Jamie is Global Head of Regulatory & Public Affairs at Oxa. He leads work in Oxa to engage regulators and governments around the world, communicating the importance of safe autonomy delivering social good. Jamie also chairs techUK’s Self-Driving Vehicle Working Group, which seeks to promote the ADS developer industry and ensure autonomy achieves something for everyone. He previously worked in the UK Department for Transport's Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles where he led the team developing future legislation and regulation, including the Law Commission project and the Automated Vehicles Act.

John Curtis, Marketing & Operations Director at The EV Café and Chairperson of the UK’s Net Zero Club, is a leading authority on sustainability and transport with over a decade of experience championing  zero emission business. 

He leverages his policy expertise, gained with the Scottish Government, to deliver real-world net zero solutions across multiple sectors including energy, the built environment and transport. 

John has worked with major brands like AA, Europcar and Police Scotland on their sustainability plans, and as Chairman of the UK’s national Net Zero Club promotes the best of the private sector Net Zero solutions to 3,500 senior public policy leaders.

As well as  being a conference host, journalist and public speaker john uses his uniquely engaging personality to share insights on navigating the transition to a greener future.

John Phillips is a Senior Principal Application Engineer with Cadence Design Systems. Prior to joining Cadence John worked at many different companies covering such diverse marketplaces as high-end computer platforms and mil-aero.

During his career he acquired a broad knowledge of SI, PI and EMC at chip, board and system level. John holds an MSc. Degree form Bolton University, UK. His current interests are SI/PI co-simulation and modelling for both serial and parallel interfaces.

Worked for Intelligent Energy on the design and development of hydrogen fuel cells for automotive, stationary and aerospace applications for the past 24 years.

Jon has a varied industrial background in electronics, embedded control systems, and management across several sectors, predominantly in low-emission automotive (EV, HEV, FCEV, CleanICE). He has also worked at InnovateUK designing funding interventions to support UK automotive’s development of clean propulsion technologies, and ran the BEIS-funded Digital Engineering and Test Centre (DETC) within Loughborough University London.

Now at Cranfield University Jon supports the development of new pan-university e-propulsion opportunities including hydrogen. He is the Programme Director for the £69M Cranfield Hydrogen Integration Incubator (CH2i), Cranfield's largest funding win to date, which will enable construction of new gaseous & liquid hydrogen R&D facilities on campus including large experimental areas for LH2 R&D for civil aviation.

Jonathan has been delivering propulsion and power projects since 1998. From a technical engineering role within a leading international consultancy, he has experience of working with a diverse global customer base. Jonathan joined Hypermotive in 2022 and as Chief Strategy Officer is focused on driving sustainable transport and power technology transformation.

Joining CAM Testbed UK in 2020, Jonathan Eaton sits as independent chair of the organisation, having previously held roles as a member of the steering group for three years prior.

Josey Wardle is the Innovation Lead for ZEV infrastructure at Innovate UK. She specialises in the infrastructure required to enable zero emission transport, using experience gathered over 15 years working in the EV charging industry and PhD investigating the future of EV charging. Josey manages the EV charging and V2G/V2X innovation programmes and also supports maritime and heavy freight projects funded by UK Government. Innovate UK is part of UK Research and Innovation, a non-departmental public body, driving productivity and growth by supporting businesses to realise the potential of new technologies, develop ideas and make them a commercial success. Innovate UK provides connections and funds businesses and research collaborations in all economic sectors, value chains and UK regions to accelerate innovation.

Juliet is the Programme Director leading GFI’s Transport Team, looking after the GFI’s work on electric vehicles, charging infrastructure, HGVs and the UK battery supply chain. She leads on bringing a series of financial products including Utilisation Linked Finance and Residual Value Guarantees to market. She joined the institute from the Power, Utilities and Infrastructure Investment Banking team at Jefferies, where she worked on several deals within the green energy and energy transition sector, and was involved in the successful completion of several infrastructure transactions.

Dr Katy Milne is Director for Future Mobility (transport & space) at the Manufacturing Technology Centre.

Katy has previously been Programme Director for the Hydrogen Innovation Initiative at the High Value Manufacturing, Head of Industrial Strategy for the Aerospace Technology Institute’s FlyZero programme and Chief Engineer at the National Centre for Additive Manufacturing for a £14mn programme for UK aerospace. She established the Metrology & Non-destructive Testing group at the Manufacturing Technology Centre following an engineering doctorate in ultrasonics at Rolls-Royce and Imperial College.

(1) Researched control system analysis and design for master’s degree. (2) Managed research collaboration on traffic flow simulation with A*STAR in Singapore. (3) Worked in charge of electrical engineering on Quick Charger for Electric Vehicle in Spain, Traffic Management System in Sri Lanka, 6 DoF Driving Simulator for car company, etc. (4) Managing communication with international standardization community, such as ASAM in Germany and DIVP in Japan.

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.