Net Zero Festival 2023 | BusinessGreen | 30 October 2023 | Business Design Centre, 52 Upper St, London N1 0QH, UK

This event will bring together thousands of senior business executives, investors, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and campaigners over two days to explore how to navigate the defining economic, political, and technological trend of the age and work together to accelerate the net zero transition.

This October’s event will reach an even wider audience with over 80 exhibitors showcasing how to accelerate the net zero transition and four streams of content designed to inspire, demonstrate action taken, connect peers and showcase solutions needed to deliver on the UK’s net zero goals.

We want this event to make a difference, to inspire creative ways to tackle the climate crisis, to celebrate real examples of action that is already making a difference, and most crucially, to connect organisations and people who can accelerate the progress we all want to see.

2023 Speakers

James Murray
Editor-in-Chief, BusinessGreen

Lucy Siegle
Writer, Broadcaster and Environmentalist

Charlene White
Broadcaster, Journalist and Presenter

Alastair Campbell
Writer, Communicator, Consultant and Strategist

Joanna Lumley
Actress, Author and Activist

Solitaire Townsend
Chief Solutionist & Co-Founder, Futerra

Munish Datta
Director of Sustainability, Specsavers Group

Sam Jones
Head of Climate and Sustainability, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners

Zak Watts
Director of Sustainability, Amazon

Phil Butters
Director Estate and Campus Services, Keele University

Nic Durston
Chief Executive, South Bank Employers’ Group & South Bank BID

Pawel Kisielewski
Chief Executive Officer, CCm Technologies

Shaun Spiers
Executive Director, Green Alliance

James Payne
Global Strategic Lead, Purpose of Business, Forum for the Future

Paul Gosling
Director - Sustainability & Environment, Hays Recruitment

John Curtin
Executive Director of Operations (former interim Chief Executive), Environment Agency

Jasper Crone
Managing Director, CEN-ESG

Duncan Oswald
Climate Science Lead, Sage

Ben Stephenson
Chief Executive, Angel Islington BID

Victoria Chater-Lea
Sustainability Manager at Berkeley Group & Chair of IEMA for London & South East

Dan Huertas
Producer & Director, Silverback Films

Chris Skidmore
MP for Kingswood, & Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Environment

Julia Giannini
Head of Environment and Climate Action, Bupa

Pip Greensmith
Head of Partnerships, The Woodland Trust

Mark Kenber
Executive Director, VCMI (Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative)

Ben Goodwin
Head of Policy, IEMA

Marija Rompani
Director of Sustainability & Ethics, John Lewis Partnership

Jake Dubbins
Co-founder and Managing Director, Media Bounty

Matias Yudelevich
Business Development Manager, EMEA, Puro.earth

Mike Pitts
Deputy Challenge Director, Innovate UK

Chris Stark
CEO, Climate Change Committee

Yetunde Abdul
Head of Climate Action, UK Green Building Council (UKGBC)

Rachael Orr
CEO, Climate Outreach

Hans Stegeman
Chief Economist, Triodos Bank

Anna Lungley
Senior Associate at the University of Cambridge's Institute of Sustainability Leadership and former Chief Sustainability Officer, dentsu, international markets.

Sandrine Ricard
Deputy Director Sustainability & Responsibility, Pernod Ricard

Rhiannon Davies Shah
Business Lead, Wild Isles Team, WWF-UK

Rob Wilson
Co-founder & CEO, Toast Ale

Sally Uren OBE
CEO, Forum for the Future

Becky Annison
Director of Engagement, The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP)

David Powell
Senior Engagement Advisor, Climate Outreach

Awantika Chadha
Sustainability Manager, Tetra Pak

Rachel Hall
Climate Change Manager, The Wildlife Trusts

Ben Tutt
Strategic Account Manager, Bryt Energy

Andrew Carter
Chief Executive, Centre for Cities

Christophe Williams
CEO & Co-Founder, Naked Energy

Farhana Yamin
Lawyer, Author, Activist

Hugo Tagholm
CEO & Vice President (UK), Oceana

Lauren Pamma
Director of Transport Programmes, Green Finance Institute

Carlos Martín Tornero
Senior ESG Specialist / Lead Associate, Financial Conduct Authority

Mike Biddle
Executive Director for Net Zero, Innovate UK

Jon Long
Stand Up and Musical Comedian

Stuart Goldsmith
Comedian, Podcaster, Speaker and Comedy Expert

Elena Pérez Celis
Head of Policy and Public Affairs, Bankers for NetZero

Alice Ashpitel
Head of Sustainability, Mercedes Benz Motorsport

Jordan Rassas
Head of New Business, Inenco

Ingrid Kukuljan
Head of Impact and Sustainable Investing, Federated Hermes

John Lang
Project Lead, Net Zero Tracker

Alexis Eyre
Co-Founder & Author, Sustainable Marketing Compass

Cecilia Keating
Features Editor, BusinessGreen

Nicole Gordon
CEO, Better Bankside

Rhian Sherrington
Founder, Women in Sustainability Network

Louise Alter
Head of Energy Innovation, Equans UK & Ireland

Catherine Howarth
CEO, ShareAction

Ed Steeds
Senior Policy Advisor (Finance), WWF-UK

Paul Randle
Co-Founder & Author, Sustainable Marketing Compass

Nicholas Bollons
Director, Sustainability Solutions - EMEA, ENGIE Impact

Michael Holder
Editor, BusinessGreen

Sarah Cook
Head of Environment Programme, UN Global Compact

Ruth Herbert
Chief Executive, CCSA

Beccy Speight
Chief Executive Officer, RSPB

Leo Hickman
Director and editor, Carbon Brief

Chris Mulligan
Corporate Development and Strategy Director, Norcros plc

Cam Ross
CEO, Green Angel Ventures

Jordan McKay
Principal Sustainability Strategist, Forum for the Future

Musidora Jorgensen
Chief Sustainability Officer, Microsoft UK

Cristina Kenz
Chief Growth & Sustainability Officer, International, Kraft Heinz Company

Craig Bennett
Chief Executive, The Wildlife Trusts

Kim van Lieshout
Senior Sustainability Manager, OVO

Liv Torc
Co-Artistic Director, Hot Poets

Sandra Howgate
Live Scribe and Illustrator

Eric Bakken
Sustainability Solutions Lead (EMEA), JLL

Martina Massei
Net Zero Manager, Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)

Dana Haidan
Chief Sustainability Officer, Virgin Media O2

Martin Turner
Relationship Manager, Woodland Trust

Mary-Ann Ochota
Broadcaster and Anthropologist

Chris Redmond
Co-Artistic Director, Hot Poets

Simeran Bachra
Associate Director, Anthesis

Sharon Livingstone
Chief Sustainability Officer, Kid-A Ltd

Sebastian Munden
Chair, WRAP

Louise Crow
Chief Executive Officer, mySociety

Leonardo Buizza
Lead Supply Chains & Materials Analyst, Energy Transitions Commission

Andy Eastlake
Chief Executive Officer, Zemo Partnership

Smith Mordak
Chief Executive, UKGBC

Jamie Browne
Senior Business Development Manager, Energy Saving Trust

Georgia Pemberton
Head of Enterprise Sales, UNDO

Brian Matuszewski
Chief Partnerships Officer, Again

Sarah Mukherjee
CEO, IEMA

Claire Osborne
Sustainability Career Coach

Owen Anderson
Head of Sustainability, OVO

Dave Worthington
Managing Director, Verco

Kate Levick
Associate Director, Sustainable Finance, E3G

Neil Jones
Head of ESG, International, Walgreens Boots Alliance

Christine Boyle
CEO, Senergy

Alex Scott
Climate Diplomacy and Geopolitics Programme Lead, E3G

Tatiana Boldyreva
Associate Director, Climate Change, CDP

Beverley Gower-Jones OBE
CEO, Carbon Limiting Technologies

Gavin Starks
CEO, IcebreakerOne

Mohsen Gul
Senior Project Manager, Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership

Pamela Jouven
Director, SME Climate Hub

Steve Westlake
Climate Leadership Research Fellow, Cardiff University

Helen Curl
Event Director, Net Zero Festival

Adam Bastock
Founder, Small99

Sir David King
Founder and Chair of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group / Founder of the Centre for Climate Repair

James Elliott
Senior Policy Advisor, Green Alliance

Nicole Rycroft
Founder and Executive Director, Canopy

Sushma Shankar
Co-Founder, Deep Planet

John Alker
Head of Sustainability, Legal & General Capital

Pamela Stathaki
Head of Sustainability and Social Impact, UK & EMEA, Dentsu

Fiona Lindsay
Founding Managing Director, ReBlade

Kay Michael
Co-founding Director, Letters to the earth

Matt Winning
Head of Climate Research at Oxford Economics and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the UCL Insititute for Sustainable Resources

Rachel Solomon Williams
Executive Director, Aldersgate Group

Ben Caldecott
Co-Head, Transition Plan Taskforce Secretariat and the Adaptation Committee of the UK Climate Change Committee

Jason Torrance
Interim Chief Executive, UK100

Ion Visinovschi
Research Analyst, Planet Tracker

Matt Ferretti
Head of Partnerships, Green Finance Institute

Steven Lindsay
Founding Managing Director, ReBlade

Billy Richards
CEO & Founder, Changeblock

2023 Sponsors

HEADLINE SPONSORS:
• Innovate UK
• OVO Energy

FESTIVAL SPONSORS:
• Amazon
• Bryt Energy
• CLT Carbon Limiting Technologies
• CEN - ESG
• Changeblock
• Coca- Cola Europacific Partners
• dentsu
• Equans
• Hays
• Inenco
• JLL
• Legal & General
• Sage
• Tetra Pak
• Verco
• Woodland Trust