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Electrifying the Economy at Innovation Zero World 2026

As electricity demand accelerates across transport, buildings, industry and digital infrastructure, electrification has become the central pathway to delivering net zero, energy security and industrial competitiveness. Yet progress is increasingly constrained - not by ambition or technology alone, but by fragmentation across the value chain. 

The Electrifying the Economy Track brings together the organisations shaping electrification end-to-end: From materials and manufacturing, through grids and digital systems, to deployment, policy and finance. Through a curated programme of content and collaboration, Electrifying the Economy is designed to surface real-world constraints, align incentives and accelerate delivery at scale. 

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Innovation Zero World | 28th & 29th April 2026 | Olympia London

Electrifying the Economy Track Overview

Who Should Attend

Electrifying the Economy is designed for senior decision-makers involved in planning, delivering or enabling electrification across the economy, including: 

Manufacturing & Supply Chain

  • Advanced electrical and equipment manufacturers

  • Power electronics, components, cables and transformer suppliers

  • Materials and critical minerals providers

Networks & Energy Systems

  • Electricity network operators and system planners

  • Grid flexibility, storage and demand-side response providers

  • Digital energy, AI and system optimisation platforms 

Demand-Side & Deployment

  • Industrial energy users and manufacturers

  • Built environment and infrastructure owners/operators

  • Transport, mobility and EV ecosystem leaders

Enablers

  • Policymakers, regulators and public-sector bodies

  • Infrastructure investors and financiers

  • Innovators, scale-ups and system integrators

Why Attend?

The Electrifying the Economy Track convenes organisations working across the electrification value chain, from system planning to deployment. 

Attendees will benefit from:

  • A system-level view of electrification, connecting supply, networks, policy, finance and demand 

  • Direct access to decision-makers shaping grid investment, deployment and industrial strategy 

  • Insight into the real constraints slowing progress, from infrastructure and skills to capital allocation and standards 

  • Opportunities to influence priorities, including participation in working-level discussions 

  • A curated environment designed to support partnerships, pilots and investment conversations 

What Will You Learn?

Across the programme, sessions will focus on the practical challenges and opportunities shaping electrification at scale, including: 

  • Lessons from early deployment across industry, transport and the built environment
     

  • Digitalisation, AI and data as enablers of smarter, more integrated energy systems
     

  • Aligning policy, regulation and finance to unlock large-scale electrified demand
     

  • The role of advanced manufacturing and supply-chain readiness in accelerating electrification
     

  • Grid capacity, flexibility and resilience: what must change to enable deployment
     

  • How rising electricity demand is reshaping networks, infrastructure planning and investment priorities 

Key Sessions

Electrifying the Economy is a cross-cutting Track within the Innovation Zero World Congress programme, connecting content and participants across Energy & Grid, Advanced Manufacturing, the Built Environment and Resilient Supply Chains. It is designed as a focused, high-impact platform for collaboration – and a test-bed for future sector-led initiatives.

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Energy & Grid

 

Forum Partners
Energy UK The Association for Decentralised Energy

  1. Energy & Grid
    From grid expansion to hydrogen, offshore wind to CCUS, the UK is betting big on capital-intensive, hardware-heavy industries to meet energy goals. This session will explore how government and industr ...
  2. Energy & Grid
    Grid flexibility offers a cheaper, faster path to balancing supply and demand than traditional infrastructure expansion. This panel will assess the current state of play and explore market mechanisms, ...
  3. Energy & Grid
    From factory automation to AI-enabled energy planning, digital tools are essential for optimising operations and planning across the energy system. This session will examine the rollout of grid digita ...
  4. Energy & Grid
    Data centres are fast emerging as one of the most energy-intensive parts of the system. With innovative design and the right incentives however, they could evolve into active participants in a flexibl ...
Finance & Emerging Technology
  1. Finance & Emerging Technology
    Heavy industries such as steel, cement, and utilities are essential to the global economy but remain among the most carbon-intensive and hardest to decarbonise. Transitioning these sectors requires ma ...
Innovation Showcase

 

Showcase Partner
Cleantech Group Cleantech for UK

  1. Innovation Showcase
    A showcase of next-generation energy and power solutions shaping the UK’s transition. Selected innovators will each have 5-7 minutes to pitch their breakthrough solutions, followed by audience Q&A wit ...
  2. Innovation Showcase
    Hardware-heavy cleantech faces the toughest path to market, with innovators often forced abroad to scale. This session looks at what it takes to move from seed and FOAK (first-of-a-kind) to Series B a ...
Energy & Grid

 

Forum Partners
Energy UK The Association for Decentralised Energy

  1. Energy & Grid
    Across the world, nations are rewriting the rules of their energy systems- from market design and grid reform to digitalisation and decentralised generation. This session explores what the UK can lear ...
  2. Energy & Grid
    The energy transition must work for people and businesses- not just infrastructure. From tariffs and smart meters to electric vehicles and heating, consumers are on the frontlines of change. Yet today ...
  3. Energy & Grid
    Decarbonising heating and cooling is critical to net zero. This panel looks at the technologies and strategies—from heat pumps to waste heat recovery—that are needed to deliver the industrial strategy ...
  4. Energy & Grid
    Industrial decarbonisation is core to the UK’s clean growth ambitions, but progress hinges on electrifying traditionally hard-to-abate sectors. This panel will explore technology pathways, grid readin ...
Advanced Manufacturing & Industry
  1. Advanced Manufacturing & Industry
    The clean energy transition depends not only on renewable power but also on how solar panels, grid equipment, batteries, and low carbon equipment is designed, manufactured, and recycled. These assets ...
  2. Advanced Manufacturing & Industry
    The battery manufacturing sector sits at the heart of the UK’s ambition to lead in sustainable, high-value advanced manufacturing. As demand for electrification surges across transport, energy storage ...
  3. Advanced Manufacturing & Industry
    The UK is a global leader in offshore wind, backed by strong policy, deep expertise, and major installed capacity driving decarbonisation and energy security. To maintain this leadership, the next pha ...
Resilient Supply Chains
  1. Resilient Supply Chains
    Critical minerals are the backbone of the clean energy transition, but surging demand and concentrated supply chains raise risks of dependency, disruption and possible future conflict. The way governm ...

 

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Innovation Zero World | 28th & 29th April 2026 | Olympia London