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10:30
  1. AI & Tech Zone
    40 mins
    • AI & Tech Zone
    Step into the future of productivity with the new Microsoft 365 Home page—where Copilot is more than just chat! This session reveals the Copilot features most users miss: Chats, Pages, Enterprise Data ...
  2. Community Spotlight
    40 mins
    • Community Spotlight
     
  3. Knowledge Zone
    40 mins
    • Knowledge Zone
    You don’t need to be loud to stand out. But you do need to be clear on who you are, what you stand for, and how you want to show up in the world. This hands-on workshop is designed to help women get i ...
  4. Personal Development Hub
    40 mins
    • Personal Development Hub
    Join Chris Hodson from Pitman Training for an insightful exploration into how PAs, EAs and Chiefs of Staff can elevate their impact and position themselves as true decision enablers within FTSE enviro ...
11:30
  1. AI & Tech Zone
    40 mins
    • AI & Tech Zone
    Unlock the full power of Microsoft Word! In this hands-on session, you’ll discover the essential Word skills every assistant needs to create polished, professional documents—fast. We’ll cover time-sav ...
  2. Community Spotlight
    40 mins
    • Community Spotlight
     
  3. Knowledge Zone
    40 mins
    • Knowledge Zone
    Join this informative workshop led by Skevi Constantinou, Director of The PA Way and former Executive Assistant. Designed for professionals seeking to enhance their organisational skills, this worksho ...
  4. Personal Development Hub
    40 mins
    • Personal Development Hub
    High-performing executive assistants don’t need willpower - they need habits. In this interactive session, Kat Thorne shares how the right habits can help you stay organised, anticipate needs, remain ...
12:30
  1. AI & Tech Zone
    40 mins
    • AI & Tech Zone
    The torrent of work facing assistants shows no sign of slowing. Learning how to automate is one of the most effective ways to respond. Automation removes work from your day and frees capacity to focus ...
  2. Community Spotlight
    40 mins
    • Community Spotlight
    Corporate philanthropy has the power to achieve far more than individual giving, and it’s often business support professionals who are best placed to spark that change. In this fireside chat, we’ll ex ...
  3. Knowledge Zone
    40 mins
    • Knowledge Zone
    A fireside chat with Claudine Thomas and Rebecca Polson, two highly experienced PAs, exploring the value and impact of mentoring programmes. The session will share insights into how mentoring supports ...
  4. Personal Development Hub
    40 mins
    • Personal Development Hub
     
14:30
  1. AI & Tech Zone
    40 mins
    • AI & Tech Zone
    This session focuses on how to write prompts that produce useful, reliable results. You’ll learn how to structure requests, add the right level of context, and guide ChatGPT towards outputs you can ac ...
  2. Community Spotlight
    40 mins
    • Community Spotlight
    The role of the assistant is evolving—fast. Today’s assistants are no longer just supporting leaders; they are becoming trusted advisors, strategic partners, and leaders in their own right. But steppi ...
  3. Knowledge Zone
    40 mins
    • Knowledge Zone
    PAs, EAs, VAs and admin professionals often hold the emotional weight of entire teams without ever being asked. You keep order in chaos, stay calm when others panic, absorb stress that is not yours, a ...
  4. Personal Development Hub
    40 mins
    • Personal Development Hub
    We’ve all sat in meetings that drift, overrun, or end without clear outcomes, including meetings at the most senior level. When this happens, the cost is calculatable. Time compounds quickly when some ...
15:30
  1. AI & Tech Zone
    40 mins
    • AI & Tech Zone
    This session goes beyond basic prompting to explore the advanced features that turn ChatGPT into a serious productivity tool. You’ll see how to work with longer conversations, refine outputs efficient ...
  2. Community Spotlight
    40 mins
    • Community Spotlight
    Join Sarah Howson and Marianne Whitlock from Strategic PA Network for a candid, open conversation with an EA–CEO duo who have truly mastered the art of partnership. This insightful session explores wh ...
  3. Knowledge Zone
    40 mins
    • Knowledge Zone
    This session offers a practical and honest look at what it takes to set up and run a virtual assistant business in today's market. You'll gain clear guidance on how to get started, what to expect in y ...
  4. Personal Development Hub
    40 mins
    • Personal Development Hub
    This practical and empowering Session translates the concept of finding your voice into everyday workplace behaviours and actions. You’ll leave with tools you can immediately apply to communicate more ...
10:30
  1. AI & Tech Zone
    40 mins
    • AI & Tech Zone
    This session is designed for people who want to understand what Copilot is really for and how to use it confidently in everyday work. You’ll see practical examples across Microsoft 365, learn where Co ...
  2. Community Spotlight
    40 mins
    • Community Spotlight
    Business travel has become one of the most complex and high-impact areas PAs manage, touching cost control, risk, wellbeing, executive performance, and organisational reputation. Yet many PAs are stil ...
  3. Knowledge Zone
    40 mins
    • Knowledge Zone
    In the fast-paced world of business support, small changes make a big difference. In this practical session, Kat Thorne reveals how one simple daily habit can boost your productivity, confidence, and ...
  4. Personal Development Hub
    40 mins
    • Personal Development Hub
    Do you find the world of finance a mystery? Is there too much jargon? Are those financial reports a tidal wave of numbers and strange language? If you’re keen to add business financial awareness to yo ...
11:30
  1. AI & Tech Zone
    40 mins
    • AI & Tech Zone
    This session is for those already using Copilot who want to get more out of it. We’ll explore advanced ways to guide Copilot, work across multiple apps, refine outputs, and use it as part of a broader ...
  2. Community Spotlight
    40 mins
    • Community Spotlight
    Join Sarah Howson and Marianne Whitlock from the Strategic PA Network for an open and candid panel exploring what it truly takes to navigate high-pressure moments as an Executive Assistant. This sessi ...
  3. Knowledge Zone
    40 mins
    • Knowledge Zone
     
  4. Personal Development Hub
    40 mins
    • Personal Development Hub
    Join Marja-Leena Toseland, editor of PA Life, and Caroline Barnard, EA at Cambridge University Press and Assessment, and PA of the Year Star 2025 winner in PA Life awards, for a practical discussion o ...
12:30
  1. AI & Tech Zone
    40 mins
    • AI & Tech Zone
    How to use Copilot and PowerPoint Designer to create professional, branded presentations in minutes—without a graphic design degree. Creating slides doesn’t have to take hours. This session shows you ...
  2. Community Spotlight
    40 mins
    • Community Spotlight
     
  3. Knowledge Zone
    40 mins
    • Knowledge Zone
    In this thought-leadership keynote, Chris Hodson of Pitman Training explores how assistants can evolve into true innovation partners as organisations accelerate into an AI-driven future. Far beyond ta ...
  4. Personal Development Hub
    40 mins
    • Personal Development Hub
    Editor of PA Life, Marja-Leena Toseland in discussion with Emily Partridge, Director of eavolve and Juliane Schreiber, EA at Business Four Zero This panel explores how mentoring networks build confide ...
14:30
  1. AI & Tech Zone
    40 mins
    • AI & Tech Zone
    Ready to take control of your inbox and calendar? This session introduces the new Outlook experience with practical tips for smarter email and scheduling. Learn how to organize your inbox, manage mult ...
  2. Community Spotlight
    40 mins
    • Community Spotlight
    AI is changing how work gets done, but it is not changing why assistants matter. As tools take on more of the tasks that once filled our days, something else becomes more visible: judgement, trust, an ...
  3. Knowledge Zone
    40 mins
    • Knowledge Zone
    In this session, Katherine West-Dargon explores how to create high-touch, memorable event experiences. From heritage and history to wellness, and meaningful conversation you can elevate your events to ...
  4. Personal Development Hub
    40 mins
    • Personal Development Hub
     
15:30
  1. AI & Tech Zone
    40 mins
    • AI & Tech Zone
    The technology Executive Assistants and Personal Assistants choose today shapes far more than how quickly work gets done. It influences how visible their work is, how trusted they become, and how conf ...
  2. Community Spotlight
    40 mins
    • Community Spotlight
     
  3. Knowledge Zone
    40 mins
    • Knowledge Zone
    Travel is one of the most significant hidden contributors to stress, fatigue, and escalation for executives and the PAs supporting them. This session takes the Calm in Motion framework and translates ...
  4. Personal Development Hub
    40 mins
    • Personal Development Hub
     


 

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