Future of Infrastructure 2025

We are excited to be returning to One Birdcage Walk (home to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers) in the heart of Westminster for the Second Osborne Clarke Future of Infrastructure event on 24 September 2025. 

The theme of the event will be "Preparing for and Managing Change". Following a series of recent Government announcements resulting in £billions of planned investment, an accelerated delivery programme and substantial private investment opportunities, how has the infrastructure industry reacted in preparing to deliver an ambitious programme of projects?

Change and innovation will be key to successful efficient delivery through financing models, procurement, planning and resources. What can we learn from previous programmes and how will these impact different infrastructure asset classes; social, regeneration, energy, digital and transport? How can existing methods of asset management be improved to meet today's challenges and to manage the hand back of existing legacy PFI?

Our event will include a keynote speech from Richard Threlfall, Global Head of Infrastructure, Government and Healthcare at KPMG and Chair of the Advisory Council of The Infrastructure Forum, Richard will share his insights into the direction of travel of the infrastructure sector drawing on his considerable experience. The keynote speech will be followed by a panel discussion, including questions from the audience, with leading industry participants representing five core infrastructure asset classes: social, regeneration, energy, digital and transport. This will be followed by networking drinks with our speakers and other guests.

We hope you can join us.

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Your panellists

Barney Rhys Jones
Head of Transformation & Technology at Octopus

Barney Rhys Jones is Head of Transformation & Technology at Octopus Energy Generation, with 15+ years in renewables and energy infrastructure. He has a track record of applying technology to operational, commercial, and investment operations — and is currently driving the rollout of AI across Octopus Energy to scale performance, improve decision-making, and deliver measurable returns.

Simon Rhoden
Business Director at Amey

Simon has been a director within Amey for 25-years, with a 35-year career in the railway industry. 

He led the Core Valley Lines Transformation in Cardiff for over 5-years, prior to which he was the Amey project director for the Great Western Electrification programme.

He has cross-sector experience in highways, metro and accommodation projects, operated through both conventional and structured finance mechanisms.

Rosie Eden, Investment Director
Concession Infrastructure at Aberdeen Investments

With over a decade of experience as part of the infrastructure team that manages over £3.7bn in AUM, she has a focus on origination and execution of infrastructure projects largely under the Public Private Partnership model in the UK and Europe. Rosie has experience of being on the board of directors for a number of key infrastructure assets. Notably she was part of the team that won the landmark Silvertown Tunnel project in London which completed construction and opened on-time to traffic in April.

Keith Breed
Associate Director at CBRE

Keith Breed is a Senior Research Analyst within the Research Department of CBRE Data Centre Solutions based in London. His role is to support the Advisory & Transactions, Capital Markets, Occupier & the Digital & Advisory teams with research and market insights across the EMEA region.

Keith has had 30 years of experience of the telecoms and data centre space and has been involved in data centres since 2006.