evasys at the HESPA Autumn All-In Conference 2025:
Bringing AI-driven insight to strategic planning
evasys is delighted to be supporting and presenting at the upcoming HESPA Autumn All-In Conference 2025, a key event for institutional planners, insight professionals and sector leaders exploring how data can shape the future of higher education.
Our involvement reflects a natural alignment between evasys and the work of the Higher Education Strategic Planners Association (HESPA), where survey data and insights can be used to inform strategy and planning across institutions.
While quantitative feedback highlights broad areas of interest, it is often the richness of qualitative comments that provides genuine understanding. Yet analysing large volumes of open comments manually can be slow, inconsistent and unsustainable for planning teams. That challenge will be the focus of our conference session:
Using machine-learning AI to analyse open comments
evasys Managing Director Bruce Johnson will be joined by Nicola Kivlichan, Head of Market & Student Intelligence at Edinburgh Napier University, to deliver a practical session on the power of machine-learning AI in analysing open comments.
Bruce and Nicola will:
Nicola will also discuss the evolution of verbatim comment analysis at Edinburgh Napier, from manual coding and external agency support to automated, AI-driven analysis that offers faster and more consistent insights.
Our Partnership with StudentVoice.ai
During the session, we will highlight how our partnership with StudentVoice.ai enables machine-learning analysis directly within the evasys ecosystem. This provides institutions with:
This partnership gives universities the ability to transform thousands of qualitative responses into actionable insight as soon as survey results are released.
Free AI Analysis of NSS 2025 Open Comments
We will also be reminding attendees that evasys and StudentVoice.ai are offering free AI-generated insights for NSS 2025 qualitative comments, including visual dashboards and narrative summaries.
Full details are available here.
A Natural Partnership with HESPA
HESPA’s membership is dedicated to understanding, interpreting and acting on institutional data. evasys shares this mission by enabling universities to capture high-quality feedback and unlock deep insight through intelligent tools. Our support for the Autumn All-In Conference reflects our commitment to empowering the sector with advanced survey and analysis capabilities.
We look forward to connecting with delegates at the event and showcasing the transformative potential of AI-enabled qualitative analysis for strategic planners.