2024 Agenda

08:30 - 09:30 Registration

  • 09:30 - 09:35 Opening address, James Evans, Founder, FirstCar & Dr. Elizabeth Box, Research Director, RAC Foundation

  • 09:35 - 10:00 Guy Opperman, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Transport, Government policy update

  • 10:00 - 10:25 Loveday Ryder, CEO, DVSA, Industry update

  • 10:25 - 10:45 Laura Hill, Head of Marketing, Department for Transport, THINK! campaign update

  • 10:45 - 11:00 Questions

11:00 - 11:30 Refreshments

  • 11:30 - 11:50 Jacqueline Upton, Simon Christmas, Social Research and Behaviour Change / Director, National Highways / Simon Christmas Ltd, Novice drivers and safe distances

  • 11:50 - 12:10 Nicola Wass, CEO, So-Mo, Seatbelts: How behavioural science helped better understand and then change behaviour

  • 12:10 - 12:30 Lorna Smith, Team Leader - Safer Road Users, Kent County Council , Young driver and passenger intervention

  • 12:30 -12:50 Shaun Helman & Jill Weekly, Chief Scientist & Principal Consultant, TRL, Achieving greater and more varied on-road practice when learning to drive. What works?

  • 12:50 -13:00 Questions

13:00 -14:00 Lunch

  • 14:00 - 14:20 Keanan Lloyd-Adams, TikToker, FirstCar, TikTok – the next frontier in young driver engagement

  • 14:20 - 14:40 Mike Bettington / Cheryl Evans / Elizabeth Box, Detective Chief Inspector / Senior Road Safety Officer / CEO, Thames Valley Police / West Berkshire Council / ECM Research Solutions, GoDRIVE – reinventing the wheel!

  • 14:40 - 15:00 Annabelle Priest / Chris Boston / Ian Edwards, Road Safety Officer / Road Safety Lead / Managing Director, Devon & Somerset Fire and Rescue Service (both) / New View Consultants, Learn2Live: the fear of change and a new young driver approach

  • 15:00 - 15:20 Olly Tayler QPM, Co-Founder, The Honest Truth, Driving instructors - an undervalued touch point with young drivers?

  • 15:20 - 15:40 Dan Quin, Chief Fire Officer, Surrey Fire and Rescue Service. A collaborative approach to young driver safety education

  • 15:40 -15:50 Questions

    15:50 - 16:00  Closing remarks & conference close, James Evans, Founder, FirstCar

16:00 Conference closes.