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Accelerating the Transition: Looking Ahead to Innovation Zero World 2026
The Innovation Zero World Congress returns to London Olympia on 28–29 April, for our annual gathering of global leaders from across policy, investment, innovation, and business for two days of action focused on accelerating low-carbon innovation.
This year’s event will feature five dedicated Forums covering Energy & Grid, Built & Infrastructure, Finance & Emerging Technology, Advanced Manufacturing & Industry, and Resilient Supply Chains. Each forum will dive deep into the economic risks and opportunities that the transition presents, the technologies and solutions that need to be scaled, and showcase the stories and leaders driving ambition across every sector.
New for this year, and front and centre of the 2026 programme, is the UK’s Industrial Strategy. Focused on unlocking private investment, productivity, and growth in frontier sectors such as advanced manufacturing, life sciences, clean energy, and digitalisation, the Main Stage and Forum sessions will explore how to move this strategy from ambition to delivery, creating new jobs, driving regional prosperity, spurring innovation, and accelerating growth opportunities for UK and international businesses.
Across the agenda, expect in-depth discussions on how the UK can:
- Deliver regional reindustrialisation through energy and manufacturing clusters.
- Bridge the green skills gap to create hundreds of thousands of new jobs.
- Mobilise public and private capital to scale frontier technologies.
- Strengthen resilient, circular supply chains and ensure sustainable growth across industries.
The programme also shines a light on the Innovation Showcase, where startups and scale-ups will pitch breakthrough solutions and investors will how first-of-a-kind projects can overcome challenges to reach commercial scale.
With just over six months to go, we’ve already confirmed a world-class line-up of speakers, including:
Nigel Topping (Climate Change Committee), Greg Jackson CBE (Octopus Energy), Hakima El Haite (MENA2050), Emma Howard Boyd CBE (London Climate Resilience Review), Chris Norbury (E.ON Next), Guy Newey (Energy Systems Catapult), Simon Bowen (Great British Energy – Nuclear), Rob McDonald (SSEN Transmission), Solitaire Townsend (Futerra), Sarah Mackintosh (Cleantech for UK), Tim Reid (UK Export Finance), Ben Caldecott (UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment), Irina Gorbounova (ArcelorMittal), Chris Low (Haleon), Laura Sandys CBE (UK Government Digital Energy Taskforce), Yselkla Farmer (BEAMA), Melissa Zanocco CBE (UKRI), Rachel Solomon Williams (Aldersgate Group), and Hannah Cool (B4NZ).
Join us this April as we continue our mission to accelerate the policies, partnerships, and solutions critical to driving low-carbon innovation, and to chart the path toward a resilient, prosperous, and globally competitive low-carbon economy.