Sustainability LIVE London 2025 Day 2: Energy Agenda

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We’re LIVE! Day 2 of Sustainability LIVE London 2025 is underway, focusing on the energy sector's transformation.

This event is a must-attend for those keen on the topics of energy transition, decarbonisation and the strategic integration of sustainability both in technology and business leadership.

Net zero and decarbonisation

Global Decarbonisation Strategies (14:25 | Stage 2)
Layton Hill (Schneider Electric), Deborah Carlin (Müller UK & Ireland), Akanksha Singh (Radisson Hotel Group), Alex Sutton (SSE plc) and Tom Abel (Business Stream) explore how leading organisations are navigating transition risks, investing in clean technologies and tackling hard-to-abate sectors to deliver deep, lasting emissions reductions worldwide.

What Happens When Your Carbon Footprint Analysis Doesn’t Give You the Results You Expected? (12:15 | Stage 2)
Abby Chicken, Head of Sustainability, and Antonia Doncila, Sustainability Manager: Climate and Nature at Openreach, deliver a joint keynote on adapting to sustainability challenges when your carbon footprint analysis doesn’t give you the results you expected.

Energy transition and infrastructure

The Future is Electric (10:30 | Stage 1)
Opening Stage 1 for Day 2, Sylvain Filippi, Managing Director & CTO at Envision Racing Formula E Team, delivers a keynote on electric vehicles.

Insurance Meets Sustainability: Driving Change and Supporting the Transition (12:40 | Stage 2)
Leah Ramoutar, Director of Environmental Sustainability at Aviva, takes part in a fireside chat exploring the ways in which insurance can support the energy transition.

Leading the transformation of facilities management for a sustainable future (12:15 | Stage 1)
Kuram Gwakyaa, Head of Sustainability at Mitie, delivers a keynote on the sustainable future for facilities management.

Circular economy and waste

Transforming Waste into Opportunity
Dr Adam Read MBE, Chief Sustainability Officer at SUEZ recycling and recovery UK, delivers a keynote on waste management and how it can provide opportunities.

From Chaos to Clarity: Solving Emissions and Circularity Reporting Challenges (13:30 | Workshop Room 1)
Urszula Szalkowska, Managing Director and Senior Consultant (Europe) at EcoEngineers, delivers a workshop examining the connection between corporate emissions reductions, lifecycle assessment (LCA) and circularity targets.

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Finance, value chains and business strategy

How Sustainable Finance Can Help Accelerate Sustainable Ambitions (12:40 | Stage 1)
Hannah Simons, Head of Sustainability at Lloyds Banking Group, takes part in a fireside chat on the ways that finance can help accelerate sustainable ambitions.

SUSTAINABLE COMPANIES WIN and Here's Why
Paolo Taticchi, Professor in Strategy and Sustainability and School Deputy Director at UCL School of Management, delivers a keynote on why sustainable companies will be successful and why those that aren’t will fail.

Building a Sustainable Value Chain: Faber’s Journey with GEP (10:30 | Stage 2)
Darren Lynch, Vice President (Consulting) at GEP, and Ingrid Faber, CEO at Faber Group, deliver a joint keynote to explore their partnership to build a sustainable value chain at Faber Group.

Sustainable Procurement & Supply Chains (11:00 | Stage 2)
Nishad More (GEP), Craig Woodburn (Molson Coors), Jaclyn Kaminski-Beneche (International Workplace Group), Emma Bleach (Virgin) and Laith Amin (EcoEngineers) explore how value chain transformation is driving resilience and compliance in a rapidly shifting regulatory and geopolitical landscape.

Sustainable Logistics is a Strategic Necessity (11:45 | Workshop Room 1)
John Trenchard, Vice President of Sustainable International Supply Chains at DP World, delivers a workshop session on how implementing performance-related green initiatives is the smartest business move.
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Beyond the Spectre of Regulation (15:00 | Stage 1)
Closing Stage 1, Mark Lumsdon-Taylor, Global Lead ESG & Sustainability at MHA Baker Tilly, takes part in a fireside chat on sustainability regulations.

Leadership, people and culture

The CSO Strategy Summit (11:00 | Stage 1)
Tom Salisbury (GKN Automotive), Hilary Tam (AWS), Olivia Ruggles-Brise (BCD Travel) and Davide Stronati (Nuclear Decommissioning Authority) share strategic insights, leadership challenges and breakthrough ideas shaping corporate sustainability.

Innovation, technology and data

AI in Sustainability (14:25 | Stage 1)
Faith Taylor (Kyndryl), Tim Martin (Kyndryl), Yogesh Chauhan (HubSpot), Samir Ahmed (Intertek), Sean Jones (Microsoft) and Colin Seward (Cisco) explore how AI is being deployed to optimise resource use, predict environmental risks, enhance climate modelling and enable real-time ESG performance tracking.

Closing the gap between sustainability ambition and action (11:45 | Workshop Room 2)
Kyndryl delivers a workshop unpacking the largest gaps and practical solutions to manage stakeholder expectations, mitigation and adaptation measures in a dynamically changing context using practical demonstrations and examples of successfully implemented initiatives.
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Join us in recognising sustainability trailblazers at The Global Sustainability Awards

Back for another year, come and join us at 8 Northumberland Avenue at 6:00 PM for the Global Sustainability Awards 2025. 

This year, the Global Sustainability Awards 2025 will be a black tie ceremony honouring organisations and individuals committed to sustainability in their operations and fostering a responsible approach to businesses. 

Explore the shortlist here.