​ABOUT THE EVENT

​A breakfast interactive panel with a workshop session at the Salesforce AI Centre, London.

​Five organisations shaping the future of AI in education, in one room, for one morning. Hosted by EduSolv AI.

​International education is under pressure. The tools to fix the most common challenges in the sector already exist. What most institutions are missing is a clear, honest picture: what these tools actually do, what they really cost in time and money, and how to bring them in the systems you are already have. The numbers are showing:

• ​82% of students need more proactive and personalised support from their institution than they did 5 years ago.

• ​54% of students would always prefer or would be happy to interact with an autonomous agent instead of a human if it is quicker.

• ​72% of institutions are looking to unify their data.
  
  (Source: Salesforce Connected Education Report. Fourth Edition)

​Why now

​In June 2026, the UK government held its first AI Adoption Summit during London Tech Week and made the message plain. The job now is not talking about AI. It is putting it to work, at scale, across the economy.

​What you will leave with

• ​An insightful discussion on where AI is heading to, what is reality, where it fits and what we can expect moving forward.

• ​AI-driven technologies and tools that institutions can implement for their teams and students.

• ​The emerging technologies and trends worth watching, including AI voice agents and autonomous agentic systems that automate repetitive tasks while your teams focus on activities that need human interaction and judgement.

• ​Real examples of what is working in the education sector and use cases your teams can use the following day.

​WHO THIS IS FOR

​Senior leaders in international education making decisions about student recruitment, admissions, academics, technology or commercial growth:

• ​C-suite, VPs, Directors, heads of department and decision-makers in schools and higher education institutions

• ​Owners and directors of vocational, summer and language schools

• ​Education agency owners and senior leaders

​THE AGENDA

​9:30 - Arrival, breakfast and networking

​10:15 - Welcome and opening from the Salesforce AI Centre team

​10:30 - Interactive panel discussion, structured around key questions, facts and figures, data, use cases and real challenges faced by institutions globally.

​11:15 - AI use case workshop and peer to peer roundtable

​11:45 - Q&A session

​12:00 - Networking

​13:00 - Event ends

​THE PANEL

• ​Jean Pembleton, Senior Director, Education Strategy, Salesforce
  Jean represents Salesforce, the leading CRM system which has become a central part of the technology stack many institutions already run on. The system brings AI capability through Agentforce, its autonomous AI agent layer that lets organisations deploy agents which reason, make decisions, and execute tasks across the platform. Jean advises C-suite leaders across education and government on digital transformation. Her work spans higher education and the wider public sector, bringing together strategy, partnerships, and data to help institutions drive growth and impact.

• ​Rory Daniels, Head of Emerging Technology and Innovation, techUK
  techUK is the UK's leading technology trade association, representing more than 1,000 member companies, from global names to start-ups, and working directly with government on how the country adopts new technology. Its work spans AI policy and adoption, events, insights and international delegations, and it runs a dedicated education programme. On the panel, Rory brings the emerging technologies picture: what is rising fastest in AI, the new developments worth watching, and how institutions can start looking into them.

• ​Rachel Fletcher, CEO, UniQuest
  Rachel founded and leads UniQuest, working inside student recruitment to universities since 2013 and has partnered with more than 85 universities during this time. UniQuest has handled over 70 million student communications and delivered 550,000 enrolments for partners across the UK, Europe, the US, Australia and New Zealand. Rachel brings the ground-level reality: what it actually takes to move a traditional recruitment operation onto an AI-driven platform, what lifts conversion, and what universities still struggle with.

• ​Kimoon Kim, AI & Cloud Architect, Google
  Google Cloud sits behind a large share of the AI tools institutions are starting to use, and its education footprint is already vast: Gemini for Education runs inside more than 1,000 higher education institutions in the US alone, reaching over 10 million students, and access is free for accredited institutions. In 2025, over one million educators and students took Google's free AI training for education. Kimoon brings first-hand practical insights from one of the biggest organisations in the world and will discuss which of Google's tools, programmes and support genuinely help an education institution, and where to start without over-committing.

• ​Theresa Yurkewich Hoffmann, Head of Responsible AI, Kainos
  Kainos has been building digital services for four decades, including for UK government departments and the NHS, organisations that handle citizen and patient data under the closest scrutiny. Theresa leads its responsible AI work, drawing on a background across law, public policy and technology, including a responsible AI role at Microsoft and advisory work with the OECD. She holds the responsible AI thread for the panel: governance, ethics and data privacy, and the questions everyone worries about but few say aloud. What is safe, what is not, and how to adopt AI without putting student data or institutional trust at risk.

​Moderator: Giuliana Bonvini, Founder, EduSolv AI

​Giuliana has spent 18 years inside international education, working for and with schools, universities, education agencies and sector-specific consultancies across continents, in commercial, sales, marketing, admissions and operations roles. She now works exclusively with international education institutions on AI-led commercial strategy, driving AI adoption. EduSolv AI is the consultancy she built to deliver sector-specific knowledge and AI literacy.

​Her role today is simple: to keep the conversation clear, ask the questions you would ask, and make sure you leave with clarity and valuable insights on AI for your world.

​ACCESS TO THE EVENT

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​Hosted in partnership with Salesforce, at the Salesforce AI Centre, London. Part of the Education & AI Connect series by EduSolv AI.

​For any questions about this event, please contact us at contact@edusolv.com