Innovation Spotlight

Professor Sid Pourfalah, founder and CEO at Concrete4Change reflects on carbon capture innovation, recruitment challenges, and the realities of navigating a 'conservative' sector

Gunnlaugur Erlendsson, CEO at ENSO Tyres, reflects on partnering with Uber, how EVs use tyres differently to petrol cars, and helping Prince William fit a tyre

Chirrup.ai founder Conrad Young discusses the firm's work with farms, food processors, and land managers, and its potential international expansion beyond Europe

Firefly Green Fuels' CEO James Hygate reflects on royal support, the importance of stable policy for first of a kind projects, and building the company's first commercial-scale plant

Iceotope's Francesca Cain-Watson discusses advances in ultra-efficient data centre cooling, and why it's not enough to solve a problem, you have to make people care about it

Charlie Metcalfe, founder and COO of Halcyon, discusses the challenges of adapting a modern EV platform to fit 'tight, irregular' 1970s chassis and the need for clear roadmap to drive EV uptake

Sparxell's founder and CEO reflects how the industrial colour sector could eliminate toxic dyes and mined metals and minerals

Zenobē co-founder James Basden explains how the largest electric bus operator in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand never intended to have an EV fleet business

Seafields CEO and co-founder, John Auckland, opens up about attracting support from Coldplay, lessons he has learned from open-ocean carbon removal, and the importance of regional partnerships in achieving scale

Ilika CEO Graeme Purdy discusses the firm's 'asset-light' business model and developing solutions that are not just clever but also 'intensely practical and impactful'