Sustainable Infrastructure, Resilience and Adaptation Conference 28 & 29 April 26: Innovation Zero World

28–29 April 2026 | Olympia London

Innovation Zero 2024 Main Stage

Resilience & Adaptation is a dedicated Track focused on how economies, infrastructure and communities must adapt to a changing climate - not in the future, but now.

As climate-driven impacts intensify, risks to infrastructure, supply chains, health systems and economic stability are becoming increasingly interconnected. This Track brings together leaders from policy, finance, infrastructure and innovation to examine how resilience can be embedded into planning, investment and delivery, transforming risk into long-term stability and value creation.

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

Who Should Attend

Resilience & Adaptation is designed for decision-makers responsible for managing physical risk and long-term resilience, including:

Infrastructure & Built Environment

Infrastructure owners and operators
Built environment and urban systems leaders

Policy & Public Sector

National, regional and local government
Regulators and public agencies

Finance & Risk

Investors assessing physical climate risk
Insurers and risk professionals

Supply Chains & Systems

Supply chain and operations leaders
Nature, water and resilience specialists

Why Attend?

The Resilience & Adaptation Track convenes organisations working at the intersection of climate risk, infrastructure and economic stability.

Attendees will benefit from:

A clearer understanding of escalating physical climate risks
Opportunities to shape resilience-led strategies and partnerships
Cross-sector perspectives on preventing cascading system failures
Insight into financing adaptation and nature-based solutions
Practical approaches to embedding resilience into infrastructure and investment

What Will You Learn?

Across the programme, sessions will explore:

How to translate climate risk evidence into action
Lessons from regions and sectors already adapting at pace
How resilience strengthens economic competitiveness and social stability
The role of nature, water and infrastructure in reducing exposure
Financing models for adaptation and resilience at scale

Key Sessions

Resilience & Adaptation is a cross-cutting Track within the Innovation Zero World Congress programme, connecting climate science, policy, finance and delivery to build climate-ready systems and economies.

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Opening Keynote – Climate Resilience as Economic Resilience

Main Stage

09:20 – 09:35

Adapting for Impact: Building Climate-Ready Infrastructure and Communities

Built & Infrastructure

10:55 – 11:40

Climate change is a global challenge, yet its effects are increasingly being felt at the local level, with extreme weather events such as flooding, heatwaves, and storms becoming more frequent and sev ...
Circular Models: Rethinking our Built Environment

Built & Infrastructure

12:00 – 12:45

The built environment is one of the most resource- and carbon-intensive systems globally, responsible for over half of emissions, a third of waste, and nearly half of raw material use. Transitioning t ...

Moderator

Melissa Zanocco OBE, Challenge Director: Growth Mission - UKRI - R&D Mission Accelerator Programme

Confirmed Speakers

Jonas Byström, Lead Engineer - European Investment Bank (EIB)

Roxana Slavcheva, Global Lead for Built Environment - World Resources Institute

Pitch Session: Built Environment

Innovation Showcase

16:05 – 17:00

A showcase of next-generation built environment innovations shaping the UK’s transition. Selected innovators will each have 5-7 minutes to pitch their breakthrough solutions, followed by audience Q&A ...

Moderator

Viola Jardon, Programme Director, Accelerator - Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

Susannah McClintock, Investment Partner - Clean Growth Fund

From Evidence to Action: Closing the Climate Resilience Gap

Main Stage

10:50 – 11:35

As climate-driven impacts grow in both frequency and severity, communities, businesses, and governments worldwide are facing escalating physical risks and financial losses. The need to place resilienc ...

Moderator

David Shukman, Former Science Editor - BBC

Confirmed Speakers

Emma Howard Boyd CBE, Chair - London Climate Resilience Review

Juliet Mian, UKIMEA Climate Change Risk, Resilience and Adaptation Leader - Arup
Investing in Nature: Unlocking Resilience and Returns

Main Stage

14:35 – 15:20

More than half of global GDP depends on nature, yet its degradation continues at alarming rates, threatening both economic stability and climate progress. Investing in nature is no longer an option fo ...

Confirmed Speakers

Ewan Andrew, President, Global Supply & Procurement and CSO - Diageo

Ben Caldecott, Founding Director & Principal Investigator - UK Centre for Greening Finance & Investment
Safeguarding Societal Stability: Health, Food, Defence and the Economy in a Warming World

Main Stage

15:25 – 16:10

The global transition is not only an economic or technological transformation – it’s a race to preserve society itself. This closing session brings together leaders working at the intersection of publ ...

Moderator

Hugh Montgomery, Co-Founder - Real Zero

Confirmed Speakers

Paul Behrens, British Academy Global Professor - University of Oxford

Richard Nugee, Former Chief of Defence People / CEO - UK Ministry of Defence / The Scar Free Foundation

Water Stress and Supply Chain Risk

Resilient Supply Chains

11:55 – 12:40

Water stress is emerging as a major risk to global supply chains, with sectors from agriculture and manufacturing to construction and mining among those most at risk. With trillions of dollars of asse ...

Confirmed Speakers

Tom Abel, Director of Sales and Sustainable Solutions - Business Stream

Helen Avery, Director, Nature Programmes - Green Finance Institute

Mads Steinmüller, Head of Climate and Nature - Danske Bank Asset Management

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