Phil has over 30 years experience shaping transport in cities around the world including 15 years in London. Recently he led the Road Safety Programme Business Case for Auckland Transport and is leading one of the consortia progressing the Connected Communities project for Auckland Transport. His interest in road pricing stems from completing a project into the feasibility of Bus and Toll (BAT) lanes in London.

I am passionate about creating vibrant, interesting and engaging cities. Our Streets are one of our greatest public assests and for too long they have been dominated by cars. Streets are needed for movement, but they should also be used as spaces to meet up, play, hang out and eat. Our cities and towns are growing, climate change action is needed urgently and the way we travel is rapidly evolving with new technologies. Hence, we need to rethink our transport strategies to cate for these changes. Some great work has started around the country in this space but there is much more we can do. My work at MRCagney gives councils, government agencies and developers the advice and tools needed to realise the full potential of our streets and encourage more sustainable forms of travel. I specialise in smart parking management, planning, transport strategy, effective communication, last mile logistics and transport technology. I have over 13 years' experience in the private consultancy and local governmentin these areas.

Tobie is an accredited project management professional (PMP) and a passionate traffic engineer / transport planner with 20 years’ experience. He worked in the United Kingdom for 4 years doing traffic and transportation planning and design, in both the public and private sectors in the Greater London area, working mainly on Transport for London (TfL) funded public transport and active mode projects. These projects for example included public transport route studies, bus priority projects and London Cycle Network projects. His experience whilst based in South Africa included an array of traffic engineering, transport planning and project management projects throughout Africa. These included rail-planning studies (Port Elizabeth, Durban and Dar es Salaam); bus infrastructure and operations studies (Port Elizabeth, Cape Town and Kigali); and Transport master plans for various Metro, Local and District municipalities as well as for the Eastern Cape Province. He moved to New Zealand in 2018. In his first year in Auckland he worked for Auckland Transport as the Infrastructure Operations Specialist within the Metro Service Delivery team. He joined Flow Transportation Specialists in 2019 as a project manager, business case practitioner and transportation engineer/planner.

Bridget Burdett is a Principal Researcher at MRCagney, based in Hamilton. She works on transport research, policy, and practice for a variety of government, university, and private sector clients around New Zealand. Bridget is a Chartered Engineer in transport with a doctorate in cognitive psychology, and is Vice Chair of Engineering New Zealand's Transportation Group. Bridget regularly presents on inclusive access and road safety to audiences of transport professionals and community, with a focus on challenging us all to think about what ‘best practice’ means for the people we work with, and those we serve.

An ICT career which began in 1993, in 1999 Toa started a successful ICT consulting business which has been involved in some of New Zealand’s most significant ICT engineering projects. In 2013 Toa founded Project Microcar and introduced New Zealand to the Tango T600 which is one of the most innovative and powerful Electric Vehicles in the world. In 2014 microCAR Ltd was founded with a new A-CAR Electric Vehicle proposed and an innovative business plan developed to get Auckland moving.

Marinus who is an Executive Consultant at TSA Advisory has over 20 years’ experience working on transport and infrastructure questions. Over the last 15 years he has focused on freight - working across road transport, rail, ports, coastal, international shipping and aviation sectors. He helped lead the introduction of high productivity motor vehicles (HPMVs), the coastal shipping strategy and a programme of work to integrate rail into the transport system, which included the Value of Rail project. He is currently working with major freight companies on an industry-led decarbonisation pathway.

Anthony Williams is a multi-disciplinary urbanist with broad ranging experience and skills in urban design, urban planning, landscape architecture, urban policy and regulation, transit-oriented development, cross-government collaboration and urban regeneration. He has over 40 years of combined experience in the public and private sectors through his work in the U.K. U.S. Arab Gulf States and New Zealand. While in New Zealand Anthony has worked with the Ministry for the Environment, Wellington City Council and now Auckland Transport. His interests lie in bespoke joined up multi-disciplinary solutions which deliver a competitive advantage, value for money and compliance with a growing list of policy commitments. He has been working in this collaborative and integrated joined-up space since 1985 and finds the biggest challenges lie in the disconnects between organisations and the silos within them. His presentation will highlight some of the opportunities in the land-use transportation space which could help to decarbonise transport.

Amanda is a Transport Engineer in the Roads and Highways team at Jacobs New Zealand Limited. She has widespread experience in a variety of roles in both design and construction projects across the Transport, Civil & Environmental sectors. She has a research-based Master’s degree in Transport Engineering focusing on ‘Travel Behaviour Impacts of Covid-19 and Road Safety Outcomes in New Zealand’ from the University of Auckland.