Join South Bank Innovation and RDD Ventures Consulting, specialist consultant in Sustainability and Business growth, to build an action plan for your company to achieve Net Zero and make a real beneficial impact on Climate Change.

Please sign up to the first event to attend both days.

The events will offer a mix of foundation knowledge, interactive discussion, and practical workshops, using presentations, case studies, online facilitation tools and additional materials, which will become available after completion of the two sessions.

After these two events you will be able to:

• Use clear scientific data to assess the problem of Climate Change and analyse solutions to achieve Net Zero globally.
• Refer to best practices internationally, in the UK and in London.
• Identify the most viable and impactful actions your company can undertake to offer a beneficial contribution.
• Build a project plan of deliverables, milestones, and outcomes for your business to address Climate Change and move towards Net Zero.

Day One | Tuesday 24 May 2022

10:00: Welcome & Introduction to South Bank Innovation

10:10: Roundtable introductions and objectives

10:10: Think Global: The Big Picture of Climate Change and Net Zero

- The Data and science of GHG emissions and their impact on global climate

-Definitions of: GHG and Scope 1, 2, 3 emissions, Climate change, Net Zero, Carbon negative etc.

-Technology, business models, high impact sectors (energy, transport etc.) to achieve Net Zero

-Best practives in the UK and London across public and private sector

11:30: Comfort break

11:45: Act Local Part 1: Where do I start?

-Audit for Net Zero: toolkit to measure your carbon footprint, develop your reduction objectives, and design your strategy to get to Net Zero from 2023, to 2030 and 2050

- Discussion with Q&A

13:00: Wrap Up

Day Two | Wednesday 25 MAY 2022

10:00: Review of Day One

10:15 : Act Local Part 2: Maximising your impact

- Practical session to prioritise your high impact actions towards Net Zero

11:15: Comfort break

11:45: Act Local Part 3: Workshop - Strategy in motion

- Practical session to build your project plan towards Net Zero: actions, deliverables, and milestons

12:45: Wrap up & Close

Meet Your Facilitator

RDD Ventures Consulting is the advisory business set up and managed by Rosario Di Dio (he/him).

Rosario has over 25-year international track record in building and scaling new business models, launching cutting-edge technology to market, and driving revenue growth for corporates and start-ups.

After building his start-up and driving a 10X revenue growth in 3 years (1996-99), between 2000 and 2016, Rosario has worked with senior teams at corporate level. He has been responsible for leading strategy and execution in Sales and Marketing, coaching teams, and developing relationships with partners and customers at C-level.

More recently, Rosario has been focusing on sustainability and climate change, using his expertise to advise corporates on Open Innovation and deep tech start-ups on growth, supporting founders on market validation, sales, operations. and investment/fundraising.

Rosario is also the leader of the Tech London Advocates Circular Economy group, actively supporting the “Tech for Net Zero” campaign of the Global Tech Advocates.

About South Bank Innovation

South Bank Innovation delivers impactful support to London's business community.

We help businesses access innovation expertise, facilities and resources. Find out more at www.sbi.business. Our Sustainable Innovation programme helps cleantech and sustainability businesses to test and launch new-to-market and new-to-firm products.

Other funders of this event include:

• European Regional Development Fund
• Greater London Authority
• London South Bank University

South Bank Innovation is a subsidiary of London South Bank University.

Eligibility criteria apply to this event. If you are not an existing member of the Sustainable Innovation programme signing up for this event will be considered as an expression of interest for this (or the appropriate) programme. Places will only be guaranteed for Sustainable Innovation members within their 12 hours of support limit.