Data in Schools Melbourne 2026

Welcome to Data in Schools - Melbourne. Register at the sign in area to collect your lanyard and get ready for 2 days of learning and meeting your people.

Make Data Talk: Telling the Story of Student Growth and Impact: Welcome to Data in Schools Melbourne
Data in Schools conference organiser and founder, Chris Smith, provides the opening address. A brief overview of the conference format and structure, and introduction of the core themes to be explored in Melbourne.

Data in Schools warmly welcomes and thanks our event sponsors for helping to make this event possible. 

Most schools already hold the data they need to answer their hardest questions — about attendance, wellbeing, assessment, engagement, finance, operations... the list goes on. The trouble is that it lives across too many systems, in too many formats, to ask a straight question and get a straight answer. So the questions go unasked, or they get answered too late to be of any use.

In this session, we'll show what becomes possible when school data is brought together into a single governed foundation: you ask a real question about your school, in plain language, and get a useful answer grounded in your actual data — through the AI tools you already use. We'll also be honest about where the limits are, because a fluent answer isn't always a well-informed one. If you've got a question you've never quite been able to get a straight answer to, this is the session to bring it to.

Light refreshments and biteds to eat, thanks to our host Melbourne Connect

Note: there will be a 15 min break in between the 2 workshop rounds. 

Our culminating event for 'Data in Schools - Melbourne' where we will bring together key themes and ideas before closing out (...and heading to the Social!)