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Representatives of E.ON, Kestrix and Coventry City Council will talk about their work visualising heat loss at scale with Academy President and software engineer Sir John Lazar CBE FREng. We’ll hear about how they’re able to provide better planning for retrofit activities, scalable energy saving and faster analysis.
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Lucy Lyons
Lucy Lyons is Co-founder & CEO of Kestrix, the ‘Google Maps of heat loss’ using thermal drones and AI to map and quantify how heat escapes from buildings and generate retrofit plans at city-scale. Since launching Kestrix in 2023, she has led the company to raise $4.5 million in funding (including $2M in non-dilutive grants), map over 9,000 homes on behalf of UK housing providers like Clarion and Peabody and multinational utilities like E.ON and EDF, and win major housing industry awards like the 2024 Unlock Net Zero ‘Innovation of the Year’.
Lucy is a listee in Forbes 30 under 30’s technology category and was named GP Bullhound’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2024. She holds an M.Sc from the University of Oxford in Sustainability, Enterprise, and the Environment and a B.A. from New York University.
Archibald Hardyment
Archie is a member of E.ON's Growth Studio team, which was set up to ensure E.ON "wins" during the UK's energy transition. The team's role is to evaluate and trial new initiatives, and build new ventures and revenue streams, before they are adopted by the main business. At present Archie is working on evaluating the commercial value Kestrix can add to E.ON's activities in the government funded retrofit space.
Before becoming an Entrepreneur in Residence at E.ON Archie held leadership roles at a variety of sustainability focused start-ups, including Beams Renovation and Storm Board LLP. He has an MBA from INSEAD and an MEng from Oxford University where he read Material Science.