Schedule

Which keynote theme has sparked your curiosity? Bring your thoughts and ideas to your chosen workshop as we get the conversation started.

Which keynote theme has sparked your curiosity? Bring your thoughts and ideas to your chosen workshop as we get the conversation started.

Which keynote theme has sparked your curiosity? Bring your thoughts and ideas to your chosen workshop as we get the conversation started.

Which keynote theme has sparked your curiosity? Bring your thoughts and ideas to your chosen workshop as we get the conversation started.

Which keynote theme has sparked your curiosity? Bring your thoughts and ideas to your chosen workshop as we get the conversation started.

Inclusion and diversity are facing increasing challenge, politicisation and, in some areas, rollback. Join us to explore how changing cultural narratives and funding priorities are impacting young lives, and how we can best respond.

This session centres on one organisation's sustained, intentional journey towards becoming anti-racist, sharing both the process and the honest reality of what that work involves.

Co-led by professional and learning disabled musicians, music will enable expression, connection and joy in this vibrant, interactive session. Expect singing, signing, adapted instruments and an introduction to free online resources.

Research-informed practice developed over the last decade by Magic Acorns informs this session. Experience musical play, hear case study examples and participate in discussion and reflection on inclusive pedagogical strategies.

A panel discussion exploring what genuine inclusion and relevance looks like and how to identify persistent inequities. Shifting from allyship to co-conspiratorship, we can all learn to be active agents in dismantling inequitable structures.

What happens when young people are trusted with real power? Led by the Sound! Music Hub Youth Board, this session explores how investing in youth voice and sharing decision-making creates more inclusive, relevant and impactful music activity.

Discover a practical advocacy framework that helps music services align music education with school priorities. Learn how to position music as a driver of language, literacy, self-regulation, attendance and readiness to learn.

This interactive session will explore the Tomorrow's Warriors participatory ethos of Each One Teach One, and free-to-access approaches for ensuring inclusivity and relevance for young people typically locked out of music education opportunity.

Does your board look, think and sound like the young people you serve? This practical session tackles what’s missing from your boardroom and what it’s costing you, how to amplify unheard voices and champion EDI across your organisation, leaving you with top tips to act on tomorrow.

Led by young Disabled people involved in Drake Music’s programmes, this interactive session highlights barriers to leadership faced by young Disabled music leaders, and identifies steps to overcome these, create progress and realise opportunities.

In this session, Berkshire Music Trust will share practical insights from their Space to Thrive project, which launched in January and was designed around the simple but powerful question, 'What happens when we truly meet communities where they are?'.

This session offers a framework for specialist settings, including inclusion bases, to design a music curriculum for their learners based on musical skill development across learning pathways.

Graduate psychologist, educator and musician Michelle Robinson will introduce what research tells us about our basic psychological needs, and why they matter for both leaders and the people they lead.

Explore how the OHMI Whole Class programme enables every pupil to participate in music-making. Discover practical strategies, adapted instruments and inclusive approaches that remove barriers and build confident, collaborative, mainstream classrooms.

What if we've been describing music education wrong? At a time of rising youth distress, arts education may be one of the few environments where young people learn how to be seen, take risks, recover from failure and navigate digital life.

One Hub. Many places. One strategy that has to hold it all together. This practical workshop helps Music Hubs keep their inclusion strategy alive, honest and actually working.

Explore how sensory-led approaches to singing and opera can create meaningful, inclusive musical experiences for children and young people with SEND, using practical strategies drawn from the Royal Ballet and Opera’s Schools Sing programme.

Discover practical approaches for leading inclusive, mixed-ability ensembles with confidence. Explore how to open up repertoire so that every young musician can participate meaningfully, and embed youth ownership into your ensemble culture.

Can music teachers confidently teach beyond their own musical background? Discover how embodied, inclusive pedagogies bridge formal and informal approaches, developing musicianship and building confidence across musical traditions.

Discover how Coventry Music established a band for those in the care system and how working with children's services and virtual school colleagues has enabled the project to grow into a thriving after school music group.

Discover how Mugo, a beam-controlled musical instrument, was co-designed with blind and physically disabled young musicians. An honest exploration of disability-led design, inclusive innovation, and creating accessibility from the very beginning.

From signing with Island/EMI, UMG, Monstercat and Insomniac to founding Origins, DNü and RosterRoyalties at 20, Cadyn Lewis explores how artists can build vertically integrated businesses that protect the craft and create long-term opportunity.

Join Folk England in exploring an engaging, creative arranging process for the Key Stage 3 and above classroom using bhangra and British folk music.

Discover how Camden Music and Universal Music Group’s Sound Generation pilot created classroom-ready Key Stage 1 resources. See teacher-made activities in action, try hands-on tasks, and discuss delivering music without specialist training.