About the Event:

Join us for an exciting deep dive into the future of road safety, where cutting-edge technology meets transportation innovation. This event will showcase pioneering advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Virtual Reality (VR) designed to revolutionise how we navigate our roads. Industry leaders and tech innovators will present groundbreaking solutions to reduce accidents, enhance driver awareness, and transform urban mobility. Don’t miss this opportunity to witness live demos, engage with the experts, and explore the future of smart, safer roads. Be part of the movement driving innovation for safer travel!

The event will be chaired by Beth Morley from Cenex.

Guest Speakers:

Ollie Teall (WSP) – Use of AI and VR to support Transport Operations.

Applications of AI and VR to improve transport safety in the UK and USA

Shane Foley (VivaCity) – Protecting vulnerable road users with AI in the West Midlands.

Innovative Smart Road Safety solutions helping accelerate TfWM Vision Zero goals. VivaCity will be presenting on how their unique AI powered technology underpins transport, and specifically road safety, work with their key partners across the world. TfWM have spearheaded this innovation alongside VivaCity, consistently demonstrating that innovation is a key part of their approach to making our transport network safer for all users.

Siddartha Khastgir (Warwick University) – AI Safety for Automated Driving.

Stuart Leaster – (TfWM) – Pyramid of Capabilities – building the cloud foundation for geospatial, digital twin and AI.

TfWM is putting the geospatial cloud at the heart of its data transformation. Delivering advanced analytics and ultimately a digital twin to support operational forecasts and long term regional strategic modelling requires solid foundations.

This is the opportunity to learn about how to undertake this transformation whilst still delivering business as usual, learning the latest technologies and growing an internal team’s capabilities. The session will cover the tools used, and the approach taken and it will outline how our data management lays the foundations ready to embrace the application of AI.

Elizabeth Zeddie Lawal (More than a Moment) – Unlocking Co-Benefits with VR for a Safer, More Playful, and Livable Region

More than a Moment is an award-winning creative producer, theatre maker, facilitator, and host. She firmly believes in the power of social good and transforming the 21st century through creativity, technology, and innovation to make our 21st-century world fairer, equitable, and beautiful.

She has been recognised by Birmingham Mail 30 Under 30 (2018), The Stage 100 (2020) for More than a Moment pledge, Finalist of Woman of the Year 2022, finalist for the Birmingham Entrepreneur of the Year Awards 2023, and Winner of Potential Unlocked Awards 2024. She is also a Trustee of Birmingham Hippodrome and Tech WM.

Alex Walton and Papa Malick Gueye (Arcadis and Michelin) – AI Mobility Behaviour Data with Arcadis and Michelin joint working project.

A new approach to save lives on urban roads, using big data, machine learning and engineering expertise to identify & mitigate crash risk to all road users, network-wide.

Shaun Hudson (Ancoris) – Google Cloud, Ancoris and AI for the Transport industries

How are we working with Transport organisations to identify use cases and rapid prototype solutions with Google’s AI and Cloud Platform.