Taking place on 10 October at events@n06, London, as well as online.
08:30 - 09:15
Registration
09:15 - 09:30
Welcome by Richard Peers, founder of ResponsibleRisk and contributing editor, Finextra Research.
Richard Peers
Founder, ResponsibleRisk
09:30 - 09:45
How are different international cities addressing sustainability issues and handling various levels of national regulation? Who takes the lead in confronting the challenges of climate change? What resources do cities have their disposal, and what innovations in risk technology, AI, and geospatial data are being used to enable the financiers to be able to analyse these adaptation, and mitigation plans?
Richard Peers
Founder, ResponsibleRisk
Mitch Cooke
Director of Sustainability, ESG & Sustainable Finance, Greengage Environmental
Where do banks, insurers, asset managers and fintechs come into play in the global Net Zero, Nature positive transition? What are the responsibilities, goals and challenges of bond issuers and investors in the transition?
Richard Conway
CEO, Elastaloud
Richard Peers
Founder, ResponsibleRisk
Sam Gandy
Head of Inovation, Ecosulis
Jigisha Lock
Head of Platform Strategy, Portfolio, and ESG Solutions, NatWest Markets
Vian Sharif
Head of Sustainability FNZ and Founder Nature Alpha, FNZ
10:45 - 11:00
Networking
11:00 - 11:45
Role of AI in Decarbonising the Built Environment: An Urban Policy Perspective
Richard Peers
Founder, ResponsibleRisk
Roxana Slavcheva
Global Lead for Built Environment, World Resources Institute
What forms of green energy are available? What is the cost of generating clean energy and how can it be made affordable for the citizen via innovative finance and government incentives? How do new forms of data management such as the cloud impact energy consumption and help measure the carbon footprint of incumbents?
Simon Perham
Head of Investor Outreach Europe, Carbon Tracker
Kaj Embren
Senior Advisor, Kaj Embren Ltd
Sophie Kempthorne
Innovation Lead, Innovate UK KTN
Vera Kukic
UK lead for Sustainability in Financial Services sector, IBM
Amandine Tetot
Head of Project Finance, Triodos Bank
12:45 - 13:45
Lunch and networking
What impact will the vast volumes of asynchronous data that flows from shareholder disclosures, satellites and social media have on sustainable finance? How can our society infer meaning and make decisions based on this abundance of data? What issues could AI create?
Richard Peers
Founder, ResponsibleRisk
Donna Lyndsay
Strategic Market Lead Environment and Sustainability, Ordnance Survey
14:00 - 14:45
Who are the potential winners and losers when cities change to meet sustainable finance goals and funds are raised to improve the environment of inhabitants? What mitigations should be considered? What is the role of behavioural science to inform this change?
Darshna Shah
Director of Innovation, Elastacloud
Jannika Aalto
Program Manager, Sustainable Circular Cities and Built Environment, Green Digital Finance Alliance
Walid Al Saqqaff
Founder, ReBalance Earth
Guillaume Levannier
Sustainable Finance Board Member and Asset Manager, Lombard Odier Investment Managers
Adrian Sargent
CEO Castle Community Bank, ESG Treasury and Castle Community Bank
14:45 - 15:00
John will speak about the banks' role in stimulating investment in the UK's infrastructure to address climate change mitigation, adaption, nature-based solutions and levelling up agendas.
Richard Peers
Founder, ResponsibleRisk
John Flint
CEO, UK Infrastructure Bank
15:00 - 15:30
Networking
How will the trillions of dollars needed to make real change be raised? How can financial markets deliver the investment and returns needed? What checks and balances need to be in place to ensure impact?
Anna-Marie Slot
Global Sustainability Partner, Ashurst
Peter Bachmann
Managing Director of Sustainable Infrastructure, Gresham House
James Falzon
Green Cities, EBRD
Tatjana Greil Castro
Co‑Head of Public Markets, Muzinich
Deniz Harut
Executive Director, Pollination Group
16:15 - 16:30
Closing remarks
16:30 - 17:30
Drinks reception