Natasha Elkington is an award-winning, independent multimedia journalist, producer, photographer, trainer and on-air presenter based in Nairobi, Kenya. With over 15 years of professional experience in the international media arena, she has worked and trained with several recognised global organisations including the European Union, United Nations, Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Thomson Reuters Corporation & Foundation, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), MediaStorm, Facebook, ActionAid and Purpose.com. Human impact and protecting nature fuel her fire while bringing a truthful, creative and global perspective to storytelling.

Phil joined Vodafone, the world’s largest IoT operator, in July 2013. As Head of IoT Business Development, Phil has responsibility for strategy and global business development, covering a range of verticals from automotive through to consumer electronics. He has previously held a range of national and international senior business development leadership roles, in innovative B2B tech companies across the telecoms, energy and utilities, communications and automotive sectors.

Since 2003 Jan has been in project acquisition, development and asset management. Within those almost twenty years he worked for multinational companies, manufacturers, as well as multiple ultra-high net worth individuals on projects in Central and Eastern Europe, USA and Asia-Pacific, participating in transaction of the total value over 300 million EUR. Since 2009 he has oriented towards renewable energy, focusing primarily on photovoltaic power plant projects, equipment and solutions, joining Wattkraft in 2018.
His university background is in International Trade from University of Economics in Prague.

Jake started out his career as a technology strategy associate for a major UK telecoms company before going to work on the data architecture and data system development for a major telecoms infrastructure investment project. Jake always had a passion for fighting climate change, so joined Energy Systems Catapult in 2019 to work on Modernising Energy Data and Prospering From the Energy Revolution with BEIS, Ofgem and IUK. Jake was part of the team that delivered the influential Energy Data Taskforce for BEIS. Jake ran multiple data systems consulting projects for innovative energy companies and UK energy networks, specialising in data management and the promotion of open data. Jake is now the Data Coop manager at Subak where he connects people working in climate with data they need to scale their impact, and is the lead for the Subak fellowship scheme which finds and funds data-centric climate research.

Graduated in Political Science, international address at Cesare Alfieri University in Florence, with a diploma as a conference interpreter for English and French and a Master in International Commerce and Finance organized by ICE of Milan, I started my career at the ITA Agency 30 years ago in 1992. After a four-year activity in Rome where I dealt with the promotion of Italian instrumental mechanics, I carried out my first assignment abroad in Hong Kong from 1996 to 2000 as deputy director, where I was able to attend the historic Hong Kong Handover to China in July 1997. Returning to Italy, following the victory of the competition for executives in August 2000, I was appointed director of the ICE Office in Florence and since 2002 manager of the Consumer Goods Area and of the Special Projects Area of ​​the Rome office. In 2004 I was appointed director of ICE Sofia in Bulgaria and subsequently from 2007 to 2013 I was director of the ICE office in Sao Paulo, responsible for Brazil, in the period of the full economic boom of the South American country. Back in the Head Office from 2013 to 2017 I was director of the Promotion Coordination of Made in Italy, responsible for the planning and organization of over 1000 promotional initiatives annually organized by ICE in over 65 offices around the world. From September 2017 for a four-year period I held the position of director of ICE PARIS, a position that I continued to hold ad interim until May 2, 2022. From 5 September 2021 I assumed the role of director of the ICE Office in London for the four-year period 2021-2025.

Recognised as a LinkedIn Top Voice for EV a few years ago…Roger is peak talk from rest…and probably the most well connected EV specialist on LinkedIn in the world with over 300,000 followers and millions of post engagements each year. He keeps his eyes and ears open for exciting stories to share – and champions companies, technologies, and people that are going to make a difference. Gradually, then SUDDENLY – that’s how Roger says the rEVolution is going to happen!

Sarah Bel joined UNDP in 2015 to run European Media relations. Sarah believes in sustainable finance as a driving force for change and created the SDG Finance Geneva Summit, a platform that connected the development community and the financial sector, promoting SDG aligned finance through showcasing innovative growth stage companies across the developing world. She advises UNDP Energy team on advocacy and communication opportunities.

Julia Pallé is a leading expert on sustainability in motorsport and the international elite sport industry. As Sustainability Director at the world’s first all-electric motor racing series, Formula E, Julia certified the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship net zero carbon since inception, the first sport in the world to achieve the standard. Julia is also Sustainability Advisor for Extreme E, the all-electric SUVs series, bringing electric racing to some of the most remote corners of the planet to highlight the climate change challenges faced by different ecosystems. Widely recognised as a leader in sustainability in global sport, Julia is a regular speaker at major events and conferences including COP26, Bloomberg, Sport Positive Summit, and FIA Smart Cities. Her industry roles include President of Sports and Sustainability international (SandSI), an international association of sustainable experts working to broadening and harmonising the international sport and sustainability movement. Before joining Formula E and defining the sustainability strategy, Julia was sustainability executive at Michelin Motorsport. Her primary area of research has focused on Business & Sustainability, Change Management and Project Management especially in Motorsport.

Sebastian Copeland is an award-winning photographer, explorer and author. Sebastian has led numerous expeditions across the polar regions, covering over 8,000 kilometers on skis over the ice, opening new routes and earning various records in the process. An international speaker on the climate crisis, Sebastian has addressed audiences at the UN, at universities and museums worldwide, and many fortune 500 companies warning of systemic transformations taking place in the polar regions from anthropogenic activities, and their geopolitical consequences. Sebastian has been noted as a photographer “who has produced works that are of outstanding artistic merit and communicates messages of urgent global significance.” He has produced five monograms and was four times awarded Photographer of the Year (IPA’07&2020 and TIFA’16&2020). In 2017, Men’s Journal named Copeland one of the world’s 25 top adventurers of the last 25 years. A member of the Explorer’s Club, Sebastian has spent 15 years on the board of directors of President Gorbachev’s environmental NGO, Global Green USA.