Speakers at Parking World 2017

Speakers announced in the order they confirmed...

Cllr Jamie Macrae

Chair
PATROL Joint Committee

Cllr Jamie Macrae (Cheshire East Council) has held the position of Chair of the PATROL Joint Committee for England and Wales since 2013.  An elected member for over 20 years he has held cabinet portfolios for Strategic Transport, Strategic Housing, Planning, Economic Development and Regeneration in Cheshire.  

He currently chairs the authority’s development company (Engine of the North) and is an appointed member of The Peak District National Park Authority. His professional career as a Chartered Architect and a member of the R.I.B.A. spanned 30 years in the UK construction and design sectors.

Caroline Sheppard OBE

Chief Adjudicator
Traffic Penalty Tribunal

Caroline Sheppard has been the Chief Adjudicator of the Traffic Penalty Tribunal (TPT), since 1999. She and her team of 30 lawyers comprise the tribunal that decides parking and bus lane appeals from approximately 300 councils in England and Wales in the civil enforcement scheme. 

Caroline was appointed as the first Chief Adjudicator for London in 1992 in the run up to the implementation of the RTA powers in London, and has played a significant role of the creation of the adjudication services both first in London, and then for appeals relating to councils outside London. She has been instrumental in driving the commitment to provide a user-focussed tribunal, recently introducing telephone and video conference hearings. She is a champion of the use of technology for the tribunal case management and takes a leading role in developing the new award winning TPT on-line appeal system.

She began her legal career as a barrister and worked for some years in the London Magistrates’ Courts, in particular overseeing London’s Fixed Penalty Office and Central Processing Unit for the enforcement of parking fines.

Caroline regularly speaks at conferences about tribunal initiatives as well parking and traffic law as well as giving interviews to promote awareness of the appeals process.  She was elected as a member of the Council of Justice, the all-party law reform and human rights organisation in 2016.

Caroline was awarded an OBE in the summer of 2017 for services to motorists, having received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the parking industry earlier in the year.

Louise Hutchinson

Director
PATROL (Parking and Traffic Regulation Outside London)

Louise Hutchinson has been Director of PATROL since 2006.  PATROL represents 310 local authorities in England (outside Wales).  PATROL’s primary function is to make provision for independent adjudication for appeals against enforcement penalties.  

This is delivered through the Traffic Penalty Tribunal which provides adjudication for parking, bus lanes and, in Wales, moving traffic penalties.  Road user charging adjudication is also provided for appeals arising from penalties issued at the Dart-Thurrock River Crossing (Dart Charge), the new Mersey Gateway Bridge (Merseyflow) as well as the congestion charge zone at the Durham Peninsular.

PATROL is also committed to improving information which assists public understanding of the objectives of civil enforcement as well as the enforcement and appeals process.  The PATROL Parking Annual Reports by Councils (PARC) Awards scheme recognises and shares best practice in local authority reporting.  

Prior to joining PATROL, Louise was Director of a voluntary sector organisation delivering services to people with disabilities where public awareness and stakeholder engagement were just as essential.

Iain Worrall

Authority Engagement Manager
Traffic Penalty Tribunal

Joining the Traffic Penalty Tribunal from Brighton & Hove in 2014, Iain as the Stakeholder Engagement Manager has responsibility for all user experiences across the online platforms, overseeing the agile development process and holds a key ambassadorial role to the Chief Adjudicator.

He has managed the successful delivery of the FOAM (Fast Online Appeals Management) system to 310 local authorities and holds regular well attended workshops across the country on behalf of PATROL.

A semi-professional drummer, Iain spent most of the late '90s touring Europe and the US with a band signed to Warner Bros. 

Prof. Graham Cookson

Chief Economist
INRIX

Professor Graham Cookson is the Chief Economist and Head of Research at INRIX and a Visiting Professor of Economics at Surrey Business School, University of Surrey. He joined the company in 2016 to lead INRIX’s economic research team. Graham has presented to various government agencies and at numerous industry conferences, and has been widely quoted in national and local media.

He has spent over a decade in academia conducting world leading research on areas of public policy and public services. Graham has a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics & Economics from the University of Oxford, a Postgraduate Certificate from King’s College London and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Econometrics from Imperial College London. He is Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and a Member of the Royal Economic Society.

Mark Daly

Senior Transport Planner
Nottingham City Council

Mark has over 25 years’ experience working in air quality, climate change and sustainable transport. He is currently a Senior Transport Planner for Nottingham City Council and is the Project Manager for the Go Ultra Low Nottingham Programme. Mark is helping develop and deliver the activities related to the city council’s successful bid for  £6.1 million, as part of the UK government’s Ultra Low Cities scheme that aims to help deliver a step change increase in electric vehicles

Neil Geig

Director of Policy & Research, IAM RoadSmart

Neil Greig joined the IAM in 2007. His role involves setting the strategic direction for IAM RoadSmart’s Policy and Research Division, co-ordinating its research programme and working with the media and opinion formers across the UK.  He continues to represent IAM RoadSmart in Scotland and also in Brussels on working parties of the FIA Mobility Division.  

He is also member of several road safety committees including the Prince Michael of Kent International Road Safety Awards Panel, Scottish Government Road Safety Partnership Board, Transport Focus and Highways England Roaduser Panels and the DfT Motorcycle Safety Strategy Group. 

Nick Lester-Davis

Director
Nick Lester-Davis Consulting 

Nick Lester-Davis is a noted expert on urban transport strategies, particularly on roads, traffic and parking.   He is a Director of the British Parking Association and chairs its Public Affairs Board.   Until the end of 2016 he was London Councils’ Corporate Director for Services and during his career at London Councils, and its predecessor bodies, he had been responsible for delivery of a wide range of predominantly transport services worth nearly £500m annually.

As London Parking Director he was responsible for the introduction of civil parking and traffic enforcement into the UK in 1993 and went on to be President of both the British Parking Association (2000-01) and the European Parking Association (2009-2015).   From 2014 until this year, he was vice chair of ERTRAC, the European technology platform for road transport.   He was also a member of the Centre for London’s 2017 Commission on London’s roads and streets.

Alan Nettleton

Senior Technologist
Transport Systems Catapult

Alan is a registered Transport Planning Professional and Chartered Engineer who prior to joining the Transport Systems Catapult worked for private transport consultancies for over 10 years. 

He has undertaken considerable research and stakeholder consultation in the field of automated vehicles. He is particularly interested in how best to capture the benefits of automated vehicles, and the extent of infrastructure adaptation that will be necessary to support their deployment.

Alan has extensive experience working on the transport implications of new developments and on the design and appraisal of new public transport and bus rapid transit schemes in the UK and internationally. 

He is proficient in the design and modelling of new highway infrastructure, data collection and analysis and stakeholder engagement. Alan is also experienced in the ‘softer aspects’ of encouraging modal shift, such as personalised travel planning. 

Alan is passionate about the role new technology could play in transforming our way of life and the potential benefits in terms of reducing road casualties, improving the mobility of the most vulnerable members of our society and huge economic opportunities.

Neil Herron

Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Grid Smarter Cities

Members of the London Stock Exchange Group's ELITE programme for high growth companies Grid is about simplifying lives, better living, smarter cities. For disabled and the non-disabled people, for communities, for all. Achieving incremental change by deploying digital technology to transform life, work and play for all of us and to allow public authorities to function more efficiently.

Paul Nicholls

Parking Strategy & Contracts Manager
Brighton and Hove City Council

Paul joined Brighton and Hove City Council in 2001 and initially managed the introduction of Civil Parking Enforcement in the city. 

Paul has been privileged to work with some incredibly talented people, in a city he loves. He has been lucky enough to help shape the city almost as much as it has shaped him, and is proud of his role in implementing:

• Brighton's Low Emission Zone

• Introduction of phone parking

• Tackling Blue Badge misuse (two British Parking Awards 2016)

• Parking Annual Report writing (won inaugural national award and shortlisted for past 7 years)

His job means he has the pleasure of meeting a wide range of stakeholders, from residents, midwives, lifeboat crew, mechanics, hoteliers, bus operators, delivery drivers, football clubs (oh glorious Seagulls... so close), cyclists and councillors... all of whom are equally passionate about this unique city by the sea.

John Siraut

Director and Head of Discipline, Economics

Jacobs

John Siraut, Technical Director Economics at Jacobs specialises in the wider economic and social impacts of transport policies and investment, as well as advising on economic development and regeneration issues generally. He has advised a wide range of clients on parking issues including company purchase, charging tariffs and the impact of parking on retail activity. 

Charles Clowes

Chief Operating Officer

International Parking Community

Charles Clowes is the chief operating officer of the International Parking Community (IPC), an accredited trade association representing a wide range of parking operators and service suppliers. The IPC also operates the Independent Appeals Service (IAS), which listens to appeals by motorists issued with parking charge notices on private land. 

Prior to joining the IPC in 2017, Charles was head of commercial at National Car Parks (NCP), a role which saw him lead the development and implementation of new digital and customer service initiatives.

Will Hurley

Chief Executive Officer

International Parking Community

Will Hurley co-founded the International Parking Community (IPC) to fulfil the role as an Accredited Trade Association within the parking industry. The IPC operates a Code of Practice that encourages good practice and facilitates the fair release of data where there is a right to recover parking charges

Launched in 2012, the IPC's Approved Operator Scheme (AOS) now has over 100 members. The IPC also operates the Independent Appeals Service (IAS), which listens to appeals by motorists issued with parking charge notices on private land. 

Ken Munro

Founder and Partner

Pen Test Partners

Ken is passionate about empowering the user and blowing away the fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) peddled by security vendors. He is a successful entrepreneur and is a founder and partner in Pen Test Partners, a partnership of like-minded professional penetration testers all of whom have a stake in the business.

He’s also on the executive steering board for the IoT Security Foundation which aims to promote security and improve standards in the market.

Ken has been in the infosecurity business for approaching 20 years. Ken Munro can be contacted at Ken.Munro@pentestpartners.com or follow him on Twitter via @thekenmunroshow

Michael Benn

Programme Manager
London Borough of Hackney

Danny Ivie

Director
London Borough of Hackney

Danny Ivie is director of IVIESCSC Ltd, as a project/programme manager he has delivered many transformational technology projects across multiple local government sectors.

Andrew Potter

Director
Parking Perspectives

Andrew Potter has been providing transportation consultancy support for over 25 years, working for global consultancies in the UK and abroad. He provides guidance and analysis for town centre regeneration, support and assurance on parking demand, capacity and need, and strategic solutions for authorities who wish to bring forward car parks for other development or make other changes to influence parking choice and behaviour. His analysis and comment is drawn from ideas and research from the academic world, conference and journals and remains active in exploring and examining what other jurisdictions around the world are doing to change how parking is provided. He is a director at Parking Perspectives.

Anthony Eskinazi

Founder & Chief Executive Officer
JustPark

A chess-playing, maths-loving technology enthusiast, Anthony has always loved solving problems. Now, as CEO of JustPark, he is on a mission to make parking easier for everyone - creating a positive experience on every journey.

Founded in 2006, JustPark has historically offered a pre-booked parking service - but has since expanded its portfolio from domestic driveways to commercial and local authority car parks. The company recently entered the cashless parking sector, launching as the new mobile payments provider for Wrexham Council.

With the sector’s highest-rated app and fastest payments, JustPark are doing cashless parking differently - prioritising a positive experience for every driver.

Dan Hubert

Chief Executive Officer
AppyParking

Dan Hubert, founder of AppyParking, is on Smart City mission make parking a truly forgettable experience. His ambition is to create a frictionless multi-modal journey. By creating the UK’s first on and off-street standardised parking data set, drivers can gain complete choice and peace of mind about any destination using Last Meter Navigation™. This saves time, money and fuel for drivers and saves cities from congestion, traffic and pollution. 

AppyParking won The Parking Futures trophy at the British Parking Awards 2017 for its One Click Parking™ solution.

James Long

Principal Consultant
Steer Davies Gleave

James is a transport technology and strategy consultant with more than 7 years’ experience in the specification, implementation, acceptance and assessment of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) in the UK and Europe.

Kelvin Reynolds

Director of Corporate and Public Affairs
British Parking Association

Kelvin has had a 40-year career as a traffic engineer and planner, with 25 years in the public sector started in 1970 in urban traffic control in central London before becoming Parking Services Manager at the City of London in the 1980s and 90s. This was followed by a post as Transport and Infrastructure Manager at Bluewater, Europe’s largest retail and leisure destination with 13,000 parking spaces.

Kelvin joined the BPA in March 2004 as Director of Operations and Technical Services with responsibility for the Safer Parking Scheme, Approved Operators Scheme as well as managing important stakeholder relationships and the Association’s development of technical services to its expanding membership. 

He has led the BPA’s involvement with Government on development of Civil Parking Enforcement and the review of the Blue Badge Scheme for disabled people, and is currently active in work to review the UK Traffic Signs Regulations, promoting better management of parking at Healthcare Facilities and in the University sector.

He was involved in the establishment of POPLA and leads on development of The Parking Forum, a BPA inspired multi-agency ‘think-tank’ which develops collaborative thinking and innovation about parking policy and provision in the UK and on research and stakeholder engagement.

Andreas Hansen

Policy Advisor
Joint Air Quality Unit (DfT and Defra)

Andreas leads on JAQU’s work on the Clean Air Fund and the unit’s engagement with Nottingham City Council and Highways England. Before joining JAQU Andreas has held a range of posts in Government (DfT, DfID, DWP) and the third sector (WWF). Andreas holds a BSc in International Relations and an MSc in Environmental Policy. 

Mark Harrison

Consultant

Pen Test Partners

Mark has been working in information security for over 12 years, mainly in penetration testing and PCI DSS. Since joining Pen Test Partners his interest and knowledge of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its insecurity has become a passion. This is evident in his briefings that are frequently asked for by CXOs of FTSE 100 companies and industry leaders.

His experience in pen testing and security consultancy, especially in the financial services sector, means that he can pitch the content and tone of his talks to a variety of audiences, from user groups through to senior board.