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The Hidden Energy Opportunity: Driving Resilient, High-Performing Multi-Site Operations

Join senior leaders from Blend and Schneider Electric for an executive dinner exploring how organisations are creating more intelligent, efficient and sustainable buildings. Discover how energy optimisation, connected infrastructure and data-driven decision-making can reduce costs, improve resilience and deliver stronger operational performance.
Event Location
Bentley’s Oyster Bar & Grill | London
Event Date
October 22, 2026
to October 22, 2026
Event Time
6:00 pm
- 9:00 pm
About this event

For years, sustainability and operational performance have often been treated as parallel priorities: one focused on environmental impact, the other on efficiency, cost, and business outcomes. Increasingly, that distinction no longer holds.

Rising energy costs, aging assets, evolving sustainability targets, regulatory pressure, and growing expectations around workplace performance are forcing organizations to rethink how their buildings and facilities operate. The same decisions that reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions can also lower operating costs, improve asset performance, strengthen resilience, and create better environments for the people who use them.

Join Blend and Schneider Electric for an executive dinner exploring how leaders are transforming buildings, facilities, and operations to become more efficient, intelligent, sustainable, and future-ready. Through candid peer discussion, we’ll examine how organizations are using energy optimization, connected infrastructure, smart-building technologies, and data-driven decision-making to improve operational performance while advancing environmental goals – and where the greatest barriers remain.

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Our speakers
Alice Williams
Vice President, Digital Energy | Schneider Electric
Coming soon.
Jean-Marc Zola
Building Segment President | Schneider Electric
Coming soon.
Julia Belle
Head of London Community | Blend

Julia is a broadcaster, political commentator, corporate event host and business trainer. She has been covering news, current affairs and entertainment for BBC Three for three years and before this she featured weekly on BBC 5 Live – discussing the newspaper headlines and the latest breaking news.

She hosted a BBC election show, diving into key voter topics, as well as a TED Talk titled “The Secret to Being Right” which was instantly selected amongst TED’s “Editor’s Picks.”

She has interviewed some of the most influential figures in politics and business, on a range of topics from general elections to generative AI.

She runs the London community of Blend as well as the members’ exclusive Blend Book Club, interviewing prolific business authors and sharing key learnings from a range of titles covering topics like leadership, negotiation, DEI, productivity and handling difficult issues.

Michael Ward
UK Retail Segment Leader | Schneider Electric
Coming soon.
Key themes & discussion topics

Sustainability as a business performance driver
How energy efficiency and environmental goals can also reduce operating costs, improve resilience and strengthen overall performance.

Smarter buildings, better decisions
Turning connected infrastructure and building data into meaningful action across energy, maintenance, occupancy and asset performance.

Modernising ageing assets
Deciding what to retrofit, optimise, modernise or replace while balancing cost, carbon, resilience and long-term value.

Building for the future
Exploring what a truly future-ready facility looks like and which investments organisations should prioritise today.

Event agenda
01
Cocktails & networking

6:00 – 6:30 PM

02
Opening remarks & panel discussion

6:30 – 7:15 PM

03
Dinner & guided discussion

 7:15 – 8:45 PM

04
Event wrap-up & group reflection

8:45 – 9:00 PM

Why should you attend?

Connect sustainability with measurable business outcomes by exploring where environmental goals and operational performance increasingly overlap.

Learn from peers facing similar challenges around energy costs, ageing assets, building performance and sustainability targets.

Explore practical ways to get more from existing facilities without relying on complete replacement or major reconstruction.

Hear how leaders are preparing for the next generation of buildings by using smarter infrastructure, better data and more strategic investment decisions.

Who should attend
This event is designed for senior executives responsible for enterprise AI, digital transformation, business operations, and data strategy. The discussion will be particularly valuable for leaders looking to embed AI into core business processes while balancing innovation, governance, and measurable business value. Together, we'll explore what it takes to transform AI from an intelligent assistant into an operational capability that drives measurable business outcomes.
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Venue
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Bentley’s Oyster Bar & Grill | London
11-15 Swallow St, Piccadilly
London
W1B 4DG
United Kingdom
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