explore the battery revolution!  

09:10 – 09:25

BMZ Group – Development Director, Lukas Gazda –  Battery Manufacturer and innovation leader for High-Teh battery systems 

BMZ batteries in the sustainable world

BMZ Group is a global player in the production of lithium-ion system solutions. 

09:30 – 09:50

ZES ZIMMER Electronic Systems GmbH – Andreas Alexandrou,
Sales and Application Engineer

Measurements on Electric Drive Systems

 ZES ZIMMER Electronic Systems GmbH is
the sole high-tech company world-wide
exclusively dedicated to high-precision
power analysis. For more than three
decades, power analyzers have been
devised, developed, manufactured and
sold to customers around the globe from
ZES ZIMMER’s corporate headquarter in
Oberursel (Frankfurt)/Germany.

09:55- 10:15

Innovate UK, Technology Strategy Board – Jacqui Murray – Deputy Challenge Director – Faraday Battery Challenge

Why Batteries are coming and how to get involved?

10:20 – 10:40

Merit – Tony Wells, Managing Director 

Constructing lithium-ion battery manufacturing facilities using an offsite modular and zero carbon approach

10:45-11:05

Delta Motorsport – Nick Carpenter, Engineering Director

 Delta has three main development streams; battery systems, its catalytic generator and platform master control. Each is approached with the same robust but lightweight methodology, honed through decades spent in the high-pressure motorsport sector.

11:10 – 11:30

Frazer Nash Consultancy – Thomas Bransden, Senior Engineer

With over 800 employees, Frazer-Nash works from a network of eleven UK and four Australian locations. Our consultants apply their know-how to develop, enhance and protect our clients’ critical assets, systems and processes..

11:35 – 11:55

3M,  Automotive Electrification – Jeff Kapp

“The Challenge of Charge”
Exploring how 3M Technologies can enable an optimised battery pack, through design, safety and manufacturing efficiencies.

3M is a science-based company –  innovation improving every life.

12:00 – 12:20

Advanced Propulsion Centre

Our job is to ensure that the UK remains competitive in the research, development and production of low carbon propulsion technologies.

12:25-12:45

Kilowatt Labs – Mr Waseem Qureshi, CEO

Supercapacitors module – the energy storage of the future

Kilowatts Labs is a New York headquartered technology company focused on the creation of innovative products that address the world’s energy problems. The company designs, manufactures and sells energy storage and power management solutions that deliver unprecedented performance across a broad range of industrial, commercial and residential applications, and facilitate the integration of renewable energy into conventional energy distribution systems, ultimately making reliable energy accessible everywhere including in underserved regions.

12:50-13:10

Williams Advanced Engineering 

Batteries in the motorsport industry

Williams Advanced Engineering Limited is the technology and engineering services business of the Williams Group. The company combines cutting edge technology and the industry’s best engineers, with precision and speed to market derived from four decades of success in the ultra-competitive environment of Formula One. 

13:15 – 13:35

Universal Science, Materials Director – James Stratford, Technical Manager

Battery Construction…Ultimate Protection

Universal Science has an established history in two defined areas of operation; thermal management in electronic assemblies and LED lighting. Our over a decade long knowledge and understanding of both industries has enabled us to become the global organisation we are today..

13:40 – 14:00

Steatite, Custom built Lithium batteries – Khalid Khan, Business Development Manager

The use and development of Lithium batteries in emerging markets and extreme environments.

Khalid has extensive experience within the battery industry, an area in which he has worked for the last 9 years, covering a range of battery chemistries. Khalid is currently focused on the introduction and development of battery technologies into harsh and critical.

14:05 – 14:25

Altair – Peter Roberts, Marketing Director

Battery System Simulation and Modelling

ltair is a leading provider of enterprise-class engineering software enabling innovation, reduced development times, and lower costs through the entire product lifecycle from concept design to in-service operation.

14:30 – 14:50

HIllstone Loadbanks – Paul Smethurst, CEO

Pioneering Battery Maintenance 4.0

Creating a not for profit battery foundation is an exciting STEM project with origins taken from 120 years of experience from the industrial battery industry sector.


The obvious synergies between traditional and new evolving battery technologies allows this presentation at Battery Tech Expo to announces how The Battery Maintenance 4.0 Foundation can deliver training, research and support into Battery Electric Vehicles

14:55 – 15:15

Saft Batteries – Daniel Nilsson, IoT Manager

The future of batteries from a manufacturers perspective

Saft serves a huge range of market sectors from aerospace to marine, from rail to telecoms and health, offering battery solutions for many different types of applications..

15:20 – 15:40

Ilika – Solid State Batteries for the Connected World, Denis Pasero, Product Commercialisation Manager

Progress in the development of solid state batteries for electric vehicles

Ilika has an established platform for the rapid development of solid state materials and composites such as those required in solid state batteries. Ilika is building upon its success of manufacturing micro solid state Stereax® batteries for IoT to develop a manufacturing process for large format solid state cells on a pre-pilot scale. This talk will also present the progress of several development programs supported by the Faraday Battery Challenge..

15:45 – 16:05

Brill Power – Christophe Birkl, CEO

Brains for Batteries

Christoph Birkl is the CEO and co-founder of Brill Power, based in Oxford, UK. Christoph gained more than five years of experience in energy technology research in his PhD and postdoc position at Oxford University, where he developed novel methods to detect and predict degradation in lithium-ion batteries. He is a lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Enterprise Hub and has been leading Brill Power as CEO since 2016