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Cheesecake Energy is lowering the cost of long-duration energy storage, turning renewable energy sources like wind and solar into reliable, on-demand power. Our breakthrough system uses compressed air and thermal energy storage to achieve costs that are half that of the cheapest batteries currently available, with long-lasting, proven industrial components that can largely be bought off the shelf. To learn more about what were doing, get in touch at info@cheesecakeenergy.com.

We’re Howden, the people first insurance group with employee ownership at its heart. From launching with just three employees in 1994, we’ve grown to over 24,000 people around the globe. Together, our expertise span the full spectrum of insurance: broking, reinsurance, underwriting, risk consultancy and employee benefits. We rise to any challenge and are determined to use insurance as a force for good.

IRIS Software Group is a leading global provider of mission critical software & services & one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies. We help organisations to make better business decisions by developing integrated software solutions to minimise admin, make business processes more efficient & give more time to do what’s valued. We started 45 years ago with accountancy software & have evolved to be relied on by more than 100,000 customers across 135 countries in accountancy, education & business. We invest heavily in development using the latest processes & technologies, driven by our Indian & Romanian Centres of Excellence to build the next generation of cloud-based accountancy, HR & education solutions. Almost one million UK employees are managed by our HR solutions, & one in six UK employees are paid through IRIS payroll solutions. We are the largest third-party online tax filer with the UK Government, & we are used by 54 of the top 100 US & 93 of the top 100 UK accountancy firms. We also serve over 12,000 schools & academies, & almost four million UK families use our apps to connect to their child’s school. Since 2023, we have been awarded Tech CEO of the Year 2023 (Elona Mortimer-Zhika) in the UK Tech Awards; Cloud Innovation of the Year 2023 by UK IT Industry Awards; Tech Employer of the Year (2023 & 2024) in the Thames Valley Tech Awards; Technical Innovation – National Supplier 2024 Award at the Onrec Awards. IRIS Education has been named Company of the Year at the UK National MAT Awards 2023, crowned Company of the Year (more than 12m) in the Bett Awards 2023 & awarded Best EdTech Product – School Management Solutions in the Global EdTech Awards 2024. Troncmasters By IRIS also won the Payroll Innovation Award in the Global Payroll Association Awards 2024. We are proud of our Great Place to Work accolades, including Best Workplaces in Tech, Best Workplaces for Wellbeing and Best Workplaces for Women.

Sovos provides businesses with the confidence needed to navigate an increasingly regulated world. Offering a modern, IT driven response to compliance, Sovos’ solutions are scalable, reliable and secure and provide a great user experience. Sovos has more than 100,000 customers, including half the Fortune 500, as well as businesses of every size operating in more than 70 countries. The company’s cloud-based solutions integrate with a wide variety of business applications and government compliance processes. Sovos has employees throughout the Americas and Europe and is owned by Hg and TA Associates.

Verdane is a specialist growth buyout investment firm that partners with tech-enabled and sustainable businesses that help to digitalise and decarbonise the European economy. Verdane funds have the most flexible mandates in the industry. The firm can invest as a minority or majority investor, replacement or growth capital, in single companies or in portfolios of companies. Verdane has over €8 billion in assets under management and its funds have made more than 200 investments in fast-growing businesses since 2003. Verdane’s team of over 150 investment professionals and operating experts is based out of Berlin, Munich, Copenhagen, Helsinki, London, Oslo and Stockholm, and combines deep sector expertise with deep local networks and presence in core European markets. Verdane is also a certified B Corporation, the most ambitious sustainability accreditation globally. The firm only backs businesses that pass its 2040 test, which indicates whether the company can thrive in a more sustainable future economy. Verdane is partly owned by the Verdane Foundation, which is focused on two areas: climate change and more equitable and inclusive local communities. Further information: www.verdane.com

Imperial’s School of Convergence Science is designed to spark discovery and accelerate progress in four key mission-led areas: Health and Technology; Sustainability; Space, Security and Telecoms; and Human and Artificial Intelligence. This page was formerly owned by the Energy Futures Lab.

Cheesecake Energy is lowering the cost of long-duration energy storage, turning renewable energy sources like wind and solar into reliable, on-demand power. Our breakthrough system uses compressed air and thermal energy storage to achieve costs that are half that of the cheapest batteries currently available, with long-lasting, proven industrial components that can largely be bought off the shelf. To learn more about what were doing, get in touch at info@cheesecakeenergy.com.

Say hello to Dext, the advanced bookkeeping automation platform that eliminates much of the manual work that slows you down. At Dext, we believe that accurate, real-time data is the lifeblood that drives smarter and timely financial decisions and we are committed to empowering businesses, accountants and bookkeepers to thrive through innovative technology that simplifies the accounting process. As the world leader in bookkeeping automation, Dext’s AI is trained on over 1 billion receipts and invoices and extracts financial data with 99.5% accuracy. There’s a reason that over 12,000 bookkeeping and accounting firms and 700,000 businesses like yours trust and rely on us every day for the insights they need to stay healthy and scale. Dext liberates our customers to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow and to focus on what truly matters to them.

We’re Howden, the people first insurance group with employee ownership at its heart. From launching with just three employees in 1994, we’ve grown to over 24,000 people around the globe. Together, our expertise span the full spectrum of insurance: broking, reinsurance, underwriting, risk consultancy and employee benefits. We rise to any challenge and are determined to use insurance as a force for good.