Sector Forum - Green Economy: Access to Business Support

Event Details:

Date: Wednesday 30 October 2024.
Time: 10:00 - 12:00
Location: Online

Are you a company working in the Green Economy and looking to take your business to the next level?

Whether you’re a seasoned entrepreneur or just starting out, join us for this online 'Sector Forum', where you'll hear from industry leaders and gain valuable insights to help your business thrive in today’s Green Economy landscape.

About the speakers

Jane Dennett-Thorpe

Jane is the Decarbonisation and Energy Transition Lead at Ofgem. She has been dedicated to addressing climate change and bringing forward the energy transition for over two decades, in a variety of roles. Jane led the development of Ofgem’s Decarbonisation Action Plan and now leads cross cutting strategic work to ensure the regulatory regimes can meet the net zero challenges.

Jon Fenton

Jon is the Founder and CEO of IOP Business Award-winning company FeTu. FeTu is responsible for the development of a new deCARBONisation architecture for energy machines: a revolutionary heat engine, generating electrical power from waste heat and geothermal sources as low as 40 °C.

Dr Agnieszka Iwasiewicz-Wabnig

Dr Iwasiewicz-Wabnig is the Director of the Maxwell Centre at the University of Cambridge. She works with the Cambridge Zero initiative as the Industrial Strategy Lead, driving knowledge exchange between academia and industry. Aga leads an active interface for industry to engage around delivery of the Zero Carbon future through a range of activities and research collaborations.

Bill Yost

For more than twenty-five years, Bill has been helping to bring new technologies to markets. As a Founder, Investor, Chair and Advisor, he has supported early-stage companies spanning hydrogen generation, water treatment, thermal storage and the recycling of carbon fibre. His particular interest in circular economy propositions led him to join Cambridge Electric Cement (CEC) as CEO. Bill is a Non-executive Director at Exergy3 and a Venture Partner at Old College Capital. He holds a BA in Physics from Cornell University, an MSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and an MSc in the Management and Regulation of Risk from the London School of Economics.

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Physics Powering the Green Economy Report

In 2023 the Institute of Physics published its ‘Physics Powering the Green Economy’ report, setting out the central role that physics innovation and physicists have played in realising the green economy of today, and the equally key part they will need to play in scaling up a sustainable, internationally competitive green economy in the UK and Ireland for the future – in particular as a ‘systems challenge’ how the skills that physicists have, and their way of thinking, is important in solving such a problem.

The IOP and the physics community are a partner in this grand challenge. We stand ready to lend our knowledge and skills to drive change.

You can read the full report here.

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