Speakers

Anita Frost

Founder, Green Bean Studios

Anna Ashford

Head of 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)

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

Angela Barnicle

Chief Officer Asset Management & Regeneration, Leeds City Council

Angela Channer

Principal Software Craftsperson, Codurance

Antonio Tombanane

Founder, The Edge Hub

Ben Tolhurst

Director, Business Declares

Bill Colquhoun

Founder, World Sustainability Collective

Bo Carter

Sustainable Fashion Designer, Bo Carter

Caroline Wherritt

Founder and CEO Re:work

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

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

Gemma Dyson

Proposals Manager, Vital Energi

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

Melanie Corcoran

Director Transport Policy and Delivery

Michaela Lindridge

Head of ESG, Severfield.

Mike Dugher

Area Director - Yorkshire at the Environment Agency.

Natasha Babar-Evans

Chief Executive Officer, Better Connect Limited

Neil Dewis

Director, water, Yorkshire Water

Nicci Russell

MD, Waterwise

Nick Brelsford

Head of Partnerships, England North, Sustrans

Niki Roach

Honorary Vice President, CIWEM

Paul Chatterton

Professor of Urban Futures, University of Leeds

Pete Waddingham

National NetZero Lead for The AHSN Network

Phoebe L. Hanson

Coordinator, Mock COP

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 of AVIE and a consultant

Steve Bennett

Founder, Business of Science

Steve Carver

Director, Wildland Research Institute

Stuart Clarke MBE

Founder of 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

Zaqiya Cajee

Founder & CEO, SwopItUp