Net Zero Futures Conference 2024 – Exhibitors
Engage and network with exhibitors at the Net Zero Futures Conference 2024 between sessions, and learn more about what they offer and how they can support you!
UKCRIC
UKCRIC engages stakeholders to better understand and address complex infrastructure challenges through collaborative research – providing the transdisciplinary, systems-based research for the transformation of infrastructure and urban systems, enabling safe, resilient and sustainable living, and generating economic opportunities for the UK.
UKCRIC’s integrated research capability underpins the renewal, sustainment and improvement of infrastructure and cities in the UK and elsewhere. By engaging government, industry, academia and end users, UKCRIC is de-risking, helping to prioritise, and providing evidence, analysis and innovation for future national infrastructure and urban investments to deliver a safer, more resilient and more sustainable future.
Energy Research Accelerator
The Energy Research Accelerator (ERA) is an energy sector respected and long established partnership of eight research intensive universities in the Midlands Innovation group (Aston, Birmingham, Cranfield, Keele, Leicester, Loughborough, Nottingham, Warwick) and the British Geological Survey.
ERA is actively involved in developing energy policy and supporting wider energy initiatives in the Midlands, working closely with organisations such as the Midlands Engine.
HyDEX
HyDEX is designed to address a market failure and challenge: How do you rapidly build a new business, industrial and manufacturing sector when very little exists already?
HyDEX is supporting and fostering the creation of a new hydrogen industrial economy in the Midlands – working with SMEs, established Midlands-based and UK commercial partners, and multinationals to accelerate innovation, build markets and support the required skills transition.
A three-year programme with eight university all associated with the Midlands-based Energy Research Accelerator, ERA, will make available their hydrogen facilities, research capability and expertise, and large-scale hydrogen demonstrators that they have developed.
Heuristic Games
The Heuristic Games team have designed and run training games for over 20 years,
engaging business, government and academic audiences in unique learning experiences. These games are ideal for team building event with a purpose, training new staff, creating a safe environment for learning about new situations, providing proving ground for strategy and developing softer skills.
Green Future Investment Fund
The GFIL Fund provides a range of grant and investment funding to innovators that are developing solutions to global environmental challenges. In addition to this funding, Cranfield will also provide innovators with a range of technical and business support including mentoring, technical assistance from academics and technician staff, business coaching, and providing access to their laboratory and near industrial-scale test facilities.
Vitae
Vitae is the global leader in supporting the professional development of researchers, experienced in working with institutions as they strive for research excellence, innovation and impact.
They are a non-profit programme, part of the Careers Research & Advisory Centre (CRAC) Ltd, with over 50 years’ experience of enhancing the skills of researchers – strengthening their members’ institutional provision for the professional development of researchers through research and innovation, training and resources, events, consultancy and membership.
The Leaky Pipeline
The concept of the “academic leaky pipeline” refers to the phenomenon where women and underrepresented minorities are progressively lost at various stages of the academic career path, leading to underrepresentation at higher levels. Through their EPSRC EDI+ fellowships, Dr Katy McKenzie and Dr Lennie Foster aim to raise awareness of the barriers and challenges at key transitional points of the academic career pathway. Come and visit them to share your lived experience so that together we can help create more equitable mechanisms for HEIs to increase the number and diversity of students and postdocs choosing the academic energy field as a career pathway.
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