Sharmin is a transportation engineer with over 15 years’ experience delivering walking, cycling, and multimodal infrastructure across Aotearoa. She is currently leading the design management of the Kelston–New Lynn Cycle Network, demonstrating how cycling infrastructure can be delivered within tight urban and funding constraints. Her expertise spans design coordination, safety auditing, planning assessments, and network planning, with a focus on practical solutions that balance transport function, community needs, and long-term outcomes.

Cameron Davis is a PhD Candidate in Transportation Engineering in the Complex Transport Systems Laboratory at the University of Canterbury. After earning a BE(Hons) in Civil Engineering from UC in 2022, he chose to stay at UC to begin his PhD under the supervision of Associate Professor Mehdi Keyvan-Ekbatani. Cameron’s research centres around the modelling and optimisation of shared on-demand transportation services, particularly considering urban traffic dynamics and interactions between the on-demand fleet and surrounding traffic. He specialises in the application and development of high-resolution traffic simulation models and is interested in how transportation systems will evolve with new developments, such as autonomous electric vehicles. In 2025, he received the 2024/25 Transportation Group Tertiary Study Grant. This award provided him with opportunities to present his work at two major international conferences.

Gemma is passionate about people-centric design and shaping urban spaces that are healthy, resilient, and well-connected by safe, efficient, multi-modal transport. As Principal Advisor for Transport at Christchurch City Council, Gemma specializes in planning and designing for active modes and public transport movements and has a key interest in safe streets and places. She has a leading role in promoting safe outcomes for all road users on the network regardless of age and ability. Gemma chairs the Transport Planning Society Aotearoa NZ and sits on the Transportation Group’s Safety Sub-group.

Dr Elliot Fishman has worked in transport innovation and sustainable mobility for 20 years. He has advised over two dozen local governments on EV fleet transition and charging policy and advised the Australian PM's Office on sustainable transport.

Phil is a Technical Director at Flow Transportation Specialists Ltd and has over 40 years’ experience in a wide variety of transport planning and traffic engineering roles in New Zealand, Australia, Samoa, Fiji, the UK, Ireland, Germany, Taiwan, and Puerto Rico. He mostly enjoys thinking outside the box.

Kirsty Horridge is the Urban Mobility Team Leader, with 15 years of experience in local government and engineering, she is passionate about getting more people walking, biking and taking Public Transportation.

Daniel is a Transport Planner with 20 years’ experience in planning transport projects throughout Australia and the Middle East. His background in urban and regional planning, with a specialised focus on transportation, have allowed him to develop technical expertise in the areas of strategic transport and infrastructure planning for active and public modes. Daniel has extensive experience planning, leading and managing projects for specific travel modes as well as network and corridor projects that provide an integrated multi-modal approach to the transport system. His land use and transport planning experience extend the breadth of strategic, network, corridor, local area and site planning for land use and transport infrastructure. Daniel has been involved in the execution and technical delivery of a range of projects focused on transport services and infrastructure (active, public, freight and general), sustainable travel, network operations, land use/transport integration strategies, and site and master planning. Full bio is here: www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-innis-dci

Dr. Hyun Chan Kim is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Engineering and Industrial Design at Wintec, NZ. He holds a PhD in civil engineering from the University of Canterbury and specialises in transportation planning, sustainable urban mobility, and mode choice modelling. With over a decade of teaching and research experience across NZ, the U.S., and S. Korea, Dr. Kim has led projects on micro-mobility, demand-responsive transport, and freight mode choice. His recent work focuses on resilient transport solutions for ageing populations and rural communities, aiming to inform data-driven policy and infrastructure planning.

Paul Minett (MBA Auckland) has a lifelong interest in transportation, and a twenty-five-year focus on the issues of reducing the negative outcomes caused by commuters traveling in single occupant vehicles. He has carried out research into flexible carpooling for the University of California (Davis) and the Transportation Research Board, and into congestion-clearing payments to passengers for the Mineta Transportation Institute. He recently completed an investigation into Mobility as a Service (MaaS) for the New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi. He helped found and was the inaugural chair of the Ridesharing Institute, formed to draw focus to the need for better understanding and greater action in the field of shared transportation. He is a thought leader in this field and has written several articles and papers and made conference presentations on the topic. Paul has a talent for deep thinking, and relentless pursuit of comprehensive understanding as a prerequisite to action. Born in the UK, Paul grew up in northern Canada, and now lives in Auckland, New Zealand.

Nick works for Hiway as the Technical Manger – New Zealand. Nick has worked in both the Contracting and Consulting industry for the last 20-years in design engineering and project management roles both in New Zealand and Australia. He has a passion for pavement design and quality construction and has extensive experience undertaking investigation and design of new and rehabilitated pavements in roading and heavy-duty environments

Irene Tse is the Transport Safety Technical Lead at Auckland Transport, providing expert safety advice and supporting infrastructure changes to maximise safety outcomes. Irene has developed and overseen the delivery of crash reduction studies, safer communities' programs, corridors and pedestrian improvements over the past 13 years to meet the strategic outcome of reducing casualties. Irene embedded the Safe System Assessment process and contributed to AT’s safety operational protocols and practice notes. Irene has participated in national demonstration projects, including the Safe System Mix Used Arterial demonstration project and Self Explaining Road.

Megan is a Principal Landscape Architect who specialises in working with local Councils to deliver community infrastructure. A strong visual communicator, she is skilled in simplifying complex information into compelling narratives to take people on the journey.

Justine works for WSP as a Principal Traffic and Road Safety Engineer with substantial experience in the road network management space both in professional services and head contractor roles. Land use development, asset management, maintenance and operations, traffic engineering works and road safety and key areas of expertise.

Justine works for WSP as a Principal Traffic and Road Safety Engineer with substantial experience in the road network management space both in professional services and head contractor roles. Land use development, asset management, maintenance and operations, traffic engineering works and road safety and key areas of expertise.