Over the past decade, universities have focused on stabilising classroom technology — standardising AV, enabling hybrid delivery, and ensuring teaching spaces work reliably at scale. Reliability is now the baseline. The next step is transforming those spaces into intelligent learning environments that improve the teaching experience while operating efficiently, reducing costs and making it easy to use, across large and complex campus estates.

As student expectations evolve and institutional budgets tighten, universities need learning spaces that are simple for academics to use, scalable for IT teams to support, and flexible enough to adapt to changing delivery models all at a lower cost. This requires moving beyond room‑by‑room technology decisions toward integrated platforms where campus networks, collaboration tools, and room systems work together as a unified capability.

This session explores how modern collaboration platforms, resilient campus connectivity, and embedded room intelligence can simplify classroom design while delivering consistent experiences across lecture theatres, hybrid teaching environments, and collaboration spaces. We will look at how automation and AI‑enabled room experiences reduce in‑room complexity, support multiple collaboration platforms, and help institutions operate large estates more efficiently.

We will also examine how data from connected learning spaces — including utilisation, device performance, and collaboration patterns — is providing new insight into space planning, sustainability initiatives, and technology investment decisions.

Attendees will gain practical perspectives on how to evolve from reliable AV deployments to scalable, intelligent classroom environments that better support modern teaching and learning.