18th Annual UK Sustainable Infrastructure Summit 2023 | City & Financial Global | 5 July 2023 | Cavendish Conference Centre, 22 Duchess Mews, London, W1G 9DT

This well-established event always attracts a sizeable gathering of leaders from the UK infrastructure industry, both from the public and private sectors. We are also fortunate that government ministers have chosen to speak at all the previous editions of this summit.

The 2023 Summit addresses the urgent need for the UK to rapidly decarbonize energy generation and transport so that the UK can meet its net zero targets. The speakers will assess the investment environment and the relative attractiveness of the UK, given the U.S. IRA and the emerging EU equivalent, as well as a range of other relevant issues. There will be a detailed focus on the opportunities and challenges in delivering the government’s sustainable infrastructure plans, including the government’s revised Net Zero Strategy and Green Finance Strategy. Significant investment from the private sector will be required if electricity generation and transport are to be decarbonized. Turning to market developments, we will examine the UK Infrastructure Bank’s key investment priorities, as well as the latest innovations in finance, including the development of new partnership structures. In the afternoon, there will be deep dives into key sectors, including new nuclear; offshore, onshore and floating platform wind; hydrogen; carbon capture and storage; and EV infrastructure.

KEY THEMES TO BE DISCUSSED:

• The Net Zero Strategy and the role of infrastructure
• How the Green Finance Strategy can helped deliver sustainable infrastructure
• The opportunities and challenges involved in delivering the government’s sustainable infrastructure plans - an industry perspective
• The UK Infrastructure Bank’s key investment priorities in sustainable infrastructure
• Latest innovations in finance: Developing new partnership models to harness the required private sector investment to deliver the government’s plans
• The criticality of decarbonising electricity generation in the context of the government’s net zero targets
• Delivering new nuclear in the UK
• Offshore, onshore and floating platform wind – can the industry scale up to meet the government’s expectations?
• A roadmap for achieving a net zero energy system in the UK
• Infrastructure and Net Zero – the second National Infrastructure Assessment
• Creating new business models for successful exploitation of carbon capture & storage
• Harnessing the potential of hydrogen as a means of delivering net zero
• EV infrastructure investment: new models and investment opportunities

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

Financial sector:
Infrastructure funds, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, insurance companies, family offices and banks
Project sponsors and operators: companies involved in the following areas: energy, renewables, carbon capture & storage, offshore wind, nuclear power, solar power, hydrogen, electric vehicles and construction

Advisors:
Financial, legal, technical and accounting advisers
Public sector: senior officials from government departments. agencies and local authorities responsible for infrastructure projects of all kinds.

2023 Speakers

Baroness Penn
Treasury Lords Minister, HM Treasury, Co-Chair of the Transition Plan Taskforce

Rt Hon The Lord Deben
Chairman, Sancroft International

Keith Anderson
Chief Executive, Scottish Power

Julia Prescot
Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer (CSO), Meridiam Infrastructure and Commissioner, UK National Infrastructure Commission

Tom Greatrex
CEO, Nuclear Industry Association

Dr. Gareth Headdock
Vice President of Government and New Build, NNL

James Heath
CEO, National Infrastructure Commission

John Flint
Chief Executive, UK Infrastructure Bank

Baroness Ionna Trofimova Elliot
Executive Director, BorderlessRenewables

Matthew Vickerstaff
Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Infrastructure and Projects Authority, Head of Government’s Project Finance Profession

Judith Hayton
Strategy and Planning Manager, Transport for London

Dr. Fred Amonya
Infrastructure Policy Advisor, Lyciar; External Panel on PPP, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

Nathan Wicks
Director, Climate Team, Local Partnerships

Anurag Gupta
Chief Risk Officer, Sequoia Investment Management Company

Kristina Schaferova
ESG Lead, Sizewell C

Jonathan Maxwell
Founding Partner & CEO, Sustainable Development Capital LLP

Joanna Fic
Senior Vice President, Infrastructure Finance, Moody’s

Andrew Elmes
Head of Net Zero Business Development, UK & Ireland, Siemens Gamesa

Akshay Kaul
Director-General, Infrastructure, Ofgem

Jon Gibbins
Director, UK CCS Research Centre, Professor of Carbon Capture and Storage, University of Sheffield

Albena Vassileva
Executive Director Infrastructure, IFM Investors

2023 Sponsor

• DLA Piper
• SDCL