Gregory has been a professional actor, writer and director for over 25 years. He began his career at The Court Theatre in Christchurch and since then has MCed and entertained at hundreds of conferences and events throughout New Zealand and Australia. He wrote and directed Mark Hadlow’s hugely successful one man show MAMIL (Middle Aged Man In Lycra) and co-wrote the critically acclaimed Kate Sheppard musical That Bloody Woman. More recently he wrote and performed in The Complete History of Nelson Abridged and wrote and directed Mr & Mrs Macbeth of Dodson Valley Road for The Professional Theatre Company in Nelson. Other career highlights include playing a pot smoking motorcyclist on Shortland Street and a heroic faun in the film The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. These characters are also available for conferences although he hasn’t had any takers to date.

Glenn is the Mott MacDonald Professor of Future Mobility at the University of West of England, Bristol, UK. He is also Vice-President of the Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation. He specialises in transport sector developments in the context of ongoing and uncertain social and technological change. Glenn has been instrumental in bringing forward the ‘decide and provide’ transport planning paradigm and has co-ordinated the three-year pan-European project ‘Triple Access Planning for Uncertain Futures’ (https://www.tapforuncertainty.eu/). He is a vocal supporter of the need for decisive and urgent action to address the climate emergency, and of equality, diversity and inclusion.

Dr Heke is of Māori descent and was raised in the mountain environments of New Zealand’s South Island. Over the past 40 years Dr Heke has been a guide in Milford Sound’s World Heritage Park, a mountain bike and ski guide in numerous alpine locations globally and more recently leading groups to experience traditional Māori environmental science. Dr Heke has post graduate degrees in Environmental Management and educational psychology including a PhD in population health. Dr Heke’s current research focus has been on using Systems Dynamics to help Māori and other indigenous groups abroad, build their own health and wellness activities through traditional environmental knowledge. In this capacity, Dr Heke was recently awarded a research grant by Johns Hopkins University combining Systems Science and Maori Environmental Connections. Dr Heke also retains an honorary research fellow position to the University of Auckland’s Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Dr Heke’s current role is with Google (San Francisco) X’s diversity initiative. Dr Heke has also been developing VR180 Māori environmental experiences with a particular interest in high performance sport. More specifically his work has been looking at converting elite athletes into environmental champions by teaching them how to be environmentally centred rather than athlete centred in the ways that they train and evaluate elite performance. Key Research areas - Ancestral Māori concepts of health obtained from the environment - Production of an Indigenous ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) model - Environmental connections between high performance sport, climate change and indigenous ways of knowing.