Speakers at Interchange Conference
WEDNESDAY 19 APRIL
Speakers
Wednesday 19 April 2023
Lord Patrick McLoughlin
Former Secretary of State for Transport; Chair, Transport for the North, Co-President, Interchange
Lord McLoughlin has had an extensive career in UK politics for more than 30 years, beginning in 1980 as a councillor on Cannock Chase District Council and then serving as the Member of Parliament for Derbyshire Dales between 1986 and 2019.
His experience in central Government included two years as Government Chief Whip from 2010 to 2012, four years as Secretary of State for Transport between 2012 and 2016, and two years as Chairman of the Conservative Party and Chancellor to the Duchy of Lancaster from 2016 to 2018. As Transport Secretary he oversaw key investments and work programmes, including the beginning of the Road Investment Strategy in 2014 and announcing Northern and TransPennine Express as winners of the rail franchises for the North in 2015. He took his seat in the House of Lords in 2020.
Sarah Sharples
Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Transport
Professor Sarah Sharples is Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department for Transport. She is a Professor of Human Factors in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham and from 2018-2021 was Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Equality, Diversity & Inclusion and People. She has led research in transport, manufacturing and healthcare, and currently leads the EPSRC (Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council) Connected Everything Network Plus. She founded and co-director of the EPSRC Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training, and has led research programmes examining implementation of new technologies in rail, highways and aviation. She was President of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors from 2015-16.
Hiro Aso
Transit Hubs Sector Lead, Jacobs
Hiro is a UK-based architect and brings over 25 years of integrated, international design and delivery experience of urban development schemes. He is an award-winning specialist in the design of regenerative transport hubs and was a leading figure in the delivery of some of UK’s most high-profile development catalyst schemes such as the modernisation of London King’s Cross Station and several stations on the Elizabeth Line including Bond Street and Paddington. He has worked in diverse global cities including, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Delhi, Moscow, Baltimore, Brisbane, Johannesburg and Dhaka.
Tim Kooyers
Growth Director, Jacobs
Tim works at the intersection of technical skills, private capital and government policy. In this space, he distils complex problems, aligning diverse views and leading collaborative solution development. He has wide ranging technical and sectoral experience; leading analysis for major projects in mobility, renewable energy, telecommunications and the built environment. All of this experience comes together in his current work developing strategic frameworks and commercial strategies to originate deliverable infrastructure delivery programmes.
Nick Smallwood
Chief Executive, Infrastructure and Projects Authority
Nick is the Chief Executive Officer of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) and Head of Government’s Project Delivery Function. The Infrastructure and Projects Authority reports jointly to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Minister for the Cabinet Office.
IPA’s remit includes overseeing the National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline, which contains projections of £600bn of public and private infrastructure investment, and supporting the Government’s Major Projects Portfolio, which contains around 150 of the Government’s most complex and high-risk projects.
Nick has 40 years’ experience of managing complex project portfolios and is the former Vice President for Projects Engineering and Chief Projects Engineer at Shell. He was a trustee of the Association for Project Management (APM) until November 2019 and has contributed widely to the overall development of the UK’s project management profession.
Jonathan Moseley
Executive Director, Strategic Advisory, CBRE
Jonathan leads CBRE’s Strategic Advisory team which helps clients to develop and implement successful business strategies, programmes and transactions to unlock value and achieve competitive advantage from their real assets across infrastructure and real estate. The team works with clients across the full lifecycle, from strategic inception to implementation, operation and exit. His career in infrastructure and real assets has been dedicated to the analysis, successful development and delivery of strategic initiatives, programmes and transactions, and to leading teams whose success is rooted in helping clients achieve their desired outcomes.
Kerry Bangle
Transport Planning Director, WSP
Paul Aspinall
Hydrogen Lead, Arcadis
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. He is fascinated by cities and the built environment, having worked as a consultant on major regeneration projects across the country before joining techUK in 2022.
Marie Hill
Chief Transformation and Digitalisation Officer, DB Cargo
Marie Hill has been Head of IT at DB Cargo UK since January 2017 and is a member of the UK Board.Marie’s Transformation Team work with departments across the business to develop and implement plans to make the company more innovative, agile and efficient – a key pillar of DB’s future strategy to improve and grow its business
Nick Woods
Group Chief Information Officer, Manchester Airport Group
Nick is Chief Information Officer for MAG, the UK airport group which owns and operates Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands Airports. A passionate technologist, he joined MAG in 2016 to lead Technology for the £1Bn Manchester Transformation Programme. Promoted to Chief Technology Officer in 2017, he was instrumental in developing MAG’s IT Strategy and was subsequently appointed CIO in September 2018. Prior to joining MAG, Nick worked in consulting for Accenture, where he specialised in the delivery of complex systems integration and transformation programmes. He studied Computer Science and Management Science at the University of Edinburgh.
Davin Crowley-Sweet
Chief Data Officer, National Highways
Ant Morse,
Head of Innovation, Virgin Media O2
Ant is a telecoms executive with 25 Years’ experience across a while range of roles from leadership, sales and account management to innovation and technical product assessments. As a researching futurist and digital evangelist, Ant is focused on how digital transformation technologies and trends, with continued innovation and progress will change the way we live and work – areas that he explores in his recent book “The future of us_”. Leading the digital solutions teams within Virgin Media O2, Ant’s priority is how to can bring value and support to customers on their journey to become digital businesses, while helping our internal sales people and customers alike to navigate the plethora of products and solutions spanning the digital solutions space.
Martin Tugwell
Chief Executive, Transport for the North
Martin Tugwell is responsible for transforming pan-Northern connectivity in order to improve productivity and drive economic growth.
He leads Transport for the North as England’s first Sub-national Transport Body, giving the North a strong, unified and determined voice on transport investment to benefit the region.
Martin has more than 20 years of experience in strategic transport and infrastructure planning at national, regional and local levels, with previous roles at England’s Economic Heartland, the South East England Regional Assembly, the Transport Systems Catapult, and Oxfordshire and Devon County Councils.
Laurence Oakes-Ash
Founder and Chief Executive, City Science
Previously holding senior trading positions at Investment banks in London and New York, Laurence spent his career bringing together vast complex data sets and developing systems to create actionable insights. An adept operator, lead generator and strategist, he managed £30bn of annual deal flow and this exposure to real-time data and automation within Financial Services fired Laurence’s interest in its applications to cities.
Miranda Sharp
founder, Metis Digital
Miranda set up Metis Digital to connect data, people and their assets with opportunities to create value. Her interest is in enabling better decisions with the benefits of data and innovative business models. She advises commercial clients alongside, the Mayor’s Smart London Board and Infrastructure Advisory Panel, Centre for Cities think tank, Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) Technology Advisory Panel, the National Digital Twin Programme, Digital Transformation Task Group, and the award-winning SME See Sense. Previously at Ordnance Survey, she founded and lead the cross functional practice which collaborates with enterprises from the public and private sectors, academic researchers, and entrepreneurs from OS’s Geovation community in the use and exploitation of place-based data.
Lauren Sager Weinstein
Chief Data Officer, at Transport for London (TfL)
Lauren leads TfL in using vast amounts of system data to transform how TfL plans and operates transport in London. In a single day, TfL collects 19 million ticketing transactions, 4.5 million bus location events, and vast amounts of additional data. Under Lauren’s leadership, her team of developers and data scientists transforms that flow of data into tools for action. She recently led the pilot that studied how depersonalised WiFi connection data from customers’ mobile devices could be used to better understand how people navigate the London Underground network, allowing TfL to improve the experience for customers. Lauren joined TfL in 2002 as a Senior Business Planner and since then, she’s had a variety of roles and worked on a range of projects, including the launch of the contactless payment system across London’s transport network.
James Stephens
Vice President Corporate Affairs, DHL
James is an International Corporate Affairs specialist - Currently with a global logistics business DHL, with a successful track record spanning blue chips, trade bodies, central and local government.
Steve Griffiths
Managing Director, East Midlands Airport
Steve was appointed Managing Director of East Midlands Airport in October 2022. Prior to this, he was Managing Director at London Stansted Airport having joined MAG as the airport’s Chief Operating Officer in 2018.
He previously worked for Virgin Atlantic as Chief Operating Officer and was Chief Operating Officer at London Underground, where he was accountable for the safe, secure and efficient delivery of the London tube network operations and customer service.
Steve is also a Non-Executive Director of a leading low-cost airline in Turkey.
Darren Briggs
Global Logistics Lead, Arup
Darren is a director at Arup responsible for the North West and Yorkshire advisory group. He also leads the Arup global logistics skill network with teams in the US, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. He specialises in operational change programmes across infrastructure and the built environment, advising on operational improvement and logistics of organisations with significant assets. He supports clients by shaping and leading high performing teams that deliver their objectives and has worked with clients in the energy, nuclear, transport and city sectors.
Henry Tse
Director of New Mobility Technologies, Connected Places Catapult
Henry is director of new mobility technologies at the Connected Places Catapult. A technologist, systems engineer, and programming director, he is experienced in leading teams to design and develop innovative solutions to meet complex challenges, setting strategic direction and investment priorities, and launching strategic initiatives to develop key technical discriminators to drive future growth. In his current role he is responsible for a group of planners, engineers and technologies to provide impartial ‘innovation as a service” for government, local authorities, academic and industry to catalyse step-change improvements in the way people live, work and travel.
Henry is an adjunct professor in the School of Electronics & Computer Science, at Southampton University. He is also Chair of the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) Hub Strategic Advisory Network, the focal point of the £33m UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme and a Fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology where he chair its Future Mobility Challenge. Before joining the Catapult, Henry worked at BAE Systems leading cutting edge developments in the maritime sector and collaborating with MoD, the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), industry and academia.
Steve Norris
Independent transport and property advisor, former Transport Minister
Christina Calderato
Director of Transport Strategy and Policy, Transport for London
For the last 14 years, Christina has worked across a diverse range of policy areas at TfL and led the team that developed the Mayor’s Transport Strategy. In her current role, Christina is responsible for developing strategic transport policy across the TfL network over the next 30 years. She closely works with the Mayor of London and GLA to set the direction of the Mayor’s transport strategy, develop policies to deliver strategic objectives and ensure delivery across TfL
Richard Dilks
Chief Executive, CoMoUK
Richard is Chief Executive of CoMoUK or Collaborative Mobility UK, the national charitable organisation for promoting the social, economic and environmental benefits shared transport.
He was previously transport programme director at the business group London First, where he led policy and advocacy across all transport modes and across services and infrastructure.
He was also a board member at the statutory transport watchdog London TravelWatch and has been a journalist and then a policy adviser at the consumer body Which? on a wide range of consumer markets including transport.
Xavier Brice
Chief Executive, Sustrans
Xavier is fascinated by transport’s impact on society and believes how we get around shapes how happy and healthy we are as individuals, our relationship to each other and, crucially, the world we live in. He thinks we could all be a lot healthier and happier and is thrilled to be leading Sustrans, a UK charity working with others to make that happen. Xavier joined Sustrans in June 2016 from Transport for London where he held a variety of roles, including leading the modernisation of London Underground’s stations, developing a new cycling strategy for the city, which led to the introduction of the Cycle Superhighways and Cycle Hire Scheme, and advisory positions in the Mayor’s office. Before this Xavier worked internationally as a strategy consultant. Xavier cycles, walks, loves to travel by train and bus and owns a car.