The LCRIG Innovation and Learning Festival is the must-attend event for industry leaders and professionals dedicated to advancing highways maintenance and transport technology. Featuring live demonstrations, CPD technical training sessions, and facilitated workshops, this interactive event is focused on innovation, learning, and collaboration.
The festival provides a unique platform for local authorities, supply chain partners, and the wider sector to come together and help shape the future of highways and transport technology.
It is important to us to ensure our events are accessible to the whole highways community. We do this by offering fully funded places for public sector delegates. Fully funded places include accommodation, transport to and from the hotel to the venue, catering and refreshments. This is funded by revenue generated through sponsorship and exhibitor sales.
In 2025 the event attracted more than 800 delegates over the two days including 90 different highway authorities from across England, Scotland and Wales, as well as the Department for Transport (DfT), academia, industry associations, the supply chain and media.
Whether you’re a public sector professional looking to discover the latest advancements, or a private sector sponsor or exhibitor seeking meaningful engagement with key industry leaders, the festival offers invaluable opportunities for everyone.
Download presentations from each session below.
DAY 1
Arrival, Registration and Networking
Technical Training Session 1
Road AI: Turning Road Condition Data into Capital Plans and Safer Networks – Richard Moffoot, Milton Keynes City Council on behalf of Vaisala
Technical Training Session 2
A382 Jetty Marsh – Traffic impact modelling and dynamic diversion routing – intelligent traffic management – Andy Wood, Core Highways
Technical Training Session 3
Best Practise Planning and Coordination Work on the Network – Andy Hutt, Triopsis
Technical Training Session 4
360 Turnkey Solution: An insight into a new approach to breaking the backlog cycle – Josh Sweeney, Multevo
Technical Training Session 5
Screed patching, a useful alternative to traditional resurfacing and patching – Greg Jarvis, Rhino Asphalt Solutions
Technical Training Session 6
Incinerator Bottom Ash Aggregate: Aggregates in the circular economy – Ben Foster, Blue Phoenix
Technical Training Session 7
Connected Assets, Connected Communities: Seeing the Whole Network to Improve Resilience – Graeme Forward, Kaarbontech
Technical Training Session 8
Bringing Traffic Signals into the 21st Century with Cloud Connectivity – Chris Long, Solar Gates
Technical Training Session 9
Using DARe’s Transport Performance & Risk Analysis Framework to Strengthen Climate Resilience for Highways and Roads – Jennifer Schooling, DARe National Research Hub, and Alistair Ford, Newcastle University
Technical Training Session 10
Skills and Leadership Development in the Sector, Roads Academy – Ghaith Al-Werikat, National Highways, and Sven Till, A E Yates
Technical Training Session 11
Year-Round use of High Value Assets – Tony Levitt, South Cave Tractors and Paul Hutton, Highways News
Technical Training Session 12
Live Labs 2: Examining the role that local authority grass verge management can play in providing a source of materials and fuels to decarbonise highway operations – Christopher Harris, South Gloucestershire Council
Technical Training Session 13
Seeing Your Network Differently: How Technology Is Changing Road Marking Asset Management – Tom Howarth, WJ Group
Technical Training Session 14
Intelligent Asset Management in the new world of AI – Stuart Wilson, Nicander Ltd
Technical Training Session 15
An introduction to asphalt rejuvenation and preservation for proactive road maintenance – Joseph Kimberley, Colas
Technical Training Session 16
A Reinstatement Revolution: Leveraging High-Definition Data to Drive Accountability and Network Resilience – Ian Job, Gaist
Technical Training Session 17
Designing for Circular Infrastructure – What the Evolution of the Traffic Bollard Can Teach Us – Richard McKenna, Traffic Management Products
Technical Training Session 18
Carbon Smart Maintenance: A New Era for Integrated Asset Management – Sarah Twigg, Symology
Technical Training Session 19
Making AI Work for Transport – Nathan Watt, TransHumanity
Technical Training Session 20
Active Travel CPD – Mark King, Marshalls PLC
Technical Training Session 21
Data-Driven Route Risk – Suzanne Coles, Agilysis
Technical Training Session 22
Investment Optimiser: Scenario-Based Decision Analytics to support Consolidated Transport Funding – Subu Kamal, TRL
Technical Training Session 23
Live Labs 2: Making roads work for people and planet: Lessons from the Highways Doughnut Toolkit – Kristin Strandberg, Circle Economy
Technical Training Session 24
Live Labs 2: The Power of Partnership: Accelerating Innovation Through the Centre of Excellence for Decarbonising Roads – Alex Morgan and Lauren SeBlonka, Amey
DfT Special Recognition Apprentice Awards
DAY 2
Registration, Exhibition and Networking
Opening Address: A New Voice for Innovation
Technical Training Session 1
The use of confined space drones and robotics for the inspection, surveying and modelling of structures – Ian Tansey, ProDroneWorx
Technical Training Session 2
Live Labs 2: Decarbonising Streetlighting; From Pilot to Practice – Karl Rourke, East Riding of Yorkshire Council
Technical Training Session 3
Independent, specialist consultants – Adding value to the public sector throughout the contract and assets lifecycle – Rob Hubbard, Cantidad, Ruth Kinsella, Co-Creation Partnership, Scott Bloxsom, Essency Consulting and Emma Pye, PYE Management
Technical Training Session 4
ACLA – A Carbon Negative Aggregate-like Additive to Enable Net Zero Asphalt and Concrete – Jonathan Duckmanton, Low Carbon Materials
Technical Training Session 5
Applying AI to highways asset management today – James Stokes, JLUK
Technical Training Session 6
AI in Road Asset Management: From Promise to Practice – Afarin Kheirati, Roadern
Technical Training Session 7
Innovations in In-situ Road Recycling – Hayden Davie, Stabilised Pavements Ltd
Technical Training Session 8
The use of Geosynthetics in Road maintenance to reduce carbon and costs in Asset management – Graham Thomson, Huesker UK Ltd
Technical Training Session 9
Repairing Roads the Right Way – Innovation in Ironworks Systems – Oscar Humphris, Meon UK
Technical Training Session 10
Connected Vehicle Data: The Missing Layer in Risk-Based Asset Management – Steve Isaacs, NIRA Dynamics
Technical Training Session 11
Live Labs 2: Delivering and embedding innovation within a local authority highways team – Graham Martin, Liverpool City Council
Technical Training Session 12
Mobile Mapping. Capture Once, Use Many – James Tindall, Castle Surveys
Technical Training Session 13
Long lasting, low carbon road surfacing – Matthew Parry and Tom Pearson, Tarmac
Technical Training Session 14
Resident Feedback and Learnings from Cross-Pavement Channel Rollouts with over 40 Local Authorities – Ben Whitaker, Kerbo Charge
Technical Training Session 15
Structures Fund & IPS – James OConnor, Department for Transport and Stuart Watkins, Government Commercial Agency
Technical Training Session 16
Transparency Reporting Session – James Bowen, Department for Transport
TTF Innovation and Learning Tent Sessions
Session 1
TTF ‘Live’ Connected Vehicle Services – How to deploy CVS within your Network – Andy Graham, White Willow Consulting Ltd, George Brown, KL Systems Ltd, Paul Darlow, Portsmouth City Council, Jonathan Mann and Mohanad Ismail, WSP
Session 2
Beyond Licensing: A Simpler Way to Coordinate Highway Activity – Andy Hutt, Triopsis
Session 3
D-TRO – From Theory to Practice – Paul Chandler, Department for Transport
Session 4
From Playbook to Practice: A new route to identifying opportunities – Claire Dixon and Nathan Hurdsfield, Department for Transport
Session 5
AI-powered Road Asset Management Platform – Curtis Banson, Roadern
Session 6
Shaping the Future of Transport: Opportunities Through Innovation Funding – Isabelle Tibayrenc, Connected Places Catapult
Session 7
Hackathon – Climate-Ready Networks: From Recovery to Resilience – Jo Britton, PACE Development, Kim Harper and Kerry Winstanley, LCRIG
Session 8
Live Labs 2: Highway Innovation to help councils cut costs and carbon – Giles Perkins, ADEPT Live Labs 2