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Welcome and introduction
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The Big AI Project: Challenges, risks and solutions

• What are the biggest risks AI presents for schools?
• Lessons learned so far from the Big AI Project, which equips schools with the skills they need to approach an AI-infused world safely, ethically and strategically
• Signposting to free resources and AI support

Speaker
The Big AI Project Lead
Big Education
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Partner presentation
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Lessons Learned: Building a sustainable whole-school strategy for AI

• How to develop a sustainable AI strategy
• Lessons learned from an early adopter
• Risks and opportunities of AI in schools

Speaker
Anthony David, Executive headteacher, St Mary’s, St Paul’s and Monken Hadley CE Primary Schools in north London
;author of AI with Education
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Using AI to make assessment accessible

• How to use AI to adapt formative classroom assessments such as multiple choice quizzes, think-pair-share, debates, and exit tickets
• How to use AI to adapt summative assessments such as exams, essays, onscreen tests, presentations, and practicals
• Ensuring AI is used accurately without lowering the bar

Speaker
Education Author and Advisor
BEE, Yorkshire
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Build versus buy: A teacher's case study in scaling AI coaching

• Why the build-versus-buy decision is rarely binary – and a third option many overlook
• Practical considerations: Data protection, safeguarding, staff/union engagement, integration with existing CPD
• An honest view on costs, risks, and trade-offs

Speaker
Assistant Headteacher for Teaching, Learning and Coaching, St Augustine's Catholic College, Wiltshire;
Co-Founder and Director, STAR21 Limited
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Teaching AI: What students want to know

• What do students want to be taught about AI?
• Age-appropriate assemblies and lessons
• Showing students which AI tools might be relevant to them

Speaker
AI Lead and Head of Modern Foreign Languages
King Ecgbert School, Mercia Learning Trust, Sheffield
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Welcome and introduction
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How to build a comprehensive AI curriculum

• Building an AI curriculum from key stage 1 to 5
• Curriculum sequencing advice and examples
• Lessons learned from the Three Spires Trust

Speakers
Director of School Improvement
Three Spires Trust & Practitioner for AI in Education
Digital Lead
Three Spires Trust, Staffordshire
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Partner session
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Supporting students' emotional intelligence in a world of AI

• Helping students to use AI in a safe and developmentally appropriate way
• Helping students to avoid becoming over-reliant on AI
• How emotional intelligence sits alongside AI in our curriculum

Speaker
Behaviour, Inclusion and Emotional Regulation Coach, Consultant and Trainer
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The procurement challenge: How do you choose a good AI tool?

• How to use Department for Education AI and digital standards to help cut through the sales spin in a crowded marketplace
• Producing a robust AI procurement strategy that asks sharper questions about impact, data and compliance
• Leave with a practical checklist to support safe, evidence‑informed AI choices

Speaker
Founder
Sapio Education
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Creating a culture of AI literacy in your school

• Creating an AI culture that moves from seeing it as a shortcut to seeing it as a tool for higher thinking
• What effective CPD for AI in education looks like
• How to bring families into the AI conversation

Speaker
Founder of Handi.Education
;Former AI and Digital Learning Lead; Author of You, AI and Your Teaching
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