It is just one week to go until Transport + Energy’s Fleet Electrification Forum with leaders across the public and private sector coming together to discuss the current state-of-play.
The Forum, due to be held at Warwick Conferences on 8 July, will be one of the first opportunities to interrogate the localism agenda set out by Labour leadership candidate, and potential Prime Minister, Andy Burnham.
Buy tickets and see the full agenda for the Fleet Electrification Forum here.
On Monday (29 June), Burnham set out the case for a radical devolution of transport and energy powers to local authorities, which could have profound impacts on delegates at the Forum. This would include a British version of Article 107 of the German Basic Law, which sets out equal economic conditions and living standards across a country’s regions.
The Forum includes fully-funded places for local authority officers, which enables them to discover, collaborate, and network with those across the transport and energy sectors on the vital issue of fleet electrification.
With 200 attendees signed up so far, the Forum offers critical insight from leading lights in the sector, who oversee more than 200,000 vehicles in the fleet industry.
Kicking off the event will be a keynote speech from Chris Heron, the Secretary General of E-Mobility Europe, who will provide insight into the vital topic.
The first panel will assess financing the decarbonisation journey, with figures from the Green Finance Institute, CMS, Nabarro Olswang LLP, BlueCurrent, EY and others. This will be followed by a discussion on fleet decarbonisation with London Borough of Islington, Westminster City Council, and the Energy Saving Trust.
Other sessions include the AA, connections guidance for fleets with the ENA, Amplify EV’s insight, as well as the EV transition of emergency services, featuring speakers from the NHS, Met Police and West Yorkshire Police.
The morning will conclude with an interactive session led by Cenex on fleet managers meeting private and public sector attendees on driving forward collaboration.
Following a lunch networking break, the event moves into discussion of the home charging gap on fleet electrification with myenergi, scaling up the decarbonisation of HGVs, a conversation with Octopus Fleets, and a panel with The Association of Fleet Professionals on the changing role of the fleet manager, which includes DPD, RSBP, Openreach, and Zaptec.
Final sessions of a busy day include critical sessions on decarbonising coaches and buses with the SMMT, Transport for London and Alexander Dennis, and a final session on making the best use of shared charging infrastructure for fleets with Hubber, Welch Group, Equip Energy and others.
A key element of the day will be ensuring all sessions include tangible takeaways for attendees, ensuring insight and knowledge which can be used in their jobs and daily roles.
Buy tickets and see the full agenda for the Fleet Electrification Forum here.
