How Physical AI Transforms Your Triple Bottom Line

The Carbon Trust is joining forces with the CleanAI Initiative – a global platform converging AI and the clean economy transition – to host an invite-only breakfast panel and networking event on the morning of Thursday June 4th, 2026.

More than just generative AI, ‘cleanAI’ solutions apply AI to the physical markets that form the backbone of the global economy and the planet's future — Energy, Food & Agriculture, ICT, Metals & Mining, and Manufacturing. These industries are at an inflection point, with AI creating new opportunities for economic prosperity and environmental sustainability at a scale that would not otherwise be possible.
Companies that understand and harness these solutions are unlocking new business models, partnerships, and impact across their triple bottom line.
Yet the AI landscape remains difficult to navigate. Undisciplined adoption creates problems and fails to deliver intended benefits, while AI innovators often struggle to engage effectively with the corporates best placed to deploy their solutions — leading to missed opportunities on both sides.
Join senior peers for a dialogue bringing together corporates, investors, ventures, and the AI ecosystem to explore:
· What is ‘cleanAI’ and how is it driving change in your sector?
· What is the innovation and investment outlook across sectors?
· What are the drivers and risks to adoption of cleanAI solutions?

Agenda
8:30am: Arrival, coffee and light breakfast
9:00am:
Opening insights: Yvo De Boer, Chair of the Board, The Carbon Trust
Keynote – State of cleanAI: Nicholas Parker, Founder, CleanAI Initiative
Panel discussion and audience Q&A:Ambarish Mitra – Co-founder, Greyparrot
Uday Khemka - Vice-Chairman, The SUN GroupWren White - Head of AI Enablement, Octopus Energy Group
Adam Elman - Sustainability Director, Google
10:00am: Closing and networking
11:00am: End of event

Confirmed Speakers
Yvo De Boer - Chair of the Board at the Carbon Trust

Yvo most recently served as President and Board Chair of the Gold Standard Foundation, where he oversaw efforts to drive high integrity climate action and accelerate progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals. He also acted as a strategic advisor to the International Solar Alliance, supporting global resource mobilisation and engagement efforts, and has advised numerous international development agencies on strategic positioning and organisational readiness. Earlier in his career, Yvo served as Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), where he played a pivotal role in elevating climate change on the global political agenda and advancing the financial frameworks necessary for international climate action.

Nicholas Parker – Founder, CleanAI Initiative

Nicholas is a sustainable innovation visionary and pioneer with over 40 years of global accomplishment and experience, best known as the father of “cleantech” and founder of the Cleantech Group. Nicholas advises, supports and creates ventures, asset-based platforms and social enterprises that address vital socio-ecological challenges, particularly the climate crisis. His focus is on achieving “exponential impact” by combining cleantech with other innovations, such as AI, and evolving, impact-oriented business models, to solve urgent, large-scale problems.

Ambarish Mitra - Co-founder, Greyparrot

Ambarish Mitra is a serial entrepreneur and tech innovator who has spent his career turning radical ideas into world-changing companies, from co-founding Blippar, one of the U.K.'s first tech unicorns, to launching Greyparrot in 2019, now the global leader in AI waste analytics and a TIME Best Invention of 2025. At Greyparrot, he is tackling one of the most data-poor industries on the planet, deploying AI and computer vision to make the world's waste streams visible for the first time, empowering businesses, policymakers and recyclers to make the data-driven decisions that will power the circular economy.

Uday Khemka - Vice-Chairman, The SUN Group

Uday Khemka is the Vice-Chairman of the SUN Group (diversified, including renewable energy and electric mobility) and The Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation (oldest Indian foundation focused on climate change mitigation since 1992). He co-chaired the Clean Energy Finance Forum established by P.M. Modi and President Obama to catalyse investment towards India's clean energy targets. Key long-term focus is institutional climate finance, renewable energy, and electric mobility. Uday is also on the Advisory Board of The Climate Group, Oxford Martin Smith School, and other sustainability institutions.

Wren White - Head of AI Enablement, Octopus Energy Group

Wren White is Head of AI Enablement at Octopus Energy, where she leads the company's AI transformation agenda. Leading forward-deployed software engineers embedding AI capabilities across product, and a transformation team driving AI-first ways of working across the business. Her mandate spans tooling, enablement, and reimagining how Octopus delivers value to customers and supports innovation. Before this role, Wren led Residential Flex at Kraken Technologies, Octopus Energy's technology arm, where she built and scaled virtual power plant operations — orchestrating EVs, heat pumps, solar, and batteries to deliver demand-side flexibility at scale. Prior to joining the Octopus Energy Group, Wren was the Director and Global Head of Operations at VanMoof, overseeing multiple global operational departments. Wren also held several key roles at Bird and Tesla, where she drove growth in the Energy Products division and managed operations across multiple teams.

Adam Elman - Sustainability Director, Google

Adam is the Head of Sustainability for Google Europe, Middle East, and Africa. He works at the intersection of the physical, digital, and natural worlds. He coordinates with Google's real-world and digital infrastructure teams, from real estate and supply chains to data centers and products, to ensure that the company is taking advantage of opportunities to strategically advance sustainability. He has over 17 years of experience in sustainability, including at Amazon, where he was responsible for sustainability in Europe, and Marks & Spencer, where he led the delivery of their groundbreaking sustainability program, Plan A. In 2023, he was named one of the UK's top 100 environmental professionals and among the top 50 sustainability thought leaders and influencers globally.

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