Web Services Community Day
Date
9 July 2026
Book Before
19 June 2026
Leeds Trinity University City Campus
Leeds Trinity University City Campus, 1 Trevelyan Square, Leeds, LS1 6AE What3words: ///clips.sudden.slate
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About the Event
The UCISA Web Services Community is hosting their in-person Community Day on Thursday 9th July 2026 at Leeds Trinity University City Campus. This event brings together professionals involved in the development, delivery, and management of Web Services from across the sector.
The theme for the day is Shared Challenges, Shared Solutions and it will feature practical, honest stories and case studies from across the sector - successes, challenges, and lessons learned.
Building on our webinar series, our Community Day will explore topics such as:
- Resourcing, capacity and organisational pressures
- Technology, tools and AI
- Student experience and user expectations
- Content has always been King
- Cross-team collaboration and governance
- Horizon scanning and responding to external change
The day will feature presentations, lightning talks, a panel session, and Lean Coffee sessions (breakout discussions with topics chosen by attendees on the day).
This is the Web Service Community’s inaugural in-person event, and we would love you to join us in making this a success.
For more information, please visit the UCISA Connect Portal
Event Schedule
Session abstracts are on UCISA Connect
Registration
Welcome and Introduction
Tools, trends, strategies and time savers (and the gimmicks, fads and time sinks)
Piero Tintori, CEO, Terminalfour
An honest story of building trustworthy AI to process student personal statements
Dean Hale, Enterprise Applications Manager, The University of Sunderland
Doing More with Less: Using AI to Scale Content Quality
- Richard Chivers, Founder and CEO, Zengenti
- Richard Saunders, Senior Product and Design Manager, Zengenti
Refreshment Break
Creating a content design playbook through a repeatable workshop format
- Lauren Tormey, Senior Content Designer, University of Edinburgh
Lightning Talk 1 - We’re a Product Team, honest!
- Amy Commander, Web Product Owner, University of Birmingham
Lightning Talk 2 - Digital Recruitment Innovation to Help Young People to Find Morris and Sword Dance Teams!: Using structured and semi-structured data to support conversational queries
- Brian Kelly, IT Volunteer, Morris Federation
Lunch and Networking
Lean Coffee Session
- Please note this is an interactive session
Refreshment Break
From complexity to clarity: auditing the web estate as the foundation for strategy
- Billy Fallows, Web Operations Manager, University of Birmingham
- Rob Fowles, Head of Digital Channel Management, University of Birmingham
Panel Session
Closing Remarks
End of Day
UCISA Group
- Web Services
