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