WEDS 5TH NOV
Day Two: Main Conference
All the Forum insights you love, with customer stories, product updates, market perspectives and the future of AI. We're mixing things up this year with some fresh additions to keep you engaged throughout the day.
All sessions, timings, and speakers are subject to change, check back here for updates.
Arrival & Welcome Breakfast
Get checked in, enjoy some breakfast and get settled in your seat
Welcome & Conference Kickoff
Gecko
Energising start to conference day with a warm welcome and agenda preview
The Next Generation of Student Engagement
Gecko
How Gecko's platform integration and AI advances are shaping where we're heading next
Refreshment Break
Market Intelligence: In conversation with Ruth Swan
Gecko
Ruth Swan, Associate Director Global Prospect Experience & UK Student Recruitment
Heriot Watt University
UK vs US vs worldwide trends, shifting expectations and the cross-departmental challenges everyone faces
How to Win at Clearing
Ulster University
Proven strategies to transform your most stressful period into your biggest opportunity
Lunch
Driving Innovation Through AI & Product Strategy
Amy H, Product Manager
Jonny AW, CS
Gecko
Our product, AI and CS teams are coming together to share what has happened, where we are and where we might be going next
Refining & Refreshing Your Platform
University of Law
How to implement Gecko at scale while maintaining personalisation
Refreshment Break
Fairy Bot Mothers’ Big Fat Quiz of the Forum
Gecko
Quick energiser to boost momentum
The Success Mixtape: Gecko’s Top Ten from 2025
Edinburgh Napier
Rebecca Bloodworth, Deputy Head of Student Recruitment
Manchester Metropolitan University
Claire Doherty, Assistant Director of Admissions - Admin, Systems, Ops
St. Andrews University
Jonny AW, Customer Success
Gecko
In a year full of challenges we’ll be in discussion with universities highlighting your wins of 2025
Forum Finale: Key Takeaways & What’s Next
Gecko
We close up the Forum with key takeaways before guiding you into the evening’s activities
Your Questions, Answered
This event is for Gecko customers and partners (though if you're a future-customer and would really like to attend, please email chris@geckoengage.com).
Most attendees will be hands-on users of Gecko/their CRM OR their team leverages Gecko to help with student recruitment, admissions or marketing at their institution.
This event is free to attend for Gecko customers and partners. Attendees are responsible for their own travel and accommodation arrangements.
Please reach out to your Account Manager if you'd like to meet with the Gecko team outside of the core event hours (if you are travelling to Edinburgh the day before the event, for example). Additionally, there will be time to catch-up with your Account Manager during the event, and break-out rooms will be available.
Based on past events, clients saw most value from arriving in Edinburgh the day before the event, and leaving the day after (so they can partake in all of the networking festivities after-hours). We understand this might not be possible for all, however. So we advise that you arrive into central Edinburgh before 9am and depart after 6pm to ensure you don't miss any of the sessions on the conference day.
