Join us for our summer network meeting on 18 June 2026 from 10am – 12:15pm.
There will be the usual varied agenda covering issues relevant to governance professionals through presentations, panel discussions and the opportunity for you to put forward your comments and questions.
This network is open to clerks and other governance professionals working in schools and trusts and we look forward to welcoming you.
The topic for the June network meeting will be AI, exploring both how we can use it and how our boards should be governing it
Please see the programme below:
10.00 – 10.05 Welcome – Ruth Agnew, NGA Strategic Lead for GPs
10.05 – 10.15 Setting the Scene – Emma Balchin, NGA CEO
10.15am – 10.45 Governing and AI – Jonathan Roe,
NGA Consultant, governor, trustee and former MAT CEO
Jonathan will share key points from the NGA training course:
Governing AI in Schools and Trusts
10.45 – 11.05 Introducing NGA’s new AI toolkit –
Ella Colley, NGA Head of Content and Publishing
11.05 – 11.15 Comfort Break
11.15 – 11.50 AI and the Governance professional: Panel discussion
Panel members:
Lena Seed, Governance Professional and “Highly Commended”
in NGA Outstanding Governance Awards, outstanding clerk to
a governing body category
Jill Cameron, Governance Professional and “Highly Commended”
in NGA Outstanding Governance Awards, outstanding lead GP category
The panel will share how AI is supporting them in their role
and respond to questions
11.45 – 12.10 NGA’s governance professionals offer – Ruth Agnew
Ruth will feed back key themes emerging from recent focus groups and
outline plans to enhance NGA’s support for governance professionals
and respond to questions
12.10 – 12.15 Closing thoughts – Charlotte Harding,
NGA Director of Professional Development
Please book early to secure your place at the event.