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Registration, Breakfast & NetworkingMain Gallery35 mins
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Highwalk Forum10 mins
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Highwalk Forum30 mins
Environment Analyst will reveal the latest insights on the UK environmental and sustainability (E&S) consulting sector. After rapid growth in recent years, fuelled by the net zero agenda and post-Covid demand, we will explore how the market is evolving today.
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Highwalk Forum20 mins
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Highwalk Forum35 mins
This plenary panel will explore the shifting landscape of global sustainability policy, including the impact of the recent changes in U.S. policy, particularly its move away from ambitious energy transition goals and its implications for the global climate agenda.
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Morning Refreshments & NetworkingMain Gallery30 mins
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Highwalk Forum55 minsLeading with a ten-minute presentation from Mark Fenton, Sizewell C on the future of nuclear energy as part of the clean energy mix, this panel will then discuss the roadmap to a resilient future energy mix, including the Great Grid Upgrade and leveraging technology to scale clean energy solutions.
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Bon Hub55 minsThe session will focus on its goals for modernising the water sector and enhancing sustainability in an ageing water infrastructure.
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Highwalk Forum55 mins
Addressing the challenges of quantifying the return on investment and long-term benefits of nature-based solutions, including innovative metrics and evaluation approaches and identifying the barriers to mainstream adoption.
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Bon Hub55 mins
Embedding economic, social and biodiversity considerations into land-use and transport infrastructure planning to holistically shape towns and communities, leveraging innovative technologies and the latest advancements in public transport infrastructure.
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Networking LunchMain Gallery60 mins
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Plenary Panel: Effective Cross-Sector Collaboration to Achieve Resilient, Sustainable InfrastructureHighwalk Forum55 mins
As the world faces increasing environmental challenges, the future of infrastructure lies in cross-sector collaboration at every stage of development. This panel will explore how consultants, contractors, public agencies, and private stakeholders can collaborate effectively to design, plan and deliver resilient infrastructure.
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Highwalk Forum45 mins
This session is an opportunity to break out into small groups to discuss challenges and explore best practices and innovative strategies relevant to each subject area. Attendees choose one topic discussion to participate in.
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Conservatory Studio45 minsUK government is trying to speed up the consenting process, both through policy changes and seeking to make all areas of government more digital. We will explore what digital means for consenting and showcase some of the technology that is helping to make digital consenting a reality.
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Afternoon Refreshments & NetworkingMain Gallery30 mins
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Highwalk Forum45 mins
This session explores how AI and other forces will reshape workforce needs in the sector, examining future skills requirements, aligning education and training, and ensuring professionals remain engaged throughout their careers.
Chaired by WSP
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Bon Hub45 minsOutlining what makes a project “attractive” to investors and lenders and proving the RoI for long-term, complex projects and NbS, evaluating how the language around sustainable investing is changing and the implications of this and more.
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Panel: Greening Heavy Industry: Achieving Decarbonisation Goals Through Innovation and CollaborationHighwalk Forum45 mins
Exploring the key sustainability challenges facing heavy industries like steel, cement, and chemicals and leveraging supply chain collaboration and cross-sector partnerships to drive decarbonisation and reduce scope 3 emissions.
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Highwalk Forum5 mins
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Drinks ReceptionMain Gallery55 mins