Innovation Zero World Congress 2025
29 April 2025
Olympia London, London, United Kingdom
Innovation Zero World Congress is a net zero congress held at Olympia London, bringing together innovators, funders, policymakers and business leaders to accelerate the transition to a low carbon economy. The 2025 edition, its third, runs over two days with 13 forums and theatres covering energy, finance, nature, industry, carbon markets, built environment, infrastructure, aviation, and transport and supply chain, alongside an exhibition and the Innovation Zero Awards.
38 sessions · 70 speakers
Organiser (1)
Sponsors (19)
Invest in Canada · Arup · Amey · Department for Energy Security & Net Zero · Mott MacDonald · Innovate UK · SSEN Transmission · Multiverse Computing · Simmons & Simmons · AVEVA · National Grid · EDF · Business Bank UK · Airbus · Aramco Ventures · Esri UK · RWE · European Innovation Council (EIC) · Drax
Association Partner (1)
Exhibitors (34)
NOF · Xworks AI · InnoEnergy · ICC UK · Arup · Future Plus · ACCA · National Gas · Undo · Innovate UK · Instinctif Partners · Cadent Gas Limited · bp · Endava · The University of Edinburgh · AVEVA · Wallonia Export and Investment Agency · National Grid · esri · HS2 · Aramco Ventures · Edenlab · RWE · GREENPEACE · National Wealth Fund · Salesforce · Culligan · SGN · Ecologi · Air Products · Climatiq · Clean Growth Fund · Drax · Ricardo
Supporting Partners (6)
Tony Blair Institute for Global Change · London and Partners · ACCA · Instinctif Partners · Green Finance Institute · We Don't Have Time
Speakers (70)
- Andy Burnham Mayor, Greater Manchester Combined Authority
- Steve Rotheram Mayor, Liverpool City Region Combined Authority
- Peter Runacres Head of Urban Futures, The Earls Court Development Company
- Rhian-Mari Thomas Chief Executive Officer, Green Finance Institute
- Greg Jackson Founder, CEO, Octopus Energy
- John Flint WWF-UK
- Jeremy Wrathall Founder & Executive Chairman, Cornish Lithium Plc
- Juergen Maier Cbe Frs Freng Industrialist, Chair, Great British Energy
- Rachel Kyte UK Special Representative on Climate, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Irina Gorbounova Vice President M&A and Head of XCarb Innovation Fund, ArcelorMittal
- Bob Wigley UK Finance
- Ben Nelmes Chief Executive, New AutoMotive
- Emma Pinchbeck Chief Executive, Climate Change Committee
- Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey Secretary-General, Commonwealth of Nations
- Laura Sandys CBE Chair, Green Alliance
- Charles Perry Director, Sustainable Future for All
- Natasha Kaplinsky OBE Journalist and Broadcaster
- Scott Bennett Comedian host
- Kerry McCarthy MP
- Chris Norbury CEO, E.ON Next
- Lord Adair Turner Chairman, Energy Transitions Commission
- Matthew Gorman Director of Carbon Strategy, Heathrow Airport
- Miles Lewis Director of Sustainability, Clarion Housing Group
- Uday Khemka Vice-Chairman, SUN Group
- Zeina Nazer Co-Founder, Cities Forum
- Amy Novogratz Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Aqua-Spark
- Andrea Abrahams Managing Director, VCM, IETA / ICROA
- Andrew Forrest Chairman, Fortescue Group
- Andy Griffiths Global Head of Transformational Partnerships, Diageo
- Arianne Alcorta Journalist and Broadcaster
- Baroness Bryony Worthington Crossbench Peer, House of Lords
- Beverley Gower-Jones OBE Managing Partner and Founder, Clean Growth Fund
- Brian Gardner Deputy Chief Information Officer, City of Austin
- Christopher Hammond Chief Executive, UK100
- Claudine Blamey Chief Sustainability Officer, Aviva
- Cllr Shanika Mahendran Cabinet Member for Planning & Placemaking, Milton Keynes City Council
- David Dalton CEO, British Glass
- Dexter Lee Head of Carbon Markets Negotiations, DESNZ
- Dr Karen Hanghøj Director, British Geological Survey
- Dr Sweta Chakraborty Chief Executive Officer North America, We Don't Have Time
- Gillian Martin MSP Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero & Energy, Scottish Government
- Hariom Macêdo Newport Head of Environment & Sustainability, Infrastructure & Projects Authority
- Heather Buchanan CEO, B4NZ
- Helen Leadbetter Technical Strategy Lead – Zero Emission Flight, UK Civil Aviation Authority
- Hervé Morvan Chief of Future Platforms (Advanced Concepts), Rolls-Royce
- James Court Public Policy Director, Octopus Electric Vehicles
- Jerome Foster II TIME Next Generation Leader and Former White House Climate Advisor
- Jolanda Stevens Program Manager, Zero Emission Aviation, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
- Juliana Kiraly Head of Business Development Europe, EVE Urban Air Mobility
- Kevin Chika Urama Chief Economist & VP, African Development Bank
- Kimberly Mathisen CEO, HUB Ocean
- Lucy Hayward-Speight Head of Strategy & Planning (Environment), Transport for London
- Lucy Yu CEO, Centre For Net Zero, Octopus Energy Group
- Mark Kenber Executive Director, VCMI
- Mary Creagh CBE MP Minister for Nature, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Mete Coban MBE Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy, Greater London Authority
- Miatta Fahnbulleh MP Minister for Energy Consumers, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Morna Cannon Director of Low Carbon Economy, Transport Scotland
- Nancy Gillis Senior Director Industrial Pathways Transformation, WBCSD
- Paul Morrison Chief Executive Officer, The Planning Inspectorate
- Professor Mercedes Maroto-Valer Director / Deputy Principal for Global Sustainability, IDRIC
- Professor Paul Monks Chief Scientific Adviser, DESNZ
- Ruth Wood CEO, Mersey Maritime
- Shaunna Berendsen Chief Innovation Officer, Anglian Water
- Simon Crichton Head of Nature, Food and Resource, Triodos Bank
- Sims Witherspoon Climate Action Lead, Google DeepMind
- Sir Alex Chisholm Chair, EDF UK
- Sonali Siriwardena Partner – Global Head of ESG, Simmons + Simmons
- Stephanie Pfeifer OBE Chief Executive, Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC)
- Tim Christophersen VP, Climate Action, Salesforce
Agenda
- Innovation Zero Awards 2025 Ceremony 29 April 2025 · Main Stage
- Accelerating Innovations: From Seed to IPO 29 April 2025 · Main Stage
- Blended Finance: Mobilising Private Capital for the Transition 29 April 2025 · Finance Forum
- Building Bridges to Scale: A Roadmap to Sustainable Financing 29 April 2025 · Finance Forum
- A Just Transition in Reindustrialisation 29 April 2025 · Industrial Forum
- Catalysts for Change: Institutional Investors and the Low Carbon Economy 29 April 2025 · Finance Forum
- Industrial Cluster Strategy: Progress and Predictions 29 April 2025 · Industrial Forum
- Innovative Financing Models for Green Builds 29 April 2025 · Built Environment Forum
- Keynote Address by the Commonwealth Secretary-General 29 April 2025 · Main Stage
- Mobilisation for Innovation: What's Next For Sustainable Finance? 29 April 2025 · Finance Forum
- Net Gain and Net Zero: Balancing Biodiversity in the Built Environment 29 April 2025 · Built Environment Forum
- Presenting The Seventh Carbon Budget 29 April 2025 · Main Stage
- The Critical Case of Mineral Supply 29 April 2025 · Industrial Forum
- Transforming Urban Areas for a Net Zero Future 29 April 2025 · Built Environment Forum
- Unplugged: A Conversation With Energy Leaders 29 April 2025
- From Concept to Take-Off: Commercialising R&D in Aviation Sustainability 30 April 2025 · Aviation Forum
- Maximising the Capital Stack: Financing Sustainable Development and Climate Adaptation in the Global South 30 April 2025 · Carbon Markets Forum
- Utility Beyond Claims: Acceleration Corporate Climate Action 30 April 2025 · Carbon Markets Forum
- Trust & Transparency: Securing Quality of Supply 30 April 2025 · Carbon Markets Forum
- Turbulence Ahead: Can Aviation Meet the 2030 Emission Targets? 30 April 2025 · Aviation Forum
- Roadmaps for Redesigning Urban Mobility 30 April 2025 · Transport & Supply Chain Forum
- Building for Better Outcomes: Rethinking Infrastructure Value 30 April 2025 · Infrastructure Forum
- Decarbonising the Supply-Chain in Fast-Moving Consumer Goods 30 April 2025 · Transport & Supply Chain Forum
- Delivering Clean Power Infrastructure by 2030 30 April 2025 · Infrastructure Forum
- Electrifying Automotive: Negotiating Hill Starts in EVs 30 April 2025 · Transport & Supply Chain Forum
- Electrifying Flight: eVTOLs and the Future of Air Travel 30 April 2025 · Aviation Forum
- Flying Hydrogen: Projections for H2 in Flight 30 April 2025 · Aviation Forum
- Building an Attractive Infrastructure Market 30 April 2025 · Infrastructure Forum
- How the National Wealth Fund is Fostering Sustainable Growth
- Uniting For Change: Addressing Plastic Pollution
- Financing The Transition To A Sustainable Blue Economy
- The Green Renaissance: Embedding Nature Into Corporate Strategy
- The Price is Wrong! Bringing Down the Cost of the Energy Transition
- Leading the Resilient Cities of Tomorrow
- Roots Of Resilience: Building A Nature-Positive Future
- Flexibility and the Cost of Zero: Putting Consumer First
- Taking a Whole Systems Approach to the Transition
- Green Skills: Building a Net Zero Workforce