2026 SPEAKERS
Marie Aasness, Senior Advisor, Norwegian Public Roads Administration
Nikolaos Adamidis, Head of Policy and Impacts, National Highways
Raahil Ali, Manager, Lanes Group
Shireen Ali-Khan, Behavioural Change and Engagement Specialist, Women in Transport
Feras Alshaker, Interim CEO, Office of Rail and Road
Ghaith Al-Werikat, Head of Sector Development, National Highways
Lyle Andrew, Chief Executive, Institute Of Highway Engineers
Laura Baker-Lacey, Director of Customer & Stakeholder Improvement, National Highways
Paul Baldwyn, Head of Streetworks Policy, Severn Trent Water
Martin Barton, Service Lead, Highways & Network Management, Wigan Council
James Barwise, Policy Lead, Road Haulage Association
Ben Bax, VP of Customer Success, Re-flow Field Management
Nicola Bell, Chief Capital Delivery Officer, National Highways
Tim Bellamy, Assistant Director, Transport, Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority
James Birch, Managing Director, Transportation, Kier
Desiree Blamey, Managing Director, Considerate Constructors Scheme
Helen Blood, Owner, Boundary Marketing & PR
Chris Blucke, Director of Transport & Connectivity, Hull & East Yorkshire Combined Authority
Andy Bowers, Business Unit Manager - Roads & Industrial, ACI Group Ltd
Ian Bradfield, Head of Road Safety & Roads Policy, Welsh Government
Hannah Bradley, Product Manager, Re-flow
Jo Bradley, UK Director of Operations, Stormwater Shepherds
Mike Brass, Head of Security Services, National Highways
Ioannis Brilakis, Professor of Civil & Information Engineering, Cambridge University
Ben Brittain, Director of Public Affairs, Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE)
Neil Bromham, Pavement Engineer., Welsh Government
Sarah Brownlie, Development Director, Rebuilding Nature
Nigel Bullock, Solutions Director, Hill Smith Limited
Simon Butt, Regional Director, Ringway
Ruth Cadbury MP, Chair, Transport Select Committee
Philip Cameron, Community Manager, JAG (UK)
Dan Campbell, Chair, Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS)
Paul Campion, CEO, TRL
Darren Capes, Head of Road Infrastructure Technology, Department for Transport
Paul Carey, Programme Director, Amey
Kate Carpenter, President, CIHT
Mark Cartwright, Head of Commercial Vehicle Incident Prevention, National Highways
Thomas Chambers, Collaboration Lead, Thames Water
Suzy Charman, Executive Director, Road Safety Foundation UK
Jag Chima, Technical Director, National Highways
Mel Clarke, Director of Health Safety & Wellbeing, National Highways
Daniel Clarke, Head of Innovation and Technology, Greater Cambridge Partnership
Louise Collins, Director, Transport Focus
Paul Copeland, Principal Engineer, East Riding of Yorkshire Council
Tom Cox, Senior Delivery Director, Amey
James Darvill, NUAR Account Manager, Ordnance Survey
Nicola Davies, Senior Technical Project Officer, Greater London Authority
Mansi Desai, Technical Director & Head of Sustainability, Member of PIARC, PIARC
Michael Dnes, Head of Transport, Stonehaven
Paul Doney, Quality & Innovation DIrector, National Highways
Collette Dunkley, National Marketing Lead, National Highways
Patrick Duprat, Competitiveness and R&D director, Alstom
George Economides, Head of Digital Twins, DfT
J Paul Edwards, Head of Pavements, National Highways
Steve Elderkin, Director of Environmental Sustainability, National Highways
Mehran Eskandari Torbaghan, Lecturer in Infrastructure Asset Management, University of Birmingham
Richard Fenwick, Director of Highways, Warwickshire County Council
Jo Field, Chair, Women in Transport
Graham Footer, Chief Executive, Disabled Motoring UK
Sandie Forte-Gill, Customer Director, National Highways
Chris Founds, Director & Founding Partner, Founds Group
Kealie Franklin, CEO, ARTSM / TOPAS
Katie Gallagher, Delivery Director, Local Authority, Amey
Liz Garlinge, Director of Network Development, National Highways
Emily-Rose Garnett, i3P senior lead, Connected Places Catapult
Colin George, Deputy Head of Structures, National Highways
Andy Gilbert, NUAR Adoption Consultant, Ordnance Survey
Hugh Gillies OBE, Director of Roads, Transport Scotland
Rachel Gittens, Deputy Director for Strategic Roads Network, Office of Rail and Road
Alanna Gluck, Senior Consultant, Data and Digital Products, Connected Places Catapult
Alistair Gollop, Founder, ITS Now
Paula Gough, UK Development Director – Infrastructure, Buro Happold
Richard Green, Head of BUKO Digital, BUKO Digital
Lorraine Gregory, Director, CECA Midlands
Steve Griffiths, Professional Development Lead, Women in Transport
Sheena Hague, Director of Road Safety’, National Highways
Angela Halliwell, Head of Carbon & Climate, National Highways
Mike Hansford, Chief Executive, Road Safety Treatments Association (RSTA)
Marie-Claude Hemming, Policy Director, Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE)
Caroline Hildreth, Principal - Transport, Netcompany
Victoria Hillier, Director of Business Improvement & Change, National Highways
Antoneta Horbury, Director of Policy and Technical Affairs, CIHT
Tom Howard, Director of Transport Development and Capital Delivery, South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority
Paul Hutton, Co-owner, Technology Editor, Highway News
Alison Irvine, Chief Executive, Transport Scotland
Chrissy Jacques, Head of Highway Operations, Hertfordshire County Council
Ian James, Head of Asset Management Strategy, National Highways
Jo Jarvis, Director of Indirects and Roads Procurement, National Highways
Dame Andrea Jenkyns, Mayor of Greater Lincolnshire, Greater Lincolnshire Combined Authority
Jade Jones, Head of Commercial and Business Improvement, Central Bedfordshire Council
Nick Joyce, Interim CEO, National Highways
Rachel Keane, Chief Data Inspirer, Data Inspiration Group Ltd - Digdata
Dean Kerwick-Chrisp, Principal Environmental Advisor, National Highways
Andrew Kidd, Director of Environmental Sustainability, Lower Thames Crossing, National Highways
David Langford, Director, Highways, Transport and Waste, Nottinghamshire County Council
Cherie Leavy, Associate Director of Social Value, Arcadis
Scott Lees, Head of Network Maintenance, Transport Scotland
Andrew Linfoot, Director for Landscape Architecture, Jacobs
Tyler Linton, Head of Street Scene, London Borough of Hackney
Matthew Lipton, Biodiversity Assets and Commons Manager, South Gloucestershire Council
Jugal Makwana, Senior Executive - Industry Transformation, Autodesk Limited
Jonathan Mann, Technical Director/PIARC CCAM Lead, WSP Ltd
Andres Martell, Design Futures Team Lead, Connected Places Catapult
Ramin Massoumi, Global President, Mobility, Arcadis
Josh Mattheis, Technical Manger, Bouygues Travaux Publics
Kevin Maw, Secretary, The Road Emulsion Association
Paul Middleton, Head of Highways, Rutland County Council
Kathryn Moreton, Director of Environment & Place Operations, Walsall Council
Rachel Morse, Net Zero Advisor, Heidelberg Materials
Jon Munslow, Chair, NHT Network
Sam Munslow, Founder of HMHA, Highways Mind Health Association CIC
Jefferson Nwokeoma, Interim Asst Director of City Transport, Sheffield City Council
Mark O'Connell, Acting Strategic Lead, Highways Operations & Delivery, Coventry City Council
Nick O'Donnell, Director of Growth & Place (Traffic), London Borough of Richmond and Wandsworth
David Ogden, Chair of UK National Committee, PIARC
Richard Paddey, Customer and Community Lead, Costain
Fabio Pasquali, Stratwgico coordinator on decarbonization, PIARC
Annette Pass, Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Transport
John Paterson, Technical Director, AtkinsRéalis
Richard Pedley, CDIO, National Highways
Sue Percy, Chief Executive Officer, CIHT
Steve Perkins, Managing Director, Steve Perkins Associates Ltd
Giles Perkins, Live Labs 2 Programme Director / Head of Future Mobility, Live Labs 2 Commissioning Board
Shaun Pidcock, Programme Director - Lower Thames Crossing, National Highways
Mark Pittman, Senior Director, Transportation AI, Bentley Systems (UK) Ltd
Eduardo Pitts, Public Affairs and PR Executive, I.T.S. United Kingdom
Ben Plowden, Chief Executive, Campaign for Better Transport
Polyvios Polyviou, Head of Highways & Sustainable Transport, Southwark Council
Maria Pratt, Customer Experience Director, FM Conway
Phil Proctor, Head of Research, National Highways
Katie Randall, Associate Director, City Economics, ARUP
Simon Rawlinson, Head of Strategic Research and Insight, Arcadis (UK) Limited
Stuart Reid, Head of Analysis and Direction, Health, Safety & Environment, TfL
Joe Rice-Jones, Account Director, Bentley Systems UK
Steve Roberts, Senior Technical Director, Arcadis (UK) Limited
Alex Robertson, Chief Executive, Transport Focus
Sean Rooney, Head of Service - Highways Maintenance, Oxfordshire County Council
Lauren SeBlonka, Gender and Inclusion Lead, PIARC
Emily See, Former President, The Local Government Technical Advisers Group
Lawrence Shackman, Director Major Projects, Transport Scotland
Arfa Shahid, Senior Advisor, Climate Adaptation, National Highways
Elliot Shaw, Chief Customer & Strategy Officer, National Highways
Mark Shepherd, Director, Mineral Products Association
David Shepherd, Executive Director for Place, Kirklees Council
Malcolm Simms, Director, Asphalt Industry Alliance
Russell Smallridge, Sales Director, Meon Ltd
Mitesh Solanki, Managing Director, Ringway
Emanuela Stocchi, President, PIARC
Dame Sarah Storey, Active Travel Commissioner, Greater Manchester Combined Authority
Max Sugarman, Chief Executive, ITS UK
Colin Sykes, Deputy Secretary Transport & Road Management, Department for Infrastructure
Ian Tamburello, Head of transport policy & planning, City of Stoke-on-Trent
Arun Thaneja, Technical Services & Sustainability Director, Winvic Construction Ltd
Darren Thrupp, Traffic and Network Coordination Manager, Transport for West Midlands
Martin van Beurden, Founder, BUKO Digital
Will Waller, Senior Director, Arcadis (UK) Limited
Rob Walley, Partner, Bourton Group
Justin Ward, Head of Policy & Technical Practice, CIHT
Greg Weingarten, Head of Intelligent Infrastructure, Jacobs
Joanna White, Director of Engineering, National Highways
Michael Whitehead, Envrionmental Sustainability Strategy Team Leader, National Highways
Andy Wilde, Service Director - Infrastructure, Shropshire Council
Sean Willis, Managing Director, Terrapinn
Mike Wilson, Chief Highways Engineer, National Highways
Josh Wood, Strategic Account Director, FYLD
Maria Zaretskaya, Business Applications and Partnerships Officer Space Solutions, European Space Agency (ESA)
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