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.

My name is Phil Naish and i am a Senior engineer at Idiada Uk for 3 years with 15 years total experience in the automotive industry. During this time i have worked on various projects from R&D to production for multiple different systems. In recent years i have been mainly working in the are of hydrogen fuel cell systems. Where i have been the lead engineer for developing a fuel cell control strategy that can be used on multiple different BoP designs and easily tailored to fit the needs of the customer. This involved working on many areas of the development cycle including requirements, modeling, testing and simulation for both SW and HW.

Rebecca is a Chartered Systems Engineer with over 15 years of experience in sustainable mobility. She has led projects focused on decarbonising road, aviation, and maritime transport and played a pivotal role in delivering the analysis and business case for the UK’s £200m Zero Emission HGV & Infrastructure Demonstrator programme. Currently, Rebecca serves as the Connected Places Catapult’s technical lead within the Hydrogen Innovation Initiative, where she has led technical industrial engagement and identified innovation opportunities for the UK.

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.

As Business developer presenting XING Mobility’s immersion cooled battery system to European market. Successfully collaborating with the businesses partners in Norway, Netherlands, Austria, etc for long years schemes since the time working with XING from 2021. Solutions covers the industries of, BESS, marine, non-road mobile machinery, and automotive.

Shay Moradi is Head of Technology for VItal Auto

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.

After graduating Aerospace Engineering from the University of Liverpool, Teodora joined Zenzic in 2022 as a research intern. Quickly impressing in her work, Teodora soon progressed into her current role at the core of Zenzic's insights team. To date Teodora has co-authored several key strategic research publications, including The International CAM Landscape, Connecting the UK CAM Supply Chain and Scaling Up by 2035, Opportunities for the UK CAM sector.

Looking forwards, in her role as a Research Analyst, she will take a leading role in Zenzic's work to update the collective understanding of the challenges, strengths and opportunities in the UK's CAM supply chain to support an exciting next phase of development for the sector.

Tim is a Senior Research Manager at JLR with more than 20 years’ experience in automotive research, and a specialism in automated vehicles and safety-related systems. Tim remains committed to have a positive impact on road safety and efficiency through the deployment of new technologies that are functional, safe and robust. Prior to joining JLR in 2022, Tim had long tenure at HORIBA MIRA as Chief Engineer for Connected and Automated Vehicles, and has been an active participant in key industry working groups and standardisation activities with Automotive Council UK, AESIN, BSI and ISO.