2014 Thursday Free Exhibition Floor Talks
THURSDAY TALKS
26th June 2014
All talks listed here are free to attend for all visitors to the Eco Technology Show
Over 60 seminars, panels and case studies across 2 days. Visitors are invited to join industry leading speakers as they discuss, evaluate and advise on the latest topics and trends. Day one doors open at 09.30 am.
Confirmed talks & panellists so far include:
10.00-10.30 KEYNOTE SPEECH: UNDERSTAND THE ECONOMIC BENEFITS AND OPPORTUNITIES ARISING FROM SHIFTING TO A LOWER CARBON ECONOMY Big Debate Area
Greg Barker MP Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change, DECC 
10:00-10:25 DECC RHI ROADSHOW - What is the Renewable Heat Incentive? Seminar area 2
The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) is the world’s first long-term financial support programme for renewable heat. Find out how you can be paid to generate and use renewable energy to heat your buildings.
DECC
10.00-10.30 FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOW CARBON BUSINESSES Seminar area 3
Presenting the UK and European funding schemes for developing low carbon business solutions
Mark Bornhoft, Cleantech Consultant, Carbon Limiting Technologies
10.35-11.00 WHAT NOW FOR THE GREEN DEAL AND ECO? Seminar area 2
Version 1 may have had some teething troubles but the need for mass energy retrofit is still clear. Understanding how the Green Deal may be adapted and what the opportunities under ECO.
The Energy Saving Trust
10.40-11.10 WHY AN ENERGY MANAGEMENT PROFESSION IS IMPORTANT TO DEVELOPING LOW CARBON SUPPLY CHAINS Big Debate Area
Hear from the founder of the EMA why an energy management profession and energy management training are crucial for developing low carbon supply chains
Lord Rupert Redesdale, Chief Executive, Energy Managers Association
10.40-11.10 HOW TO TURN YOUR IDEA INTO A HIGH GROWTH ECO TECH BUSINESS Seminar area 3
Hear ideas and advice on how to develop your high growth business, based on 16 years running the highly successful Sussex Innovation Centre, a technology business incubator based at the University of Sussex.
Mike Herd, Executive Director, Sussex Innovation Centre
11.10-11.35 DECC RHI ROADSHOW - Applying for the Renewable Heat Incentive Seminar area 2
Now that the Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive has been launched, find out how to apply for both that and the non-domestic RHI.
OFGEM
11.20-12.00 BIG DEBATE: CREATING AN ECONOMY THAT WORKS Big Debate Area
Weighing up the options for creating a different, yet business-led economic paradigm so that we might have an ‘an economy that works’ from an environmental & social as well as economic perspective.
Oliver Dudok van Heel, Director, Aldersgate Group, Jae Mather, Director of Sustainability, JW Fisher plus guests
11.20-11.50 FUNDING FOR INNOVATION IN ECO TECHNOLOGY Seminar area 3
Presenting the various funding schemes and competitions that are available to support eco technology and future cities
Mike Pitts Lead Specialist, Sustainability, Technology Strategy Board
11.45-12.10 UNDERSTANDING THE BENEFITS OF HYBRID HEATING SYSTEMS Seminar area 2
Hybrid heating looks at how with a few low cost modifications to a heating system, significant savings of up to 20% can be made on the running costs, along with Co2 reductions.
Keith Rule, Sales Director, Fond Nova UK
12.00-12.30 CASE STUDY ECOVER: BIO-REACTORS, CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND INNOVATION Seminar area 3
Explaining how bio-technology is helping Ecover to explore producing cleaning products using local ‘waste’ materials, local manufacturing methods and global knowledge. Glocal is an experiment which aims to create a business model that delivers products based on the optimal use of locally available resources that can be re-grown, re-cycled or re-used.
Rodrigo Bautista, Senior Sustainability Advisor, Forum for the Future
12.10-12.40 CASE STUDY PETERBOROUGH CITY COUNCIL: ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE Big Debate Area
Making money from investing in energy efficiency & renewable energy infrastructure
John Harrison, Executive Director Resources, Peterborough City Council & Managing Director, Blue Sky Peterborough
12:20-12:45 DECC RHI ROADSHOW - Installer Readiness Seminar area 2
Maximising the opportunities for installers under both the domestic and non-domestic RHI
Microgeneration Certification Scheme
12.40-13.10 CASE STUDY: ANALYSING HOW WE CAN CHANGE BEHAVIOUR? Seminar area 3
Interesting insights and case studies of behaviour change in the adoption of technology
Yvonne Rogers, UCL/ Intel Collaborative Research Institute on Sustainable Connected Cities
12.50-13.20 CASE STUDY WEST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL & CARILLION: SUSSEX ENERGY SAVING PROGRAMMEBig Debate Area
Learn how, by combining the purchasing power of local authorities, businesses and individuals in Sussex, SESP aims to work with Carillion to install £60M of renewable energy & energy efficiency measures.
Colin James Head of Capital & Infrastructure West Sussex County Council &John Swinney, Director, Carillion Energy Services
12.55-13.20 BUILDING INFORMATION MODELLING AND GOVERNMENT SOFT LANDINGSSeminar area 2
Both BIM and GSL are central to the Government Construction Strategy and mandated for adoption on public new build and refurbishment projects by 2016. Together they require new processes that need to be administered through design and creation, and into operation.
Speaker from FutureFit BIM project, SECBE
13.20-13.40 Lunch break
13.30-14.00 VISUALISING THE WAY FORWARD FOR CUTTING EMISSIONS IN TRANSPORT Seminar area 3
Innovative ways to cut transport emissions - hear about the research programme and projects of Cenex, the centre of excellence for low carbon and fuel cell technologies
Robert Evans, Chief Executive Officer, Cenex
13.40-14.10 LIGHTING-AS-A-SERVICE:THE BENEFITS OF DELIVERING POWERED LIGHT OVER THE IT NETWORK Big Debate Area
Presenting innovative applications of lighting as a service and the benefits such a solution brings
Gareth Macnaughton, Director, Innovation and Strategy, Cisco UK&I, Stephanie Gauthier, Smart Energy Research Associate, UCL Energy Institute 
13:40-14:05 DECC RHI ROADSHOW - Metering & the Renewable Heat Incentive Seminar area 2
Learning about metering solutions that measure the heat that RHI systems produce & deliver
Speaker from BRE
14.10-14.40 PERFORMANCE BENEFITS OF ENHANCED BUILDING PHOTO VOLTAICS Seminar area 3
Building Integrated Photo Voltaics can be enhanced through building integrated dedicated cooling and the benefits this brings.
Sreenivaasa R Pamidi Research Engineer, Exergy Ltd
14.15-14.40 ECO BEE AND THE GREEN BUILD HUB Seminar area 2
Ecobuilding and Energy Efficiency are finally becoming the accepted way to construct and how the Green Build Hub is the Living Laboratory where we will demonstrate that the really SMART buildings are also really SIMPLE.
Paul Bright, CEO, CSBT, SCL & Sw-ecoHUB
14.20-14.50 THE FUTURE CITY CATAPULT AS A GLOBAL INNOVATOR Big Debate Area
The Future Cities Catapult is a global centre of excellence on urban innovation. Understand how they are fostering a joined-up approach to the way cities plan & operate.
Scott Cain, Executive Director, Future Cities Catapult
14:50-15:15 DECC RHI ROADSHOW - How RHI will transform the way we heat Seminar area 2
Maximising the opportunities for generating and benefitting from renewable heat under the RHI
Panel Discussion with representatives from DECC, OFGEM, MCS, BRE
Thursday 14.50-15.20 CASE STUDY: THE LARGEST WATER SAVING PROJECT IN THE NHS Seminar 3
Hear how since 2009 Barts Health NHS Trust have worked with ADSM to deliver results that include improved skills to their workforce, savings of over 480 million litres of water, costs cut by £960,000 & 391 tonnes of CO2 saved over the 3 years of the project.
Sian McCart, ADSM, Fiona Daly, Environment Manager, Barts Health NHS Trust
15.00-15.30 PRACTICAL WAYS THAT CITY LEADERS CAN DEVELOP THEIR LOW CARBON ECONOMY Big Debate Area
Encouraging low carbon practices and ideas for implementing them through the tools cities have at their disposal already
Edward Clarke Analyst & joint author of ‘Low Carbon Cities’ report, Centre for Cities
15.25-15.50 CASE STUDY: ENERGY EFFICIENCY FOR COMMERCIAL LANDLORDS Seminar area 2
Understanding the benefits from installing energy efficiency measures in both new builds & retrofits and the use of smart metering. Particularly useful for property managers interested to hear 'why energy efficiency pays'.
Sean Twohig Group Environmental, H&S, Risk Manager, Jury’s Inn
15.30-16.00 THE FUTURE OF VENTILATION Seminar area 2
Hear Ventive’s vision that almost all the air we breathe, within the built environment, can be introduced comfortably without the need for further power, heating or cooling.
Tom Lipinski, Technical Director, Ventive
15.40-16.20 BIG DEBATE: THE BUILDING BLOCKS FOR CREATING AN ENVIRONMENTAL CAPITALBig Debate Area
Members of the Sustainable Cities Network will discuss the key stages & successes along the way to transforming their cities into being more sustainable & ‘smart’
Thurstan Crockett Head of Sustainability & Environmental Policy Brighton & Hove City Council, Rachel Huxley, Chief Executive at PECT Peterborough Environment City Trust, Alex Minshull, Sustainable City and Climate Change Manager at Bristol City Council
16.00-16.25 THE RHI AND BIO-ENERGY FOR HEATING – TIME TO INVEST? Seminar area 2
Bio-energy is a highly versatile renewable energy option, yet is surrounded by confusion. Hear a comprehensive assessment of bio-energy fuels and technologies, with real world case studies.
Stewart Boyle, Senior Associate, South East Wood Fuels
16.10-16.40 CASE STUDY: MAKING BUSINESS TRAVEL MORE SUSTAINABLE Seminar area 3
Learn how Skandia has been working with Sustrans to improve the sustainability of business travel through the ‘Commuter Challenge’ programme, and the benefits they have gained.
Antony Hoyle, Engineering Contracts Manager, Facilities management, Skandia UK
16.30-17.00 CASE STUDY: DISTRICT HEATING NETWORKS Big Debate Area
DECC has recently funded 26 feasibility studies into district Heating Networks across UK towns & cities, hear about the energy efficiency & financial benefits of district scale heat.
16.30-16.55 BUILDING THERMOGRAPHY Seminar area 2
Understanding the benefits of thermography for locating heat loss in commercial and residential buildings and hear how this approach has helped an RSL in the South East.
Mark Colyer, Director, Scantherm Surveys
This Spring saw the launch of the new Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), a Government financial incentive scheme that provides payments to encourage the installation of renewable heating technologies in homes.
To help people understand the benefits of the scheme, The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is conducting a series of roadshows up and down the country to inform people about the potential benefits of renewable heat and the RHI.
What’s more, with changes to the non-domestic RHI scheme, make sure you visit the DECC seminar area to access the very latest information about both schemes.
Cisco CREATE (Collaborative Research and Emerging Technologies) runs close-to-market industrial research and innovation projects for Cisco UK. From inception through to physical demonstrations in UK cities, Cisco CREATE accelerates innovation and ventures into the future of IT. Cisco CREATE takes an open ecosystem approach to innovation, collaborating with industry partners, start-ups, government, research institutions and universities. Working in areas such as energy, transport, healthcare, and local government, Cisco CREATE assists cities and city-regions to develop and formalise their own innovative strategies for sustainable growth. To find out more about Cisco CREATE, please visit www.ciscocreate.co.uk.
