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Creating a Sustainable School

What makes a sustainable school? Creating a Sustainable School explores approaches to technically advanced buildings and technology along with the funding and planning required to make the teaching of present and future pupils environmentally friendly.

With everything from ideas to bring the outside in and the reality of all-electric and carbon-neutral schools and nurseries, field experts lend their experiences of what is possible for your learning space.

Agenda

10.30	Welcome & Event Overview Host: Dave Smith, Head Partnerships & Events, British Educational Suppliers Association
10.40	How collaboration will get your school to net zero 2030 Lucy Archer, Climate Action Advisors Project Manager, Let's Go Zero
10.50	Best Practice Focus: Kingsley Education’s Earth Centre Jack Harty, Director of Earth Centre, Kingsley Education
11.00	Passivhaus: The Hackbridge Primary Project Christian Dimbleby, Architect & Chartered Engineer
11.10	Getting the most from sustainable tech Niel McLean, Head of Education, BCS – The Chartered Institute for IT
11.20	Electric Vehicle infrastructure Dave Butters, E.ON Drive UK Market Director
11.30	Live Q&A session including interactive polls - Submit your questions to the panel
12.00	Event Roundup & Close Dave Smith

Event timings and speakers are subject to change

Speakers

Dave Smith

Head of Content, British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA)
Dave joined BESA to lead on EdTech, including steering the content of BESA’s highly successful conferences and events. He is also a current school governor with a keen eye for sustainability issues, and as a former school inspector / EdTech adviser with an interest in sustainability, building projects (experience in Primary Capital Programme and Building Schools for the Future) and the role of technology and energy efficiency, Dave is a proven sustainability champion.

Niel McLean

Head of Education, BCS
Niel started as a teacher and local authority adviser developing the use of technology in the classroom. In the early 1990s he developed the first National Curriculum and qualifications for IT and Computing. As an executive director at the government’s technology agency, he created support services for schools and teachers and led the scheme providing technology to 250 000 low-income families. He has worked in senior roles in the private and charity sectors before joining BCS.

Jack Harty

Director of Earth Centre, Kingsley School Bideford
Jack has been in the world of environmental science for several years; graduating from Southampton University in collaboration with the National Oceanography Centre, before completing his teacher training at UCL. He was part of the team who opened Trinity Academy in Bristol where he curated the geography department.

Lucy Archer

Project Manager - Climate Action Advisors programme, Let’s Go Zero
Lucy is the Project Manager for the Climate Action Advisors programme within Let’s Go Zero, supporting schools on their journey to zero carbon. She manages a team of Climate Action Advisors who support school leaders, local authorities and others to carry out projects that reduce emissions, inspire young people and spark change in the wider community.

Christian Dimbleby

Associate, Architect & Chartered Engineer - Hackbridge Primary project
Christian is a dual-qualified Architect and CIBSE Chartered Engineer. Since joining Architype in 2004, he has developed a specialism of delivering radically low energy in-use and truly sustainable educational projects – from early years to university buildings.

Dave Butters

E.ON Drive UK Market Director
Dave plays a key role in setting and delivering the strategy for the E.ON Drive business, identifying risks and opportunities and developing our electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions into new markets. He has been with E.ON for over 10 years and has built up extensive experience in the energy industry. The E.ON Drive business provides market leading EV solutions, knowledge and expertise.

EON

E.ON is the one place for all your EV needs. We offer charging and infrastructure solutions, expert consultancy, end to end support and have years of experience helping a range of businesses including educational settings across the UK make their EV plans a reality.

British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA)

The British Educational Suppliers Association has an 85-year heritage serving the UK education sector, and represents over 300 educational suppliers in the UK, including manufacturers and distributors of equipment, materials, books, consumables, furniture, technology, ICT hardware and EdTech to the education market.

BCS - The Chartered Institute of IT

With more than 60,000 members in 150 countries, and a wider community of business leaders, educators, practitioners and policy-makers all committed to its mission, BCS’s agenda is to lead the IT industry through its ethical challenges, to support the people who work in the industry, and to make IT good for society.