Dr Sophie Carr

Winner of "The World's Most Interesting Mathematician 2019", founder of Bay's Consulting, and Vice President of the Royal Statistical Society for Education and Statistical Literacy, Dr Sophie Carr has had an illustrious career which saw her first train and work as an aeronautical engineer before turning her hand to mathematics. She has used her mathematical and engineering training to solve countless complex data science projects, including developing predictive algorithms to forecast food sales, predicting the need for foodbank usage, and the risk of cold, mould and damp in homes without the need for sensors.

Patrick Allcorn

Head of Local Net Zero Demonstration and delivery at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Patrick Allcorn has a remit for supporting local energy and climate change projects at community and local government level. The team run 4 programmes supporting the 2 sectors, including a net-zero accelerator programme which looks at place based approaches to net zero. He leads the work UKRI and EU are doing on place-based approaches and looks at how innovation can drive more effective blended finance and better solutions.

Prior to that, he led the development and delivery of the Domestic RHI and before being a civil servant worked as a journalist, teacher, and consultant and led TfL work on behaviour change in transport.