Agenda and Speakers
ZEB 2025 is being organised by ERM in partnership with Busworld Foundation. Thanks to this partnership, the ZEB Conference will be held at Busworld Europe in October 2025. This will bring considerable mutual benefits to both events: the conferences and the exhibition. Among other things, this collaboration will increase the attractiveness of the events towards the targeted audience. All ZEB attendees will have free entrance to the Busworld Europe 2025 exhibition.
The ZEB 2025 programme is designed to give bus and coach operators, public transport authorities, and local policy makers a complete overview of the considerations for deploying zero emissions fleets at scale. Building on the feedback from ZEB 2023, ZEB 2025 will offer more in-depth technical content than ever before.
ZEB 2025 will complement the plenary sessions with interactive breakout sessions and exclusive ZEB tours in the exhibition. Those breakout sessions are expected to facilitate more technical discussions and address key questions about the opportunities and challenges associated with battery and fuel cell buses while the dedicated ZEB tours in Busworld Exhibition will illustrate what has been discussed.
ZEB 2025 Sessions
Tuesday 7th October 2025
- Software to Steer Smart Energy Management Systems & Charging Strategies
- Decarbonising long haul & interurban routes: status on the energy transition in operations >300km
Wednesday 8th October 2025
- Shaping the Future: Zero Emission Bus Market Trends and Policy Support
- Optimising Zero Emission Bus Operations: Leveraging Data and AI
- Evolution of CAPEX and OPEX for Zero Emission Buses: Outlook and strategies
- Driving the Future: Real-World Performance of Zero Emission Buses
Thursday 9th October 2025
- Delivering Reliable Hydrogen Refueling: A Handbook from Planning to Operation
- Charging Ahead: Exploring Opportunity and Fixed Charging Infrastructure for Electric Buses
- Navigating Battery Degradation, Safety, and End-of-Life Management
- Servicing and Maintaining Zero Emission Bus Fleets: OEM Aftersales
- Financing the Transition to Zero Emission Buses
- Conference Conclusions, Innovations and Outlook on Future Policy
Please note agenda content is subject to change
Below the expected key topics to be tackled during ZEB 2025
and procurement
management
charging
and drivetrain development
increasingly CAPEX-
intensive operations
& vehicle aftersales
degradation, safety, and
end of life
Outlook and strategies to
reduce the cost of hydrogen
design, ownership and
time to market
protocols, maintenance and
aftersales
technology and telematics -
scheduling, SOC and data management