Johan Andersson
Chief Commercial Officer at Volklec
Ruth Nic Aoidh
Director of Vehicle Programmes at JLR
Roger Atkins
Founder and Managing Director at Electric Vehicles Outlook
Dr. Valentina Gentili
Battery Innovation Programme Director at Innovate UK
Dr. Keri Goodwin
Chief Technologist at CPI
Stephen Hughes
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Batri Ltd
Andrew Mansfield
EV Supply Chain Manager at SMMT
Dr. Cyril Marino
Failure Analyses Manager – Energies & Renewables Division at SERMA Group
Dr. Christian Marston
COO and Co-Founder at Altilium
Dr. Andy Palmer
Founder & CEO at Palmer Energy
Graeme Purdy
Chief Executive Officer at Ilika
Puneet Sinha
Global Head of Battery at Siemens Digital Industries Software
Bill Williams
Global Director ‑ Business Development ‑ EV Battery at Baltimore Aircoil
Opening Sessions
10:00 – 10:05: Conference Welcome by Roger Atkins
10:00 – 10:15: UK Government Address from Chris McDonald MP, Minister for Industry
10:15 – 10:55: Opening Leaders Plenary
Advanced Battery Manufacturing
11:00 – 11:40: Manufacturing or Innovating – Have we got the Balance Right?
11:45 – 12:25: Lab to Production Line – Reducing Time to Market
12:30 – 13:15: Industrialising Battery Production at Speed
Vehicle Electrification
14.00 – 14.30: EV Consumer and Market Outlook
14.30 – 15.10: EV Manufacturing: Building a Robust EV Supply Chain
15.15 – 15.55: Vehicle Electrification: New Vehicle Architecture
Technology & Innovation
11.00 – 11.25: Dry Electrode: Unlocking Scalable Battery Manufacturing with Integrated Mixing Solution
11.30 – 11.55: The Support of Failure Analysis for the Development of Battery Simulation
12.00 – 12.25: Dielectric Coating in Electric Vehicle Battery Enclosures
12.30 – 12.55: The Elite Way of Customisation in Battery Packs
13:40 – 14:05: TBC
14.10 – 14.35: Cooling Gigafactories While Saving Water and Energy
14:40 – 15:05: TBC
15.10 – 15.35: From 500 Wh/kg to High-Power Cells: A Blueprint for Accelerating Custom Battery Production
15.40 – 16.05: From Lab to Gigafactory: Key Challenges in High-Solid LFP Production
16:10 – 16:30: TBC
Critical Minerals, Materials & Recycling
10:00 – 10:40: TBC
10:45 – 11:25: Critical Minerals: Securing a Domestic Supply Chain
11:30 – 12:15: Recycling to Plug the Supply Gap – What Can We Really Achieve?
Next Generation Technologies
13:45 – 14:25: Sodium Ion
14.30 – 15.10: Solid State
Battery Applications
10:00 – 10:40: BESS: UK and International Outlook for Battery Storage
10:45 – 11:25: BESS Technology Innovations
11:30 – 12:15: BESS: Regulations and Policy
12:20 – 13:00: Electrification Strategies for Buses and Trucks
13:45 – 14:25: Off Highway Vehicles
14:30 – 15:10: Aerospace and UAV
15:15 – 15:45: Defence Battery Strategies
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