A Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and a Chartered Engineer with a doctorate from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. Thirty year experience in the development and commercialization of advanced technology focused on the generation, conversion and delivery of energy. During a five year appointment with Rolls-Royce plc Lee implemented a successful fundamental change in the Distributed Generation Systems business unit. The business was transitioned from a bespoke designer of diesel generator solutions to a systems business based upon new technology building blocks. Energy was sold on a provision of power basis using an operational cost model. Lee joined Intelligent Energy in 2012 holding a variety of commercial roles including group Chief Sales Officer with responsibility for global commercial development. Late 2020 Lee joined NanoSUN and was responsible for the refocus of the business onto the successful Pioneer mobile hydrogen refuelling station. From January 2024 Lee has taken the post of CEO for Fuel Cell Systems. Working with Tom Chicken and the team and parent company Hydrasun, Lee is overseeing the expansion of the hydrogen systems business and the transition of the business to series manufacturing.

After more than a decade in the high hazard industry working on large scale counter-terror, fire and explosion testing, Lisa is now heavily involved in the hydrogen world working towards net zero and the energy transition. In her previous role at DNV Spadeadam, this included full scale dispersion testing, delivering hydrogen training courses, and now through her work at National Gas, working on deblending hydrogen from the gas network for the use in the transport industry. The FutureGrid Phase 2 Deblending for Transportation project involves investigating utilising the existing gas transmission network as a reliable and efficient supply of hydrogen that can be purified and compressed to fuel cell grade quality for use in all aspects of the transportation industry.  

Martin Kendall is Managing Director of Vantec Europe Limited (2011 – present)

Based in Sunderland Martin is responsible for all UK operations that include Nissan Motor Manufacturing, Komatsu UK, Rolls-Royce Motor cars (R-RMC), Thorn Lighting, AESC Envision, Bentley Motors and GE Vernova, as well as being a member of the Global Internation Leadership Team in LOGISTEED.

Martin started his career at Nissan (NMUK) in 1986 when the plan opened working in material Handling before moving to Material Handling Engineering.

Moving to Vantec in 2002 and became Managing Director in 2012, during this time Martin has overseen the design and construction of two logistics centres in Sunderland, the launch of the Innovation Centre, launch of business with AESC, R-RMC, Thorn, Bentley Motors and GE Verona as well as launching business in Russia, Mississippi and Chennai.

Matt Silver is Innovation Lead for the £610 million Faraday Battery Challenge; working to transform the UK to be the go-to place for Electric Vehicle Batteries as part of the UK’s Net Zero target. His work cuts across our engagement with other countries and UK regions, our skills projects, and our business support programmes.

Matt has had roles in both the private and public sector, working with businesses to help them grow with business support, funding, and skills provision across the South West for Innovate UK, Cornwall Council and the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership.

With over 10 years of experience in both academia and industry, Mohammad specialises in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of diverse production systems. He is an experienced professional with a strong track record of Product Carbon Footprint, Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing for a broad spectrum of sectors and industries, including agriculture, E-transportation, chemical, renewable energy, construction, waste management, mining, food processing, and military. Mohammad has extensive experience with battery regulation, as well as the sustainability assessment and recycling of lithium-ion batteries. Additionally, his background in industrial ecology has honed his expertise in Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) data collection, environmental auditing and environmental impact analysis. He excels in evaluating complex industrial systems and technologies, including emerging technologies, to identify and mitigate their environmental impacts.

CEO & Co-founder, Paua Winner of the Special Recognition award 2024 at the Solar Media EVIES awards #31 on the Greenfleet 100 Former smart systems director SSE, & Head of EV, EDF Energy

With 20+ years experience in the low carbon energy and manufacturing sectors, Nigel has worked with Connected Energy over the past 7 years to commercialise a range of second life energy storage systems using electric car batteries. In the emerging energy storage sector, a key focus of Connected Energy is to provide customers with end to end expertise and support in developing projects. Nigel worked in the energy efficiency sector for 5 years as business development manager for Ista Energy Solutions, a global leader of energy management and low carbon consultancy. Prior to Ista Nigel led the Low Carbon Development Initiative for Renewables East, a government funded organisation created to de-risk low carbon energy infrastructure projects. Nigel has a masters degree in Project Management and spent his early career with Rolls-Royce for 8 years delivering large scale energy projects for land and power applications.

Paul Newman is President, Co-Founder & CTO at Oxa, the universal autonomy software company. He creates and leads teams building the technology that will drive the next generation of autonomous vehicles.His pioneering approach to autonomy is being successfully harnessed for real-world application at Oxa – on roads in four continents, down mines, across warehouses and around airports. With a global reputation as a creator and innovator of autonomous vehicle (AV) technology, Paul is also bp Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Oxford, and Founder of the Oxford Robotics Institute.

Richard Oxland is the Director of Secure Connected Vehicle at Beam Connectivity. He is responsible for the product strategy and partnership ecosystem that will ensure vehicle manufacturers benefit from increased connectivity without sacrificing cyber resilience. His previous role was at Siemens Digital Industries Software where he led the Product Management team for the Embedded Analytics product line, a portfolio of silicon IP and software originating from the acquisition of UltraSoC in July 2020. He was Head of Product at UltraSoC prior to its acquisition by Siemens. He worked for TSMC R&D based at IMEC in Belgium, and he has also worked in digital marketing and e-commerce. Richard holds a PhD in Electronics Engineering and a Master in Physics from the University of Glasgow, and an MBA from IESE. Richard is an inventor on more than 20 patents issued by the USPTO.

Project Lead for the CCAV program - evolvAD

Senior Executive with a successful history of introducing technical innovation and novel solutions to meet global challenges in the Automotive, Defence & Security, Aerospace & Manufacturing sectors. Technical engineering background with international business development experience from the University of Life.

Sophie’s expertise is in materials science, characterisation, manufacturing and processing. She specialised in polymer composites with a focus on their sustainability for the automotive sector (in terms of materials selection, manufacturing and end-of-life). Throughout her career, she has established a network and built relationships with key stakeholders in the composite and transport industries. She also has a few qualifications in Leadership from Nottingham Trent University. Sophie obtained her French Engineering Degree in Materials in 2002 (ISITV engineering school), her MSc in Advanced Materials in 2002 at Cranfield University and her PhD in bio-medical composites in 2007 from the Polymer Composites Group at the University of Nottingham. In November 2013, Sophie started at Far-UK Ltd as a Technical Programme Manager and managed and led research projects, which were part-funded by the UK and the European Commission. She became the Head of R&D in February 2018 and developed the company’s roadmap and set new collaborative research and commercial projects up. Sophie joined the Advanced Propulsion Centre UK as a Senior Strategist in March 2024.

With a background in commodities and trading, Steven’s track record at multi award-winning Zenobē is one of fast growth and business leadership. One of the company’s Founders, he heads up the electric fleet division and regularly contributes to net zero events such as New York Climate Week and the J P Morgan Clean Tech Stars Conference.