Siân Marek is the Technical Lead for Transport Planning at NZTA, where she provides strategic and technical leadership across complex infrastructure projects. She champions best practices and leads continuous improvement initiatives, including embedding the Decision-Led Approach across the industry. Her expertise spans investment case development, stakeholder engagement, and system design integration, with a strong focus on collaboration and mentoring to shape New Zealand’s future transport system.

Kelly Blackie is a Principal Transport Planner at NZTA, with 20 years’ experience working in both consultant and client roles. She has a wide breadth of experience in transport engineering and planning, has led and authored investment cases and particularly enjoys collaborating across teams and organisations to ensure decision making balances competing demands and is fit for purpose.

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.

Kelly Skelton is the Customer Experience Design & Standards Manager at Auckland Transport, where she leads a team dedicated to placing customers at the core of AT’s infrastructure initiatives. She plays a key role in advancing the organisation’s maturity towards a Customer First approach. Previously, Kelly was the Head of Digital Experience at Auckland Museum. She is deeply committed to understanding people and their experiences, leveraging data, insights, and human-centred design to identify opportunities and enhance outcomes for customers and the communities of Tāmaki Makaurau.

Dr Sandra Mandic, PhD, PMP is the Team Leader Transport Strategy at Wellington City Council. She is passionate about transport, health, innovation and project management. Sandra’s professional experience spans academia, government and business sectors. She is also a Research Associate at Auckland University of Technology, the founder and the director of the research consultancy AGILE Research Ltd., author of five books and the creator of the award-winning Compass Guide Research Training which links research and project management.

Cameron is a strategic transport planner with over 25 years’ experience in land use and transport planning across the public and private sectors in Aotearoa, Australia, the UK and SE Asia. Cameron has provided leading services on multi-disciplinary teams for a broad range of urban, regional and international projects. Cameron returned to New Zealand in 2021 to lead Boffa Miskell’s transport advisory services after running his own specialist transport planning consultancy in Melbourne and undertaking senior roles in the private sector and Australian State Government planning and transport departments. He has a strong understanding of the complex public-sector project planning and delivery environment and has provided strategic project planning and implementation support for a range of Local Government clients. Cameron holds experience as transport planning lead on a range of projects within complex urban environments. His ability to combine technical knowledge with strong communication skills enables him to bring a collaborative approach with stakeholders and across disciplines to work towards deliverable project outcomes.