Record full house at ‘Fleet 2020’ ICFM Conference

21 October 2015 – Williams Conference Centre, Grove, Oxfordshire

A record capacity of 197 delegates turned up at the 23rd Institute of Car Fleet Management (ICFM) Conference at the Williams Conference Centre, Grove, Oxfordshire to hear guest speakers, Sally Gunnell OBE, former British track and field athlete who won a Gold medal in the 400m hurdles at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, and Charley Boorman, TV presenter, travel writer and actor, provide motivational and illuminating talks. In addition attendees gained valuable insight into what fleet may look like in five years from six experts on the ‘in-dialogue ‘Fleet 2020’ panel session.

Chairman of the ICFM, Paul Hollick commented: “It was excellent to see a packed out conference centre. We had a record number of members attending as well as other leading lights of our industry. The post event feedback from the attendees was overwhelmingly positive and delegates went away pumped up by what they had learned from each of the entertaining sessions. Motivated by Sally Gunnell OBE; in awe of the breadth of development projects at Williams Advanced Engineering; informed by the thought-provoking in-dialogue session; entertained by Charley Boorman and proud to recognise the achievements of our 2015 awardees.

“Our thanks go to our famous guest speakers, Sally Gunnell and Charley Boorman, to Paul McNamara, technical director at Williams Advanced Engineering and the panellists on our in-dialogue session ‘The Landscape Today – Fleet 2020’. These included Robin Hayles, sustainable fuel development manager at Hyundai, speaking on OEM fuel cell technology developments; Howard Cox, founder of FairFuelUK on the on-going public campaign to challenge fuel costs; Hugh Boyes of the University of Warwick, leading specialist on cyber security on the potential risks around big data; Kerry-Ann Adamson CEO of Fourth Wave Energy on fuel cell technology for car and home and the changing world; Phil Stones, head of vehicle emissions and fuel economy at Millbrook on real life emissions and fuel consumption testing; and Ben Creswick, business development director at FMG, talking about technological advances in incident management.”

The central awards ceremony recognised 34 members for their achievements in gaining ICFM qualifications – 12 new holders of the Introductory Certificate in Car Fleet Management, 16 new holders of the Certificate in Car Fleet Management and six new holders of the Diploma in Car Fleet Management. Sixteen were present on the day to receive their certificates from Charley Boorman and Certificate holder, Kelly Butler of Surrey Police also received the Peter Moxon Award for the Training Achiever of the Year.

After the conference closed, delegates enjoyed tours of Sir Frank Williams' private Grand Prix Collection of more than 40 of the team's seminal race cars.

The ICFM ‘Fleet 2020’ conference was kindly hosted by headline sponsor PPG, the world's leading coatings and speciality products and services company. Co-sponsoring the ICFM conference for a fourth successive year was FMG, the UK's leading independent provider of fleet incident management and specialist vehicle recovery services. Secondary sponsors were Alphabet, Arval, BCA, Jaama, Rightsure and Thrifty.

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Notes to Editors:

ICFM

The Institute of Car Fleet Management is the UK's only independent not-for-profit organisation dedicated to furthering the education, recognising the achievements and advancing the profession of car and van fleet management.

Established in 1992, the Institute connects people involved in vehicle fleet management, promotes excellence in car and van fleet management practices and delivers the industry sector’s premier education programmes. Externally accredited vocational qualifications include the Introductory Certificate, the Certificate and the Diploma in Car Fleet Management.

ICFM is winner of the first Fleet News Training Award 2010.

For more information, visit www.icfm.com

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