Programme Director: Ayanda Allie – TV Broadcast Presenter & Youth Development Practioner 

Presenter: Minister Daylin Mitchell, Minister of Mobility, Western Cape Government (South Africa)

Presenter: Monika Mikac, Board Member, QEV Technologies (Spain)

• What is needed before we can get to where we are going?
• How Dundee City Council transformed its government fleet
• EV Transition – why, when, cost analysis?
• EV Infrastructure – right solutions for different EV operations
• Supporting an EV fleet – staff re-training, local OEM support, managing change

Presenter: Fraser Crichton, Corporate Fleet Manager, Dundee City Council (UK)

(10 min Q&A)

• Low voltage grid impacts of electric vehicle charging
• EV and energy integration – smart and bi-directional charging, energy storage and renewable generation
• EVs and resilience – battery on wheels

Presenter: Keith Budden, Head of Business Development, Cenex (United Kingdom)

(10 min Q&A)

Reducing fleet costs through electric vehicles and self-generation electricity

• Operational costs are reduced when combining renewable energy and EV’s
• Minimum maintenance requirements and costs for EVs
• Appealing investments: Return on Investment on renewable energy projects is 3-5 years

Presenter: Raji Hattar, Chief Sustainability Officer, Aramex (Jordan)

(10 min Q&A)

• Key examples of what drives the uptake of EVs globally, from sales to infrastructure
• The prominence of Smart Cities in driving EV uptake
• The importance of the logistics and transportation industries in EV transformation

Presenter: Craig Parker, Research Director, Frost & Sullivan Africa (South Africa)

(10min Q&A)

• Looking at what the total cost of ownership for electric vehicles is within the business fleet context
• Looking at various vehicle types, the opportunity to utilise self-generated electricity
• Cost comparison: Petrol vs. Electric (cars, bikes, minibus taxis)
• Charging infrastructure set up costs for a business

Moderator: Hiten Parmar, Director, uYilo Electric Mobility Programme (South Africa)

Panellists:

1. Richard Clarke, Investor & Chairman, Green Riders (South Africa)
2. Caitlin Craig, Investment Officer Southern Africa, Untapped Global (South Africa)
3. David Johnston, Founder & Director, Go-Electric (South Africa)
4. Justin Coetzee, CEO, GoMetro (South Africa)

(15 min Q&A)

• How to define capacity needs to find the best solution to guarantee capacity for your entire rollout
• Advantages of deploying full energy infrastructure capacity demands now instead of later
• What are the misconceptions around capacity for charging infrastructure

Moderator: Bopang Khutsoane, Deputy Director: Global Climate Change, National Department of Transport (South Africa)

Panellists:

1. Miles Jacobs, Network Optimization Engineer, Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. (South Africa)
2. Carel Snyman, Electric Vehicle & Solar Energy Advisor (South Africa)
3. Beatrice Muthoni Ngugi, Business Development Manager, InfraCO Africa (Kenya)
4. Dr. Rebekah Shirley, Director of Research, Data & Innovation, World Research Institute (Kenya)

(15 min Q&A)

• EV Infrastructure development in SA – Opportunities and challenges
• Igniting the EV revolution in SA for mass adoption
• Micro grids, decentralised energy and EV’s to support utilities

Presenter: Greg Blandford, Director: Rubicon Energy & Automation, Rubicon (South Africa)

(10min Q&A)

• Emerging EV Startups in electric last-mile delivery
• Micro-mobility lanes and charging infrastructure required to support industry growth
• Local manufacturing opportunity for electric micro-mobility in South Africa

Presenter: Prian Reddy, Senior Analyst: Sustainable Mobility & Energy Storage at GreenCape (South Africa)

• Challenges in procuring electrical buses
• Decision-making between electric vs. hydrogen
• Managing electrical buses on a network – how do you mitigate challenges of range and charging times?
• Building a relationship with distribution network operators and developing grid connections without electricity demand overloads
• Encouraging the public to use more public transport and stepping away from personal vehicles

Moderator: Warren Ondanje, Vice President of Business Development, Association for Electric Mobility & Development in Africa (Kenya)

Panellists:

1. Alex Muchilwa, Policy Manager, Opibus (Kenya)
2. Bongani Mthombeni-Moller, Director: Smarter Mobility Africa, Royal HaskoningDHV (South Africa)
3. Moses Nderitu, Chief Revenue Officer, BasiGo (Kenya)
4. Justin Coetzee, CEO, GoMetro (South Africa)
5. Gideon Neethling, Company Engineer, Golden Arrow Bus Service (GABS) (South Africa)
6. Neil Du Preez, Founder, MellowCabs (South Africa)

(15 min Q&A)

Program Director: Ayanda Allie, TV Broadcast Presenter & Youth Development Practioner