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Innovation Zero 2025

Innovation Zero 2024 Main Stage

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Accelerating Innovations: From Seed to IPO

29 Apr 2025
Main Stage
Start-Ups Funders (Investors & Lenders)

Leading financiers will discuss the main barriers to scaling innovations through successive funding rounds. How can we take a fledging FOAK technology from early stage and bring it to mass market so it can help catalyse the net zero transition? How do we bridge funding gaps and save start-ups and scale-ups from the infamous valley of death? Speakers across the sustainable finance community share innovative financing models and debate the regulatory landscape required to promote growth

Moderator
Charles Perry, Director - Sustainable Future for All
Confirmed Speakers
Marisa Drew, Chief Sustainability Officer - Standard Chartered
Irina Gorbounova, Vice President M&A and Head of XCarb Innovation Fund - ArcelorMittal
Uday Khemka, Vice-Chairman - SUN Group
Dr Rhian-Mari Thomas OBE, Co-Chair - Innovation Zero