Katie Neck is the Founder of the award-winning Sustained Futures, committed to closing the Future Skills gap, inclusively. A typhoon at the 2019 Japanese Grand Prix showed her first-hand how climate risk was already disrupting elite sport. She spent six seasons at McLaren F1 in AI, ML and Technology partnerships, launching its first sustainability agenda and leading partnerships with Goldman Sachs, Google, Deloitte and Unilever, before advising senior leaders on data-driven sustainability strategies across the Rugby World Cup and Ryder Cup. She founded Sustained Futures in 2023 on the conviction that the long-term thinking defining elite sport is exactly what every industry needs to navigate climate change and the AI transition. Its 1+1 model upskills organisations from the boardroom to the classroom, funding a free certification for a young person aged 15 to 25 for every corporate seat sold. Clients include Barclays, PIF, Arsenal FC, Adobe, Dyson, SailGP and the United Nations.