Yokshire Sustainability Week 2023 | Yorkshire Sustainability Week | 2 July 2023 | TBA, Yorkshire

The festival of events will epitomise the importance of collaboration, sharing key learnings and recognising that every one of us, must start somewhere to make a difference to protect our planet.

It will stretch across all channels of sustainability, from those looking to create green pledges in business to the people on the ground making an impact and wanting to share their experiences.

The benefits of attending
• Network with like-minded individuals all committed to making a difference
• Gain insights and learn the initiatives to build a greener business
• Grow your entrepreneurial mind to the possibilities in sustainability for your business
• Be inspired by the trailblazers who have paved the way in sustainability
• Tackle hard hitting home truths on why we need to act now
• Make a pledge to do the right thing for our planet

2023 Speakers

HEADLINE SPEAKERS:

Anita Frost
Founder, Green Bean Studios

Anna Ashford
Head, Alt Legal

Areeba Hamid
Co-Executive Director, Greenpeace UK

Carly Jane Perry
Managing Director, Spring Innovation

Chris Kelly
Associate Director, Estates Compliance & Risk, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Clover Hogan
Executive Director & Founder, Force of Nature

Dr. Alan James
Partner, Expert Alliance

Jo Fairley
Serial Entrepreneur & Co-Founder, Green & Black's

John Elkington
Founder & Chief Pollinator, Volans Ventures

Jordan Brompton
Co-Founder & CMO, myenergi

Mike Berners-Lee
Professor, Lancaster University's Environment Centre

Mike Quate
Director and Co-founder of business consultancy – byDiffusion, and founding member of One for The City

Pam Warhurst
Incredible Edible CIC

Roger Wright
Waste Strategy & Packaging Manager, Biffa

Sat Mann
Director and Co-founder of business consultancy – byDiffusion, and founding member of One for The City,

Sri Hollema
Founder and Managing Director, Mat Zero

Vee Mapunde
Programme Director, NIHR Surgical MedTech Co-operative,

Wayne Visser
Director, Kaleidoscope Futures Lab. Ltd

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

SPEAKERS:

Abigail Marshall Katung
Councillor, Leeds City Council

Adam Cockburn
Head of Architecture Practice, Axiologik Ltd

Ali Morpeth
Healthy & Sustainable Diets @WWF

Andy Needham
Owner & Managing Director, Surplus Group

Andy Ostcliffe
Head of Ecommerce and Retail Innovation, Oxfam

Antonio Tombanane
Founder, The Edge Hub

Ben Tolhurst
Director, Business Declares

Bill Colquhoun
Founder, World Sustainability Collective

Bo Carter
Sustainable Fashion Designer, Bo Carter

Clive Spooner
Global Training Manager, Vernacare

Craige Richardson
Director of Estates and Facilities ,Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Curtis Yip
Student, Regional Youth Climate Assembly

Danielle Heward
Founder, Optimo

David Aspin
Owner, Munroe K

David Loseby
Professor, Leeds University Business School

David Owumi
Founder/CEO, Qinq

Dev Sharma
Youth MP & Food Activist, UK Youth Parliament

Dhruv Dev
LBSU President, Leeds Beckett Student Union

Dr. Colm Bowe
Nature North Development Manager, Nature North

Dr. Esther Pugh
Senior Lecturer, Leeds Business School, Leeds Beckett University

Edie Lewis
RYCA

Ella Shuttleworth
Sustainability Assistant, Morgan Sindall Construction

Erinch Sahan
Business & Enterprise Lead, Doughnut Economics Action Lab

Eve Roodhouse
Chief Officer, Culture and Economy at Leeds City Council

Faye Coleman
GM4Women Co-Lead, World Economic Forum & OYW Global Ambassador, World Economic Forum and UN Women

Frank Swinton
Climate Change Lead, West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership

Georgia Halston
Group CEO, Halston Group

Georgina Knockton
People Change and Transformation Director, EY

Greg Marsden
Professor of Transport Governance

Hannah Cox
Director, betternotstop / better business network

Hannah Keighley
Civil & Structural Engineer CEng MICE MIStructE

Helen Neave
Director, Make it Wild

Holly Hansen-Maughan
Sector Manager for Retrofit, Construction & Future Workforce, Supply Chain Sustainability School

Indranil Ghosh
Impact Investor

James Murray MP
Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury

Jane Barrett
Founder, The Career Farm Ltd

Jeff Davitt
Chair, Yorkshire Rewilding Network

Jonathan Straight
Purposeful entrepreneur and food waste campaigner

Jonathan Wilson
Managing Director, CITU

Jonny Sylvester
Senior Project Manager, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Jordan Appleson
Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Hark - Energy and Industrial IoT technology for Buildings, Factories, FM and OEMs

Josh Dunn
Director - Sustainable Places, EY

Josie Warden
Regenerative Design Lead, Volans

Jude Daniel Smith
Youth Activist , Regional Youth Climate Assembly

Jyoti Mishra
Circular Economy & Sustainability enthusiast; Deputy Director of AIMTech Research Centre & Associate Professor in Information Management

Kate Smith
Leadership Consultant, Kate Smith Consulting

Kelly Weston
COO, The Data City

Lella Violet Halloum
Digital Changemaker, IBM

Matt Greenhill
Senior Sustainability Consultant at WRM & Sustainability Manager at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Mayor Tracy Brabin
Mayor of West Yorkshire

Michaela Lindridge
Head of ESG, Severfield.

Natasha Babar-Evans
Chief Executive Officer, Better Connect Limited

Neil Dewis
Director, water, Yorkshire Water

Nicci Russell
MD, Waterwise

Niki Roach
Honorary Vice President, CIWEM

Paul Chatterton
Professor of Urban Futures, University of Leeds

Pete Waddingham
National NetZero Lead for The AHSN Network

Professor Stefan Kepinski
Head of School, School of Biology, University of Leeds

Professor Stephen J. Russell
Professor of Textile Materials & Technology, University of Leeds

Rev N Murugesan
Founder/CEO, ANTONYM

Rich Kenny
Managing Director, Interact

Rob Doepel
UK&I Managing Partner for Sustainability, EY

Rosa Foster
Co-Director, Yorkshire & Humber Climate Commission

Simon Collingwood
Director of External Affairs and Communications, Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC)

Sonya Bachra-Byrne
Co-founder, AVIE and a consultant

Stuart Clarke MBE
Founder, Leeds Digital Festival

Susanna Jackson
Sustainability Consultant, Beyondly

Tess Kelly
Head of External Engagement, Quorn Foods

Tharina Conradie
Senior Consultant, Ener-Vate

Thomas Hudson
Graduate Trainee - Project Management, Schneider Electric

Tim Frenneaux
Radical, Tim Frenneaux & Co

Vera Trappmann
Professor of Comparative Employment Relations and Director of Sustainability, Leeds University Business School

Vincent Hodder
CEO, Leeds Bradford Airport

Will Smith
Co-founder, Tred

Will Solomon
RYCA Member, Regional Youth Climate Assembly

2023 Sponsors

HEADLINE SPONSORS:
• Leeds City Council
• University of Leeds
• West Yorkshire Combined Authority
• Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire

HEADLINE PARTNER:
• Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission

SPONSORS AND PARTNERS:
• West Yorkshire - Tracy Mayor of West Yorkshire - Ad:Venture
• Alrose Productions
• Axiologik
• Better Business Network
• Beyondly
• Biffa
• Boxxe
• Cup a Peel
• EY
• Force of Nature
• iMageco
• North Invest
• Pegasus Zero
• Quorn Foods
• Sever Filed
• Surplus Group
• Sustainability Partnerships
• The Value Circle
• Women in Sustainability
• WRM

FRINGE PARTNERS:
• ABL
• Flotilla
• Green Arcana
• Leeds City Museum
• Make it Wild
• Media Works
• People, Planet, Pint
• Purple Banana
• The Sustainable Life Coach
• Small99
• SAIL
• The Wellbeing Farm - Certified B Corporation
• Tim Frenneaux & Co