Who Should Visit

If You Keep Roads Open in Severe Weather, This Was Built for You

Cold Comfort is for the people who make the winter service calls, run the fleets and plan for flooding and storms. It's two days of practical sessions and suppliers, with peers who face the same weather, budgets and public expectations as you.

19 to 20 May 2027, CBS Arena, Coventry. Free to attend, with CPD accredited by the Institute of Highway Engineers.

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Who You'll Find at Cold Comfort

57% of 2026 visitors came from government and the public sector, alongside term maintenance contractors, consultancies and the winter service supply chain.

Local Authority Winter Service Teams

  • Winter service and network response engineers
  • Highway maintenance and operations managers
  • Highways inspection and area teams
  • Fleet and depot managers

What you'll get: suppliers to compare before your next procurement, and ideas from councils working under the same duty.

National and Devolved Road Authorities

  • Severe weather and resilience managers
  • Operations and service delivery leads
  • National Highways, Transport Scotland and Welsh Government teams

What you'll get: a direct line to the local authorities and suppliers you work alongside when the weather turns.

Contractors and Consultants

  • Term maintenance contractors
  • Winter and emergency service leads
  • Gritting supervisors and operatives
  • Highways and resilience consultants

What you'll get: the kit and systems to deliver your contracts, plus time with the authority clients behind them.

Resilience, Asset and Drainage Teams

  • Asset managers
  • Climate adaptation and severe weather leads
  • Drainage and flood risk teams

What you'll get: practical sessions on adapting your network to more volatile weather, all year round.

Also Under One Roof

A free ticket covers all three co-located shows, so colleagues in highways and parking can come too.

Highways and Local Roads Teams

Highway engineers, asset managers, procurement and traffic teams, with the Roadmap Theatre and the roads supply chain at Traffex.

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Parking Teams

Parking managers, enforcement and operations teams, with BPA Live and parking technology at Parkex.

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From Last Year's Visitors

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Engaging and thought-provoking presentations and conversations and great opportunities to meet with new and existing peers.

Network Response & Winter Service Engineer, Devon County Council

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I found the Cold Comfort experience to be informative and interesting, with a good balance of different topics and speakers covered, which has provided a good background to help us enhance our winter maintenance service in the future.

Senior QS and Winter and Emergency Project Lead, Skanska

Sound Like You?

Attendance is free. Register your interest and we'll tell you when registration opens on 1 February 2027 and the programme is published.

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