Session 7: Plenary
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| Wednesday, March 11, 2026 |
| 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM |
| Rongomātāne Plenary Hall |
Details
Session 7 brings the focus firmly onto achieving fatality-free transport networks. Kenn Beer will draw on extensive experience across Australia and New Zealand to show how Safe System thinking can be translated into practical engineering solutions that deliver real reductions in death and serious injury.
Speaker
Mr Kenn Beer
Principal Engineer
Safe System Solutions
Fatality-free futures: the safe system solutions making a real difference
2:00 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
Kenn is the Principal Engineer of Safe System Solutions Pty Ltd, a specialist road safety engineering consultancy working across Australia and New Zealand. Before founding Safe System Solutions in 2013 Kenn worked for VicRoads in a variety of roles including Manager Planning, Manager Program Development and Team Leader Road Safety Engineering. During his career Kenn has undertaken over 400 Road Safety Audits on some of Australia’s most high profile and complex infrastructure projects.
He is one of Australia’s most active Safe System practitioners having undertaken over 150 major Safe System Assessments and being involved in numerous Austroads Safe System projects including SAG2090 Best Practice in Road Safety Infrastructure Program Development, SS2035 Safe System Infrastructure on Mixed Use Arterials and SSP6038 Key Interventions to Reduce Road Trauma.
He was the Lead Author of the 2022 Austroads Guide to Road Safety update and is a member of the Austroads Road Design Expert Panel. His work has spanned 13 countries and earned a Prince Michael International Road Safety Award in 2018.
Kenn is a registered road safety engineer, Senior Road Safety Auditor, and transport planner with further qualifications in training and assessment.
Prof. Susan Krumdieck MNZM
Heriot-Watt University
TransitionScaping Modelling Hub
2:30 PM - 3:00 PMBiography
Professor Krumdieck is Chair in Energy Transition Engineering at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland, Research Leader of the Islands Centre for Net Zero. The ICNZ was announced in 2021 with £33M in core and matching funding. The ICNZ mission is to accelerate transition from the ground up by inventing the TransitionScaping processes and tools.
Before taking the position in Scotland, Susan was Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Canterbury in New Zealand for 20 years where her research made major contributions in transportation, freight, sustainable complex systems, and energy systems in support of industry, local and central government, and communities.
Susan is the co-founder of the Global Association for Transition Engineering (GATE). Transition Engineering is a practical approach to complex problems with straight-forward methods and tools for achieving sustainability objectives. Susan has more than 200 peer reviewed publications, and her book Transition Engineering, Building a Sustainable Future (CRC Press, 2020) has received great reviews and sold more than 40,000 copies.