
Agenda – Transport + Energy Forum 2022
17th November 2022 – Birmingham Conference & Events Centre
8:45am – 9:45am
Registration, exhibition and networking
9:45am – 9:50am
Welcome
Alec Peachey, Editorial Director, Transport + Energy
9:50am – 10:05am
Keynote presentation 1
Chris Skidmore, MP, Government’s climate tsar
10:05am – 10:20am
Keynote presentation 2
Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, clean air campaigner, director of the Ella Roberta Foundation
10:20am – 10:35am
Update from the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV)
Lizzie Culwick, Deputy Head of OZEV
10:35am – 10:50am
Update from National Grid
Cordi O’Hara, President of National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED)
10:50am – 11:10am
Talking Transport + Energy
Q&A chaired by Quentin Willson, Motoring Broadcaster and Founder of FairCharge featuring Chris Skidmore, MP, Government’s climate tsar; Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, clean air campaigner, director of the Ella Roberta Foundation; Stephen Elderkin, Director of Environmental Sustainability, National Highways; Cordi O’Hara, President of National Grid Electricity Distribution and Lizzie Culwick, Deputy Head of the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV).
11:10am – 11:35am
Coffee break, exhibition and networking
11:35am – 11:50am
Net Zero Highways
Stephen Elderkin, Director of Environmental Sustainability, National Highways
11:50am – 12:20pm
Panel session 1: Charge point operator collaboration
Discussion chaired by Quentin Willson, Motoring Broadcaster and Founder of FairCharge featuring Ian Johnston, Chief Executive, Osprey Charging; Toddington Harper, CEO, GRIDSERVE; Vicky Read, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, Connected Kerb.
12:20pm – 12:35pm
Further and faster has to mean simpler
Mark Constable, Head of Public Affairs, Trojan Energy
12:35pm – 12:45pm
Leading a rapid transition to local net zero with clean air in communities across the UK
Jason Torrance, Interim Chief Executive of UK100
12:45pm – 13:00pm
The accessible transition
Jonathan Jenkins, Head of Innovation, Motability Operations
13:00pm – 14:00pm
Lunch, exhibition and networking
14:00pm – 14:35pm
Panel session 2: Councils experience of Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) fund
Discussion chaired by Chris Rimmer; Deputy Head of Department, Cenex featuring Bharat Pathania, Technical Innovation Lead, Midlands Connect; Matthew Ling, Environment Strategy Manager, Suffolk County Council; Shamala Evans-Gadgil, Coventry City Council; Debbie King, Acting Head of Planning and Environment, Lancashire County Council.
14:35pm – 14:50pm
Pace yourself: How to install ahead of demand, but only just
Shayne Rees, Head of Marketing, char.gy
14:50pm – 15:00pm
The communications challenge
Ben Kilbey, Bald Valdoo
15:00pm – 15:15pm
Is affordability the key enabler to a further and faster EV transition?
Gill Nowell, Head of EV Communications for LV= General Insurance and ElectriX
15:15pm – 15:50pm
Panel session 3: Further and faster: accelerating the transition to a decarbonised future
Chaired by Alec Peachey, Editorial Director, Transport + Energy featuring Edmund King, President of The AA; Natalie Berry, New Markets Manager at Fastned; Speaker from EV Civils Solutions TBC; Stephen Trayner, Customer Service Director, Swarco.
15:50pm – 16:20pm
Coffee break, exhibition and networking
16:20pm – 16:55pm
Panel session 4: Speeding up connections to the grid
David Boyer, Director, Electricity Systems at the Energy Networks Association (ENA) to chair. Panellists TBC
16:55pm – 17:05pm
Capability and competency, the only critical link in the supply chain
Dr Benjamin Silverstone, Director, WMG Skills
17:05pm – 17:10pm
Closing remarks and conference ends
19:00pm – 19:30pm
Evening drinks reception & networking
19:45pm – 22:30pm
Evening meal, entertainment and awards
