"without it nothing moves"
SESSION OVERVIEW
We are pleased to invite you to the “Without it Nothing Moves” event co-hosted by the TDA and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. This event will be held at the Business Pavilion-The Climate Pledge Theatre, Hall 5, SEC/Exhibition Way, Glasgow G3 8YW, UK on Wednesday, 10 November from 13:00 to 14:00 GMT.
Important: COP26 accreditation (badge) needed.
This event will bring together the private and public sector to discuss the role of zero-emission infrastructure in catalyzing the needed transition to zero emissions mobility. This event will culminate in a Call for Action on zero emissions infrastructure affirming private and public sector priorities.
AGENDA
13.00-13.10 Opening Transport Decarbonisation Alliance (TDA)–Chairs Netherlands (outgoing chair) and California (incoming chair); Netherlands: Minister van Weyenberg, California: Liane M. Randolph, Chair California Air Resources Board
13.10-13.30 Framing presentation by: Thomas Deloison, Director Mobility WBCSD and Dale Hall, Researcher, ICCT’s Electric Vehicle Team
13.20-13.50 Moderated panel:
Moderator: Sydney Vergis, Division Chief, California Air Resources Board.
Participants
OEM:
Andreas Foller, Head of Sustainability Scania,
Isbrand Ho, Managing Director of BYD Europe B.V
Joachim Rosenberg, Executive Vice President and Head of Volvo Energy, Volvo Group
Business:
Bram Poeth, Chief Commercial Officer, EV Box
Cities:
Mayor Dijksma (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Region/state:
Jeremy Hewitt- Assistant Deputy Minister for Climate Change
Strategy, British Columbia, Canada
13.50-14.00 Concluding remarks and presentation call for action: TDA Chair Liane Randolph.
SPEAKERS
Belgian-born Dutch politician, serving as State Secretary for Infrastructure and Water Management in the (demissionary) third Rutte cabinet since 10 August 2021. A member of the Democrats 66 (D66), he previously held a seat in the House of Representatives from 20 September 2012 to 2 September 2021.Prior to being elected, he worked as a civil servant for the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment
Liane Randolph has spent most of her career in public service, specializing in environmental law and policy, effective administration, and a commitment to transparency and public process. She was appointed Chair of the California Air Resources Board by Governor Gavin Newsom in December 2020. Starting in 2015, Randolph served six years as a Commissioner at the California Public Utilities Commission and managed numerous decisions on energy efficiency, integrated energy resource planning, and regulation of transportation network companies, as well as spearheading significant Commission policy reforms. Prior to the PUC, Randolph served from 2011 to 2014 as Deputy Secretary and General Counsel at the California Natural Resources Agency, where she worked on a wide variety of legal and policy issues, including work on the Klamath Dam Removal agreement, CEQA guidelines, and the Agency’s first Tribal Consultation Policy. Randolph’s first role with the State was as Chair of the California Fair Political Practices Commission from 2003 to 2007. Her work at the state level builds on experience with local government that she gained while practicing municipal law as a contract City Attorney for the Cities of San Leandro and Suisun City. Randolph earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law.
MODERATOR
Dr. Sydney Vergis is the Division Chief overseeing the California Air Resources Board’s Mobile Source Control Division (MSCD). Her portfolio includes many of CARB’s incentive programs as well as medium, heavy duty, and off road emissions regulations. She previously led CARB’s Legislative Office and is a former Senior Land Use Planner and Yolo County Planning Commissioner. She is also a member of the Davis Sunrise Rotary Club.
PANELISTS
Thomas Deloison leads the mobility work at WBCSD, a CEO-led organization of over 200 leading businesses working together to accelerate the transition to a sustainable world. Before that, he held various roles for Nissan in product strategy, marketing strategy, vehicle program management and corporate strategy in Europe.
Dale Hall is an electric vehicle researcher at the International Council on Clean Transportation, where he has worked since 2016. Dale administers the ICCT’s duties as the Secretariat for the International Zero-Emission Vehicle Alliance, a coalition of 20 leading governments committed to transitioning to zero-emission vehicles. He also works with leading European and North American cities in the C40 network and beyond to implement electric vehicle strategies, particularly on issues of charging infrastructure planning, zero-emission freight, and shared mobility.
Dale holds a B.S. in Engineering Physics and Urban Studies from Stanford University, where he also worked a research assistant in an astrophysics laboratory. Previously, he worked on city decarbonization strategy in the San Francisco Bay Area for Menlo Spark. Dale lives in New York City, where he advocates for safer, more sustainable transportation options.
Andreas is the Head of Sustainability at Scania with a responsibility to drive and coordinate the sustainability, circular economy and climate area at corporate level. Previously to Scania, Andreas has been working with sustainability issues for the last 20 years. Over the years, he has been working in the nexus between strategy, management and education in energy, pharmaceuticals, automotive and in the textile industry. Additionally, he has operated his own business as well as having worked with climate change issues for the World Wildlife Fund, WWF.
Mr. Isbrand Ho is the Managing Director of BYD Europe B.V. (located in the Netherlands) and a Senior Director of BYD Company Limited.
Mr. Ho, born in Hong Kong, was educated in the US at San Diego State University, California, and held a range of senior management positions in the electronics industry, including four years as a Director of Motorola and the Shanghai-based Grace Semiconductor. Theme of his career has always been in the delivering of energy efficiency solutions to a range of industries.
He joined BYD to head up its Europe operation in January 2013 and now heads a multi-skilled and multinational team based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His responsibilities include sales of pure electric vehicles in the bus, taxi, truck, car and forklift market sectors at present.
Executive Vice President Volvo Group and Chairman of UD Trucks. Member of the Group Executive Board since January 2012. With Volvo since 2005.
As of January 2021, Mr Rosenberg heads the business area Volvo Energy that will strengthen the Volvo Group’s business flow of batteries over the life cycle as well as the customer offer for charging infrastructure. At the same time, the environmental impact from electric and hybrid electric commercial vehicles and machines will be reduced by giving used batteries a second life in different applications. Volvo Energy will also carry the Group’s responsibility for hydrogen infrastructure solutions for fuel cell electric vehicles.
Volvo Energy will drive circularity by both monitoring and optimizing batteries and securing charging infrastructure solutions for Volvo Group’s first life business scope, as well as repurposing batteries for second life business opportunities across different applications. Collaborations with various business partners and actors across the ecosystem will be key.
Sharon Dijksma is mayor of Utrecht. Prior to this, she was the deputy-mayor for Traffic and Transport, Water and Air Quality with the Municipality of Amsterdam, state secretary for Infrastructure and the Environment (2015-2017), State Secretary for Economic Affairs (2012-2015) and State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science (2007 – 2010). From 2017 to 2018, 2010 to 2012 and 1994 to 2007 she was Member of the House of Representatives (PvdA). In 2015, Dijksma was involved in the Paris agreement negotiations on behalf of the Dutch government and the EU negotiation team.
Dijksma was born on 16 April 1971 in Groningen, where she received a pre-university diploma. She is married with 3 children.
Climate Action Secretariat, Government of British Columbia, Canada
Jeremy Hewitt is Assistant Deputy Minister for Climate Change Strategy at the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy. In this role he works with an incredible team at the
Climate Action Secretariat who are responsible for developing and delivering B.C.’s climate action agenda. This includes reducing carbon pollution and preparing for the impacts of a changing climate in partnership with Indigenous Peoples, local governments, business and non-governmental organizations. Jeremy first worked at the Climate Action Secretariat between 2007-2011 and has held positions with the Ministry of Transportation, the Ministry of Jobs, Trade and Technology and the Intergovernmental Relations Secretariat. He holds B.A. (Hons) and Master of Public Administration degrees from the University of Victoria.
Please kindly register and feel free to reach out to Herman.Sips@minienw.nl with gabriela.mora@tda-mobility.org on cc if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!
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