Smart Campus 2025

Register to attend Smart Campus 2025 for free

Thursday 24th April 2025
9:30 am - 3:50pm
Virtual Conference

Smart Campus 2025 will explore how universities can harness data and advanced digital infrastructure to support improved decision making on estate management and optimise the campus experience for users.

The Conference will:

  • Assess how estates leaders can develop an operational plan for leveraging smart capabilities

  • Explore the tools needed to support data-led decision making and automation

  • Examine how estates leaders can meet objectives on cost-saving and efficiency through smart technology

  • Share insights from smart campus pioneers on how they are enhancing the experience of campus users through data analytics

  • Evaluate the steps to support a robust approach to cyber security and privacy

Why attend the conference?

Learn from leading universities at the forefront of developing smart campuses

Build a strategic approach for the smart campus agenda at your institution

Gain insights on the data and digital infrastructure tools needed for success

Agenda

09:30 am

Chair’s Welcome Address

Rosey Murdie
Head of Digital Transformation
University of Westminster (invited)

09:40 am

From Smart to Intelligent Campuses: A Roadmap

  • Designing a truly integrated approach to data-led decision making across an institution

  • The real prize in supporting connected devices that make intelligent decisions based on real time environmental data

  • Building the infrastructure and capabilities to join up data sources across a campus

  • How do we set meaningful goals to support intelligent decision making on campus?

James Clay
Head of Higher Education and Student Experience
Jisc (CONFIRMED)

10:00 am

Unlocking the Data Capabilities for Operationalising the Smart Campus

  • The underpinnings for data collection, processing and sharing across an ‘internet of things’ ecosystem

  • Designing a model of data analytics that meets the evolving needs of users across the estate

  • What data is needed and how do we get varied datasets interacting with each other across the estate to drive improved outcomes?

  • Preparing for challenges on safety, security and privacy when managing large datasets across the estate

Monica Jones
Chief Data Officer
University of Leeds (invited)

Leejo Johney
Head of Digital Estates
University of Exeter (invited)

Nadine Hill
Associate Director of Digital Transformation
Goldsmiths, University of London (invited)

Richard Draper
Head of BIM and Digital Assets, University of Birmingham
Co-Chair, Digital Estates Group, AUDE (invited)

10:50 am

Break and Networking

11:10 am

The World’s Smartest Campus: Exploring Progress at the University of Birmingham

The University of Birmingham is a world-leader in designing and delivering a model for the smart campus, with the ambition to support a fully connected estate where data drives decision making. This session will examine the progress made, the key challenges and what implementation really looks like across core innovations including:

  • Developing an integrated Building Information Modelling (BIM) strategy

  • Piloting next-generation approaches to occupancy mapping

  • Transforming how users interact with the estate through advanced navigation and wayfinding

  • Rolling out ‘internet of things’ technology with Siemens to embed analytics and AI into decision making systems

Matt Beveridge
Head of Innovation and Partnerships (Estates Office)
University of Birmingham (invited)

11:50 am

Building a Digital Twin Campus: The Route to Time-Enabled Mapping

  • Integrating disparate datasets into a real-time and visualised single source of truth

  • Developing the capacity to layer 600+ datasets across estate functions to unlock new insights through data clashing

  • Harnessing estate-wide mapping to support improved decision making on building performance

  • Optimising the experience of the campus user by unlocking insight on traffic, movement and space utilisation

  • What it takes to harness the digital twin for improved decision making, efficient maintenance operations and enhanced sustainability

Brett Plant
Head of Estates Information and Systems
University of Warwick (invited)

12:20 pm

Break and Networking

1:00 pm

Delivering Smart Campus Technologies at Scale

  • How do we meaningfully translate smart technologies that already exist into a cohesive system-wide integration?

  • Overcoming the barriers to scalability when transitioning from legacy systems

  • What are the building blocks? Identifying operational inefficiencies and designing solutions on space utilisation and energy management

  • Approaches to project delivery, demonstrating ROI and managing institution-wide transformation amid funding constraints

Trevor Payne
Director of Estates
University of Oxford (CONFIRMED)

1:30 pm

Practical Approaches to Mapping Occupancy with Existing Infrastructure

  • How can we use existing hardware assets to unlock new insights on occupancy and space utilisation?

  • How can we ensure data is practical and accurate when using pre-existing hardware?

  • The challenges on licensing fees with legacy hardware and exploring options for inhouse programme solutions

  • Exploring lessons from King’s College London on initial occupancy pilot approaches

Ben Goodyear
Director of Emerging Technology
King’s College London (invited)

2:00 pm

Break and Networking

2:20 pm

Understanding Location and Movement Across Campus

  • What data do we need to understand space utilisation across an estate?

  • What digital infrastructure is needed to develop effective insights on location?

  • How do we use data on traffic, flow and movement to optimise the user experience in real time?

  • How can we develop analytics and data maturity to unlock new insights on the campus experience? 

Ade Mawdsley
Space Resource & Programme Manager
University of Nottingham (CONFIRMED)

2:50 pm

Designing an Estate-Wide Smart Energy System

  • Developing an integrated view of live energy and water consumption across an estate

  • Joining up data to understand how consumption trends can drive improved energy planning to support efficiency

  • Looking towards opportunities for predictive modelling and self-correction approaches based on contextual indicators

  • Sharing insights from Georgia Institute of Technology in using simulation approaches with real-time data from energy utility systems

Scott Duncan
Research Engineer, and Branch Chief, Power Generation Systems, ASDL
Georgia Institute of Technology (invited)

3:20 pm

The Big Questions on Cyber Security Resilience in the Transition to the Smart Campus

As universities develop smart campus capabilities, there is a need for advanced cyber security processes to protect large volumes of data and support the privacy of campus users. This session will consider the key questions for estates and IT leaders on cyber security resilience as they develop the smart campus, with a focus on:

  • Integrating IT networks into estate decision-making

  • The risks posed by hacking and viruses

  • Preventing data loss

  • Disaster recovery and business continuity

Gavin Maynard
Director of Cyber Security
University of Hull (invited)

3:50 pm

Conference Close

*Programme subject to change

Audience

This Conference is designed for all those engaged in developing smart campuses. Those in attendance will include:

  • Directors of Estates

  • Directors of Estate Development

  • Directors of IT

  • Directors of Digital Transformation

  • Heads of Estates Information and Systems

  • Heads of Systems and Cloud Transformation

  • Heads of Networks

  • Heads of Cyber Security

  • Heads of Digital Assets

  • Chief Data Officers

  • Data and System Managers

  • Strategic Project Managers

Secure Your Ticket

HE and Public Sector

Free

Private Sector

£395 + VAT

HE Team of 3

Free

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