Gavin has created over a dozen companies, employing 100’s of people, and delivering $100M’s in measurable impact. He co-chaired the development of the Open Banking Standard and was founding CEO of the Open Data Institute. He has mentored, chaired, or been a non-exec of over 40 organisations across diverse sectors. He currently runs IcebreakerOne.org to help accelerate our Net Zero Future and co-chairs the UK Smart Data Council, shaping the future of data sharing at national scale to unlock value and address risks.

Steve Phipps is a Senior Materials Engineer with Balfour Beatty and currently Head of Materials Engineering for Balfour Beatty Vinci on HS2 Area North.
Steve has over 30 years’ experience in highways and high-speed rail construction, including the technical management of concrete and cementitious products.
Steve sits on Britpave Council, contributing to many of their technical guidance and best practice publications. Steve has recently led the technical working group responsible for developing industry guidance on the use of digital monitoring and measurement.

Sharon is the Regional Rural Mobility Manager at Transport East, the Sub-National Transport Body for the East. She heads up an exciting area of work leading on delivering the national Rural Mobility Centre of Excellence with a wide range of stakeholders from across government, academia, tourism and business. The RMCoE focuses on the transport challenges faced by rural communities, building research and evidence to make the case for investment, an area omitted from much national and regional policy development in recent years.

Sharon’s extensive career in local government has led to a deep understanding of how to deliver sustainable transport changes in the public sector. This includes roles as strategic lead for behaviour change, road safety strategy, travel planning and the active travel delivery team at a large county council where she secured £1.5million to deliver one of eleven Active Travel Social Prescribing Pilots across England, and developing the Suffolk Air Quality Profile with Public Health and the District Councils.

Sharon led on a pan-regional European Regional Development Fund project which introduced one of England’s first mobile ticketing apps in 2012, still being used today by one of the leading bus operators, facilitating millions of purchases of bus tickets in the last decade.

Sharon also worked for the Department for Education during the Travelling to School Initiative as the Regional School Travel Advisor, managing the work of ten Local Authorities to successfully meet the challenging targets and objectives set by Government.

Richard Osborne is Chief Technology Officer at Purple Transform.

He has 25 years’ experience in the IT industry in a variety of technical, consulting, business development and sales roles.

Annette has 25 years’ experience in the transport sector. After gaining her PhD in Chemistry from the University of Leeds, she joined the Highways Agency, now National Highways, where she held a variety of roles predominantly focused on leading and managing research programmes, together with communications and business improvement. She spent five years as Head of Innovation where she created National Highways’ Innovation & Research Strategy and guidance for managing pilots and trials on the road network. In 2023, Annette joined the Department for Transport as Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser, promoting science and innovation across the Department and the transport sector.

Steve is Director of Projects and Programme Delivery within the Environment Agency and is responsible for the operational leadership of our approach to programme and project management.
Steve leads the delivery of circa 1000 projects creating new or refurbished assets, the core of which protect communities from the risk of flooding. Steve also leads the collaboration of our six primary contractor and consultant national frameworks. Through these, we aim to utilise the breadth of industry skills and experiences as part of our aim to learn from the best and deliver more sustainable and efficient projects that benefit people and their local environments.
Steve is Co-chair of the Infrastructure Industry Innovation Partnership (i3P), a group of Infrastructure Clients and Delivery Partners that evolved from Crossrail and now works across the infrastructure sector, aiming to drive collaborative innovation in addressing today’s challenges with tomorrow’s solutions.
Steve has a background in construction and engineering having worked for Tarmac Construction / Carillion for 20 years. He is the Head of Project Delivery Profession at the EA, actively supporting the ongoing development of staff and colleagues.
Steve is married to Karen with two ‘children’ Tara and Jack (26, twins). Steve enjoys football, music, food, and work, not necessarily in that order.

Duncan is the European Vice President of Hitachi Digital Services. In this role Duncan is responsible for all client service delivery as well as developing our broader business portfolio.

Duncan is a senior executive with over 30 years’ experience in the IT and BPS industry. Duncan started his career as a systems programmer for Royal Sun Alliance where he became an IT Manager developing large underwriting and CRM systems. He moved into shared services where he managed the core business and IT operations for companies including Perot Systems (acquired by Dell) and Cable and Wireless.

In 2000 he joined Accenture where he became a Partner for almost 18 years. During this time, he led teams of up to 40,000 colleagues supporting the transformation and services/ IT outsource of world leading companies such as Lloyds Bank, BMW, Nissan Europe, HSBC, BP, Microsoft, British Telecom, Centrica, Schlumberger, E.On and GE.

More recently Duncan was a senior Director at Capita and prior to joining Hitachi Vantara was responsible for Cognizant’s c.$800m BPO and IT transformation business across the UK/I and mainland Europe.

In his spare time Duncan likes to mountain bike in Wales, scuba dive, ski and has a passion for fast cars. Duncan also supports charity work and is an active member of the Worshipful Company of Coopers (founded in 1501) where he has been a Liveryman for almost 15 years.