Speakers

Keynote Speakers

David Tucker

Chief of Investment Assessment, Infrastructure Australia

David Tucker is Chief of Project Advisory and Evaluation at Infrastructure Australia. His responsibility for assessing business cases has led him and his team to think imaginatively and take an outcomes-focussed approach in their evaluation processes. Hence his presentation ‘Beyond the BCR’ will show us ways to deliver better infrastructure using non-cost-benefit measures. It is specifically designed to get the audience thinking about how this might apply to our own areas of interest – even if not directly in infrastructure.

Cassie Hames

Programmer, SAGE Automation

Damian Hewitt

Head of Smart Cities and Future Mobility, SAGE Group

An interesting and thought-provoking presentation will be the combination of Damian Hewitt and Cassie Hames. They are from SAGE in Adelaide where the company takes advantage of the global movement towards industrial digitalisation and ‘contributes to a smarter future and better world for communities and governments’.

SAGE has been delivering roadside technology for over 20 years, and here Damian and Cassie will discuss how the future of mobility is connecting vehicles and infrastructure. They will particularly focus on the importance of inclusion of everyone on the transport network and how SAGE is planning to change the public transport experience for all types of users – old, young, non-frequent users and those with a disability!

Willem Snel

Technical Director, Cities and Future Mobility, Mott MacDonald

Willem is known as an engaging presenter who aims to inspire and evoke out-of-the-box thinking, followed by enthusiasm for the future of our cities. He outlines a story about how transport and city planning are connected (in history, the present day and the future) and how they can work together in a way that provides better outcomes for people and for public space. Topics included in the presentation will be: proximity, active transport, shared mobility (MaaS), integrated master planning, and an exciting new concept connecting mobility, energy and community in one place. This all will be supported by international (project) examples.

Willem argues that ‘business as usual’ is not an option, we have to re-invent our cities and the way we travel and design our infrastructure, we have to take a holistic view on the future of our cities, moving away from a siloed approach to an integrated approach.

Professor Ingrid Burkett

Co-Director, Yunus Social Business Centre, Griffith University

Ingrid Burkett is Professor and Co-Director of The Yunus Centre, Griffith University - an innovation centre with the aim of accelerating transitions to regenerative and distributive futures.

Over the years she has built 5 social businesses, contributed to the design of practice models, policy and processes in diverse fields - local economic development, ageing, disability, procurement, and impact finance and investment. Highlights include creating foundations for social procurement in Australia. She’s also led place-based initiatives addressing entrenched disadvantage including GROW, the award-winning Geelong Regional Opportunities for Work initiative. So her stories will certainly stimulate ideas for participants!

She describes her presentation in a way that inspires interest:

Bushfires, floods and the pandemic have heightened the awareness of place-based inequities across Australia and around the world. Perhaps the silver lining of these disasters is that we have a broader platform on which to think about, experiment and act on how we may finally address these inequities – and what the critical infrastructures might be for tackling them. Using stories, images and case studies I will be exploring what it really takes to shift inequity, and what the role of infrastructure is in enabling better outcomes for people and places.

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith

Chair, Don Dunstan Foundation

Dr. Jane Lomax-Smith, currently Chair of the Don Dunstan Foundation will share some thoughts and challenges with those attending the dinner at the Hilton as part of the Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF) in Adelaide (28-30 September 2022).

Jane’s after dinner thoughts will be titled ‘Join the dots’

She will reflect on the challenge of delivering reform in a disconnected and divided ecosystem - learning from disasters, near misses and the occasional success.

Nic Kaliszewski

Transport Analytics, Department of Infrastructure & Transport, South Australia

Nic has chosen a fascinating topic: Transforming transportation forecasting using the Internet-of-Things

It will focus on how the Internet-of-Things is opening up new ways of working in the transport forecasting space in particular. But he will also challenge us to think about how this can also apply more broadly in transport planning and operations!