tell Us About Student Systems
- Catherine McKay: Programme Manager – Education Digital Portfolio, University of Oxford
- Gemma Daruvalla, Consultant, Stu3
- Howard Ormerod, Director of Partnerships, Stu3
- Ian Colledge, Director and Co-Founder, Stu3
- Lian Eveleigh, Head of Programme Delivery - SRS, University of Plymouth
- Ruth Bourne, IT Director, University of Plymouth
- Platinum showcase TBC
11:15
Refreshments
11:45
Future Lab: Designing the Future
Ruth Norris, Programme Manager, The University of Manchester12:35
Travel time
12:40
Platinum Sponsor Showcases
- Platinum Sponsor Showcase with Kortext - Transforming student retention at St Mary’s University: leadership, governance and data in action - A joint case study by St Mary’s University and Kortext
- Claire McLoughlin, Head of Student Experience & Enhancement, St Mary’s University
- Kevin Braim, Chief Information Officer, St Mary’s University
- Robin Gibson, Director of External Affairs, Kortext
- Platinum Sponsor Showcase with Mastek- Getting business-ready before and after a SaaS Finance, HCM & Payroll implementation – Panel Interview
- Chair
Tony Whitmore, Associate Vice-President (Higher Education), Mastek - Panelists:
Richard Michel, Chief Information & Digital Officer (CIDO), University of London - Chris Parry - Product Director (Unicore), University of Nottingham
- Platinum Sponsor Showcase with Namos- From Technical Debt to Digital Dividend: Navigating the Cloud Value Journey at University of Northampton
- Navinder Kaur, Head of Application Services, University of Northampton
- Oliver Matthews, Technology Sales Director, Namos
13:00
Lunch
14:00
Evolving the Technology Operating Model in Higher Education
Paul Riley, Senior Director Analyst, Gartner14:40
Travel time
14:45
Institutional showcases
- From Consumers to Creators: Empowering Staff to Lead Digital Transformation Through Community-Led Innovation
- Elsa Ranjith, Senior Project Manager, Anglia Ruskin University
- From Demand to Delivery: How Systems Analysis, Project Delivery and AI Can Support Better Decision-Making
- Nadine Hill, Head of Analysis and Digital Change, UWE Bristol
- From Projects to Products: Starting the shift to outcome-focused delivery
- Rachel Middleton, Head of Project Delivery, London School of Economics
15:15
Travel time
15:20
Institutional showcases
- Session title tbc
- Mark Johnston, Director of IT, University of Glasgow
- Confessions of a Product Team - What nobody told us about going product led
- Andrea Roberts, Digital Product Manager, Royal College of Art
- Beth Sweet, Digital Product Manager, Royal College of Art
- Ikbal Hussain, Digital Product Manager, Royal College of Art
- From Idea to App in an Afternoon: Practical Vibe Coding in Higher Education
- Jerry Wong, Product Owner - ServiceNow, University of Birmingham
15:50
Refreshments
16:20
More than just opening doors: rethinking protective security as a service design challenge
Rob Sherwood, Head of Product (Digital Campus), Imperial College London16:45
Bringing Strategy to Life: A Strategy Implementation Framework
Craig Chapman-Smith, Director of Strategy Implementation & Risk, University of Glasgow17:10
Day 2 Reflections: Key Takeaways and Highlights
17:15
Day 2 close
19:00
Conference Dinner Drinks Reception
19:30
Conference Dinner
Day 3 - Friday
09:30
Welcome to day 3
09:35
Nottingham Trent University Implementation of a new Vendor Scorecard to collaboratively track System and Service performance
- Richard Jones, Senior product Manager, Nottingham Trent University
- Sanjay Gupta, Product Manager, Nottingham Trent University
10:05
What We Learned Improving the Student Digital Experience — From Attendance Monitoring to AI Search
- Adam Wiltshire, Head Web & Mobile Team (Senior Software Developer), Cardiff University
- David Hopkins, CMS Lead (Senior Software Developer), Cardiff University
10:35
It Takes a Campus to Raise an Assistant
Will Western, Product Owner, University of London11:05
Refreshments
11:35
Where is AI taking our careers in technology?
12:05
Closing keynote
Dr Lollie Mancey, Anthropologist, Futurist and AI Thought Leader13:05
Closing remarks
David Robinson, Director of Planning, Information & Compliance, Technological University Dublin and UCISA PACED26 Conference Committee Chair13:15
Lunch and end of Conference
Other Info
Exhibitor Information
UCISA Group
- Corporate Information Systems
- Project and Change Management
