
London Infrastructure Summit 2022
London’s biggest annual gathering of infrastructure experts returns for 2022 as the sector explores its role in responding to the rising cost of living and tackling the climate emergency.
On 15 September at ExCeL London, our expert panellists will dive into rethinking the funding and financing of infrastructure, through to the future of transport across the UK, as well as exploring future technologies and the cost of living response from regulated industries.
This conference is an opportunity for C level execs, directors and managers from across the infrastructure sphere to network and discuss these critical issues facing the industry with each other and critical stakeholders from the public sector.
Why attend?
- Hear from a range of industry experts in the public and private sector, with invited speakers from across investment, transport, technology and data and sustainability
- Enjoy 1 – 2‑1 networking with familiar names and faces over coffee and lunch
- Get inspired with expert analysis across a programme set to focus on:
- The Cost of Living Crisis and what infrastructure service providers can do to support customers and society more broadly
- Is our Infrastructure on a path to net zero? The race to net zero is creating a boom in innovation, but can regulation keep up? Can it be designed to foster innovation rather than constrain it?
- How are smart systems and data helping to improve infrastructure efficiency, reduce waste, cut carbon emissions and most importantly provide better services to Londoners?
- With the transition to net zero becoming more urgent, the cost of living increasing, and some passengers still hesitant to return to the network, is now the time for a fundamental re-think of public transport fares?
- Get food for thought at our series of quick fire interviews on how we can accelerate London’s retrofit challenge, on the latest innovations that can help us on the transition to Net Zero and more.
How can I book?
BusinessLDN members can take up their free place for this must-attend event by registering here. Non-members can attend for a nominal fee, register here.
Theo Blackwell
Chief Digital Officer, Greater London Authority
Appointed in 2017 as London's first Chief Digital Officer for London, Theo leads on London-wide digital transformation, data and smart city initiatives at City Hall. His role involves: • Strategic leadership on the digital transformation agenda for London's public services, across the GLA group and the wider public sector. • Convening on behalf of the Mayor, across London local government to support the take-up of innovative, technology, and data-led approaches to service delivery and public engagement. • Developing and promoting partnership between the public, private and community sectors to enable and support the development of new public service-oriented technology and innovation. The new Smarter London Together Roadmap launched by Mayor Sadiq Khan in June 2018, is supporting the collective capabilities of the city through citizen-centred design, data-sharing, smart infrastructure, digital skills and collaboration. Progress can be followed on the Smarter London Together Report Card.
Billy D'Arcy
CEO, BAI Communications
Billy D’Arcy’s career in Telecommunications & ICT spans the past 30 years. He has occupied various senior management roles across organisations such as Telefonica O2, Worldcom, Eircom and Cable & Wireless. In 2017, he joined BAI Communications as CEO for their UK operation. BAI is a world leader in shared communications infrastructure. BAI’s leading neutral host model is helping to accelerate and optimise wireless infrastructure in the UK. Two major partnerships with Transport for London and Sunderland City Council are helping to fast track the UK’s digital transformation and build the smart communities of the future. BAI’s expertise in the UK and commitment to connect the unconnected in the most complex environments has been strengthened through its acquisition of Vilicom, a leader in high performance 4G and 5G mobile and cellular coverage solutions. Before joining BAI, Billy worked for Telefonica O2 UK as Managing Director for Telefonica O2 UK’s Enterprise & Public Sector Business. In this role, he was responsible for Telefonica O2 UK’s public sector activities across Central Government, Local Government and the Third Sector.
Programme highlights
Is the cost of living crisis an infrastructure crisis?
What role can infrastructure service providers and their investors/owners play in supporting customers and society more broadly through the current cost of living crisis?
Are transport fares fair?
With the transition to net zero becoming more urgent, the cost of living increasing, and some passengers still hesitant to return to the network, is now the time for a fundamental re-think of public transport fares?
Going green – retrofitting London
How will we accelerate London’s retrofit challenge and what type of support is needed for businesses?
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Schedule
Thursday, 15 September 2022
8:45am – 9:30am
Registration & Networking breakfast
9:45am – 10:25am
Is the cost of living crisis an infrastructure crisis?
What role can infrastructure service providers and their investors/owners play in supporting customers and society more broadly through the current cost of living crisis? For example, how are utilities providers stepping up to support vulnerable customers in London, which has far higher income inequalities and some of the highest deprivation in the country? What role is there for increasing private infrastructure investment to remove burdens on public expenditure and to move towards more user-pay models of financing in the capital?
10:25am – 10:35am
Are transport fares fair?
Transport for London was twice as reliant on passenger fare revenue as comparable international systems and the funding model is now under review. Great British Railways is promising a ticketing revolution but reforming fares themselves isn’t guaranteed. Meanwhile, Germany offers a monthly travel pass costing just 9EUR and Spain offers free rail travel. With the transition to net zero becoming more urgent, the cost of living increasing, and some passengers still hesitant to return to the network, is now the time for a fundamental re-think of public transport fares?
10:35am – 10:55am
Break
10:55am – 11:25am
Can regulation keep pace?
The race to net zero is creating a boom in innovation as infrastructure sectors push ahead towards this new future. But can regulation keep up? Can it be designed to foster innovation rather than constrain it? And how can we enable a regulatory framework that takes a long-term view, to provide confidence to the market to invest for the sustainable infrastructure that we need over the long-term?
11:25am – 11:35am
Going green – innovation interviews
Quick-fire interviews on the latest innovations on the transition to Net Zero and their potential to drive acceleration in the capital.
11:35am – 12:00pm
Going green – retrofitting London
How will we accelerate London’s retrofit challenge and what type of support is needed for businesses?
12:05pm – 12:25pm
Data & Smart Cities - In conversation
How are smart systems and data helping to improve infrastructure efficiency, reduce waste, cut carbon emissions and most importantly provide better services to Londoners? What can we learn from other cities across the globe? Where is the current best practice?
12:25pm – 1:00pm
Data & Smart Cities discussion
How are smart systems and data helping to improve infrastructure efficiency, reduce waste, cut carbon emissions and most importantly provide better services to Londoners? What can we learn from other cities across the globe? Where is the current best practice?
1:00pm – 1:50pm
Networking lunch
1:50pm – 1:55pm
Keynote: Improving I&D for the future
How can the sector improve I&D to be more attractive in the future? What benefits can this bring for business growth and development?
1:55pm – 2:20pm
Sustainable travel in London
How we move people and goods around the city is evolving – and it needs to if it is going to keep pace with changing technology and patterns of demand. From the future of road pricing to new forms of micro mobility to better use of the rivers to expanding the use of shared vehicles, meeting the Mayor’s 2030 targets mean all avenues need to be rapidly explored. How can we do this in a coordinated way? How do we avoid a piecemeal approach?
2:20pm – 2:45pm
Sustainable funding for TfL
Transport for London has been surviving for more than two years on short-term handouts from the Treasury. Everyone is agreed that the capital needs a sustainable long-term deal if it is to invest in the maintenance and upgrades necessary to keep the network functioning. With a new government in place, what are the prospects of achieving this? How can we help to get a deal done? And where do we go if the final deal is inadequate for the city’s needs?
2:45pm – 2:55pm
Keynote: Megaprojects
With large-scale investments – from runways to railways – in the capital almost universally on ice since the start of the pandemic, how do we re-make the case for growth and investment? What are the right projects for the world in which we now find ourselves? And what are the lessons from Crossrail and other projects that will help to get things moving again?