Digital Transformation in Logistics Speakers

Chair's welcome and Logistics UK introduction

Kevin Green, Policy & Communications Director, Logistics UK

Kevin Green is the Policy & Communications Director for Logistics UK – one of the biggest business groups in the UK: supporting, shaping and standing up for safe and efficient Logistics. Kevin has worked in leadership roles for a number of large corporates including Capita, Logica, Mitie, Balfour Beatty, KPMG and PwC.

Project highlights include working on the sale and implementation for major Public Private Partnerships, including; Congestion Charging in London, The Criminal Records Bureau, and HS2, and delivering The Skills Show for 100,000 young people.

Digital innovation today

Chair: Ben Garratt, Deputy Director - Public Affairs, Logistics UK

Steffan Eldred, Innovation Lead for Zero Emission Vehicles, Innovate UK

Chris Lane, Head of Transport Innovation, Transport for West Midlands

Chris Lane is Strategic Head of Transport Innovation at Transport for West Midlands. In this role he delivers change through people, processes and technology across a portfolio of programmes, including Mobility as a Service, Connected and Autonomous Mobility programmes and developing new ways of travel through the West Midlands Future Transport Zone as well as enabling the take up of Ultra Low Emissions Vehicles. Working in transport for most of his life, he has had the opportunity to deliver significant changes to transport.

Nigel Rouch, Senior Vice President Technology - Europe, XPO Logistics

Katherine Skidmore, Supply Chain Engineering & Innovation Director, Unipart

Panel session: Autonomy - transforming logistics

Our panel review the vast potential of autonomous technologies in transforming logistics operations – both on the road, and beyond.

Chair: Ben Garratt, Deputy Director - Public Affairs, Logistics UK

John Court, Founder and Director, John Court Associates

Martin Kendall, Managing Director, Vantec Europe Limited

Francis McKinney, Head of Technology, Zenzic

Lawrence Thurbin, Head of Trials and Licensing, Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, Department for Transport

Delivering change by bringing people with you

This session will look at how to work with your colleagues and partners to drive innovation. It will explore the importance of securing stakeholder buy-in for change, creating a culture of innovation and leveraging the link between innovation and inclusion strategies.

Chair: Bethany Windsor, Head of Skills Policy and Generation Logistics, Logistics UK

Ben Baruch, Head of Economic Policy, Amazon

Claire Charlton, Head of Innovation, Wincanton

Jo Field, Women in Transport

Alisdair Ritchie, Head of SME Development, Connected Places Catapult

Cyber security

This session will look into ways to protect logistics businesses from cyber threats and to mitigate cyber security incidents as we step into a digital world with ever evolving technology.

Sasha Henry, Senior Managing Consultant, CyXcel

Technology to make international trade easier

Max Hacon, Programme Director for the Single Trade Window (STW) programme, HMRC

Fireside chat: Discover how the use of AI-powered technology can help drive capacity in your organisation

Join us for a fireside chat as speakers will delve into the transformative impact of ABBYY’s AI-powered solutions on logistics, shipping documentation, and international trade operations. Discover the latest advancements and cutting-edge innovations that can revolutionise your organisation's capacity. Gain exclusive insights into current projects and future developments, showcasing how you can maximise processes and drive efficiency in your organisation.

Bethany Windsor, Head of Skills Policy and Generation Logistics, Logistics UK

Slavena Hristova, Director of Product Marketing, ABBYY

How to fund and get support with innovation

This session will explore ways to get support with and fund innovation projects, including for businesses on small margins.

Chair: Ben Garratt, Deputy Director - Public Affairs, Logistics UK

Dan Avery, Head of Venture Building - Europe, Rainmaking

Osmin Callis, Founder and CEO, Mode8

Arnold du Toit, Founder and CEO, WeSprint

Innovation for modal shift

This panel session will explore how data and technology can help deliver a more interconnected logistics system by enabling easier customer access to different transport modes, supporting the physical interchange of goods between modes, and by making different transport modes more time, cost and carbon-emissions efficient.

Richard Carr, Technical and Innovation Director, Railway Industry Association

Richard Parry, CEO, Canal and River Trust

Ashley Stower, Business Manager, Frazer-Nash Consultancy

David Taylor, Account Director, Hitachi Rail

Big data and supply chains

Today's supply chains are increasingly being transformed through the application of digital technologies especially AI and the use of Big Data.

The Digital Supply Chain Hub is focused on making UK supply chains more resilient, efficient and sustainable through the application of digital technologies. Alok and Tim will discuss how the use of Big data is transforming supply chains, the opportunities this provides for logistics businesses and some of the challenges that need to be overcome. They will particularly reference examples of projects they are running at Warwick and through the Digital Supply Chain Hub to address supply chain risk and resilience and logistics and transport optimisation.

Tim Lawrence, Director of Digital Supply Chain, Digital Catapult

Dr Alok Choudhray, Professor of Supply Chain Management, WMG, Warwick University

Kevin Green, Marketing and Communications Director, Logistics UK

Kevin Green is the Marketing & Communications Director for Logistics UK – one of the biggest business groups in the UK: supporting, shaping and standing up for safe and efficient Logistics. Kevin has worked in leadership roles for a number of large corporates including Capita, Logica, Mitie, Balfour Beatty, KPMG and PwC.

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