Please save the date for our next ITS UK Executive Update which will take place on the 2 December fron 10am to 4pm at Amey’s offices in London.

These meetings, exclusively for our premier Executive Group of members, provide the opportunity to hear from senior industry speakers on a key issue of the day, public sector and client organisations and to feed into ITS UK’s strategy and direction.  Attendance is open to Executive Members only.  

We are pleased to confirm Elena Gillies from the Centre for Connected & Automated Vehicles (CCAV) as our keynote for the day who will speak on delivering the future of connected and automated mobility.

An agenda is available below.

If you are an Executive Member and you wish to register your place for this meeting, then please contact rukshan.soysa@its-uk.org and do indicate, if you want to attend in person or online.

Following the Executive Update, there will be our Executive Dinner in Parliament. To find out more about this event, please see the event link here.

Agenda

10am | Coffee & Refreshments

11am | Welcome and Introductions
Catherine Whitfield, Chair, ITS UK

11.05am | Welcome from Hosts
Rodney Moffett, Business Director, Amey

11.10am | Keynote: Delivering the future of Connected & Automated Mobility
Elena Gillies, Head of Automated Vehicles Act Implementation, and DVSA Sponsorship, Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV)

11.40am | Updates from Industry

• Nicola Bell, Glasgow City Council
• Robert Vermeer, Innovate UK
• Mark Collins, Transport for West Midlands
• Irfan Shaffi, Transport for London
• Philip Robinson, Department for Infrastructure (Northern Ireland)
• Stephen Davies, Transport Scotland

1pm | Lunch

2pm | Introduction from new Executive Members

• Version 1

2.30pm | ITS UK Update
Max Sugarman, Chief Executive, ITS UK

3.30pm | Networking

4pm | Event Closes

Keynote

Elena Gillies, Head of Automated Vehicles Act Implementation, and DVSA Sponsorship, Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV)

Elena Gillies is Head of Automated Vehicles Act Implementation for the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV). Elena started her career at the Wellcome Trust, a global health research charity, before moving to Public Health England’s Parliamentary team, various private office roles at the Department for Education and rail reform roles at the Department for Transport. Elena completed her Policy Fellowship with the Royal Academy of Engineering while leading policy development of the authorisation of self-driving vehicles.