Lucy Yu is an award-winning technologist, venture builder and policymaker. She has more than twenty years’ experience building, scaling and leading venture-backed global consumer-facing and deep tech ventures in AI, mobile, energy, and mobility; and developing technology policy and regulation for the UK government, European Commission, and the UN.

Lucy is CEO at Centre for Net Zero, Octopus Energy Group’s non-profit energy and AI open research institute spearheading the transition to a citizen-centric, fossil-free global energy system. She is the UK Government’s AI Champion for Clean Energy, a member of the AI Energy Council, and the Smart Data Council.