SPEAKERS CONFIRMED FOR 2021

Lloyd Allen is an experienced Project Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the government administration industry, Lloyd is leading on the expansion of publicly accessible EV charging infrastructure, which includes fast and rapid charger points, alongside rapid charging hubs. Bristol...

Mac is the Founder and CEO of data-driven, equality, diversity and inclusion tech company, The Equal Group – focused on providing organisations with the tools and support that they need to optimise their equality, diversity and inclusion efforts.  Spending over 10 years as a consultant within the...

Karl Anders is the UK MD of innogy eMobility Solutions. A new company within the Innogy group which specializes in supplying electric vehicle charging solutions for businesses.   Karl has recently come from Nissan GB where he held the role of National EV Manager – Corporate Sales. He has...

James Armstrong is a founder of the Investment Adviser and is one of the three managing partners. James has been involved in over €1.3 billion of UK and European energy transactions and over €570 million portfolio third-party financing at, and prior to founding, Bluefield. He led the IPO of the...

Mark was appointed Chief Commercial Officer at Connected Energy from October 1st, 2018.  Prior to joining Connected Energy, Mark worked in Paris for ENGIE SA as Global Key Program Director for Demand Side Management and Storage and Senior Domain Director for ENGIE New Ventures.   Mark had been...

Ana is a Principal in Aurora’s consulting team.  Ana has over ten years of professional services experience with an extensive energy market modelling, forecasting, and advisory background for utilities, financial institutions, and infrastructure developers in the US, Latin America and Europe. ...

Chris joined DCC in Jul 2014 and has 15+ years experience as a multi-disciplined IT professional specialising in high profile initiatives, driving business transformation.  He has specific expertise in Smart Energy technology having led the design and implementation of multiple large scale...

 At Clean Horizon, Corentin is the head of market analysis activities, thus overseeing one of the two business units in the company. As such, he acts as project manager on key market analysis projects, thus overseeing the regulations and evolutions of the storage markets across Europe. In parallel...

An experienced project and asset sustainable finance professional who joined the Bank in 2013 to manage the Environment Team that provides debt finance to projects and businesses focused on generating renewable energy and delivering sustainable infrastructure projects across the UK. Philip’s team...

Laura Bishop is a chartered mechanical engineer, registered with the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. She has 20 years engineering experience with a number of blue-chip companies including Rolls Royce and E.ON Connecting Energies. She runs Infinitas Design Ltd, a Derby-based independent renewable ...

Charles left the corporate world to establish SmartKlub because he believes community energy needs disrupting.  Starting out in customer facing IT, Charles proved his innovation credentials by floating a dot com in personalised print and after successful exit joined E.ON in 2001, establishing its...

Since 2013 Hugh Brennan has been MD of Hive Energy and is responsible for UK business development and project management, achieving consent on over 300MW of ground mount PV since that time.   He has over 30 years international operations & business development experience across...

Jacob is an analyst working on the domestic retail market, producing competitor and market intelligence reports. Jacob has several years’ experience in community development with public sector and NGOs.

I have worked within the sustainability sector for the past 18 years and this reflects my personal interest and passion for environmental sustainability. I have been with SWM since 2013 and lead the organisation in its role as sustainability adviser to cross-sector organisations across the West...

Fabio has a background in environmental sciences and his current academic research focuses on the environmental implications of land-use change for utility scale solar park development in the UK. Specifically, he is collating data on natural capital (e.g., soil, biodiversity) and ecosystem services ...

An Industry recognised and well-respected specialist with over 10 years’ experience in the field of solar photovoltaics (PV) and associated smart and flexible technologies.  An active member of a number of national and international committees, developing future standards for an innovative and...

Chris joined Cenex, a not-for-profit consultancy in low carbon transport, in early 2018 leading Cenex’ activities relating to energy and infrastructure for transport. This includes innovative R&D projects in areas such as vehicle-to-grid, wireless charging and microgrids as well as strategic...

Stephen is CEO of RheEnergise and the orriginator of the High-Density Hydro ® concept.  Highly motivated capable individual with director level experience across 3 industry sectors: 12 years in renewable energy; 5 years developing innovation and policy; 15 years architecture/ design. A track...

Daisy has been heading up the smart team at Energy UK, the industry’s main trade body, since 2016. The team represents member energy companies on technical and consumer issues relating to smart, as well as the wider policy framework for the programme. The team has been identifying and resolving...

Cami Dodge-Lamm has a Master of Science in Renewable Energy Systems from TU Wien and a Master of Public Policy from George Mason University (USA). Ms. Dodge-Lamm specializes in project management and  energy regulations and is currently Head of European Public Affairs and Regulation at...

Stuart Elmes is founder and Chief Executive of Viridian Solar, a UK manufacturer of roof integrated photovoltaic solar panels. Stuart also serves as a director at Solar Energy UK, and is active in PV rooftop working groups and a founder member of the Solar Energy Scotland group.  He is enthusiastic ...

Shamala Evans is an experienced Senior Civil Engineer and Project Manager, possessing a breadth and depth of technical knowledge underpinned by strong academic learning and a demonstrable track record of success in the design and implementation of challenging, complex and wide-ranging...

Will has operational experience within the EV infrastructure industry for 3 years and been with ubitricity DES UK LTD since the summer of 2019.  During that time ubitricity has expended its charge point network to become the largest public network in the UK. His experience includes Service and...

Responsible for all soft facilities and logistics at the University of Birmingham including transport, travel, car parking, cleaning, waste management, post and exports, sustainably for the University of Birmingham. Our award winning team include one of the most sustainable fleets in the UK and...

Dr Richard Hall leads Energy Transition’s work in Solar Governance. Richard currently Chairs the Solar Trade Association (STA) Solar Heat Working Group and represents the UK in the International Energy Agency (IEA) Solar Heating and Cooling Technology Collaboration Programme (TCP).

Patrick Hall is a Senior Researcher at the think tank Bright Blue, helping to inform the energy and environment policy debate in the UK, as well as contributing to Bright Blue’s programme of research and events. Patrick has produced three agenda-setting reports on biodiversity decline, sectoral...

Ruth heads up the Strategy and Development team at LCCC. She has oversight of the company's Communications and Stakeholder Management, the relationship with the Shareholder (BEIS) and engagement on emerging government policy, as well as leading work on the strategic direction of the...

As Director of Low Carbon at The Growth Company, Chair of Electricity North West’s Sustainability Panel and a member of their Customer Engagement Group which scrutinises their next investment plan.  Todd is a key member of the GM’s Low Carbon network, which spearheads and promotes low-carbon...

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Paul Hutchens is the Founder and CEO of Eco2Solar, a leading provider of solar, storage and smart technologies mainly to national housebuilders such as Barratts and Persimmon which employs over 60 people. Eco2Solar operates nationwide with offices in Worcester, Glasgow and Liverpool.  Paul Is also ...

From the start of OVO’s exploration into EV charging technologies, Alfred has worked on bringing innovative products to customers. In addition to developing OVO’s smart charging offering, he helped develop the V2G product and proposition, which was recently awarded the prize for Best Consumer...

Julian Jansen is a research manager in the Clean Technology & Renewables team at IHS Markit. He leads the group’s global research on stationary energy storage and provides deep insight on the key value drivers and emerging business models accelerating storage deployment across the world. ​ ...

Dr Christian Jardine is a founder member of Joju Solar and has been involved with solar PV since 2001 when he ran Oxford University's research into solar energy and microgeneration. He is recognised as one of the UK's foremost experts in the performance of solar PV and is the author of...

Peter founded Harmony Energy in 2010 having spent ten years in finance. He has over 12 years’ experience in the renewable energy sector, in financing and development. Harmony Energy, builds, owns and operates renewable energy assets across the UK. Peter is also a Director of Jones Food...

Jon has led the growth of the E.ON Solar & Storage business from 2018 to 2020, and is now leading and developing the E.ON team to deliver the UK Government’s Green Homes Grant ‘Local Authority Delivery’ schemes.  Jon has 13 years experience at E.ON across a broad range of roles, with a focus on ...

Over the last two years, Rosie has worked in the transport team for Energy Saving Trust (EST). She is project lead on the £5 million OLEV grant fund, the On-Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme, as well as the 19/20 £2 million DfT eCargo Bike Grant Fund. She has a detailed knowledge on ultra low...

Pranati is an Investment Specialist with the Taiwan Plus Desk and Automobile team at Invest India. ​Invest India is the National Investment Promotion & Facilitation Agency of India under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India, and its primary mandate is to handhold investors ...

Aaron Lally is Managing Partner at VEST Energy, a clean tech trading house that uses technology to trade electricity and support renewable energy. VEST Energy is focussed on trading grid-scale energy storage, increasing renewable generation hitting the grid and making electricity greener. Prior to...

Eric advises government agencies, multinational energy companies, and non-governmental organisations on the economic impacts of the energy transition. Eric’s recent work includes modelling the Great Britain electricity system under a net zero emissions target, developing scenarios for the world...

Dr. Pavel Mardilovich is a senior scientist at Enerox GmbH. There he is focusing on the question of state of health measurement and correction strategies in vanadium flow batteries. Before joining Enerox, he worked as a research engineer at VolStorage GmbH, and prior to that he was the co-founder...

Kyle Martin has over 10 years’ experience in regulation and policy, with time spent within the carbon and energy sectors. He currently works at LCP as Head of Market Insight in the business analytics energy department. Prior to this, he worked at Energy UK as Deputy Director focusing on market...

Ypatios Moysiadis’ early years spent growing up in an industrial coal mining town in Northwest Greece had a profound effect on his career and helped embed a focus on sustainability in all his future ventures.  Starting as a management consultant, he specialised in assisting pre-seed and growth...

As founder and Managing Director of Quintas Energy since 2008, Declan has been at the forefront of the solar asset management sector in Spain, Italy, the UK, Ireland and Australia. Quintas also provides technical advisory, data and development services.

Julian helps the BPA membership understand and respond to the opportunities posed by data, apps, shared mobility alongside connected, automated and electric vehicles.  He brings a wealth of experience from senior management and research roles to support partnerships across the public, private and...

Adrian Parker is the Technology Programme Manager for myenergi , the award winning UK company that designs, develops and manufactures products and services which enable customers to increase self-consumption of green energy.  After an early career in manufacturing, he joined the energy industry in...

Peer is a solar industry veteran who possesses 15+ years of experience in project development, project finance and project M&A.   Peer serves Solarcentury as Business Development Manager.  Prior to joining Solarcentury he had several senior management positions in the solar industry and...

Ed Porter is Invinity’s Business Development Director, leading the development of new business models and commercial applications for the company’s vanadium flow batteries (VFBs). Invinity Energy Systems is the world’s leading vanadium flow battery company, created in April 2020 through the merger...

Dr Jonathan Radcliffe is a Reader in Energy Systems and Innovation, and leads the Resilient Cities theme for the university’s Institute for Global Innovation. His research focuses on policy and techno-economic analysis of energy systems, with particular emphasis on the integration of new...

Leah is a co-Director of whole house renewables company Your Energy Your Way.  She has an 8 year track record in the successful installation of renewable energy solutions including ground source and air source heat pumps, solar PV, solar thermal, EV chargers and batteries.  Building on the...

Helen is responsible for developing and delivering Electricity North West’s stakeholder-led Community and Local Energy Strategy.  Since joining the Electricity North West in October 2017 Helen has been responsible for delivering an engagement and support programme for the community and local energy ...

Tanya has worked in electric vehicle policy for almost a decade, working with businesses, governments and a wide range of stakeholders to smooth the path for the uptake of electric vehicles. She chairs the EV Forum of the REA, the association for renewable energy and clean technology which...

Philip Steele is responsible for innovation of tariffs, IoT and services at Octopus Energy having previously run his own Smart Home start-up for 6 years.  Since joining Octopus Energy, Phil has built on the Agile half-hourly tariff to launch integrations with the IFTTT and Alexa services, multiple...

Alan leads the Energy Technology Consulting (ETC) team at UK Power Networks Services. The ETC team are experts in distributed energy solutions and power distribution. We provide detailed analysis and consulting services to optimise existing assets, integrate new technologies and deliver commercial...

James is co-founder and managing director of Sero. A mechanical engineer by training, James started in the automotive sector designing motorbikes, before translating his technical skills into renewable energy development. He successfully developed a number of biomass power stations in this...

Gareth Williams has a deep rooted and evolving passion for the sustainability agenda.  This has led him to develop from his family farming roots into a diversified rural business that includes a renewable energy business, property rental and farming activity based from Herefordshire.  Three...

Listing energy policy as her number one passion, Marzia entered the industry following the Californian energy crisis of 2000/01, which led to rolling blackouts, affecting thousands of small businesses. She went on to become a policy advisor at California’s energy regulator in San Francisco where...