ContentEd 2026:

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🗓 14 & 15 October 2025

After a successful 2025 event with nearly 500 attendees from around the world, ContentEd returns online in 2026 — bringing the global education content community together once again.

Whether you work in content strategy, digital experience, communications, recruitment or engagement, ContentEd is where your peers come to share what’s working, explore what’s changing, and connect with people who understand the challenges of your role.

Join us in 2026 to connect, learn, and grow… without the barriers.

Why attend ContentEd 2026

  • Excellent learning

    Maintaining the highest quality learning and networking experience, featuring voices from the education sector and beyond.

  • Global gathering

    Using the opportunity of online delivery to open access to our conference to professionals from around the world at times that work for them.

  • Value for money

    Reducing event overheads and passing all of those savings on to our audience with low cost delegate fees, team passes and a scholarship programme.

ContentEd 2025’s speaker line-up

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Speakers 2025
The gravitational force of a shared story: the story that took us to the Moon, and why higher education needs one now.
The gravitational force of a shared story: the story that took us to the Moon, and why higher education needs one now.

Emanuel Díaz, Head of Content Marketing
IE University 🇪🇸

Data isn’t enough: meaning over measurement
Data isn’t enough: meaning over measurement

Dayana Kibilds, VP of Strategy
Ologie 🇨🇦

Content starts with design: how UX thinking can transform student recruitment
Content starts with design: how UX thinking can transform student recruitment

Gemma Illidge, Head of Digital,
Absolute Nexa 🇬🇧

Content strategy trends education marketers can't ignore
Content strategy trends education marketers can't ignore

Tracy Playle, Founder and Chief Content Strategist,
ContentEd & Pickle Jar 🇬🇧

Supercharge your content with AI and data
Supercharge your content with AI and data

Brian Piper,
Author, speaker, consultant 🇺🇸

Unifying your content: Building a scalable model for higher education content
Unifying your content: Building a scalable model for higher education content

Brooke Hill, Founder and Director
Wonderthink 🇦🇺

Miki O'Farrell, Head of Future Students Marketing & Content
UNSW Sydney 🇦🇺

The social media manager’s blueprint: aligning content with leadership goals
The social media manager’s blueprint: aligning content with leadership goals

Jenny Li Fowler, Director of Social Media Strategy
MIT 🇺🇸

The value of a degree, designed: how we enhanced course pages with careers and employability data
The value of a degree, designed: how we enhanced course pages with careers and employability data

Chloe Smith, Product Manager, Digital User Experience
University of Southampton 🇬🇧

Heart over hype: Empathy as a competitive advantage in higher ed marketing
Heart over hype: Empathy as a competitive advantage in higher ed marketing

Jaime Hunt, President
Solve Higher Ed Marketing 🇺🇸

Stop looking sideways: How thinking outside your category drives innovation
Stop looking sideways: How thinking outside your category drives innovation

Anthony Hill, Head of Customer Experience
Flinders University 🇦🇺

Building a content community
Building a content community

Mike Powers, Digital Strategist
OHO 🇺🇸

Influencer marketing in higher education: From both sides of the feed
Influencer marketing in higher education: From both sides of the feed

Colin Wylie, Social Media Manager
The Ohio State University 🇺🇸

AI and your brand: considerations for higher ed
AI and your brand: considerations for higher ed

Georgy Cohen,
Independent Consultant 🇺🇸

As good as it gets: How to collaborate and get stuff done
As good as it gets: How to collaborate and get stuff done

Hannah Nicole Simpson, Head of Marketing and Communications, Easter Bush Campus
The University of Edinburgh 🇬🇧

From backend to front row: How AI is enhancing experience design for events
From backend to front row: How AI is enhancing experience design for events

Eddie, AI Event Assistant
ContentEd 🌍

From click to campus: High-impact email strategies for faster, smarter recruitment
From click to campus: High-impact email strategies for faster, smarter recruitment

Vedika Taunk, Associate Director - International Marketing and Communications and Joshua Favaro, Associate Director of International Operations
Humber Polytechnic 🇨🇦

Singing from the same hymn sheet? Making the case for centralisation in a devolved institution
Singing from the same hymn sheet? Making the case for centralisation in a devolved institution

Jennifer Doyle, Senior Content Designer
The University of Edinburgh 🇬🇧

The content admin's AI toolkit: How to automate your way to sanity
The content admin's AI toolkit: How to automate your way to sanity

Jaron Ghani, Innovation Director, and Elizabeth McCarthy, Head of Campaigns and Digital Communications
Numiko and University of Oxford 🇬🇧

Why transformation (really) can't succeed without content ops
Why transformation (really) can't succeed without content ops

Clare Kennedy, Product Owner (Digital Estate)
University College London (UCL) 🇬🇧

How AI is (and isn't) changing the way prospective students apply for university
How AI is (and isn't) changing the way prospective students apply for university

Flo Vincent, Content Designer
The University of Edinburgh 🇬🇧

Designing social content to balance your current and prospective student needs
Designing social content to balance your current and prospective student needs

Alex Duffy, Social Media Manager
Manchester Metropolitan University 🇬🇧

Hypothesising: a route to quick wins and stakeholder enagagement
Hypothesising: a route to quick wins and stakeholder enagagement

Neil Allison, Head of Prospective Student Web
The University of Edinburgh 🇬🇧

Deceptively simple: content strategy for busy communicators
Deceptively simple: content strategy for busy communicators

Sorel Denholtz, Director, Content & Design
Stanford Graduate School of Business 🇺🇸

Mind the (inclusion) gap: creating digital content that includes everyone
Mind the (inclusion) gap: creating digital content that includes everyone

Zuzana Voskarova, Digital Engagement Officer
University College Dublin 🇮🇪

From click to connection: Engaging audiences with useful downloads
From click to connection: Engaging audiences with useful downloads

Sarina Alexander, Graphic Designer
Cornell University 🇺🇸

SEO is everyone’s job: making visibility a shared responsibility in Higher Ed
SEO is everyone’s job: making visibility a shared responsibility in Higher Ed

Guus Goorts, Digital Marketer
Guus Goorts / Crystal Marketing BV 🇳🇱

Beyond the feed: designing social content as a student experience
Beyond the feed: designing social content as a student experience

Angel Truesdale, Student Services Manager
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 🇺🇸

From technical website requirements to content opportunities: a UCL case study
From technical website requirements to content opportunities: a UCL case study

Anna Boccassini, Web Content Manager and Jason Ilagan, Senior Digital Communications Manager
IOE, Faculty of Education and Society - University College London (UCL) 🇬🇧

Systems and stories: Enhance your storytelling with AI, content ops and systems thinking
Systems and stories: Enhance your storytelling with AI, content ops and systems thinking

Samantha Dawes, Communications Officer, Research
University of South Australia 🇦🇺

Building a community of practice for digital standards compliance in the age of AI
Building a community of practice for digital standards compliance in the age of AI

Joyce Peralta, Manager, Digital Communications
McGill University 🇨🇦

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