2024 Agenda

08:30 - 09:30 Registration

  • 09:30 - 09:35 Opening address, James Evans & Dr. Elizabeth Box, RAC Foundation

  • 09:35 - 10:00 Guy Opperman: Government policy update

  • 10:00 - 10:25 Loveday Ryder: Industry update

  • 10:25 - 10:45 Laura Hill: THINK! campaign update

  • 10:45 - 11:00 Questions

11:00 - 11:30 Refreshments

  • 11:30 - 11:50 Jacqueline Upton & Simon Christmas: Novice drivers and safe distances

  • 11:50 - 12:10 Nicola Wass: Seatbelts - How behavioural science helped better understand and then change behaviour

  • 12:10 - 12:30 Lorna Smith: Young driver and passenger intervention

  • 12:30 -12:50 Shaun Helman & Jill Weekly: Achieving greater and more varied on-road practice when learning to drive. What works?

  • 12:50 -13:00 Questions

13:00 -14:00 Lunch

  • 14:00 - 14:20 Keanan Lloyd-Adams: TikTok – the next frontier in young driver engagement

  • 14:20 - 14:40 Mike Bettington/Cheryl Evans/Elizabeth Box: GoDRIVE – reinventing the wheel!

  • 14:40 - 15:00 Chris Boston & Ian Edwards: Learn2Live: the fear of change and a new young driver approach

  • 15:00 - 15:20 Olly Tayler QPM: Driving instructors - an undervalued touch point with young drivers?

  • 15:20 - 15:40 Dan Quin, & Annabelle Priest: A collaborative approach to young driver safety education

  • 15:40 -15:50 Questions

    15:50 - 16:00  Closing remarks & conference close, James Evans, Founder, FirstCar

16:00 Conference closes.