Utility Week Live returned to the NEC, Birmingham (halls 17/18) with its biggest-ever content programme across seven stages, featuring more than 250 expert speakers.
Over two days, the exhibition brought together 4,000+ energy and water professionals for cross-sector collaboration and award-winning content. The sector’s top leaders, including Zoë Yujnovich, Chief Executive of National Grid; Tim Jarvis, Interim Chief Executive, Ofgem; James Earl, Chief Executive of Future Energy Networks; Mark Thurston, Chief Executive of Anglian Water; Jodie Giles, Programme Director - Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund Innovate UK and Heidi Mottram, Chief Executive of Northumbrian Water, tackled the industry’s biggest challenges. It was the only place where this line-up of utility C-suite executives and senior leaders were under one roof.
The exhibition brought together utilities, networks, regulators, solution providers and more, with innovation zones and interactive programmes that provided practical insights and solutions to the sector’s biggest challenges, supported by over 200 exhibitors who showcased market-leading technologies and innovations.


The only place to put your asset management solution in front of buyers from every major UK water, gas and electricity utility under one roof. Connecting you directly with the directors, heads of network operations and engineering leaders who control the spend — in a zone built entirely around their purchasing priorities.
The UK's utilities are investing at an unprecedented scale and pace — and the buyers controlling that spend are at UWL27. The Capital Projects Zone puts you directly in front of the project directors and procurement leads accountable for the biggest infrastructure investment programmes the sector has ever seen.
The only place to put your digital, data or AI solution in front of the CTOs, CDOs and heads of digital from every major UK utility — under one roof, in a zone built around the enterprise digital priorities they are actively investing in.
The only place to put your customer, communications or payments solution in front of the customer service directors, vulnerability leads, heads of comms and stakeholder engagement professionals from every major UK utility — all under one roof, in a zone built around their priorities.
Put your environmental technology, solution or innovation in front of the leakage managers, water quality directors, sustainability leads, capital sustainability professionals, net zero programme managers and environmental innovators from every major UK utility — in a zone built around the funded stewardship obligations of AMP8 and RIIO: CSO remediation, leakage reduction, catchment management, biodiversity net gain, low-carbon construction and net zero delivery.
Put your HR technology, safety solution, learning platform or talent proposition in front of the HR directors, transformation leads, heads of talent and health and safety managers from every major UK utility — in a zone built around the people, skills and culture agenda driving one of the most significant workforce transitions in the sector's history.
Put your flexibility platform, storage technology or aggregation proposition in front of the DNO flexibility directors, NESO leads, aggregators and energy retailer flexibility managers who are actively building GB's flexibility market — in a zone built specifically for this community. 



