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Catalyst Forum

Partner

Innovate UK

Sponsors Deloitte
    • Catalyst Forum
    Catalyst Forum
    • Catalyst Forum
    Catalyst Forum
    Scientific leaders will offer their perspectives on how the drive towards a decarbonised world will require innovation across every sector.
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    Catalyst Forum
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    Catalyst Forum
    • Catalyst Forum
    Catalyst Forum
    • Catalyst Forum
    Catalyst Forum
    A critical challenge is unlocking the vast quantity of capital required to enable the transition to a zero-carbon economy. How are the Finance sector working to align capital with net zero outcomes? H ...
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    Catalyst Forum
    • Catalyst Forum
    Catalyst Forum
    The UK government and aviation sector has committed to at least 10% of jet fuels being made from sustainable sources by 2030. This could be an opportunity for leadership and investment. What are the c ...
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    Catalyst Forum
    How do we decarbonise our core energy infrastructure focusing on the role of Government in setting the right policy conditions for investment, what are the right mix of technologies to balance cost, e ...
    Session sponsor:
    Deloitte
    • Catalyst Forum
    Catalyst Forum
    A zero-carbon world will continue to need high-quality built environments. To achieve full decarbonisation across these environments, companies cannot focus just on their own emission reduction but al ...
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    Catalyst Forum
    • Catalyst Forum
    Catalyst Forum
    With the advent of ChatGPT and augmented realities, the power of AI has started to enter the public consciousness. How can we harness it to tackle climate change? Could AI herald utopia or dystopia?
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    Catalyst Forum
    • Catalyst Forum
    Catalyst Forum
    An Interview with one of the UK's greatest low carbon pioneers.
Innovation Showcase
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    Ahead of hearing from a series of upcoming UK start-ups throughout the day, Cleantech Group, the world’s leading authority on cleantech innovation, will provide some perspectives on the UK cleantech s ...
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    We will share how Genesis creates unique insights and value for our clients by combining deep engineering and technical understanding with our strategic insights. This will include a brief introductio ...
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    The buildings and construction sector accounts for almost 40% of global carbon emissions with 23% directly attributable to the construction of buildings. While materials used in construction get the l ...
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    For over ten years, Planet Mark has been ahead of the curve, achieving carbon reductions across all business sizes and sectors and setting the pace on net zero strategy. In this talk, Planet Mark’s CE ...
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    NeuerEnergy is a UK-based sustainability business who’ve developed one of the most comprehensive net zero platforms. NeuerEnergy offers an end-to-end solution that can be precisely tailored to your ow ...
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    The main historic approaches to carbon offsetting no longer fits the terrain of climate action, nor inspires the urgency of emissions reduction. Instead, businesses should walk the path of including c ...
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    If you want to spearhead to Net Zero, then Coomtech’s Low-Energy Drying Technology is the answer. The only radical development in 137 years, this non-thermal drying system for bulk raw materials uses ...
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    The ability to trace forward is going to be your business's key differentiator as we continue in the battle to combat climate change. In this session, Anna is going to explain how an evolution of bloc ...
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    TREEO works hand-in-hand with tree growers who can reap the benefits of reforestation and agroforestry directly. Besides the positive climate impact, our projects also have biodiversity and socioecono ...
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    eloclearTM a combined cleaning and disinfection solution, manufactured by in-situ electrolysis of a water and salt solution, has the potential to offer food processors and manufacturers significant su ...
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    As the world transitions towards zero carbon sources of energy, the need for long duration energy storage solutions, to create secure, low cost, dispatchable power from renewables, becomes abundantly ...
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    High energy costs for both gas and electricity are causing businesses, consumers and local authorities to look hard at how we can make local energy systems cleaner and more affordable at the same time ...
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    Join our session to discover how ClimateSeed builds collaborative solutions to help businesses decarbonise. You’ll learn a lot about the combined power of business intelligence, collaboration, and amb ...
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    Is your clean energy supply as green as you think? Your organisation deserves the truth. Jason Reddy will explain the “energy smoothie” – and how the current system for reporting 100% renewable energy ...
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    From redesigned vessels to greener fuels, the push to sustainably transport goods is well underway. But are the big boy brands really “all-aboard”? The design of the very thing that holds the goods – ...
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    This presentation introduces a novel food waste management method, highlighting how it can accelerate the UK’s journey towards achieving a net zero future through reducing CO2 emissions and promoting ...
Energy
    • Energy
    Energy
    A key note speech opening a day of discussion and debate about how the UK can lead the energy revolution.
    Session sponsor:
    EDF Sizewell
    • Energy
    Energy
    This session gives a unique opportunity for UK start-ups/unicorns/SMEs with genuinely ground-breaking technology to pitch their innovations and inspire the audience as to how they can play a part in a ...
    Session sponsor:
    Zenobe  Promethean Particles
    • Energy
    Energy
    Creating an energy system that is both secure and sustainable and offers low carbon solutions at both a national and local/municipal/household level requires huge technological innovation to knit toge ...
    Session sponsor:
    8Rivers  Circular Fuels
    • Energy
    Energy
    A panel comprising major energy producers, regulators and innovators across the energy transition aimed at exploring how the UK achieves security over supply all the while shifting to zero carbon solu ...
    • Energy
    Energy
    As the clean energy revolution gains momentum, projects are being proposed both at grid level and in localised distributed energy scenarios, whilst off-takers look to play their own part in securing l ...
    • Energy
    Energy
    The 1970s onwards created a legacy of technology, skills and advisory expertise in the oil & gas sector that the U.K. continues to export driving Billions of pounds of value annually. The challenge in ...
    • Energy
    Energy
    Come join Rodney Allam OBE, inventor of the Allam Cycle to discuss his next technological breakthrough.
Finance
    • Finance
    Finance
    • Finance
    Finance
    • Finance
    Finance
    A discussion to progress the question of how better to match the investment opportunities requiring funding with the investors seeking greater visibility.
    Session sponsor:
    Zenobe
    • Finance
    Finance
    The most difficult phase when founding a company is getting that company to seed stage, Series A and reaching Series B. The majority of the startups fail at seed stage. So how do you pick winners and ...
    • Finance
    Finance
    What is the unique role that corporate venture can play in the low carbon transition? Learn about recent and current examples of corporate venture funds successfully enabling scale ups.
    • Finance
    Finance
    How can we understand the impact of the investments we make, not only in carbon terms, but also more holistically? Is there a danger of innovation only tackling symptoms, and not the root problems? Th ...
    • Finance
    Finance
    As private equity emerges as an asset class of choice for institutional investors in OECD countries and the developing world alike, this panel will explore the main sectoral and sustainable finance fo ...
    Session sponsor:
    M&G
    • Finance
    Finance
    Pension investors, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and endowments have become by far the largest asset owners in most countries/markets, and they’re ‘shifting the trillions’ towards ESG-informed, tech-o ...
Built Environment
Sponsors Atkins
    • Built Environment
    Built Environment
    Updates and guidance on policy, investing in a decarbonised industry, designing for a changing climate and the role of innovation standards and regulations in the UK and EU.
    • Built Environment
    Built Environment
    In this session, panellists will drive forward the discussion around optimum ways of retrofitting existing properties as a major component of decarbonising the built environment, focusing on the optim ...
    Session sponsor:
    Atkins
    • Built Environment
    Built Environment
    Organisations which build and sell or own and operate significant numbers of buildings will share actionable insights around their requirements for a decarbonised supply chain. Invited speakers includ ...
    • Built Environment
    Built Environment
    • Built Environment
    Built Environment
    Developers of innovative new materials will share their insights around tackling the challenge of embodied carbon and creating and deploying low emission materials.
    • Built Environment
    Built Environment
    Learn from 2-3 examples of innovation in the deployment of solutions designed to tackle the challenge of decarbonising HVAC systems.   “Harnessing geoenergy for heating & cooling buildings sustainably ...
    Session sponsor:
    Celsius Energy
    • Built Environment
    Built Environment
    Learn from the City of London's taskforce, comprised of over 280 organisations, to discover how we can access and engage with a skilled workforce for the built environment of the future. What are the ...
Green Stage
    • Green Stage
    Green Stage
    For tech businesses operating in sectors enabling the net zero economy, investment in research and development takes both time and money. Investors in turn face challenges in deciding which technologi ...
    • Green Stage
    Green Stage
    Join us as we sit down with two leading carbon project developers – UNDO and 1PointFive – to dive into how carbon finance delivers impact on the ground. We’ll be discussing key opportunities and chall ...
    • Green Stage
    Green Stage
    There has never been more focus on the need to decarbonise solutions. But once quick fixes have been made and after early wins gained, organisations are perhaps now wrestling with how to make further ...
    • Green Stage
    Green Stage
    Plastic pollution has become a global issue, but our attempts to solve this crisis have so far eluded us. Yet, plastic is an integral part of our daily lives – and our dependence continues to grow. So ...
    • Green Stage
    Green Stage
    Tesco and Olio have been on a 5-year journey to create a groundbreaking national partnership which has enabled Tesco to be a market leader with regard to fulfilling its commitment to zero edible store ...
    • Green Stage
    Green Stage
    Vertical farming technologies and crop science are each playing an increasingly important role in improving both food and water security in multiple geographies, including in the United Kingdom. But w ...
    • Green Stage
    Green Stage
    How The Solent Cluster is taking a ‘big tent’ approach to realising its decarbonisation goals. Panel based slot with 4x members identifying collective solutions, shared technologies and ambitions with ...
    • Green Stage
    Green Stage
    Join our panel of experts as we explore the critical link between food supply chains and achieving a net-zero future. From regenerative agriculture to digital traceability, discover how we can secure our food systems for a sustainable tomorrow.
    • Green Stage
    Green Stage
    Embraced by more and more companies around the world including Klarna, internal carbon fees are a proven alternative to traditional carbon offsetting, enabling them to generate and allocate funds to c ...
    • Green Stage
    Green Stage
    Key Stakeholders Unite: Join our panel discussion to explore the interplay of legislation, feedstock, offtake, and investment/tech in the supply chain of the chemical recycling industry in the UK.
    • Green Stage
    Green Stage
    Are you selling a product or service in the Clean Growth sector? Globally this sector is predicted to be worth £1.8 trillion by 2030 so there has never been a better time to consider selling internati ...
    • Green Stage
    Green Stage
    As focus on emissions, energy efficiency and scalability has led CATAGEN to reimagine the decarbonisation of mobility and heavy industry. Creating ClimaHtech – advanced climate technologies to generat ...
    • Green Stage
    Green Stage
    Join us for an EY led panel session exploring the role of the CFO and Finance function in enabling successful sustainability transformation. We will explore some of the challenges and opportunities fa ...
Decarbonising Working Groups
    • Decarbonising Working Groups
    Decarbonising Working Groups
    Achieving net zero within complex global supply chains would be a tough enough challenge even in the relatively stable operating context that existed before the pandemic. Now, supply chains face the a ...
    • Decarbonising Working Groups
    Decarbonising Working Groups
    With the lowest levels of energy efficiency in Europe, the UK’s building stock is a huge opportunity for market growth. Successful delivery of a nationwide retrofit programme underpinned by pioneering ...
    • Decarbonising Working Groups
    Decarbonising Working Groups
    Innovation and patent protection go hand-in-hand. We will discuss how patent protection obtained for Nobel Prize-winning invention made in the UK resulted in significant licensing revenue for a device ...
    • Decarbonising Working Groups
    Decarbonising Working Groups
    Including a catered lunch 12:15-12:40 for invited guests. This session will consider the requirements to scale the alternative protein industry in the UK to capitalise on the $155 billion global marke ...
    • Decarbonising Working Groups
    Decarbonising Working Groups
    The urgency of addressing climate change requires the rapid industrialisation and widespread adoption of green tech. What stands in the way of the mass production and market acceptance of these new te ...
    • Decarbonising Working Groups
    Decarbonising Working Groups
    Hear from carbon reduction and certification platform Net Zero Now, in conversation with partners Coca Cola and Pernod Ricard, as they discuss the importance of engaging your supply chain when calcula ...
Catalyst Forum

Partner

Innovate UK

Sponsors Deloitte
    • Catalyst Forum
    Catalyst Forum
    • Catalyst Forum
    Catalyst Forum
    The latest perspective from UK government and one significant international trade partner on innovation’s transformative role in the net zero transition.
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    Catalyst Forum
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    Catalyst Forum
    An update from COP27 High-Level Champion Mahmoud Mohieldin as COP28 Approaches. What lessons are being carried forward from Sharm El-Sheikh to Dubai? With greenwashing becoming an increasing point of ...
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    Catalyst Forum
    Hear the most current and informed view of the impact of policy measures in the US. What are the priorities for international engagement and what are the opportunities for international investors and ...
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    Catalyst Forum
    How are US investors approaching the cleantech opportunity. Hear from four investors at complementary stages of the growth cycle, sharing how they operate to accelerate the scaling of low carbon innov ...
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    Catalyst Forum
    The standards conversation is maturing across international markets with increasingly significant real-world implications for businesses and financial institutions of all sizes. Mandatory disclosure o ...
    Session sponsor:
    S&P Global
    • Catalyst Forum
    Catalyst Forum
    Approximately $50 trillion in incremental investments is required by 2050 to transition the global economy to net zero emissions. Existing technologies need to be rapidly scaled across all regions whi ...
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    Catalyst Forum
    Corporate communications, public relations, advertising agencies, lobbyists and think tanks: These powerful communicators can ensure that citizens and businesses everywhere understand the need for urg ...
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    Catalyst Forum
    The highest CO2-emitting industries - including petroleum refining, chemicals, iron and steel, cement - represent an urgent decarbonisation challenge which will be met by various means, such as improv ...
    • Catalyst Forum
    Catalyst Forum
    Hear the leaders of pioneering cities and regions sharing their approach to providing the most liveable, healthy and desirable environment while enabling an increasing number of high-value well-paid j ...
Innovation Showcase
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    Join us as Federico delves into the dynamic and ever-changing world of Climate Tech. Through his experience and knowledge as the founder of Net Zero Insights, he will provide insights on the latest tr ...
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    More time should be spent working with reducing emissions than manually estimating them! This session will cover how companies like Veidekke, Scandinavia’s fourth-largest contractor, use Ignite to cal ...
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    Join Saif Hameed as he explores the importance of robust emissions data for business: Why better emissions data matters and the changes it will enable How our data is not just inaccurate, but unpredic ...
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    Hear directly from our CEO and Co-Founder, Valerio Magliulo, as he showcases our innovative platform, products, and services, and how we are building the largest global network of carbon project devel ...
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    Over 90% of companies that have committed to Net Zero targets will fail unless they double the pace of emission reductions by 2030. Scope 3 emissions account for 90% of total company emissions from th ...
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    For many industries, Scope 3 represents more than 80% of their emissions but accessing the information and data needed to move the dial on decarbonisation sits within often complex value chains. Compa ...
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    Discover the impact of the laundry industry, which is often overlooked despite being the third most damaging industry. Our discussion will cover key areas such as water resilience, microplastics, heat ...
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    Africa: Pioneering the Transition to Electric Vehicles. By capitalising on the untapped potential of non-consumers in the transportation sector, Africa has the unique opportunity to leapfrog tradition ...
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    An introduction to Climate TRACE, a comprehensive inventory of every human-caused source of greenhouse gas emissions on the planet.  Founded by Former Vice President Al Gore and a coalition of organis ...
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    Power Roll have developed, patented, and are now scaling a completely new way to harness the power of the sun with a lightweight, flexible, and low cost solar PV that will revolutionise solar energy.
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    Solar has a dirty little secret. If solar really is one of the cheapest forms of energy, then why does it not exist on every rooftop? We talk about some hard truths that block the adoption of solar an ...
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    The Global Tech Connect UK Net Zero Energy Bootcamp Cohort takes to the Innovation Stage to present their solutions to an audience of investors, corporates and conference attendees. The 11 chosen comp ...
    • Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcase
    Calling all startups & investors. This is your chance to rapidly meet each other in a high-impact, 45 minute facilitated networking session. Come with enthusiasm, and leave with interesting ideas and ...
Industrial
    • Industrial
    Industrial
    • Industrial
    Industrial
    Industry has a crucial role at both ends of the value chain in reducing its energy intensity, locking away or reusing carbon and producing low carbon hydrogen to power our future. The UK's net zero cl ...
    • Industrial
    Industrial
    Carbon capture technology is well understood and, with the right blend policy, incentives and investment, a critical first step. How can UK industry go a step further though the creation of value in t ...
    Session sponsor:
    Viking CCS
    • Industrial
    Industrial
    Is green hydrogen the only viable pathway to decarbonise industry? How does it affect the hard-to-abate sectors? Addressing the promises and challenges of green hydrogen for industrial usage, this deb ...
    • Industrial
    Industrial
    The UK is focussed on increasing ambition in accelerating the green industrial revolution. At every point in the lifecycle, opportunities exist for technology innovators and investors to partner to de ...
    • Industrial
    Industrial
    This session gives an unique opportunity for UK start-ups/unicorns/SMEs with genuinely ground-breaking technology to help manufacturers decarbonise processes. Technologies across Augmented Reality (AR ...
    Session sponsor:
    CarbonRe
Transport
    • Transport
    Transport
    In this session, panellists will articulate visions of an imminent future when ICEVs are not available and raise awareness of the challenges and opportunities created across transportation systems and ...
    • Transport
    Transport
    Learn from local and regional governments, public transport providers and EV infrastructure developers as they articulate visions for new models for public and private transport in both urban and non- ...
    Session sponsor:
    Deloitte  Mobilityways
    • Transport
    Transport
    With over half of automotive industry emissions by 2040 expected to come from materials used in production, the need for eco-friendlier material is more apparent than ever. Hear from senior executives ...
    • Transport
    Transport
    Hear how public and private sector organisations partnering with manufacturers and suppliers to reach zero fleet emissions.
    Session sponsor:
    V.EV
    • Transport
    Transport
    An insight into how GRIDSERVE is working to move the needle on climate change with its Sun-to-Wheel ecosystem. From generating energy from the sun, to delivering an award-winning charging network, thr ...
    • Transport
    Transport
    Learn from the experiences of 2 founders of companies offering innovative solutions across vehicle manufacturing, EV batteries, route planning and more. “The future of hydrogen-electric trucks” Asher ...
    • Transport
    Transport
    All transport begins with the surface on which they take place. How can we minimise the carbon impacts of roads, highways, and traffic congestion? Are smart roads the future? Learn how traffic infrast ...
Finance & Reporting
    • Finance and Reporting
    Finance & Reporting
    • Finance and Reporting
    Finance & Reporting
    This session will explore the gaps in the innovation journey that the academic sector can fill for climate, including deep tech, and you will have the chance to meet innovators who have engaged with t ...
    • Finance and Reporting
    Finance & Reporting
    This session will demonstrate how to enhance your reporting work to reduce risk, maximise OpEx savings and build competitive advantage. Assessing and upgrading emissions reduction strategies Taking a ...
    Session sponsor:
    Carbon Responsible
    • Finance and Reporting
    Finance & Reporting
    Learn how the University of Cambridge brings together the ecosystem to support impact entrepreneurs from Cambridge and beyond.
    • Finance and Reporting
    Finance & Reporting
    Discussing latest innovation in ESG and climate risk reporting systems and tools: Join us to learn how the latest innovation in technology can enhance your ESG reporting delivery along with forward gu ...
    Session sponsor:
    Oliver Wyman
    • Finance and Reporting
    Finance & Reporting
    Join our outstanding panel sharing the latest innovations in impact investing, from catalytic and blended finance, emerging market initiatives, and just transitions, to place based and gender smart fi ...
    • Finance and Reporting
    Finance & Reporting
    What does a successful Carbon Offset Execution strategy look like? Join us to learn how current carbon trading strategies are being used to best effect. How are offset strategies evolving to play a re ...
    Session sponsor:
    Supercritical
Green Stage
    • Green Stage
    Green Stage
    • Green Stage
    Green Stage
    How is FMC complementary to other initiatives in the industry decarbonisation ecosystem and how can demand-driven action advance technical, financial and policy-related support for scaling domestic su ...
    • Green Stage
    Green Stage
    • Green Stage
    Green Stage
    Introducing Sustainable Fitch’s transition assessment to inform on the targets and progress of companies in transition – to enable the transformation of the energy system and accelerate global progres ...
    • Green Stage
    Green Stage
    How The Solent Cluster’s unique membership profile represents a ‘once in a generation opportunity’ to benefit communities, industry and commercial sectors in the region. Solent Cluster focused present ...
    • Green Stage
    Break
    Green Stage
    • Green Stage
    Green Stage
    As of the end of 2022, the carbon removal market is on track in some areas, while other areas need more attention. Entrepreneurs flooded the market with innovation, pursuing new ideas or improvements ...
    • Green Stage
    Green Stage
    Carbon removals and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies are set to play a more prominent and expanded role in the coming years, as we recognise the urgent importance of not just reducing car ...
    • Green Stage
    Green Stage
    Many UK businesses are aware that they need to develop a strategy around decarbonisation, however, these businesses face the challenge of knowing where to start, and who to turn to. Our panel session ...
    • Green Stage
    Green Stage
    This session will explore the ways in which we can scale innovators quicker. How do you take a start-up company from seed stage, through to Series A, B, and beyond? How can we streamline and expedite ...
Decarbonising Working Groups
    • Decarbonising Working Groups
    Decarbonising Working Groups
    The UK's 4th Industrial Revolution is underway. The national net zero strategy is a critical opportunity to 'level up', to invest in the decarbonisation of our industrial heartlands and create vibrant ...
    Speakers
    Ben Houchen