• Highlights of 2025
  • 2000+ Participants from 26 Countries | 5 Supporting Ministries, 16 Supporting Organisations and 20 Supporting Media Partners | 33 Key Partners, 20 Exhibitors, 4 Country Partners and 14 Conference Session Partners | 319 Speakers | 26 Thematic Sessions | 7 Bi-lateral & Focused Workshops | 339 Participants from 33 Utilities | 68 Technical Papers Published and 24 Technical Papers Presented | 50 Winners amongst 11 ISGF Innovation Award Categories

ISUW 2025 Speaker

Laura Sandys
Laura Sandys
Non-Executive Director SSE Transmission

Laura Sandys has been working in energy transformation for 20 years and chairs The Green Alliance, The Food Foundation and British Standards Institute Advisory board on Net Zero. She is an advisor to the International Energy Agency on smart grids and is on the board of SSE Transmission, Energy Systems Catapult, Ohme Global and Highview Power. She was the Chair of the UK Government’s Energy Digitalisation Taskforce and is now working globally to spread best practise of the digitalisation of the energy system. She co-founder of Powerful Women and was former Deputy Chair of the Food Standards Agency. She chaired the Northern Ireland Energy Strategy Group and is member of the UK Ministerial Council for Carbon Capture and Storage. She was previously a Member of Parliament for South Thanet, and described by The Times as ‘one of the sanest of all MPs’ and as ‘lateral-minded, original and free-thinking’.