Parkex 2025: The preview

BPA’s trade show and conference takes place in Coventry on 21-22 May

30 April 2025

Parking professionals from across the world will be gathering in Coventry for the British Parking Association's annual conference and exhibition.

Parkex 2025 will be held at the CBS Arena on 21-22 May 2025.

The BPA is a membership association representing the UK’s parking and mobility sector. It represents over 750 corporate members including local government, commercial providers, parking system operators, consultants, and academics. In addition, the BPA has a separate membership structure for individuals.

There will be two presentation areas at Parkex 2025 – the BPA Live Theatre and the EV Connect Theatre.

Lilian Greenwood, the Department for Transport’s minister for future of roads, is set to open the BPA Live sessions.

Over two days, panels comprising sector experts and guest speakers will convene on the BPA Live stage will address a range of themes, including:

integration of digital technologies
accessibility and inclusivity in parking management
integrated National Transport Strategy
parking structures
the Private Parking Code
protecting front line officers.

The parallel EV Connect stage will see panels, using case studies, examine the complexities of electric vehicle infrastructure expansion, chargepoint accessibility and leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) in electric vehicle infrastructure deployment.

Parkex is co-located with the Traffex, a highways event, and Cold Comfort, a winter roads maintenance event. Both these exhibitions have dedicated conference streams.

Exhibition

Parkex 2025 will see many suppliers and technology providers exhibiting their systems and services.

Companies on show at the event include AppyWay, Barbour Logic, DCBL, Efaflex, Egis, Go2Sim, IPS, Markham, Marston Holdings, Metric, Nagels, NPED, PayByPhone, RingGo, Sagoss, Tap2Park, Unity5, VREO Innovation and Yunex Traffic.