Kathryn joined the Transport Agency in 2019 and responsible for developing the urban mobility programme to support cities across Aotearoa. She is co-lead for the Agency’s Innovating Streets programme, which is helping cities transform their streets into spaces for people. Kathryn spent four years with Auckland Transport where she secured the largest investment in cycling Auckland has seen, and transformed the quality of infrastructure being delivered. She was involved in the award winning Te Ara Mua and Lightpath projects. Kathryn spent 12 years in London, most of which she spent with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, delivering walking, cycling and safety projects, including London’s award winning two way cycling on one way streets programme.

Claire Pascoe is the Lead Advisor Urban Mobility at the New Zealand Transport Agency. In her current role, she provides technical expertise and leadership across policy, planning and performance, to ensure that transport investment results in high quality urban environments that provide people with transport choices. She was previously involved in developing and delivering the Urban Cycleways Programme and managing the national cycling culture change programme.

Skye Duncan is the Director of the Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI) at the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO). Skye and her team produced the award-winning Global Street Design Guide and provide ongoing technical assistance to cities around the world on safe and sustainable street design and mobility. Skye is an urban designer with over 15 years of experience in architecture, urban design, and planning, and was recognized as one of TUMI’s Remarkable Women in Transportation in 2019. She has worked as a Senior Urban Designer at the New York City Department of City Planning, as an International Urban Design Consultant, and as an Associate Professor at Columbia University in New York City, where she studied as a Fulbright Scholar.

Steven Burgess is one of Australasia’s leading voices regarding people-focused urban movement and quality places. His expertise is based on 30 years’ experience as an engineer and urban strategist. His passion is creating cities for people that can be sustained by vital local economies.

Hamish is co-director of Mackie Research and has 22 years of research and consultancy experience in various areas of human science, with the last 14 years spent mostly in the transport sector. As a certified Human Factors professional, all of Hamish's work has the underlying theme of more human focussed systems and he has a particular focus on road safety, sustainable transport, trials, and system design. Working with a range of collaborators Hamish is the project lead for Te Ara Mua – Future Streets, a neighbourhood street retrofit to test safe and sustainable suburban transport infrastructure, and Healthy Future Mobility Solutions, which focusses on healthy options for moving around our towns and cities.

Having spent her former life in the theatre business, as a stage manager/producer type, Frith is now very proud to be an advocate of the UN ratified New Urban Agenda global standard for urban development, and a New Zealand representative for the international network Placemaking X. As Manager, Place Making at Panuku Development Auckland she works within the Design and Place Directorate on the creation of successful public space networks, supporting the programming and activation of Auckland’s public spaces, and champions the difference a healthy public realm can make in terms of creating liveable cities. Web: www.panuku.co.nz LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/