AI is no longer on the horizon. It is already in your classrooms, your staffrooms, and your students’ homework. Last year, 85% of teachers and 86% of students used AI, and eight in ten teenagers now use it for their schoolwork.

The question facing every educational leader is no longer whether your school engages with AI. It is how well you lead through it.

Drawing on the latest global research, including the Microsoft 2026 Work Trend Index, Dan reveals why so many AI initiatives stall. The barrier is rarely tools or capability. It is leadership.

• Expose the four most common mistakes — schools make when adopting AI, from chasing lighthouse success stories to rolling out licences and hoping behaviour will follow.
• Reframe AI as a leadership issue — not an IT project, and show why that distinction changes everything.
• Introduce three decisive shifts — from policy to strategy, from digital literacy to cognitive partnership, and from incremental change to genuine transformation.
• Confront the defining question — how do we become places where our people learn to think with machines, without losing the ability to think without them?

Delegates leave with a sharper understanding of why behaviour, not capability, is now the true differentiator, and the confidence to lead deliberate, human-centred change.

Presenter Profile

Dan Fitzpatrick, The AI Educator, provides AI in education training, school AI strategy and consultancy for school leaders, teachers and education conferences. Dan is an internationally recognised keynote speaker, five-times bestselling author and Forbes contributor, leading the charge on safe and innovative AI adoption. An educator and former senior leader, Dan advises schools, governments and organisations around the world, working with leaders across the United States, UK, Middle East and beyond. He will leave you with clarity about what to do next, who should own it and what could get in the way.

Cost: £100 per delegate

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