• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Sam Salisbury

Centrica

Centrica Innovations Director – Labs

Sam Salisbury leads the Centrica Innovation Labs. The Labs provides start-ups and in-house ventures with business support, investment and access to Centrica’s customers, people and networks to help them grow their businesses. Sam started his career at Arthur D. Little advising clients on business strategy, innovation and operations. In 2011, he joined Centrica in the corporate strategy team, and recently led the Centrica backed Ignite impact investment fund. Sam is a Fellow of the Forward Institute, a member of the Task Group on Corporate Social Impact Investment with EVPA in Brussels, and a Director of Centirca’s Energy for Tomorrow fund. He graduated from the University of Oxford with a D.Phil in Engineering Science and Queens University, Canada, with a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Mechanical Engineering.

Sessions With Sam Salisbury

Thursday, 14 March

  • 02:00pm - 03:00pm (CST) / -

    Blockchain & the Power Consumer: Myth or reality?
    Panel Technology/Innovation Power

    Blockchain holds great promise for transforming and democratizing the power distribution system of the future. Can this technology move to scale in developed economies? What is the potential to drive change in emerging economies where an established power system is not available? Will blockchain evolve to distribute power effectively on a peer to peer basis? Will blockchainrealize its potential to disrupt incumbent retail energy models?