Pranuthi has over 15 years experience as a co-founder and operations leader, building and growing technology teams and startups from idea stage to fully operationalised Series A startups. She has worked with a diverse range of industries including transportation, healthcare and AI and uses systems and design thinking to underpin her approach.

Will has spent nearly 20 years as a climate and environmental policy maker and influencer, in the UK and Brussels. He has worked across a range of organisations and sectors including three years as a civil servant, six years at an environmental think tank, and most recently as Head of Policy for a recycling and waste management company.

Elodie has an MPhil in Development Studies from Oxford University. She has experience working on sustainability, gender equality, and refugee rights programmes at NGOs in the UK, Spain, Indonesia and Kenya.

Jake started off as technology strategy graduate in the telecoms sector but found his niche in data architecture and database development in a major telecoms network expansion programme. After a short time freelancing, Jake moved into the energy sector and joined Energy Systems Catapult in 2019. Jake is a specialist in bridging the gap between technical and non-technical domains.

Joanna has a background in partnership development, advisory and operations. Her most recent role was at Techstars, working closely with corporate partners to build accelerator programs and partner with startups.

Chris has worked in software engineering for over 15 years and is reading a PhD at Keele University focused on privacy-preserving machine learning applied to smart energy applications. He also consults on projects related to data science for good.

Founder of many businesses including Techlightenment and Freeformers. Experienced investor and entrepreneur. Gi holds positions on various boards and has a significant very early stage investment portfolio of both social business and pure commercial.

COO at Ember Climate. Previous roles have included campaigning with the Liberal Democrats in the UK and the Democrats in the US. Phil holds an MSc. in Evolution, Ecology & Conservation from Imperial College.

Jack co-founded Open Climate Fix in early 2019. Prior to this, he worked at Google DeepMind on forecasting wind power generation. He also consults for the National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) on predicting renewable power generation using ML.

Jim Knight works in education, digital technology and as a legislator. He founded Tes Institute and XRapid. As a UK government minister his portfolios included rural affairs, schools, digital and employment. He was a member of Gordon Brown’s Cabinet 2009-2010, before joining the Lords after the 2010 General Election.