2020 SPEAKERS

Aaron Berry, Deputy Head, Energy and Infrastructure, Office for Low Emission Vehicles

Aimee Betts-Charalambous, Technology Innovation Lead, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

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Wayne Bexton, Head Of Energy Services, Nottingham City Council

Wayne Bexton is Head of Energy Services at Nottingham City Council and has worked in public sector energy and sustainability fields for over 15 years, having previously delivered sustainability advice in the private sector. Wayne has delivered numerous high profile, high value environmental...

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Wayne Bexton, Head Of Energy Services, Nottingham City Council

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Dinker Bhardwaj, Head Of Data Policy And Smart Energy, Department For Business Energy And Industrial Strategy UK

Dinker Bhardwaj is the Head of Data Policy in the Electricity Systems team at BEIS. He previously worked on the RIIO price control regulation of electricity distribution networks.In his current role, Dinker leads the Energy Data Taskforce project at BEIS, which is a key policy action to enable a...

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Dinker Bhardwaj, Head Of Data Policy And Smart Energy, Department For Business Energy And Industrial Strategy UK

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John Booth, Managing Director, CATALYST Project

John Booth is a well-known figure in EU data centre circles, primarily for his role as reviewer for the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres (Energy Efficiency) (EUCOC) programme and his work with the Certified Energy Efficiency Data Centre Award (CEEDA) which assesses data centres to a subset of...

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John Booth, Managing Director, CATALYST Project

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Charles Bradshaw-Smith, Chief Executive Officer, Smartklub

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...

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Charles Bradshaw-Smith, Chief Executive Officer, Smartklub

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Randolph Brazier, Head Of Innovation And Development, ENA

Randolph is the Head of Innovation & Development at the Energy Networks Association, and has over seven years of experience in the power and energy sector. Randolph is responsible for co-ordinating and delivering a broad range of strategic industry challenges, including the development of...

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Randolph Brazier, Head Of Innovation And Development, ENA

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Emma Bridge, Chief Executive, Community Energy England

Emma Bridge is the Chief Executive of Community Energy England, a not for profit organisation that represents and supports those committed to the community energy sector. Emma works with her Executive Team, Board of Directors and members to help create the conditions within which community energy...

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Emma Bridge, Chief Executive, Community Energy England

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Jacob Briggs, Analyst, Cornwall Insight

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.

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Jacob Briggs, Analyst, Cornwall Insight

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Steve Cains, Head Of Power Solutions, Public Power Solutions

Steve Cains is Head of Power Solutions at PPS.  He leads the Power team on identifying and developing renewable energy and storage projects for public sector clients. He also oversees the Asset Management Business. Steve is passionate about the environmental benefits and revenue streams which can...

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Steve Cains, Head Of Power Solutions, Public Power Solutions

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Julie Chenadec, Project Manager, Green It Amsterdam

Julie Chenadec's work focuses on promoting and realizing energy sustainability initiatives within the IT industry. As such, Julie is working as a Project Manager at Green IT Amsterdam since 2015. Ms Chenadec is the Lead Partner of the Interreg Europe project, EV ENERGY; as well as project...

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Julie Chenadec, Project Manager, Green It Amsterdam

Cindi Choi, Managing Director, Total Ventures

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Emeka Chukwureh, Director, Energy Markets And Strategy, Uk and Ireland, Enel X

Emeka is a member of the leadership team for Enel X UK & Ireland, where he provides strategic direction in the areas of energy markets, commercial growth strategy, new business lines & product development, energy projects, and regulatory & government affairs.Through his role at Enel...

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Emeka Chukwureh, Director, Energy Markets And Strategy, Uk and Ireland, Enel X

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Celine Cluzel, Director, Element Energy

Starting her career as a mechanical engineer, Celine gained 7 years’ experience in the automotive sector in France and the UK before taking an MSc in Sustainable Energy Futures from Imperial College London.Celine leads the transport team in the London office of Element Energy, and has delivered...

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Chris Cox, Head Of Energy Systems, Cenex

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Chris Cox, Head Of Energy Systems, Cenex

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...

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Chris Cox, Head Of Energy Systems, Cenex

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Fraser Crichton, Fleet Operations Manager, Dundee City Council

Fraser has worked for Dundee City Council since 2001In 2011 he was appointed Assistant Manager of the newly formed Corporate FleetDepartment.He has been at the forefront of implementing electric vehicles and infrastructure in Dundee as well as surrounding local authorities.Pro-active in the...

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Fraser Crichton, Fleet Operations Manager, Dundee City Council

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Rafael Cuesta, Director, RCC Ltd

Rafael is an international consultant with vast experience in the transport and intelligent mobility field and significant expertise in the development of mobility as a service. Through his consultancy he now advices cities and regions on future mobility.  Rafael is UITP Ambassador and led the...

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Rafael Cuesta, Director, RCC Ltd

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Juliet Davenport, Chief Executive Officer, Good Energy

Juliet is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Good Energy – a renewable energy company with a mission to power a greener, cleaner future together with its customersJuliet has been an innovator for over 20 years, working on ideas to fight climate change and transform the energy sector for the...

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Juliet Davenport, Chief Executive Officer, Good Energy

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Sara De La Serna, Development Manager, SSE Enterprise

Sara has been supporting the Electric Vehicle Infrastructure team within SSE for the last three years through activity including strategic work, business development, product development and innovation. She is currently leading the Innovate UK funded Bus2Grid project, a first of a kind...

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Sara De La Serna, Development Manager, SSE Enterprise

Jane Devlin, Energy Strategy Manager, East Hampshire District Council

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Ricky Duke, Innovation And Low Carbon Network Engineer, Western Power Distribution

Ricky has been with Western Power Distribution for the last 10 years and is currently an Innovation and Low Carbon Network Engineer within the future networks team. Ricky specialises in Electric Vehicles & their impacts on the distribution networks and he project manages innovation projects...

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Ricky Duke, Innovation And Low Carbon Network Engineer, Western Power Distribution

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Philippa Eddie, Commercial Finance Specialist, Project And Structured Finance Group, Infrastructure and Projects Authority (HM Treasury and Cabinet Office)

Philippa leads the financial advisory team within the Infrastructure and Projects Authority. Philippa joined HM Treasury in 2013 after over 20 years in the private sector specialising in infrastructure finance, both advisory and lending. Prior to joining the UK Government, Philippa was a Partner at ...

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Philippa Eddie, Commercial Finance Specialist, Project And Structured Finance Group, Infrastructure and Projects Authority (HM Treasury and Cabinet Office)

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Steve Edwards, Head Of Flexible Energy, SIMEC

Steve is responsible for the development of large scale PV and the commercialisation of flexibility at SIMEC, part of the Gupta Family Group. In the UK, GFG owns and operates Steel and Aluminium manufacturing plants in Rotherham and Western Scotland and intermediate and automotive component...

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Steve Edwards, Head Of Flexible Energy, SIMEC

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Paul Gambrell, Team Leader - Ev Integration Ihub Innovation Team, Oxfordshire County Council

Paul has worked for many years in the automotive industry; both in engineering and project management at OEM and supplier companies including a period at a small technology development company; helping to develop, and produce, a range of electric vehicles. Since 2014 he has been involved in the...

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Paul Gambrell, Team Leader - Ev Integration Ihub Innovation Team, Oxfordshire County Council

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Virginia Graham, Chief Executive, RECC

Virginia has extensive experience in sustainable energy policy. Virginia is currently Chief Executive of the Renewable Energy Assurance Ltd. As well as running the Renewable Energy Consumer Code and several certification schemes including the Green Gas Certification Scheme, she also advises a range ...

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Virginia Graham, Chief Executive, RECC

Barbara Hammond, Chief Executive Officer, Low Carbon Hub

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Phil Hart, Professor And Director Of Energy And Power, Cranfield University

Professor Phil Hart joined Cranfield as Director of Energy and Power on 20 August 2018. Phil knows the University well having earned his MSc in Marine Technology and his PhD in subsea welding from Cranfield. He has held a series of senior roles within the energy and power sector in the UK, Asia and ...

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Phil Hart, Professor And Director Of Energy And Power, Cranfield University

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Ben Ingham, Innovation Project Manager, Electricity North West Ltd

Ben graduated from UMIST in 2006 and joined Schneider Electric as a bid manager in their project team, tendering for projects ranging from replacement switchgear for United Utilities pumping stations through to parts of the Great Ormond St Hospital refurbishment. After three years he joined United...

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Ben Ingham, Innovation Project Manager, Electricity North West Ltd

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Neil Jones, Projects Manager, Possible

I lead on Possible's heat decarbonisation projects, including Powering Parks - working with Hackney Council and Scene to show how ground source heat in parks can warm nearby buildings using heat pumps; and the Heat Network - a UKERC funded project to get people talking about heat and develop an ...

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Neil Jones, Projects Manager, Possible

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Jonathon Marshall, Head Of Analysis, Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit

Jonny joined the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit in 2016. Before this he was employed at S&P Global Platts and as a Postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London. Jonny holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from Imperial and completed his undergraduate studies at the University of York.

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Jonathon Marshall, Head Of Analysis, Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit

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Kyle Martin, Head Of Market Insight, Lane Clark and Peacock

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...

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Kyle Martin, Head Of Market Insight, Lane Clark and Peacock

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Myles Mccarthy, Managing Director, Implementation Services, Carbon Trust

Myles has a diverse range of experience across Carbon Trust, having developed programmes ranging from new technology innovation and investments through to business advice on low carbon and energy efficiency technologies.  He has led our relationships with a range of multinational corporate...

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Myles Mccarthy, Managing Director, Implementation Services, Carbon Trust

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Jonathon Mcguire, Director, Bluebox Energy

Jonathon McGuire founded Bluebox Energy in 2014 specialising in heat to energy solutions in the renewable sector.  Bluebox Energy have successfully demonstrated hot air turbine technology in a number of projects including the Swiss lighthouse project located in Dudingen using biomass to generate...

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Sam Moore, Customer Experience Director, Opus Energy Ltd

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Ypatios Moysiadis, Business Development Director And Uk Country Manager, greensolver

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 phase...

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Ypatios Moysiadis, Business Development Director And Uk Country Manager, greensolver

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Hugo Niesing, Director, Resourcefully

Resourcefully is a strategic consulting company with a focus on the urban energy transition. Hugo Niesing founded Resourcefully in 2008, creating one of the first companies focused on the smart integration of renewable energy and e-mobility for Europe's city transition. Inspired by todays...

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Hugo Niesing, Director, Resourcefully

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Gill Nowell, Dso Lead, Electralink Ltd

Gill is DSO Lead in ElectraLink’s Transformation Services business, with 20 years’ experience across utility, energy and environmental technologies sectors. Gill now delivers data-driven innovation across the energy landscape, working with DNOs, energy suppliers and innovators, to unlock the value...

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Gill Nowell, Dso Lead, Electralink Ltd

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Guy Parker, Director, Wychwood Biodiversity

Guy is founder and co-director of Wychwood Biodiversity Limited, a consultancy specialising in land management for renewable energy sites in the UK. Guy has been working with solar developers and asset owners since 2009, enhancing biodiversity on solar farms through practical, efficient land...

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Guy Parker, Director, Wychwood Biodiversity

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Yannis Perrakis, Technology Principal, Digital Innovation, BP Plc

Yannis is a Technology Principal in BP’s Digital Innovation Organisation, which sits at the frontier of BP’s strategy for delivering heat, light and mobility services across the world. He leads emerging digital technology exploration and development across a diverse set of low carbon areas, from...

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Yannis Perrakis, Technology Principal, Digital Innovation, BP Plc

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James Robbins, Founder, WinningCIO

James is the founder of WinningCIO ltd which is a technology consulting business that provides business the opportunity to access FTSE250 scale CIO’s with 10 plus years experience on a portfolio basis. James, himself is a CIO with 15+ years experience at board level with ArrowXL, Drax Group...

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Laura Sandys, Chief Executive Officer, Challenging Ideas

She is a Senior Independent Director at SGN Network and has recently been appointed Chair of the BEIS/Ofgem Energy Data Taskforce to propose the use of data for whole energy system management.  Laura also runs the 21st Century Energy Regulatory Commission with Imperial College and the Energy...

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Laura Sandys, Chief Executive Officer, Challenging Ideas

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Helen Seagrave, Community Energy Manager, Electricity North West Ltd

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 ...

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Helen Seagrave, Community Energy Manager, Electricity North West Ltd

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Will Swan, Director Energy House Laboratories, University of Salford

Will Swan is the Director of the Energy House Laboratories at the University of Salford, having led the energy and buildings research team at the university for 10 years. The labs include the unique Salford Energy House, the Smart Meters Smart Homes Lab, the Thermal Lab and the forthcoming £16m...

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Gordon Charles Thompson, Portfolio Manager, Innogy Innovation Hub

Alan Thompson, Head Of Energy Tech Consulting, UK Power Networks Services

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Grazia Todeschini, Senior Lecturer, College of Engineering, Swansea University

Grazia Todeschini received her BSc and MSc in Electrical Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Massachusetts. She was senior consultant with EnerNex, in Knoxville, from 2010 to 2013, and senior...

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Grazia Todeschini, Senior Lecturer, College of Engineering, Swansea University

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Jacopo Torriti, Professor, School Of Built Environment, University of Reading

Jacopo Torriti is a Professor of Energy Economics and Policy in the School of the Built Environment, University of Reading.  He is a Co-Director of the Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions (CREDS), where he leads work on flexibility. He is a member of Ofgem Academic Advisory Panel and...

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Sam Wevers, Product Manager - Cornwall Lem, Centrica Plc

Sam joined Centrica in early 2017 to work on the Cornwall Local Energy Market, an innovation project part funded by the European Regional Development Fund. As Product Manager, Sam is responsible for market and regulatory analysis, product definition and strategy, and development of Centrica's...

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Sam Wevers, Product Manager - Cornwall Lem, Centrica Plc

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Gareth Williams, Managing Director, caplor energy

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...

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Gareth Williams, Managing Director, caplor energy