Exhibitors

Energyz Black, founded in 2024, is a non-profit empowering black talents in the UK Energy and Sustainability sector through community building, mentorship, and skills development to drive representation and professional growth. 

Passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), Men for Inclusion
revolutionises workplace cultures. Men for Inclusion’s proven ADUCE model engages men, leaders, and culture carriers for tangiblebusiness benefits.

Going beyond diversity metrics, Men for Inclusion measures and works to close the lived experience gapto ensure true cultural transformation. The DEI experts have worked with executive leadership teams tohelp define DEI as a strategic change programme, positively impacting thousands of employees.

Established in 2021 by Mark Freed and Gary Ford, Men for Inclusion emerged from frustration with slowprogress on inclusion across all industries. The mission: to empower men in majority groups to championinclusion for social and economic benefits. We’re expediting enduring change by engaging more men inadvocating for diversity and inclusion.

Murray McIntosh are a specialist Policy and Public Affairs recruitment consultancy. We work extensively across Trade/ Membership Bodies, as well with as organisations in Industry, Government Agencies, Charities and Academia. For several years, the strategic priorities of the energy industry have been an increasingly high-profile topic to policymakers and this space has been a key area of focus; our experience and network have provided rounded insight into the existing initiatives as well as historic and current challenges.

Our consultants are committed to levelling the playing field and providing opportunities for every candidate to access and excel in the recruitment process. Our tools and practices are the difference between pledging to support EDI initiatives, and taking tangible actions to make them a reality.

POWERful Women is a professional initiative working for a gender-balanced, diverse and inclusive energy sector. Our goal is for women to be in at least 40% of middle management and leadership roles in the UK energy sector by 2030. We do this in three ways: challenge the sector and energy leaders (for example, publishing annual board statistics and engaging with the Energy Leaders’ Coalition), support the professional development of women (for example, through our mentoring programme,) and provide practical support to companies to improve their diversity and inclusion and connect through events and networking.

Visit www.powerfulwomen.org.uk for more information.

The industry’s Pride in Energy network is a diversity forum and network for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+) members of the energy industry and their allies.

The Pride in Energy network was created in response to a need for an organisation to address LGBTQ+ issues in the energy industry.

The Royal Academy of Engineering creates and leads a community of outstanding experts and innovators dedicated to engineering better lives with the vision of placing engineering and technology in the service of society.

• As a charity, we deliver public benefit from engineering excellence and technology innovation. 
• As a national academy, we provide progressive leadership for engineering and technology, and independent expert advice to government in the UK and beyond. 
• As a Fellowship, we bring together an unrivalled community of leading business people, entrepreneurs, innovators and academics from every part of engineering and technology. 

In everything we do, we are guided by our five values: progressive leadership; equity, diversity and inclusion; excellence for impact; collaboration first and creativity and innovation.

TIDE Taskforce is an industry-wide initiative to improve inclusion and diversity across the energy sector, supported by Energy UK, ENA, the Energy Institute and Ofgem. 

Its aim is to combine cross-sector EDI insights and evidence to inform robust outcomes, building on experience and expertise to share best practice and support industry-wide changes.  

Follow TIDE on LinkedIn for the latest news and events 

After an open application process, over 40 people are now involved across various working and delivery groups​. A key principle that will be maintained as activity progresses, is that the Taskforce will leverage existing activity and resources to supercharge EDI improvements across the sector, not duplicate. 

Womens Utilities Network (WUN) was founded in 2018 when a group of likeminded women, working in utilities, united around a common cause. The five founders were not only passionate about the industry they worked in, but also passionate about the contribution women were making and could continue to make in the future. 

The Utilities sector still lacks diversity and with women still being underrepresented. Women make up only 28% of the Utilities workforce and 29.6% of leadership roles – Source Energy & Utility Inclusion Measurement Framework, 2025. Real action is needed across the industry if we are to see true equality and diversity, especially in the Utilities Sector. As a group, we know that this won’t change if we don’t do something about it and at WUN we are passionate about building a community of women who can connect, support, develop and encourage one another. 

WUN has now created quite a movement. With over 8,800 members and followers, we provide a variety events for members to attend as well as a free mentoring service. WUN goes from strength to strength due to our ambitious plans and in January 2025 we won Network of the Year at The Great British Businesswoman Awards.  

Womens Utilities Network | Developing and Encouraging Women 

The Young Energy Professionals (YEP) Forum is acommunity to promote and inspire the next generation of energy industry leaders, providing opportunities to connect, develop and recognise success.

Free to join, we have over 2300 members from across 350 different companies. We run insightful events and initiatives throughout the year which cover the whole spectrum of the energy sector – from panel sessions and interviews with the sector’s senior leaders, to networking receptions, informal social events and site visits to some of GBs most significant energy infrastructure facilities.

Check out our Annual Report from 2024 for more detail on what we got up to last year.