Agenda – Transport + Energy Forum 2022

17th November 2022 – Birmingham Conference & Events Centre


8:45 – 9:45

Registration, exhibition and networking


9:45 – 9:50

Welcome
Alec Peachey, Editorial Director, Transport + Energy


9:50 – 10:05

Keynote presentation 1
Chris Skidmore, MP, Government’s climate tsar


10:05 – 10:20

Clean air will help us live longer. Here’s how we achieve It.
Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah CBE, Founder of the Ella Roberta Foundation and BreatheLife Ambassador


10:20 – 10:35

Accelerating the zero emission vehicle transition
Lizzie Culwick, Joint Head of Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV)


10:35 – 10:50

Rewiring the road to net zero
Cordi O’Hara, President of National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED)


10:50 – 11:10

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 CBE, Founder of the Ella Roberta Foundation and BreatheLife Ambassador; Stephen Elderkin, Director of Environmental Sustainability, National Highways; Cordi O’Hara, President of National Grid Electricity Distribution and Lizzie Culwick, Joint Head of the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV)


11:10 – 11:35

Coffee break, exhibition and networking


11:35 – 11:50

Net zero highways
Stephen Elderkin, Director of Environmental Sustainability, National Highways


11:50 – 12:20

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


12:20 – 12:35

Further and faster has to mean simpler
Mark Constable, Head of Public Affairs, Trojan Energy


12:35 – 12:45

Leading a rapid transition to local net zero with clean air in communities across the UK
Jason Torrance, Assistant Chief Executive of UK100


12:45 – 13:00

An accessible EV transition
Ed Curwen, Innovation Manager, Motability Operations and Felicity Kelly, Connected Vehicles Lead, Motability Operations


13:00 – 14:00

Lunch, exhibition and networking


14:00 – 14:35

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, Head of New Technologies, 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


14:35 – 14:50

Pace yourself: How to install ahead of demand, but only just
Shayne Rees, Head of Marketing, char.gy


14:50 – 15:00

Opportunities, not challenges, in communications: We are ALL comms
Ben Kilbey, BOLD Voodoo


15:00 – 15:15

Is affordability the key enabler to a further and faster EV transition?
Simon Stacey, Head of Product, ElectriX


15:15 – 15:50

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; Hannah Fairley, UK Public Relations Manager, Fastned; Craig Hibbert, Director, EV Civils Solutions; Stephen Trayner, Customer Service Director, SWARCO


15:50 – 16:20

Coffee break, exhibition and networking


16:20 – 16:55

Panel session 4: Speeding up connections to the grid
Chaired by David Boyer, Director, Electricity Systems at the Energy Networks Association (ENA) featuring Stewart Reid, Head of Future Networks at Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN); Neil Madgwick, Head of Connections Service Delivery, UK Power Networks; Paul Lowbridge, Head of Customer Management at National Grid Electricity Transmission


16:55 – 17:05

Capability and competency, the only critical link in the supply chain
Dr Benjamin Silverstone, Director, WMG Skills


17:05 – 17:10

Closing remarks and conference ends



19:00 – 19:30

Evening drinks reception & networking


19:45 – 22:30

Evening meal, entertainment and awards


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