Anna Johnson is an award-winning sustainability leader and ISEP Practitioner with over a decade of experience driving systemic environmental transformation across creative and cultural industries. Specialising in high-level change management, she provides the strategic architecture required to align complex climate data with commercial priorities.

As a fractional sustainability lead at Hope Solutions, Anna partners with senior leadership at Warner Music Group and Live Nation, and played a central role in architecting the landmark MIT Assessment Report on sustainable touring. Her expertise in industry-wide orchestration includes convening stakeholders from Sky, BBC, and WBD for BAFTA albert, and executing activations for ClientEarth during Coldplay’s world tour dates at Wembley Stadium.

From systematising GHG Protocol reporting and upskilling the workforce at Anjunabeats to her award-winning work recognised by IMPALA, Anna excels at operationalising impact. With an MSc in Environment and Resource Management, she ensures organisational transitions are scientifically sound, operationally viable, and culturally resonant.

Electronic music has always pushed boundaries of creativity but how can it lead the charge in tackling the climate emergency?

This forward-thinking panel brings together innovators from across the scene to explore how creativity, technology, and community can innovate and drive meaningful change.

Featuring Anna Johnson, award-winning sustainability leader with extensive cross-sector experience. Anna brings case studies from her work with Anjunabeats, Glastonbury and Hope Solutions, Marc Carey (Evolution Music), Pioneer of the world’s first non-toxic, plant-based bio vinyl, and Werkha (Saturama), known for his immersive live audio-visual storytelling, we will dive into real-world case studies from within electronic music culture highlighting both breakthroughs and setbacks. Charlie Forbes Certification coordinator at A Greener Future and Sally J Freeman, Consultant Dietitian specialising in sustainability will moderate this panel and ask how we can truly make a change in the current Climate Crisis.

From ambitious ideas that didn’t quite go to plan to initiatives reshaping engagement and behaviour across the value chain, this session will explore what it really takes to innovate for impact. How can we design events, releases, and experiences more intentionally? How can artists and organisations use their direct connection with different audiences to influence positive change?

With a focus on experimentation, learning through failure, and building on bold ideas, this panel invites the Electronic Music Industry to think differently and act urgently while we can make a lasting, positive impact.