Safe Drivers, Stronger Business: Why Positive Reinforcement Is Reshaping Fleet Safety

22 Apr 2026
The Technical Stage | Hall 5
The Technical Stage
Driver safety is not a compliance exercise. For organisations managing thousands of lone workers across UK roads at all hours of the day and night, it is an operational priority that shapes everything from insurance costs to driver retention. This panel brings together Openreach, one of the UK's largest field engineering organisations; Vitality, pioneers in individual driver incentivisation; and Geotab, whose global telematics network spans millions of connected commercial vehicles. Together they examine what a genuinely effective safety culture looks like, why positive reinforcement outperforms punitive monitoring, and how data is giving fleet managers the clarity to act before incidents happen.
Chairperson
Aaron Jarvis
Aaron Jarvis, Vice president - Geotab EMEA
Speakers
Paola Buendia
Paola Buendia, Channel Enablement Director EMEA - Geotab
Judy O'Keefe
Judy O'Keefe, Director of Fleet Management - Openreach