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 at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Patrick Allcorn has a remit for supporting local energy and climate change projects. Since the Clean Growth strategy was announced in 2017, his team has set up the Local Energy Programme for England which has created local energy hubs, and energy strategies for every LEP and re-opened and devolved the Rural Community Energy Fund.

Prior to that, he led the development and delivery of the Domestic RHI and was responsible for developing community energy. He set up the LEAF project in 2012, which enabled over 400 communities to organise local energy schemes.