• Understanding the cost of implementation and what it takes to fulfil this ambition.

• End results: Insights into what success looks like and whether we have the skills required to deliver and achieve results.

• How can investors, developers and operators continue to bring together their unique values to achieve net zero carbon buildings for universities?

• Insights from behavioural science and field data – what factors impact behaviour and encourage the new wave of Gen Z tenants to prioritise sustainability without greenwashing?

• Technology: Maximising results by capturing data needed to help residents understand their energy patterns and how it compares with others

Moderator: Sarah Canning, Co-Founder, The Property Marketing Strategists

• An overview of current challenges, what’s working and what’s missing?
• Understanding fair use and settings for greater control - can you guarantee energy budgets in PBSA?
• What is the catalyst for change?
• Is too much data dangerous?  
• Inspiring a generation through education
• The path to better business health
  

• How are operators managing the current cost of living climate with rapidly changing costs in line with set fees charged to students?

• What is the cost-of-living impact on the operator model for student accommodation?

Moderator: Georgie Drewery, Senior Executive, Yardi

• An overview of the student market - HMOs vs PBSA

• How are demographics changing and where is growth strongest?

• What do these changes mean for product fit and affordability?

• What is the long-term impact on the sector

Host: Mark Easton, Home Editor, BBC

• The latest insights into Chinese, Indian and wider emerging international markets: Factors including the economy, geo-politics, price points and stock required
• Insights into the evolving data of where international students herald from and their duration of stay
• Is the UK still reliant on certain markets or are other regions and domestic growth filling the gap?
• Which regions have high student potential, ripe for investment?

Host: Mark Easton, Home Editor, BBC

• Developments in university strategies aimed at recruiting international students and the progress in strengthening global partnerships
• What do differing international student cohorts want from their accommodation - how much are they willing to spend, what stock is desirable and preference of accommodation typologies
• Marketing to international students and turning anxiety into excitement: What channels, cultural support and experiences helps drive conversion, retention and satisfaction?
• What are the enduring challenges in the conversion and retention

Moderator: Jenny Shaw, Higher Education External Engagement Director, UNITE

In this session, we will discuss current challenges facing operators and investors, including:

• How do we effectively service the accelerating demand for visibility and transparency from investors?
• Increasing returns vs. balancing risk through digitisation
• Effective monitoring and measurement of data to add value to tenants, operators and owners
• Intelligent decision making: Understanding the need for high quality data to validate and monitor your assets and investments
  

• The UK versus pan-European outlook: What is the appetite from overseas investors and where is money coming from as the yield compresses?
  
• How does student housing compare against other real estate sectors?
• Where are the best cities and regions to invest and where is there guaranteed demand?
• What does the future hold for smaller UK cities with lower grade universities?
• Commercial property as an asset-class has matured – everyone is doing it, but who has reaped the greatest reward and what steps led to their success?
• Myth busting HMOs and private rental – what are the most attractive opportunities and is professionalising the private rental sector one of them?

Moderator: Mark Easton, Home Editor, BBC 

• PBSA digital transformation roadmap
• Future of technology across PBSA: Building digital into existing stock and embedding into new builds
• Tech integration benefits for blended learning – how can we cultivate the right environments?
• What does the future connected building look like and what value can it bring to students?
• Practical adaptation of tech with Wi-Fi 6 and beyond
• Incorporating digital across accommodation to fit the needs of gen Z students and beyond

Hosted by: Mark Easton, Home Editor, BBC

• Understanding the student choice in PBSA, HMOs and private rental, and what they’re willing to pay for

• Spending the same money differently: Is there a different product that would make PBSA more attractive to students beyond the 1st year?

• Aspirational versus affordable: Case studies explore the choices being made to future-proof stock and deliver experiences that matter

• Will we start to see the demise of a 42-week occupancy? What new models will bloom? And how will the maturing short-stay, flexible-living market impact the sector?

• Unlocking the potential and maintaining occupancy of existing stock – what needs to happen and does the short-term and longer-term vison differ?

Moderator: Fred Lerche-Lerchenborg, CEO - Lavanda