Tommy Flowers Institute

The Future of Transport

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Contents

Hello and Welcome…………………………………………………….…. 1Agenda Day 1: Tuesday 5th March 2019……….………………… 2Speakers Day 1………………………………………………………………. 4Agenda Day 2: Wednesday 6th March 2019……….…………… 6Speakers Day 2………………………………………………………………. 8Attendees List ……………………………………………………………….. 10What next?......................................................................... 13

great challenges - great people – great opportunities

Welcome to the Tommy Flowers Institute conference looking at the

Future of Transport

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With congestion increasing and the impact ofour transport choices on the environmentbecoming more apparent, we are on the vergeof big changes in the way we move around.

Many of us rely on particular modes oftransport for particular types of journey, butin the future will we be able to do that? Willwe need to switch to new modes of transport,powered in different ways? Will we need touse shared transport more often? Will we ownour own vehicles, or will we subscribe tomobility as a service?

Perhaps we’ll find new ways to do things withvirtual or augmented reality which willdrastically reduce the need for us to travel.

We can use data science and artificial intelligence to analyse and optimise thejourneys we do need to make. What will our increasingly connected, smart citiesmean for the way we travel?

The technologies may be there already, so how will we be persuaded to changeour habits? Will it be based on cost, sustainability or something else?

Over the course of this conference, we’re going to look at some of the transportproblems facing Suffolk Council, a local authority in England. The problems we’llexplore are not unique to Suffolk, nor to the UK, they are repeated all around theworld. They won’t be solved by a single magic solution, they are multi-faceted andrequire a multi-disciplinary approach. We’ll need data scientists, fixed and mobilenetwork experts, social scientists, economists, planners and many other types ofpeople from industry and academia to solve them. This is where the TommyFlowers Institute comes in – we are bringing together a diverse group of people tostart solving the problems. We’re glad you’re joining us on the journey.

P.S. This is my first Tommy Flowers Institute conference since taking on this role.Please do come and introduce yourself, I look forward to meeting you all!

Carol FletcherBT's Head of Academic and Research

Partnerships

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Day 1: Tuesday 5th March 2019

09:30 Registration and coffee

10:00 Welcome Carol Fletcher, BT's Head of Academic and Research Partnerships

10:30 Introductions of the day by Mike Williams, Senior Innovation Manager, Applied Research, BT

Dave Lynch, Group Chief Information Officer of FirstGroup PlcUsing big data to bring challenge and improvement to traffic congestion

Andrew Starkey, AI & Network Optimisation, Research Manager, BTUsing AI for Fleet Planning in BT and Beyond

Graeme Mateer, Head of Transport Strategy, Suffolk County CouncilRichard Webster, Street Lighting Manager for Suffolk HighwaysADEPT Live Labs and Suffolk Challenges

12:00 Networking Lunch and Demos

13:00 Breakout Session 1 – What’s the problem?

14:00 Simon Thompson, Principal Researcher, Applied Research, BT

Autonomy and AI : differences, gaps and problems Sam Ryan, Co-Founder & CEO of Zeelo

Building a personalised shared mobility service

15:00 Break

15:15 Breakout Session 1 – Devil’s Advocate!

16:15 Cristian Parrino, CEO and Co-Founder Greengame

Incentivising sustainable choices through the use of technology, gamification and behavioural economics

Carol Fletcher, Breakout report back and wrap-up of Day 1

18:00 Drinks Reception and Conference Dinner at the Adastral Hub

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Carol FletcherBT's Head of Academic and Research PartnershipsMy role is all about skills – making sure that we have a pipeline of people withthe right skills, either working for us or with us - to carry on the world-leading,purposeful innovation that BT has been doing since 1837.I’ve been in BT since 1999, working in a variety of roles in research and themanagement of our research programme. I have a degree in Natural Sciences,specialising in physics, from the University of Cambridge.

Dave LynchGroup Chief Information Officer of FirstGroup PlcDave Lynch is Group Chief Information Officer of FirstGroup Plc – the leadingtransport operator in the UK and North America, with revenues of around£6.4 billion in FY 2017/18.During the last year around 2.4 billion people relied on us to get to work,school or college, to visit family and friends and much more. Each day, everyone of our 110,000 employees works hard to deliver vitally important servicesfor our passengers.

Dave is part of a team at FirstGroup responsible for driving technology to support and innovatewithin the business and to assist First customers understand the various travel propositions. Inpartnership with FirstGroup’s operating divisions the team is driving innovation in all areas of thebusiness and targeting volume growth and reducing operating costs at every opportunity.

Graeme MateerHead of Transport Strategy, Suffolk County CouncilGraeme has extensive experience in transport policy, strategy and deliverywith over 14 years at Suffolk County Council, and two years seconded to theDepartment for Transport. He is Head of Transport Strategy at Suffolk CountyCouncil, responsible for strategy development, delivery of transport schemes,including major infrastructure projects such as the Lake Lothing Third Crossingand Smarter Choices programmes, as well as development managementreviewing new development applications. Graeme is keen to explore howtransport needs will adapt and influence smart cities and vice versa.

Richard WebsterStreet Lighting Manager for Suffolk HighwaysRichard Webster has over 26 years of experience within the lighting industryworking in both the private and public sectors. He is the Street LightingManager for Suffolk Highways, responsible for the client function, contractmanagement and delivery associated with over 90,000 illuminated assetswhere 65,000 street lights are connected to a central management system.Richard has been an early adopter of smart cities technology, utilising thestreet lighting communications network for a number of projects, and securingsubsequent European and DFT/Adept funding to implement innovativetechnologies on a larger scale.

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Sam RyanCo-Founder & CEO of ZeeloIn 2017, Sam Ryan co-founded Zeelo, the personalised shared transportationservice, with Barney Williams and Dani Ruiz. At Zeelo, Sam is Co-Founder &CEO Zeelo was born out of the team’s frustration with current transportoptions available to big events, to airports and between cities which saw themregularly experience overcrowding and poor services. Sam has a strong trackrecord in travel tech after exiting his first business JumpIn, a taxi booking andsharing app, to Addison Lee in 2014. Sam spent 2 years at Addison Lee as Headof Product.

Simon ThompsonPrincipal Researcher, Applied Research, BT Simon Thompson is the Principal Investigator for BT’s AI and CustomerExperience research programs. Simon did a Ph.D. on Machine Learning at theUniversity of Portsmouth and then joined BT to work on Intelligent Agents. Heworked on several EU and EPSRC projects and was responsible for developingcore components in major applications at BT. Simon developed an interest inBig Data when his group developed a social CRM system, this led Simon towork on Big Data technology and applications of Machine Learning for anumber of applications in BT.

Simon's research interests are the real world obstacles to deploying and using AI and the applicationof novel machine learning approaches to real problems. Simon was a visiting researcher at the AlanTuring Institute in 2017/18, is a member of the EPSRC college and is a member of the Data Board atthe Centre for Information Systems at the Sloane School MIT and also serves on the board of theSystems that Learn Consortium for MIT's Computer Science and AI Lab.

Cristian ParrinoCEO and Co-Founder GreengameCristian is the CEO of Greengame, a tech-for-good startup that workswith cities and businesses to incentivise sustainable living, through anapp that combines automated data collection, gamification andbehavioural economics. He actively advises corporates and not-for-profits on innovation and sustainability, and mentors social impactstartups and accelerators. Cristian moved to the UK in 2003 to helpBritish Telecom set up the first startup accelerator in the country. Hethen built Chef2video, which focussed on getting people to socialisearound making food.

More recently, he led Canonical’s mobile program for Ubuntu, the Linux Operating System, where hebroke crowdfunding records with the Ubuntu Phone. In addition to Greengame, Cristian currentlyleads the social innovation and behavioural research program at the environmental charity KeepBritain Tidy.

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Day 2: Tuesday 6th March 2019

09:00 Registration and coffee

09:30 Introductions of the day by Mike Williams, Senior Innovation Manager, Applied Research, BT

Ian Hawkins, Principal Researcher, Applied Research, BTSimilarities between telecommunications networks & road networks – what can we learn?

Peter Frost, Environment Strategy Officer for Suffolk County Council The EV revolution – It’s only a revolution if it happens quickly

10:30 Breakout Session 1 – It’s your turn now!

11:15 The English Electric Motorcycle Co.

Electric Motorcycle Show @TheHub

12:00 Working Lunch / Breakout report back

13:00 David Williams, Managing Director, Underwriting & Technical Services, AXA

Insurance UKDriverless Cars; The future of mobility and the implications for insurance

Peter Lee, Principal Consultant – Smart Cities, Communities and Internet of Things (IoT), BSI (British Standards Institution)Accelerating the Future of Mobility through open data standards

14:00 Wrap and ‘What comes next!’

14:30 Close

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Ian Hawkins, Principal Researcher, Applied Research, BTIan Hawkins leads the Networks Technology research withinBT. Undertaking applied and strategic research into areas such as Passiveoptical networks, Ethernet, Software defined networks, Network functionsvirtualization, White Box, Quality of Experience analysis, Opticalnetworking and Quantum key distribution. Ian has 38 years’ experiencedesigning global networks and services, network strategy creation andundertaking leading edge research. His previous roles within BT haveincluded vice president Networks & ICT and Chief broadband architectwithin the BT CTO.

Peter Frost, Environment Strategy Officer for Suffolk County CouncilPeter Frost joined the Royal Air Force straight from school to work onavionics systems. After 7 years he left to work on teletext and subtitlingequipment then joined the motor trade in 1991 working for a Toyotafranchise dealership. He has experience of the obstacles involved with theintroduction of a new concept in transport as for the last six years of hiscareer in the motor trade he was an Electric Vehicle Specialist for RenaultUK. Last year he moved to local government. He now holds the position ofEnvironment Strategy Officer for Suffolk County Council and is part of theBusiness Energy Efficiency Anglia project.

This enables Small and Medium Enterprises all over Norfolk and Suffolk to access grant fundingtowards cutting their carbon footprint and boosting their business through improved efficiency. Heis keen to spread the word about how companies can be at the forefront of the new paradigm oftransport and how society will change in the near future. As part of that he has been a keyinstigator of the ‘Plug in Suffolk’ programme to accelerate the rollout of electric vehicle charginginfrastructure across the county.

David Williams, Managing Director, Underwriting & Technical Services,AXA Insurance UKDavid has over 30 years’ experience in General Insurance, roles includingChief Commercial Underwriter at one of AXA’s largest branches,Reinsurance Manager, Casualty Insurance Manager, Managing DirectorClaims and Managing Director Underwriting David leads AXA’s work onConnected & Autonomous Vehicles, including work with 5 Governmentbacked Consortia (including Venturer, UK Autodrive, & Flourish). He sits onthe Association of British Insurers GIC and is Chair of the AutonomousDriving Group.

He also Chairs RISCAuthority, the CII Underwriting Faculty, is a Board Member of the Fire ProtectionAssociation, and is a Non-Executive Director of AXA Assistance UK. David is very active in lobbyingthe government, particularly with regard to problems with claims farming and compensationculture, and won the 2018 Insurance Post Award for Social Media Influencer of the year.

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Peter Lee, Principal Consultant – Smart Cities, Communities and Internetof Things (IoT), BSI (British Standards Institution)Peter Lee, Principal Consultant – Smart Cities, Communities and Internet ofThings (IoT), BSI (British Standards Institution) Short Bio: Peter joined BTLabs in 1987 as an industrial design engineer, working on advancedprototypes and digital service developments. He went on to be thecorporate head of product design and champion for user-centred design,and is able to trace DNA in Nokia mobiles, iPhones, Apple TV and MicrosoftSharePoint. Peter worked for Suffolk County Council from 2003 – 2013 onsmarter travel choices marketing, policy and economic development.He led the Suffolk sustainable travel forum with transport providers and local businesses. SecuringEuropean funds to deliver ‘Fresh Ways to Work’ including mobile phone bus tickets, discounts andjourney planners. Following a short spell at Ipswich Borough Council (2013 – 2016) as EconomicDevelopment Operations Manager, where Peter was instrumental in the development of theIpswich Waterfront Innovation Centre (IWIC) at the University of Suffolk, plus leadership of SmartIpswich, he went on to become a Smart Digital Innovation consultant, specialising in Smart Cities.Between 2017 and 2018 Peter worked for Coderus, a software development business based atAdastral Park, on marketing, PR and business development, where he remains a non-executivedirector. In parallel Peter was an Associate Consultant at BSI supporting engagement with Citiesand Councils throughout the UK on understanding and addressing their challenges with commercialinnovations, plus promotion of best practices and standards developing citizen-centred services. In2019 Peter joined BSI as Principal Consultant and has a current focus on the Future of Mobility andassisted living technologies for our ageing society. He looks forward to working on the ADEPT LiveLabs project, supporting commercial sector engagement, plus capturing and sharing best practices,moreover helping Suffolk achieve their Smart County ambitions.

Alec Sharp, Founder of OEM and EEMCIt all began with the founding of Old Empire Motorcycles in 2010.Through an absolute passion for everything two-wheeled, Alec Sharpfounded the award winning bespoke OEM house of assembly,describing it as “paying daily homage to the gods of speed and fuel.. aplace where we meet, greet, drill, weld, cut, grind, turn, mill,hammer, roll and notch till our heart’s content.” In 2017 Alec’spassion for the electric motorcycle movement became a reality asEnglish Electric Motor Co (EEMC) was born. Within two years thecompany has become the UK’s #1 ALL electric motorcycle dealershipof Zero Motorcycles & continues to grow their catalogue of vehiclesfrom industry leaders as Super soco, Oset and Sur-ron.

EEMC offers a full range of electric on-road and off-road motorcycles/mopeds/ebikes, at its cosySuffolk HQ. The bulk of EEMC’s rapid success is owed to their hands-on-approach in getting the EVmessage out there, hosting mobile ‘Demo Days’ at various shows across the UK and offering‘Doorstep Demos’ - taking electric motorcycles directly to the client. Alec says “We find ourextended Demo experience provides the user with a more realistic guide to electric transport on adaily basis” and adds “We not only believe that our demonstrations educate the public to thebenefits of electric transport, but also to the benefits of a more environmentally friendly and costeffective approach to travel.” EEMC is hosting events at their HQ throughout 2019, for the public toexperience the electric movement first-hand with local food & good company. With EVtechnological advances and Government encouragement toward more sustainable modes oftransport, EEMC will be challenged to meet the demands of those embracing the EV movement andchanging their way of life. “English Electric Motor Co is more than happy to take up that challengein promoting the world of electric motorcycles!” - Alec Sharp, EEMC.

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Attendees*

Name University/Industry Did you meet?

Afolabi Agbede BT

Brahim Allan BT

Oliver Bates Lancaster University

Paul Botham BT

Suzanne Buck Suffolk County Council

Fraser Burton BT

Frank Carver University of Suffolk

Leah Chapman National Physical Laboratory

Lewis Clarke BT

Steve Collins Fargo Systems Ltd

Andy Corston-Petrie BT Applied Research

Zhan Cui Research and Innovation, BT, UK

Nicolae Cuza Loughborough University

Preslav Enchev BT

Emmanuel Ferreyra Olivares Essex University

Carol Fletcher BT

Peter Frost Suffolk County Council

Rob FurlongKnowledge Transfer Network (InnovateUK)

Robbie Gawthrop Company Director

Belinda Godbold Suffolk County Council

Kevin Gooding OXEMS

Ellen GoodwinNew Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership - NALEP

Kristofer Grattan BT

Jodie Graves BT

James Hall University of Surrey

Nasir Haque BT

Mohammad Hassannezhad University of Cambridge

Ian Hawkins BT

Ian Herwono BT

Alex Hudson Tethir

Amber Hunt Marshall Wolfe

Josh Jones Maly IT Solutions

Paul Kearney Birmingham City University

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Name University/Industry Did you meet?

Ed Keedwell University of Exeter

Hannah KentUniversity of Leeds & Leeds University business school

Peter Lee BSI (British Standards Institution)

Brad Lee Zeelo Ltd

Hugo Leon BT and University of Essex

Alan Lion Epping Forest District Council

Sally Longmate Suffolk Association of Local Councils

Dave Lynch FirstGroup Plc

Sarah Mackenzie BT

Maliheh Mahlouji Kings College London

Graeme Mateer Suffolk County Council

John McCall Robert Gordon University RGU

Clelia McElroy Pembroke College

Morag McInnes Suffolk Coastal District Council

Ross McNicol Maritime Transport Limited

Sofia Meacham University of Bournemouth

Dave Middleton Ransome LDV (EV Vehicles Sales)

Jonathan Mitchener Innovate UK

Sagar More Tech Mahindra Ltd

Nick Morgan Zeelo

Abhi Naha CW (Cambridge Wireless)

Rika Nauck BT, Strategic University Research

John Nicholson IJYI Ltd

Charlie O'Donoghue EV Driver Ltd

Akinola Ogunsemi Robert Gordon

Justin Ott Company

Cristian Parrino Greengame

Simon Parry BT

Sharon Payne Suffolk County Council

Anasol Pena Rios BT

Hazel Pettifor University of East Anglia

Christos Pieris BT

Paul Putland BT

Tim Robinson Chief Operating Officer, Tech East

Caroline Robinson The Voluntary Network

Sam Ryan Zeelo

Josh Salter BT / University of Suffolk

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Attendees continued

Name University/Industry Did you meet?

Rajinder Sharma Transport Systems Catapult

Andrew Starkey BT

Ruhma Tahir University of Essex / METRARC

Sam Watkins BT and electric vehicle user

Richard Webster SCC

Kevin Wegg Suffolk County Council

Mike Williams BT

David Williams AXA Insurance

Han Zhao Bournemouth University

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What next?

Real World Conferencesaddressing

Strategic Industry Challenges

Thank you for attending our 2019 Spring Conference ‘The Future of Transport’.

We hope you have achieved your objectives and gained new knowledge, enhanced insights and met some interesting people! So what next? Our Autumn Conference is planned for the 10th/11th September and we hope to see you again. In the meantime here are some suggestions on how to stay in touch and to get involved.

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