David Sim is Creative Director at Gehl. For more than ten years David has been focusing on Masterplanning Frameworks and urban design, collaborating with other professionals in the planning and building process, applying Jan Gehl’s theories to large-scale projects. David is also renowned as an inspiring educator and lecturer and has taught at architecture and design schools all over the world. Architect David Sim is partner and creative director at Gehl, where he has worked for more than 15 years. He has developed citizen-engagement tools and a people-first approach to planning and flexible frameworks for development. David is an accomplished educator, teaching all over the world. He spent seven years at Lund University reforming architectural education towards a more holistic approach. He has worked on numerous plans from transit areas in Tokyo to an urban planning framework for city recovery in Christchurch, New Zealand after the 2011 earthquake, and is currently working on a masterplan for St Saveur, a new part of Lille in France. His book “Soft City – Building Density for Everyday Life”, published in August 2019, is already in its third printing and is currently being translated to several other languages.

Kathryn King manages the Urban Mobility Programme at the NZ Transport Agency. She joined the Agency following four years with Auckland Transport where she transformed the cycling programme and oversaw approval for the city's largest ever investment in cycling. Kathryn spent over ten years in London, managing walking, cycling and safety projects, over eight of them with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.