Join BAFTA Albert at the Sustainability Zone and Series at MPTS 2026

For 10 years, MPTS (Media Production and Technology Show) has brought together professionals from across media, production and broadcast. It’s a space for new technology, fresh thinking and the conversations that help the industry evolve. 

In 2026, and for the second year, BAFTA albert is partnering with MPTS to present the Sustainability Zone and Sustainability Series across the two days of the show, which takes place on 13 & 14 May at The Grand Hall, Olympia, London. 

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Practical insight leading to real action

Across two days, the Sustainability Series brings together industry voices to explore key findings from two landmark reports: ACCELERATE 2025 and SPARK: Clean Temporary Power by 2030.   

These sessions focus on what action looks like in practice – on set, in studios, and across production. 

You’ll hear from professionals across the UK film and TV industry including:  

  • Stevie Kotey (Transportation Manager, Netflix) 
  • Michael Leo (Corporate Black Cabs) 
  • Katherine Nash (Head of Studios, The Bottle Yard)  
  • Feyi Osifuwa (Sustainability Manager, Warner Bros. Studio Leavesden) 
  • April Sotomayor (Head of Industry Sustainability, BAFTA Albert) 

 

Alongside the panels, visitors can meet the BAFTA Albert team and connect with organisations from our Suppliers Directory, including Get Set Hire, Palmbrokers, and Zero Marine. 

Sustainability

Series

13 May: Accelerate – EV solutions that work

We open the series with Accelerate: EV Solutions That Work, chaired by Feyi Osifuwa and includes Stevie Kotey, Michael Leo and April Sotomayor.

In this session these specialists will share lived experiences of prioritising EV, practical advice and the direct actions screen industry professionals can take for more sustainable productions.

The conversation will be grounded in evidence from ACCELERATE 2025, which highlights that travel & transport accounted for 65% of the carbon footprint for film and TV as measured by BAFTA Albert. From there, the focus turns to action: clear steps productions can take now to reduce impact without slowing down creativity.

14 May: SPARK – powering cleaner productions

On day two, SPARK: Action plans for clean power by 2030, explores how productions are making the transition to clean temporary power on set and on location, and the momentum growing for the commitment to SPARK: Clean Temporary Power by 2030 - the UK’s film and TV industry’s roadmap,

This will be chaired by BAFTA albert’s Head of Industry Sustainability April Sotomayor with a panel that includes Katherine Nash, with further panellists to be announced.

With emerging solutions and shared learning from across the sector, the focus is simple: how we make clean power the norm, not the exception.

Supplier’s Directory in the Sustainability Zone

The Sustainability Zone brings together organisations helping productions make more sustainable choices in practice.

We will be joined by Get Set Hire, Palmbrokers, and adjacent to the space, Zero Marine. More organisations will be announced soon.

All exhibitors are part of the BAFTA Albert Suppliers Directory – a curated list of suppliers who meet defined sustainability criteria, developed with industry partners and reviewed regularly to reflect evolving best practice and industry guidance.

Get Set Hire

Get Set Hire is a specialist hire company supplying location and production equipment to productions across the UK. From Motorola radios to rain tents, from costume and makeup packages to battery power solutions, from heaters to sofas, they provide everything crews need behind the scenes. Get Set Hire help film and TV productions reduce their carbon emissions through the equipment they supply and the way they deliver it.   

Palmbrokers

Palmbrokers supplies trees, plants, greenery and theatrical props for the film, television, retail and events industries. It has a vast stock of indigenous, tropical and temperate plants and trees, artificial flowers, cut forestry, foliage, landscaping materials and props; all rented and returned for re-use where possible. Palmbrokers experienced team of greenspeople, set-dressers, artists, florists, and horticulturalists have decades of combined knowledge and are as happy offering advice as dressing on set.

Zero Marine

Zero Marine has the world’s first and only entirely electric zero emissions fleet of boats for safety tasks, filming and crew transfer. These unique, UK manufactured from recycled materials and recyclable, state of the art vessels are solar charged and towed to location by EV. Zero Marine’s exclusive service eliminates over a tonne of carbon per day, relative to conventional vessels and they deliver a pollution and carbon free guarantee. 

We're delighted to be partnering with the Media Production and Technology Show to deliver the Sustainability Zone, in our fifteenth anniversary year. The film and TV community have made so much progress in terms of sustainable screen practices in the past decade and a half, but there is still so much to do. MPTS is the perfect place to share the latest direct actions the industry can take in 2026, outlined in our ACCELERATE report and SPARK: Clean Temporary Power by 2030. We look forward to discussing these during our panels, celebrating industry successes and the great work of those listed on the Suppliers Directory, in the Sustainability Zone too
April Sotomayor, Head of Industry Sustainability at BAFTA,

We’re delighted to be partnering with BAFTA albert once again at MPTS 2026. Sustainability sits at the heart of our industry, and it’s essential that MPTS reflects this by putting it front and centre across the show floor. Through our partnership, we’re delivering the BAFTA albert Sustainability Series in the Production Theatre, alongside the return of the Sustainability Zone for its second year. This dedicated space brings together approved suppliers from the BAFTA albert Suppliers Directory, giving visitors the opportunity to connect directly with organisations driving more sustainable production
Mark Chapman, Sales Director of MPTS,