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27th & 28th April 2027 | Olympia London

IZ World Congress      

27–28 April 2027 | Olympia London

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Innovation Zero 2024 Main Stage

Working Groups at Innovation Zero World

Our Working Groups provide delegates with a unique opportunity to weigh in on key subjects during intimate, high-impact roundtable discussions.

Curated by Innovation Zero World’s event partners, including E.ON Next and Sustainable Ventures, these sessions will explore themes ranging from the role diversity plays in accelerating progress towards a net-zero future to the delivery of green growth through real-world deployment.

Working Groups
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Working Group Room 1
  1. Net Zero Insights Breakfast
    Working Group Room 1
     
  2. Skills or Stagnation: Building the Low-Carbon Workforce
    Working Group Room 1
    Despite ambitious government plans to create up to 400,000 new jobs across low-carbon sectors over the next five years, workforce development is not advancing at the speed or scale required to support ...
    Confirmed Speakers
    Stephen Barrett
    Stephen Barrett, Director of Membership & Strategic Engagement - Energy & Utility Skills
    Edward Hughes
    Edward Hughes, Head of Policy & Engagement - NSAR
    Hilary Leevers
    Hilary Leevers, CEO - EngineeringUK
    Mat Parker
    Mat Parker, Head of Careers & Inclusion - ECITB
  3. Your Green Home, Simplified: Making Clean Tech Affordable & Accessible
    Working Group Room 1
    This roundtable provides a practical, solutions-focused discussion on overcoming the systemic barriers to the mass adoption of residential low-carbon technologies (solar, heat pumps, batteries) and sm ...
Working Group Room 2
  1. Investor-Ready IP for Cleantech
    Working Group Room 2
    This working group will explore how early intellectual property decisions shape the commercial trajectory of a cleantech business. Using a practical, scenario-led workshop built around a fictional cle ...
  2. National Emergency Briefing Screening
    Working Group Room 2
     
Round Tables (Henley Room 3)
  1. Turning Energy from a Cost Centre into a Strategic Asset: How Large Industrial Users Are Unlocking Flexibility, Resilience and New Revenue Streams
    Round Tables (Henley Room 3)
    Join Gareth Ball, for an exclusive invitation-only roundtable discussion exploring the key challenges and opportunities shaping energy strategy for industrial organisations today. Designed specificall ...
    Confirmed Speakers
    Gareth Ball
    Gareth Ball, Head of Sales and Marketing UK & Ireland - Enel X
    Jamie Storry
    Jamie Storry, Commercial Lead UK - Enel X
Working Group Room 1
  1. Making Cleantech Investable in the UK: A Solutions Led Working Breakfast
    Working Group Room 1
    This closed-door breakfast brings together investors, founders, and ecosystem partners to focus on practical actions that accelerate UK cleantech deployment from start-up through first-of-a-kind (FOAK ...
  2. Accelerating Electrification
    Working Group Room 1
    The transition to an increasingly electrified energy system is becoming central to industrial competitiveness as energy costs, carbon exposure and procurement requirements increasingly shape margin, m ...
    Confirmed Speakers
    Julia Attwood
    Julia Attwood, Head of Research - Sightline Climate
    Alex Buckman
    Alex Buckman, Innovation Solutions Architect - Flexibility - Energy Systems Catapult
    Tim Mann
    Tim Mann, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer - Innovation Zero
    Sam Mathew
    Sam Mathew, Director, Industry Lead - UK Energy & Resources - Microsoft
    Virginia Sentance MBE
    Virginia Sentance MBE, Partner - Flint Global
    James Stephens
    James Stephens, Vice President Corporate Affairs - DHL UK&I
    Alex Weir
    Alex Weir, Director - Baringa Partners LLP
  3. Accelerating the Future of Cleantech & Why Diversity Matters
    Working Group Room 1
    Which clean technologies are expected to drive forward the low-carbon economy? From demand-side response to wind and solar power, hydrogen and heat pumps and decarbonised heat, a mix of technologies i ...
    Confirmed Speakers
    Anna Bazley
    Anna Bazley, Head of Government & Regulatory Affairs / Co-Founder - Enoda / Out in Climate
    Jessica Mills-Davies
    Jessica Mills-Davies, Senior London Correspondent - Energy Voice
    Susana Neves e Brooks
    Susana Neves e Brooks, Head of Connections Strategy and Reform - National Grid Electricity Distribution
    Lucy Shaw
    Lucy Shaw, Founder / Co-Host - Gordon Management / Power Plays Podcast
Working Group Room 2
  1. From Friction to Fluidity: Scaling Climate Tech Innovation into Corporate Supply Chains
    Working Group Room 2
    This working session convenes the UK’s most influential climate tech founders, corporate adopters, and policy architects for an immersive discussion on ways to remove friction and drive the adoption o ...
  2. Climate Risk Is Governance Risk: From Insight to Courageous Action
    Working Group Room 2
    Innovation Zero will showcase world-leading solutions across energy, finance, nature and supply chains. This 90-minute facilitated session builds on that technical expertise by addressing a critical q ...
    Confirmed Speakers
    Sam Baker
    Sam Baker, Director - Business Declares
    Paul Behrens
    Paul Behrens, British Academy Global Professor - University of Oxford
    Jason Man Chu
    Jason Man Chu, Communicators Coordinator - Islington Climate Centre
    Hugh Montgomery
    Hugh Montgomery, Co-Founder - Real Zero
    Richard Nugee
    Richard Nugee, Director - CCIP Ltd
    Donna Okell
    Donna Okell, CEO and B Leader - UK for Good
    Ben Tolhurst
    Ben Tolhurst, Director - Business Declares

 

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