EdTech Exchange Summer Online Forum 2026

Events

When

Thursday, 16 July 11:00am - 12:30pm

Where

Online

Price

Free

Free Online Forums: peer learning with regional breakout rooms

Twice a year we host an online forum for UK EdTech founders and business leaders. These sessions are facilitated but lightweight, designed to surface real challenges, share what’s working, and build stronger regional connections, without the cost and time of travel.

What you’ll leave with:

We want every participant to leave feeling clearer on current challenges, encouraged by what others are achieving, and supported by new peer connections.

Shared perspective: A clearer sense of the common challenges EdTech businesses are facing.

What’s working now: Practical tactics, messages, and approaches that peers are finding effective.

Peer insight: Direct input and ideas from fellow founders and leaders through regional breakout discussions.

Regional connection: Stronger relationships with EdTech peers in your area, supporting ongoing collaboration.

Who is the forum for:

This session is designed for UK EdTech founders and senior leaders who value honest peer discussion, shared learning, and regional connection.

Founders, co‑founders, and managing directors of UK EdTech companies
Senior leaders involved in strategy, growth, or product direction
EdTech businesses navigating similar market, policy, or operational challenges
Leaders who want to connect with peers in their region
Those looking for practical insight rather than presentations or sales pitches

If you want more clarity before taking your next step into navigating current EdTech challenges with peer input, this forum is for you.

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Agenda

11:00am
Welcome & Purpose

11:05am
Lightning Insight: “What’s shifting right now”

Choose one per forum (or rotate):

AI: adoption, procurement expectations, data/ethics, workforce impact

Policy/politics: direction of travel + likely implications for suppliers

Market signals: budgets, buyer behaviour, procurement friction, trust

11:15am
Participant pulse

Poll in chat:

Biggest challenge this quarter: pipeline / procurement / product / hiring / cash / evidence / AI / policy
Region check-in: where are you joining from?

11:20
Regional breakout session

Prompts:

What’s the #1 challenge you’re facing right now?

What’s one thing that’s working (a tactic, message, channel, partnership)?

Where do you want peer input today?

11:55am
Plenary sharing

Top 3 shared challenges

Top 3 “what’s working” tactics

1 question to bring back to plenary

12:15am
Action exchange

Everyone writes in the chat:

One action they’ll take in the next 2 weeks

One offer (resource / intro / template / lesson)

12:25am
Close & next steps

Reminder: quarterly insight subscription + next forum date placeholder

To ask any questions, please email eventsteam@besa.org.uk.

About BESA.

EdTech Exchange

Welcome to EdTech Exchange, a vibrant community of EdTech founders and others working in the education sector.

This community houses a wealth of talent and original thinkers from the UK and overseas, with opportunities to meet in person and online, explore and potentially create new opportunities and ways of growing, discuss current challenges, work out the solutions and learn from each other, and sometimes, to simply catch up and wind down with old friends and new.

Our year-round programme supports EdTech founders and business leaders with high-quality insight, peer learning, and practical tools, delivered through a streamlined mix of digital content, online forums, a flagship in-person event, and outcome-focused workshops. It’s designed to keep leaders ahead of fast-moving change (AI, policy, curriculum and market shifts) and built around real founder needs.

Members of the EdTech Exchange community get: