Speakers

Dr Jyoti Ahuja is a Research Fellow on the Faraday Institution ReLiiB project, which aims to establish the technological, economic and legal infrastructure for managing lithium-ion batteries from large future volumes of end of life EVs.

Jyoti’s research assesses the legal and regulatory frameworks for EV LiB management in the UK and analyses the relevant domestic and international policies. She has presented and published papers on the regulatory and legal structures needed to construct an effective circular economy in the production, re-use and recycling of EV lithium-ion batteries.

In addition to interdisciplinary research, her work involves liaising with stakeholders, government and regulatory agencies, to facilitate the embedding of research findings into UK regulatory frameworks. Jyoti also teaches as a visiting lecturer at the University of Birmingham Law School.

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Roger has over 30 years’ experience within the automotive arena – including Audi, Virgin, Volvo, Ricardo, Modec ZEV, Gibbs HSA, and London Taxis.

From salesman to regional manager to sales director to EV Industry consultant – for over a decade now Roger has been involved with hybrids and EV’s. Inevitably perhaps, renewable energy is now forming a ‘nexus’ with it.

Roger has been very active on LinkedIn since 2004 and enjoys engaging on a daily basis with a rich network of like-minded people all around the world.

Mike Bassett graduated from Bristol University in 1993, where he studied Mechanical Engineering. He then studied for a PhD at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST,) focusing on the thermodynamic modelling of internal combustion engines.

Mike joined Lotus Engineering in 2000, where he worked in the Software Development Department, specializing in the modelling of internal combustion engine performance and drive-cycle simulation of conventional and hybrid vehicles. He moved to MAHLE Powertrain in 2007 to join the Performance Analysis Group.

Mike is currently Chief Engineer in the Research and Advanced Engineering Group, where he is responsible for leading MAHLE Powertrain’s research activities in the UK, where there is a strong focus on new technology and capabilities for electrified mobility.

Alex Tylee is an engineering and business consultant. His mission at Tylee Ltd is to enable companies working in the future mobility space (including electric vehicles) to access the help and support they need, whether that is business operations, technical support or they need investment. The aim is to have a one stop shop that can accelerate innovative engineering businesses. Alex has the knowledge and experience of what is needed to take an engineering start-up, finance it and grow it into a multi-national business.

Prior to founding Tylee Ltd, Alex founded the engineering consultancy Drive System Design (or DSD) in 2007. DSD initially focussed on transmission and driveline systems for automotive, later adding electric motors and power electronics expertise, allowing the design and development of full electric powertrains. Alex started in the business as Technical Director before moving over to the operational side of the business, running major projects and the finance department. During this time, Alex also launched a spin out company Evolute Drives, with the aim to market an innovative multiple speed electric vehicle powertrain.

Before DSD, Alex worked as an engineering consultant at Ricardo in the role of Principal Engineer in transmission system analysis. He also worked at Romax Technology as Engineering Service Manager and helped to grow the consultancy side of that business. He is considered a technical specialist in the design and analysis of geared systems for automotive and other industries.

Eylül earned her MBA from University of Passau, where she specialized in intercultural management of multinational technology companies. Her strong technical and managerial experiences in Mercedes-Benz, NCR Corporation and Bosch during the university years prepared her as a business development engineer working directly with the CEO, CTO and Vice President of Orhan Holding, through which she stepped into the battery world as an R&D (electrical and electronics) engineer as part of a Faraday Project.

As a 2005 International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) national champion she is highly interested in mathematics. She is a professional dancer and categorizes herself as a “bridge” person, considering her combined technical and business roles so far.

Stephen is an experienced senior-level manager and consultant and has worked in the automotive industry for over 25 years, focusing on electrical and electronic systems. He joined NI in the Professional Services team in August 2019, following several years in consulting roles ranging from technical consulting, project leadership, strategic management and engineering services. Stephen has worked on projects in powertrain, chassis and body electronics, and with technical specialist responsibilities for ADAS and electrified vehicle systems.

A chemical engineer by education, Richard Clark is the Global Lead for Energy Storage at Morgan Advanced Materials, (LSE: MGAM), a leading global carbon and ceramics manufacturer which has been directly involved in the lithium-ion battery industry since 2000.

Richard has worked on many of Morgan’s recent technological developments in carbon and ceramics, including anode materials, separators and thermal runaway propagation prevention and mitigation systems for lithium ion-batteries.

Morgan’s latest development in the lithium-ion space is in the area of solid state electrolytes for which several patent applications are in process, with Richard leading business development activities as well as being a named co-inventor. He has been based in England, Korea, China and currently U.S.A.

Mark Copley is an Associate Professor of Electrochemical Materials at WMG.

His research spans active materials, additives, scale-up, processing and novel cell design. Areas of application are lithium ion, sodium ion and solid-state batteries.

Mark has recently joined WMG, previous to this he was a Senior Principal Scientist at Johnson Matthey, working on projects relating to developing new classes of active battery materials and demonstrating their viability at scale. He has also collaborated, extensively, on developing next generation battery technologies.

Over 15yrs experience working in the hydrogen and fuel cell industry, with over 5 of these years spent living in Japan developing PEM fuel cell technologies for Automotive and Stationary applications.

Following a ‘sandwich’ year at Cosworth Engineering where he met the founding Directors of Integral Powertrain, Andrew joined them as a graduate in 2000 where he designed, simulated and developed low carbon technologies for high performance Internal Combustion (IC) engines for OEM customers.

In 2011 Andrew led the development of Integral Powertrain’s first series production high voltage traction motor programme.

Today Andrew looks after Integral Powertrain’s R&D group and holds patents in motor cooling technology and went on to lead major e-drive programmes. Loughborough University, BEng (Hons).

Eddie Cussen has worked on battery-related materials since starting his independent academic career nearly 20 years ago.  He makes novel compositions and crystal structures and uses crystallography to establish the link between crystal chemistry and properties including magnetism, porosity, solid-state reactivity and ion transport.  He coined the phrase ‘lithium stuffed garnets’ to describe a new class of solid state electrolytes and from 2006-2008 established the mechanism for Li⁺ transport in the garnets that led to ‘LLZO’ as a leading candidate for all solid-state battery applications. He currently works on developing new materials for Li⁺ and Na⁺ battery applications and has notably used crystal structure matching to stabilise solid electrolyte-electrode interfaces in all solid state battery devices.

Jacqueline grew up in South Africa and completed first a B.Sc. in Zoology and then a B.Sc. in Computer Science, both at the University of Cape Town. This led to a career as an internet developer and, after moving to London, developing banking intranet tools. Since banking is not known for its social welfare activities, she decided to go back to study clean energy at UCL, starting with an M.Sc. in Nanotechnology and finally a Ph.D. in Hydrogen Storage.

She ran the Energy Storage Research Network in the Energy Futures Lab at Imperial College London for four years, facilitating research collaborations in the growing area of energy storage.

Jacqueline is now a Faraday Institution Project Leader in the Mechanical Engineering Dept. of the College, managing a large research consortium on Multiscale Modelling of Li-ion Batteries.

Murray has over 36 years experience in power electronics product and system design; 25 years in BEV/HEV component, system and vehicle program delivery for series production and 10 years in automotive engineering consultancy.

Murray has experience in Engineering Director, VP Eng and Chief Engineer roles, working closely with budget and program delivery responsibilities. He has worked with OEM and T1 customer programs in China, Korea, Japan, US, EU and Scandinavia to deliver complex programs.

Now working as Head of Electrified Powertrain at Drive System Design Ltd where he is responsible for hardware, software, mechanical, test, certification, validation and line management.

Dr. Michelle Lynch is a Ph.D. in Chemicals and Catalysis and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC).

Her 23 years of post-doctoral experience span catalyst R&D, precious metals market research, patent analysis and consulting.

Michelle is currently the Managing Director of Enabled Future Limited (EFL) – a consultancy she set up to help chemical, catalyst and materials manufacturers to maintain profitable and sustainable optimized technology portfolios.

Prior to setting up EFL, Michelle worked with IHS-Markit, Nexant and Johnson Matthey. She is passionate about sustainability, pollution abatement and helping to create high impact solutions to tackle climate change.

Robin is the Battery Technology Solution Lead for HSSMI providing expertise on cell and pack manufacturing processes, product scale up and facility design. He has delivered significant projects in battery manufacturing over the last 8 years, working regularly with both SMEs and OEMs to address complex cross value-chain challenges at pilot and high-volume production scales. Notable Public Projects have included a UK Gigafactory Feasibility Assessment, Thurso+ (Optimisation of Low Volume Cell Manufacturing), VALUABLE (value retention of end of first life battery packs), and Li-BAR (battery pack and remanufacturing facility design). Robin continues to promote and implement sustainable manufacturing principles in the numerous battery and Gigafactory manufacturing projects delivered by himself and HSSMI.

Guillaume has worked in research and development since 2005 at VonRoll France SA. R&D project manager from 2016 to 2020, application engineer since 2020, specialized in Polyurethane and Epoxy resins. Customer technical support with tests and implementation of appropriate processes. English read, written and spoken daily, due to the international status of the VonRoll group.

Stephen Gifford joined the Faraday Institution in March 2019. His focus is on making the organisation the go-to place for insights into the technological, economic and social benefits of batteries and electrical energy storage. He is developing techno-economic models of supply, demand and cost, covering both global and the UK markets.

Stephen has over 25 years of economics experience, including as the Chief Economist at Grant Thornton, the Director of Economics at the CBI and as a senior economist at KPMG, Oxford Economics and the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit. Prior to joining the Faraday Institution, Stephen was Head of Economic Regulation at the Civil Aviation Authority, where he focused on the regulation of Heathrow and Gatwick airports, and the development of the new runway at Heathrow. Stephen is currently a Commissioner in the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales.

Stephen brings particular skills and expertise in economic policy, transport economics, infrastructure, market assessment and the role of the public sector. He has a first-class degree in Economics from the University of Liverpool and a MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics.

David Greenwood is Director for Industrial Engagement, and CEO of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult at WMG.

Previously, David established and led the Energy Directorate at WMG where he led a team of over 200 researchers and engineers. Projects spanned a number of fields, including cars, trucks, boats, off highway machinery, aircraft and motorcycles. His research spans batteries, electric motors, power electronics, and the integration and control of these for propulsion and energy applications.

David moved into academia after 20 years in industry latterly as Head of Hybrid and Electric Systems for engineering consultancy Ricardo UK Ltd.

Professor Greenwood holds advisory and board positions for the Advanced Propulsion Centre, Innovate UK (Faraday Challenge and IDP), and the Faraday Institution. He is head of the Advanced Propulsion Centre’s Electrical Energy Storage Spoke.

Raj has been with Electrovaya for over 10 years and has been involved with every aspect of the business from cell manufacturing, engineering activities and business development. Raj is currently responsible for Electrovaya’s overall operations and he oversees the business development and manufacturing functions at the company. Raj attended Imperial College, London; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and the University of Cambridge, where he received his Doctorate in Materials Science.

Gavin Harper is an Academic at the University of Birmingham, working on challenges around critical materials and clean mobility. Harper’s work has been published in Nature, and mentioned in Science.

His books on sustainable technology have been published internationally and translated into many languages. Quoted widely, his work has featured in and on CNN, Fortune, Grist, National Public Radio, Sky News and Wired.

In addition to his research, he is actively engaged in energy policy, working on Policy Commissions chaired by Lord Teverson, and former Chief Scientific Advisors Prof. Sir David King and Sir John Beddington.

Harper is a member of a couple of International Energy Agency Task & Experts’ groups, and a member of the National Energy Foundation’s Advisory Council.

Tony Harper is The Industrial Strategy Challenge Director for the Faraday Battery Challenge at UKRI (UK Research and Innovation). Tony was previously Director of Research Engineering for Jaguar Land Rover. Tony joined Jaguar as a Graduate Engineer in 1986 with an honours degree in Aeronautical Engineering at Imperial College London.

He spent his early career developing the first Airbag-based passive safety systems and developing a number of sports car concepts including the first XK8. In the early 1990’s, Tony was involved in the development and use of pioneering Knowledge Based Engineering systems automating sophisticated rule-based Design tasks. In 1999, Tony was appointed as head of Jaguar’s Vehicle Engineering team responsible for Vehicle Concept Design, Packaging, Aerodynamics and Vehicle Computer Aided Engineering. In 2006, Tony joined Jaguar Land Rover’s combined Product Development Operations to head up the Research and Advanced Engineering group.

In recent years, Tony has worked closely with the EPSRC and Innovate UK on a number of large, strategic projects on Electrification and Autonomy. He’s a Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering, Chartered Engineer, fellow of the IMechE, an honorary fellow of the University of Warwick, an elected member of the UK Automotive Council Technology group and sits on numerous advisory councils.

Founding The Blair Project at just 18 years old, Nile Henry is a young entrepreneur with an ambition to help shape the future leaders of the green tech revolution.

Inspired by his brother’s passion for motor racing, Nile identified an opportunity to change the narrative around the well-loved sport. Nile set out to transform the impact motorsport was having on the environment and exclusivity that surrounded the sport. Founding The Blair Project, it provides a way of educating young people in the skills required to transform fuel-powered karts into environmentally friendly e-karts, and drives a wider conversation around engagement in STEM and the importance of education in green tech. The initiative also allows people from diverse backgrounds access to what is traditionally an exclusive sport.

Outside of The Blair Project, Nile is part of the Manchester Climate Change Youth Board, a group of 13- to 28-year-olds who represent the city’s young people and hold political, business and community leaders to account in the fight against climate change.

Nile also advises Greater Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham, in the Social Enterprise Advisory Group, which focuses on the delivery of social enterprise in Greater Manchester and is aligned with the GM Local Industrial Strategy.

Gareth is NPL Fellow and Science Area Leader in the Electrochemistry Group at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington, United Kingdom. His primary expertise lies in the development of novel in-situ diagnostic techniques and standard test methods for assessment of corrosion and material degradation in energy applications. Gareth has a strong track record of delivering innovative solutions to engineering problems, with demonstrable impact on industry in a range of sectors, including oil and gas, power generation and electrochemical energy conversion and storage. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and holds visiting academic positions at University College London, the University of Strathclyde and Harbin Institute of Technology. He is the author of over 190 publications and is currently serving a two-year term as President of the Institute of Corrosion.

David started his automotive industry career in 1975 with Jaguar Cars in Coventry as a sponsored student-apprentice with the company while studying for mechanical Engineering degree at Lanchester Polytechnic (now Coventry University). He joined the Vehicle Research department of Product Engineering after graduation in 1979 and went on to develop the team that was responsible for the noise and vibration refinement of the all-new AJ6 engine and the XJ40 car – Jaguar’s first all-new vehicle in 30 years.

Subsequently David spent significant time working in Far East and USA in technical and managerial consulting roles before joining Tata Motors European Technical Centre in 2008, David spent 3 years based in Pune, India running the NVH team, later taking lead role as Programme Chief Engineer for several new vehicle projects delivered for Tata Motors based from the European Technical Centre at University of Warwick.

Now responsible for leading strategy and engineering development of low-carbon powertrain technologies (ICE/xEV) and early-stage vehicle attribute delivery for Tata Motors future passenger car product portfolio.

Philip joined Trackwise in 1999 and acquired the company in 2000. Since then, Trackwise has enjoyed sustained growth and floated on the stock market in 2018. During his tenure, Philip developed and patented Improved Harness Technology™ (IHT), a means of manufacturing length-unlimited multilayer flexible printed circuit boards as a weight-saving replacement for conventional wiring harnesses in electrical interconnect subsystems. He is the named inventor on a number of UK and international patents and he has led several government-supported R&D consortiums including a European CleanSky programme.

Philip’s career started at British Aerospace where he did an apprenticeship during his Aeronautical Engineering degree course at Bristol University. He transferred into the BAE Space Department on graduation where his role included a key management position in the Prime Contractor team for Envisat, a large European satellite, managing multi-million ECU work packages involving different companies across Europe.

Philip also holds a law degree from the University of London and is a Chartered Engineer.

Danson obtained his PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in the field of linear machines for ocean wave-energy conversion. Since then, he has worked on rail, mining and renewable energy projects both in South Africa and for National Grid in the UK. During his time at National Grid he led the definition of offshore wind connection process with regards to power quality and the development of the Engineering Recommendation ER G5/. He has since worked at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) where he was responsible for the development and industrialisation of the Jaguar I-PACE traction battery as part of JLR’s first electric vehicle programme.

In 2018, he launched Danecca Limited to fulfil a vision of lowering the entry barrier and inspiring a change to electrification. He leads the company to build a world where the environment isn’t sacrificed for energy security. Danecca offer engineering, manufacture, testing and an intelligent approach to battery consulting to OEMs, Tier 1s and niche vehicle manufacturers.

He champions the use of Lean and Six-Sigma principles and has a special interest in process development. He leads the team at Danecca to demonstrate the transference of high-volume automotive engineering techniques to low- and medium-volume projects.

Study of Cybernetics at the University of Stuttgart – graduate Dipl.-Ing.

PHD degree of University of Stuttgart in Robotics – graduate Dr.-Ing.

During study work for Department of Control at University of Stuttgart and for Bosch.

Founding of CSM GmbH after finishing PHD in 1986 together with my wife Iris, an electrical engineer.

Specialization of CSM on very compact, robust and power-saving hardware for measurement technology and data acquisition in the automotive sector, initially for German OEMs.

Worldwide distribution of CSM products by ETAS until 2000 .

Since 2000 CSM has been concentrating fully on data acquisition modules and data loggers for in-vehicles use and for test benches.

In 2006 founding of CSM Products, Inc. as CSM daughter company for U.S. market.

From 2013 development of high-voltage measurement technology with today’s market leadership.

Project related development for vehicle manufacturers and suppliers of the automotive industry.

2015  Partnership with Vector Informatik. This includes distribution of CSM products in Asia and U.K..

Today’s company focus is to support our customers in the transition to Electromobility with tailor-made and safe measurement hardware and software tools.

Dr Stephen Lambert received his Doctorate from the University of Warwick by looking at the applicability of hybrid and electric drivetrains in motorsport.

Following this he worked at Lotus Engineering, developing hybrid and electric demonstrator vehicles for a number of OEMs. Through this role, he found himself working closely with battery manufacturers as a key partner for these projects.

He has since worked in various roles around developing battery technology in areas such as Formula 1 and high performance road cars.

Steve is now responsible for the electrification strategy for McLaren Applied, where he is helping deliver advantage by empowering customer to introduce and protect new vehicle concepts and technologies and to drive differentiation in the market.

Ben is an experienced patent attorney and heads up our Energy team. Ben works with start-ups and larger organisations to help them develop IP strategies to best exploit and protect their IP. Ben has a background in physics and computer science and drafts and prosecutes patent applications relating to energy storage, fuel cells, hybrid power systems, control algorithms, telecommunications, medical devices and other energy technologies.

Angus has over 20 years of experience within the automotive and motorsport industries.  Working for Land Rover, BMW, Prodrive and championship winning F1 teams Honda/Brawn and Renault, Angus gained a strong and in-depth understanding of all areas of active vehicle systems from suspension to engine and transmissions.  

In the last 6 years Angus has developed electric motors and EV systems for Protean and Drayson Technologies including the world land speed record holding Drayson B12 EV race car.    In 2013, Angus setup Rockfort Engineering Ltd, a vehicle systems and safety consultancy specialising in EV/HEV technologies for both road and race applications.

Yu Merla is Principal Engineer for Advanced Battery Projects at Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE).

After completing his Master’s in Mechanical Engineering, Yu went on to achieve a PhD in Lithium-Ion cell technology from Imperial College London. Here, his work on life-extending battery prognosis algorithms caught the attention of WAE, where he became involved in the first-generation Formula E battery. Since then, he has been involved in a number of high performance automotive and aerospace projects including for the likes of Airbus, Lotus, Aston Martin and many more.

Yu leads the team within WAE looking at battery modelling, advanced algorithms and performance optimisation for major projects.

Dr Peter Miller joined Millbrook as Chief Engineer, Battery in June 2018.

Previously he worked for Johnson Matthey Battery Systems for 6 years as Chief Electronics Technologist and prior to this he was Director – Electrical/Electronic Engineering at Ricardo a large automotive consultancy where he specialised in batteries.

Before that Peter was European Director of Technology at Motorola AIEG a major automotive Tier 1.

He has worked with a large number of battery chemistries including all the main lithium-ion chemistries. Peter has extensive knowledge of testing, modelling and control of batteries, for function, life and safety.

Roger is Powertrain Research Manager at Rimac Technology where he leads a small team exploring the very latest innovations in EV Powertrain Technology.

After completing his Master’s Degree in Engineering from the University of Bristol, Roger joined Jaguar Land Rover, initially working on an electric supercharger. However, after a brief stint working on hybrids, Roger became increasingly convinced that the future was all-electric and transitioned across to work on the IPACE powertrain. Following JLR, he made the move across to Williams Advanced Engineering where he was Powertrain Lead for the 2000PS Lotus Evija hypercar, the Aston Martin RapidE and other projects.

In June 2021 Roger relocated to Croatia to join Rimac Technology and continue pushing the limit of EV Powertrain performance.

Jacqui is a specialist in materials engineering, regulation and transformational change. Spending the early part of her career as a mechanical property and galvanising specialist in the Steel industry. Following her C.Eng, M.Eng. and MBA, she moved into industrial environmental regulation policy for the Environment Agency and Welsh Government. She was the lead official for Pembroke Power Station environmental permit and led the contentious merger of three Internal Drainage Boards (flood authorities) into the newly formed Natural Resources Wales (NRW) public body in 2015. Jacqui credits these experiences as teaching her how to untangle problems, policies and legislation that inhibit successful outcomes in business, Government and Regulators.

For the past few years, she has been the Deputy Challenge Director for the £274 million Faraday Battery Challenge Programme, kicking off the programme to transform the UK world-leading in automotive battery technology by 2027.

Outside of work, she is Formula 1 fan, a mum of two, Member of the Welsh Government’s WISTEM Board, Chair of the Industry Subgroup and an active STEM Ambassador. This year she worked with RMA Sandhurst and delivered a WISE STEM event to 2000 teenagers and HRH Princess Anne.

Jacqui is a Chartered Engineer and Environmentalist, Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Engineers and Freeman of the City of London.

A Chartered Engineer with a wealth of experience gain from motorsport, defence, aerospace and policy development. Philippa thrives on working with a wide range of stakeholders from government, industry and academia to create visionary solutions, with the ability to challenge existing silos across the sectors. Her experience allows her to offer oversight into the challenges faced both locally and internationally within the manufacturing and transport realms.

Joining the Advanced Propulsion Centre in January 2018 she uses her experience and knowledge of the UK’s transport modes and infrastructure to support the development of strategies that incubate collaborations. This joining of the dots will help ensure that the UK can develop solutions, and attract the right investment to create, develop and sustain UK supply chains that drive both job creation and exportable products and services to enable the UK to fulfill its net-zero ambition.

Cristiana’s career as a motorsport engineer, sustainability expert and innovator spans 20 years. Having worked trackside and in the technical departments of a range of motorsport stakeholders, she obtained a PhD in Sustainability and Strategic Management and has since been applying her expert knowledge of both of these fields to the work of her purpose-driven sustainability strategy consultancy, Enovation Consulting.

Cristiana’s career in professional motorsport began working trackside along the FIA technical department in F1, as data analyst and technology developer.

From 2009 to 2016, she made key contributions to FIA’s safety legacy, consulting for the FIA Institute for Sustainability and Safety in Motor Sport.

In 2012 Cristiana focused on technology transfer and sustainability, joining Williams Advanced Engineering, then a division of Williams Racing, as Business Development Manager. During her time at Williams, she worked closely with the F1 CEO and the commercial department, writing the business strategy for the newly created Williams Advanced Engineering and winning multimillion pound projects including the supply of batteries to FIA Formula E, a project that she led from 2013 till 2015.

In 2015, Cristiana started a PhD in Sustainability and Strategic Management at Coventry University, exploring low-carbon sustainable transitions in the motorsport industry. During this time, she also consulted for a number of motorsport stakeholders on measuring and reducing the environmental impact of existing technologies and increasing sustainability awareness across the motorsport sector.

In 2018 she founded Enovation Consulting Limited, a purpose driven strategy and sustainability firm focusing on building sustainability strategies for the motorsport and sport industry. Customers include the Williams Racing Formula One Team, the FIA, Motorsport UK and many other motorsport and sport stakeholders.

Cristiana’s leadership in sustainability is well-recognised by the motorsport industry. She is a member of the FIA Environmental and Sustainability Commission, of the FIA carbon offsetting working group, member and advisor to the Motorsport UK Sustainability Committee, Chair of the Sustainability Working Group of eSC, the newly created electric scooter championship, and a board member of BASIS, the British Association for Sustainable Sport. Cristiana is also a well-known speaker in technology transfer, motorsport, e-mobility, STEM and diversity.

Cristiana holds an Engineering degree from Bologna University, an MSc in Motorsport Engineering and Management from Cranfield University, and a PhD from Coventry
University. In 2021 she was awarded as one of the Top 50 Engineering Heroes by the Women in Engineering Society and The Guardian.

Ralph joined T&E in March 2022 to lead on the national UK Electric Fleets program, as well as supporting T&E’s UK electric vehicles work. Ralph has several years of experience working on EV policy, including most recently spending two and a half years working for Climate Group’s EV100 initiative, working closely with some of the world’s biggest companies to help them achieve fully electric fleets by 2030. There he supported and led on policy activities including on EU Vehicle CO2 Standards and the Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate in the UK.

Lauren Pamma joined the Green Finance Institute in December 2020 as programme director, leading the Coalition for the Decarbonisation of Road Transport, which focuses on developing new financial products and solutions to help accelerate the decarbonisation of transport. Drawing on members from across finance, industry and academia, the Coalition seeks to understand how finance can unlock the barriers to scaling battery technology and the associated supply chain; unlock investment in charging infrastructure and enable mass consumer adoption of electric vehicles.

Lauren’s career at Lloyds Banking Group spanned 16 years and saw her hold a number of finance, strategy and commercial roles, primarily within the asset finance division. Most recently she led the electrification agenda for Lex Autolease, identifying ways to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles. • Lauren holds a BSc in Zoology from Liverpool University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales

Juyeon received her PhD in Physical Chemistry from Seoul National University, South Korea, where her research focused on characterising electronic structure, morphology and charge transfer dynamics of organic/(semi)metal interfaces using pioneering optical techniques applicable for multi-layered device systems such as photovoltaic cells, OLEDs, photo-catalytic systems and batteries. Following this she undertook academic research at KRISS (Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science), the Free University of Berlin (Germany) and in collaboration with RIKEN and Osaka University (Japan) focusing on fundamental understanding of material properties and their dynamics in practical systems; she then moved to Samsung SDI (Korea), which is a Tier 1 lithium-ion battery manufacturer.

At Samsung, Juyeon led the electrochemical contribution to establishing a database for battery modelling,

developing a holistic approach to cell degradation mechanism based on post mortem analysis correlated to electrochemical tests. As a principal engineer she led automotive projects for Jaguar Land Rover, BMW and advised on energy storage system (ESS) projects, considering cell validation, safety and the quality control of mass production. She also published internal papers on ToF-SIMS analysis of battery electrode material and on electrochemical characterisation of mechanisms of functional additives. Juyeon moved to NPL in August 2018.

Juyeon is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (FIMMM), a member of the Electrochemical Society (ECS), and a Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) of the American Society for Quality (ASQ).

As a Ricardo GTE, I am globally the “go to” person for all things transmission and driveline.

I provide support and leadership for Sales activities, Project work and Research and Development activities, particularly where these are complex, encompassing multiple systems, or are in new markets or applications.

I also write presentations and papers, present at conferences and host webinars etc. presenting Ricardo transmission and driveline activities and or debating future transmission and driveline technologies and trends.

I joined Ricardo as a graduate Engineer in to what was then the off-highway department. Working both on design and development aspects of projects, I also undertook projects in the chassis and engine departments of our business.

With increasing seniority, I specialised in transmissions and driveline and particularly focussed on design. Continuing to work in transmissions and driveline, I have enjoyed working on a wide range of applications, in a wide variety of markets.

More recent roles have been more managerial, or delivering technical leadership, permitting increased diversity of exposure to project work and increasing involvement in sales and research and development.

Volker Pickert studied Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the RWTH Aachen, Germany and Cambridge University,UK. He received his Dipl.-Ing. in 1994 and after receiving a PhD scholarship he received his PhD in power electronics in 1997 from Newcastle University, UK,. From 1998 to 1999, he was an Application Engineer at Semikron GmbH, Nuremberg, Germany, and from 1999 to 2003 he was Group Leader at Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg, Germany, responsible for the development of electric drives for electric vehicles. In 2003, he was appointed as Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University, and in 2011 he became a Full Professor. In 2012, he became the Head of the Electrical Power Group and in 2020 he became Director of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Prof Pickert has published over 200articles/conference papers, conducted over 80 funded research projects, and received various prizes such as best journal article and best paper award. He is regularly invited as keynote speaker and advises governments on energy and transport related issues. In 2019 he became Director of EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre in Sustainable Electric Propulsion. Prof Pickert is the Editor-in-Chief of the IET Power Electronics journal.

Manos has over a decade experience within the Electric Powertrain Development industry. Having held various engineering and management roles in companies like Arrival, Jaguar Land Rover, Volvo Trucks and Semcon, has a wealth of understanding on state-of-the-art EV PT development.

Currently Manos is developing the next generation of powertrains for the UK start-up Arrival, leading the powertrain design and delivery team. Trained in Six Sigma as a Black Belt and Management he believes in the optimisation of systems as whole, instead of the optimisation of individual components.

Beyond EV powertrains, Manos is interested in new technologies, and their integration with traditional engineering and manufacturing, such as AI and artificial neural networks. Automated manufacturing and robotic assembly as enablers for more efficient end to end systems.

Jeff Pratt was appointed Managing Director of the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC) in June 2018.

Jeff was previously General Manager at Nissan’s lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant based in Sunderland (UK). He joined Nissan in 1987 and held various management positions within the vehicle manufacturing plant in Sunderland, which included responsibility for the construction, commissioning and operation of Nissan’s UK battery plant. Prior to this, he held management positions within Nissan’s Trim and Chassis and Paint Shop.

Jeff has extensive experience in production engineering, as well as more than 20 years’ senior management experience.

UKBIC is a £130 million pioneering battery manufacturing development facility, which was opened by the British Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Boris Johnson in 2021.  The unique facility provides the missing link between battery technology, which has proved promising at laboratory or prototype scale, and successful mass production.

Simon Price is CEO of Exawatt, a provider of strategic consulting, technology analysis and cost forecasting to manufacturers in the power electronics, EV, lithium-ion battery and solar PV industries.

Prior to founding Exawatt in 2015, Simon 2010 co-founded PV Tech Group, which provided factory design and integration services to solar PV companies. In 2008, he was part of the founding team of a startup technology company dedicated to improving the efficiency of crystalline solar cells.

Previously, as a consultant in the interactive entertainment industry, Simon provided services to software publishers and hardware manufacturers, including Microsoft, Sony, Intel and Nokia. An electrical engineer by first degree, Simon began his career as a business and technology journalist, focusing on disruptive technologies.

Simon has an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College London, and a BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Egor Prokhodtsev is responsible for Roskill’s automotive practice. Egor performs research and analysis on the electric vehicle, battery and downstream supply chain markets.

Egor Joined Roskill in 2020 having previously worked in market research function with particular focus on cobalt demand and battery technology developments. Prior to ERG Egor worked as business and data analyst for a major industrial corporation in Russian Federation.

Egor has an Engineering degree from Bauman Moscow State Technical University in the field of aerospace technologies.

My goal, since a primary school child, has always been to help our Earth deal with the ever greater consequences of the harmful effects of fossil fuels. Of course, we need to use renewable sources of energy, but more out of a need to reduce the harmful gases that are a by-product of burning coal/petroleum than out of fear of them running out. This need is urgent and important.

The major problem with these renewable sources of energy is that they are inherently intermittent- the sun does not shine all day long etc. Energy storage can, succinctly, solve this issue, and will be the key towards determining how popular renewables can be. Batteries will be the most convenient energy storage, mostly because a great amount of energy can be stored chemically in a small space.

With this in mind, I began my Ph.D. in a new type of battery which I believe has the potential to usher in this new age of renewables- the sodium-ion battery. Sodium-based compounds are inexpensive and globally abundant. Research indications are that these batteries can surpass/be comparable with lithium-ion batteries in performance. This would mean that the sodium-ion battery has the potential to be a one-stop battery for two very important applications- grid storage and electric vehicle application.

After completing my Ph.D., I worked towards scaling-up my research to show viable industry-scale “18650” sodium-ion batteries during my Postdoctoral position from September 2015 – December 2017. I successfully invented a new Fe-based cathode and developed a non-flammable liquid non-aqueous electrolyte. Using these two inventions, we demonstrated various full cell configurations at the 18650-level. I also developed a new battery concept with potential for high energy density, the in-situ sodium plated battery, and also worked towards developing the hybrid Mg-Na battery concept.

Since March 2018, I have been working at Faradion Limited to help commercialise sodium-ion batteries.

Dr Wasim Sarwar is a Battery Systems Technical Specialist at Williams Advanced Engineering, where he is responsible for the design and development of a range of high performance battery systems for supercars, hypercars, multiple high-profile motorsport series, and novel aircraft. He is also an active member of the United Nations Electric Vehicle Safety Technical Working Group. He gained his PhD in Electrochemical Engineering from Imperial College London, and formerly worked for Jaguar Land Rover.

Louise Scott joined the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s Automotive Unit in June 2018. She is currently the policy lead for Automotive Transformation, with a focus on development of the electric vehicle supply chain.

Prior to this she spent over 15 years working in public policy consultancy, specialising in evaluation and economic analysis across a range of policy areas including transport.

Louise began her career in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs providing economic analysis related to air quality and chemicals regulation.

Francisco is an example of the new generation of leaders in the automotive industry, he started his career working with diesel engines but for the past 13 years he has been focused in how to transform an industry that was based on fossil fuels into a fully electric and sustainable sector. He is really passionate about fighting climate change and succeeding the energy transition.

Francisco has two engineering degrees (Escuela Superior de Ingenieros of Sevilla and Ecole Nationale Superieur de Petrole et Moteurs) and two MBA degrees (from EM Lyon and from Cranfield School of Management).

He is currently the Vice President of Sales and member of the executive committee at ACC, a joint venture company between Stellantis and Total Saft aiming at becoming the European leader in electric vehicle battery technology.

During his career he has taken responsibilities in vehicle R&D, external affairs, corporate planning and in managing new business opportunities in the automotive sector like the connected services, electric vehicle grid integration (V2G, smart charging), renewable energy generation and stationary energy storage using 2nd life vehicle lithium batteries.

Farid Tariq, PhD is co-founder and chief technology officer of Addionics, a battery technology company developing Smart 3D Electrodes. He’s a former postdoc researcher at the Imperial College London where he developed imaging methodology for energy applications and algorithms to quantify 3D data. Previously he worked on tomography and catalysis of energy production at Shell and was a materials scientist for Alstom Power. Farid holds a PhD from the Imperial College of London in 3D multiscale tomography and modelling of function materials.

Company founder and vision behind the Green Lithium project, whose mission is to enable the transition to sustainable energy.

Richard’s raison d’être is to tackle the challenges and lead on the opportunity’s around creating a fairer, socially inclusive, net-zero carbon economy.

Richard is passionate about enabling our planets transition to sustainable energy and the current opportunity to develop commercially viable, localised, low – carbon supply chains within the UK and EU to support this.

UK Challenge

🔋Where are UK EV company’s going to get battery materials with the lack of short term supply?

Key supply chain drivers?

⛏Supply

📈Price

♻️Sustainability

What the UK and Europe needed to adopt quickly?

🌍Localisation of battery supply chains

🧪All type of battey chemistry will be needed

🚙Accepting a new standard EV that dosnt chase higher ranges and bigger batterys.

Enabling Battery Britian

📣 Green Lithium are proud to be enabling the localisation of a UK battery supply chain by building the UK’s first large scale lithium refinery.

🎯This will provide traceable, low carbon lithium chemicals essential to the transition to sustainable energy and building a secure Battery Britain.

🔗At Green Lithium, we believe the green energy transition will be built on secure, localised, low carbon, integrated supply chains.

Richard is a thought leader and spoke at CO26 and Davos World Economic Forum on what issues, innovation, and opportunities the transition to net-zero presents.

Experienced Managing Director with a demonstrated history of working in the Green Energy, Renewables and Natural Resources industry built over a 10-year career with roles at Petrofac, Maersk Oil and Deloitte. Skilled in Corporate Governance, Lithium, Sustainability, and Mineral Processing. Strong business development professional who graduated from the University of Leeds in Geological Sciences and then The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.

“I’m looking forward to face to face collaboration and discussing the art of the possible with the UK Battery supply chain at this years Battery Cells & Systems Expo🙌⛓

Together we can shape how we transition to green energy in Europe at pace! 🌍”

David joined Tevva with broad experience in road transport, market research, market strategy and B2B sales.

As a 5th generation transport contractor encompassing heavy long distance operations and overnight courier, David has a wealth of ground-up knowledge of the real issues facing fleet and transport managers.

He has held consulting roles focused on market entry strategies, business development processes and teams and board level logistics recruitment and has an MBA from Durham.

Professor Pam Thomas is the Chief Executive Officer of the Faraday Institution, the UK’s flagship energy storage research organisation. Launched in 2018, its mission-inspired programme is delivered by a consortium of over 20 universities and 50+ businesses and involves 450 researchers. She previously held the role of Pro Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Warwick, where she had responsibility for academic leadership of the research portfolio and strategy across the university. As a scientific leader, she is a member of the STFC Council, has served as a trustee of both the Alan Turing Institute (2016-2018) and the Faraday Institution (2018-2020) and is a member of the executive management board of the Midlands Innovation collaboration of universities. She holds a DPhil in physics from the University of Oxford. In her personal research, Professor Thomas leads the Ferroelectric Crystallography Group in the Department of Physics at Warwick.

Pirmin is co-founder and CEO of b-science.net, a battery innovation & patent monitoring service that is based on a novel machine learning approach. He obtained a diploma in chemistry from ETH Zurich (Switzerland) in 2004 and a PhD from Northwestern University (USA) in 2009. Thereafter, he was a JSPS Foreign Fellow at the University of Tokyo (Japan). From 2010 to 2016, while working at a major battery materials manufacturer in Switzerland, he was a co-inventor of 7 patent families related to lithium-ion batteries. He holds the credential Stanford Certied Project Manager (SCPM) and has co-authored scientific publications with more than 1,600 citations.

Josey Wardle is the Innovation Lead for ZEV infrastructure at Innovate UK. She specialises in the infrastructure required to enable zero emissions transport, using experience gathered over 10 years working in the EV industry and her recent PhD investigating the future of EV charging. Josey currently manages the EV charging and V2G/V2X programmes of innovation projects funded by OZEV and BEIS. Innovate UK is part of UK Research and Innovation, a non-departmental public body, driving productivity and growth by supporting businesses to realise the potential of new technologies, develop ideas and make them a commercial success. Innovate UK provides connections and funds businesses and research collaborations in all economic sectors, value chains and UK regions to accelerate innovation.

Dr John Warner is a sought after and recognized battery industry expert, speaker, author and an experienced sales, business development, strategic marketing, and product management executive with over 30 years in the automotive and battery industries.

Currently, Dr Warner serves as Chief Customer Officer for American Battery Solutions and as Founder and President at Warner Energy Consulting LLC.

Previously Dr Warner served in executive sales and marketing leadership positions with EnerDel, XALT Energy, Magna Steyr Battery Systems and Boston-Power as well as spending more than 13 years with General Motors.

In addition, he serves as Chairman of the industry trade group NAATBatt International and sits on several SAE battery committees.

Dr Warner published his first book “The Handbook of Lithium-Ion Battery Pack Design” in 2015 and his second book, “Lithium-Ion Chemistries: A Primer” in published in May 2019.

I am Ivan Wilson, Co-Owner and Director of Embed Limited where I bring passion and leadership to keep the company striving forward.

At heart I am a control systems engineer. I have been involved in EVs for many years. The first vehicle, in 2007, was a strawberry harvesting platform. Over 4meter square and with lead acid batteries. Since it operated in a polytunnel, low emissions was key. I led a program to integrate a first generation Battery Management System into a French EV city car. I have been to California to develop inverter control software for a venture backed EV start-up. At the moment I am working on a new emachine and inverter with our partners ePropelled.

At Embed we are electrical, electronic and software specialists and the industry is moving in our direction. The sooner we ditch the engine the better. With a lifetime in the automotive industry I am very excited about where we are heading. There has never been a better time to be part of automotive. We are seeing unprecedented change and evolution all for the better. To top it all off we have just won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for excellence in International Trade!

Anna is Head of Strategic Programmes at Nyobolt Ltd – a spin out from Cambridge University bringing ultra-fast charging battery technology to the market. Prior to joining Nyobolt, Anna held the role of Head of Battery Technology at Innovate UK and was responsible for the innovation programme and technical direction of the UK Government’s £330m Faraday Battery Challenge programme supporting the design, development and scale up of battery technology for electric vehicles. Before that, she was based in the USA at Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory where she carried out collaborative research with business and academia on battery materials. Anna holds a Ph.D. in electrochemistry from the University of Southampton.

Martin Wood has had a 25+ years career in industry primarily in the automotive sector. He started his career at Ford Motor Company in the UK taking positions in both the Engineering & Manufacturing functions, working in new model development, test and launch. His experience was widened within the commercial departments of Ford, operating in Eastern Europe & Africa, he subsequently joined the Ford Components Division which became Visteon in 1997.

Martin joined a major 1st Tier automotive supplier, Kostal GmbH & CO KG, in 1998 operating primarily in Technical Sales until becoming Sales & Marketing Director in 2001, and later taking responsibility for Quality Assurance. Martin became Managing Director / CEO of the Kostal UK operation in 2006 with responsibility for all UK Engineering & Operational activities for UK and Scandinavian customers.

Martin has also operated as Managing Director for other general engineering businesses, gaining experience in many different territories and markets and operating withing the Oil & Gas, Chemical and Energy sectors.

In 2016 Martin joined UK Trade & Investment’s Automotive Investment Organisation (AIO) as Business Development Director with specific responsibility for the current and future supply chain. AIO is now the Auto Sector Team, part of the Department of International Trade’s Technology & Advanced Manufacturing Cluster.

• Principal Engineer Batteries – Ricardo UK
• Was Battery Chief Engineer in Cummins Electrified Power UK and VinES, Vietnam previously
• BSc Electrical Engineering
• 11 years battery product development experience in automotive industry
• Worked in Ford Otosan in Turkey, Ford Germany and FEV Germany previously