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Designed for busy professionals, our 30-minute webinars deliver actionable insights from international infrastructure and energy experts. Covering transport, social infrastructure, utilities, and energy assets, each virtual meeting ends with an interactive Q&A where you can engage directly with the experts and other delegates.
S3, EP 2
AI’s Dual Promise – Accelerating the Energy Transition
AI is advancing faster than any technology in history, reshaping industries and redefining possibilities. But when it comes to climate outcomes, is AI a catalyst for clean energy or a challenge to progress?
Explore how your organisation can harness AI to advance sustainability goals, mitigate risks, and turn climate responsibility into competitive advantage. Designed for business leaders, technology firms, energy producers and consumers, investors, governments and policymakers seeking actionable insights in a rapidly evolving landscape.
Discussion points:
- AI’s expanding climate handprint: Discuss how organisations can balance AI’s energy appetite with its climate handprint
- AI powering clean energy transition: Examine how AI is accelerating the adoption for renewables, modernising grids and optimising energy systems across sectors. Highlight real-world examples of AI-driven efficiency
- Barriers to acceleration: Closing the AI-energy transition execution gap. Dive into the main obstacles: infrastructure limitations, policy delays, financing and timeline challenges and the commitment gap
- Turning barriers into advantage: Discuss how hyperscalers, utilities, developers, investors, and governments each play a unique role in advancing AI and sustainability. Share actionable insights on how organisations can accelerate clean power, avoid gridlock, and keep AI growth on a sustainable trajectory
Our expert panel:
- Anish De, Global Head of Energy, Natural Resources and Chemicals, KPMG International
- Maarten Barthel, Business Development Lead Industry & Data Centres, Novar
- Matt Kennedy, Global Head of Client Transformation, IDA Ireland
- Sam Mathew, Industry Lead, UK Energy & Resources, Microsoft
S3, EP 1
2026 Infrastructure Investment Outlook
On-demand webinar
Infrastructure investment continues to exhibit stable performance and resilience amidst ongoing disruptions driven by trade frictions and AI-driven advancements. It is also playing an increasingly vital role in an era of accelerated electrification and escalating data demand.
Join our expert panel as they delve into the return outlook, emerging investment opportunities, and crucial considerations for private infrastructure investment in 2026.
Discussion points:
- Global and Regional Return Outlook: What are the projected returns and market dynamics for infrastructure globally and across different regions?
- Power-Data Nexus: How is the evolving interplay between power generation and data consumption reshaping investor portfolios?
- Accretive Opportunities: Which specific infrastructure segments are poised for the most significant growth opportunities, and what are the underlying drivers?
- Navigating Uncertainty: What are the implications of the unpredictable pace of technological innovation, policy shifts, and evolving regional power mix on investment strategies?
Our expert panel:
- Tania Tsoneva, CBRE Investment Management
- Richard Marshall, DWS
- Gianluca Minella, InfraRed
- Jaimala Patel, QIC
S2, EP 9
Carbon Capture & Storage: Technology, Capital, and Government Action
On-demand webinar
As governments and industries race toward net zero, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is emerging as a cornerstone of the global decarbonisation strategy. But can the infrastructure keep pace with ambition? Join us for a 30-minute panel discussion exploring the evolving CCS landscapes in both the UK and Australia, the policy frameworks shaping investment, and the financial models needed to scale.
Our panel of industry experts share UK and Australian perspectives as they unpack the key challenges and opportunities in financing the infrastructure of tomorrow.
Discussion points:
- Financing and bankability of CCS: attracting capital across the value chain, balancing subsidies and market-based mechanisms, and structuring bankable revenue and risk-allocation models.
- Viability and scalability of CCS technologies: assessing technical and commercial performance at scale, including lessons from existing projects and deployment challenges.
- Policy, markets, and international perspectives: the role of government frameworks, potential for CCS trade, and insights from the UK and Australian CCS pathways.
Our expert panel:
- Elliot Slocombe, Head of Project & Export Finance, Europe, ANZ
- Nick Easingwood, Head of New Energy, Corporate Finance, ANZ
- Anne Beresford, Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
- Yvonne Lam, Partner, Rystad Energy
- Anne Rodriguez, Structured Finance Advisor, Equinor
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Next in Infrastructure
Expand your knowledge and explore emerging areas of infrastructure, including AI, innovative funding strategies, and cutting-edge financial modelling, all guided by industry experts. Each webinar combines practical toolkits, educational updates, and real-world insights to help you learn something new and apply it beyond your day-to-day work.
Supported by IPFA Learning
S2, EP 3
Sustainable Data Centres: Energy and Water Efficiency
On-demand webinar
As the demand for digital services surges, the data centre industry faces a defining challenge – how to power the digital world sustainably. Join us for a forward-looking discussion on innovative approaches shaping the next generation of data centres.
Discover how sustainability has evolved from a choice to a strategic imperative, driving innovation, resilience, and positive local impact. Explore how designers and operators are balancing performance, cost, and environmental goals to build data centres that are not only smarter, but greener.
Discussion points:
- Balance between energy efficiency and water management
- Advance cooling technologies and hybrid solutions
- Carbon footprint reduction
- Social & community positive impact
Our expert panel:
- David Llamas, Sustainability & ESG Services Director. Spain & Portugal, WSP
- Jorge Peças, Critical Environment Manager, Data4
- Rebeca Guerra, Sustainability Innovation Lead, CoE for Sustainability and Energy, Ferrovial
S2, EP 2
Data Centres: Evolving Funding Strategies
On-demand webinar
As demand for data centres surges-driven by hyperscaler growth, AI and high-performance computing workloads and expansion into new geographies – developers, investors, and lenders are rethinking how to finance this critical infrastructure to support fast, scalable and sustainable growth.
This webinar features leading voices from across the digital infrastructure ecosystem. Hear directly from data centre operators, investors, lenders, and legal advisors as they share how financing strategies are evolving to meet the sector’s accelerating and increasingly complex capital needs.
We explore the latest shifts in debt and equity financing, the move from single-asset projects to portfolio-level funding structures, new legal and risk allocation frameworks, and strategies for future-proof capital planning. From managing AI/HPC-driven capital expenditures to enabling cross-border growth and navigating exit strategy considerations, this session offers practical insights into how the next wave of data centres will be funded – at scale and at speed.
Discussion points:
- Demand-driven growth and risk management: How market participants are responding to hyperscaler and AI/HPC-led expansion in Europe, while managing the implications for capital strategy, financing structures, and regulatory, execution, and oversupply risks.
- Debt financing trends and structures: The impact of higher interest rates and tighter credit on data centre financings, alongside evolving debt structures, risk allocation, and leverage strategies across banks and sponsors.
- Legal, regulatory, and structural complexity: The evolution of legal frameworks and documentation to support cross-border and portfolio growth, including covenant, security, ESG, governance, and compliance considerations.
- Future-proofing capital and value creation: How developers, sponsors, and investors are maintaining financing agility, leveraging alternative and capital markets solutions, and positioning for long-term bankability, value creation, and exits.
Our expert panel:
- Mike Niekoop, Counsel, Clifford Chance (Moderator)
- Timo Buijs, Senior Director Project & Infrastructure Finance, ABN AMRO Bank N.V
- Matt Dunn, Partner, Clifford Chance
- Sébastien Kammerman, Director Financing, Infravia Capital
- Barry Power, Corporate Finance Director, VIRTUS Data Centres
- Natalie West, SVP, General Counsel, AtlasEdge Data Centres
S2, EP 1
Platform Investments: Perspectives on Valuation and Modelling
On-demand webinar
As the energy landscape undergoes a radical transformation, investors are seizing the opportunity to tap into more diverse revenue streams at both project and platform levels.
We delve into the recent shift from traditional project-level investments to sophisticated platform-level ventures, exploring how investors seek to capitalise on new technologies and growth opportunities in the energy transition. With developers venturing into multiple elements, such as O&M and manufacturing of components, they present an attractive option for investors looking to diversify.
Our esteemed panel of industry experts dissects the complexities and challenges associated with valuing and modelling these platforms, unveiling invaluable insights into development milestones, sum-of-the-parts valuation methodologies, investor sentiment, and sector-specific trends.
Discussion points:
- Attractiveness of different types of platform compared to single assets
- How to value a diversified development pipeline (milestones; probabilities; success factors etc.)
- Regularity and granularity of model assumption updates and benchmarks
- How to ascribe value to a platform premium or unidentified pipeline
- Current market appetite and impact of trump administration on platform valuations and modelling
- How to consider top-level platform value alongside a sum-of-the-parts valuation
- Value creation strategies for a platform and approaches to exit valuations
Our expert panel:
- Tristan Rawcliffe, Valuations Manager, Grant Thornton
- Dominique Lim, Senior Portfolio Manager & Co-Product Head, Retail Funds, Octopus Energy Generation
- Jemma Sherman, Director, Portfolio Management, Foresight Group
- Callum White, Portfolio Manager, Sustainable Development Capital (SDCL)
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