• Understand the current state of investment across UK energy, and where the greatest opportunities and barriers lie
• Gain insight into the policy and market conditions shaping investor confidence in the sector
• Be able to identify the gap between the government's ambitions and what's needed to deliver them
• Questions and answers

• What are the biggest opportunities and risks in achieving the UK's clean electricity ambitions?
• How do electricity, hydrogen, storage, networks and flexibility work together?
• What role will digital technologies and AI play in managing future demand?
• How can the sector attract investment while protecting consumers?
• What actions are needed to strengthen energy resilience and public confidence?

Jack Pardoe, Head of Policy, Octopus Energy Group

Alicja Zakrzewska, External Affairs Lead, Association for Decentralised Energy

Nia Lowe, Head of Distribution System Operation, SP Energy Networks

Roisin Quinn OBE, President of Electricity Distribution, National Grid

• Understand how a single regulator overseeing gas, electricity and water together changes regulatory decision-making, compared with GB's separate-regulator model
• Identify where joined-up regulation could reduce duplication or misalignment between energy and water policy
• Consider what NI's model suggests for how the rest of the UK might better connect energy and water regulation
• Questions and answers

• Understand the role of electricity distribution networks in delivering the UK's Clean Power 2030 ambitions and supporting long-term energy security
• Explore how investment, innovation and regulatory reform can accelerate network capacity, resilience and the connection of low-carbon technologies
• Examine how digitalisation, flexibility and collaboration can help create a smarter energy system that meets the needs of customers, communities and businesses
• Questions and answers

• Explore how the sector can modernise ageing infrastructure, strengthen resilience to climate change and secure long-term water supplies while supporting sustainable economic growth
• Examine how utilities, regulators, government and research organisations can work together to improve river health, reduce pollution, enhance biodiversity and accelerate the adoption of innovative technologies and best practice
• Discuss how the water sector can strengthen public confidence by improving operational performance, demonstrating environmental leadership and placing customers at the heart of future investment and decision-making
  
  
• Heidi Mottram CBE, Chief Executive, Northumbrian Water Group 
• Mike Rose, Chief Executive, UK Water Industry Research 
• Dan Walker-Nolan, Director of Policy, Water UK
• Ali Bell, Director of Policy & Communications, Consumer Council for Water (CCW)

• How can the UK create the conditions needed to attract long-term public and private investment into critical utility infrastructure while overcoming planning and delivery barriers?
• What role do industrial clusters, local partnerships and UK supply chains play in accelerating the energy transition, creating skilled jobs and delivering economic growth?
• How can utilities, government, investors and infrastructure partners collaborate to move projects from strategy to implementation at the pace required to meet the UK's energy security and net zero ambitions?

Maggie McGinlay, Chief Executive, Energy Transition Zone

Neil Golding, Director of Market Intelligence, Energy Industries Council

Dan Griffiths, Head of Low Carbon, Greater Manchester Combined Authority

Ben Goodwin, Director of Policy and Public Affairs, The Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA)

Tom Hughes, Assistant Director - Energy, National Infrastructure & Service Transformation Authority (NISTA)

• Understand where the UK's leading industrial decarbonisation clusters currently stand, from hydrogen production through to delivery
• Gain insight into how hydrogen and carbon capture and storage are being deployed together in practice to decarbonise hard-to-abate industry, beyond the policy-level discussion
• Identify what it actually takes to move a major energy infrastructure project from concept to Final Investment Decision, and what that implies for the UK's wider industrial decarbonisation pipeline
• Questions and answers

• What does leadership actually look like when the investment case, the regulatory settlement and public trust are all under pressure at once?
• How do leaders make long-term, capital-intensive decisions on 10–15-years time horizons when political and regulatory cycles run much shorter?
• How do you hold a team and an organisation together through a decade of scrutiny, cost pressure and public criticism, without losing sight of delivery?

Basil Scarsella, Chief Executive Officer, UK Power Networks

Raj Roy, Group General Counsel and Company Secretary, Centrica

Louise Beardmore, Chief Executive Officer, United Utilities

Colin McNaughton, Pricing Director, Water Industry Commission for Scotland (WICS)

*programme subject to change without notice