Knowledge Centre

Founded in 2022, Planarific is a spin-out from the University of Cambridge developing a spatial intelligence platform for the built environment that makes retrofit planning faster and more energy-efficient. It uses computer vision and AI to process information captured by drones and collected by users, and convert point clouds into high-fidelity, semantically enriched 3D models of buildings.

Cahill Design Consultants is a UK-based acoustic design, fire engineering, and building surveying business, supporting commercial, residential, education, healthcare, and leisure projects across the built and natural environment.

Published in January 2026, the UK Government’s Warm Homes Plan outlines an ambition to upgrade 5 million homes to help cut energy bills and tackle fuel poverty.

This event will bring together industry, innovators and researchers to explore where AI is already creating value, where barriers still remain, and how collaboration can help accelerate practical, scalable deployment for decarbonisation and the wider industrial impact.

Innovate UK Business Connect's Sustainable Chemicals Innovation Network shines a spotlight on businesses rethinking how materials are made. Revive Eco is a brilliant example of this – a UK-based team of innovators, scientists, and sustainability problem-solvers, with a shared passion for transforming waste into opportunity. In this case, used coffee grounds into high-value, sustainable ingredients.

Innovate UK Business Connect's Sustainable Chemicals Innovation Network champions businesses developing cleaner, more sustainable alternatives to fossil fuel-derived chemical processes. Synthetic biology company ErebaGen is a great example that uses cutting-edge biology to transform how chemicals are made and have highlighted how chemicals and engineering biology form part of the pharmaceutical supply chain, illustrated through a project funded by the Sustainable Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Programme (SMMIP).