Andrew Allen

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Public Transport, Microsoft

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Michelle Mulder

Azure Data and AI Specialist, Microsoft

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Andy Graham

Transport Technology Forum

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Liz Scott MBE

Executive Director, Turing Innovation Catalyst, Manchester

Liz is a long time tech ecosystem supporter, advisor and advocate. She has supported businesses large and small, nationally and internationally to grow, innovate and evolve for over 20 years. As Programme Director at the newly established Turing Innovation Catalyst Manchester (TIC), Liz is focused on building a new not for profit that will catalyse an AI ecosystem across Greater Manchester, and will use AI to grow careers, businesses and the city economy. Over the next 2 years TIC will be delivering AI accelerators, Venture Builders, Skills programmes as well as a whole host of events and activities to drive the AI ecosystem forward.

Prior to TIC Liz was part of the Executive Board at Tech Nation, responsible for supporting a National Community of 4500+ scaleups; delivery of international programmes; the Global Tech Talent Visa programme; all non-grant revenue; and strategic partnerships. In her Non-Exec Director and Advisory board roles Liz works with a number of tech sector focused organisations.

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Andrew Browning

CEO, SchemeFlow

Andrew Browning is the CEO and Co-Founder of SchemeFlow, the AI report writing startup for transport planners. Previously Andrew was Chief of Staff to West Midlands Mayor, Andy Street, working to secure billions of pounds of additional Government funding for transport and housing projects, and chasing the delivery of infrastructure schemes at Transport for West Midlands, such as the Midland Metro and the new stations programme, and prior to that he worked at the Boston Consulting Group.

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Nick Reed

Director, Reed Mobility

Dr Nick Reed is the founder of Reed Mobility, an independent future mobility research consultancy, working across public, private and academic sectors and aiming to deliver transport systems that are safe, clean, efficient, ethical and equitable. In 2021, He was appointed as National Highways first ever Chief Road Safety Adviser.

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Jon User

Partnership Director, Optibus

Jon has worked in sustainable transport for over 15 years. It was a part-time job driving a bus around the streets of Bristol whilst at University that convinced him to pursue a career in transport. Since then, he has worked with local and national governments to decarbonise the transport system. He is an expert in transport policy, has led partnerships, public affairs and communications teams and has delivered national programmes for the Department for Transport. 

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Damian Horton

Co-Founder & Managing Director, Eloy

Damian Horton is a co-founder and managing director of Eloy. 

Eloy is pioneering multi-vehicle coordination and cooperative driving software, which orchestrates the movement of road vehicles to reduce congestion. Damian is responsible for Eloy’s artificial intelligence development and securing intellectual property. He holds an MA in Mathematics from the University of Oxford and an MSc in Industrial Mathematics from the University of Bristol.

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Sara El Hanfy

Head of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Innovate UK

Sara works to identify, support and accelerate high growth-potential innovation in the UK, based on cutting-edge AI and data research and technology. She is passionate about diversity in STEM and digital inclusion. With a background in computer science, Sara has significant commercial digital experience working in the third and private sectors. Prior to joining Innovate UK, she worked as an AI consultant advising global organisations on AI development strategies and implementation.

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Steve Isaacs

Asset Manager, Univrses

Steve Isaacs has been an enthusiastic supporter of innovation in the highway maintenance world for the last 40+ years, Over his career he has delivered for a number of local authorities, the Transport Research Laboratory and now in the field of Asset Management for the leading AI specialist company Univrses. Steve's focus is on delivering practical outcomes from the AI generated data harvested through the Univrses collection solution

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Dave Hulbert

Principal Engineer, Passenger

Dave Hulbert, Principal Engineer at Passenger, leads in delivering innovative digital solutions for sustainable travel. With extensive experience in technical leadership in the transport sector, he focuses on developing Passenger’s capability in enhancing travel technology. Dave actively engages in knowledge sharing and pioneering new approaches in tech to keep Passenger at the forefront of the industry. His passion for technology and its potential to positively impact society is at the core of his professional ethos.

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Katherine Holden

Head of Data Analytics,

AI and Digital ID, techUK

Katherine joined techUK in May 2018 and currently leads the Data Analytics, AI and Digital ID programme. 

Prior to techUK, Katherine worked as a Policy Advisor at the Government Digital Service (GDS) supporting the digital transformation of UK Government.

Whilst working at the Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) Katherine led AMRC’s policy work on patient data, consent and opt-out.  

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Jason Barbour

Managing Director, Barbour Logic

Jason founded Barbour Logic, winners of nine innovation awards including the Parking Technology Award in 2021, 2022 and 2023.

Working with 60 UK partners, Barbour Logic’s AI products – all UK-firsts – answer PCN queries from drivers, reducing time and stress for both driver and back-office.

Jason is a technology and innovation enthusiast, leading a company whose unrivalled award wins reflect its products – they simply make life easier.

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Dr Craig Smith

Data Scientist, Agilysis

Craig is a mathematician, with an established background in academic research at the University of Oxford's Mathematical Institute.  Since then, he has endeavoured to use his expertise to carry out robust and innovative analysis and research as Agilysis' lead Data Scientist. His recent work has looked at approaches to identify high-risk roads using AI with multiple data sources in large cities, as well as leading Agilysis' efforts to automate road attribute detections suitable for road assessment programmes.

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Carles Illera

Regional Head of Professional Services in the UK and Scandinavia, Aimsun

Carles is Aimsun's Regional Head of Professional Services in the UK and Scandinavia. With over a decade of experience in transport modelling and data analysis, he has supported the delivery of real-time digital twins around the world, including successful large-scale deployments in Oxford, Perth and Sydney.

Carles regularly collaborates with Aimsun's data science team to develop the synergies between AI and modelling applications, with a focus on anomaly detection, data fusion and unsupervised/self-supervised learning.

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Catherine Whitfield

Associate Director, Intelligent Infrastructure, WSP

Catherine is Vice Chair of Intelligent Transport Systems UK and an Associate Director within the Intelligent Infrastructure business at WSP. She has over 20 years’ experience working in the intelligent transport industry, helping clients overcome challenges, unlock potential and create new solutions. She specialises in the operational, user and business elements of Intelligent Transport Systems, providing an interface between organisational needs and the detailed technical and operational solutions that meet them.

Dr Isobel Wilson

Policy Advisor – Transport Technology,

Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation

Isobel has a passion for research and communication which started with a PhD in electrochemistry from UCL. Now, Isobel is a Policy Advisor for Transport Technology at the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) a charity, learned society and membership body who promote safe, accessible, inclusive, economically and environmentally sustainable transport infrastructure. Isobel’s most recent work at CIHT has focused on the role of data and artificial intelligence in achieving transport decarbonisation.

Kerri Cheek

Bus Safety Development Manager,Transport for London & Director of Women in Bus and Coach

Kerri leads the bus safety strategic change programme at Transport for London. The innovative and world-leading Bus Safety Programme delivers effective and measurable safety change in London and is successfully challenging the inertia across the bus industry both in the UK and internationally. Kerri has led the development and delivery of the multi award-winning Bus Safety Standard, London’s bus driver fatigue programme, and recently she published TfL’s Bus Safety Strategy. Kerri has been at Transport for London since 2006. In 2023, Kerri was instrumental in launching a new initiative to build, unite and support women working in the bus and coach industry - Women in Bus and Coach. Kerri is a founding Director, the strategic lead and also the London Region Chair.

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Marie Hamilton

Greater Manchester Region Lead, Microsoft

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Shaleen Srivastava

CEO, Goleyo 

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Tao Cheng

Director & Founder, UCL SpaceTimeLab

Professor Tao Cheng, a GeoInformatics expert, is the Founder and Director of UCL's SpaceTimeLab, which aims to transform geo-located and time-stamped data into actionable insights for government, business, and society. As Mobility Theme Leader at the Alan Turing Institute, she specialises in utilising new forms of data and advanced AI to promote active travel and transport decarbonisation. Additionally, she established SpaceTimeAI to commercialise SpaceTimeLab's research, focusing on smart city applications.

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Keith McCabe

Founder and CEO Simplifai Systems

Founder and CEO Simplifai Systems

ITS (UK) Carbon Ambassador

Chair of ITS (UK) Smart Environment Forum

Former member of US Transport Research Board Standing Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing

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Keith has over 40 years experience in the Transport and ICT sectors and has led start ups in the technology for over 10 years.

Keith along with James Blackwood (AI Strategy and Portfolio Lead NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde), Professors Lee McCluskey of Simplifai Systems and Professor Mauro Vallati from the University of Huddersfield are the inventors of the patented  (GB2598661) Simplifai Goal Orinetated AI Traffic Control System that has been deployed across the North of England.

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Shane Foley

Strategic Partner Lead, VivaCity

Shane Foley has extensive experience in both operational management and sales management roles, across large multinational mobility providers and start-up tech-based organisations. He is passionate about sustainable, green travel and working towards making our communities safer, cleaner and generally better places to live.

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Shane's role at VivaCity allows him to work alongside combined and local authorities to ensure they can use our cutting edge AI technology to have the best, most accurate data possible to make impactful decisions on the way we live.

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Iona Chandler

Partnership Manager, UrbanTide

Iona is passionate about the UrbanTide mission of creating a sustainable world with AI. With a
focus on open data and AI, she empowers organisations to create sustainable communities. In
her presentation, Iona will shed light on the importance of actionable data insights and will
unveil cutting-edge AI developments that are shaping the future of active travel and sustainable
transport planning.

Don't miss her introduction to the groundbreaking uMove data insights
platform, designed to harness real-time and historical travel data to benchmark activity, predict
travel patterns and enhance planning and decision making.

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Sherin Mathew

CEO & Founder at AI Tech UK,AI Strategist & Ethics Expert

Sherin Mathew is a recognised AI Leader and leading AI Ethicist in the UK. A Founder, CEO, and Serial Entrepreneur, with a deep-rooted passion for wider AI Awareness, Impact, Ethics, and Intellectual Privacy.

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Sherin is an AI Strategist and board advisor for West Yorkshire Combined Authority, and also the Chief AI advisor for ambitious SMEs, DeepTech Startups, and the UK AI policy team (DSIT) with a mission to "Disrupt the AI Disruption"! Sherin is an untiring advocate for the creative, innovative, and ethical elements of intelligent technologies. As an accomplished Public Speaker, AI Ethicist, and Evangelist, Sherin promotes thought-provoking ideas, shares his technical knowledge, and advises on best practices.

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Geoff Collins

UK General Manager, Acusensus UK

Geoff is the GM for Acusensus UK, responsible for bringing the award winning, AI driven ‘Heads-Up’ distracted driving solution to the UK.  The system has already been trialed in 12 UK police regions on more than 80 occasions, identifying drivers who are distracted by their mobile phone or not wearing a seatbelt.  He also acts as Chair of ITS UK’s Enforcement Forum.

Geoff is a Chartered Engineer, a member of the IET and a fellow of CIHT.

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Peter Lindgren

Head of Digitisation of Transport, TRL

TRL’s Head of Digitisation of Transport Pete Lindgren has worked in digital for over 20 years, in finance, publishing, software development and transport, and for organisations big and small. His role at TRL keeps him at the forefront of digital technologies that can improve safety, equality, efficiency and efficacy in transport

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Andreas Zachariah

CEO, TravelAI

Andreas Zachariah (CEO) - BEng,MBA,MA - With 16yrs experience at the intersection of deeptech/Ai/ML, sustainability, transport and prior domain expertise in automotives, telecoms and aerospace from a decade managing a +£bn investment portfolio.

A UK Ai Global Expert Mission to Canada member, he’s presented to UK cabinet ministers and policymakers over data.

His mission is to realise a multimodal transport behaviour data sharing platform for industry stakeholders inspired by the UK BioBank.

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Ashley Feldman

Programme Manager, Transport and Smart Cities, techUK

Ashley Feldman is the programme manager for transport and smart cities at techUK. Through working closely with the technology industry, his role is to promote the contribution of digital technology in driving positive outcomes for cities and transport. Through maintaining close ties to government, he also works to ensure the policy and regulatory conditions are optimised for businesses to scale innovation in the UK.

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Gearoid Hynes

VP of Product,

CitySwift

Gearóid is VP of Product at CitySwift, a big data technology company that helps public transport authorities and operators to deliver ultra-efficient and reliable networks. With a PhD from University of Galway, his commercial career began at Hewlett Packard before joining sport and data science start-up Orreco as Head of Product. At CitySwift, Gearoid’s research, technology and product expertise helps public transport networks use big data to deliver the best possible service to their passengers.

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Agnes Loder

Director of International Business Development, Hayden AI

Agnes Loder is a seasoned professional with over 17 years of invaluable experience in the field of sales and business development. Currently serving as the International Director of Business Development at Hayden AI, she has consistently demonstrated her expertise in driving growth and forging international business relationships. Agnes recently represented Hayden AI at the Urban Tech Challenge in Warsaw, Poland, and won first place in the “Optimising Urban Operations” categoryy

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Stephen Haben

Data Science Consultant, Energy Systems Catapult

Steve is a Senior Data Science Consultant at the Energy Systems Catapult. He is focused on optimising the utilisation of AI across the energy sector, and helping bridge the gap between academia and industry. This work includes identifying barriers and enablers for applying AI, such as data accessibility, knowledge transfer, and skills. Steve has recently worked on the AI for Decarbonisation’s Virtual Centre for Excellence, curating a list of grand challenges which will have major impact on the UK’s Net Zero ambitions.

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Dan Hubert

Founder & CEO, Appyway

Founder & CEO Dan founded AppyWay in 2013 after being continually frustrated with the same bad parking experiences shared by drivers worldwide. After extensive research, Dan realised that the analogue and siloed solutions within the government's parking and highways sector were the cause of the problem. His vision was to create a digitised, standardised and centralised platform uniting the public and private sectors with authoritative data that can help local governments on their road to decarbonisation and help create a better kerbside experience for fleets and mobility. Today, AppyWay is the world's most awarded intelligent kerbside platform.

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Dr Steve Haben

Senior Data Science Consultant, Catapult

Steve is a Senior Data Science Consultant at the Energy Systems Catapult. He is focused on optimising the utilisation of AI across the energy sector, and helping bridge the gap between academia and industry. This work includes identifying barriers and enablers for applying AI, such as data accessibility, knowledge transfer, and skills. Steve has recently worked on the AI for Decarbonisation’s Virtual Centre for Excellence, curating a list of grand challenges which will have major impact on the UK’s Net Zero ambitions.

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Martin Duerr

Managing Director/ CTO Dromos

Martin Duerr is Managing Director/CTO of Dromos and responsible for all technology features in vehicles, infrastructure and central control. He has several years of experience in mobility – covering various stages of the value chain, application areas, and many regions of the world. Martin also has been a partner in a leading global management consulting firm for multiple years. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and worked as a Research Professor at MIT in Boston.

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