2025 SPONSORS
GOLD SPONSORS
SPONSORS OF THE CUSTOMER SUPPORT AWARD
American Express (NYSE: AXP) is a global, premium payments and lifestyle brand powered by technology. Our colleagues around the world back our customers with differentiated products, services and experiences that enrich lives and build business success.
Founded in 1850 and headquartered in New York, American Express’ brand is built on trust, security, and service, and a rich history of delivering innovation and Membership value for our customers. With a hundred million merchant locations on our global network in over 200 countries and territories, we seek to provide the world’s best customer experience every day to a broad range of consumers, small and medium-sized businesses, and large corporations.
About PwBt
Pay with Bank transfer allows consumers to pay online or instore directly from their bank account. It unlocks the potential of Open Banking to deliver financial and processing benefits to merchants, while offering their customers a simple, speedy, secure way to pay. It’s powered by American Express but open to everyone. Email pwbt@aexp.com
SPONSORS OF ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL & GOVERNANCE (ESG) INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR AWARD
Atos is a trusted partner to the UK’s Critical National Infrastructure, helping utilities, energy, rail, and nuclear organisations accelerate their digital transformation. With 70,000 employees worldwide and leading expertise in data, AI, cloud, and cybersecurity, Atos delivers secure, sustainable, and innovative solutions that enable resilient operations and support the UK’s transition to net zero. Working with organisations such as National Grid and Scottish Water, Atos combines global scale with local insight to address the unique challenges of the utilities sector—safeguarding essential services while unlocking the power of digital to create smarter, more sustainable infrastructure for the future.
Find out more here: atos.net
SPONSORS OF NET ZERO ENGAGEMENT AWARD
Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem.
Find out more here: https://www.capgemini.com/industries/energy-and-utilities/utilities/
SPONSORS OF THE INNOVATION AWARD
Firstsource Solutions, an RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group company, is a global leader in transformational solutions across Utilities, Healthcare, Banking and Financial Services, Communications, Media and Technology, Retail, and more. With a presence across the US, UK, India, Philippines, Mexico, Romania, Turkey, Trinidad & Tobago, South Africa, and Australia, we ‘make it happen’ for clients, solving their biggest challenges with hyper-focused, domain-centered teams and cutting-edge tech, data, and analytics. Our inch-wide, mile-deep practitioners work collaboratively, leveraging UnBPO™—our differentiated approach to reimagining traditional outsourcing—to drive speed, scale, and smarter decisions that turn transformation into tangible, real-world results.
Find out more here: https://www.firstsource.com/industries/utilities
SPONSORS OF DELIVERY PARTNER OF THE YEAR
Horizon Water Infrastructure specialises in water resource management, delivering end-to-end metering and data solutions for water companies. Backed by KKR and part of a group of industry-leading companies, including Horizon Energy Infrastructure and Smart Metering Systems (SMS), we bring over 30 years’ experience in large-scale rollouts. Our smart infrastructure expertise and innovative financing models spread programme costs over 10 to 20 years. Through our Metering-as-a-Service (MaaS) model, we mitigate risks, enabling utilities to focus on service while meeting UK Government and Ofwat mandates. Recently appointed to replace over one million meters for Southern Water, HWI is setting a new benchmark for efficiency, sustainability and impact.
Find out more here: https://horizonwaterinfrastructure.co.uk/
SPONSORS OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY AWARD
Lucy Electric is a UK leader in secondary power distribution, backed by the strength of the £400m+ Lucy Group while maintaining local agility. Our comprehensive portfolio spans Medium Voltage switchgear up to 38kV, including the award-winning EcoTec non-SF₆ RMU, Low Voltage distribution boards, and GridKey smart monitoring solutions. Engineered in the UK and trusted globally, our products support utilities and commercial customers through technical excellence and rapid service. We are at the forefront of smart grid innovation, helping customers transition to low-carbon networks with digital tools for remote control and real-time monitoring. From renewable energy integration to EV charging infrastructure, we deliver future-ready solutions for a sustainable energy landscape.
Find out more here: https://www.lucyelectric.com/
SPONSORS OF UTILITY OF THE YEAR
nxzen is a global technology, consulting, and engineering partner advancing the national infrastructure that society depends on. Our mission is to empower energy, utilities, and national infrastructure providers to deliver safer, smarter, and more resilient operations. Backed by leading investors, we combine deep domain expertise with engineering excellence and digital innovation to deliver measurable impact. Our solutions include NNNCo’s national-scale IoT networks, EAD’s turnkey renewable and grid energy systems, Digital Twin Simulation for real-time predictive optimisation, and N2N’s connected infrastructure platform for end-to-end asset intelligence. We help operators modernise, connect, and optimise national systems to meet performance, compliance, and net-zero goals without compromise.
Find out more here: https://www.nxzen.com/
SPONSORS OF THE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE AWARD
Vyntelligence (Vyn®) is the market-leading Agentic Video Intelligence Work Platform, designed for customers, contractors and colleagues. Vyn Simplifies and Speeds up work with short video data capture and Agentic Video Intelligence.
Top 90% of UK utilities & telecoms use Vyn®, creating trusted engagement by simplifying and speeding up work to optimise asset life cycles.
Turning field videos, prompted before, during, and after work, into automated workflows, its AI-driven insights help businesses improve pricing accuracy, speed-up delivery, ensure safety & compliance compliance.
Vyn® is proud to partner with game changers: Vodafone, EDP, Total Energies, Cadent Gas, Currys, Severn Trent, and UK Power Networks.
Find out more here: www.vyntelligence.com
SILVER SPONSOR
SSEN Transmission is responsible for the electricity transmission network in the north of Scotland, investing in and maintaining the region's high voltage 132kV, 220kV, 275kV and 400kV electricity transmission network.
Our strategic objective is to enable the transition to a low carbon economy. We do this by planning and building the electricity transmission network infrastructure required to connect and transport renewable electricity from the north of Scotland to areas of demand - delivering a network for net zero emissions.
Find out more here: https://www.ssen-transmission.co.uk/
Selwood is renowned as the UK’s leader in pump rental and engineered water handling solutions, employing more than 500 staff across a UK-wide branch network. Selwood’s teams provide exceptional pumping solutions, equipment and services with a focus on sustainability and workplace safety. Selwood works with many of the UK’s leading utility companies and construction businesses, on a range of applications from straightforward rental to large, complex infrastructure projects. Selwood’s own pumps are used throughout its fleet and set the benchmark for quality, efficiency and sustainability.
Find out more here: https://www.selwood.co.uk/
BRAND SPONSOR
Utility Week Forum is Utility Week's most strategic conference for the UK's energy and water sectors, curated by the journalists who understand the complexities and challenges facing the utilities sector.
Bringing together industry leaders, policymakers, regulators, and key stakeholders, the event is a catalyst for solving challenges, shaping policy, and co-creating a strategic framework that enables utilities to deliver on net zero while maintaining resilience.
Advance release tickets are now available. Take a look here: https://event.utilityweek.co.uk/forum2025