Windows Cloud in Higher Education: The Outcomes That Matter

A half-day briefing for CIOs, CTOs, CISOs and IT leaders across UK higher education. Hosted by Nerdio, Microsoft and Softcat. 

Why attend

You’ll hear directly from university IT leaders who are dealing with these decisions themselves, alongside Microsoft, Nerdio and Softcat. The questions we'll be looking to answer:

• What replaces Azure Lab Services, and what do we need to do now? The main options on the table, and how to plan the move before Azure Lab Services retires in June 2027
• Delivering equality and equity across your digital estate - How can you deliver the same experience for applications needed for successful learning to all users?
• How do we support high-performance teaching and research without buying more specialist hardware? Making GPU and compute-heavy workloads available on demand, without every department building and funding its own environment
• Is it possible to support high-performance teaching and research access without buying more expensive hardware? Make specialist GPU and compute-heavy workloads available on demand, without departments building and funding their own siloed environments
• How are universities thinking about desktop security as AI use grows? Find out what needs to change in desktop security, identity and access as staff and students bring AI tools into everyday work
• Can we reduce endpoint cost and support sustainability goals at the same time? Extending device life, lowering hardware requirements and what cloud-hosted desktops contribute to both the budget and the carbon footprint
• Digital services beyond teaching and research. Does the same model fit professional and administrative services, and what changes when you extend it across the whole institution?