Exploring breakthrough energy innovations

Date: 08.03.2013 11:00 - 13:00

Location: Nesta, 1 Plough Place, London, EC4A 1DE

• Can prize based challenges solve some of the most pressing energy related problems people face today?
• Can challenges link poor communities with global innovation leaders?

Did you know that... two out of 10 people in the world do not having access to energy? That four out of 10 people use wood, charcoal, coal and dung for cooking and heating?  Every year smoke from open cooking fires kills approximately 1.5 million people, mostly women and children, from emphysema and other respiratory diseases.

After partnering on a Renewable Energy Challenge Prize, Nesta and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) held this event to explore breakthrough energy innovations and the role of challenges to spur innovative solutions to these dire challenges.

Speakers:

• Geoff Mulgan, Nesta CEO   
• Sarah Butler-Sloss founder of Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy
• Vicki Purewal, Head of Challenge Prize Design at Nesta's Center for Challenge Prize
• Wanda Halbert, Marketing Manager, Azuri Technologies
• Huw Bement, Sales Director, Firefly
• Lucy Conway - Eiggbox  
• Yuri Afanasiev, UN Ambassador for Bosnia and Herzegovina