Having started her career writing about technology, Hannah now specialises in enterprise and is currently working on the launch of a new digital channel for small and medium sized businesses at The Times and The Sunday Times. She is the former business editor at Bridge Studio, News UK’s commercial content arm, and regularly hosts events including a series of entrepreneur breakfast panel discussions. Hannah is a regular contributor to Times Radio. She has twice hosted the prestigious Times CEO Summit.

Captain David Morgan is Director of Flight Operations for easyJet, where he and his team are responsible for the safe, efficient and sustainable operation of the airline’s flights across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East in an increasingly complex and challenging environment. David is also leading easyJet’s work to support the development of promising new technologies for zero-emission aircraft including hydrogen-electric and hydrogen propulsion technologies. This includes partnerships with aerospace companies such as Airbus on a joint research project on electric, hybrid-electric and hydrogen aircraft and US start-up Wright Electric which is working on a zero-emission passenger jet.

Previously David has worked as Chief Flight Operations Officer at Wizz Air and also held the positions of Chief Pilot and Fleet Captain during his time at the airline. He began his work in aviation in the armed forces of the United Kingdom and Australia and his career has taken him around the world including five years as a management pilot at the iconic Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia and five years for BAE Systems in Saudi Arabia. David is also a graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

Mary joined Porterbrook in 2017 and has over 24 years’ experience working in the UK and international transport sector. Previous roles include leading Eurostar’s New Fleet Introduction and Business Change Programme, Managing Director New Business Development at National Express, Divisional Managing Director, Bus and Rail at FirstGroup and Managing Director ScotRail. She has a proven track record of improving operational performance and delivering financial success as well as driving positive culture change within organisations.Mary is a Board member of the Rail Industry Association (RIA) and the National Skills Academy for Rail.

Prior to joining Britishvolt, Hoare was Chairman of Ford of Britain and also Executive Director for Business Transformation. In these positions he was responsible for leading the restructuring of Ford’s operations in the UK. He previously held a number of other senior engineering positions at Ford in North America and the UK, and also with Land Rover and the BMW Group in Germany.

Graham has been an active member of the highly influential UK Automotive Council for over a decade, where he is currently chair. This is a huge positive for Britishvolt as the company continues to embed its visionary business model with both UK and global OEMs.

Graham is a Mechanical Engineer, with master's degree in Engineering Business Management from the University of Warwick, and an Engineering Doctorate from University of Bath.

Isabel Dedring is the Global Transport Leader at Arup where she is responsible for driving the development of the firm’s business across the transport sector. In this capacity, amongst other things, she is responsible for driving the adoption of big data and new analytical techniques working with a wide range of Arup’s transport clients and partners.

Isabel joined Arup in March 2016 from London's City Hall, where she was Deputy Mayor for Transport and Deputy Chair of Transport for London. In this capacity she was responsible for setting policy and ensuring delivery across the Mayor’s transport portfolio. Key projects she initiated and delivered included the Tube Reliability Programme which led to a 40% reduction in Tube delays; the £300m Growth Fund to fund transport infrastructure to unlock new house building; the Mayor’s new £1b cycling infrastructure programme; and London's first-ever roads strategy and the associated £4b implementation programme.

Prior to her transport role, Isabel was the Mayor's Environment Advisor, responsible for delivering large-scale building retrofit programmes, parks and trees programmes and the £100m London Green Fund, among other initiatives.

Andrew has worked in the banking industry for 35 years. His experience spans many sectors but he has specialised in the Food & Drink arena over the last 10 years. He joined Santander Corporate & Commercial 7 years ago and currently leads the food and drink sector across the UK.

He is responsible for developing a sector specific proposition for UK manufacturers in order to assist businesses with their growth ambitions in the UK and Internationally. In addition, to drive National initiatives, Andrew works closely with manufacturing companies, Santander Regional teams, Trade organisations and Government departments.

His aim is to see Santander continue to develop and build strong relationships within the sector, supporting companies with their individual strategies.

Saasha Celestial-One is Co-Founder & COO of OLIO, a free app harnessing the power of mobile technology and the sharing economy to provide a revolutionary solution to the problem of food waste. OLIO is growing quickly, empowered by 60k+ volunteers. Since 2016, 5m+ OLIOers have shared over 30m portions of food in 59 countries. Before OLIO, Saasha founded London’s first pay-as-you-go high street childcare provider, and prior to that she spent 13yrs at Morgan Stanley, McKinsey & American Express. Saasha was named one of the UK’s “Coolest Female Founders” by Business Insider, has an MBA from Stanford, is mum to 9-year-old Nolan, and is the proud daughter of hippy entrepreneurs.

Max Jamilly is the Co-Founder of Hoxton Farms. Based in London, Hoxton Farms grow cultivated fat as an ingredient for the meat alternatives industry. Max has a decade’s experience in life sciences, with a PhD from Oxford in synthetic biology and two degrees from Cambridge in biotechnology and business. Before co-founding Hoxton Farms, he worked in biotech VC and consulted for deep tech, consumer healthcare and future food startups in the UK, Europe and the US.

Lucy Siegle is a UK based journalist and broadcaster and opinion leader who specialises in climate and nature coverage for a broad and non specialist audience. She is passionate about taking climate and nature stories outside of the climate bubble. As a reporter and presenter on one of the UK’s most longstanding and most watched TV shows, BBC1’s The One Show, she has taken the problem of single use plastic and wider eco issues to millions of homes in a way that is relatable and relevant. Her book, Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (and you) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again was published in 2018. Lucy’s classic book on sustainability in fashion To Die For: Is Fashion Wearing out the World , published by Fourth Estate London, a decade ago, is still the basis of fashion education courses around the world and was the basis for hit Netflix documentary, The True Cost, (she is co-executive producer).

Lucy’s approach to environmental storytelling is well known for pushing boundaries. She combines investigative pieces taking on entire industries including recent the Energy from Waste sector (Dispatches Chanel 4 The Dirty Truth About Recycling) with innovative, and sometimes commercial formats – she co-founded the Green Carpet Challenge with Livia Firth in 2014 to raise the profile of a sustainable way of making fashion and has worked with some of the biggest names in fashion and entertainment. ‘As soon as the problem becomes apparent, it’s time to start designing a solution using Earth Logic that will get the biggest audience on your side,’ she says, ‘I’m not too purist about what that should look like and often entertainment is a brilliant driver of change’.

During COP26 Lucy will undertake her own net zero challenge on Instagram #Siegle2Zero. She lives next to the river Thames, from which she collects plastic daily from her kayak. She is a trustee for the environmental NGO, Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) and an ambassador for The Circle, the women’s rights NGO founded by Annie Lennox 10 years ago. She is co-host of a podcast series, So Hot Right Now, that launched in 2020 with Sony Music.

Rhoda Trimingham is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Design and Creative Arts at Loughborough University. She is currently a co-investigator on the Perpetual Plastic for Food to Go (PPFTG) project, which aims to find solutions to existing issues with plastic packaging, reduce plastic waste and pollution, and unlock barriers to create fundamental changes within UK industry. Taking a design-led approach, this project will develop, prototype, and evaluate a novel circular business model that combines smart-technology enabled products and services to reduce the environmental, societal, and economic impact of food to go packaging. Trimingham has widely investigated sustainable packaging through collaborative research projects, including a DEFRA funded Refillable Packaging Systems project and Co2ncept, an EPSRC funded project that developed carbon footprint methods for packaging designers. She is recipient of two Innovation Fellowships which continued the work done on the Refillable Packaging Systems.

Richard graduated in geography, qualified as a chartered surveyor and developed his own property businesses, Bywater Properties, in Poland and the UK. In 2012 he joined Iceland Foods (the company founded by his parents Malcolm and Rhianydd in 1970). He spent a year as a shelf-stacker and cashier before becoming an Iceland store manager and then moving to head office, where he took up his current role in 2018. Richard is a committed environmentalist who has led all Iceland’s recent sustainability initiatives including the removal of palm oil from the company’s own label range in 2018, its pledge to eliminate plastic packaging from the Iceland own label range by the end of 2023, and the publication of the full plastic footprint of the business. Under his leadership, Iceland has reported a drop in carbon emissions by 74% since 2011, and a reduction in food waste by 23% in the last two years.

Bywater Properties are building the UK’s first carbon neutral office development in London, using wood instead of steel and cement. He is an Honorary Fellow of University College London, a trustee of the Iceland Foods Charitable Foundation and of the conservation groups Fauna & Flora International and Surfers Against Sewage, an Ambassador to the Wildlife Trusts, Patron of the Cheshire Wildlife Trust, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a member of DEFRA’s Council for Sustainable Business, Chairman of Surfers Against Sewage and a regular panellist on BBC1’s Question Time. Outside family and business, Richard’s greatest passions are trail running, skiing, surfing and climbing. His book, The Green Grocer, was published by Dorking Kindersley in April 2021.

Emma joined the Food and Drink Federation in October 2019 and has led on developing and now delivering the sectors Roadmap to Net Zero.  Emma spends time working with stakeholders across the farm-to-fork supply chain and with other industrial sectors, to help food and drink manufacturing in the decarbonisation challenges ahead.  Building upon the momentum created by the UK hosting COP26, Emma is focused on industry alliances to tackle the shared challenges and align on industry led solutions.  Before joining FDF, Emma held a number of policy and regulation roles with RWE AG, RWE Npower Cogen, Elexon, Sustainable Energy Association, First Utility (now Shell Energy) and National Grid Gas.