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Innovation Zero 2024 Main Stage

Unplugged: A Conversation With Energy Leaders


The UK’s energy transformation is set to boost growth, jobs and security, but what does the future look like and what possibilities will it unlock? We hear from Chris Stark CBE, Lord Adair Turner, Chris Norbury and Stephen Smith on how to achieve our energy goals and the role that innovation and investment will play in delivering the electrified economies of the future.

How the National Wealth Fund is Fostering Sustainable Growth


In this keynote session, John Flint, Chief Executive of the UK’s National Wealth Fund, sets out a strategic vision for financing the UK’s transition to a low-emissions economy—while ensuring the path to net zero remains both innovative and inclusive.

Shifting Gears to Radical Collaboration in a Fragmenting World


Featuring Rachel Kyte (UK Special Representative for Climate, FCDO) and Dr Rhian-Mari Thomas OBE (Chief Executive, Green Finance Institute), the discussion will focus on how to align interests, unlock finance, and build trust in an era defined by disruption.

Forecasts for Climate and AI Humanity's Intelligent Silver Bullet


The AI revolution poses a radical new opportunity to harness technology ingenuity towards climate-positive progress, in mitigation and adaptation modelling and weather forecasting. We speak to climate and AI thought leaders Sims Witherspoon and Emily Shuckburgh OBE.

Presenting The Seventh Carbon Budget


Emma Pinchbeck is the Chief Executive of the Climate Change Committee, the UK’s national climate advisor. The body advises on the country’s Carbon Budgets and Climate Change Risk Assessments and does annual assessments of the Government’s progress.

Just Zero: How Businesses Implement the Transition


Moderated by Roger Harrabin, this panel features Sir Alex Chisholm, Dr Steve Howard and Rain Newton-Smith sharing their plans to harness the green transition as an opportunity to create jobs in existing and emerging sectors. As the need for re- and upskilling the workforce to ensure a socially just transition dominates policy debates, hear their call to action to governments and fellow stakeholders.

Outrage and Optimism Podcast Live from Innovation Zero


Sweta Chakraborty, Paul Dickenson, Lindsay Levin and Tom Rivett-Carnac to discuss how communications science can predict and influence behavioural outcomes, and what mobilisation on climate ahead of 2026, 2028, and beyond, looks like. How will the US, as the UK’s largest trading partner, function in the future as part of the global transition to clean energy?