Sponsors
Oxygen Conservation
Oxygen Conservation was founded with the aim of tackling the climate crisis and biodiversity collapse. They do this by Scaling Conservation across the UK. They invest directly in the acquisition of land to protect and restore natural processes. Storing carbon, providing space for nature, and delivering positive environmental and social impacts.They work in partnership with local communities and groups. Working to achieve positive environmental and social impact through a diverse range of activities such as regenerative agriculture, woodland creation, peatland restoration, species reintroduction, renewable energy generation, job creation, sustainable housing development, and eco-tourism.
Triodos Bank
One of Europe’s leading sustainable banks, Triodos Bank believes that banking can be a powerful force for good. For over 25 years, we’ve worked with organisations who do business like we do: with a clear social and environmental purpose and a financial plan to get there.It is vital that our financial system appreciates the true value of nature and we believe that banks have a critical role to play in supporting nature and reversing biodiversity loss. Just as we saw in the renewable energy sector in the 1980s, where we developed early financing that enabled community engagement, benefit and ownership, we hope we can now accelerate this learning in the natural capital field.
Zumo
Zumo is a B2B digital assets infrastructure engineered with a focus on compliance and sustainability. It enables financial institutions and enterprises to effortlessly embed digital assets via a simple API, and unlock the potential of their brand in web3.Zumo’s turnkey digital-assets-as-a-service platform offers a fast, flexible and low-barrier route to market, empowering fintechs, banks, asset managers and brands to offer their consumers the tools of the future simply and securely while also opening up new revenue streams, attracting new customers and supporting customer retention.
Supporters
Bright Tide
At Bright Tide, we work with businesses to help them make climate change and biodiversity a strategic priority. We do this through (i) providing guidance and advisory support to organisations on their climate and biodiversity strategies (ii) facilitating training workshops for staff members on climate change and biodiversity risk and (iii) connecting businesses to investment-ready solutions in the climate/biodiversity markets.Our approach can help companies meet important net-zero and biodiversity targets, increase employee engagement and wellbeing, improve brand positioning and helps companies make the transition to more sustainable and nature-positive supply chains.
When we work together, amazing things can happen.
Change Gap
Gaps between today’s capabilities, and tomorrow’s expectations are widening.We believe that a stronger, safer and more resilient future for Financial Services, needs accelerated innovation, automation & digital solutions, whilst keeping humans firmly in control!
We believe ‘creativity, more than competitiveness’, is critical, to unblock gaps
Together, we’ll bridge the gaps and join the dots …
European Space Agency
The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
Geovation
Geovation is the innovation hub for Ordnance Survey, and the home to the UK location data ecosystem. It offers events and programmes including an accelerator for early stage startup ups in collaboration with HMLand Registry.
Innovate UK
At Innovate UK Business Connect our mission is to connect ideas, people and communities to respond to these challenges and drive positive change through innovation. Our diverse connections span business, government, funders, research and the third sector. Innovate UK Business Connect is part of the Innovate UK family who support the development and commercialisation of new products, processes and services.
Sustainable Ventures
We’re on the side of the entrepreneur - they’re at the heart of everything we do. Supporting climate startups through investment, workspaces and venture support, we’ve created Europe’s leading climate hub, with more than 700 startups in our ecosystem.Sustainable Ventures launched in 2011 with the goal of using commercial innovation to tackle climate change. Experts within the team, many of whom are ex-founders, work with climate innovators to help them scale.