Greg graduated from Victoria University in 1992 with a BA in Theatre and Film. During 1993 Greg trained as a Primary School Teacher and in 1994 graduated with a Diploma in Secondary teaching from Christchurch College of Education. Greg has taught in secondary schools in New Zealand and England. He has taught comedy and improvisation throughout the country for 17 years at secondary and tertiary levels. He has held the Secondary Schools, University, National and Commonwealth Theatresports titles. He has represented New Zealand at Theatresports twice - firstly as part of a Commonwealth competition in 1992 and then at the World Championships in 2006. Greg has appeared in movies, television and radio drama and comedy. His years of experience and understanding interaction with an audience makes him ideally suited for his continuing work on numerous television studio shows. Greg looks forward to MC'ing the conference for the 12th year.

Buddy Mikaere is a professional historian by qualification and specialises in Maori consultation and associated activities. For over twenty-five years he has facilitated Maori consultation for many development projects working closely with government departments, local government, large corporate companies, iwi entities and private clients. Buddy will be at the conference providing Māori tikanga with valued karakia and korero.

Matrix Traffic and Transport Data are proud to be Platinum Sponsors of this year's TG Conference. We continue to provide high quality data collection and reporting to the Traffic and Transport industry. We service the greater Auckland region with a variety of surveys including intersections, mid-block counts, Origin Destination, queue length, manual counts, and interviews. We use video and MetroCount loggers for most of our data collection. We look forward to catching with our clients at this year's conference.

Deb is currently the National Manager of Multimodal and Implementation for Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency. Her portfolio contains urban mobility, public transport, urban form and rail and freight. Previously she has worked with local government to transform public transport provision; led Wellington metro and New Zealand’s national rail tourism brand (Scenic Journeys) for KiwiRail; and led the NZ risk management practise for Fortune 500 global consultancy.

Martin is a leading road safety management consultant, a non-executive Director of RAA (South Australia’s FIA aligned mobility club), and the Immediate Past President of the Australasian College of Road Safety (ACRS). He has been working in road safety since the mid 1990s, originally in Wellington with the Ministry of Transport, ACC and the Land Transport Safety Authority, then for the Government of South Australia. He was co-author of the landmark 2008 OECD report Towards Zero, and played a leading role in the preparation of ISO 39001 Road Traffic Safety Management Systems. He consults widely across low, middle and high-income countries, mainly for multilateral organisations such as the World Bank, and for national, state and city governments. Recent publications include a study of African road safety lead agencies for the Africa Transport Policy Program, and a road safety maturity assessment framework for the Asian Development Bank. Amongst current projects, Martin is leading the preparation of an ACRS policy statement on safe road traffic systems, and an Austroads project to implement Australia’s National Driver Distraction Roadmap.

Donna Provoost is Manager of strategy at Te Manatū Waka The Ministry of Transport. She is a problem-solver with decades of experience as an analyst, economist and strategist across government. She is leading work to bring greater focus on long-term planning, investment and decision making across the transport system, including leading the Ministry’s Generational Investment Approach.