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


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