Speakers

and talks

We’re thrilled to introduce the first confirmed speakers for ContentEd 2025 - all leading voices in content strategy, digital experience, and education marketing from across the globe. Explore the topics below shaping this year’s agenda so far...

21 & 22 October 2025 | Online and global

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Featured

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

Anthony Hill, Head of Customer Experience
Flinders University 🇦🇺

Content governance framework

Denise Brooks, Content Strategist
Konekted Content 🇳🇱

Building a content community

Mike Powers, Digital Strategist
OHO 🇺🇸

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

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

Next level storytelling - Meaningful, strategic, sustainable

Georgy Cohen, VP Digital Strategy
OHO 🇺🇸

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 🇬🇧

Innovative marketing strategies in higher education: Graduation as a virality engine

Martin Renaud, CPO/Co-Founder
Edit on the Spot 🇦🇺

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

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

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

AI beyond the hype – CMS tools to speed up content operations

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

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

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

Alex Duffy, Social Media Manager
Manchester Metropolitan University 🇬🇧

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

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

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

Sarina Alexander, Graphic Designer
Cornell University 🇺🇸

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

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

From website technical 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) 🇬🇧