Join us at St Catharine’s College for a full-day exploration into the technologies redefining the future of our planet - where climate innovation meets the next agricultural revolution.
From AI-powered solutions tackling carbon emissions to breakthroughs in resilient food systems, this event brings together leading minds and cutting-edge ideas to address the biggest challenges, and opportunities, of our time.
We’ll begin with keynote insights from Chris Goodall author, investor, and globally recognised expert on the transition to a post-fossil fuel world. With over a decade of experience focusing on new energy technologies, Chris will set the tone for a day rooted in action and forward thinking.
The programme features four thematic sessions:
- Redefining Energy Systems for Net Zero
Explore the electrification of industry, the promise of hydrogen, and the latest in carbon capture. Start-up showcases and live pitches will spotlight real innovation driving decarbonisation. - AI for Climate: Game-Changer or Resource Risk?
Dive into the debate around AI’s role in climate action - where is the line between essential enabler and environmental burden? - Agri-Tech and the Future of Food
Discover how technology is transforming food systems to meet the rising demand for sustainability, resilience, and global food security. - Scaling Nature-Based Solutions
From reforestation to regenerative practices, we’ll examine how nature-based approaches can be deployed at scale - and what’s holding them back.
Expect a mix of expert keynotes, dynamic panels, interactive debates, fireside chats, and live pitches. This is more than a conference - it’s a platform for collaboration, investment, and action.
Discover the Climate & Agri-tech programme
| Decarbonising the Future: Energy and Industrial Transformation | ||||
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09:00 |
Registration and Refreshments |
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09:45 |
Opening Welcome from MC Sylvie Russell, Chief Operating Officer, Cambridge Cleantech 
Sylvie RussellSylvie is the Chief Operating Officer at Cambridge Cleantech and has over 20 years of experience in senior roles in international companies, from SMEs and charities to large multi-national brands. She manages the Cleantech Venture Day, a flagship pitching event and a meeting place for innovators, investors, large enterprises and economic development partners to see next generation climate tech solutions and investment opportunities. Sylvie managed the delivery of the Act4Green programme in 2021 and the UK-India Tech Startup programme 2022, both intensive business accelerator programmes for British and Indian cleantech start-ups supported by the UK Government’s FCDO office. With a French Baccalauréat and a 4-year international business and management degree, her career has taken her to Monaco, the UK, Spain and Uruguay, providing her with experiences that have helped shape her understanding of different cultures and working environments. With every role and challenge, her aim has always been to ensure that everything goes smoothly for everyone involved. |
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09:45 |
Sponsor Welcome |
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09:50 |
Keynote Setting the Scene: From Impossible to Possible 
Chris GoodallChris Goodall is a business person working on the energy transition. He has written several books on the routes to decarbonisation, including last year’s Possible. Two of these books were among the Financial Times Books of the Year. Chris is also an investor in climate tech companies, including Net Zero Insights, a presenter at this conference. |
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10:10 |
Energy and Industrial Decarbonisation Key Data 
Sofia EstevesSofia combines a background in science and engineering with nearly 15 years of experience in innovation and technology transfer, at academia and industry. In her role as the Head of Market Insights at Net Zero Insights, she is focused on enhancing the impact created by Climate Tech innovation stakeholders. |
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10:20 |
Keynote: The Road to Net Zero: Energy Systems in Transition 
Emma FletcherEmma is the Low Carbon Housing Director at Octopus Energy. Her career has centred on leading high impact, high innovation projects in real estate, with a particular focus on housing, energy performance and green energy production. Her practical experience includes starting her career in rural surveying and estate management moving into award-winning housing and regeneration developments. Emma is a passionate advocate for change, community resilience and sustainability solutions for all. She established and led the UK’s first fossil fuel-free district heating scheme in her village, Swaffham Prior. Her work regularly features in trade, national and international press & media.
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Heavy Industry, Light Footprint: Electrification of Industrial Processes, Barriers and Enablers to Transformation 
David FergusonDavid is Head of Innovation at EDF UK. His mission is to lead innovations that accelerate the world’s journey towards net zero. His career has covered climate strategy, digital R&D and innovation in the UK, France and China. He is also co-founder of several climate tech startups, a Non-Executive Director of Exeter Science Park and a member of the Tech Southwest Advisory Board.
Emma FletcherEmma is the Low Carbon Housing Director at Octopus Energy. Her career has centred on leading high impact, high innovation projects in real estate, with a particular focus on housing, energy performance and green energy production. Her practical experience includes starting her career in rural surveying and estate management moving into award-winning housing and regeneration developments. Emma is a passionate advocate for change, community resilience and sustainability solutions for all. She established and led the UK’s first fossil fuel-free district heating scheme in her village, Swaffham Prior. Her work regularly features in trade, national and international press & media.
Niall MottramNiall is VP of Energy & CDR at Cambridge Consultants. A chartered chemical engineer, Niall has led breakthrough innovation projects in multiple industry sectors for over 20 years, involving novel optical sensing, wireless communication, and heat management technologies. He is particularly interested in the potential for novel technologies to reduce the costs associated with balancing energy supply and demand and help accelerate the energy transition in the process. |
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11:05 |
Innovation Showcase: Tech Solutions Powering Decarbonisation 
Omid SaghafifarOmid Saghafifar is the Co-founder and CEO of Remedium Energy, a UK-based climate tech startup developing novel carbon capture and thermal energy storage technologies. He holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of Cambridge, where his research focused on thermochemical energy storage. Omid has over a decade of experience in carbon capture, hydrogen systems, and deep-tech commercialisation. 
Georgia WareGeorgia is the CEO of HotGreen, an industrial heat pump start-up that is outcompeting steam boilers with a green heat solution. She became passionate about industrial heat, and it's enormous climate impact while in her previously role as the Head of Growth and Partnerships at Hexxcell, a hybrid-AI software company focussed on optimising the maintenance processes for industrial heat transfer equipment. She previously led a Healthtech startup as CEO in the early stages of its development in 2020 before it closed in 2021. She started her career in management consultancy, spending 5+ years at Oliver Wyman leaving as a Senior Manager. Georgia has a Masters in Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Cambridge.
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11:15 |
Refreshment Break |
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| Harnessing AI for Climate Solutions: Driving Innovation in Climate Tech | ||||
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11:45 |
Opening Remarks: Nicky Dee, Founder & CEO, Carbon13 |
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11:50 |
Examples of AI for Climate Solutions |
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Debate: Climate - Good or Bad for AI? 
Sara JonesSara was Carbon13's first hire, responsible for building out the talent magnet for Carbon13 and establishing the Venture Builder as a world class programme for climatetech. She now focuses on Carbon13's accelerator the Venture Launchpad, alongside platform activities for the portfolio, investor relations, growth, and hosting the Carbon13 podcast. She specialises in the 0-1 stage of startups, and has worked in the London startup ecosystem since 2012.
Adam MandelAdam Mandel is an entrepreneur and product leader with 15 years of experience in applied AI, energy, and mobility, having held senior roles at Rivian, General Motors' Cruise, and EVgo. Most recently, he co-founded EnergizedAI, a predictive maintenance software company for EV chargers that was successfully acquired by Seven Generation Capital Corp. Adam holds seven patents in self-driving and EV technology. He currently serves as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Carbon13, as well as advising multiple startups. In his free time, Adam can usually be found outdoors, cycling or hiking with his family. Originally from Los Angeles, he now lives in London.
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Lunch | Guildhall |
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Keynote: Eating Tomorrow. How to Think Critically about AI and the Future of our Food System 
Elliott GrantElliott Grant works at the intersection of technology and agriculture, and has led the development and commercialization of breakthrough technologies throughout the global food system. In 2017 Dr. Grant joined Google[X] to lead the development of foundational AI for agriculture, and in 2023 became CEO of Mineral - one of Alphabet’s “Other Bets”. He serves on the boards of Sun World International and the International Fresh Produce Association, and is a Scientific Advisor to Driscoll’s. Prior to joining Google, he was the CEO of ShopWell Labs, a pioneer of personalized nutrition; the founding CEO of HarvestMark, a world leader in food traceability; and a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. He has been awarded over fifty US Patents and invented (then open-sourced) the VoiceCode - a traceability standard on every case of fresh produce in N. America. Elliott earned a PhD in Engineering from Cambridge University. In addition to advising startups, he is currently a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge Institute for Manufacturing and at Trinity Hall, where he researches the future of agriculture in the coming era of AI. He lives in Cambridge with his wife, and writes about the future of agriculture here. |
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2 Case Studies 
Prof Gerard Parr MBEGerard is a Full Professor in Telecommunications Engineering and has been Head of School of Computing Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA) from 2016-2023 which involved a range of senior management roles and responsibilities covering Teaching, Research, Innovation and Outreach. He holds a PhD in Self-Stabilising Protocols from Ulster University, aspects of which were completed with Prof Jon Crowcroft at University College London (UCL) and one of the Founding Architects of the Internet (Professor Jon Postel) as a Visiting Research Scientist at the DARPA/University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute in Marina Del Rey, Los Angeles. His PhD External Examiner was Prof Peter Kirstein from UCL. Within his academic career, areas of research include Self-stabilising Networks, Wireless Sensor Clouds, UAVs for Disaster Response Communications, ICT for the Rural Economy, Converged Network Management & Control Protocols for Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks, delay-sensitive QoSLAs, energy-aware autonomic networking and IoT-edge computing. Gerard has attracted several £millions of external research and commercial funding and has advised government agencies around the world on the allocation of funding to large-scale projects valued in total at approximately £4 billion. His industrial collaborations have included companies such as BT, Intel, ARM, Vodafone, IBM, Aviva, Ericsson, Siemens, InfoSys, Wipro, Tejas Networks, TCS and SAP. From 1997-2007, Professor Parr was a Founding Executive Technical Director of Causeway Data Communications Ltd which eventually sold its main GIS product “Spatialist” to Schneider Geospatial. Gerard is an invited member of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Peer Review College. His academic research collaborations include institutions MIT, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Arizona, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, USC-ISI Los Angeles, University of Florida, University College London, Southampton, Surrey, QMUL, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, University of Oxford, St Andrews, Exeter, Lincoln, Lancaster and Cambridge, Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications (BUPT), Tsinghua University, Peking University and Indian Institutes of Technology in Mumbai, Madras, Kanpur, Hyderabad, Delhi, Mandi and IISc Bangalore. He was previously appointed as a Visiting Professor to the Science Foundation Ireland/CTVR at Trinity College Dublin and to the Emirates-BT Innovation Centre (EBTIC) at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi- UAE. He was International Scientific Advisor to the UK EPSRC National Centre for Doctoral Training in Communications Engineering at the University of Bristol. He was appointed as Senior Guest Editor for prestigious IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications (JSAC) for a Special Issue on Communications Challenges and Dynamics in UAVs. He has extensive experience of working with developing economies, in particular, India, where he was the UK Academic co-ordinator for the major EPSRC-DST India-UK Advanced Technology Centre in Next Generation Networks Systems and Services which was the largest collaboration of its kind between UK and India in the ICT sector attracting total investment of over £20 million and also helped establish a Virtual Graduate Research School for 67 PhD students under the UK-India Education & Research Initiative (UKIERI Programme. Under UKIERI he also led another project in Kalimpong to explore use of wireless sensors to predict landslides in West Bengal. Gerard was awarded an MBE in Queens New Year Honours for 2018 for contributions to Telecommunications Infrastructure in Northern Ireland. He was previously the Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK and Irish Governments on the provision of a Tran-Atlantic Undersea Telecoms Interconnector to North America. During January 2020 Prof Parr was elected to the Strategic Advisory Committee for the UK Government UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) – Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) ICT Programme to assist with strategic developments, funding panels and identification of funding priorities. Most recently Gerard has been successful in attracting Co-I funding for a 5-year EPSRC Next Stage Digital Economy Hub called DIGIT (Digital-Innovation-Growth-Impact-Transformation) valued over £12 million which will explore methodologies and business impact of Digital Transformation in Large Organisations. During 2021 Gerard was also successful as PI to attract £1.4 million funding for the “UK-India Future Networks Initiative” with IISc Bangalore, IIT Delhi, UCL, Surrey, Southampton and BT. Most recently in December 2022 he was successful as a Co-PI on a bid to UKRI-ESRC concerning Digital Technology in Teacher Agency. The £5.3 million fund will support a total of nine projects. He is also an invited Member of the UKRI-EPSRC Digital Security & Resilience Advisory Group and is currently engaging with Innovate-UK and the Department of Telecoms Govt of India. 
Anthony HallAnthony Hall is a cofounder of TraitSeq and Head of Plant Genomics at the Earlham Institute. He has led the science behind TraitSeq’s biomarker-discovery platform, applying multi-omics and machine learning to crop-protection R&D (agrochemicals and biologicals) and gene-editing workflow, from mode-of-action identification to screening and quality-control. His Earlham research focuses on wheat genetics and genomics as a complex crop system. His recent work involves the use of large language/foundation models for sequencing data, delivering new capabilities to extract biological meaning from large-scale DNA/RNA datasets. |
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Advances in Agri-tech 
Belinda Clarke OBEBelinda is the Director of Agri-TechE, the UK’s longest-established and largest network connecting farmers and growers with researchers, technologists, entrepreneurs and investors. We bring together those who see innovation as way to enhance the economic growth, agricultural productivity and environmental sustainability of the agri-food value chain. Agri-TechE was named national Networking Group of the Year at the UK SME Business Awards 2019 and won Corporate Livewire’s Agricultural Initiative of the Year 2024. Belinda was also a Non-Executive Director of Agrimetrics, formerly one of the UK’s Agri-Tech Centres, and was a member of the Council of UKRI-BBSRC and a Trustee of the Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association (2015-2021). In 2021 she was awarded the Sir Timothy Colman Prize for “outstanding leadership in the agri-tech sector” and she was among the “Women of the Year 2022” cohort. She has a first degree from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in plant biochemistry from the John Innes Centre. She is a Nuffield Scholar, a Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Councils, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, a Chartered Biologist, and a qualified business coach. In 2024 she was awarded an OBE for services to agri-technologies and farming in the Kings Birthday Honours List.
Elliott GrantElliott Grant works at the intersection of technology and agriculture, and has led the development and commercialization of breakthrough technologies throughout the global food system. In 2017 Dr. Grant joined Google[X] to lead the development of foundational AI for agriculture, and in 2023 became CEO of Mineral - one of Alphabet’s “Other Bets”. He serves on the boards of Sun World International and the International Fresh Produce Association, and is a Scientific Advisor to Driscoll’s. Prior to joining Google, he was the CEO of ShopWell Labs, a pioneer of personalized nutrition; the founding CEO of HarvestMark, a world leader in food traceability; and a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. He has been awarded over fifty US Patents and invented (then open-sourced) the VoiceCode - a traceability standard on every case of fresh produce in N. America. Elliott earned a PhD in Engineering from Cambridge University. In addition to advising startups, he is currently a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge Institute for Manufacturing and at Trinity Hall, where he researches the future of agriculture in the coming era of AI. He lives in Cambridge with his wife, and writes about the future of agriculture here.
Prof Gerard Parr MBEGerard is a Full Professor in Telecommunications Engineering and has been Head of School of Computing Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA) from 2016-2023 which involved a range of senior management roles and responsibilities covering Teaching, Research, Innovation and Outreach. He holds a PhD in Self-Stabilising Protocols from Ulster University, aspects of which were completed with Prof Jon Crowcroft at University College London (UCL) and one of the Founding Architects of the Internet (Professor Jon Postel) as a Visiting Research Scientist at the DARPA/University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute in Marina Del Rey, Los Angeles. His PhD External Examiner was Prof Peter Kirstein from UCL. Within his academic career, areas of research include Self-stabilising Networks, Wireless Sensor Clouds, UAVs for Disaster Response Communications, ICT for the Rural Economy, Converged Network Management & Control Protocols for Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks, delay-sensitive QoSLAs, energy-aware autonomic networking and IoT-edge computing. Gerard has attracted several £millions of external research and commercial funding and has advised government agencies around the world on the allocation of funding to large-scale projects valued in total at approximately £4 billion. His industrial collaborations have included companies such as BT, Intel, ARM, Vodafone, IBM, Aviva, Ericsson, Siemens, InfoSys, Wipro, Tejas Networks, TCS and SAP. From 1997-2007, Professor Parr was a Founding Executive Technical Director of Causeway Data Communications Ltd which eventually sold its main GIS product “Spatialist” to Schneider Geospatial. Gerard is an invited member of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Peer Review College. His academic research collaborations include institutions MIT, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Arizona, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, USC-ISI Los Angeles, University of Florida, University College London, Southampton, Surrey, QMUL, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, University of Oxford, St Andrews, Exeter, Lincoln, Lancaster and Cambridge, Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications (BUPT), Tsinghua University, Peking University and Indian Institutes of Technology in Mumbai, Madras, Kanpur, Hyderabad, Delhi, Mandi and IISc Bangalore. He was previously appointed as a Visiting Professor to the Science Foundation Ireland/CTVR at Trinity College Dublin and to the Emirates-BT Innovation Centre (EBTIC) at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi- UAE. He was International Scientific Advisor to the UK EPSRC National Centre for Doctoral Training in Communications Engineering at the University of Bristol. He was appointed as Senior Guest Editor for prestigious IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications (JSAC) for a Special Issue on Communications Challenges and Dynamics in UAVs. He has extensive experience of working with developing economies, in particular, India, where he was the UK Academic co-ordinator for the major EPSRC-DST India-UK Advanced Technology Centre in Next Generation Networks Systems and Services which was the largest collaboration of its kind between UK and India in the ICT sector attracting total investment of over £20 million and also helped establish a Virtual Graduate Research School for 67 PhD students under the UK-India Education & Research Initiative (UKIERI Programme. Under UKIERI he also led another project in Kalimpong to explore use of wireless sensors to predict landslides in West Bengal. Gerard was awarded an MBE in Queens New Year Honours for 2018 for contributions to Telecommunications Infrastructure in Northern Ireland. He was previously the Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK and Irish Governments on the provision of a Tran-Atlantic Undersea Telecoms Interconnector to North America. During January 2020 Prof Parr was elected to the Strategic Advisory Committee for the UK Government UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) – Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) ICT Programme to assist with strategic developments, funding panels and identification of funding priorities. Most recently Gerard has been successful in attracting Co-I funding for a 5-year EPSRC Next Stage Digital Economy Hub called DIGIT (Digital-Innovation-Growth-Impact-Transformation) valued over £12 million which will explore methodologies and business impact of Digital Transformation in Large Organisations. During 2021 Gerard was also successful as PI to attract £1.4 million funding for the “UK-India Future Networks Initiative” with IISc Bangalore, IIT Delhi, UCL, Surrey, Southampton and BT. Most recently in December 2022 he was successful as a Co-PI on a bid to UKRI-ESRC concerning Digital Technology in Teacher Agency. The £5.3 million fund will support a total of nine projects. He is also an invited Member of the UKRI-EPSRC Digital Security & Resilience Advisory Group and is currently engaging with Innovate-UK and the Department of Telecoms Govt of India.
Anthony HallAnthony Hall is a cofounder of TraitSeq and Head of Plant Genomics at the Earlham Institute. He has led the science behind TraitSeq’s biomarker-discovery platform, applying multi-omics and machine learning to crop-protection R&D (agrochemicals and biologicals) and gene-editing workflow, from mode-of-action identification to screening and quality-control. His Earlham research focuses on wheat genetics and genomics as a complex crop system. His recent work involves the use of large language/foundation models for sequencing data, delivering new capabilities to extract biological meaning from large-scale DNA/RNA datasets. |
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| 15:15 | Refreshment Break | |||
| Nature-Based Solutions: Bridging Technology and Ecosystem Restoration | ||||
| 15:45 | Welcome and Framing | |||
| 15:50 | Keynote: Policy and Implementation, Innovation in NbS, Investment Potential | |||
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Start-up Pitches x2 
Antoinette NothombAntoinette Nothomb is a deep-tech founder and COO of Cyanoskin, with a background in finance, commercial strategy, and climate innovation across EDF, Luminus. Cyanoskin is a climate tech startup developing the world’s first algae-based biocoating for buildings, transforming facades into carbon capture surfaces. 
Dr Giovanni BandiGiovanni is an accomplished executive with more than 18 years of combined academic and professional experience driving operations across regulators, financial risk advisory, assets management and international business platforms. He developed expertise in FinTech and SupTech applications with a focus on AI and Machine Readable projects. He offers a strong list of successes elevating data analytics, digital compliance schemes and risk assessments to impact financial regulations in alignment with legalities. |
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Panel: Policy and Implementation, Innovation in NbS, Land & Building Management, Investment Potential 
Pete NisbetPete is a Managing Partner and leads edenseven, the sustainability sister-company of Cambridge Management Consulting. He started his career over 26 years ago working for Southern Gas in their operations team. Since then, he has built up a deep understanding of the energy and carbon sector through senior roles in operations, commodity trading, and portfolio management. Prior to leading edenseven, Pete was Managing Director for Mitie Energy where he built an award-winning and market-leading business which provided integrated energy and carbon services. Pete believes the coming years are pivotal in tackling the climate change crisis, which will be achieved through effective use of data collection and analysis, the deployment of new technology, and collaborative thinking. edenseven recently launched cero.earth, a carbon accounting and management platform that creates insights & actions across your business and supply chain (Scope 3) — the key to accelerating any decarbonisation strategy. Pete Nisbet started his distinguished career as an Energy Trader at Scottish and Southern Energy in September 1997, where he served for nearly a decade. As a senior team member, he was responsible for managing a portfolio that was exposed to multiple commodity markets, exhibiting composure under pressure and adaptability. In May 2006, Pete joined Utilyx, a leading energy adviser, where he significantly elevated his career. Hired as a Senior Risk Manager, he oversaw the client portfolio daily. The role demanded an in-depth comprehension of both physical and financial instruments and how they could be adapted to the UK and European energy markets. Three years later, in June 2009, his expertise and leadership led to promotion to the Head of Risk Management Services. This put Pete in charge of a team specialising in risk management and portfolio optimisation and contributed to solidifying Utilyx's market position. By May 2013, Pete was appointed Director of Risk Management Services. He led teams working in contract procurement, risk management/portfolio optimisation, reporting, and market research across UK and European energy markets. Two years ensuing his journey as a Director, Pete was promoted to Operations Director in June 2015, a role he filled for a year. He presided over operational teams, including areas like contract procurement, risk management/trading, research, and pricing/volume reporting. Under his management, the energy portfolio flourished, reaching a tremendous £1.6bn. In June 2016, Pete Nisbet took the helm of Mitie Energy as Managing Director, demonstrating his adept leadership skills over the course of four years and four months. Pete became the driving force behind Mitie's award-winning UK-based Energy, Utilities, and Sustainability solutions business, fostering significant growth in both revenue and profit. He steered the development of fully integrated end-to-end outsourced models that catered to all sectors. A trailblazer in the industry, he pioneered Mitie's zero-carbon strategy 'Plan Zero'. Pete also served as the Statutory Director of Mitie Energy and SMF3 Executive Director for Mitie Energy's FCA regulated Risk Management Business. In 2020, these manifold successes led directly to Pete being approached to become a Managing Partner and Director of the newly founded sustainability and data consultancy edenseven, part of the Cambridge Management Consulting group of companies.
Kyle GrayKyle Gray is the Senior Sustainability Manager for Net Zero at The Crown Estate, where he leads the development of decarbonisation strategies across its diverse portfolio, including urban real estate, rural and coastal assets, and the seabed across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and supports The Crown Estate’s role in advancing the UK’s transition to a low-carbon economy. In addition to driving net zero initiatives, Kyle is actively exploring the role that nature-based solutions play in carbon dioxide removal, as well as in climate resilience and adaptation. With a background in engineering and sustainability consulting, Kyle brings deep expertise in net zero strategy, carbon performance, climate resilience and adaptation, and renewable energy. He holds degrees in engineering and sustainable development and is passionate about delivering impactful, system-wide change across complex organisations.
Antoinette NothombAntoinette Nothomb is a deep-tech founder and COO of Cyanoskin, with a background in finance, commercial strategy, and climate innovation across EDF, Luminus. Cyanoskin is a climate tech startup developing the world’s first algae-based biocoating for buildings, transforming facades into carbon capture surfaces. 
Peter BachmannPeter is Managing Director of Gresham House’s Sustainable Infrastructure division and Co-Fund Manager for the firm’s British Sustainable Infrastructure Fund (BSIF) strategy. BSIF invests in real asset-based solutions for the key environmental and social challenges we face. He is also a member of the Gresham House Asset Management Board. Prior to Gresham House, Peter led the investment and exit of the Sustainable Infrastructure-focused Environmental Capital Fund (ECF) for SEP, one of Europe’s most successful VC firms. With over 24 years of public and private equity investment, development and fund management experience, including two top-decile infrastructure fund exits, he has invested into and exited over 200 infrastructure and technology companies across all sectors with an equity value of over £2bn and capital value of c.£6bn. Peter has had board member roles on over 90 investee companies and is a Senior Associate of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL). Peter is also an active investor in early-stage sustainability companies and has planted his own Miyawaki Forest at home. |
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| 17:00 | Closing Keynote | |||
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