The Road to Self Driving Vehicles
Are we nearly there?
About
In terms of connected and autonomous vehicles, technology is moving at pace, and permissive UK regulations are opening up the opportunity to showcase the UK on the global stage of innovation. In this lecture, Kirit and Paul will share their insights from working on real-world deployment projects and show how a system of systems approach is ensuring these new services are safe and secure, and how the industry is working to build trust in these new technologies. Fusing connectivity, data, the Internet of Things, sensors, signals, software and AI, the convergence of many different technologies is enabling new self-driving shuttle services to operate on our public roads across the UK taking Co-operative, Intelligent Transport Systems from being a pipedream to reality.
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Continuing Professional Development
This event can contribute towards your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours as part of the IET's CPD monitoring scheme.
11 Dec 2025
7:00pm - 8:15pm
Organiser
- Anglian Coastal Local Network
Registration information
Please register usign the links below
For Attending In Person use https://localevents.theiet.org/cf906d
For attending Online use https://localevents.theiet.org/1f4d21
Speakers
Kirit Bedia
Founder and Director - ECS Ltd
Having learnt his trade building the early management systems for new digital telephone services, Kirit established Electronics, Computers and Systems to provide bespoke software applications that enabled organisations to run their mission-critical processes every minute, every hour, every day. Over more than 30 years, ECS has moved from back office, to front-end systems development and today is working on the control centre systems and safety platforms that enable self-driving shuttles to operate.
Paul Flowers
Head of Business Development - ECS Ltd
After retiring from corporate life, Paul established his own consultancy, Pi Business Services, helping innovative companies in multiple sectors to successfully secure more than £20M of UK and European grant funding to deliver technological advances in fields such as Air Traffic Control, Drones, Service Robotics, Medicine, Quantum Security, and Autonomous Vehicles. Most recently, Paul has worked to help deliver these projects, and will bring his experience and insight relating to autonomous vehicle technologies to the lecture.
Programme
Hybrid Lecture both In person and Online
The presentation starts promptly at 19:00.
There will be a Q&A at approx 19:45
The event will finish at approx 20:15