Last year a speaker called it THE European AI in education event. A delegate called it the friendliest AI conference of the year. We’ll take both.

180 educators. 40+ schools. One room in Bucharest, for one day, working out what AI actually changes about teaching.

AIDUCATION’27 is for the educator who has read the think-pieces, sat through the webinars, and still walks into Monday’s lesson unsure what to do differently. This year is about the doing. Not where AI is heading, but what it looks like in your classroom, your leadership, your school, on the Tuesday after you get home.

You will sit with teachers who have already run the experiments, leaders who have rewritten the policies, and schools that stopped waiting for permission and started building. You will leave with things you can use, and the confidence to use them.

Date: 13 March 2027

Location: Cambridge School of Bucharest, Romania

Be part of the next chapter.

Laura Knight

Laura Knight is Founder of Sapio, a consultancy specialising in digital strategy and innovation. A TechWomen100 Award Winner 2025 and Edufuturist of the Year 2026 finalist, Laura is a recognised leader in the ethical and strategic adoption of AI in education. Her expertise spans digital learning, 1-1 devices, data ethics, online safeguarding, and digital wellbeing.

As an international keynote speaker, strategist, and coach, she supports schools, universities, and global education organisations to use technology to enhance leadership, pedagogy, and organisational culture. Her book, The Little Guide for Teachers on Generative AI (Sage), helps educators use AI responsibly and creatively in their practice.

Laura serves on several advisory boards including The Institute of AI Education, Teachmate, the Good Future Foundation, and the Independent Schools Council Digital Advisory Group. She is a Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching and the RSA, and a member of BESA and UKAI.

 

Lee Parkinson MBE (Mr P)

Lee Parkinson MBE, better known as Mr P, has been a primary school teacher for over 16 years and still splits his week between the classroom and nationwide CPD training. Through his live training, award-winning TeachMateAI platform and the chart-topping Two Mr Ps in a Podcast, he now reaches over one million educators.

Mr P is one of the founders of TeachMateAI.com, the leading AI platform for educators in the UK, which harnesses AI to support teachers with everything from admin tasks to personalised resource creation. Alongside his brother Adam, he hosts the Two Mr Ps in a Podcast, a chart-topping show that has amassed millions of listens and several sell-out theatre tours.

He is the author of three Sunday Times bestsellers, has been named the UK’s top education influencer in a Teacher Tapp survey, and is a regular go-to teacher for mainstream media, appearing on This Morning, Lorraine and LBC. In 2025 he was awarded an MBE in the King’s Birthday Honours for services to education and digital innovation.

AIDUCATION’27 is not just for educators. It’s for students.

Last year, 3,000 students from 41 schools across 19 countries built apps to tackle the UN Sustainable Development Goals. None of them needed coding experience to start. They used Canva Code, and AI did the heavy lifting, so the thinking that mattered was the design, the research, and the problem they chose to solve.

Five independent judges reviewed every finalist. One word kept coming back in their feedback: real. “Functions like a real product.” “Slick and professional.” These were apps built by children aged 11 and up, in a competition that had not existed twelve months earlier.

The winners came from Shanghai, London, and Rome. A citizen science platform for tracking ocean debris took first place. Second went to a set of interactive games on water sustainability. Third, an immersive simulation of ocean health. The teachers who ran it told us the same thing again and again: students who never saw themselves as coders stood up and presented the logic behind what they had built.

That was year one.

Now we run it again, in partnership with Canva, and we’re opening it wider. Students aged 10 and up. Teams of three to six. One Sustainable Development Goal. One app that could change something.

Winning teams are invited to present at AIDUCATION’27. Teams who can’t travel still have their work showcased as part of the programme.

This is AI coding with a purpose. Design thinking, a real-world problem, and AI as the co-creator.