Welcome to the Finance Forum at Innovation Zero World 2025, a pivotal platform for navigating the intricate world of financial investment and green finance.
Here, you'll connect with leading experts in the finance sector, delving into best practices for scaling businesses rapidly and bridging the funding gap for innovators. Our knowledgeable speakers will provide insights into each stage of investment, highlighting strategies for successful financial growth. Additionally, we'll explore the critical role of Green and Transition Finance in the finance and investment community's response to the climate crisis.
Join us to understand and contribute to the evolving landscape of finance, driving forward both economic and environmental sustainability.
Innovation Zero World | 29th & 30th April 2025 | Olympia London
2025 Finance Forum Speakers
Meet Our Esteemed Speakers
Innovation Zero is delighted to present a distinguished array of speakers for the Finance Forum, including keynote experts at the forefront of finance and investment.
This eclectic mix of top financial professionals, seasoned investors, and leading researchers will share invaluable insights into the latest trends and strategies in finance. Their presentations, encompassing both innovative research and real-world applications, are designed to enlighten and provoke thought-provoking discussions. Committed to advancing financial practices and addressing the challenges of the economic landscape, these speakers mark the start of an exceptional lineup. Stay tuned for more announcements about extraordinary speakers who will further enrich the forum’s engaging and progressive environment.
The Finance Forum will examine how to unlock the capital required to support the global net-zero transition. With a focus on innovative funding models and sustainable investment strategies, this forum is designed for institutional investors, policymakers, and businesses aiming to drive green finance forward.
Key Themes and Topics:
1. Mobilising Private Capital: Discussions will explore blended finance models that leverage both public and private funding to accelerate low-carbon transformations. Best practices for building investor confidence and scaling green growth industries will also be covered.
2. Scaling Innovation Financing: UK clean-tech start-ups often face funding gaps as they scale. This session will outline a roadmap to create a sustainable financing environment, enabling innovations to progress from seed funding to mass-market deployment.
3. Institutional Investors as Catalysts: The role of pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and insurers in financing renewable energy and green infrastructure will be highlighted. Strategies to balance financial returns with environmental impacts will be shared.
4. Corporate Venture Investment: A spotlight will be placed on how corporate venture capitalists are pivoting to support emerging green industries, with insights from both investors and investees.
5. Deep Tech and Climate Finance: Fireside discussions will address the challenges of investing in high-risk, transformative technologies and the regulatory landscapes shaping their success.
6. Impact Investing: A holistic approach to socio-environmental outcomes will be discussed, with a focus on aligning investment portfolios with sustainable development goals.
Why Attend the Finance Forum?
This forum provides a unique platform for finance professionals, policymakers, and corporate leaders to collaborate on creating a robust green finance ecosystem. Attendees will gain valuable knowledge on unlocking capital, fostering innovation, and driving the net-zero economy.
What are the most effective, cost efficient and transformative ways in which public and private funders can distribute capital resources to low carbon transformation? As state actors repeatedly call o ...
This session examines what is required to create the optimal enabling environment for UK clean tech innovations to stay continually funded domestically through successive rounds and achieve scale. Wit ...
Institutional investors are emerging as pivotal players in financing the transition to a low-carbon economy. This session will explore the critical role that pension funds, insurance companies, sovere ...
How is corporate venture navigating the transition from investing in conversative industries to new business areas? What are the various strategic investment approaches they apply when considering com ...
This fireside chat will delve into the multifaceted challenges and opportunities inherent in deep tech investments, such as the derisking FOAK technologies, where investors face the uncertainty of unp ...
A cross-pollination is taking place in social and environmental impact investing – how is this being managed and capitalised upon by the finance community? With social and environmental outcomes curre ...
Filling the execution gap and mobilising capital into critical innovations requires coordinated action and the de-risking of technologies essential for progress. With even large private funds struggli ...
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