Every event on the shared Lark calendar, from the autumn 2026 conference season through to the Festival of Education in July 2027. Organised by Zoe Holley. Each entry carries the cost, expected outcomes and typical attendee profile held on the calendar entry, or researched from the event’s public listing where the entry is thin. Updated 5 October 2026: booked a place at Lancashire County Council’s Children’s Services Meet the Buyer in Preston on 19 October, the first date on this calendar actually booked. Updated 17 September 2026: the two big sponsorship packages were declined on 9 September, and 16 US school ESOL and multilingual education dates have been added from the six-state report, in their own section below. The money is going to a lot of smaller, regional touchpoints instead. The offer cards below are kept as the record of what was turned down and why.
57Events
8Free to attend
8ASCL, added 26 Oct
16US school ESOL
2Declined 9 Sep
Sep 2026 – Jul 2027Date range
ASCL added 26 October
Eight entries from the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), after a call with Sean Breslin on Fri 23 Oct and his follow-up email: the Annual Conference on 12–13 March in Birmingham, six of ASCL’s smaller one-day events that have dates (Leadership Essentials in four cities in November, Digital Leadership / AI on 2 December, Literacy and Oracy on 21 January), and the workshop proposal deadline on Friday 30 October, the only way left to speak at the Annual Conference.
Five more ASCL events have only a month so far (February, April, two in May, June). They sit in the TAM events table until dates are published. Nothing with ASCL is booked yet.
Four events added 13 August, to fix an imbalance
Seven entries are free events for nursery and early years staff, and three of those are the same roadshow repeated in Manchester, Bristol and London.
So four buyer-facing dates were added: CST on 15–16 Oct for trust chief executives, NCASC on 11–13 Nov for directors of children’s services and elected members, the Schools & Academies Show on 18–19 Nov, and Bett on 20–22 Jan. None of them clash with anything already held, and they fill a November that had only one event in it.
The trade worth making: attend one of the three identical early years roadshow dates rather than all three, and the freed days and travel budget cover NCASC and CST instead.
Two days are heavily double-booked
Fri 2 Oct carries four events — MATPN’s second morning in Bath, the SEND in Early Years Conference in Coventry, the National Education Show in Cardiff and the Early Years SEND Roadshow in Bristol. Four cities, one day.
Fri 9 Oct carries five — the Tes SEND Show and Early Years SENCO Day in London, NAPCE in Worcester, the Excel in Education Summit in Birmingham and Together for SEND in Kent.
Nine of the 49 entries sit on those two dates, so most of this calendar is a shortlist to choose from rather than a schedule to work through.
Wed 14–15 Oct is the one that crosses the Atlantic: the MDE Special Populations Conference in East Lansing ends on the 14th and CST opens in Birmingham on the 15th. Those two cannot both be attended by the same person, and MDE is one of the two US dates Zoe named to look at first.
Wed 11 Nov is a third, and a straight either-or: NCASC runs 11 to 13 November in Liverpool, and The Education People Show is that same day in Kent. Both are added below. NCASC is the stronger room for directors of children’s services; the Education People Show is free, one day rather than three, and names local authority education leaders in its own audience.
The decision was taken on 9 September
Tue 9 Sep — Zoe declined both national shows in writing, three minutes apart: the Schools & Academies Show at 13:57 and MATPN at 14:00. Same reason given to each, unprompted: the marketing budget this year is committed to a large number of smaller activities rather than to show or event packages. That is £24,549.25 + VAT turned down.
What replaces it. Presence in a lot of places rather than two big rooms — regional dates, and going directly to the local authorities we already work with. The same money spread thin is judged to buy more than one stand does.
Deliberately, neither reply asked for a cheaper tier. A flat no with no counter-ask keeps the door open at full price later; asking would have told both sellers what Purple Ruler can afford, and every future quote would arrive pitched at the cheap end.
Still owed — Bett has never been told at all. On the same reasoning the answer is a no, and Hyve is the only organiser still waiting. GovNet asked a fair question back the same afternoon, “do the team seem more value in smaller events?”, and it is unanswered. PNE asked when we will plan for 2027 and attached their confirmed 2027 event list; also unanswered. None of the three costs anything.
Thu 10 Sep — the IncludEd early-bird window closed. There is no email from The Difference in either direction since 1 August, so the web-form enquiry left no trace on our side and is best treated as never sent.
The offers, and what was decided
3 organisers · 2 declined · 1 never told
Three of the shows on this calendar came back with something concrete. Two were declined on 9 September; the third was never given an answer. The cards are kept as written so the numbers stay on the record — everything in them is quoted from the organiser’s own email, with the date they said it.
MATPN South West
Declined 9 SepMillie-Mae O’Neill, PNE · 1–2 Oct 2026, Apex City of Bath
£9,749.25 £12,999
Silver package, + VAT, after a one-off 25 per cent discount. Premium Silver is £12,749.25 + VAT, down from £16,999.
Why the discount
A sponsor pulled out after paying a deposit, because their head of education left the business. PNE released the package at 25 per cent off. Millie confirmed on 26 August that she can apply the same 25 per cent to any Silver or Gold package, not only the released one.
What it buys
A guaranteed minimum of 9 one-to-one meetings, with up to 14 possible in the schedule, and all delegate contact data, which is included at both Silver and Premium Silver. Premium Silver adds the “Dragons’ Den” session: a 60 second pitch to the full room, which is itself how you generate more meetings.
The room
99 confirmed delegates from 65 trusts, of whom 37 are CEO level and 46 are C-suite. There is no delegate ticket for this event, so a sponsor package is the only way in.
Payment
Normally 30 days from signing. A 20:40:40 phased option is available if that suits better.
Outcome
Declined in writing on Tuesday 9 September at 14:00. The hold had already lapsed on 28 August. The reply released the package, gave the one reason, named no figures, and closed with an offer to come back directly if plans change. Millie replied asking when we will plan for 2027 and attached PNE’s confirmed 2027 event list — that is still unanswered.
Worth knowing
The £11,999 and £15,999 we had been working from were 2025 introductory rates. This year’s list is £12,999 and £16,999, and the 25 per cent comes off those. Millie volunteered that correction herself before it went to the decision makers.
Schools & Academies Show
Declined 9 SepDavid Hickey, GovNet · 18–19 Nov 2026, NEC Birmingham
£14,800 or £17,950
+ VAT. The two shapes actually being weighed: a 3m × 2m stand at £6,300 or a 3m × 3m at £9,450, each plus the £8,500 SEND theatre speaking slot.
The parts
£6,300 buys 6 square metres, shell scheme with name board, lights, power and carpet, a website listing, a 100 word profile in the guide, 2 stand passes and pre-event marketing. £9,450 buys 9 square metres and 5 passes. The £8,500 speaking slot is charged on top of a stand, not instead of one: a 30 minute session, branding on the theatre signage, a leaflet on every chair, and the contact details of everyone who attends it.
The room
3,500–4,000 unique visitors, over 1,000 schools and academies, 620 individual trusts across the last two shows, and 75% of the top 50 trusts. Over 80% of school and trust attendees are senior leadership.
Answered now
The local authority share is about 15 per cent, which was the number that decided this one for us and was missing a fortnight ago. David explains it as schools leaving councils for trusts. Separately, 47% of all registered attendees name SEND and inclusion as a key reason for coming.
Scarcity
One SEND theatre slot is left, day two at 11.20am. David said on 25 August he would try to hold it but another company has been asking. Stand J47 was expected to sell that same day, leaving the left side of C49 as the best remaining 3m × 3m.
Also included
ConnectEd, their meeting platform, opens six weeks before the show so you can book one-to-ones with visitors in advance, with their team helping. The co-located EdTech Summit and Independent Schools Conference are part of the show and are not charged separately.
On the table
5 per cent off per show for booking Birmingham 2026 and London 2027 together. Zoe has declined to commit to a second show before the first is decided.
Outcome
Declined in writing on Tuesday 9 September at 13:57, four days after the promised date. This was the harder one to turn down: on 1 September David’s content team opened an extra SEND theatre session for us after the last had sold, because they judged the work relevant, and reserved the stand opposite it. He chased on the 4th, 8th and 9th. He answered back the same afternoon asking “do the team seem more value in smaller events?” — a fair question, and still unanswered.
Bett UK 2027
Never answered — owed a noGary Kakoullis, Hyve Group · 20–22 Jan 2027, ExCeL London
Not quoted
A proposal arrived on 18 August after a call, but it is a web page rather than a document, and no figure from it has been repeated back to us in an email.
What arrived
A live proposal page holding, on separate tabs, the stand pricing, the floorplan, the audience insights and an education priorities report: proposal.bettshow.com. Because it is a page rather than an attachment, nothing in it is pinned to a date or a signature, and it can be changed underneath us.
The only numbers
Over 100 sponsorship items, from £2,500 for an advert on a razor screen to £46,000 to sponsor the Government Lounge. Stand prices vary by location, stand type and how many sides are open. That is a range, not a quote.
Still unanswered
Three of the four asked on 13 August: the entry-level price to exhibit; whether a provider can attend as a visitor without a stand and what that costs; and the deadline for proposing a SEND theatre session.
Now answered
The audience question, but from their own report, which sat unopened in the inbox for a fortnight. Of 37,616 attendees, 42 per cent are international and 7,512 are other suppliers. Multi-academy trusts are 9.6 per cent of the education audience, about 1,600 people, and there is no local authority category at all. SEND is the third-ranked challenge at 33 per cent, behind generative AI at 60. Full numbers in the January entry below.
Where it stands
Hyve have never been told anything. Nothing has come in from them since 24 August and nothing has gone out since 21 August. Gary was due back from leave on 7 September and has not written. On the 9 September reasoning the answer is a no — Bett is the largest package of the three and the only one that never put a price in an email — so the honest thing is to say so. Gary Kakoullis, gary.kakoullis@bettshow.com; Doug Fairbrother, Head of New Business for Bett Global, is covering: doug.fairbrother@bettshow.com.
What was turned down. MATPN at Silver plus the Schools & Academies Show at the smaller stand with the speaking slot came to £24,549.25 + VAT, before Bett, before travel and before stand build. Both were declined on 9 September.
What each one actually buys, in one line. MATPN buys meetings: nine guaranteed conversations with trust chief executives, and the contact list afterwards. The Schools & Academies Show buys reach and a stage: two days in front of up to 4,000 leaders, 15 per cent of them from councils, with 30 minutes of our own in the SEND theatre. Bett would buy reach and positioning — but having now read their own audience report, it buys much less of our actual buyer than the headline 37,616 suggests: no local authority category at all, trusts at under a tenth of the education audience, and one in five people in the building selling something. It still has no price attached, but the case for it is now weaker on evidence rather than merely unproven.
The comparison that settles it. MITESOL in Michigan sells a Silver sponsorship for about £750: a table, a speaking slot and the attendee list. GovNet quoted £14,800 for that same combination in Birmingham. Twenty times the price for the same three things is the clearest argument that the 9 September call was right, whatever else is true about the rooms.
United States — school ESOL and multilingual education
16 entries · 6 states
Added 17 September 2026 from the six-state school ESOL and multilingual education report, researched on 10 September across New York, Michigan, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts and Delaware from 50 sources. These are the 15 events still to come out of 34 in the report; the rest have already happened. They sit in their own section rather than mixed into the months above, but the dates below are real and two of them collide with UK events. Every figure here is from the organiser’s own page.
Deadlines, checked against the organisers’ own booking systems on 18 September.Hudson Valley RBERN presentation proposals close today, 18 September, already extended once. The MITESOL exhibitor and sponsor deadline is 10 October, and that is the one that matters. Its $225 early seat rate is disputed on MITESOL’s own page — the ticket’s sale window runs to 23 September while the prose says it ended on the 16th, so it may still be live. NEASC early pricing closed on 12 September and Sunshine State TESOL’s went on 31 August.
The number that matters most on this page. A MITESOL Silver sponsorship is about £750 and buys a table, a speaking slot and the attendee list. GovNet quoted £14,800 for that same combination at Birmingham. Sunshine State TESOL will sell an exhibit table for $350. If the 9 September decision was that the money goes to many small places rather than two big rooms, this section is where that decision has somewhere to go.
The two Zoe named to evaluate first were researched properly on 18 September. MDE Special Populations, 12–14 October, is the better room — it is run by the state’s federal-programmes office, so the people in it hold the Title III budget — but it publishes nothing: no fee, no vendor route, not even whether an outside provider may attend. MITESOL, 24 October, is the weaker room — a teachers’ association, with school staff one interest section of three — but it publishes everything and can be decided today. CORRECTION: these are NOT one trip. MDE ends on the 14th and MITESOL is the 24th, ten days apart — two flights, or a twelve-day stay. Michigan is not a random choice: we already teach at Harbor Springs, Petoskey and West Branch-Rose City, all renewing, with a live Macomb ISD proposal, and the state has over 100,000 English learners, more than 7 per cent of enrolment, nearly half of them classed as long-term, against about 4,268 educators holding an ESL or bilingual endorsement.
Two collisions with the UK calendar.MDE ends on 14 October and CST opens in Birmingham on the 15th, so those two cannot both be attended. NEASC runs 16–18 November across the Schools & Academies Show, which no longer matters because that show was declined. And nobody has contacted a single one of these organisers about anything.
FURBY — Fordham University Regional Bilingual Education Resource Network, New York
Fordham Lincoln Center, Manhattan
Not publishedOne programme, four dates
Cost
Not published on any source found.Register through the organiser’s form; the fee is not verified anywhere in the report
Expected outcomes
Five CTLE credits for an in-person day, two for an online one. This is one programme run four times, not four conferences — pick one: 23 Sep Fordham Lincoln Center Manhattan, 29 Sep Fordham Rose Hill Bronx (both 8:30am–1:30pm), or 5 or 13 Oct online (3–5pm Eastern).
Who attends
K–12 English learner practice: administrators, ENL teachers, content teachers and special education teachers. Direct school relevance.
Attending: member $99 · non-member $139 · pre-service teacher $29. Early pricing ended 31 August. Exhibiting: one table $350, two tables $600, coffee sponsorship $450.
Expected outcomes
At $350 a table this is the cheapest exhibiting route anywhere in the six-state report, and about one twentieth of the £6,300 asked for the smallest stand at the Schools & Academies Show. Whatever else is decided about America, this is the price point the 9 September ruling was pointing at.
Who attends
ESOL across K–12, adult and higher education.
All day 2 days
Watch the city name, and nobody has enquired
Winter Park is the actual host city. Some of the promotion says Orlando, which is the metro area, not the venue. Exhibit table availability has not been confirmed with the organiser — nobody has written to them.
Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center, East Lansing
Nothing published at allClashes with CST
Cost
Nothing at all is published — no delegate fee, no preconference fee, no exhibitor or sponsor route, and no statement that an outside provider may attend at all. michigan.gov refuses every automated read; on 18 September it was tried from four directions — a direct fetch, a browser-style request, both the 2023 and 2025 registration memos, and the Wayback Machine, which has never archived the page. This one cannot be settled from a desk.Hotel group rate $98 a night. Contact OESSpecialPops@michigan.gov, +1 517 241 6977
Expected outcomes
Theme: Empower. Engage. Elevate.12 Oct carries two preconference sessions on a separate ticket — the English learner programme “Discover, Connect, Respond” with Elise White Diaz, and McKinney-Vento homeless education. 13–14 Oct is the main conference: day one keynote Elise White Diaz on supporting multilingual learners through asset-based practice, day two keynote Gaelin Elmore on belonging and resilience. Diaz frames both the preconference and day one, so multilingual learners lead the whole event rather than sitting in a side room.
Who attends
This is the better room of the two, and it is not close. It is run by MDE’s Office of Educational Supports — the federal-programmes office that administers Title III for English learners, McKinney-Vento and migrant education. So the people in the room are district federal-programme and Title III directors: the ones holding the budget, not the ones using the service. Michigan has over 100,000 English learners, more than 7 per cent of all pupils and one of its fastest-growing groups, with nearly half classed as long-term — English-learner designated for more than five years — against roughly 4,268 educators holding an ESL or bilingual endorsement. That gap is the whole argument for an online specialist provider.
All day 3 days
Two unknowns, and one of them decides everything
Three questions, in this order, and the first one decides it: (1) may a provider that is not a Michigan district attend at all? (2) is there any exhibitor, sponsor or resource-table route, and what does it cost? (3) what is the delegate fee, and what does the 12 October EL preconference cost on top? Plan no travel until question one is answered — that is exactly the question IGPP turned out to be hiding, and NAVSH too. The email costs nothing, and a no closes the file cleanly. This also ends on 14 October while CST opens in Birmingham on the 15th, so those two cannot both be attended, and it is ten days clear of MITESOL, not the same trip.
Ulster, Dutchess and Sullivan BOCES School Library Systems with Hudson Valley RBERN, New York
SENYLRC, Highland
See catalogueThree parts
Cost
Not published in the sources found.See the MyLearningPlan catalogue for eligibility and fees
Expected outcomes
A three-part series, not three conferences: 13 Oct 2026 at SENYLRC Highland, then 14 Jan and 9 Mar 2027 at Ulster BOCES New Paltz, with 30 March held as a snow date.
Who attends
School-based teams building multilingual literacy and family engagement projects. Team participation is required — an individual cannot attend, which rules it out as a way in for a supplier.
A broader education technology and accessible teaching event. CAST lists one session centred on multilingual learner experience, on 15 October.
Who attends
Education technology and inclusive teaching staff. The multilingual content is a single session, not a strand.
All day 2 days
The one relevant session may not be what it says
The online description of that one multilingual session contains apparently mismatched copy. Confirm the final session details before relying on it — if it is not what it says, there is no multilingual reason to be at this event at all.
Michigan State University, East Lansing
$150–$1,500 to exhibitExhibitor deadline 10 Oct
Cost
Read off their own booking system on 18 Sep. Gold $1,500: named sponsor of a keynote or reception, banners, targeted email, social ad, logo for a year, the attendee list, a session slot, a table, 3 registrations. Silver $1,000: targeted email blast, banner at the booking portal, social shoutout, logo for a year, the attendee list, a session slot, a table, 2 registrations. Bronze $500: portal advert, a table, 1 registration — no list, no session. Non-attending $250: portal advert and our materials on a general resource table. Special Exhibitor Rate $150, on sale 1 Sep to 10 Oct only — a table and nothing else. Attending alone: non-member $225 early, $250 standard.The table is 6ft with two chairs, WiFi and raffle entry. A Key Element Sponsor tier, price negotiable, funds the programme printing, the Friday reception or the breakfast
Expected outcomes
The only organiser anywhere in this report that publishes everything, which is why it is the one that can be decided today. Silver at $1,000, about £750, buys a table, a session slot and the attendee list — the same combination GovNet quoted at £14,800 in Birmingham. One twentieth of the price. The whole decision reduces to one question: does anybody fly? If yes, Silver is the buy, because it is the cheapest tier carrying both the list and the slot. If no, the $250 non-attending tier still puts our materials on the resource table and costs less than a taxi from the airport.
Who attends
This is the weakness, and it should be said plainly. MITESOL is a teachers’ association with three interest sections — Adult Education, K–12 and Post-Secondary — so school staff are one strand of three, sitting alongside adult and university ESL. No attendance figure is published anywhere. These are people who would use the service rather than sign for it. The case for going anyway is the one already made for the UK practitioner events: a teacher does not sign the contract but very often names the provider.
All day
The deadline that passed yesterday, and why it barely matters
MITESOL contradicts itself on the early-bird date: the ticket’s own sale window runs to 23 September while the prose on the same page says early bird ended on the 16th. So the $225 may still be live. It barely matters if we sponsor, because every tier from $500 up carries registrations. The date that does matter is the exhibitor and sponsor deadline, 10 October, and the $150 Special Exhibitor Rate closes the same day. And these two Michigan events are not one trip: MDE ends on the 14th, this is the 24th, ten days apart. Contacts: Kristy Crosby, Exhibits Manager, conference-exhibits@mitesol.org · Frances LaMielle, President, president@mitesol.org · Carrie Machkouri, Co-Chair, president-elect@mitesol.org. One practical friction: cheques go to a US PO box, and card payment for a UK company is assumed rather than confirmed.
Cajundome Convention Center, Lafayette
Not published
Cost
Not published in the sources found.Follow the live registration listing for booking details
Expected outcomes
Call for papers closes 14 October 2026. Louisiana is not a random state for us: Purple Ruler is an LDOE-approved professional learning partner, and the Teacher Leader Summit is already on this calendar for June 2027.
Who attends
Regional TESOL: K–12 and bilingual education alongside other sectors.
All day 2 days
Do not double count it
Count this once. It is the 2026 regional event hosted by LaTESOL, and it is not evidence of a second, separate LaTESOL annual conference — a duplicate that an ordinary search would produce.
Manhattanville University, 2900 Purchase Street, Purchase
Not publishedProposals close tomorrow
Cost
Not published in the sources found.Contact rbern@swboces.org or 914-922-3158
Expected outcomes
The theme is turning multilingual learner initiatives into outcomes, which is close to the argument our own case studies make.
Who attends
Regional teachers and school leaders. Direct school multilingual education.
All day
The tightest deadline on the whole calendar
Presentation proposals close on 18 September 2026 — tomorrow. That deadline has already been extended once, so it is unlikely to move again. This is the tightest date anywhere on this calendar and the only one that can still be caught.
$195 for one day including membership, or $390 for both days including virtual access to the MATSOL 2027 conference. Groups of three or more get 10 per cent off.
Expected outcomes
Two professional development days, one programme: 3 Nov 2026 and 12 Jan 2027. The $390 is quietly the cheapest route into MATSOL 2027, which is also on this calendar for May. An optional 15 PDP pathway needs a final project.
Who attends
School ESL professional development. Direct relevance.
Not published in the sources found.Contact vpconference@nystesol.org
Expected outcomes
The virtual half of one annual conference. The in-person days are 20–21 November and are listed separately below. It is one conference, not two — do not count it twice.
New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Massachusetts
Hilton Boston Park Plaza, Boston
Early rate closed 12 Sep
Cost
Early pricing closed on 12 September 2026, five days before this was written down. Whether the MLRC workshop is charged separately is not published.Contact mlarson@neasc.org
Expected outcomes
16 Nov is the Multilingual Learner Research-to-practice Collaborative preconference workshop, led by Jon Nordmeyer and Carrie Parker; 17–18 Nov is the main leadership conference. The workshop is the reason to look at this one.
Who attends
School leaders improving systems for multilingual pupils, inside a broader leadership event.
All day 3 days
Early rate missed by five days
Two things to check before this is worth anything: whether the MLRC workshop still has places, and whether it is charged on top of the conference. Neither is published, and the early rate has already gone.
Hyatt Regency Long Island, Hauppauge
Not published
Cost
Not published in the sources found.Sponsor and exhibitor registration is listed in the NYS TESOL calendar — ask for current inventory and rates. Contact vpconference@nystesol.org
Expected outcomes
The in-person half of the same annual conference whose virtual day is 7 November. Nobody has asked them what a sponsor or exhibitor place costs, and that is the one number that would make this decidable.
Who attends
School educators within a wider TESOL audience.
All day 2 days
Long Island, not New York City
The venue is on Long Island, not in New York City. That is an hour and a half from Manhattan and changes what a trip looks like.
Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort, Lake Buena Vista, Florida
Not published
Cost
Not published in the sources found. Registration and the sponsor and exhibit pages are live, so the rates exist — nobody has asked for them.conference.nabe@gmail.com, and conf.reg.nabe@gmail.com for registration and purchase-order matters
Expected outcomes
The biggest event in the whole six-state report. 17 Feb is school visits and a preconference; 18–19 Feb is the main conference. Use the organiser’s own 17–19 February dates and do not extend it to the 20th on the strength of third-party listings, which is a mistake several of them make.
Who attends
A major national bilingual and ESL school conference: teachers, district leaders, families and researchers.
Not published in the sources found.Contact admin@mabene.org
Expected outcomes
Dual-language and bilingual school practice and leadership. Watch the cached pages: older listings describe different editions, and the 2026 in-person conference was in Connecticut, which is outside the six states and is excluded from the count. The current organiser page confirms Boston for 2027.
Who attends
Dual-language and bilingual school teachers and leaders. Direct relevance.
Renaissance Framingham Hotel & Conference Center, Framingham
Not published
Cost
Not published. Attendee registration does not open until January 2027.The $390 MATSOL Virtual ESL PD Days pass, 3 Nov 2026 plus 12 Jan 2027, includes virtual access to this conference — the cheapest route in
Expected outcomes
The deadlines that matter come long before registration opens: proposals close 9 November 2026, the sponsor and exhibitor early deadline is 15 January 2027 and the final one is 15 April 2027. Those are not attendee deadlines — they are the ones that decide whether we can have any presence at all.
Who attends
School multilingual learner teachers, coaches and administrators. In person with a virtual track.
All day 3 days
September 2026
4 events
Mon14Sep
English Statewide Conference
ESL statewide conference — flagged by Ross Clements
Video call available
Not recorded
All day
The date has passed (Mon 14 Sep) and the event was never identified
Ross Clements passed this one on: it is the ESL statewide conference, which is why searching it as a mainstream English-curriculum event returns nothing — it is not in the UK education conference listings. The calendar entry still carries no organiser, venue, cost or booking link, only a title and a Lark video-call link. A search of state ESOL associations, regional bodies, education departments and booking platforms across New York, Michigan, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts and Delaware (10 September, 50 sources) found no school ESOL conference anywhere on 14 September, so it is a state not covered, a private or district event rather than a published conference, or a wrong date. The day has now gone and nobody asked Ross for the invitation. So those four still need to come from Ross before anything can be planned or budgeted around it.
£354 – £658.80Range as held on the calendar; the tier breakdown behind it is not recorded
Expected outcomes
Preparation for MAT-level Ofsted inspection, expected from 2027: how it differs from school inspection, the strategic role of trustees and executive leaders, articulating the trust’s vision and improvement strategy, trust-wide safeguarding oversight, and what counts as credible trust-level evidence and self-evaluation.
Who attends
MAT executive teams and boards — explicitly pitched as a strategic, executive-level event. The most senior audience of any September date.
FreeOpen to everyone in early years and childcare; places are limited and ticketed
Expected outcomes
SEND in early childhood — inclusive practice strategies and resources, interactive panel discussions, and a day of SEND CPD and networking. One leg of a national roadshow that closes on Early Years SENCO Day.
Who attends
Early years educators, nursery and childcare staff, parents and EY professionals — practitioner level rather than commissioning.
Not published online — booked on enquiry.Westminster Insight, 0345 647 9000
Expected outcomes
Safeguarding and multi-agency response to the 143,500 children reported missing education in 2024/25; Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 duties; exploitation and county-lines safeguarding. 6 CPD hours; speakers include Dame Carol Homden (Coram) and Peter Hughes (Mossbourne Federation).
Who attends
LA CME officers, education welfare managers, virtual school heads, headteachers, designated safeguarding leads and school improvement advisers — mid to senior LA and school leadership.
09:30–15:45
October 2026
19 events
Thu–Fri01– 02 Oct
MATPN 2026/27
Apex City of Bath, Bath
£9,749.25 +VAT, 25% offDeclined 9 Sep
Cost
Invite-only — no attendee ticket, so a sponsor package is the only way in. Silver £9,749.25 +VAT · Premium Silver £12,749.25 +VATBoth figures are after a one-off 25 per cent discount, confirmed in writing by Millie-Mae O’Neill on 26 Aug 2026, saving £3,249.75 and £4,249.75 respectively. 2026 list prices, all +VAT: Bronze £7,999 · Silver £12,999 · Premium Silver £16,999 · Gold £19,999 day two or £20,999 day one (min 18 1:1s and a 20 minute presentation) · Platinum £31,999 · Headline £44,999. The £11,999 and £15,999 previously held here were 2025 introductory rates and are superseded. Payment 30 days from signing, or 20:40:40 on request
Expected outcomes
For delegates: peer benchmarking, a co-created “Action Manifesto”, vendor 1:1s and “Dragons’ Den” pitches. For a sponsor at either Silver tier: a guaranteed minimum of 9 one-to-one meetings with up to 14 possible, and all delegate contact data, which Millie confirmed on 26 Aug is included at Silver as well as Premium Silver. Premium Silver adds the Dragons’ Den slot — a 60 second pitch to the full room, which is itself a way of generating extra meetings. A 20 minute stage presentation starts at Gold.
Who attends
99 confirmed delegates from 65 trusts — senior MAT leadership: CEOs, CFOs, COOs and Directors of Education (37 CEO-level, 46 C-suite).
08:00–08:30 (next day)
Declined on Tuesday 9 September at 14:00 — this is now a record, not an offer
A partner pulled out of this event after paying a deposit, because their head of education left the business, and PNE released the package at 25 per cent off. Every figure came back in writing on 26 August, so nothing was ever outstanding with PNE; the hold lapsed on 28 August and the answer went on 9 September. The reply released the package, gave one reason — the marketing budget is committed to a large number of smaller activities — named no figures, and left the return path open. Still owed: Millie replied asking when we will plan for 2027 and attached PNE’s confirmed 2027 event list, which has not been opened or answered. Contact Millie-Mae O’Neill, millie@pne-uk.com; Luke Edwards is copied on the thread. Her direct mobile is on the calendar entry and in the email thread, and is deliberately kept off this page because the page is public.
Coventry Building Society Arena
£159 – £249 +VAT1 of 4 that day
Cost
£159 – £249 +VATSuper early £159 · Early bird £179 · Standard £249. Includes lunch, entry to Childcare & Education Expo National, 20% off Expo CPD seminars, the after-show party and the slides
Expected outcomes
Expert speakers on innovative practice, practical strategies and current research for helping every child with SEND thrive; building settings that are genuinely inclusive by design.
Who attends
Designed exclusively for early years leaders — owners, managers, lead SEND advisors, SENCOs, EY advisors and SLT leads. A decision-maker audience, unlike the free roadshow dates.
Utilita Arena Cardiff, Wales
£10 – £201 of 4 that day
Cost
£10 – £20The cheapest ticket on the whole calendar — a broad-access show rather than an executive event
Expected outcomes
Wales’s leading education event: over 50 CPD-accredited seminars plus a supplier exhibition, covering classroom practice, inclusion, leadership and staff support.
Who attends
Welsh school staff across the full range of roles, from classroom teachers to leadership. The only Wales-based date in the set.
Not on the calendar entry.Worth pricing before the two paid SEND dates later in the month, since the audience here is the most senior
Expected outcomes
The future of SEND provision against the rollout of the SEND and Alternative Provision Improvement Plan: rising demand, inconsistency between areas, workforce pressures, multi-agency collaboration, and implementing the SEND Code of Practice across education, health and care.
Who attends
Senior leaders, practitioners and policymakers together — the cross-sector education, health and care mix, with policy people in the room.
£355 – £520 +VATVoluntary sector £355 · Public sector £395 · Private sector £520 — Purple Ruler would pay the private rate
Expected outcomes
AP policy and practice against the Schools White Paper and SEND reform, including the £860m 2026–27 investment behind roughly 11,000 new SEND and AP places. Safeguarding for complex needs, accountability frameworks, early intervention and post-16 pathways. 8 CPD points plus an e-guide and the slides.
Who attends
Primary, secondary, FE and HE providers, government education policy leads, charities and think tanks; teachers, trustees, policy managers and academics. Mixed seniority. Context cited: 37% of children need extra learning support at some point (Nuffield 2025) and AP placements are up 30.2% since 2020 (DfE 2025).
FreeFree entry to a heads-and-trust-leaders audience — unusual, and worth checking how it is funded
Expected outcomes
Keynotes plus a self-curated day: bespoke sessions across six themed rooms running both morning and afternoon, so delegates deep-dive on their own priorities. Follows nEdEx’s record-breaking March 2026 conference.
Who attends
Headteachers, trust leaders and senior staff. A senior audience at no ticket cost.
Business Design Centre, London
Free1 of 5 on 9 Oct
Cost
FreeThe only two-day free event on the calendar
Expected outcomes
Affordable, practical, effective SEND CPD — 30 years of supporting front-line teaching and support staff, drawing on practitioners, leaders and lecturers. Positions inclusion as an opportunity to share rather than a problem to solve.
Who attends
Front-line teaching and support staff above all, plus leaders and lecturers. Described as the UK’s leading SEND event, so the largest audience of the five on 9 October.
Graeme Hick Pavilion, Worcester
Free1 of 5 on 9 Oct
Cost
Free
Expected outcomes
Good practice in pastoral care and support that builds inclusion and a sense of belonging: keynotes on current thinking, practice presentations on effective pastoral support, and a Question Time panel.
Who attends
Pastoral leads and staff working directly with children and young people on personal development — the closest audience fit to one-to-one and reintegration work.
Macdonald Burlington Hotel, Birmingham
Free1 of 5 on 9 Oct
Cost
Free
Expected outcomes
Building and sustaining the culture of high-performing teams — how clarity, collaboration and disciplined execution drive lasting improvement. Expert speakers, practical workshops and sector-leading partners.
Who attends
Named as a must for CEOs, headteachers, COOs, CFOs, business managers and HR managers. The most commercially senior free event in the whole set.
A community day for the Kent SEND community: psychologists, speech and language therapists, teachers and authors, alongside exhibitors including specialist schools, charities, therapists and SEND businesses.
Who attends
Parents and carers first, with Kent SEND professionals alongside them. Family-facing rather than a commissioner audience — the outlier on this date.
FreeFree for everyone in EY and childcare; limited ticketed places
Expected outcomes
The finale of the Early Years SEND Roadshow, held on Early Years SENCO Day as a conference and celebration: inclusive practice, interactive panels, SEND CPD and networking.
Who attends
Early years educators, nursery and childcare staff, parents and EY professionals — the third of the three roadshow dates on this calendar.
Inclusive teaching built through responsive practice, combining Teaching WalkThrus techniques with Formative Action Loops — Tom Sherrington and Valentina Devid’s work. Think Pair Share, Cold Call, Show Me Boards, Check for Understanding, live modelling and guided practice, used to surface understanding, catch misconceptions in real time, design re-teaching routines and verify that learning has stuck.
Who attends
Leaders, teachers and coaches. The only genuinely pedagogical, classroom-practice date on the calendar — everything else is policy, commissioning or exhibition.
Not published — enquire or book online.No tiers or group rates disclosed on the public listing
Expected outcomes
Halving the disadvantage GCSE gap under the 2026 White Paper; Pupil Premium funding-eligibility changes; evidence-based PP strategy under tighter Ofsted scrutiny; targeted cohorts including SEND, looked-after children and coastal communities. 6 CPD hours plus a 14-day on-demand replay.
Who attends
Pupil Premium leads, finance teams, SLT, governors and trustees, pastoral and attendance leads, virtual school heads and SENDCOs — across primary, secondary, trusts, PRUs and LAs.
Not yet known.Enquiry drafted 13 Aug 2026 to conference@cstuk.org.uk, asking the provider rate and whether non-member providers can attend as delegates at all
Expected outcomes
Theme is “Connecting”: how the sector and civic leaders respond to the ambitions of the White Paper and the SEND reforms, treating relationships from classrooms to systems as an underestimated driver of change.
Who attends
School trust leaders, chief executives and executive teams. Billed as the biggest conference for trust leaders in the country, so the densest room of trust decision-makers in the year.
Lancashire County Council, Commercial Contract Management · added 5 Oct
County Hall, Pitt Street, Preston
FreeBooked 5 Oct
Cost
FreeBooked on 5 October 2026 through the council’s own event page, registered under Daniel’s email, so the confirmation goes to him. Organiser contact: CommercialContractManagement@lancashire.gov.uk
Expected outcomes
Practical guidance on the council’s tender opportunities, how to bid for public sector contracts and how its buying process works, plus one-to-one discussions with the buying team and networking with other suppliers to Children’s Services.
Who attends
Lancashire County Council’s Children’s Services buyers, and suppliers who work in or want to work in that market, with a stated welcome for small businesses and voluntary, community and social enterprises. Lancashire is already one of our biggest councils, with more than 11,000 lessons taught there, so we arrive as an existing supplier rather than a newcomer.
~£279 +VAT concessionary/charity rate cited online.Unverified on the booking page itself — standard, public and private tiers are not published; 10% online discount; group rates on request
Expected outcomes
White Paper SEND reforms and the tiered support model, Individual Support Plans, EHCP changes, SEND funding reform, and Ofsted’s inclusion-focused inspections. 6 CPD hours plus a certificate.
Who attends
Headteachers, SENDCOs, educational psychologists, school improvement officers, LA SEND commissioners and MAT inclusion directors; speakers include DfE officials and trust CEOs.
Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) · added 26 Oct
Online form
DeadlineFree
Cost
Free to propose, and free to deliver if picked.Download the Word form, fill it in and upload it on the ASCL page. Late proposals are not considered
Expected outcomes
Workshops are the only speaking route left at the March conference: the main-stage slots are all taken. About 55 workshops this year, up from 40. More than one proposal is allowed, and one that is not picked can be offered at another ASCL event instead. Sean Breslin’s steer on 23 Oct: the in-school inclusion centre or the attainment gap through high-impact tutoring fit best, and the panel likes real case studies from schools.
Who attends
Proposals are picked by ASCL’s policy specialists and training team.
£135 – £190Early bird member £135 · early bird non-member £160 · full member £165 · full non-member £190 — membership of Dyslexia Scotland is worth £25–30 here
Expected outcomes
Skills and knowledge aimed squarely at Scotland’s dyslexia attainment gap. Keynote from Louise Selby on morphology as an alternative reading method, plus in-depth workshops on dyslexia-focused interventions for primary and secondary settings.
Who attends
Scottish primary and secondary teachers and support staff. The only Scotland-based date, and the only one held on a Saturday.
Free to attendConfirmed on the organiser’s own site. That makes it the cheapest room of decision-makers anywhere on this calendar. Not yet confirmed: whether a commercial provider attends free or only school and council staff, and what exhibiting costs
Expected outcomes
The South East’s largest education exhibition and conference, CPD accredited: a conference programme, workshops, and an exhibition of suppliers to schools and academies.
Who attends
Head teachers, finance directors, bursars, business managers, governors, local authority education leaders, PTAs, IT managers and senior leadership teams, across state, academy and private sectors. It names local authority education leaders in its own audience description, which very few events on this calendar do.
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Found while looking for something else — and it is the opposite of what was expected
This was added on 28 August during a search for practitioner-facing events, on the strength of a listing describing it as being about “learning and teaching”. Reading the organiser’s own audience description corrected that: it is a leadership and commissioning room, not a teaching one. That makes it more useful rather than less, and free. The catch is the date: it is the same day NCASC opens in Liverpool, and NCASC has still not replied to the 13 August enquiry, so that trade cannot be settled yet.
Not yet known.Enquiry drafted 13 Aug 2026 to ncasc@adcs.org.uk. Delegate booking opened early in 2026, so places may already be moving. Exhibition enquiries go via Lee Westney
Expected outcomes
Three days on delivering effective services for children, young people and adults, across the whole of children’s and adults’ social care and education.
Who attends
Directors of children’s services, senior local authority leaders and elected members. These are the people who hold and sign off the placement budgets for SEND and alternative provision, which makes this the closest audience match on the whole calendar.
Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) · added 26 Oct
Birmingham
£1,150 + VAT stand
Cost
£1,150 + VAT for a 2×1m stand, or £1,000 each if we book two to four ASCL events.Stand comes with a table, two chairs, power, a short introduction to the room in the main session, our logo on the event page, a one-page PDF in the delegate pack and two staff places. Book by email to exhibitions@ascl.org.uk. From Sean Breslin’s list of smaller events, sent 23 Oct. To decide; nothing booked
Expected outcomes
Was called the Autumn Leadership Conference. ASCL specialists lead sessions, with time for discussion and workshops, and a curated exhibition of education services. Four cities in eight days. Under four weeks away, so tight for stand materials.
Who attends
Only senior leaders can join ASCL: assistant heads and above, through to heads, trust chief executives and business leaders. Members are about 44% assistant heads, 22% deputies, 20% heads, 5% trust chiefs and 9% business leaders.
NEC Birmingham
£14,800 – £17,950 +VATDeclined 9 Sep
Cost
3m × 2m stand £6,300 · 3m × 3m £9,450 SEND theatre speaking slot £8,500, charged on top Together: £14,800 or £17,950 +VATFull packages quoted by David Hickey, GovNet, 18 Aug 2026. The £6,300 buys 6 square metres of shell scheme with name board, lights, 500W power and carpet, a website listing, a 100 word profile in the event guide, 2 stand passes and pre-event marketing support. The £9,450 buys 9 square metres and 5 passes. The £8,500 case study package is a 30 minute session in a theatre of your choice, branding on the signage outside it, a leaflet drop on every chair, and the contact details of everyone who attends the session (name, job title, organisation, email, phone, interest area), subject to opt-outs. Attending without a stand remains £799 +VAT a head, show access only. A further 5 per cent per show is available for booking Birmingham 2026 and London 2027 together
Expected outcomes
A large exhibition rather than a closed conference, supported by the Department for Education. The co-located EdTech Summit and Independent Schools Conference are part of the show and are not charged separately, so one exhibition package reaches all three audiences. Every exhibitor also gets ConnectEd, their meeting platform, which opens six weeks before the show so you can book one-to-ones with visitors in advance, with their team helping set them up. Booking is a simple e-signature, not a long contract.
Who attends
3,500–4,000 unique visitors: over 1,000 schools and academies, 620 individual trusts across the last two shows, and 75% of the top 50 trusts. Over 80% of school and trust attendees are on their senior leadership team. The local authority share is about 15 per cent — the figure that decides this one for us, answered on 17 August. Separately, 47% of all registered attendees name SEND and inclusion as a key reason for attending, which is the strongest audience signal on this calendar.
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Three sample delegate lists came with the packages, and one of them is the best evidence on this page
GovNet sent three lists of past attendees as pictures inside the emails, which is why they were missed at first. One is SEND-specific, and it is the single most useful document in this whole review. It names real councils in the room — East Riding of Yorkshire, Hampshire, North Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire and West Northants — and the job titles are exactly the people who commission what we do: Head of SEN, Director of SEND and Inclusion, Trust SEND Lead, Designated Clinical Officer for Children Young People and Families, Designated Medical Officer SEND, Inclusion Manager, Lead Auditor SEND, Practice Lead SEND, SENCO and SEND Nurse. The other two lists are the general show: London Borough of Islington and Leeds City Council alongside trusts including Astrea, United-scale names such as The Khalsa and Woodard, Heart of Mercia, Invictus, Kenilworth, Endeavour and Wessex, with the titles running CEO, CFO, COO, Director of Education, Director of School Improvement and Head of Post 16.
Fully answered, then declined on 9 September — kept here as the record
Everything asked on 13 August has been answered. The local authority share is 15 per cent; the speaking slot is £8,500 on top of a stand, not included in one; and the stand contents are itemised above. What remains is scarcity and a date. One SEND theatre slot is left, day two at 11.20am, which David said on 25 August he would try to hold although another company had been asking that week. Stand J47 was expected to sell the same day, leaving the left side of C49 as the best remaining 3m × 3m. Zoe promised an answer by Friday 5 September; it went on Tuesday 9 September at 13:57, and it was a no. Between the promise and the answer his content team opened an extra SEND theatre session for us after the last had sold, reserved the stand opposite it, and he chased on the 4th, 8th and 9th. He replied the same afternoon asking “do the team seem more value in smaller events?” — that question is still unanswered. Contact David Hickey, David.Hickey@govnet.co.uk; while he is away, matt.purnell@govnet.co.uk or joe.hames@govnet.co.uk.
Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) · added 26 Oct
Manchester
£1,150 + VAT stand
Cost
£1,150 + VAT for a 2×1m stand, or £1,000 each if we book two to four ASCL events.Stand comes with a table, two chairs, power, a short introduction to the room in the main session, our logo on the event page, a one-page PDF in the delegate pack and two staff places. Book by email to exhibitions@ascl.org.uk. From Sean Breslin’s list of smaller events, sent 23 Oct. To decide; nothing booked
Expected outcomes
Was called the Autumn Leadership Conference. ASCL specialists lead sessions, with time for discussion and workshops, and a curated exhibition of education services. Four cities in eight days. Under four weeks away, so tight for stand materials.
Who attends
Only senior leaders can join ASCL: assistant heads and above, through to heads, trust chief executives and business leaders. Members are about 44% assistant heads, 22% deputies, 20% heads, 5% trust chiefs and 9% business leaders.
Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) · added 26 Oct
Leeds
£1,150 + VAT stand
Cost
£1,150 + VAT for a 2×1m stand, or £1,000 each if we book two to four ASCL events.Stand comes with a table, two chairs, power, a short introduction to the room in the main session, our logo on the event page, a one-page PDF in the delegate pack and two staff places. Book by email to exhibitions@ascl.org.uk. From Sean Breslin’s list of smaller events, sent 23 Oct. To decide; nothing booked
Expected outcomes
Was called the Autumn Leadership Conference. ASCL specialists lead sessions, with time for discussion and workshops, and a curated exhibition of education services. Four cities in eight days. Under four weeks away, so tight for stand materials.
Who attends
Only senior leaders can join ASCL: assistant heads and above, through to heads, trust chief executives and business leaders. Members are about 44% assistant heads, 22% deputies, 20% heads, 5% trust chiefs and 9% business leaders.
Not published — enquire directly.By analogy with Westminster Insight’s other 2026 events: roughly £299–379 +VAT public sector, higher private rate, 10% online discount, group rates on request — unconfirmed for this event
Expected outcomes
The four-tier AP support model (Universal, Targeted, Targeted Plus, Specialist), “Experts at Hand” early-intervention frameworks, quality assurance of non-school AP, and the December 2026 inclusion strategy requirements.
Who attends
Headteachers, CEOs and senior AP leaders, inclusion, behaviour and attendance leads, virtual school heads, LA officials, youth offending teams and health commissioners.
Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) · added 26 Oct
London
£1,150 + VAT stand
Cost
£1,150 + VAT for a 2×1m stand, or £1,000 each if we book two to four ASCL events.Stand comes with a table, two chairs, power, a short introduction to the room in the main session, our logo on the event page, a one-page PDF in the delegate pack and two staff places. Book by email to exhibitions@ascl.org.uk. From Sean Breslin’s list of smaller events, sent 23 Oct. To decide; nothing booked
Expected outcomes
Was called the Autumn Leadership Conference. ASCL specialists lead sessions, with time for discussion and workshops, and a curated exhibition of education services. Four cities in eight days. Under four weeks away, so tight for stand materials.
Who attends
Only senior leaders can join ASCL: assistant heads and above, through to heads, trust chief executives and business leaders. Members are about 44% assistant heads, 22% deputies, 20% heads, 5% trust chiefs and 9% business leaders.
Not on the calendar entry.Same organiser as the 7 October AP Conference, where tiers run £355–£520 +VAT — a reasonable expectation, but unconfirmed
Expected outcomes
Connects Get Britain Working reforms — the Youth Guarantee, Growth and Skills Levy, Youth Jobs Grant and the biggest apprenticeship reforms in a decade — to organisational delivery, with engagement strategies, youth voice and employer engagement. Context cited: 1,012,000 16–24s NEET (ONS 2026), projected to reach 1.25m by 2031, at an estimated £104,300 cost to the economy per case (Policy Connect 2025).
Who attends
Cross-sector: education providers, employment support, employers and policy leads. The longest day on the calendar at seven and a half hours.
Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) · added 26 Oct
London
£1,150 + VAT stand
Cost
£1,150 + VAT for a 2×1m stand, or £1,000 each if we book two to four ASCL events.Stand comes with a table, two chairs, power, a short introduction to the room in the main session, our logo on the event page, a one-page PDF in the delegate pack and two staff places. Book by email to exhibitions@ascl.org.uk. From Sean Breslin’s list of smaller events, sent 23 Oct. To decide; nothing booked
Expected outcomes
One-day conference on leading digital change and AI in schools and colleges.
Who attends
Only senior leaders can join ASCL: assistant heads and above, through to heads, trust chief executives and business leaders. Members are about 44% assistant heads, 22% deputies, 20% heads, 5% trust chiefs and 9% business leaders.
Not published — sold via Eventbrite.An early-bird window was mentioned, closing 10 Sep 2026, but no figures were found publicly
Expected outcomes
“Inclusion by Design”, across four strands: SEND reform and universally inclusive classrooms; reducing exclusion; family and community voice and belonging; and inclusive leadership. 900 attendees, 40 workshops, 35 exhibitors.
Who attends
MAT leaders, headteachers and senior leaders across mainstream, AP and special schools, plus LAs, health professionals, funders and charities — leadership-skewed, and the largest single audience on the calendar.
ExCeL London
Sponsorship £2,500 – £46,000Same week as IncludEd
Cost
Exhibiting price still not quoted in writing.A call was held on 18 Aug 2026 and a proposal followed the same day, but it is a live web page rather than a document or an attachment: proposal.bettshow.com. Stand pricing sits on a tab inside it, alongside the floorplan, the audience insights and an education priorities report. No figure from it has been repeated back to us in an email, so there is still nothing dated or signed to put in a budget, and the page can change underneath us. The only numbers Hyve have written down remain the sponsorship range: over 100 items from £2,500 for a razor-screen advert up to £46,000 to sponsor the Government Lounge, which carries branding plus staff access to the room where government officials sit. Stand prices vary by location, stand type and number of open sides
Expected outcomes
The largest education technology exhibition in the world: 37,616 unique attendees, 59,535 total footfall, 809 exhibitors and 550+ speakers across 130 countries. The one event in the year where being an online school is the proposition rather than a footnote. There is a dedicated SEND zone, separate from the teaching and learning solutions zone and with a different visitor profile, and nine themed theatres take speakers, SEND among them. What visitors say they came for is the awkward part: the top challenge is generative AI at 60%, then curriculum and assessment at 42%, with SEND third at 33%. On products, 41% want AI-powered solutions and only 14% name virtual learning environments including hybrid — the closest category to what we actually sell.
Who attends
Read at last, on 28 August, from the audience report Hyve attached on 14 August — and it is not the audience we assumed. Of 37,616 unique attendees, 42% were international and 7,512 were other solution providers, roughly one in five people in the building. 16,605 came from education institutions. Of those, state schools are 42.4% and multi-academy trusts only 9.6%, which is about 1,600 people. Private and independent schools are 24.9%, a quarter of the education audience and not our market. There is no local authority category in the breakdown at all — the nearest is “Government, National Group or Trade Agency” at 1,551 people, and that count includes UNESCO, the OECD and overseas ministries. On seniority: 12.7% are C-level, 15.5% senior leadership, 18.1% head of department or director, while 19.2% are teaching staff and 11.8% support staff. A quarter of attendees hold budget responsibility under $10,000.
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A proposal landed, the questions are still open, and Hyve have never been given an answer
Gary Kakoullis sent the proposal page on 18 August after that day’s call, and Zoe confirmed on 21 August that it is under review across the whole 2026/27 events budget. Question three is now substantially answered, not by Hyve but by reading the report they attached on 14 August and nobody opened until 28 August: see the audience breakdown above. Three questions remain unanswered in writing: the entry-level price to exhibit, whether a provider may attend as a visitor without a stand and what that costs, and the deadline for proposing a SEND theatre session. Nothing has come in from Hyve since 24 August and nothing has gone out since 21 August. Gary was due back from leave on 7 September and has not written. On the 9 September reasoning the answer here is a no as well, and Hyve are the only organiser who have not been told — Doug Fairbrother, Head of New Business for Bett Global, has been covering (doug.fairbrother@bettshow.com). The practical ask is short: put the smallest stand price in an email. One caveat on the report: it is Bett UK 2026 data being used to sell the 2027 show, which is normal practice but means every figure describes a show that has already happened.
Four days after IncludEd, also in London
The IncludEd Conference runs 16 and 17 January at the UCL Institute of Education, and Bett opens on the 20th at ExCeL. Two London events inside one week, so they could be handled as a single trip with one set of travel and accommodation costs rather than two.
Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) · added 26 Oct
London
£1,150 + VAT stand
Cost
£1,150 + VAT for a 2×1m stand, or £1,000 each if we book two to four ASCL events.Stand comes with a table, two chairs, power, a short introduction to the room in the main session, our logo on the event page, a one-page PDF in the delegate pack and two staff places. Book by email to exhibitions@ascl.org.uk. From Sean Breslin’s list of smaller events, sent 23 Oct. To decide; nothing booked
Expected outcomes
One-day conference on reading, writing and speaking across the curriculum. The closest ASCL fit for our English language offer.
Who attends
Only senior leaders can join ASCL: assistant heads and above, through to heads, trust chief executives and business leaders. Members are about 44% assistant heads, 22% deputies, 20% heads, 5% trust chiefs and 9% business leaders.
Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) · added 26 Oct
The ICC, Birmingham
Quote receivedAcademy 21 is ASCL’s partner
Cost
Standard 3×2m stand £3,200 + VAT, with up to 15% off offered (about £2,720). Premium 4×3m £5,800 said on the call, £5,950 in the price list, with up to 20% off offered; only two left. Prices cover both days.Not booked. Waits on Daniel’s OK on the spend and on where Academy 21 books; Sean Breslin will say when it does, or by the end of November. The booking form is binding, with no cancellation. Contact Sean.Breslin@ascl.org.uk, 0116 299 1122
Expected outcomes
Theme: “Shaping a Fairer Future”. The Secretary of State for Education is expected. Up to 87 exhibitors. Exhibitors appear on the conference website once booked, and in the app from about January. ASCL never shares delegate lists; details can only be collected at our own stand, with consent. Friday and Saturday morning are busy, Saturday afternoon quiet (Mother’s Day weekend). About 550 came to the Friday evening drinks last year.
Who attends
Just over 1,200 school and college leaders in each of the last two years, with more expected this year. About 75% secondary. Delegates pay £250 to £500 a ticket, so people who book turn up, and all are assistant head or above.
The Eastside Rooms, Birmingham
On enquiryDeadline missed — no reply
Cost
Not published for 2027 — exhibitor stand pricing on enquiry.Two addresses are in play: the stand enquiry route on file is conference@navsh.org.uk, but both speaking emails went to info@navsh.org.uk. Stands are tiered and released in two phases, half in each, so a later stand enquiry is not necessarily shut out. Historic reference only: the 2021 online conference charged £100 exc VAT for the first four delegates from one team and £50 after — a virtual delegate rate, no guide to an in-person stand
Expected outcomes
Children in care, care-experienced young people and children with a social worker — how identity, lived experience and systemic inequality intersect in their lives. The one date on this calendar aimed squarely at the virtual school audience.
Who attends
Virtual School Heads and Virtual School Teams, with leaders, practitioners and policy makers. Purple Ruler cannot buy a delegate ticket — NAVSH restricts those to VSHs and their teams. The routes in are an exhibitor stand, or a speaking or hosting slot.
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The speaking deadline had already closed — and there has been no reply to either email
This is weaker than it first looked. NAVSH’s Call for Speakers closed on 31 July 2026, before we wrote, so the 12 August email is not an application sitting in a queue — it asks NAVSH to accept a late expression of interest, which they are under no obligation to do. Zoe chased on 18 August, adding the delivery footprint. Neither email has been answered: ten days since the chase, sixteen since the first. One thing the exchange does settle: a 2027 conference is being planned, because there was a published call for speakers with a theme around leading teams through change — so the earlier note here saying NAVSH had published nothing for 2027 is wrong. It still does not confirm these March dates, which remain an expectation against a 10–11 March 2026 precedent at the same venue, so hold off on travel. If it does land, we have promised a 48 hour turnaround on a session title, a 250–300 word overview, the format, a speaker biography and relevant experience — none of which is drafted. That is worth writing now rather than after a yes arrives with the clock already running. The entry’s description, which previously held text about “the navigation and shipping sectors”, was corrected on the calendar on 13 August 2026.
June 2027
1 event
Tue–Thu01– 03 Jun
2027 Teacher Leader Summit
Louisiana Department of Education
New Orleans Convention Center, USA
USD, booth fee
Cost
Booth fee not stated — and priced in USD, the only non-sterling entry.Each booth covers registration for 2 attendants; additional attendants are $249 each
Expected outcomes
This is an exhibitor invitation, not a delegate ticket. The LDOE is inviting approved professional learning partners and non-profits aligned to its priorities to apply for the Education Expo, which connects Louisiana educators with partners outside the scheduled sessions for Q&A, relationship building and sharing practice.
Who attends
Louisiana birth-to-grade-12 educators, preparing for the 2027–28 school year. Exhibitors are LDOE-approved professional learning partners and non-profits — Purple Ruler is LDOE-approved, so eligibility is settled and only the booth fee is outstanding.
Hard deadline — applications close 29 Jan 2027Payment due 16 Apr 2027Applications open mid-Aug 2026Optional briefing webinar 17 Aug, 10:00 — recorded, so not a deadline
One inference to be aware of
The invitation gives the webinar as “August 17th at 10 a.m.” with no year and no time zone. It has to be August 2026, because the same paragraph says the application window opens mid-August and closes in January 2027. 10:00 in Louisiana is Central time, so 16:00 UK. A recording goes on the LDOE website either way.
nasen — the national association for special educational needs · added 28 Aug
Birmingham expected — unconfirmed
£109 in 2026Date NOT confirmed
Cost
£109 at the 2026 editionIncluding lunch and refreshments. Nothing is published for 2027, so treat this as the best available guide rather than a price. Around a hundred pounds a head for the densest room of SENCOs in the year
Expected outcomes
A full day of practical SEND CPD. The 2026 edition ran 20 sessions with 40+ speakers on the theme “Inspiring SEND Innovation Through Times of Change”, covering SEND reform, inclusive practice, early intervention, assistive technology, parental partnership and specialist-mainstream collaboration. Speakers included Annamarie Hassall MBE, Adam Boddison OBE, Lorraine Petersen OBE and Barry Carpenter CBE.
Who attends
SENCOs, teaching assistants, tutors, support staff, teachers, early years practitioners, educational psychologists, inclusion managers and leaders, newly qualified teachers, senior leaders, head teachers, governors, consultants and students, alongside parents and carers. The most precisely matched practitioner audience on the calendar for a SEND and alternative provision business.
All day
The date on this entry is an expectation, not a booking
nasen has published nothing for 2027. This sits on the first Friday of July 2027 purely by analogy with nasen LIVE 2026, which ran on Friday 3 July 2026 at The Vox, Resort World, NEC Birmingham. Confirm before booking anything. No enquiry has been sent — worth asking for the 2027 date, the delegate rate and exhibitor options in one message. Why it matters commercially: a SENCO does not sign the contract, but very often names the provider, and this is where they are.
Unknown — no enquiry has been sent.Still to ask: the delegate rate, whether a provider can attend without a stand, exhibitor and sponsor costs, and the deadline for proposing a session
Expected outcomes
Two days at Wellington College. The 2026 edition drew 6,000+ attendees and more than 500 speakers. Its character is CPD and ideas rather than procurement, so the value here is reach and reputation, not a stand full of buyers.
Who attends
Overwhelmingly the people who deliver teaching: classroom teachers, middle leaders, subject leads and senior leaders. Over 80% come from state-funded schools and further education colleges. The largest practitioner gathering in the country, and nothing else on this calendar is close on volume.
All day
The biggest room on the calendar, and nobody has contacted them
6,000 people is more than the Schools & Academies Show and MATPN combined, at a fraction of the seniority but a fraction of the price too, presumably — though that is an assumption, because no enquiry has gone in. It also sits at the very edge of this calendar, after the Louisiana summit and in the middle of the summer term, which is a genuine constraint on who could go.
Documents on file
9 held · all now read
Everything an organiser has actually sent us, and where it is. This list was added on 28 August after a check found that several documents had arrived and never been opened — including the one that answered a question this page had been calling unanswered for a fortnight. Nothing here is a link to a public website; these are the things sent to us directly.
US school ESOL research
2 items · added 11 Sep 2026
Where they are
~/Downloads checked 10 Sep 2026
What we hold
School-ESOL-Conferences-2026-27.pdf — the written report. Six states, calendar 2026 and the 2026–27 school year to 31 August 2027. It holds 21 dedicated conference editions, 8 broader conferences with real English learner content, 5 smaller professional-learning programmes, a watchlist of organisers who have not yet announced a date, and 50 sources with the date each was checked.
School-ESOL-Conference-Tracker-2026-27.xlsx — the same material as a working tracker, six tabs. Every row carries start and end dates, how it is delivered, the venue, school relevance, caveats, contact, published fees, deadlines and next action, the source numbers and a direct link. There is a column marking whether each entry falls inside the 2026–27 window, which is what the US section above was filtered on.
This is the first thing on this page that arrived already finished, rather than as a sales email needing to be chased. Its own caution is worth repeating: a blank field means not verified, not unavailable.
Bett UK
2 items · both now read
Where they are
Gary’s emails of 14 and 18 Aug 2026
What we hold
Bett UK 2026 Audience Insights Report 2.pdf, 11.3 MB, attached 14 August. Unopened for a fortnight. Read 28 August, and it answers the audience question the page had been carrying as unanswered. The findings are in the January entry above.
The proposal page, sent 18 August: proposal.bettshow.com. Tabs for stand pricing, floorplan, audience insights and an education priorities report. It is a web page, so it is not a dated record and can be changed by Hyve at any time.
Also on file: a voicemail from Gary, 14 August, saying much the same as his email.
Schools & Academies Show
5 items · all now read
Where they are
David’s emails of 17, 18 and 25 Aug 2026
What we hold
Three sample delegate lists, sent as images inside the emails rather than as attachments, which is why they were missed. One is SEND-specific and names five councils; see the November entry above. These are the strongest audience evidence in the whole review.
The floorplan: floorplan.live, showing stand C49 and the sold J47.
The package details themselves are in the body of the 18 August email, not a separate brochure, so the email is the quote. Keep it.
MATPN
4 items · in Downloads, from July
Where they are
~/Downloads sent by PNE, July 2026
What we hold
MATPN SW CSV Purple ruler.xlsx — the delegate intelligence file, and the valuable one. Columns for job title, organisation, budget responsibility, number of schools, responsibilities, key challenges and investment plans, and what type of supplier they want to meet. This is what the ranked list of eighteen one-to-one targets was built from.
MATPN Southwest 2026 Confirmed Delegates.xlsx — the 99 names, by job title and trust.
Hear from our sponsors - MATPN.pdf — testimonials from past sponsors, 0.7 MB. Sales material, not evidence.
Two saved email files, MATPN.msg and Re_ MATPN.msg, holding the original June and July approach.
Note the dates: all of these are from July, and the pricing in them is the superseded 2025 rate card. Use the 26 August email for numbers, not these.
Louisiana — Teacher Leader Summit
1 item
Where it is
Forwarded by Daniel 7 Aug 2026
What we hold
Call for Exhibitors, Teacher Leader Summit 2027. This is the source of every figure on the June 2027 entry: the two included attendants, the $249 per extra attendant, the 29 January application deadline and the 16 April payment date. It never states the booth fee, which is why that is still the open question.
Everyone else
Nothing received
Covers 10 organisers
Westminster Insight · Government Events CST · NCASC · IGPP · NAVSH The Difference · nasen Festival of Education · Education People Show
What we hold
Nothing at all. No brochure, no rate card, no delegate list, no prospectus. Six were emailed on 13 August and have not replied. The Difference was asked through their web form, the only route they publish, and has not replied either.
The three added on 28 August have not been contacted at all yet — nasen, the Festival of Education and the Education People Show. Nothing has been asked of any of them.
Which means every cost on their entries above is either a public listing price or an inference from a sister event, and is marked as such.
Who to email
11 to send · 3 replies owed · 2 offers closed
Seventeen entries still need a cost or a confirmation — three added on 28 August and the two Michigan ones, none of the five ever contacted. The three big negotiations are over, or should be: MATPN and GovNet were both declined on 9 September, and Hyve have never been told anything at all. Those three now owe replies rather than needing chasing, and they are set out at the top of this page. Westminster Insight organises four of the rest and Government Events two, which is also the leverage: enquire once, across several events, and ask for a group rate. The soonest live deadline is 10 October, MITESOL’s exhibitor and sponsor cut-off, so that one goes first.
24 Oct 2026 · Michigan State University East Lansing
Most of it is already answered — three things are left
Prices are published and no longer need asking for. Bronze $500, Silver $1,000, Gold $1,500, non-attending $250, and a $150 Special Exhibitor Rate (a table only) on sale to 10 October. Seats $225 early, $250 standard; their own page gives two different early-bird end dates. Silver carries the attendee list and a session slot. Checked against their booking system on 18 September.
Ask whether a Silver session slot has to be booked by a date of its own, and what format it takes. That is the part with real value and the part most likely to run out.
Ask what an international exhibitor needs to know — shipping materials versus printing locally, and whether anyone needs to staff the table for it to be worth having.
Ask the split of attendees between the Early Childhood–K12, Adult Education and Post-Secondary sections. It is the one number that decides whether this is a school room or not.
Worth asking in the same message whether they know MABE Michigan’s next dates — that organiser’s own pages contradict each other and a peer body may simply know.
General enquiries, if Kristy is not the right person: info@mitesol.org.
12 Oct English learner day 13–14 Oct 2026 main conference Kellogg Conference Center, East Lansing
One question decides the rest — ask it first
May an outside provider be there at all, in any capacity? A state education department conference is not always open to suppliers, and nothing published offers an exhibitor or sponsor route. Until this is answered, nothing else about the date matters. Everything below is only worth asking if the answer is yes.
The cost of the 12 October English learner day, which is a separate ticket, and of the main conference.
Whether there is any exhibitor, sponsor or resource-table option, and what it costs.
How many of the room are district leaders as against school staff. Leadership fit is the only thing that would justify a transatlantic trip.
The cut-off for the $98 group hotel rate at the venue.
Contact found on 11 September: the Special Populations Conference Planning Committee, OESSpecialPops@michigan.gov or +1 517 241 6977. The state pages block automated reading, so this came from their published notices rather than the conference page itself.
30 Sep · Children Missing Education 14 Oct · Pupil Premium 20 Oct · SEND Reform 25 Nov · Alternative Provision
Ask for
The private-sector delegate rate for each of the four — none of them publish a price.
Whether the ~£279 concessionary rate cited for SEND Reform is real, and what the standard and private tiers actually are.
A group rate across all four bookings, and whether the 10% online discount stacks with it.
Whether the Alternative Provision Conference on 25 Nov sits on the same scale as their other 2026 events, which run roughly £299–379 +VAT public sector.
Two emails, no reply — and the deadline was already shut
The Call for Speakers closed 31 July 2026. Both emails ask NAVSH to take a late expression of interest, which is a favour, not a process.
Sent 12 Aug, chased 18 Aug, nothing back. Try conference@navsh.org.uk before concluding they are not interested — both emails so far went only to the info address.
Draft the submission now. We promised 48 hours for a session title, a 250–300 word overview, the format, a speaker bio and relevant experience. None of it exists, and a yes would start that clock immediately.
A 2027 conference is being planned — the call for speakers proves that. The 16–17 March dates are still unconfirmed, so ask about those in the same message before any travel.
Stand tiers and prices as the fallback, plus when phase one and phase two release.
Careful with one line already sent: the 18 Aug email names East Sussex Virtual School among those referring to us, and on 26 Aug we confirmed Purple Ruler no longer works with East Sussex. Do not repeat it until that is settled.
Silver £9,749.25 + VAT, Premium Silver £12,749.25 + VAT, both after 25 per cent off. VAT sits on top of those figures.
The 25 per cent can be applied to any Silver or Gold package, not only the one that was released.
Minimum 9 one-to-ones at either Silver, up to 14 possible. All delegate contact data included at both.
Payment 30 days from signing, or 20:40:40 if that suits better.
Dates confirmed 1–2 October, which settles the older PNE deck’s 14–15 October.
The only thing left is our answer
Millie offered on 24 August to hold a package “until the end of this week”, which is today. If the decision is not ready, the one email worth sending is a request to extend the hold, not silence.
Marc Davis replied on 13 August, said the email had landed in their junk folder, and handed it to Adam Wheeler (a.wheeler@igpp.org.uk) to answer. Nothing has come back in the fortnight since, and the event is on 6 October.
He signed off “hope to see you at the event”, which reads as though a provider can attend, but that is a courtesy line and not a confirmation. Still get it in writing.
Still needed: the delegate rate, the agenda, the split of attendees between local authority, health and school leadership, and exhibition or sponsorship options.
Chase Adam directly rather than the general inbox, and use 0204 530 9708 (08:30–16:30) if that fails.
The enquiry went in through their web form, which is the only route they publish. Nothing further is needed from us until they reply.
Asked: the delegate price, since it sells through Eventbrite and an early-bird window was mentioned closing 10 Sep 2026 with no figure published.
Asked: whether the price covers both days or is charged per day — the calendar holds it as 16–17 January.
Asked: exhibitor options and prices, since the last edition carried 35 exhibitors.
Asked: when the IncludEd 2027 site goes live, as they have said a new one with the full programme is still to come.
A web form leaves no copy in the sent folder, so there is no record of it on our side. If nothing comes back before 10 September, assume it did not land and chase another way.
The booth fee — the only real unknown left. It is never stated in the invitation; the only figure given is $249 for each attendant beyond the two a booth covers.
Eligibility is settled: Purple Ruler is already LDOE-approved, so this is a cost and logistics conversation, not a qualification one.
What a booth includes beyond the two registrations — stand size, furniture, listing in the programme.
Confirmation of the briefing webinar date and time, and the link to the recording.
Anything specific for an international exhibitor: shipping materials, or printing locally.
The provider delegate rate, and whether a non-member provider can attend as a delegate at all. CST is a trust membership body, so that is not a given.
Exhibition or sponsorship options alongside the conference, with costs.
Whether the two days are booked together or separately.
NCASC
ncasc@adcs.org.ukgeneral: team@adass.org.uk · exhibition: Lee Westney
Covers 1 event
11–13 Nov · NCASC 2026, ACC Liverpool
Ask for
The delegate rate, and whether a commercial provider may attend as a delegate or only via the exhibition. Many local-government conferences work that way.
Exhibition costs and what a stand includes.
Whether single days are available, since three days in Liverpool is a real cost.
Speaking or workshop opportunities and the deadline. Booking opened early in 2026, so this is the one to send soonest of the four.
Stands: £6,300 for 3m × 2m with 2 passes, £9,450 for 3m × 3m with 5 passes, both shell scheme with name board, lights, power, carpet, listing and a 100 word profile.
Speaking is a £8,500 case study package charged on top of a stand, not included in one. It carries the contact details of everyone who attends the session.
Local authority share: about 15 per cent. This was the number the decision turned on.
47% of registered attendees name SEND and inclusion as a key reason for coming.
Floorplan received; ConnectEd meeting platform included; 5 per cent off for booking Birmingham 26 and London 27 together.
What is left
Our answer, by Friday 5 September, promised in writing. Call booked that day.
One SEND theatre slot remains, day two at 11.20am, held informally against interest from another company.
A proposal arrived 18 Aug, but no figure in an email
Call held 18 August, proposal sent the same day as a live web page, not a document: stand pricing, floorplan, audience insights and an education priorities report on separate tabs.
The only written figures remain the sponsorship range, £2,500 to £46,000 across 100 plus items, plus a confirmed SEND zone and nine themed theatres.
The entry-level price to exhibit, and what the smallest stand includes.
Whether a provider can attend as a visitor without a stand, and what that costs.
How many attendees are UK local authority and trust decision-makers, as distinct from international visitors and other suppliers. The 37,000 headline says nothing useful on its own.
The deadline for proposing a SEND theatre session.
11 Nov 2026 · Kent Event Centre clashes with NCASC
Ask for
Whether a commercial provider can attend free, or whether the free ticket is for school and council staff only. That single answer decides whether this is worth anything to us.
Exhibitor costs, since the free ticket presumably does not include a stand.
How many local authority education leaders actually attend. They are named in the audience description, which is why this was added.
Ask alongside NCASC, not instead of it — the two are the same day and only one can be done.
The four things the calendar entry does not have: organiser, venue, cost and booking link.
The original invite, which is the only route to the organiser.
Whose attendance this is. ESL sits outside the Q3 remit, so it is worth settling whether this is a marketing date or an ESL-team date before it takes a day out of September.
It is the soonest unresolved entry on the calendar, so this is the first email to send.