Speakers
Agne Vaitekenaite
Senior Partnership Officer at ERTICO - ITS Europe
Andrew Hamilton
Senior Product Manager at Yunex Traffic
Chris Lodge
Consultancy Manager, Data & Digital at TRL
Darren Capes FIHE FIET
ITS Policy Lead at Department for Transport
David Denner
Highways Technology Manager at Welsh Government
Dr Annette Pass
Chief Scientific Officer at Department for Transport
Freyja Lockwood
Digital Transformation Programme Manager (Strategic Innovation Team) at West of England Combined Authority
Graham Seaton
Principal Research Advisor at National Highways
Joseph Davidson
Project Officer, Land & Maritime Transport at Innovate UK
Liz James
Senior Security Consultant at NCC Group
Mark Cartwright
Director at Centaur Consulting Ltd
Mark Nicholson
Founder and CEO, at VivaCity
Martyn Minear
Principal Engineer at ARUP
Matt Terry
Commercial Director at AppyWay
Max Sugarman
Chief Executive at Intelligent Transport Systems UK
Paul Chandler
Head of Traffic Management, Digital Services at Department for Transport
Paul Darlow
Traffic & Network Manager at Portsmouth City Council
Paul Hutton
Communications Lead at Transport Technology Forum
Paula Claytonsmith
Director, Government, and Strategy at Local Council Roads Innovation Group (LCRIG)
Peter Cattell
Head of Technical Sales at Clearview Intelligence
Shamala Evans-Gadgil
EV Infrastructure Programme Manager at Coventry City Council
Steve George
TTF UTMC Working Group Chair at UTMC
Steve Gooding
Director at RAC Foundation
Tim Gale
Assistant Infrastructure Strategy Consultant at Cenex
Tim Whiteley
Senior Solutions Manager at P Ducker Systems Ltd
Agne Vaitekenaite
Senior Partnership Officer at ERTICO - ITS Europe
Agne Vaitekenaite is a Senior Partnership Officer at ERTICO - ITS EUROPE, where she is facilitating public-private partnerships across the EMEA region. ERTICO is a multi-sectorial, public-private partnership striving for the development and deployment of ITS to achieve sustainable mobility and smarter, safer, and more efficient transport systems.
Agne is responsible for facilitating collaboration among more than 120 members. She works closely with the ERTICO partners to identify opportunities for cooperation, develop joint projects, and promote the uptake of ITS solutions that address common transport challenges.
Prior to joining ERTICO, Agne worked in the team of the First-Vice President of the European Parliament, where she was involved in projects and partnerships related to the implementation of the EU Green Deal. She also has work experience in public relations, public affairs and communications, in Lithuania and the United Kingdom.
Her passion for global affairs is also reflected in her academic achievements. Agne holds a Master's degree in International Journalism from the University of Leeds, where her Master's dissertation was recognised as the best dissertation in the School of Media and Communications in 2018.
Born in Vilnius, Lithuania, Agne has a diverse background and has also previously lived in the USA and UK. Currently based in Brussels, she is dedicated to promoting sustainable mobility and leveraging public-private partnerships to drive positive change in the transport sector.
27 April 2023 - 02:35pm - 02:50pm
ERTICO: Working with TTF and sharing learning from European Projects and TTF
Andrew Hamilton
Senior Product Manager at Yunex Traffic
Andy is responsible for Urban Traffic Control (UTC) systems in Yunex Traffic and has been working on the next generation of adaptive control systems for the past number of years. He is passionate about taking this industry forward, helping to provide Local Authorities with modern, intuitive and performant systems so that they can deliver their Transport Policy.
He firmly believes that Intelligent Transport Systems will play a significant role in achieving our environmental commitments and goals to promote Active Travel and encourage modal shift within the transport industry. The tools are ready, but can Local Authorities and Strategic Partners work together to make the best use of existing assets and purposefully invest in the next generation technologies?
Andy is a Chartered Engineer with IET and has achieved an Engineering Doctorate at the University of Southampton in Improvement Traffic Movements in an Urban Environment.
26 April 2023 - 10:35am - 10:50am
Supplier Presentation – Yunex Adaptive Control in the UTMC Stream
Chris Lodge
Consultancy Manager, Data & Digital at TRL
Chris manages TRL’s Digital & Data teams. He is an experienced consultant with a research background and a history of working in connected and autonomous vehicle trials and evaluation, traffic management and modelling, and pedestrian safety. In his day job he is focused on leading projects and teams in the CAV space and beyond. Chris led the HelmUK HGV platooning trials, a large scale £9m on-road evaluation of new technology for DfT and National Highways which completed in 2022 and was technical lead for the recent Digital Local Roads project.
26 April 2023 - 09:40am - 12:55am
Supplier Presentation – TRL Realising the potential of digital local roads
Darren Capes FIHE FIET
ITS Policy Lead at Department for Transport
Darren Capes FIET FIHE is Intelligent Transport Systems Policy Lead at the Department for Transport and focuses on the adoption of emerging vehicle, infrastructure and data technologies by the UK’s highway authorities. Darren has over 30 years’ experience working in Local and Central Government. A qualified civil engineer, his current role involves leading ITS policy at the Department for Transport and focusses on supporting local authorities in engaging with the Future of Transport agenda and ensuring the UK’s road authorities are prepared for the challenges to come.
Darren has a particular interest in emerging transport technologies and the readiness of local highway authorities. He is a Fellow of both the IHE and IET, manages the UK’s Transport Technology Forum on behalf of the DfT and is a member of the ITS World Congress Programme Committee. As well as sitting on the Board of LCRIG, Darren is chair the IET’s National Transport Policy Panel, is a board member of ITS(UK) and Junior Vice President of the IHE.
26 April 2023 - 04:40pm - 12:00am
Day 1 – Close
27 April 2023 - 09:00am - 09:25am
Welcome to the conference
27 April 2023 - 09:45am - 10:00am
DfT: Traffic and Technology; Information update: What’s new!
27 April 2023 - 11:45am - 11:55am
DfT Manual for Smart Streets
27 April 2023 - 03:50pm - 04:00pm
Closing remarks
David Denner
Highways Technology Manager at Welsh Government
David has over 30 years’ experience working in the transport industry, specialising in Lighting and Intelligent Transport Systems. David has worked for various local authorities, consultants and lighting contractors and now leads the technology team at Welsh Government transport. David is passionate on ensuring good lighting for all road users by having the right light, in the right place on for the right time.
David also promotes high quality technology solutions that can be used to keep everyone safe. David has been active within a number of professional institutions and has presented on a number of related topics and is keen to ensure both the lighting and highway sectors understand each other’s issues. David is Chairman of the UK STREETWISE ITS group which has the aim of coordinating the collective requirements of the UK national road operators. David is also Chairman of the UK Lighting & Technology Board providing all governments across the UK with comment, guidance, and advice on strategic policy and management of transport electrical assets.
27 April 2023 - 02:20pm - 02:35pm
STREETWISE: Collaboration in a connected world
Dr Annette Pass
Chief Scientific Officer at Department for Transport
Annette has 25 years' experience in the transport sector. After gaining her PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Leeds, she joined the Highways Agency, now National Highways, where she held a variety of roles predominantly focused on leading and managing research programmes, together with communications and business improvement.
She spent five years as Head of Innovation where she created National Highways' Innovation & Research Strategy and guidance for managing pilots and trials on the road network. Annette now joins the Department for Transport as Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser, promoting science and innovation across the Department and the transport sector.
27 April 2023 - 09:25am - 09:45am
Keynote
Freyja Lockwood
Digital Transformation Programme Manager (Strategic Innovation Team) at West of England Combined Authority
Freyja Lockwood is the Digital Transformation lead at the West of England Combined Authority and is currently facilitating the creation of a new place-based digital strategy and digital team to coordinate both activity and investment across the region. Her remit is to improve broadband connectivity, tackle digital exclusion, and ensure that digital transformation plays a positive role in addressing challenges across the region. Being a strategic leader and change agent, Freyja has extensive experience working at the intersection between people, technology and place in both the public and private sectors. Freyja is Chartered Member of the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors, RSA Fellow and a member of the Institute of Engineering & Technology Transport Panel.
27 April 2023 - 02:50pm - 03:10pm
West England Combined Authority: Digital Exclusion and ethics when designing transport in a region
Graham Seaton
Principal Research Advisor at National Highways
Graham Seaton is a Principal Research Advisor and Chartered Engineer in National Highways Research Group. He joined the then Highways Agency in 2006 after working in local government for 23 years in highways engineering following his graduation from Bradford University in 1983 with a degree in Civil and Structural Engineering.
During his 17 Years at the Highways Agency and later Highways England and National Highways he has had a varied career including project managing road schemes in Major Projects, undertaking Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) research and development activities in the ITS Research Group and Administering highway maintenance contracts and leading a collaborative community of suppliers in SW Operations.
In his present role, Graham’s priorities include providing strategic direction to research, undertaking international research collaborations and managing a research portfolio including sponsoring of individual projects.
26 April 2023 - 09:00am - 09:40am
Working Group Update – SPATULA What’s happening in Connected Vehicles
Joseph Davidson
Project Officer, Land & Maritime Transport at Innovate UK
Joseph completed his MEng Chemical Engineering degree at Imperial College London in June 2021, with research areas including carbon capture, water purification, and RNA vaccine production. He joined Innovate UK in September 2021 as part of the Graduate Programme, initially working for six months in Operations helping to deliver internal process improvements and then in the Global Team to work on collaboration with Innovate UK’s partners in Europe and Asia. He joined the Land and Maritime Transport Team in September 2022, focusing on impact and evaluation, active travel and zero emission vehicles.
27 April 2023 - 10:15am - 10:30am
UKRI: Innovate UK Funding to support the future landscape of transport technology
Liz James
Senior Security Consultant at NCC Group
Dr Liz James is a Senior Security Consultant at NCC Group and the Vice-chair of TechUK’s Intelligent Mobility and Transport group. She works closely with all classes of client, including OEMs, T1/T2 suppliers, System Integrators, Service providers and end users to align a mix of practicable technical and people/policy and process guidance to the security and resiliency challenges they are facing.
27 April 2023 - 11:55am - 12:00pm
DfT Manual for Smart Streets – Cyber Security
Mark Cartwright
Director at Centaur Consulting Ltd
Mark Cartwright began his professional career as an academic mathematician, but for 30+ years has worked as a consultant, advising clients on the practical impact of communications and information systems on business process, and in particular on policies, strategies, architectures and practicality of. His client list includes UK Government Departments, European institutions, non-Departmental Agencies, standards bodies, local authorities, system suppliers, emergency services, energy utilities, telecommunications operators, retailers, and financial services companies.
The majority of Mark’s work, though, has been in the transport technology sector. Since 1995 he has been involved in the management of UTMC, from its origins as a research programme through to its current reboot. He is almost as well-known in the public transport community: he was Managing Director of RTIG for some fifteen years. More recently, he has also gained considerable experience in guiding the progress of CAV projects.
26 April 2023 - 09:55am - 10:35am
Working Group Update – UTMC A framework for ITS in the 2020s and beyond
Mark Nicholson
Founder and CEO, at VivaCity
Mark co-founded VivaCity with Yang Lu, CTO and Peter Mildon, COO. The three met while designing, manufacturing and racing a road-legal solar-powered car. Today Mark has overall responsibility for the strategic direction of VivaCity, combining his technical and commercial experience with a passion for bringing artificial intelligence to the transport systems we all use every day.
26 April 2023 - 03:05pm - 03:15pm
Supplier Presentation – VivaCity Labs The road to vision zero: An AI-Powered Approach
Martyn Minear
Principal Engineer at ARUP
Martyn is a Principal Intelligent Mobility Engineer at Arup, based in London. Martyn experience in delivering a range of future mobility strategies and supporting local authority transport data schemes. Martyn led the TTF C19 Data Insights commission, between 2021-2023, and coordinated the submission of numerous conference papers and articles around the commission.
26 April 2023 - 04:00pm - 04:15pm
The roadmap from Covid-19 Data Insights to a Local Authority Data Reporting Pipeline
Matt Terry
Commercial Director at AppyWay
Matt has extensive experience in supporting local authorities and organisations in deploying cutting edge technology solutions to reduce carbon emissions and increase the adoption of sustainable mobility solutions. AppyWay's Traffic Suite is leading the revolution in digital kerbside solutions helping local authorities to realise decarbonisation strategies through efficient management of traffic regulation orders.
26 April 2023 - 04:30pm - 04:40pm
Supplier Presentation – Appy Way Unlocking the future of our roads by digitilising 4 inches of concrete
Max Sugarman
Chief Executive at Intelligent Transport Systems UK
Max Sugarman is Chief Executive of Intelligent Transport Systems UK, the national voice of the transport technology industry. He manages the strategy and direction of the organisation, representing the sector to government and stakeholders and making the case for the value of intelligent transport.
He has around a decade of experience working in transport, innovation and communications. He has previously worked at the Catapult Network, where he supported the nine Catapult innovation centres on cross-cutting policy issues and political engagement, and as Public Affairs & PR Director at the Railway Industry Association (RIA), the leading UK trade body for rail suppliers, where he led an award-winning communications function.
He has previously worked at the Institution of Civil Engineers, at a corporate communications agency in the City, at London City Hall and at the House of Representatives in the US. He has a diploma in professional PR, is a Chartered PR Practitioner and has been Chair of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) Public Affairs Group since 2021. Max is passionate about transport and the role it plays in people’s lives, in supporting economic growth and reaching net zero.
26 April 2023 - 04:15pm - 04:30pm
Exploring export priorities for the ITS sector
Paul Chandler
Head of Traffic Management, Digital Services at Department for Transport
Paul has worked in the Streetworks sector for nearly 20 years. As a utility, a contractor, a Highway Authority and most recently for the Department for Transport. He has sat on various working groups, the National Permit Forum and acted as a regional HAUC chair. Since 2018 he has been the Product Owner for Street Manager, the digital service for managing roadworks in England. Currently he is working to digitise Traffic Regulation Orders and make that dataset easily available.
27 April 2023 - 10:00am - 10:15am
DfT: Digital TROs – Kerb Your Enthusiasm but the future of Traffic Orders is here
Paul Darlow
Traffic & Network Manager at Portsmouth City Council
Paul is the Traffic & Network Manager at Portsmouth City Council. He has worked at the authority for nearly 30 years in a variety of roles, including GIS, IT and most recently Transport for the last 5 years. He currently leads a team that deliver the various aspects of managing Portsmouth's road network, including the investigation and application of technology. Whilst excited to explore the opportunities that technology can bring, he is also keen to ensure that innovation is able to be embedded into sustainable service operations, thereby enhancing the ongoing experience of network users.
27 April 2023 - 12:30pm - 12:45pm
Portsmouth City Council: Drivers may be LOOKING through the windscreen but are they actually SEEING anything?
Paul Hutton
Communications Lead at Transport Technology Forum
Paul Hutton is one of the world’s leading journalists specialising in transport technology. A trained broadcast journalist who worked as a presenter, newsreader and sports reporter on local and national radio and TV, Paul has been in the ITS sector for nearly 25 years having run the operations of two radio traffic news companies.
Paul worked on the Travel Information Highway and delivered the Traffic Radio service for government as well as providing traffic reports for the vast majority of BBC and commercial radio stations across the UK and also working in Canada, Australia and the US. During that time he introduced technology solutions such as the use of Floating Vehicle Data and app-based services.
He co-owns the website Highways-News.com, provides PR and communications support for the Transport Technology Forum and a number of SMEs and regularly hosts webinars and moderates panel debates at events.
27 April 2023 - 09:45am - 10:00am
DfT: Traffic and Technology; Information update: What’s new!
Paula Claytonsmith
Director, Government, and Strategy at Local Council Roads Innovation Group (LCRIG)
Paula is LCRIG’s Director, Government and Strategy and formerly Executive Board Director at Gaist, the multi-award-winning international highways and mobile mapping company working with the Government, local authorities, private sector, and international organisations.
Paula has worked in local government leading frontline services, a national public sector improvement agency tasked with performance improvement, KPMG Government Advisory, international consulting assignments, political lobbying sector, and independent national government advisory roles. Paula has also worked in executive leadership roles in the charitable sector including a major stem cell cancer charity leading their operations department and a strategic policy and lobbying role in a leading environmental charity focused on behaviour change to improve local environmental quality. Latterly she has been involved with PIARC, World Roads Association technical committee on accessibility and mobility in rural areas.
Paula’s passion for technology, data, and public services means that she has spoken on more than one occasion on BBC Radio4’s programme “In Business” about technology and Infrastructure. Paula has authored articles about infrastructure, data, and its social impact for the Institute of Highway Engineers. In 2019, Paula gave evidence directly to the Transport Select Committee on Local Roads Funding and Governance. Paula is also a member of the Royal Meteorology Society, with a strong personal interest in extreme weather, climate change, and other weather phenomena.
27 April 2023 - 02:15pm - 02:20pm
Importance of collaboration across nations, regions, internationally and with communities
Peter Cattell
Head of Technical Sales at Clearview Intelligence
Peter re-joined the Clearview team approx. eight years after a spell working in other parts of the Intelligent Transport Sector. He combines this broad sector experience with a technical background from his early days as an engineer to provide expert solution design insights. Covering all sectors of the UK highway network, Pete works with clients and colleagues to design and implement solutions designed to improve safety and reduce congestion, as well as working across the country and internationally promoting Clearview products, solutions and services.
In his spare time Peter is a keen recreational drone pilot and can often be found trying to improve his flying and photography skills.
27 April 2023 - 12:45pm - 01:00pm
Lead Conference Sponsor – Clearview Intelligence From Policy to Pavement
Shamala Evans-Gadgil
EV Infrastructure Programme Manager at Coventry City Council
Shamala is a 3rd year part time PGR within the Research Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility at Coventry University and is also an experienced Senior Civil Engineer and Programme/Project Manager, in the design and implementation of challenging, complex and wide-ranging infrastructure projects. Her experience includes (1) Innovation projects within the decarbonising transport platform, renewables, battery storage and management; (2) Local Transport Plans, including Network Efficiency projects and Waste Management projects; (3) Traffic Management, including traffic calming measures; (4) General roadworks, including road geometry; and (5) Regeneration, public realm and urban environment projects.
26 April 2023 - 01:30pm - 02:15pm
Working Group Update – EV Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Working Group Update 2023 Road Map
Steve George
TTF UTMC Working Group Chair at UTMC
Steve is an experienced and versatile ITS practitioner, project and programme manager with experience gained in both private and public-sector organisations. He is the founder and Director of SG Transport Innovation Ltd (SGTI) established in July 2006. Steve brings a wealth of experience and a successful track record of ITS system deployment gained from over 30 years in the traffic industry. The experience gained from being at the sharp end of delivery provides a valuable insight to the practicalities of delivering innovative LHA projects that support their transport policy objectives.
26 April 2023 - 09:55am - 10:35am
Working Group Update – UTMC A framework for ITS in the 2020s and beyond
Steve Gooding
Director at RAC Foundation
Steve became Director of the RAC Foundation in 2015, commissioning research into areas such as road safety, road condition, and the development and take-up of technology including automation with a particular focus on the human-machine interface. Previously Steve worked at the Department for Transport for many years, and as Director General from 2009, where he led many projects and policy initiatives including the creation of the Road Investment Strategy and establishment of Highways England.
26 April 2023 - 08:45am - 09:00am
Introduction
27 April 2023 - 09:00am - 09:25am
Welcome to the conference
27 April 2023 - 03:10pm - 03:25pm
Q&A Chair: Steve Gooding
27 April 2023 - 03:50pm - 04:00pm
Closing remarks
Tim Gale
Assistant Infrastructure Strategy Consultant at Cenex
Tim is an Assistant Infrastructure Strategy Consultant for Cenex, focusing on EV Infrastructure. He is passionate about the delivery of equitable sustainable transport and has experience helping to deliver EV Infrastructure at Nottingham City Council. His work at Cenex includes assisting in its’ role supporting the Local EV Infrastructure fund for OZEV.
26 April 2023 - 01:30pm - 02:15pm
Working Group Update – EV Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Working Group Update 2023 Road Map
Tim Whiteley
Senior Solutions Manager at P Ducker Systems Ltd
An experienced Technical Sales and Marketing Manager, Tim has worked across multiple roles and organisations in client facing support and management roles. Originally, qualified as an electronic engineer, he is passionate about science and technology, applying his technical and sector knowledge to help solve transport challenges.
PDS are an engineering led, systems integration company mainly within transportation markets. His role as Technical Solutions Manager involves working closely with customers, colleagues and suppliers to provide technical solutions to help overcome problems.
26 April 2023 - 12:10pm - 12:20pm
Supplier Presentation – PDS Limited Active Travel & Modality Monitoring
