38th Businet Annual Conference

Businet holds its Annual Conference in November of each year.  The 2025 event will take place in the enchanting City of Sofia. This marks Businet’s first conference in Bulgaria so we are delighted to offer members the opportunity to explore this new country.

There expect approximately 230 people to attend the event from around 95 institutions.

Registration will open in May 2025, if you register before the end of Sunday 30 June then there is a discounted registration fee, which we refer to as being the “Early-bird rate”.

The event will include:

• 4 keynote speakers on general issue of interest to a higher education audience.
• Approximately 18 “Good Practice” workshops. These are workshops where member share their good practices with conference delegates – Delegates choose up to 3 workshops from those on offer.
• One of the major USP’s of the network is our “Curriculum specific” working groups and “Special Interest Groups. These took place on afternoons at the conference. There are 16 groups. More information can be found about the groups at https://www.businet.org.uk/working-group-information
• All meals are included in the conference package.
• Delegates tend to stay at the conference hotel and then there is the opportunity to network from early in the morning to late at night.
• The conference starts at 6pm on Wednesday 12th November. There are however pre-conference meetings on Wednesday and a session for “newcomers” at 1pm on Wednesday to introduce new delegates to the network.
• There will be a social tour on Saturday 15th November – to get a feel of the area and allow for more social networking.

The Conference will be held at the Hilton Sofia from 12th – 15th November 2025.

For further details check back shortly.  Registration will open in May 2025.