Tim Hughes has worked at the Transport Agency and its predecessors for over 40 years. While studying for his M.E.T, he realised that accessibility was the grand unifying theory of transport and land use analysis. He oversaw the development of the Pedestrian Planning and Design Guide and the Cycle Network and Route Planning Guide, and contributed to the Neighbourhood Accessibility Planning guidance. After preparing the LTSAs Urban Design Protocol plan, he commissioned research into measuring accessibility that became RR 512 The NZ accessibility analysis methodology (Abley and Halden 2013) . He also contributed to the development of the Austroads accessibility metrics which resulted in improvements to both the Austroads and NZ methodologies. Progress stalled until the GPS gave it new vitality. Tim has contributed to the NZTAs first attempts at mapping accessibility in the NZ main centres, He sees huge potential for accessibility analysis to inform better decisions about transport investment and the spatial arrangement of land use that that explicitly considers equity considerations.

Geoff Parr is a senior economist at the Ministry of Transport, where he is involved in economic analysis and the development and application of assessment frameworks (e.g. SIA & Strategic Environmental Assessments). He also applies behavioural economics principles to questions of mode shift. He has previous experience in competition and regulation, so he assists in the Ministry's analysis of the competitive effects of airline alliances.

Dr Angela Curl is a senior lecturer in the department of population health at the University of Otago Christchurch. She has 14 years of experience in accessibility, transport and social impacts. She worked on the development of Core Accessibility Indicators and the Social Impact Assessment (SIA) of road user charging for the UK Department for Transport. Her research has included perceived accessibility compared to objective measurement; forced car ownership; and the social impacts of bike share/driverless cars/e-scooters. She also advises the NZ Ministry of Transport on the development and use of its SIA Framework.

Shifani is an experienced transport planner with a background in Urban Planning and Environmental Studies. Much of her recent experience has been sustainability and transport focused working specifically in the area of new and emerging forms of mobility as well as travel demand management.

Kirstie leads the landscape architecture discipline at Stantec New Zealand, where she is part of the Urban Planning and Environmental Services team in Christchurch. At Stantec she works on infrastructure projects from strategic management planning and feasibility studies, through to landscape and visual assessment and preparing landscape plans for statutory approval. She specializes in bringing the human experience to both multidisciplinary and landscape led projects through design.

John is a former US national road cycling champion who now plans and designs streets for all transport modes, ages and abilities. John prepares master plans, business cases, and undertakes a variety of transportation research. He has extensive experience in automatic data collection, demand estimation, and level of traffic stress modelling. Since 2016, John has curated the NZ Travel Planners website, collating resources for school and workplace travel planning. John's research experience includes providing for people on bikes in roundabouts (Austroads), red light camera efficacy (Auckland Transport), signs and markings for cycling (NZTA), and safety and legislation for low-powered electric vehicles (NZTA). He is active in the Engineering NZ Transportation Group and is a member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers. John will be co-presenting with Gerry Dance from NZ Transport Agency.

Gerry Dance has led numerous multi modal access and safety projects over the last decade. He is a co-convenor of the Active Modes Infrastructure Group (AMIG) that includes representatives of many NZ councils. He is currently managing the Pedestrian Network Guidance project that will update the Pedestrian Planning and Design Guide, bringing it online.

Daniel is the Manager of the Strategic Projects: Central Access team at Auckland Transport.

Erik is the co-founding Director and CEO of Mevo. He is an urbanist, creative, pragmatic, and environmental change maker. His desire to build better cities and harness business to regenerate our environment led to the founding of Mevo. Erik has a background in international corporate strategy, conservation, and urban research, which leads to data-driven decision making. Mevo is Australasia’s first free-floating car share based in Wellington, New Zealand. Mevo launched at the end of 2016 and has successfully attracted grant funding from the NZ Government and venture funding from NZ’s largest fuel retailer (Z Energy) and others. Since launching, Mevo has grown its fleet of hybrid-electric Audi A3s and now services hundreds of businesses and thousands of members. Mevo’s desire was, and is, to deliver an absolutely best in class shared mobility offering and Vulog has played a critical role at every step in realising this goal.