Rob Damhuis is a passionate and dedicated professional with extensive experience in materials, pavement, and geotechnical engineering. Over his career, Rob has worked in various roles as a client, contractor, and consultant in geotechnical laboratories, pavement design, asset management, and road construction and maintenance management. Rob's notable achievements include being a member of the South African COLTO Road Materials Testing Committee from 1996 to 2008, where they researched and developed materials test methods. He championed the uptake of ISO 17025 in civil engineering laboratories, and served on SANAS Specialist Technical Committee between 2005 and 2008. In 2006 co-opted as and Director of National Laboratory Association. In Western Australia, he was a member of several n pavement materials committees from 2012 to 2015. In the geotech space, he rewrote the RSA national sub-surface drilling specifications in 2005, and championed and co-developed the South African National Roads Agency Slope Management System from 2017 to 2019. Rob loves his role at Waka Kotahi NZTA , making a positive difference in people's lives through his work, and since joining NZTA, has managed the update of the NZ Pavement Design Guidelines to a Design Standard and several other pavement specifications.

Noor is a PhD student at the University of Auckland and a Lab Technician at Fulton Hogan. Noor recently successfully defended her PhD oral exam and is presenting her PhD research at the CETANZ conference.

Michael brings over 20 years of commercial, marketing, and strategic leadership experience at Tonkin + Taylor Group. He has held senior roles across the business, including leading Marketing and Communications across the Tonkin + Taylor Group , where he led the transformation of the function into a strategic, insight-led capability that elevated Tonkin + Taylor’s presence across infrastructure, environment and resilience. Now focused on digital transformation, Michael is helping lead Tonkin + Taylor’s shift toward digitally enabled consulting. He works at the intersection of strategy, technology, and client value—accelerating how digital solutions are identified, developed and adopted across the business. His approach is grounded in rapid discovery, lean delivery and purposeful brand positioning. Known for connecting technical teams, clients and commercial strategy, Michael plays a key role in shaping and scaling digital solutions that create measurable outcomes for the infrastructure and environmental sectors across Aotearoa and beyond.