Over 1,500 industry leaders will gather in Sydney to accelerate the transition to a net-zero future.
Speakers and high-level panels featuring AI, digital transformation, and energy efficiency solutions.
Spotlight on how emerging technologies are reshaping sustainability and business.

With Australia at a critical point in its efforts to meet its 2030 emissions reduction target, Schneider Electric is bringing together more than 1,500 industry and sustainability leaders for its highly anticipated Innovation Summit Sydney 2025.

Held at ICC Sydney on 17–18 March, the event will delve into the megatrends reshaping the Australian and global energy landscape and highlight measures to accelerate sustainability goals. Media are welcome to attend.

The Innovation Summit, Act for Impact, presents a platform for industry pioneers, policymakers, and corporate leaders to collaborate, share knowledge, and explore cutting-edge technology solutions that drive energy efficiency, digital transformation, and net-zero progress.

Senior executives from leading companies, including AirTrunk, Origin Energy, RBC Capital Markets, Lendlease, and AVEVA will address the Summit, along with Schneider Electric’s global and Pacific Zone leaders.

Key highlights

Sustainability megatrends: Global experts will share insights on how businesses can move beyond ambition and drive tangible sustainability impact.
Technology innovation: Discussions on AI’s role in energy management and digital disruption in the industrial sector.
Australia’s energy transition: A deep dive into the roadmap for energy across the Pacific and strategies for achieving an electrified future.
Sector trends: Customer-led panels featuring success stories and practical solutions for sustainability challenges.

“The Summit presents a unique opportunity to understand how we can work together to deliver sustainable and impactful solutions,” said Schneider Electric Pacific Zone President Colette Munro. “We will share technological advances that are driving efficiency, innovation, and competitiveness.”

Speakers, including Munro, will urge corporate leaders to accelerate the energy transition, and highlight digital and electrification innovations providing efficiency and decarbonisation across intelligent buildings, resilient infrastructure, and smart industries.

Schneider Electric speakers include:

Manish Pant, EVP, International Operations, (on how Australia, at a critical crossroads and beset by global and environmental challenges, should double down on commitments to decarbonisation and turn disruption into opportunity)
Barbara Frei, EVP, Industrial Automation (how industrial focus is shifting towards automation, digitalisation and IoT technologies to drive competitiveness, sustainability, and renewable energy integration)
Colette Munro, Pacific Zone President (to be interviewed by CNBC about how emerging technologies are accelerating sustainability)
Joe Craparotta, VP Cloud & Service Providers, Pacific (on the growth in data centres, AI, and its impact on sustainability)
Louise Monger, VP Digital Energy, Pacific (traditional construction procurement methods are at odds with sustainability outcomes, focusing on price and compliance ahead of innovation, sustainability and long- term asset performance)
Chris Dartnell, SVP Power Systems (will explore the changing role of various value chain players –networks and customers – in the transformation of the grid in the Pacific – one driven by flexibility)

About Schneider Electric

Schneider’s purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. We call this Life Is On.

Our mission is to be your digital partner for Sustainability and Efficiency.

We drive digital transformation by integrating world-leading process and energy technologies, end-point to cloud connecting products, controls, software and services, across the entire lifecycle, enabling integrated company management, for homes, buildings, data centres, infrastructure and industries.

We are the most local of global companies. We are advocates of open standards and partnership ecosystems that are passionate about our shared Meaningful Purpose, Inclusive and Empowered values.

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