The Awakening of The Force

In this third and final episode of InfraVision's podcast series 'The Awakening of the Force', host Aude Kersulec (Economic Journalist & Moderator), explores the incentives needed to deliver sustainable infrastructure at the scale and pace these transitions require, with two guests who bring complementary operational perspectives to this conversation: Diego Marin (CEO of ACCIONA's Concessions Business) and Emanuela Trentin (CEO of Veolia Italy).

The technologies largely exist, capital remains available, and governments and businesses have set ambitious targets. Yet across many sectors, delivery keeps falling behind what is needed. As the challenge shifts from identifying solutions to deploying them effectively, attention is turning to the conditions that make infrastructure projects possible in practice: how risks are shared between actors, how regulatory frameworks can offer enough certainty to unlock long-term investment while staying flexible, and what it takes to make commitments bankable amid uncertainty.

From the perspectives of the developers and operators, what incentives encourage not just individual projects, but the replication of solutions at scale?

In this second episode of InfraVision's podcast series 'The Awakening of the Force', host Julia Sieger (Broadcast journalist & Moderator) explores the trade-offs, risk dynamics, and incentives shaping investment and delivery decisions in infrastructure's energy and ecological transitions, with two guests who bring complementary financial and industrial perspectives: Ana Giros (EVP Strategy, Development and CSR at Equans) and Mike Nowak (Global Head of Infrastructure Coverage at Crédit Agricole CIB).

Infrastructure requires long-term capital commitments, even as transition pathways remain deeply uncertain. Investors, operators, and public authorities are being asked to make structuring decisions today amid open questions on technologies, regulatory frameworks, demand, energy prices, and geopolitical constraints. And while decarbonization solutions largely exist, the challenge has shifted from what technology to deploy to under what conditions it can be financed, scaled, and coordinated across entire systems.

From the operator's and the financier's sides, how do we allocate risks intelligently, align incentives across stakeholders, and move from isolated transition projects to infrastructure systems that can actually scale?

In this first episode of InfraVision’s podcast series ‘The Awakening of the Force’, host Charlotte Kan (International Journalist & Moderator), explores what it takes to deliver sustainable infrastructure at the scale, and at the speed, that the energy and ecological transitions require, with two guests who bring industrial depth to this conversation: Roseline Legrand (Director of Concessions at Bouygues Construction) and Vincent Cuvillier (Chief Strategy Officer at Cellnex).

At the heart of this year’s theme lies a defining tension: these transitions demand long-term capital commitments, even as the transition pathways remain deeply uncertain. Investors, operators, and public authorities are being asked to make structuring decisions today amid uncertainty about technologies, regulatory frameworks, demand, energy prices, and the geopolitical context.

From the builder's and operator's sides, what does it take to close the gap between ambition and delivery and make sustainable infrastructure the rule rather than the exception?