• Where the public sector stands on its net zero journey, key milestones achieved, and the biggest challenges that remain
• Understanding the evolving policy landscape, funding priorities and expectations for public sector organisations
• Turning ambition into delivery
• Priorities for public sector leaders

• Local government as a system leader, convening partners across energy, transport, housing, and infrastructure
• Delivering place-based decarbonisation, aligned to local needs, assets, and constraints
• Using planning, transport, and procurement powers to enable and accelerate low-carbon outcomes
• Turning strategy into delivery through local programmes, investment, and collaboration
• Balancing climate ambition with affordability, equity, and public value

• Embedding net zero and sustainability criteria into procurement and commissioning decisions
• Tackling Scope 3 emissions and improving supply chain transparency and accountability
• Balancing value for money, compliance and carbon reduction objectives
• Working with suppliers to drive innovation, social value and long-term sustainable outcomes

• Is the public sector moving quickly enough to meet 2030 and 2050 net zero ambitions?
• What are the biggest barriers to delivering net zero at pace across public estates and services?
• Balancing financial pressures, competing priorities and long-term decarbonisation goals
• How can organisations move from strategy and pledges to measurable delivery?
• The realities of retrofitting complex and ageing public buildings at scale
• Funding challenges: are current schemes and financial mechanisms enough?
• Building the workforce, skills and leadership needed to support delivery
• The role of digital tools, data and reporting in accelerating progress and demonstrating impact

Speakers:

• Agamemnon Otero MBE, Founder & CEO, Energy Garden

• Decarbonising NHS estates and infrastructure - tackling ageing buildings, retrofit challenges, energy efficiency and heat decarbonisation across healthcare settings
• Balancing sustainability with operational resilience
• Reducing emissions across healthcare supply chains, procurement and operations
• What good looks like - scalable approaches to accelerating net zero delivery across the health sector

• The risk imperative of taking a low-tech approach to real estate decarbonisation
• What heritage buildings can teach us about adopting a low-energy approach
• How passive lighting, ventilation and thermal comfort cut both carbon and cost
• Why creating behaviour change is vital to deliver successful decarbonisation strategies

• Monitoring performance, identifying inefficiencies and prioritising decarbonisation interventions across public estates
• The role of AI and smart technologies in accelerating net zero delivery
• Building robust carbon reporting and performance measurement systems
• Overcoming barriers to digital transformation

• Exploring new funding models for net zero delivery
• Building stronger business cases for investment - demonstrating value for money, long-term savings and wider social, economic and environmental benefits
• Navigating the changing funding landscape - understanding the future of schemes such as PSDS and identifying alternative routes to finance under tightening budgets
• Working with local authorities, combined authorities, investors and delivery partners to accelerate decarbonisation projects

The conversation around technology and artificial intelligence is often dominated by fears of automation and displacement. Yet history shows that technology's greatest contribution is not replacing people but amplifying human potential.

Drawing on practical examples from Energy Garden's work across London, this keynote explores how community energy, digital tools, data, biodiversity monitoring and civic participation can be combined to create "socially smart cities" – places where technology helps people become active participants in the net zero transition rather than passive recipients of it.

From community-owned solar on railway infrastructure to neighbourhood-scale climate action programmes, the session will examine how public sector organisations can harness technology to build trust, accelerate delivery and create lasting social, environmental and economic value.