Join BESA's Head of Content and former BETT and ERA Awards' judge Dave Smith as he gives advice about how to make your application stand out.

This seminar, which is free for BESA members, will cover how to apply and what judges are looking for from an application. Our speaker will give advice about how to make your application stand out. Winning education awards can be an invaluable way of building brand awareness and reputation in schools across the world.

Seminar overview:

• Your application
• The judging process
• Catching the judges' eyes
• Marketing opportunities & benefits

Speaker

Dave Smith, Head of Content; BESA (British Educational Suppliers Association) 

Dave is Head of Content at BESA (British Educational Suppliers Association). Prior to this, Dave was a local authority senior inspector, providing school improvement support for schools in London and beyond, he also led on Traded Services for the Havering Education Services School Improvement team. He has spent 20+ years specialising in computing, education technology and online safety support for schools and is a CEOP Online Safety Ambassador. Dave has worked with Rising Stars on the development of the Bett Award winning Switched on Computing, Switched on Online Safety and other titles. He worked with the Department for Education to support the creation of the education technology content of the Teacher Workload Reduction Toolkit. He is the former Chair of the Board of Management of Naace, served 14 years as a judge for the Education Resources Awards and a member of the Bett Advisory Board. He was previously a teacher/senior leader in 3 schools, plus a university principal lecturer. Beyond work he has been a governor of 4 primary/secondary schools, and is currently a governor/member of two secondary MATs.