Natasha is a Director experienced in delivering growth, deal and operational strategy. Starting in downstream Oil & Gas, with a short stint in Nuclear Power, Natasha is now supporting Energy, Automotive and Financial Services clients evaluate the impact of Electric and alternate drivetrains and the wider Mobility disruption on their business and operating models alongside supporting Investors to deploy funds into this growing ecosystem.

Ben is a Director and leads KPMG's Future Mobility team, providing consultancy services to clients spanning zero-emission mobility, intelligent transport, smart ticketing/fare payment systems, Mobility as a Service (‘MaaS’), Connected & Autonomous Vehicle technologies, Demand Responsive Transport, and Command & Control (including traffic management and signalling).

Ben advises clients across the business model life-cycle, from market analysis and development of business and digital strategies and operating models through to policy and regulatory model definition, change portfolio & delivery roadmap development, Business Case development, funding and financing, requirements definition, and sourcing.

Ben's work spans the transport and mobility services industry, and includes both public and private sector clients. He has significant experience working with central and devolved government, infrastructure authorities, and major metropolitan transportation authorities around the globe, including Transport for London, Singapore's Land Transport Authority, Ireland’s National Transport Authority, and New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority on innovation, asset commercialisation, partnerships, and new business models.

Rachel Maclean was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport on 14 February 2020. She was elected Conservative MP for Redditch in 2017.

Education
Rachel studied Experimental Psychology at St Hugh's College, Oxford and obtained a master's degree in Work and Occupational Psychology from Aston University.

Political Career
Rachel was elected as Member of Parliament for Redditch at the 2017 General Election. She sat on the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee between September 2017 and June 2018. Rachel has served as a Parliamentary Private Secretary in the Home Office, Department for Work and Pensions and HM Treasury.

Career outside politics
Rachel joined HSBC in 1989, working in Australia, Japan and Hong Kong. In 2005 she set up a publishing company with her husband specialising in IT and software content. More recently Rachel co-founded a HR-software business which provides a platform for SMEs to use the latest technology tools to run their businesses more efficiently.
Rachel founded ‘Skilled and Ready’, a charity working with schools to help young people develop skills that businesses look for in their employees.

Personal life
Rachel is married and has 3 sons and a daughter.

Frances joined Ofgem in January 2015 and is the director for Energy Systems Management & Security, with responsibility for the regulatory arrangements to support the transition of energy systems. This involves overseeing all aspects of network charging, flexibility, wholesale markets and system operation across the electricity and gas networks, and leading Ofgem’s work on Electric Vehicles.
Before joining Ofgem, Frances was a director in the Economic Advisory Practice at EY where she specialised in the energy sector. Prior to that, she was a competition investigation director at the Office of Fair Trading. Frances has a Masters degree in economics from LSE and a Bachelors degree in engineering physics from Queen’s University in Canada.

Aaron Berry is Deputy Head of the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) at the UK Department for Transport.  OLEV work to support the UK’s ambitions to transition to ultra low emission vehicles (ULEVs). Aaron leads teams responsible for regulation and incentive schemes that support the roll-out of chargepoint infrastructure for electric vehicles. Aaron studied at Keele University where he graduated with a first class degree in environmental management and business. He is married and lives near London with his wife and three teenage sons.

Graeme leads National Grid’s work on electric vehicles/decarbonisation of transport by leading and coordinating all the work relating to the UK regulated business of National Grid. As National Grid separates the Transmission Ownership (TO) from the System Operation (SO) by April 2019, Graeme will be representing the TO business of National Grid. His work helps the Government, the energy and automotive industry’s transition towards zero emission vehicles. With over a decade in communications infrastructure and over a decade in low/zero carbon electricity, Graeme is a well-known and highly respected energy industry expert.

Graeme is a graduate of Oxford Brookes University (BSc 1997) and Bi Norwegian Business School (MBA Energy 2016).

Graeme takes his decarbonisation work home with him as he drives a PHEV and BEV and heats his home using ground source heat pumps.

Alex Harrison is an energy partner at Hogan Lovells. He advises clients on power generation, greenfield and brownfield project development, project and structured financing, electricity regulation, electricity and emissions trading, and acquisitions and disposals across the renewables, low carbon and thermal power sectors. 
He has worked on coal, gas, LNG to power, carbon capture and storage (CCS), nuclear, wind, solar, biomass, hydro and energy storage transactions. Alex also advises clients in relation to energy transition, aggregation and digitalization issues; on electric vehicle (EV) charging and the electrification of transport and heat; and on the development, financing and regulation of grid network infrastructure assets.

Patrick Ayad runs your business from a legal perspective. He is a global leading practitioner on international contract drafting, procurement, and distribution, as well as an experienced regulatory advisor. Within more than 15 years he has gained considerable knowledge of commercial and regulatory matters, advising global companies, particularly in the industrial and consumer goods industry sectors. 

Patrick heads the Commercial practice area in Germany and is on the leadership team of the global Commercial practice area. He is also the Global Head of the Industry Sector Group Automotive and Mobility at Hogan Lovells. 

According to recent sources, "top-notch lawyer" Patrick Ayad has a strong standing in the market for his "extensive expertise in global commercial contracts mandates" (Chambers Europe, 2019). For every issue "he is able to offer practically implementable solutions and doesn't get lost in academic discussions." In addition, "he is able to adopt our way of thinking" (Client in Chambers Europe, 2019). He is also known to be "a leading expert for automotive distribution matters and automotive sector work in general.

Philip is the Chief Executive Officer of the Energy Systems Catapult. The Energy Systems Catapult was established in April 2015 with the remit to support the transition of the UK Energy System and enable economic growth from the many commercial and technological opportunities that will be created as the way we make, distribute and use energy undergoes radical change over the coming decades. The scope includes the interaction of energy with adjacent sectors, including water and transport

He is a Commissioner on the global Energy Transition Commission and a member of the Global Futures Council of the World Economic Forum.  Philip is also a Fellow of the Energy Institute and sits on various Advisory Panels.

Before joining the Catapult Philip worked for BP for over 30 years in a range of commercial and general management positions, mostly in customer-facing businesses, operating in Asia, North and South America, and Europe. 

Philip has an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University, and lives in Oxford, UK with his wife. His three children are now at University.

Toby is committed to reshaping mobility towards the low carbon, connected and electric future. He is a marketing and business development professional with 20 years experience across B2C and B2B sectors, and proven ability to develop, launch and manage innovative products, services and partnerships on a global scale. He's currently responsible for growing Shell's European electric vehicle charging business, ensuring motorists can trust Shell to provide a simple-to-use, reliable network of rapid charge posts. Toby's passion is “making charging your car out-of-home as simple and as convenient as filling up with fuel to help accelerate the energy transition”. In addition to EV charging, he leads the development of Shell’s Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) and bio LNG business growth which is helping to reduce the environmental impact of heavy duty trucks. He has strong business development experience and has created numerous commercial partnerships with industry leading companies including VW, Porsche, Hyundai, Geely and BMW.

Tom has worked in the electric vehicle and wider automotive sector for 12 years. He formerly chaired the UK motor industry's principle EV group and has extensive knowledge of electric vehicles, infrastructure and associated technologies. His role at bp Chargemaster includes engaging with the media, car manufacturers, government and other stakeholders, and helping to develop strategy. He drives around 30,000 pure electric, zero-emission miles per year.

Karl Anders is Managing Director and CEO UK of innogy eMobility Solutions. A new company within the Innogy group which specializes in supplying electric vehicle charging solutions for businesses.
Karl has recently come from Nissan GB where he held the role of National EV Manager – Corporate Sales. He has previously held positions with the Energy Saving Trust and General Motors and has been in the automotive industry for 30 years in the UK and overseas. The company is a supplier to several major automobile manufacturers and has already started the roll out for the Audi UK dealer network.

Marzia brings a wealth of Energy and Policy experience to Kaluza having spent over 20 years working on policies and strategies to enable the energy transition for regulators, business and not for profit sectors. In her most recent role, Marzia was Director of Insights at the World Energy Council and led a team of global energy experts on unlocking opportunities related to the energy transition. Prior to that, Marzia worked for Sempra Energy in Los Angeles and was a policy advisor for California’s energy regulator in San Francisco. Here she was instrumental in their smart meter rollout and in the early regulatory work to help legitimise ride sharing companies including Uber and Lyft. In her new role as Kaluza’s Head of Customer Policy & Strategy, Marzia will ensure that the consumer remains at the heart of the transition to a decarbonised energy system.

Marzia has a degree in Business and Accounting from San Diego, California.

Edmund King has been President of the Automobile Association since 2008 and is also a Visiting Professor of Transport at Newcastle University. He is also a trustee and director of the AA Charitable Trust for Road Safety and the Environment. The Trust won a Prince Michael International Road Safety Award in 2018 for ten years of innovative road safety campaigns.

He has a politics degree from Newcastle University and a postgraduate diploma in broadcasting. He has worked as a committee secretary for the Social Science Research Council, for a Government Department in Whitehall, in public relations for a wine company in Burgundy, in the motor industry in California, as a broadcaster in Los Angeles, as Campaigns Co-Coordinator for the British Road Federation, and for various motoring groups and think tanks.

He has written several reports on transport and often appears as a transport commentator on radio and television. He was awarded an OBE for ‘services to road safety’ in the 2016 Queen’s New Year Honours. He was runner-up in the Wolfson Economics Prize 2017 alongside his wife, Deirdre, for their thesis on ‘Road Miles’.

Rubina leads on e-mobility technologies and innovation at Centrica and also serves as an Advisory Expert to the Solar Impulse Foundation. Her previous roles span across technology development, strategy consulting, establishing new business divisions and running cleantech innovation programs having worked in the UK, USA and Australia. She has published more than 10 papers on distributed energy technologies in international journals including IEEE, TechCrunch and PV Tech Power and is a regular speaker at international conferences. Rubina holds a M.Eng. in energy systems engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a B.Eng. in electronics and sustainable energy from the Australian National University.

Ian Stillie was elected to serve as Chief Executive of ZPN Energy in August 2018. He is an entrepreneur and business leader, with extensive experience in serving on the Board of Directors within a variety of industries including media, pharma, sport and software across international markets. His academic foundations incorporate an MBA from Strathclyde University, a degree in mining engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand and a BSc in mining and petroleum engineering from Strathclyde University. He is also a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and FRSA.

Catherine supports the BVRLA’s policy and lobbying activities with specific focus on decarbonisation, air quality and future mobility. Catherine has worked in senior policy roles for over 13 years and has experience of working within private, public sector and not-for-profit organisations. She has previously worked for the British Retail Consortium, where she held the post of senior policy lead for crime and security.

With over 25 years of research and industry experience in telecom and energy, Joachim joined Gemserv leading on Smart Energy and Electric Vehicles. He previously led on complex innovation projects across the E-Mobility and Smart Energy space for E.ON, chairing the Energy UK EV working group (2016 –2018) and supporting technical standards development.

Christopher Burghardt is ChargePoint's Managing Director for Europe, responsible for leading all aspects of the company's European business. Chris joined ChargePoint from Uber where he was the head of policy and communications, EMEA. Prior to his role at Uber he led the global and emerging market expansion at First Solar, a provider of solar panels and utility-scale PV power plants. Other roles Chris has filled were as Vice President for Corporate Affairs for Western Europe at Anheuser-Busch InBev and as Vice President for Business Development and Marketing EMEA at Hill & Knowlton.

Chris holds an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, an MA from the College of Europe and a BA from the University of Sussex and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Aix-en-Provence. As a dual German/Belgian citizen, Chris is no stranger to Brussels as he grew up here for a part of his life and currently lives here with his wife and three young children.

Toddington is CEO at GRIDSERVE, a tech-enabled international sustainable energy business, developing and operating solar energy and energy storage solutions for critical power infrastructure.
Toddington is an experienced clean-energy entrepreneur, executive and investor with more than 16 years of CEO experience across five sustainable energy companies and he now leads the first subsidy free large scale solar PV developments in the UK, which will also co-locate with battery energy storage, and GRIDSERVE’s Electric Forecourts plan for EV charging destinations.

Katharina Winbeck is an environmental and social scientist, specialising in developing major public initiatives. She worked in health, housing, regeneration, environmental & major projects planning and transport. For the past twelve years she has been developing sustainability, environment, transport and infrastructure policy. She has worked for the NHS, three London Boroughs, Transport for London, the Audit Commission and now for London Councils. Katharina is passionate about London and environmental sustainability.

André ten Bloemendal is Vice President of Sales in Europe for ChargePoint. André has several decades of executive experience with a variety of notable companies in the energy and technology spaces, including New Motion where he served as Chief Commercial Officer, Lightning Europe, Fedet, and LedNed B.V. At ChargePoint where he is charged with helping to shape the company’s sales strategy and strategic partnerships in the European market. André holds a degree in Electronic, Modelling and Simulation from the University of Twente.

Christina Calderato is the Head of Transport Strategy and Planning at Transport for London. For the last 12 years, she has worked across a diverse range of policy areas at TfL and led the team that developed the current Mayor’s Transport Strategy and TfL’s input to the London Environment Strategy. In her current role, Christina is responsible for developing strategic transport policy on the TfL network over the next 30 years, including air quality and environment policy such as the decarbonisation of the transport network and the future of EV infrastructure in London.

James is a passionate advocate of electric vehicles, with nearly 10 years’ experience at Pod Point, following a career as an environmental consultant. As Pod Point’s third longest serving member, James has worked in Sales, Customer Operations and now Head of Insights, tasked with communicating to industry and key stakeholders, sharing his knowledge on all things EV charging. Pod Point’s current #ElectricInsights online interview series sees James in conversation with several of those stakeholders. 

Reza Shaybani has been managing private and public technology focused companies in the optical media manufacturing equipment, semiconductor and solar PV industries for the past 25 years. Since 2006 Rezahas played an active role in the solar PV industry globally. His recent posts have been board member of Quercus Group, a leading European renewable energy fund, VP Strategic Projects at Leclanch SA, Europe’s largest energy storage and battery manufacturer and most recently CEO of The EV Network. 

ABB is a world leader in the design and manufacture of electric vehicle charging infrastructure and has been a the forefront of this technology revolution for over 10 years.

Oliver leads ABB's Business Development in the segment and has been heavily involved in both the technical and commercial deployment of medium/high power charging right throughout the UK. These deployments include most of the key names in public charging both for destination and en-route high-power charging and the first public pantograph deployments for bus charging at Harrogate Bus Station and Birmingham International Airport.

Oliver has an MBA in International Business from Brighton University and is a qualified engineer and has a broad expertise in technology.

Paul holds a B.Eng (Hons) degree in Mechanical Engineering and Electronic Systems. He has spent his entire career working to keep electricity networks safe & reliable. When he joined EA Technology, he specialised in infrastructure asset management and worked with electricity utilities around the world to develop risk-based asset management techniques. As a result of this work, he sits as Patron’s representative on the Institute of Asset Management Council and is a co-opted member of the ISO/TC 251 UK mirror committee on Asset Management. More recently, the move to clean up and decarbonise of transport has re-kindled his passion for electric vehicles. In his current role as Head of Electric Vehicle Infrastructure, he is able to use his experience of large-scale infrastructure deployment to help utilities build networks that are fit for our future electric transport needs.

Natalie leads market intelligence at Arcadis with a particular focus on mobility (EV, CAV, MaaS). She tracks the latest trends, technologies and solutions impacting the built asset sector, combining thought leadership, innovation, strategy and business insight. Natalie is an experienced management consultant with a background in automotive, transportation and the future of city mobility, focusing on strategy development, competitive intelligence and market research. A well-respected industry influencer, Natalie presents and moderates at several industry events and acts as a commentator in television current affairs programmes.

Marco has more than 18 years' experience in energy and infrastructure financings as an equity investor, senior debt provider and asset manager. Marco joined SMBC in 2007. Based in London, he is the sector lead for SMBC's renewable energy business where his responsibilities include the origination, structuring and execution of lead arranger roles in the energy generation, energy transition and smart energy space. Previously, Marco headed the smart grids & infrastructure utilities business for SMBC and successfully built a book of energy efficiency assets, enabling more than 11 million households in the UK access to smart meters. Marco's track record covers many landmark and award winning projects in a variety of sectors, including renewables, energy, smart grid infrastructure, waste, transmission, PPP/PFI, social infrastructure, transportation, infrastructure funds and mergers & acquisitions. Prior to SMBC, Marco worked for Bilfinger Project Investments on equity investments where he was involved in all aspects of the lifecycle of infrastructure assets, from early bid stages through to financial close, construction & operations management and equity sales in the secondary market.

Leading policy & engagement with external stakeholders on a wide range of issues from zero emission vehicles to business competitiveness. Prior to joining Nissan in 2015, he was a senior civil servant at the Department of Business, Innovation & Skills, most recently working on EU competitiveness issues. Previous roles included renewable energy, international trade, employment regulation and business financing. He started his career in the water industry, working in operational management and strategy development.

Phil has over 32 years’ experience in the electricity infrastructure sector, supporting shareholders and clients balance the risk and return in existing and emerging markets. Supporting the optimisation of asset investments, integrating new technologies such as electric vehicle infrastructure, battery storage and creation of additional value by either accessing new markets or reducing costs and minimising risk. His career has shifted from an apprentice engineer, electrical infrastructure designer and project manager to helping shareholders and clients transition their businesses through transformational organisational change and preparing themselves for new and emerging technology and markets.

Ian Cameron has over 20 years’ international experience in the electricity distribution networks industry. His background is in network operation, capital construction and connections, with a specific focus on renewable energy and system optimisation, this focus is supported through his Electrical and Mechanical degrees.

As Head of Innovation for UK Power Networks, Ian’s role includes management of the central team of highly skilled engineers providing support to the business and industry through developing innovative solutions to strategic key focus areas. These focus areas being readiness of the distribution network for the low carbon transition, future business / operating models and efficient and effective delivery of existing business outputs. Furthermore, Ian has overall accountability for innovation delivery programmes and innovation strategic direction.

Ian’s career started in Eskom South Africa, where he left the position of Senior Technical Specialist, he then joined UK firm Freedom Group Power Projects division as Regional delivery manager. Since joining UK Power Networks Ian has overseen the delivery and connection of over 230 large renewable distributed generation sites, adding over 4GW to the grid in three years before moving on to his current role as head of the industry-leading Innovation Team.

Stefan is a Director within the Infrastructure team at MUFG, one of the world's leading Project Finance banks. He holds a politics and law degree from the University of Cape Town. He has since early 2007 been involved in the structuring and arranging of various project finance transactions across a range of diverse sectors and geographies including Transport, Smart Metering and Energy from Waste. He has a particular interest in how technology will impact the Infrastructure of tomorrow.

Paul is an experienced corporate executive with deep knowledge of TMT, Health and Education Sectors. Paul was on the pre-IPO executive management teams at Netscape and Realnetworks, led the management buy-out at Authoriszor and has advised numerous start-ups in the areas of both strategy, fund raising and new business development. He has CEO and executive management experience in UK, Europe, Asia and US ranging from start-ups to multi-billion-revenue, publicly traded companies. He is visiting lecturer on entrepreneurship at Henley Management College and London School of Communication Arts

Jeremy Yapp began his professional life managing an independent retail business. He worked for some years in the Australian Parliament and then in several energy and environment policy areas in the UK Civil Service. For BEAMA he represents the supply chain of smart metering and smart data, IoT, distributed energy storage and EV infrastructure.

Stephane Tetot, Director, is a Portfolio Manager with BlackRock's Global Renewable Power platform which currently manages close to $5bn across more than 150 wind and solar projects across 4 continents. Stephane is responsible for originating, executing and managing renewable power investment opportunities in Europe.

Steve is Director of the RAC Foundation, an independent charitable think-tank that commissions and disseminates research relating to motoring. Recent reports have covered topics including the safety of older drivers, the number of speeding offences detected by different police forces, and the roll-out of chargepoints for electric vehicles.

Steve took over at the Foundation in 2015 after a long civil service career encompassing many transport-related roles, latterly as Director General for Roads, Traffic & Local at the Department for Transport. 
After graduating from Durham University Steve joined the civil service in 1983, moving to the Transport Department in 1987 where, amongst other roles, he was private secretary to transport ministers Peter Bottomley, Michael Portillo and Roger Freeman. 

Steve is a fellow of the CIHT, vice-president of the CILT, a trustee of the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund, a regular columnist in Highways magazine and commentator on transport issues in the media.

Throughout his career, Matt has been involved in various parts of the energy value chain from market research and consulting (Bloomberg New Energy Finance) to electricity supply (Good Energy and Tempus Energy) and renewables development (Livos Energy). Matt has also served in the US Peace Corps in SE Asia, worked for the Democratic Party in the 2004 Presidential election and was a 4-year collegiate athlete. Matt has a passion for business model innovation and disruption, with the goal of improvement that can be measured financially, socially and environmentally.

Mike Wilson has been Chief Highways Engineer at Highways England since September 2013. His responsibilities include the provision of technical support to the organisation for the delivery of its programme that includes the development of technical standards for all aspects of highway maintenance, operation and improvement. This development activity is underpinned by an innovation programme and includes work on safety, intelligent mobility and asset management.
Previously Mike led the development of Smart Motorways for the Highways Agency and was Regional Director responsible for the maintenance, improvement and long-term development of the strategic road network in the South West, East Midlands and East. Mike led for the Highways Agency on all aspects of operational policy including for maintenance, incident and emergency management and network occupancy.
His early career was spent on maintenance and improvement of the strategic road network.

Ian is Account Manager, Supply Chain at the Energy Saving Trust. The organisation is dedicated to help people and businesses save energy and has a dedicated transport team.
His role includes providing technical support for the Trust’s extensive work supporting private and public organisations transition to Ultra Low Emission Vehicles. Ian also leads the Trust’s work with the new and used vehicle supply chain, helping the sector understand and effectively sell electric cars and vans.
Ian has provided technical input into a number of reports including SMMT’s Electric Car Guide 2011, Plugged in Fleets published by The Climate Group 2012, Plugged in Fleets Initiative –charging forward published by EST 2013, Getting to grips with grey fleet published by BVRLA 2016 and Low Emission Taxi Guide published by LowCvp 2018.
Before joining the Energy Saving Trust, Ian worked in the leasing and fleet management industry and is a member of the Institute of the Motor Industry.

Sarah leads KPMG's Future Mobility business. She looks at strategy, emerging value pools, new approaches to the customer and investment cases across automotive, energy, financial services, infrastructure and public transport. She has a particular interest in how the public and private sectors need to work together differently to facilitate the real benefits of CAVs, EVs and MaaS. She has over 15 years' experience advising public sector organisations in the UK and overseas. Prior to joining KPMG, Sarah worked in Strategy and Corporate Development for Ford Motor Company in the US and the UK, where she worked on numerous technology joint ventures.

Christopher is Uber's UKI Clean Air Lead. This means he is responsible for Uber’s ambition to be 100% electric in London by 2025 and helping to scale up sustainability efforts across the UK and beyond. This includes helping to shape Uber’s plan to be zero emissions by 2040. 

He sits on Global Action Plan's Business Clean Air Taskforce and regularly engages with government, regulators, NGOs and other companies about how to encourage more sustainable transport. 

Prior to joining Uber in 2019, Christopher spent ten years as a sustainability strategy consultant at Accenture Strategy, culminating in leading Accenture’s Sustainable Finance practice. During this time he worked closely with Accenture Development Partnerships, applying his knowledge of sustainability to support large NGOs and development organisations.

Roisin works in the City Planning department of Transport for London (TfL), with a primary role to implement the Mayor of London’s Transport Strategy; providing strategic direction to improve the Capital’s transport offer, enable its future growth and secure better health and environmental outcomes.
A key aspect in working towards the MTS policy of seeking to make London’s transport network zero emissions by 2050, is the switch to zero emission vehicles. One means of gaining insight to some of the challenges to this agenda is to undertake research and demonstrate near-market technologies to potentially remove some of these barriers. Working with key stakeholders to shape London’s future, Roisin leads the portfolio of Innovate UK and European funded research and innovation projects at TfL which aims to gain insight and further understanding of some of these barriers to enable the widespread switch to electric vehicles and development of infrastructure.

Dr Euan McTurk is an electrochemist who has been working on battery tech and driving electric vehicles since 2009. During his PhD at the University of Oxford, Euan worked on next-generation battery chemistries and the instrumentation of commercial lithium-ion cells to determine their true performance limits. He recently built a state-of-the-art battery test facility in Edinburgh, where he encountered many of the same hurdles that EV charging infrastructure providers come up against when trying to connect several hundred kilowatts of equipment to the grid!
Euan is the creator of the YouTube channel Plug Life Television, which explains the complex electrochemistry of batteries in a way that anyone can understand. Following the success of the channel, he has launched Plug Life Consulting Ltd, which assists academia, business, industry and government organisations with projects relating to battery technology, electric vehicles, energy storage systems and charging infrastructure.

Sara is a transport professional with a background in public and private sector, Sara has over fifteen years of Infrastructure project management and sustainable development experience. Sara has delivered project management for the West of England wide “Local Sustainable Transport Fund” and set up the Cycling City advisor team for Bristol City Council. Sara has more recently been leading on Go Ultra Low West project for North Somerset Council, overseeing the roll out of electric vehicle charging infrastructure. After receiving the GreenFleet EV Champion Award in 2018 and featuring on the EV100 list in 2019 and 2020, Sara was invited to participate in an exchange visit with the Dutch embassy to explore how Holland has embraced electric mobility and clean energy. Sara aims to use her experience and expertise to encourage healthy procurement competition and ensure wide reaching supply and market opportunities clean energy transition.

Hugo Herrmann is a chartered engineer who has been working for the past 7 years in the energy industry. He started working with EDF in the offshore wind industry, looking at new ways to measure the wind resource offshore and at making operations safer and more efficient.

Hugo is now part of the EV Solutions Team leading EDF Energy's work on Vehicle-to-Grid. His role is to develop EDF's commercial offer in the UK, bringing to market innovative smart charging solutions whilst making sure that these solutions will have a positive impact on the grid.

Justin Laney manages the John Lewis Partnership fleet of nearly 4,000 commercial vehicles and 1,300 cars. The fleet is recognised for leading in innovation, and the priorities remain to reduce all emissions including those affecting air quality and noise, through efficiency and displacing all diesel with low carbon alternatives.
Areas of focus include using biomethane in heavy trucks, electrification of home delivery operations, high capacity vehicles, aerodynamics, and other methods, based on good science and rigorous testing. Key John Lewis Partnership commitments include running all heavy trucks on biomethane by 2028, and achieving a zero carbon fleet by 2045, together with an ambition to remove all fossil fuel from the fleet by 2030.
Justin’s career started with London Transport (Buses), having obtained a BEng at Liverpool University. He also worked at UPS for 20 years, managing fleets in EMEA as well as the UK.
Justin is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, a Director of the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership, and Chair of the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight (SRF) Steering Committee.

Chris Wright founded Moixa with Simon Daniel in 2006 and leads technology development as CTO. Over the last 10 years Moixa have developed the GridShare VPP software platform - now connected to over 20,000 energy storage systems in Japan - and the UKs leading domestic energy storage system, the UK market-leading Moixa Smart Battery. Moixa are now partnered with leading Japanese companies including ITOCHU & Honda, delivering next generation energy models.
Moixa is based in London’s Clerkenwell design district, has a roster of patents in the arena of computer interface technology, batteries and renewable energy.
Chris studied architecture at Cambridge University and worked as an architect at practices including Norman Foster and Partners, and in industrial design, before founding Moixa to address the challenges of the Energy transition

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Building the most intuitive and innovative Internet of Energy business with Electric Miles
15 years experience in Energy Markets and Utilities in UK & Europe with Big Energy Utilities.
Built 1st intelligent charge prototype in his garage with a 2nd hand EV and charger.
Seasoned entrepreneur with successful businesses in Tech & Energy.

Fergal recently became AMTE Power's Head of Automotive and Aerospace. In this new role, Fergal is using his six years of experience in the electric vehicle sector to oversee AMTE Power's strategy in the automotive and aerospace sectors, to ensure the successful deployment of our Ultra cell range and gigafactory projects, both in the UK and Worldwide. Fergal still leads the company’s grant-funded strategy and have already created and overseen £10m worth of submissions for UK and EU funding in his first nine months.

His previous roles were PRINCE2 qualified programme manager (~£9m APC project, and partner lead on two others), production engineer (niche vehicle programme) and Level 4 EV safety and repair qualified EV manufacturing trainer. Fergal has also worked in the Aerospace/Defence, Electric Vehicle and Building Services sectors with an industry-proven track record of expertise in project management, CAD design, CAM, quality implementation, MRP, engineering consultancy, procurement and large-scale commercial estimation.