Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum

Rail services in the UK - infrastructure, accountability and meeting the needs of users

Morning, Thursday, 13^th June 2019
Central London

Keynote Speakers: Alexander Renggli, Counsellor, Head of Economic, Finance, Science & Innovation, Embassy of Switzerland in the United Kingdom; Pierre Messulam, Deputy Head, Transilien, SNCF and Tony Poulter, Non-Executive Board Member, Department for Transport and Member, Williams Rail Review Expert Challenge Panel

Dr Alex Berland

Energy storage in the UK: policy priorities, regulation, and delivering storage at scale

Morning, Thursday, 20^th June 2019
Central London

Keynote Speaker: Dr Alex Berland, Senior Policy Advisor, Electricity Storage and Smart Energy, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Charles Small

City region transport networks and infrastructure in the UK: collaboration, innovation and the Transforming Cities Fund

Morning, Wednesday, 10^th July 2019
Central London

Keynote Speakers: Martin Tedder, Strategic Spatial Planning Manager, Transport for London; Charles Small, Senior Policy Adviser, English Devolution, Department for Transport and David Carter, Director of Infrastructure, West of England Combined Authority

The future of the UK gas network: infrastructure, decarbonisation and energy security

Morning, Tuesday, 16^th July 2019
Central London

Keynote Speakers: David Joffe, Team Leader, Economy-Wide Analysis, Committee on Climate Change and Senior speaker confirmed from Cadent Gas,

David Black

England’s water market - investment, innovation, infrastructure and costs for end users

Morning, Thursday, 18^th July 2019
Central London

Keynote Speaker: David Black, Senior Director, Water 2020, Ofwat

Neil Fulton

Low emission vehicles in the UK: infrastructure, uptake and the ‘Road to Zero Strategy’

Morning, Thursday, 18^th July 2019
Central London

Keynote Speaker: Neil Fulton, Chief Operating Officer, Connected Places Catapult

Local energy in the UK - finance, regulation and developing smart and flexible networks

Morning, Thursday, 5^th September 2019
Central London

Keynote Speakers: Patrick Allcorn, Head of Local Energy, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; Rob Saunders, Deputy Challenge Director, Prospering from the Energy Revolution, Innovate UK; Emma Bridge, Chief Executive Officer, Community Energy England and Mark Futyan, Distributed Power Systems Director, Centrica

England’s road network - investment, development and delivering RIS2

Morning, Tuesday, 10^th September 2019
Central London

Keynote Speakers: Richard Coates, Deputy Director, Highways, Office of Rail and Road and Jim O’Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer, Highways England

Tom Greatrex

The UK nuclear industry - prospects for new build developments, project financing and supporting innovative technology

Morning, Tuesday, 15^th October 2019
Central London

Keynote Speaker: Tom Greatrex, Chief Executive, Nuclear Industry Association

Climate change in the UK: priorities for adaptation, developing resilient infrastructure and species protection

Morning, Tuesday, 19^th November 2019
Central London

Keynote Speaker: Baroness Brown of Cambridge, Chair, Adaptation Sub-Committee, Committee on Climate Change

In Production

The Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum is planning a very full programme for the next 12 months.

Please give us a ring on 01344 864796 or email email info@forumsupport.co.uk to discuss future conferences.

We'd be happy to share ideas on areas to focus on, speaker suggestions, and other ways of getting involved.

Parliamentary Patrons of the Forum

The parliamentary patrons of the Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum are:

Peter Aldous MP

Rt Hon Richard Benyon MP

Luciana Berger MP

Lord Berkeley

Lord Bradshaw

Alan Brown MP

Richard Burden MP

Dawn Butler MP

Ruth Cadbury MP

Christopher Chope MP

Ronnie Cowan MP

Rt Hon Stephen Crabb MP

Geraint Davies MP

Glyn Davies MP

Nadine Dorries MP

Lord Dubs

Clive Efford MP

Paul Farrelly MP

Barry Gardiner MP

Andrew Gwynne MP

Stephen Hammond MP

Viscount Hanworth

Sue Hayman MP

Drew Hendry MP

Kelvin Hopkins MP

Baroness Howe of Idlicote

Rt Hon the Lord Howell of Guildford

Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate

Rt Hon the Baroness Kramer

Eleanor Laing MP

Rt Hon Norman Lamb MP

Jeremy Lefroy MP

Ian Liddell-Grainger MP

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

John McNally MP

Rt Hon the Lord McNally

Caroline Nokes MP

Baroness O’Cathain

Lord O’Neill of Clackmannan

Lord Oxburgh

Mark Pawsey MP

Christopher Pincher MP

Lord Redesdale

Baroness Scott of Needham Market

Gavin Shuker MP

Angela Smith MP

Alex Sobel MP

Rt Hon the Lord Steel of Aikwood

Paul Sweeney MP

Rt Hon the Lord Taylor of Holbeach

Lord Teverson

Derek Thomas MP

Lord Truscott of St James’s in the City of Westminster

Baroness Verma

Dr Alan Whitehead MP

Rt Hon the Lord Whitty

Note: parliamentary patrons take no financial interest in the Forum.

Core Sponsors

The core sponsors of the Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum are AECOM, Burges Salmon and Institution of Mechanical Engineers.