Aaron Berry
Deputy Head, Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (energy and infrastructure) at Department for TransportAaron Berry is Deputy Head of the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV) at the UK Department for Transport, a post he has held for the past four years. OZEV work to support the UK’s objective to transition to zero emission vehicles. Aaron leads a team that supports the roll-out of local chargepoint infrastructure for electric vehicles. Aaron studied at Keele University where he graduated with a first class degree in environmental management and business.
Shamala Gadgil
EV Infrastrucutre Programme Manager at Coventry City CouncilToby Hiles
Strategic Partnerships Director of Grid Smarter Cities
Paul Hutton
Comms Lead at Transport Technology ForumPaul Hutton is one of the world’s leading journalists specialising in transport technology. A trained broadcast journalist who worked as a presenter, newsreader and sports reporter on local and national radio and TV, Paul has been in the ITS sector for nearly 25 years having run the operations of two radio traffic news companies. Paul worked on the Travel Information Highway and delivered the Traffic Radio service for government as well as providing traffic reports for the vast majority of BBC and commercial radio stations across the UK and also working in Canada, Australia and the US. During that time he introduced technology solutions such as the use of Floating Vehicle Data and app-based services. He co-owns the website Highways-News.com, provides PR and communications support for the Transport Technology Forum and a number of SMEs and regularly hosts webinars and moderates panel debates at events.
Martin Schaeferbarthold
ULEV Project Manager at Solihull Council
Melanie Shufflebotham
ZapmapMelanie Shufflebotham is the co-founder and COO of Zapmap, the UK’s leading EV mapping app. Having worked in the space for over ten years, Melanie is an EV market expert, with deep knowledge of the charging market and EV data sets.
As co-founder she developed the Zapmap app, products and initial revenue streams. Now, as Zapmap scales ready for the mass take-up of electric cars, she continues to be focused on giving EV drivers confidence when they are about and about, aswell as supporting business and government with charging and data and insights to help them develop their electrified services.