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ISE Student Recruitment Conference 2025
23-24 June, The Eastside Rooms, Birmingham

This two-day conference is the highlight of the ISE calendar. The organisation's flagship event provides a great opportunity for the early talent recruitment community to come together to network, share, socialise and most importantly to learn.
Why not make it a learning experience for the whole team? There will be content for everyone. And you if you book 3+ places, you get a 20% discount (excludes Welcome Reception only tickets and Gala Awards Dinner only tickets).
Alternatively, if you book a two-day or two-night ticket, you will be able to register 5 members of your team to view the keynote, plenary and main stage sessions online.
Keynote Speakers
Sean Tolram - Mindfulness Programme Manager and Group COO | HSBC Group Management Services Ltd

Sean is a mindfulness teacher with a difference. He combines his corporate experience with principles of mindfulness and neuroscience to help people succeed in the modern workplace. He is currently the Head of Mindfulness at HSBC and the Founder of My Trained Mind. He is also a certified mindfulness teacher and has an ICF accreditation in brain-based coaching. Sean’s mission is to change the way we think about work. He believes that by understanding more about our brains, we can create the conditions where we can be at our best, and more effectively achieve our goals and ambitions.
Dr. Daniel Susskind - bestselling author, and Research Professor in Economics at King’s College London

Dr. Daniel Susskind is a bestselling author, a Research Professor in Economics at King’s College London, and a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford University.
Former US Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers describes him as “a compelling, insightful thinker on the largest and most fundamental economic topics.” His research explores the impact of economic growth and emerging technologies like artificial intelligence on work and society.
Susskind’s latest book, Growth: A Reckoning, is a lucid, thought provoking and brilliantly researched guide to one of our greatest challenges: the tension between the promise and the price of economic growth.
Over the past two centuries, economic growth has freed billions from poverty and made our lives far healthier and longer. Yet this prosperity has come at an enormous price: deepening inequalities, destabilizing technologies, environmental destruction, and climate change. Susskind argues that we cannot abandon growth but shows instead how we can redirect it, making it better reflect what we truly value. Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called the book a “tour de force;” former Governor of the Bank of England Andy Haldane, “a wonderfully elegant and authoritative explanation-cum-manifesto for what is perhaps the most important economic issue facing us today—the mystery of economic growth and what we need to do to solve it.”
Previously, Dr. Susskind worked in various roles in the British Government: as a policy advisor in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, a policy analyst in the Policy Unit in 10 Downing Street, and a senior policy adviser in the Cabinet Office. He was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University and holds a Doctorate in Economics from Oxford University where he is currently an Associate Member of the Economics Department.
Pricing
Early Bird prices available from 01/03/25
Ticket type
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ISE Member Organisations
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Non-Member Organisations
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Early Bird 2 night package*
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£1,295 + VAT
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£1,695 + VAT
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Early Bird 1 night package*
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£1,095 + VAT
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£1,495 + VAT
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Early Bird 2 day package
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£1,095 + VAT
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£1,495 + VAT
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Early Bird 1 day package
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£795 + VAT
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£1,195 + VAT
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Gala Awards Dinner
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£135 + VAT
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£135 + VAT
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Welcome Party
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£75 + VAT
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£75 + VAT
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Online access to plenary sessions
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£495 + VAT
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£895 + VAT
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* Prices quoted are for the Aloft Hotel at The Eastside Rooms. For accommodation at Conference Aston there is a supplement to be charged.
Conference packages
Two night package: 2 nights B&B accommodation, 2 days of conference content, lunches and other refreshments, Welcome Party day 1, Gala Awards Dinner day 2, 5 online places with access to the plenary sessions.
One night package: 1 night B&B accommodation, 1 day of conference content, lunch and other refreshments, Welcome reception day 1 OR Gala Awards Dinner day 2.
Two day package: 2 days of conference content, lunches and other refreshments, Welcome reception and Gala Dinner, 5 online places with access to the plenary sessions.
One day package: 1 day of conference content, lunch and other refreshments, Welcome Reception OR Gala Awards Dinner.
Gala Awards Dinner only tickets
Individual Gala Awards Dinner tickets £135+VAT (please note most Conference packages include a Gala Awards Dinner ticket)
Hosted table with 10 tickets situated in a preferential location at the dinner: £1,500+VAT
Hosted table excluding any tickets in a preferential location at the dinner: £500+VAT*
*Please note that for this option, you are solely responsible for managing the invitations to join your table.
We look forward to welcoming you to Birmingham.
Sponsorship
We have lots of sponsorship opportunities available, at different price points. For more information click here or contact Vivienne Wootten, Head of Events and Commercial Partnerships.
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Delegate Terms and Conditions
Delegate bookings: terms and conditions
These terms and conditions apply to the majority of ISE events. Should alternative terms and conditions apply, they will be linked to at the time of booking.
Full payment for delegate places must be made prior to the date of the event. Once a booking is submitted and received by ISE the booking constitutes a firm booking which can only be cancelled in accordance with our cancellation policy set out below.
Cancellation policy
All cancellations must be received by submitting a ‘request a refund’ email .This must then be followed by a telephone call to confirm receipt.
Delegate place cancellations received 29 days or more prior to an event will be entitled to a 100% credit voucher or refund. Cancellations received between 15 days and 28 days (inclusive) prior to the event will receive a 100% credit voucher to attend a future ISE event or a 75% refund. For cancellations received between 1 day and 14 days (inclusive) prior to the event, no credit voucher or refund will be given. Substitutions are welcome at any time.
Failure to attend the event on the day will constitute late cancellation and no refund will be given.
Filming and recording
By attending an ISE event, delegates consent to being filmed, recorded and photographed. Delegates grant the ISE the right to use recordings of any type made of their attendance in any and all media, and by means of publicity and promotion relating to the ISE.
The unauthorised use of photographic, sound or film equipment at an ISE event is strictly prohibited. If you wish to use this equipment, please contact the Events Team prior to the start of the event. The copyright is assigned to the ISE for any recordings of events produced by the ISE. Unauthorised recording may result in content being destroyed, and your removal from the event without a ticket refund.
Programme changes
Due to unforeseen circumstances the programme may change and ISE reserves the right to alter the venue and/or speakers. Any substitutions or alterations will be updated on our website as soon as possible.
ISE reserves the right to cancel an event if enrolment criteria are not met or when conditions beyond its control prevail. Every effort will be made to contact each enrollee if a programme is cancelled. If a programme is not held for any reason, ISE's liability is limited to the refund of the programme fee only.
ISE is not responsible for any loss or damage as a result of a speaker substitution, alteration, cancellation, or postponement of an event. ISE shall assume no liability whatsoever if an event is altered, rescheduled, postponed or cancelled due to a fortuitous event or unforeseen occurrence that renders performance of an event inadvisable, illegal, impracticable or impossible.
For purpose of this clause, a fortuitous event shall include, but shall not be limited to: an Act of God; governmental restrictions and/or regulations; war or apparent act of war; terrorism or apparent act of terrorism: disaster; civil disorder, disturbance, and/or riots; curtailment, suspension, and/or restriction on transportation facilities/means of transportation; or any other emergency.
Registration and payment details
Payment must be made in sterling in advance of the event in order for your booking to be processed. If payment has not been received two weeks before the event, credit card details will be required to guarantee and process your booking.
Delegate Lists
At many of our events we distribute delegates lists to attendees. These lists consist of the full name and company name of all registered attendees, but do not include contact details such as email addresses. If you don’t want to be on the delegate list for an event, please let us know by emailing events@ise.org.uk
Intellectual Property Rights
As a delegate you may receive and possess the course/workshop materials and use and circulate the course materials within your organisation. You may not use the course materials for resale or in the development of a commercial product without the prior written consent of the ISE. The ownership of the course intellectual property rights remain with the ISE unless agreed otherwise in writing with the ISE.
Travel and accommodation
Delegates are responsible for the arrangement and payment of their own travel and accommodation, unless specified otherwise. There are occasions where ISE will arrange a special room rate at a number of hotels. If this is the case it will be detailed on the promotional literature and webpage for that event.
Additional requirements
Please notify ISE when booking (and at least one month before the event date) if you have any additional special requirements to guarantee availability e.g. dietary, wheelchair access, large print, hearing loop etc.
Dissatisfaction with an event
ISE takes complaints very seriously indeed and tries to ensure that all users are pleased with their experience of our service. Those persons who make a complaint will be dealt with courteously and promptly so that the matter is resolved as quickly as possible.
Our aim is to react to complaints in the way in which we would want our complaint about a service to be handled. We learn from every mistake that we make and we intend to respond to complainant's concerns in a professional manner.
Should an issue present itself whilst attending an ISE event, you are encouraged to raise this with a member of the ISE team working onsite. Wherever possible the team will endeavour to resolve any issues as the event takes place.
If you are dissatisfied with an event for any reason, please contact
Vivienne Wootten, Head of Events and Partnerships, by email to vivienne@ise.org.uk or write to Institute of Student Employers, 6 Bath Place, Rivington Street, London EC2A 3JE