4 November 2025 Programme

Please note that the programme is under development

Programme

08:45

Registration: Tea & Coffee served in the Pioneer Room exhibition area

09.30

The Pendulum Suite

Morning Plenary: Accessibility and inclusivity – what’s next?

Chair: Adrian Lord, Active Travel Network Manager, Transport for Greater Manchester

Inclusive streetscapes: embedding lived experience into street accessibility

Arun Ulahannan, Assistant Professor, National Transport Design Centre (NTDC)
And National Centre for Accessible Transport

Inclusive and accessible transport to support active modes
Rebecca Posner, Director of Inclusive Research, Research Institute for Disabled Consumers (RiDC)

Future-proofing mobility aid laws to support active travel for all

Kay Inckle, Campaigns and Policy Manager, Wheels for Wellbeing

Transforming Mobility – project findings and impacts

Tim Burns, Head of Research, Walk Wheel Cycle Trust

11.00

Morning break: Tea & Coffee served in the Pioneer Room exhibition area

11.30

Breakout sessions - delegates to choose 1 of 3

The Pendulum Suite

Walking: for all walks of life

Chair: Vicki Franks, Policy Officer, West Yorkshire Combined Authority

Vision-led pedestrian planning
Jordan Di Trapani, Principal Consultant, Systra

Footways: devising and using walking networks: a tool for navigation and infrastructure improvements
Emma Griffin, Co-founder, Footways CIC

How walkable places can transform communities

Julian Sanchez, Campaigner, Active Wellbeing Society

Healthy and walkable neighbourhoods: have we missed the point? Insights from engagement with local transport users in Greater Manchester

Dom Smith, UK Active Travel Lead, Steer and Graeme Sherriff, Associate Professor, School of Health and Society, University of Salford

Realistic AND Radical - How to create pedestrian-friendly side-road junctions

Robert Weetman,

freelance specialist on how the design of streets affects walking, wheeling and cycling and Technical Coordinator, Living Streets

Cotton Theatre

Micromobility: five years on, so what's next?

Session led by Matthew Clark, Head of New Mobility, Steer

Speakers include:

Boosting the accessibility of shared micromobility?

Antonia Charlton, Deputy Chief Executive, CoMoUK

Topics:

Introduction of a new Low-Speed Zero Emission Vehicle (LZEV) category
New micromobility powers to ‘close gap’ between UK and other countries
Five years since the first legal e-scooter Ride in Great Britain
Major advancements in e-scooter design and safety features
Cities trialling different approaches to integration and regulation
Growing public interest in micro-mobility

Graphene 1

Unlocking active opportunity: case studies

Chair: Emma Young, Cycle and Active Travel Champion, Bradford Council

Realistic AND Radical - How to create pedestrian-friendly side-road junctions

Mark Philpotts, Founder, City Infinity

The Wear Footbridge Bridge, Sunderland – connecting communities

Speaker from Sunderland City Council, tbc

Unlocking rural cycling: feasibility and benefits of a Cycle Node Network in the UK: case studies from Benelux
Oliver Williamson, transport planning consultant

Milton Road, Cambridge: A blueprint for inclusive walking and cycling infrastructure - CYCLOPS segregation, side road crossings and more...

Josh Grantham, Infrastructure Campaigner, CamCycle

Leisure walking as a driver of active travel and wellbeing: lessons from the GM Ringway, Greater Manchester's walking trail

Andrew Read, Lead Consultant, Walking Projects Plus and Nick Davies, Senior Lecturer, Glasgow Caledonian University

13.00

Networking Lunch: Lunch served in the Pioneer Room exhibition area

14.00

Breakout sessions - delegates to choose 1 of 3

The Pendulum Suite

Data and analytics: understanding & managing impacts

Chair: Belen Zapata-Diomedi, Assistant Research Professor, Public Health Modelling, University of Cambridge

Data collection for Monitoring & Evaluation: Active Travel England guidance
Tyler Spencer Pote, Research and Evaluation Lead, Active Travel England

Decoding travel behaviours: using data to shape better active travel

Charlie Wilson, Business Development Manager, See.Sense

Beyond the GIS experts: democratising active travel planning

Nick Eastwood, Lead GIS Analyst, Spatial Design Hub and Freya Jackson, GIS Analyst/ Cartographer, Spatial Design Hub

uMove mobile: novel AI tells you where, why and how people travel, without any sensors or surveys

Stevie Revill, Co-founder & CEO, UrbanTide

Cotton Theatre

Cargo bikes and urban deliveries

Chair: Lee Pugh, Colchester eCargo and Co-Chair of the Sustainable Urban Freight Association

The future of cargo bikes is assured...

Stefan Ondo, managing director, Manchester Bikes

The last mile delivery solution in real-life

Russell Hope, eLov Macclesfield and Manchester

Boosting cargo bikes for businesses

Anthony de Heveningham, Director, Cargodale

Issues include:

The cargo bike comeback – in towns and cities across the UK and Europe, services are on the rise
How to improve rider and operator rights, inclusivity, safety and wellbeing
What’s the future for passenger services?
How would the introduction of a new Low-Speed Zero Emission Vehicle (LZEV) category impact cargo services?

Graphene 1

Safe and civilised streets for all

Chair: Robert Weetman,

freelance specialist on how the design of streets affects walking, wheeling and cycling and Technical Coordinator, Living Streets

We all have a right to use and share the streets – and we need to do it safely and with respect for others – the session will look at how that can happen

Delivery rider dilemmas

Cllr Tom Bailey, North Tyneside Council

LTNs: impacts on active travel and cyclist diversity

Jamie Furlong, Senior Research Fellow, Active Travel Academy, University of Westminster

Keeping streets safe for disabled people

Kay Inckle, Campaigns and Policy Manager, Wheels for Wellbeing

Safe streets for the visually impaired

Adam Marsh, Regional Policy and Campaigns Manager, Guide Dogs

The Right to the Street: women and girls

Kelly Rodgers, Strategic Lead for Healthy Active Places, GM Moving