BPA

Welcome to Parkex 2010

Speaker/chair - Richard Hein, President of the BPA. Patrick Troy, Chief Executive of the BPA.

'Crisis? What crisis? Managing your parking strategy in difficult fiscal times'

Lord Geoffrey Filkin joins us to update you on fiscal issues affecting local government and parking departments as we enter the last months before a general election. Batten down the hatches or come out fighting?

Speaker: Lord Filkin

Environmental ticketing solutions

Environmental drive for cleaner ticketing solutions - Smart ticketing, FSC certified products, pay by phone, how these initiatives can benefit the environment.

Speaker - Simon Jones, General Manager and Lee Minter, Sales Manager, Bemrose Booth Ltd

Hospital Parking

This session will see the launch of the hospital parking charter and a discussion of the issues involved in managing hospital parking effectively.

Facilitator - Richard Hein

Speakers - Grahame Rose, CP Plus and Joe Farrington-Douglas (NHS Confederation)

Chair: Richard Hein, President of the BPA

The Blue Badge Reform strategy and good practice

Speakers - Caroline Fish and Sally Kendall - Department of Transport

Q & A session with John McArdle, Blue Badge Fraud Investigation

Chair: Richard Hein, President of the BPA

RingGo - Can the parking industry do anything about the key issues facing UK society? Climate change - balance of payments - £14Bn oil imports.

As we move from analogue to digital parking systems, this session looks at how parking can be used as a strategic tool to change behaviors' of local and national populations. In this presentation, Harry Clarke will look at new technology pioneered under the RingGo brand and explains why phone parking is the gateway that will allow LA's to work in a joined up way to address these national issues

Speaker - Harry Clarke, Commercial Director, RingGo

Parking - Community service or revenue raiser?

There are some 27m cars on the road in this country and the vast majority spend their time parked. A recent Department for Transport paper on, public experiences of and attitudes towards parking, found over a third of those surveyed (which included non-motorists) agree to the statement that "local parking restrictions in their area are mostly there to make money". Parking is a key service provided by councils. It affects their revenues and the performance of their town centres. John will ask "do councils aspire to implement a parking system that aims never to issue a parking ticket?" He will consider the use of new technology and alternative policies to help win the motorist's trust and give town centres a significant competitive advantage through parking management.

John Siraut

Economist - Colin Buchanan  

Achieving a back-office upturn in an economic downturn

By replacing the fog of data with a clear, accurate picture of how the back-office activities are performing, parking managers can manage far more effectively. Instant visibility of quality and output empowers managers to pinpoint problems, implement solutions - and make great efficiency gains.

Speaker: Jason Barbour, Barbour Logic, Melanie Gadd, London Borough of Hounslow.

Enforcement Reforms - How they will affect local authorities operating CPE.

Speaker: Paul Sharpe, Sales and Marketing Director, Equita

Best practice in CCTV enforcement of civil parking and traffic contraventions

With the inevitable squeeze on Local Authority budgets in mind, we take a look at the successful techniques and products being used today to make the CCTV enforcement of parking & traffic contraventions more effective and efficient than ever before. By working in partnership with Civica, a seamless end to end digital CCTV enforcement solution can help Local Authorities meet and sustain their LTP objectives and more....

Speaker: Ade Ford, Sales Director, Zenco Systems Ltd

CPD - the easy way BPA

Embarking on continuing professional development can sometimes sound daunting, but most people are already undertaking CPD in their day-to-day life. Learn how to identify opportunities and easily maintain records.

Chair: Ian Taylor, IPP Board

Developments in the Approved Operator Scheme

Join us to learn about the new scheme of sanctions for the scheme, as well as updates on legislation affecting the private off-street parking sector.

Chair Keith Banbury OBE, Chair of the AOS Board

Life care plans and looking after parking structures

Every car park owner/operator has a legal duty to maintain their parking facilities in such a manner that it does not endanger the people using it. There are no exceptions!

Whilst responsible owners and operators already do this, the reputation of our industry is only as good as the next catastrophic failure and this session will look at how problems can be avoided.

Speakers - Phil Clark, Senior Consultant, BRE Global Ltd

- Phil Grace, Liability Risk Manager, Aviva Group

Chaired by Chris Whapples, Chair of BPA Structure and Asset Management Special Interest group (SAM SIG)

Parking websites: good, bad and ugly

What makes a good parking website? This session takes an honest look at some examples of parking web sites and asks; Do they provide the transparency required by the TMA ?

Penny Winder, Director, Alpha Parking

Bailiff and Enforcement special interest group(BESIG)

Speaker/Chair - Chair of BESIG

The benefits of pay-by phone parking

Pay-by-phone - the benefits of the technology to the customer and how this will complement current ticket-issuing systems.

Speaker - Lee Minter, Sales Manager and Nick Kibel, Sales Executive Bemrose Booth

Parking research? Not worth the paper it's written on!

NSL's Tim Cowen, joined by Steve Shaw from the London Borough of Islington, discuss whether financial pressures mean we should continue to research, just do quick and dirty sampling, or abandon it altogether. Don't make any decision until after this session.

Speakers: Tim Cowen, NSL and Steve Shaw, London Borough of Islington

Naked streets - is this the end of the road for signs & lines?

This session discusses the confusion caused by current legislation and asks: is it time to roll out 'naked streets'?

Speaker Alistair Turk, Director, Alpha Parking

Parking Forum Update on the Parking Summit

This session will provide an update on the seven point plan that came out of 2009's Parking Summit. It will cover key on and off street issues and what the BPA and its members are doing to address them.

Chair - Graham Brown, Vice-President of the BPA

Speakers - Patrick Troy, Chief Executive of the BPA, and Richard Hein, President of the BPA  

Mastorn Group

Topic and speaker to be confirmed

Equita

TBA

Speaker - Steve Brown

Transforming parking services

Parking services continue to be highly visible with growing public awareness and media spotlight. Local Authorities are turning to efficiency and transformation programmes to protect their revenue and increase customer satisfaction. Business transformation is being applied very differently from one authority to another and we will look at some of the success stories.

Speakers: Graham Taylor, Sales Director, Civica UK Limited

Car park management from disrepair to distinction.

This session covers techniques in assessing, repairing and monitoring corrosion in a car park including the use of Cathodic Protection. Examples include methods used successfully in harsher climates such as those in Scandinavia.

Speaker - Sten Vaelitalo, Managing Director of Protector

Best practice and improvements in the private off-street parking sector

Learn from fellow operators and the BPA AOS team about best practice in the private parking industry. Hear a series of case studies and inspirational ideas, and share your thoughts and suggestions in this interactive session.

Chair Keith Banbury OBE, Chair of the AOS Board  

New parking equipment - Improving your parking operation

The session will cover the latest product innovation and features available for: Pay on Foot and Pay & Display including the areas of cashless payments, parking validations, ANPR, equipment security, remote monitoring and central control and highlight improvements to customers, parking operations and current costs.

Chaired by Manny Rasores, Chair of the Equipment Manufacturer and Suppliers Special Interes Group (EMS SIG)

What are the merits of PiPs?

This session will discuss the merits of PiPs framework agreements and will give an overview of PiPs framework and the benefits to local authorities.

Alistair Gilchrist, Strategic Director, Resources, Westminster City Council.