Event: Driving Sustainability: Efficiency through Innovation
- Wednesday, March 27, 2024
- Posted By The Growth Company
Bee Net Zero partner The Energy Innovation Agency are bringing together businesses, innovators, funders and investors to share knowledge and strategies to drive sustainability.
Hosted at Bruntwood’s Circle Square on Tuesday 23rd April 2024, the event will run from 9:30am to 14:00.
This event is a must-attend for Greater Manchester businesses, as well as energy innovators, funders and investors from across the country who are looking to decarbonise their buildings and become a leader in sustainability within their sectors.
The event will feature three panel sessions; named “Driving Business Sustainability: Ambitious sustainability projects and energy solution selection”, “The Investment Landscape for Sustainability – What are sustainable investors looking for? What are the hallmarks for the best green innovations?”, and “Better Business Efficiency through innovation”. Each panel will be full of industry experts, innovators, and end-users from across the region, all of which have been supported by The Agency.
There will also be several keynote speeches and discussions held throughout the event, covering topics like matching solutions to challenges, and the funding landscape for sustainability deployment.
Throughout the day there will also be an opportunity for attendees to meet and network as well as visit the mini showcase of innovators exhibiting some brilliant new solutions and initiatives that will help the city-region achieve its goals.
09.30 – Registration, Refreshments, Networking
10:00 – Welcome & Housekeeping - (Steve Connor)
10:05 – Agency introduction (David Schiele, Director, Energy Innovation Agency)
10:15 - Keynote Speech (Industry expert – TBC)
10:25 – Panel Session 1 – Driving Business Sustainability: Ambitious sustainability projects and energy solution selection (Bruntwood, Football Supporters Association)
11:05 – Matching Solutions to Challenges (Peter Emery, Chairman of the Board, Energy Innovation Agency)
11:15 – Panel session 2: The Investment Landscape for Sustainability – What are sustainable investors looking for? What are the hallmarks of the best green innovations? (GC Angels, Kantar Partnership)
11:25 – Refreshments / Comfort Break / Networking
11:45 – Panel Session 3 – Better Business Efficiency through Innovation: hear from innovators about how they are overcoming challenges & embracing the opportunities that innovation brings to business sustainability
12:25 - Fireside Chat: The Funding Landscape for Sustainability Deployment - focused discussion around funding programmes & opportunities for start ups (EIA, Innovate UK KTN, HalioGEN)
12:45 – Lunch & Networking
including from 13:00 - Soapbox Pitches from Innovators on main stage
14:00 - Main event close
The Energy Innovation Agency is a unique organisation, created to help the GM city-region transition to a low-carbon economy by enabling energy innovators to scale and grow their businesses.
Supported by eight partners from the public and private sectors, we offer a range of diverse services to businesses to help them develop, deploy, and deliver their innovative products and services here in GM; innovations which can help overcome the energy challenges that many GM businesses face and help them not only with their net-zero journey but also to reduce energy costs.