Tech and Net Zero Conference 2023

Martina Colman

Head of Climate Science and Engineering , Climate Essentials

Martina is an advocate for sustainability. She created a platform, Climate Essentials, to provide organisations and cities with the solution to realise their journey to decrease emissions. This platform is the first to provide opportunities for organisations across regions from both the public and private sectors to work in collaboration to fight climate change whilst transitioning towards a green economy. Martina has also worked on projects in five continents including smart-metering solutions, hydrogen fuel cells implementation and delivering clean energy solutions in developing countries.  

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Matthew Peake

Director of Public Policy and Government Relations, Trainline

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Yue Jin Tay

Vice President, Product and APAC Sales, Circulor

Yue Jin Tay is part of the founding team at Circulor, the leader in supply chain traceability; and is Vice President of Product and also responsible for key customer relationships.  His other responsibilities have included leading sales and business development, customer implementation and Circulor’s APAC operations.  He has worked with key customers from mining, through the midstream and to OEM manufacturers, to use its end-to-end supply chain traceability technology to reduce risk and meet their ESG, compliance and sustainability goals.  Yue Jin has worked on a range of innovative technology initiatives across global supply chains for over 25 years in Shell, Sony, Compaq, 3Com and in the UK Public Sector with PA Consulting and Procserve. 

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Mattie Yeta

Chief Sustainability Officer, CGI

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Matthew Houlsby

Director Net-Zero Transition Practice, Madano

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Abby Chicken

Head of Sustainability, Openreach

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Tom Moran

Technology Strategist, Colt

Tom is an Amsterdam based sustainability researcher and educator, and a Technology Consulting Principle at Lumen. He has held numerous roles in the media and IT industries including production, design, architecture, consulting and business development in settings from startups to large global enterprises.

Tom a recognized expert in ICT sustainability who is regularly called on to give keynote speeches and presentations at events in Europe and the US. He sits on sustainability committees within techUK, the Infrastructure Masons and Greening of Streaming, is an advisor to The Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) and The Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Association (SDIA) and publishes the SustainableIT Newsletter.
 

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Susanne Baker

Partner, ERM

Susanne Baker is a Partner in ERM’s EMEA technology team where she leads on corporate sustainability, climate change and product stewardship. Her career has included appointments at the Environment Agency and the UK’s Department for Environment. She was a journalist at the ENDS Report, the UK’s first publication, and editor of its supply chain news. Over the last decade she worked at MakeUK and more recently at techUK, where she was associate director for climate, environment and sustainability. Susanne has worked with the tech sector on sustainability issues for over seven years and was recently elected chair of techUK’s climate council. She is a regular judge for Business Green and Edie’s sustainability leaders and clean tech awards. 

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Tim Martin

Director of Sustainability, Kyndryl

Tim's interest in Sustainability dates back to long before it was mainstream and he is old enough to have called himself an 'Environmentalist' when this description conjured images of tree hugging and demonstrating (done that!), he now brings his personal passion and experience to the workplace for the benefit of Kyndryl and its customers. Prior to working in the Sustainability arena Tim led the Kyndryl Data Centre organisation consisting of over 500 fantastic professionals and an annual budget in excess of $500m. Tim has overseen the drive towards energy efficiency and renewable purchases across the portfolio for over 15 years - the Climate Crisis has made this mainstream and Tim is pleased to continue this work from within the Kyndryl Sustainability Team.

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Matthew Houlsby

Director Net-Zero Transition Practice, Madano

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Josephine Muncaster

Finance Lead, digiLab

Jo trained as an auditor and in 2016, moved 8,000 miles to be Financial Controller for the National Development Agency and Tourist Board in the Falkland Islands, supporting growth of the local economy. Back in the UK, she has focused on supporting companies with building and improving their company processes with a focus on decarbonisation decision-making and data analytics. Jo is currently the Finance Lead for digiLab, a tech start-up building digital twin software and supporting the integration of AI into all sectors. She is Chair of the ICAEW Southern, Wales and South West Sustainability Committee, supporting regional members with practical advice on sustainability matters.

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Chris Pritchett

Partner, Energy and Infrastructure, Shoosmiths

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Charlie Mercer

Deputy Policy Director, Startup Coalition

Charlie Mercer is Deputy Policy Director at the Startup Coalition, the policy voice for startups in the UK. The Startup Coalition has active campaigns across multiple ClimateTech sectors, including energy, the built environment and carbon markets. They are the Secretariat of the newly formed Carbon Markets Innovation Forum. Charlie also sits across the Startup Coalition's Fintech, investment and data policy portfolios and sits on the Government's Smart Data Council.

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Ben Westerman

Director of Energy and Net Zero, Henham Strategy

Ben is Director of Energy and Net Zero at Henham Strategy, leading Henham's work with businesses across energy, industry, finance and clean growth. Prior to joining Henham, Ben was Head of Policy and subsequently Executive Director of the Aldersgate Group, an alliance of businesses across sectors driving policy progress on the net zero economy. 

Ben has significant experience across a broad range of climate and energy policy areas in the UK and EU. He previously established and led the British Chambers of Commerce's work on net zero, was a Senior Adviser to the Parliamentary Renewable and Sustainable Energy Group, and has worked with numerous organisations including Green Alliance, the EU Economic and Social Committee, and the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, where he is a Research Fellow, on policy issues relating to net zero. He spent several years working as an advisor to the Labour Party, and has sat on Government's Net Zero Council, Green Technical Advisory Group, Green Jobs Delivery Group, and Transition Plan Taskforce. 
 

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Lucy Yu

CEO, Centre for Net Zero (Octopus Energy Group)

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Ben Cooper

Tech South West

Ben is Director of Funding and Support at Tech South West – the cross regional tech cluster for the South West area, where Blue and Green tech are key sectors.  He’s also an active Angel Investor, a co-founder of Angel Investors Bristol, a strong advocate for the development of the investment community in the South West, and a provider of focused support to tech StartUps and ScaleUps through his own consultancy, Skowt Consulting.  

Ben works closely with the active players from national and local government, government agencies like British Business Bank and UKRI, plus investment supporters such as the UKBAA and Enterprise Investment Scheme Association.  Connecting them all together with regional activators such as the Universities, Science Parks, Growth Hubs, Accelerators and Incubators, shining a light on the South West as a place that’s developing great tech with impact.”
 

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Unzall Haq

Corporate Account Manager, Voluntary Carbon & Renewable Energy Markets, ACT Commodities

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Peter Campbell

Director of Green Software, Kainos

Peter Campbell is the Director of Green Software at Kainos, helping apply sustainability to the software services we create with customers. In his career with Kainos, Peter has been Chief Technology Officer and established the Data & AI Practice. He also sits on the techUK Data Analytics & AI Leadership committee. 
 

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Mattie Yeta

Chief Sustainability Officer, CGI

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Tom Moran

Technology Strategist, Colt

Tom is an Amsterdam based sustainability researcher and educator, and a Technology Consulting Principle at Lumen. He has held numerous roles in the media and IT industries including production, design, architecture, consulting and business development in settings from startups to large global enterprises.

Tom a recognized expert in ICT sustainability who is regularly called on to give keynote speeches and presentations at events in Europe and the US. He sits on sustainability committees within techUK, the Infrastructure Masons and Greening of Streaming, is an advisor to The Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) and The Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Association (SDIA) and publishes the SustainableIT Newsletter.
 

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Natalie Forrestill

Senior Cyber Security Consultant, Sustainability, AtkinsRéalis

Natalie is a Senior Cyber Security Consultant within AtkinsRéalis and has worked with central government and critical national infrastructure clients. She has experience with the Cyber Assessment Framework, ISO 27001 and the NIST Cyber Security Framework.  Most recently, Natalie has been investigating how the Net Zero agenda impacts cyber security with a core focus on the risks to the security of critical national infrastructure.

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George Baldwin

Head of Climate Resilience and Strategy, Marsh

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Isabelle Chatel de Brancion

Business and Innovation Lead - Geovation, Ordnance Survey

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Luisa C. Cardani

Head of Data Centres Programme, techUK

Luisa C. Cardani is the Head of the Data Centres Programme at techUK, aiming to provide a collective voice for UK operators and working with government to improve business environment for the data centres sector.

Prior to joining techUK, Luisa worked in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as the Head of International Data Protection, where she led on the development of elements of the UK's data protection and privacy policy. In her role, she was also the UK official representative for the EOCD Privacy Guidelines Informal Advisory Group.

She has held a number of position in government, including leading on cross-cutting data provisions in the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, and in high priority cross-departmental projects when working in the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

She holds an M.Sc. from University College London's Department of Political Sciences.

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Tarja Strahlman

Director of BD, Energy Transition & Environment, Faculty AI

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Henry Franks

CTO, Climate Policy Radar

Henry is a technology and product leader with over a decade of experience building startups, leveraging expertise in computer science, software engineering, data science and machine learning.
Before joining Climate Policy Radar, Henry worked in startups spanning music and performance, insurance, and telecoms, focused on building innovative and industry-changing products -- in recent years, targeted at helping solve the climate crises. Henry holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Warwick, involving research into the nature of cooperation in society and application of those insights to algorithmic societies.
 

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David Bartram Shaw

Chief AI Officer, Mesh-AI

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Simon Bennett

Head of Research & Innovation, AVEVA

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