Speakers

Councillor Jonathan Pryor

Deputy Leader of Leeds City Council and Executive Member for Economy, Transport and Sustainable Development

Ed Gillespie

Co-Presenter Jon Richardson & the Futurenauts

Jon Richardson

Actor, Writer, Co-Presenter Jon Richardson & the Futurenauts

Kevin McCloud

Designer, Writer, TV Presenter

Mark Stevenson

Co-Presenter Jon Richardson & the Futurenauts

Mary Portas OBE

Businesswoman, Broadcaster, Author & Activist

Mayor Tracy Brabin

Mayor of West Yorkshire

Professor Nick Plant

Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research and Innovation, University of Leeds, UK 

Abiola Ogunsami

Ambassador, Regeneration Brainery

Adam Ashman

Head of Strategic Planning, Yorkshire Water

Adam Bastock

Ali Morpeth

Consultant, Healthy& Sustainable Diets @WWF

Alistair Little

Regional General Manager , Yorkshire at Biffa

Amandeep Kaur Maan

Co-founder, EcoSikhUK

Andrew White

Senior Project Manager, Leeds City Council

Anna Ashford

Head of ALT Legal, ALT Legal

Ash Wray

Founder, C3 Group

Caroline Jones

External Affairs Lead, C-Capture Ltd

Charlie Winstanley

Head of Regional Economic Change, CLES

Chris Smith

Lead Consultant – Resource Efficiency &amp Circularity, Beyondly

Claire Burns

People Director, Abraham moon

Claire Thew

Sustainability Consultant, Venture Zero

Dave Healy

Director of Geosolutions, University of Leeds

David Loseby

Professor, Leeds University Business School

David Nugent

Chief Executive, Canopy Housing

Declan Williams

Head of Partnerships , The Sustainability Community LTD

Dev Sharma

Youth MP & Food Activist, UK Youth Parliament

Dr Alan James

Founder, Expert Alliance

Dr Colm Bowe

Nature North Development Manager, Nature North

Dr Lynn Wilson

Director, Circular Design Synergy Limited

Dr Ruth Brown-Shepherd

Managing Director, Responsive Learning CIC

Emma Knight-Strong

Founder and Sustainability Adviser, Green Arch Consulting

Emmanuel Matuka

Youth activist, Biteback 2030

Erin McGurk

Founder, Girl Economics

Eve Roodhouse

Chief Officer, Culture and Economy at Leeds City Council

Fatima Garcia

Data Consultant, The Data City

Faye Tomson

Founder/Director, Tomson Consulting Ltd

Fiona Bolam

Head of Economic Policy, Leeds City Council

Fiona Conor

Managing Director, Trust Electric Heating

Fiona Ras Jones

Director, Mission Works

George Machin

Director of Engineering Apprenticeships, DN Colleges group

Helen Grayshan

Climate Change Programme and Partnerships Manager, Wakefield Council

Jennifer Brennan

Founding Director, Harlow Consulting

Jo Cutter

Lecturer in Work and Employment Relations and Unite the Union Equality and Inclusion Officer, University of Leeds

Joanna Hynes

Chief Operating Officer, Leeds Trinity University

John Burgess

Partnership Manager, Make It Wild

Jonathan Straight

Purposeful entrepreneur and food waste campaigner

Jonathan Williams

Head of Development, FareShare Yorkshire

Jude Daniel Smith

Communications Specialist/Youth Social Action Campaigner, A Fleet for Change

Kate Hutchinson

Founder and Director, The Sustainability Community LTD

Katy Longstaff

Technical Product Manager, Abraham moon

Kevin Allen

Head of Innovation & Partnerships, AI Tech UK

Lella Violet Halloum

Digital Changemaker, IBM

Liam Gillard

Senior programme manager, Salix Finance

Lucinda Yeadon

Social Impact Manager, CEG

Lucy Meredith

Marketing & Sustainability Lead, Leeds Community Homes

Marcus Rafael

Customer Service Officer - Pharma & Nutrition, BTC Europe

Martyn Broadest

Director of Home, Connect Housing

Martyn Long

Director of City Strategies and Future Talent, Creaticity

Matt Wheeler

Co-Founder & Digital Director, madeby.studio

Meshi Taka

Associate Director (Project Lead for Project Groundwater Northumbira), Waterman Aspen (seconded to Gateshead Council)

Michael Devlin

Deputy Chief Executive, Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust

Michaela Lindridge

Head of ESG, Severfield.

Naomi Timperley

Co Founder, Tech North Advocates

Natasha Nauth

Commissioner, YHCC

Nathan Atkinson

Co-Founder, Rethink Food

Neil Dewis

Director, WSP UK

Nicola Martin

Head of Sustainability, Transpennine Express

Nigel Banks

Technical Director - Zero Bills and Low Carbon Homes , Octopus Energy

Niki Roach

Honorary Vice President, CIWEM

Pam Warhurst

Incredible Edible CIC

Pete Tatham

Hyde Oark

Professor George Lodorfos

Dean of the Leeds Business School, Leeds Beckett University

Richard Bond

Innovation and Services Director , The Coal Authority

Richard Clarke

Managing Director, Highland Carbon Ltd

Richard Hore

Corporate Partnerships Manager , Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust

Richelle Schuster

Co-Founder, Creaticity

Rod Brown

Managing Director, Abraham Moon & Sons

Saj Greenall

Energy Strategy Manager, Northern Gas Network

Sam Perry

Green Bargaining Officer, Yorkshire and Humber TUC

Sean Coleman

Sustainability Consultant – Carbon Accounting, Beyondly and Energy Efficiency

Sharon Jandu

Director, NPH Ethnic Minority Business & Policy Forum

Simon Middleton

Head Of Direct Sales, Engie

Stephen Crow

Clarion Solicitors

Susanna Jackson

Lead Consultant – Sustainability and ESG, Beyondly

Tim Frenneaux

Radical, Tim Frenneaux & Co

Tony Gosling

Blast Furnace Shift Fitter and Community Union Branch Secretary, British Steel, Scunthorpe

Vickie Rogerson

Founder and MD, North PR

Vincent Walsh

Director, RegenFarmCo