LowCVP Conference 2011 - this Thursday (June 9), London - don't miss it!!
Tue 07 June 2011
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There's only a couple of days left to register for the environmental transport event of the year. Transport minister Norman Baker MP and a cast of leading speakers will take part in this year's LowCVP Annual Conference which focuses on transport and mobility issues to 2020 and beyond. Hear about the plans and views of BP, the FIA Foundation, General Motors, Renault UK, the Committee on Climate Change and many others; plus international perspectives from America's Natural Resources Defense Council and from an expert analyst on what's happening in China. The Conference, held in association with “Drive the Future at Motorexpo”, provides one of the first UK opportunities to test drive the Vauxhall Ampera...or you can go for a spin in a Tesla and one of VW's Blue Motion range.
The LowCVP 2011 Conference, sponsored by
Michelin, is entitled “Just over the horizon: mobility to 2020 and beyond” will focus on the next phase of road transport decarbonisation. The event is
open for bookings. Download the latest
LowCVP Conference brochure here.
The Conference will provide delegates with a vision of future mobility. Significant technological changes are already in the pipeline and changes in atttitudes and behaviour with regard to mobility are also evolving quickly in the face of a variety of threats including climate change and resource depletion.
The case for electrification will be examined in detail and the future of other promising fuel technologies will be discussed in an interactive debate. All delegates attending the conference will be able to express their views on issues throughout the course of the day using voting technology designed to enable feedback.
In addition to the opportunity to test drive vehicles featured in 'Drive the Future at MotoExpo' which will be taking place immediately outside the Conference Centre, delegates will have the opportunity to view the Conference exhibitions and displays and enjoy networking opportunities during lunch and other breaks and during the post-conference drinks reception. Exhibitors already confirmed for the Conference include: Michelin, BP, Cenex, Coventry University, Oxford Brookes University, Nuffield Council on Bioethics and the Campaign for Better Tyres (Environmental Protection-UK).
Leading speakers featuring at the event include transport minister Norman Baker MP, Jack Short of the International Transport Forum,Roland Hwang of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), USA, David Kennedy of the Committee on Climate Change and Quentin Willson the motoring journalist and commentator. (See below for the full agenda).
Norman Baker will be speaking via a video-link from Toyota's factory at Burnaston, near Derby, where the hybrid Auris model is now in production. This session, as well as others used during the conference will demonstrate how technology can be used to avoid the need for travel.
There are just one or two exhibition spaces left for the LowCVP Conference. Please hurry to contact the LowCVP Secretariat (secretariat@lowcvp.org.uk).
The 2011 LowCVP Annual Conference is sponsored by Michelin.
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LOWCVP CONFERENCE 2011, DRAFT AGENDA
“Just over the horizon: mobility to 2020 and beyond”
The next phase of road transport decarbonisation
Session One: The changing global politics of low carbon transport
9.55am: Chair’s introduction (John Lewis, Chief Executive, BVRLA)
10.00: Overview: Shifting attitudes to low carbon transport (Jack Short, Secretary General, International Transport Forum)
10.20: Towards ’50 by 50’; the implications for the coming decades (David Ward, Director General, FIA Foundation)
10.40: China’s strategy for decarbonisation in the road transport sector - by video recording (Hui He, Policy Analyst, International Council on Clean Transportation, ICCT)
10.55: Perspective from the United States (Roland Hwang, Transportation Program Director, Natural Resources Defense Council, NRDC)
11.15-11.30: Q&As with David Ward, Jack Short and Roland Hwang
(11.30-12.00: coffee break)
Session Two: Visions for the third decade (2020-30)
12.00: Can road transport help deliver the targets? What policy and other drivers are needed? (Dr David Kennedy, Chief Executive, Climate Change Committee)
12.20: Drivers and influencers of the market for cars 2020-30 (Alex Stewart, Element Energy)
12.40: The business case for vehicle electrification in the UK (John Batterbee, Light Duty Vehicle Transport Programme Manager, Energy Technologies Institute)
13.00-13.15: Keynote: The road to decarbonisation (Norman Baker MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport - by live video-link) + Q&As
13.15-13.30: Q&A session
(13:30 -14.30: lunch break)
Session Three: Sustainable Mobility Futures
14.30: Chair's introduction. (Quentin Willson, Motoring journalist and commentator)
14.35: Mobility in a carbon and space constrained age. (Susan Claris, Associate Director, Arup)
14.50: Reinventing the wheel? (Pascal Couasnon, Vice President of Technical and Scientific Communication, Michelin)
15.10: How will we be moving after 2020? Motor industry leader’s view (Dr Chris Borroni-Bird, Global Director of Advanced Vehicle Concepts, General Motors) (Pre-recorded contribution)
15.20: A vision for urban transport; people and freight (Garrett Emmerson, Chief Operating Officer – London Streets, Transport for London)
15.35-15.50: Q&As (including Chris Borroni-Bird, GM, via tele-link) (15.50-16.20: Coffee break)
Session Four: LowCVP report plus future fuels debate
16.20-16.30: LowCVP activities and report 2010-11 (Greg Archer)
16:30-17.25 Future fuels – what will power our vehicles beyond 2020? (Chaired by Quentin Willson)
Format: ‘Witnesses’ present for 5 minutes each and are then interrogated for 5 minutes by expert panel, followed by Q&As from delegates)
Witnesses: Biofuels (Olly Macé, Technology, Strategy and Regulatory Affairs Manager, BP); Hydrogen/Fuel Cells (Hugo Spowers, Riversimple); Biomethane (Trevor Fletcher, Managing Director, Hardstaff Group); Electric Vehicles (Andy Heiron, Head of Electric Vehicle Programme, Renault UK)
Expert Panel (The ‘interrogators’): Greg Archer, LowCVP; Roland Hwang, NRDC; John Lewis, Chief Executive, BVRLA; Andrew Everett, Head of Transport, Technology Strategy Board
17:25-17.30: Conference thanks and summing up (Greg Archer, LowCVP)
17.30-18.30: Drinks Reception sponsored by BP.
Note: The LowCVP Low Carbon Champions Awards will be held as a separate event later in the year.
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