Speakers

Abdhul Khadhir is a research scholar pursuing his Doctor of Philosophy jointly at the Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Australia and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. He completed his Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering from National Institute of Technology Calicut, India. His research focuses on the development of a robust signal design strategy for heterogeneous less lane disciplined traffic prevalent in developing countries. His research interests also include traffic signal timing and analysis, traffic flow theory and advanced sensors for traffic data collection.

Alex Zadnik BSc. is the Business Development Manager for Metraweather Australia, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Meteorological Service of New Zealand. Alex has 20 years of experience in the weather industry, including as a forecaster and sales professional, delivering valuable weather-related business solutions to a wide range of industry sectors.

Alex has over ten years’ experience working as a Traffic, Transport and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) Engineer in Australia as well as being involved in some traffic planning work for a brief stint in the United Kingdom. He has been involved in the planning, concept and detailed design stages for various ITS projects. More recently Alex has gained exposure in the construction stages of the ITS scopes of major projects as well as being involved in estimating work as part of tendering for ITS projects around Australia.

Alex Torday is civil engineer and obtained his Master degree in 1999 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology where he also completed his PhD thesis on dynamic route guidance assessment and probe vehicles techniques in 2004. Alex is currently the Global head of Professional Services of Aimsun, a position he has held since 2005. In his role, he oversees all Aimsun’s project deliveries through six teams distributed around the globe and is an active stakeholder to the product development group which shapes the future versions of the Aimsun transport simulation environment. Alex has also been the Managing Director of Aimsun’s Sydney office from 2012 until July 2020.

Dr Alina Bialkowski is a lecturer and machine learning researcher at The University of Queensland, specialising in extracting meaning from complex data including images, videos and electromagnetic sensors. She spent 2.5 years working at the UCL developing deep neural networks to model human perception and attention in driving, and now works at UQ where her current work aims to make roads safer and more efficient through sensor fusion and machine learning.

Amy Strang graduated from the University of Canterbury in 2019 with a Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in Mechatronics. She is passionate about transport technology both on the ground and in the air, and has experience working in Air NZ’s graduate engineering programme and is currently at Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency in the Future Transport team.

She is a strong advocate for diversity in transport and tech and joined the ITSNZ Board as a Youth and Diversity Ambassador in 2020, where she then Co-Founded Young Transport Professionals (YTP) in May that year. She is also on the Auckland leadership team of Future Leaders in Tech (FLINT).

Andreas started in Transurban in March 2008 and since then responsible for the MLFF ETC Roadside Systems as a Subject Matter Expert. In his role Andreas is supporting projects, lifecycle planning, design, and transition into operations for all Transurban Assets in Australia. As Tolling Domain expert, Andreas also provides guidance and support to shape the strategic orientation of Transurban concerning the future technology for collection of tolls or road user charges. Prior to Transurban, Andreas delivered MLFF ETC Roadside Systems for Eastlink in Melbourne and Vespucio Norte Express in Santiago, Chile. He started his professional career in the tolling industry in 1997.

Andrew is a recognised leader in future mobility, ITS and road network operations in Australia.

He is a co-founder and director of Omni-Aware, responsible for realising client-focussed outcomes and opportunities from the technology.

Andrew remains active providing services to public and private sector clients through his boutique consulting firm, Transoptim. His specialist advisory work provides genuine insight and he has assisted project and operational teams to consistently achieve results that are better than “best practice”.

Prior to this he had a decade of experience in transport technology within government and has also co-founded and successfully transitioned out from a new mobility start-up.

Professor Andry Rakotonirainy is the Deputy Director of CARRS-Q and Intelligent Transport System Human factor research program within CARRS-Q. He has 20 years of research and management experience in computer science and brings advanced expertise in road safety and ITS. He has authored over 220 internationally refereed papers in prestigious conferences and journals. The impact of his research are significant with one paper cited 871 times (3334 citations total), and he has an h-index of 24. He has been awarded 9 Australian Research Council (ARC) grants. He serves on many international program committees for conferences and journals and has been asked to review internationally competitive grants. He has established the CARRS-Q advanced driving simulator laboratory which was the most advanced driving simulator facility in Australia.

With 20+ years’ experience in road safety across a range of portfolios including road user behaviour; safety‐related in‐vehicle, roadside and wearable technology; and strategy and policy development, Dr Anna Chevalier’s achievements in delivering programs for government are underpinned by academic expertise in evidence‐based research. Her strengths include benchmarking; design, management and evaluations of large-scale innovative-technology trials; and complex statistical analysis. Anna has designed, implemented and evaluated ground‐breaking road safety programs including related to connected vehicles, naturalistic driving, driver-feedback systems, wearable technologies, intelligent speed adaption, automatic crash notification, driver fatigue and distraction detection, alcohol interlocks, reverse autonomous braking, and speed cameras. She also has experience with studies related to roadwork zones, heavy vehicles and tunnels.

Anna Clancy is a Systems Engineer who has been working for the Department of Transport and Main Roads for the last 10 years. After completing her Masters of Transport at Monash University in 2012, Anna has strived to identify traffic proplems that can be allievated through the use of ITS. Annas focus is not only improvements to the road user but she also enhances the transport tools used by Traffic Engineers and Traffic Operators.

Ari Edinburg has extensive experience developing software systems working in electronic warfare, consulting, running his own business and working for the last 18 years in traffic management software development with Roads and Maritime Services.

Ari currently leads a cross-functional team using domain-driven design and object-oriented approaches to create innovative traffic management solutions that are used by road authorities around the world.

Ari is currently pioneering a new system which will disrupt the way road authorities manage the data for supporting evolving smart traffic systems.

While Ari has spent some of his initial career in South Africa, he now enjoys walking his family and much-loved dog around the eastern suburbs of Sydney in between Pilates classes.

Ash has global experience in digital transformation enabled by emerging technologies. Over his career he has led strategic programs at Intel Corporation, Telstra and Main Roads WA that leveraged cloud computing, the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence.
Jerome is a geospatial and visualisation specialist with a broad project portfolio of work in mission-critical environments in Europe and Australia.
Paul Glover has global experience in designing, operating and maintaining ITS systems for many global cities.

Ashish Dhanjee is an Engineer in the Transport Planning, Logistics and Analytics team at SMEC. Ashish has over five years of experience in traffic engineering, road safety and analytics. He received his B.Eng in Civil and Transport Engineering from the Queensland University of Technology and is also a certified Alteryx Designer Core user.
Ashish was the recipient of the 2014 Institute of Transportation Engineers Australia/New Zealand university award and has contributed his analytics work to the 2015 and 2019 AITPM National Conferences. Ashish is involved in analytics and visualisation geared towards developing data-driven planning, design and operations approach, allowing for efficient and evidence-based solutions to be explored.

BJ has now accumulated near 30 years broad experience specialising in the fields of aerospace & systems engineering, system safety, airworthiness certification in the capital acquisition project management environment. Currently the Capability Lead for Safety and Certification for Nova Systems, he has represented Nova on Defence Aviation Regulatory Reform Industry Consultative Committee during major regulatory transition. He has led and contributed to safety assessments for all significant Unmanned Aircraft Systems to enter ADF service. Continuing this unmanned theme he has recently guided the NTC proposed Safety Assurance System and regulatory options for introduction of Autonomous Vehicles onto Australian roads and is now contributing to the Singapore Standards Council Working Group for development of a Technical Reference for Autonomous Vehicle Functional Safety.

Boris is a professional IT Project/Program Manager with 17 years of experience delivering concurrent complex information technology solutions within large corporate environments. These systems have helped the organisations to become more profitable financially or allowed them to implement their long term strategic goals.

Boris possess strong technical knowledge of information technology tools, techniques and frameworks; which allows him to deliver initiatives on-time, every time.
Boris is currently completing a PhD by research with Victoria University (VU) in Melbourne, Australia. His new planning and scheduling method – Operational Scheduling with Business Modeling and Genetic Algorithms – is patented with Intellectual Property (IP) Australia. This method is used to streamline business processes using Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques.

Born in Dunedin, 1934. Graduated with B.Arch and Traveling Scholarship from the University of Auckland, 1959, which enabled him to study architecture and city planning at the University of Pennsylvania. Graduated M.Arch and MCP, 1964.
Engaged in these callings in Auckland, Hong Kong, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Johor Bahru (Malaysia) and Brisbane, where he is now retired.
Has been primarily responsible for preparing city and CBD plan for Auckland and CBD and neighborhood plans in Brisbane. Was a principal in a development company building townhouses in Auckland, received a US patent for a building machine, and wrote a book called “To the Cities of the Second Car Age, published in 1995.
Default retirement activities have been painting and transport research.

Chaitrali is a civil engineer and has a master’s degree in Transportation engineering. She has recently submitted her PhD thesis for external examination and is now working as a research fellow in Smart Cities at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Dr.Changju Lee is currently an Economic Affairs Officer at the Transport Division of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). In his role at UNESCAP he is responsible for smart transport and ITS issues and their contribution towards Sustainable Transport and the attainment of the 2030 Agenda. Dr. Lee has a variety of experiences in transport, including ITS, transport planning and economics. Dr. Lee has published various articles in top-ranked international journals and received several awards. Dr. Lee holds Master degrees in City Planning (Transport Studies) and in Civil Engineering (Transportation), and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Civil Engineering (Transportation).

Dr Charles Karl is currently Chief Technology Leader in the Future Technology Group at the Australian Road Research Board. He is responsible for the technical oversight of ARRB’s work in road network operations, freight and heavy vehicles, and connected and automated vehicles. Over the last 30 years Charles has been working in the field of Network Operations and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). He has led the development of various network performance, traveller information systems and telematics standards for regulatory applications related to heavy vehicles. Charles is a member of ISO TC204 and Standards Australia IT-023 on ITS and led the development of ISO 15638: Framework for Co-operative Telematics Applications for Regulated Commercial Freight Vehicles (2009-2012).

I am a research scholar at the Queensland University of Technology, working on the data-driven methods using Bluetooth data to estimate traffic assignment and for OD estimation.

Christopher Stockwell-Smith is an Electrical Engineer in the Department of Transport and Main Roads’ Intelligent Transportation Systems team based on the Gold Coast. Chris started as a Graduate Engineer in early 2017 and had the privilege of working in the ITS Support team during the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Chris has worked as part of the delivery team on various stand-alone ITS projects and provides technical advice to large road construction projects. During the past two years Chris has been heavily involved in the testing, commissioning and documentation of an Automatic Incident Detection trial.

David Apelt is the Product Evangelist, Emerging Technology and Innovation at Transmax. David’s background is in software engineering, system architecture and the application of technology to digitally enable businesses. At Transmax, this passion for technology means greater safety outcomes for the community and improving journey reliability. David has degrees in Information Technology and Electronic Engineering from QUT and GAICD qualifications.

David Bolt earned his Masters of Engineering with Merit from the University of Strathclyde and has more than 15 years of experience with software development, systems engineering, regional group management, Sales, and consulting. At Kapsch, David is responsible for managing the solutions consulting group in the Asia Pacific region including client interactions, software systems demonstrations, and managing delivery. David was on the 2018 ITS Australia organizing committee. David is very customer-focused on his approach to interacting with existing and potential customers and partner companies. He covers ITS, transit, and tolling projects and approaches in his daily work.

David is a Senior Executive Traffic and Road Safety Engineer with more than 30 years of experience in the field. He has extensive international experience of traffic and transport management from an operational perspective. He has developed and implemented strategies, policies, standards and programs to facilitate and improve network efficiency through the application of advances in traffic management technology. Provision of advice and services to external clients has led to the application of his skills throughout South East Asia and North America giving him a unique insight into the application of traffic management solutions in a wide variety of environments. Prior to entering consultancy, he had 14 years’ experience with the Roads and Traffic Authority (now RMS)

David McKechnie is a senior technical specialist at Telstra Corporation in the Telstra LABS group and is responsible for Telstra’s future vision and technology roadmap in the domains of 5G, V2X, and IoT.
McKechnie has spent nearly 10 years helping design and deploy wireless technologies for network operators across the globe, instrumental in many “first” 4G deployments, the initial rollout of the NBN Fixed Wireless Network in Australia as well as the recent launch of Telstra’s 5G network.
He has contributed to industry working groups including the 5G Automotive Association (5GAA), Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), and the IoT Alliance Australia (IoTAA).
McKechnie earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, from Monash University, Australia.

Dickson Leow is an active committee expert member of ISO TC 204 for Intelligent Transport System and Standards Australia IT-023, as well as numerous SAE Technical and Strategy Working Group (related to vehicle technologies). Prior to ARRB, Dickson has worked in various roles nearing 15 years with Toyota Motor Corporation Australia. He is well informed of the international vehicle regulatory standards, as well as international safety protocols. Dickson has assisted the Federal Department of Infrastructure & Regional Development (DIRD) with Australian Design Rule (ADR) legislation. Dickson has over 22 years’ experience in both the private and government sectors. He has an MBA, Bachelor’s degree in both Engineering and Computer Science and a Certificate in IP Law.

Dirk attained a joint Management and Information Science degree from the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany) and the University of Nebraska (USA). His professional experience started in the automotive sector and continued in the railway and transportation sector.
For the past 14 years, Dirk has worked in different management functions within Deutsche Bahn group. Among other functions, Dirk was program manager for international development projects, sales director for passenger transport in the Benelux markets and head of business analytics and strategy for DB’s track infrastructure business unit: Since 2015, Dirk is leading the external management consultancy unit of DB E&C.

Dongyao Jia received the B.E. degree in automation from Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China, in 1998, and Ph.D. degree in computer science from the City University of Hong Kong in 2014. He is currently a Research Fellow in School of Civil Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia. He was a Research Fellow in Institute for Transport Studies (ITS), University of Leeds, UK. He worked as a senior engineer in the telecom field in China from 2003 to 2011. His current research interests include transportation cyber-physical systems, traffic flow modeling, and internet of things.

Duy Quang Tran1, Sang-Hoon Bae2*
1. Department of Spatial Information Engineering, Pukyong National University, Republic of Korea
2. Department of Spatial Information Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan 48513, Republic of Korea, +8210 9060 0824, [email protected]

Edmond Chin-Ping Chang, Ph.D., P.E. is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the EDCPC, Inc., a worldwide Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) and Transportation Service Provider, specialized in Smart Cities, Energy, Environment, Infrastructure, Transport, Technology (EEITT), supporting public agencies, financial institutions, system integrators, BOT operators, equipment vendors, and end-users in USA and in the Emerging Economy in Asia, Euroasia, Africa, Latin America worldwide, and is very active in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam, etc. Dr. Chang has over 40+ years of professional experience and has authored over 685+ publications.

Distinguished Professor Fang Chen is a thought leader in AI and data science. Through impactful successes, the team she led gained many recognitions such as the ITS Australia National Awards in 2014, 2015 and 2018 and NSW iAwards 2017. She is the NSW “Water Professional of the Year” 2016. She is a winner of “Oscar Prize” in Australian science – Australian Museum Eureka Prize 2018 for Excellence in Data Science. Professor Chen has 350 publications and 30 patents in 8 countries. She is the Executive Director of Data Science at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and the Executive Director of University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Data Science Institute.

Fida Hasan received a Ph.D. in wireless communication & networking from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He is currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at QUT. He is also a Fellow of HEA, UK. His current research interests include wireless communications, intelligent transportation systems, vehicular ad-hoc networks, Blockchain and Internet of Things (IoT).

Fiona is the ITS Domain Lead for Surveillance and Detection systems at Transurban. She has experience in Electrical and Systems Engineering, working on projects to ensure the safe and efficient operation of infrastructure. The focus of her role at Transurban is to understand emerging technology capability and translate this into the Operational environment.

Gareth Robins is the Director of Analytics at EROAD, his work focuses on the use of GPS data to fuel a new wave of transportation research from dynamic risk modelling and crash prediction to fair cost allocation of maintenance funds.
Gareth has lived the analytics life for 15 years and has worked in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States. Gareth is a member of the US Transportation Research Board and an active participant in the Freight Transportation Data and Trucking Research committees, and the PACTRANS Technology Transfer committee.

With a career dating back to the early ’90s, Gordon is one of Esri Australia’s most experienced geospatial imagery consultants. A Principal Consultant within the South Australian team, Gordon is seen as an national authority in the fields of imagery, LiDAR, drone technology and mobile GIS. He holds a Bachelor of Arts and honours in geography and remote sensing, and has produced a number of industry white papers and best-practice benchmarks for Esri.

RACQ is the peak advocacy body for Queensland road users and represents over 1.7 million members covering 50% of Queensland households.

In her role, Grace leads policy development and project delivery and advocates for policy to promote safe, affordable and sustainable mobility, both now and into the future. Grace’s career began as an urban and environmental planner at AECOM and Cardno HRP through public and active transport projects. She then transitioned to delivering community engagement for grass-roots and non-government organisations on environmental and planning issues. Prior to RACQ she provided transport policy advice on connected automated vehicles, congestion, mobility as a service, and drones at the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads.

Graham is a transport planner and traffic engineer with over 20 years’ experience in developing and leading innovative transport planning and traffic engineering projects.
Graham has deep experience and understanding in the interrelationship between land-use, activity and transport.
He has developed innovative designs to enable improved connectivity at a human and city-scale and specialises in cost-effective, holistic transport solutions.
Graham has expertise in transport planning, public transport system design, traffic engineering and modeling, and designing for walking and cycling.
A trusted advisor to government, he has worked closely with senior executives in Australia and the Philippines.
He has previously worked for Transport for NSW, Roads and Maritime Services and City of Sydney.

In June 2013, he graduated from the School of Transportation of Nanjing University of Technology, where he studied professional traffic engineering. In June 2015, he graduated from the Information College of Chang’an University, where he studied professional transportation projects, mainly in the direction of intelligent transportation. In July 2015, he entered the Intelligent Transportation Design and Research Center of China Design Group.Co Ltd
Mainly engaged in traffic control, traffic simulation, smart roads and other related businesses, the scope of work covers the top-level planning and design of ordinary highways, urban traffic control programs, and the application of new technologies in transportation.

Henry has held various senior management positions across a wide range of Major Transport Infrastructure, Intelligent Transport System and Road User Charging businesses as well as special purpose vehicles for a range of public and private sector clients throughout Australasia.
Over the past 10 years, Henry has successfully led the development of a number of complex and disruptive technology such as Distributed Acoustic Sensing transportation applications (e.g. automatic incident detection), smart transport data analytics (e.g. deep learning techniques), CAVS pilots and on-demand public transport initiatives.

Dr. Hoang Nguyen is a Senior Research Scientist / Data Scientist at the Advanced Data Analytics In Transport at Data61, CSIRO. In 2013, he completed his PhD on data mining research at the University of Sydney and started to work for NICTA since July-2013. His research interests include machine learning, active learning, natural languages processing and data visualization. He was product owner of Traffic Watch, a project with NSW Transport Management Centre to detect incidents reported by social media. Hoang also contributed to most major projects of Advanced Data Analytics in Transport team at Data61. He has published several papers in leading health informatics journals (HIC, JAMIA) and conferences on data mining (PAKDD, KDD).

Hou-Yu Chen was born and raised in a county called Changhua in Taiwan, which is rural area compared to Taipei City. After he first arrived at Taipei, he realized how inconvenient the public transportation was in Changhua; therefore, he made up his mind to study transportation. And he hopes that one day he can contribute what he has learned to help improve the transportation system in his hometown and make the living space safe and convenient for all the citizen no matter the elderly or the young.

James Ho leads global expansion and partnership efforts for Bird in Australia and across the Asia Pacific region.

His areas of expertise include business transformation, commercialising innovation, scaling growth for early/mid-stage start-ups and geographic expansion for multinational organisations. He has 15 years experience in the transport, technology, utility and consumer electronics industries.

Prior to Bird, his roles have included: Corporate Strategy at Qantas; Commercial Finance Controller at Apple ANZ; Head of Strategy and Operations at LinkedIn, and Senior Commercial Manager at Sydney Water. He Is also an entrepreneur and start-up advisor having founded, exited and advised numerous retail business serving the Asia Pacific region.

He hold an MBA (Chicago Booth, UNSW) and degrees in Physics and Aeronautical Engineering (USyd).

Jason Venz has worked in the field of ITS for over 20 years and since 2012 has managed Austroads’ National ITS Architecture project, and is active in national and international standards development and ITS architecture initiatives. He has a passion for developing and using tools and frameworks that can support more effective and efficient development and delivery of solutions that benefit for others.

Jayatheja Addanki (Joseph Teja) is a highly energetic, organized and creative consultant who brings perspective, clarity and leadership in managing complex projects with multiple objectives. Currently, as a Young Professional at Smart Transportation & Electric Vehicles division, NITI Aayog, Think Tank of Govt. of India; he is providing technical advice and policy inputs to the decision-makers to architect the National Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) policy framework for India, National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) and Electric Vehicles uptake in India. He is passionate about using his training as a transportation engineer/planner to provide insights, building tools & solutions using state of the art of technologies.

Jeff Dusting FIEAust CPEng graduated from the Australian Defence Force Academy, qualified at the National Test Pilot School, holds a bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering (Honours), and Master’s degrees in both Test and Evaluation and Business Administration. During 2017-19 he commenced a program of post graduate studies at Harvard, MIT and INSEAD.

A skilled aviator/yachtsman, Jeff was awarded both the DJ Knights Award for Flight Test excellence, and the Tillman Trophy for endurance sailing.

As founder of one of Australia’s leading engineering consultancies, Operational Concepts, Jeff became a Director of ASX listed SMS Management & Technology before founding technology incubator CobaltBlu.  Previously Transurban’s Head of ITS Engineering, Strategy and Innovation, responsible for Operational Technology across the asset portfolio, Jeff now provides strategic advice to government and industry clients across the Asia Pacific region.

Dr. Jian Xing got his doctor of engineering degree in 1992 at University of Tokyo. Since then he has been working on ITS, traffic operation and management on intercity expressways in Japan. Now he works for Japan Expressway Research Institute as a senior researcher. He is responsible for motorway traffic researches at Traffic Research Lab.

Dr. Jang is working for Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology for 10 years. His expertise lies in various fields of ITS.

Joerg ‘Nu’ Rosenbohm has more than two decades of experience with design and implementations of ITS systems, Connected Vehicle technologies and with ITS and CV Standards development. He is a primary author of several NTCIP standards and has contributed to the SAE J2735 / 2945 standards. Within Kapsch, Nu is one of the Solutions Experts with responsibilities for determining the future direction of the firm’s transportation central system software, and for consulting on ITS and Connected Vehicle solutions for Federal, State, and local agencies. Nu worked internationally on projects and proposals in Australia, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, China, Iraq and others.

With his extensive background in product, data analytics and monetization of data in the IOT space, John is a Senior Product Manager at Intelematics. Before joining Intelematics’, John worked in various industries from manufacturing to travel and government. John has particular interests in consumer insights and digital marketing where he ran global partnerships with companies like Facebook, Microsoft and Google.

John brings experience from being in the ITS industry for 15 years, originally operating in the United Kingdom working on projects such as the pilot scheme for Managed Motorways and roll-out of Ramp Metering across England for the Highways Agency (now Highways England). He also worked on several road tunnel upgrade projects including, Blackwall and Holmesdale.

He moved to Australia in 2010 and after stint of travelling around Australia and New Zealand decided to spend more time underground, working on the Legacy Way Tunnel in Brisbane and WestConnex M8 in Sydney. John has developed concept designs, concepts of operations, strategic designs, detailed designs, developed standards and specifications, tested and commissioned, and independently verified and certified projects all around the United Kingdom and Australia.

John has over 10 years in experience in the transport sector, applying skills in data analytics and automation.

Having postgraduate graduate qualification in mathematics and statistics he is keen in continuing to provide mathematical, spatial and statistical modelling solutions for more informed decision making.

Josh is an experienced engineer with a demonstrated history of working in local government. A passionate traffic and transport professional with a particular interest in the technology aspects of the road network and how it can shape the way in which a city and its customers operates. For the past eighteen months Josh has worked on the development of the iGO Intelligent Transport Systems Strategy for the City of Ipswich and now looks to partner with industry to see it become a reality.

-1970: Graduated from National Nara Technical College, Electrical Engineering
-1970: Joined NEC. Joined NEC America as program manager from 1981 through 1986, Joined ITPS (Institution for Transport Policy Studies) as program manager from 2003 through 2009
-Joined Keio University Co-Mobility Society Research Center in 2013 as Researcher
-Joined HIDO (Highway Industry Development Organization) in 2015 as Senior Researcher
-2017: Promoted to Group Leader of International Research Group responsible for performing dissemination of Japanese C-ITS system technologies including ETC2.0 into global ITS society through various research activities including ISO/TC204 international standardization activity

Note: HIDO is a governmental consultant supporting Japanese MLIT and regional governments. HIDO is responsible in requirement standardization for ETC2.0 system.

Justin White is a passionate spatial specialist. He has contributed to numerous great initiatives in government and private industry, including natural and man-made risk modelling, emergency response data management, 3D modelling and visualisation, delivery of a national emergency alert system and development of an emergency vehicle priority system. Justin works at Queensland’s Department of Transport and Main Roads across the Cooperative and Automated Vehicle Initiative and Geospatial Strategy and Capability teams. He is currently enjoying the twin challenges of ensuring cooperative and automated vehicles involved in the initiative are accurately located and using data that is fit for purpose, while also positioning the department to take advantage of developments in spatial capability and associated technology advances.

Kevin Orr is the CEO of Liftango, a shared mobility tech start-up based in Sydney. Kevin is a passionate visionary for how our public transport can be re-imagined to avert future “carmageddon”. He started Liftango in 2015 with a simple goal to reduce the number of cars on the road, and has now built Liftango into one of the leading shared mobility startups in APAC. Prior to Liftango, Kevin served as a business intelligence manager for a $10B investment fund, after completing Mathematics and Geographic Information System degrees.

Kim Thomas is the founder and Managing Director of Integrate, a specialist ITS consultancy based in Queensland. Kim has worked in the ITS industry for over 20 years, with executive roles in management, business development and technical delivery. Her key skills are in leading Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) Systems Analysis and Design and ITS Infrastructure Engineering Management.

Kim holds Masters degrees in physics and engineering. She has worked on an extensive range of projects from software design; systems engineering; strategy and program development through to detailed ITS design on major rural, urban and inter-urban projects, in Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East. Kim is a board director of ITS Australia.

She is a strong proponent of systems engineering in the transport industry and diversity in the workplace.

Krishna N.S. Behara received his Doctoral degree from the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia and currently working as a Research Assistant in the same university. He would be joining as Research Fellow (smart cities) at QUT in October 2019. He holds a Master’s degree in Transportation Engineering and Bachelor of Engineering (Honors) in Civil Engineering, both from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India. His research interests include transport data analytics and traffic modeling and simulation.

Louis Saadé is a Data Analytics and Digital Systems Consultant at DB Engineering & Consulting GmbH where he is involved in developing the company’s condition monitoring portfolio and delivering customised solutions to clients. He previously spent for seven years working as an Industrial Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham’s Centre for Railway Research and Education with a focus on developing novel academic research into robust hardware and software and integrating it with railway companies to remotely diagnose problems with their infrastructure and rolling stock. He has a very strong interest in improving the availability and cost-efficiency of critical railway assets through data integration, expanding the internet of things and the development of novel diagnostic algorithms.

Professor Majid Sarvi is the director of Transport Technology program at the University of Melbourne. He is the founder and director of the Australian Integrated Multimodal EcoSystem (AIMES). AIMES is a world first; a grid mapped with smart sensors to test emerging, multimodal connected large-scale transport technologies. AIMES’ key objective is to deliver safer, more efficient and sustainable transport solutions for all road users to enable smarter cities to thrive.

Majid’s unique skillset includes research leadership, innovative vision, a track record in senior management, and industry engagement. He has extensive experience in strategic planning, business development and change management, bringing ideas to commercial viability.

Makoto Honda received a Doctor of Engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. As an engineer he has worked for several various corporations including Tektronix and a small startup developing micro processor devices. At Toyota, he has been working mainly on research and development for conversational agent systems.

Principal Engineer (ITS) | Metropolitan Region
Team Leader Network Optimisation | Metropolitan Region
Project Manager Bruce Highway Operations Project
Program Management and Delivery
Program Delivery And Operations | Department of Transport and Main Roads

Marco leads the network optimisation business for Transurban, where he provides strategic and technical
leadership, and facilitates contemporary practice in planning, design and operations to improve customer
experience. He has delivered road management and operational policy and planning, developed road and
technology strategies and standards, managed infrastructure programs and developed major projects.
Whilst with RMS, Marco was the Project Director M4 Smart Motorway, Project Manager Guide to Smart
Motorways and was a key architect for the introduction of Smart Motorways in New South Wales.
Relevant Experience
▪ M4 Smart Motorways, Roads and Maritime, 2010-2016
▪ Road Operations and Management Policies, Strategies and Programs, 2006-2017
▪ Guide to Smart Motorways, Austroads, 2016

Dr Marco Motta is a leader in data analysis and information design, with over a decade of experience in transport and academia. With a strong background in philosophy, Marco uses critical thinking to help organisations identify, define and solve complex strategic problems.
Most recently, Marco has been leading a number of high-profile, analytics projects, including the development of an organisation-wide program of performance dashboards.

Marcus Burke is Executive Leader, Future Technologies at the National Transport Commission and is responsible for the transport technology projects, including developing the legal framework for automated vehicles. He has presented at conferences both in Australia and internationally on the legal issues associated with automated vehicles and has also appeared before parliamentary inquiries at the state and federal level.
Marcus joined the NTC in 2011 and previously worked in the private sector, with extensive experience in IT product management.
Marcus has a combined Bachelor of Law/Science from the University of Melbourne and a Masters in Diplomacy and International Trade from Monash University.

As Associate Technical Director for Arcadis Australia, Marcus has over twenty-four years of experience providing transport technologies advice for public and private sector clients. With an extensive engineering, construction supervision and financial auditing background, Marcus’s specialist transport technology and mobility expertise has underpinned major schemes delivering public transport information advanced technologies within the freeway and arterial road networks across the globe. As an experienced facilitator, Marcus has led numerous stakeholder workshops across varying topics and presented at numerous national and international conferences.

R&D Engineer within the field of C-ITS, employed in the Future ITS solutions department at Q-Free Norway AS. Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering at the Norwegian Univesity of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway.

Matt began his career at the Department of Transport and Main Roads in 2011 as an Electrical Inspector. Since then he has progressed to his current position, Principal Technical Officer (Electrical & ITS), where he is responsible for the maintencance all electrical and ITS assets within the Region. Matt is also responsible for all new electrical and ITS devices that are installed as part of large infrastructure projects including Smart Motorways.
He has recently worked on a number of innovative projects including Hold The Red, Automatic Incident Detection, non -intrusive detection technologies as well as other large scale projects.

Matthew is the Director of Strategic Projects for WSP’s Digital Services. He leads a team of around 35 engineers in Melbourne building digital solutions for a diverse set of clients. Matthew has 11 years’ experience in building, designing and managing complex software projects. These projects cover a range of industries including intelligent transport systems, road enforcement solutions, gaming, manufacturing, government and retail.
These projects have spanned the globe and have provided an understanding of operation in markets including Europe, North America, the Middle East, the Asia Pacific region. Matthew’s experience in computer vision-based product management has given him a strong ability to take the uncertainty of research and ideas and deliver commercially valuable solutions.

Dr Shimul Haque is an Associate Professor in transportation engineering at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia. He is a specialist in statistical and econometrics applications in transportation engineering and traffic safety. His research interests include traffic safety analysis, blackspot identification techniques, microscopic traffic flow models, travel behaviour, and Connected and Automated Vehicles. He has published more than 80 peer-reviewed research articles in top-class journals and international conferences. Dr Haque is an Associate Editor of the ASCE – Journal of Transportation Engineering, a prestigious journal within civil engineering published by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He is also the Track Chair of Safety in Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF).

Merle Wood is a Principal Traffic Engineer at Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads. She has 15 years of experience practising in traffic engineering and transport planning. Her current role in Engineering and Technology Branch is to measure the performance of state-controlled road network and research into alternative data analytics method and emerging traffic data collection technologies to enhance the current practice.
In her previous roles within the department, she led the operation of ramp signalling, traffic modelling and signal coordination in Brisbane Metropolitan area.
Merle obtained her PhD from Monash University. Her PhD thesis was on the impact of in-car navigation system on driver behaviour.

Michael founded Retina Visions in 2016 and has since established a strong presence within the transport industry. Trained in civil engineering with a history in the road construction and transport industries, Michael has worked on underground cable projects, road surface condition assessments, business development of asset management systems and big data analytics. Michael has worked with both private industry and the public sector, providing enhancements to businesses to improve efficiencies in how they manage and utilise their data. Michael was awarded the ITS Australia Young Professional of the Year award in 2018.

Michael is a Principal Project Visualisation Consultant at WSP where he is responsible for art direction and delivery of visualisation services. Over his 20 year career, Michael has taken leadership roles in a wide range of projects in the planning, design development and delivery phases. His strengths lay in visualisation technology innovation, directing and producing visualisation content with large multiple disciplinary visualisation teams. Michael passionate about technical innovation and how technology can be used to deliver great project outcomes. He has worked with a wide range of clients in transport, delivering innovative 3D / 4D visualisation, virtual and augmented reality together with Digital Engineering solutions.

Michael Towke is a Program Manager with Transport for NSW.

Mickael Aubry graduated from a French engineering school, specialized in automotive mechanical design and simulation.
He joined Dassault Systemes as a technical expert in automotive competency center, responsible for OEM customer projects in multiple fields (systems engineering, simulation, manufacturing, …)
8 years ago Mickael was relocated to China to support business in Asia Pacific, and became a consultant for automotive car makers as well as business development manager for new energy vehicle initiative and smart city.
Recently Mickael joined Faurecia as Innovation global program manager, managing development and delivery of solutions aiming at improving city air quality and traffic congestion.

Muhammad Ruhaizat Bin Abd Ghani was graduated with Bachelor of Science in Information System Management from Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia in 2011. His professional career begins as programmer analyst. Later, he expands his skills and knowledge to become software developer. His last position before joining MIROS was software engineer where he fully involved in software development life cycle. He has wide experience in planning, analysing, designing, implementing, and maintaining of IT-related development. In MIROS, he specialized his research to apply existing technology for products development in the field of ITS. He also develops system, software, and tools to assist researchers to collect and analyse data. Most of his research in MIROS are focusing on system development and system integration.

Nathalie Sassen has been working for Keolis for the past six years. As Head of Customer Experience and Network Design her role is to deliver best-in-class mobility solutions to passengers and Public Transport Authorities. This has given her a very accurate understanding of the mobility needs in the different regions and an ability to innovate to meet their needs. Her expertise in Network design and planning, customer experience and new mobilities, has been a real value for the development of Keolis in Europe and now in Australia. Nathalie is currently based in Sydney.

Nicholas Brook is a Principal Engineer for the Cooperative and Automated Vehicle Initiative (CAVI) at the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads. His is an RPEQ and Chartered Civil Engineer with a diverse working background including; road construction, design, contract management, traffic modelling, Managed Motorways, signal optimisations and network operations planning. He has a passion for improving road safety for all users.

Nick has been working within ITS for over 18 years in the UK and Australia. Much of his career has been in management consulting where Nick led award winning change projects in transport, ITS, road tolling, asset management and operations. Nick is now part of Transurban’s ITS Leadership Team, managing the transition activities that comes with business disruption from innovation, operational initiatives and most notably business development. Nick’s work over the past 4 years has focused on WestConnex managing the delivery of ITS engineering and operational services.

Nikhil Ahuja is a data science graduate from QUT currently working with Dr. Ashish Bhaskar as a Research Assistant.

Pablo has over 12 years of experience as an IT professional. He has a successful track record working as a Project Manager, leading, managing and delivering large multi-million ITS projects across the globe, including countries such as UK, Greece, Australia and New Zealand. His wide international experience has provided him with extensive knowledge in ITS and Tolling, especially in Tolling Back Office Systems. He is currently SICE’s Operations Manager for the Australian division, managing the company’s operations nationwide, providing organisational leadership, improving operational systems and organisational effectiveness and playing a significant role in long-term planning.

Paul Baker has a career spanning 20 years in information technology with the last 5 years specialising in information technology in Intelligent Transport Systems with a particular focus on information and cyber security in ITS.

Penny Dillon has overseen the Optus Sustainable Transport program successfully for 6 years. Using her experience in transport, communications and consumer insights, she has driven the evolution of sustainable transport at Optus to become an award-winning program. It is also the longest-running and one of the most successful workplace travel plan in Australia, having the lowest drive alone mode share of any business in Macquarie Park. Penny’s experience spans marketing, project management, transport planning, communications, change management and stakeholder management. She is an advocate for sustainable transport both at Optus and within Macquarie Park, leading a national transport team to deliver a positive employee experience for 10,000 Optus people.

Pete is a Transport Planner with 3 years’ experience in both the public and private sector in Queensland and New South Wales. During a year studying transport planning at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Pete developed a passion for international best practice multi-modal transport planning and research. While working at Brisbane City Council, he has gained experience across a diverse range of areas including road network planning, cycleways, bus priority infrastructure, accessible bus stop upgrades and bus network planning. Pete is now based in Sydney in the Transport Advisory and Planning team at WSP, where he has continued his career by contributing to various projects including public and active transport planning, policy, strategy and transport research.

Peter Riedl originally started his career in China and joined BMW in Germany in 2006. He held several R&D management positions in Chassis, Electric Powertrain and Electronics Division and was responsible for all phases of the vehicle development from concept to architecture and product launch. As Head of the BMW Technology Office China he is developing concepts for future mobility and is driving innovation in China for China and for the world.

Vice President for Sales in TomTom for the Asia – Pacific (APAC) region for the licensing of TomTom’s map and traffic data to assist in solving challenges in Mobility and Smart Cities in the enterprise sector. Customers and target audiences include Road Controlling Authorities, State Government, Municipalities, Emergency Services Logistics and Enterprise. Previously Phil was the MD of GeoSmart for 23 years until the company was purchased by TomTom in 2014 delivering mapping, traffic, traveler information and geospatial web solutions across New Zealand and Australia. Phil comes from a mapping and computer science background.

Philip is both a civil and electrical engineer. He has more than twenty years’ experience in the electrical industry with eleven years’ experience working in the Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) industry in Australia and New Zealand.
Philip’s current role with Siemens Mobility has him based in Sydney, Australia and leading Siemens ITS business for the ANZ region, leveraging Siemens comprehensive ITS portfolio and long-standing global market experience of nearly 100 years in the industry.

I am the A/Director ITS Engineering at Transport for NSW and I responsible for multiple disciplines undertaking ‘whole-of-life’ system engineering encompassing; concept of operations, system/sub-system and component design/prototyping through to implementation and component, subsystem/system verification, validation, system commissioning and operational compliance with system concepts and RMS’s project plans. These processes include consultative alliances with RMS, Transport, external agencies and our state/national clients and international peers.

This role encompasses; concept, planning and operations across a broad spectrum of the organisation and industry, including material and module assessment, system evaluation and operational solutions designed to minimise organisational, regulatory, operational and reputational risk, and maintain RMS as an industry leader within the national and international ITS arenas.

Dr Rebecca Michael is Head of Public Policy and Mobility at RACQ.
The RACQ is the peak advocacy body for Queensland road users and represents over 1.7 million members covering 50% of Queensland households.
In her role, Rebecca oversees research and develops and advocates for policy to promote safe, affordable and sustainable mobility, both now and into the future.
Rebecca has worked in the transport and infrastructure policy sector for several years and has delivered a diverse range of research, transport, infrastructure and economics projects and policies that focus on improving transport system outcomes to benefit Queensland.

Reza is a transport and control scientist with the Transport group of Data61. His research interests include automated vehicles, traffic network modelling, analysis and control, as well as machine learning applications to traffic systems. Reza carries over 10 years of research and working experience in a wide range of control and optimization projects with both theoretical and practical perspectives. He holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, a M.Sc. in Mechanical/Mechatronics Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Control Engineering. Reza has worked as a research fellow with multiple prestigious G-8 Australian Universities including the University of Sydney and Monash University.

At Austroads, Richard leads a research program bringing together the ANZ transport agencies on all matters relating to road operations and planning. Smart motorways operations, ITS specifications, and new mobility solutions are some of his focus areas, with his scope also covering traffic engineering, modelling, temporary traffic management, and road freight. Richard is a board director of ITS Australia.

He brings a broad perspective and large industry network developed through various ITS engineering management positions in public sector, construction industry and consultancies over the last 20 years.

Rich has worked in the Transport, Mining and Power industries for over 28 years, leveraging his extensive knowledge and vision for developing reliable and effective communication solutions. Rich’s lifelong interest in emerging technologies and motor racing has led him to the fields of Autonomous Transport Systems, C-ITS, Mobility as a Service, Smart Cities, Big Data the Internet of Things and how they may be integrated in new projects for more efficient use of existing resources so that we work more in harmony with the environment. He currently chairs an internal Aurecon Future Transport group.

Ronald Boénau, P.E., international transport research advisor has 40 years experience in multimodal transport research, development and deployment of emerging advanced transport technologies and innovative user services. He was ITS Public Transportation Division Chief responsible for national ITS transit research in U.S. DOT. He’s active in international technical committees to advance global transport research and has a Bachelor and Masters. Najmeh Jami, an ITE International Future Leader graduate, is a transportation engineer with Stantec and has seven years experience in traffic engineering and multimodal mobility. Prior to Stantec, she worked at KCI in Nashville, TN. In both her careers, Najmeh has been involved in conducting various traffic analysis and coordinating feasible multimodal transportation improvements between professional team and city/state officials.

Nokia Business Development Manager for the Transportation Segment in the Oceania region. Masters Degree (Hons) educated professional with over 20 years experience in telecommunications having worked on projects involving CSP’s and transportation operators (Network Rail UK and Highways England).
Joined Alcatel-Lucent in 1998 and became an integral part of the Optics Post Sales engineering team, was promoted to Engineer, Senior Engineer, Team Leader and eventually to Principal Engineer within the deployment group. Moved to the global Pre-Sales Solution Architect, specializing in the area of Intelligent Transport and Oil and Gas communications systems. Moved to Australia in 2014 to perform the role of technical pre-sales engineer in the area of DWDM before moving to my current role in the Transportation Segment.