From Zero to Scale: Unlocking Smart City Growth with AI and Energy Nicki thrives on turning bold ideas into tangible execution. With 20 years working across energy, AI, and technology, she has taken solutions from the early large offshore wind through to commercial onsite solar, demand response, and battery storage commercialisation, always seeing energy not as the end goal, but as the fuel that powers smarter, more resilient places. Her passion is unlocking what’s stuck: cutting through blockers, making project spend go where it matters most, and getting momentum into solutions that deliver real growth. For Nicki, energy and AI together are catalysts, not just another tool or carbon reporting, but for unlocking tangible innovation, scaling impact, and shaping the future of our cities. She brings a rare blend of perspectives, having led multi-billion-pound decarbonisation strategies inside global corporations and built zero-to-one propositions that opened new markets with an entrepreneurial flair. She has won boardroom confidence for investments while keeping the creativity and speed that new ventures demand. Nicki's future thoughts, both provocative and practical in equal measure, sparking questions like: Are we really using AI where it counts? How can AI address the holdup? How energy enables futures cities?