Speakers

Andy Salkeld has 30 years’ experience in Local Government, with a focus on innovation and people-friendly strategies for the city. His projects and responsibilities cover traffic management, casualty reduction, traffic calming, safer routes to school, local safety schemes, traffic impact assessment, cycling strategy, bike share, street design and active travel. He currently works for Leicester City…

  Liz Irvin is an authority in transport planning, with traffic planning experience in Canada, the UK and Australia. Her expertise includes the effective use of modal filters – allowing passage of some modes of transport but not others – to reduce and improve traffic flows so roads near schools are safer and more attractive.…

Monica Olyslagers is the Global Innovation Manager and Cities Specialist for the International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP), a registered charity dedicated to saving lives by eliminating high risk roads throughout the world. She oversees the organisation’s ‘AiRAP’ program for the accelerated and intelligent collection of data for road safety assessments, and CycleRAP, a bicycling and micro-mobility…

Lucy Saunders combines a rare combination of public health specialist, urbanist and transport planner. The UK resident used that diversity to create the Healthy Streets Approach, an evidence based-framework for decision making at every level to embed public health in city transport, public realm and planning. Her highly influential work put health at the heart…

Geoff Rose is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Monash University. He has been an academic staff member at Monash for nearly 30 years and spent about half that time as the Director of the Monash Institute of Transport Studies. Geoff’s teaching and research focus on transport planning and travel demand. His…

Tom Cooper is the Australia and NZ head of leading scooter company Beam. Tom has been involved in the shared micromobility industry across Australia and New Zealand since its infancy, and has seen the industry transform from its humble beginnings. Beam is now Asia Pacific’s largest shared micromobility company, with operations spanning 25 cities across…

Shifani Sood is an experienced transport planner deeply involved in city shaping projects with a focus on industry disruption and future mobility strategies. A Senior Consultant with WSP in Australia, Shifani is passionate about leveraging the opportunities presented by micromobility and has produced leadership whitepapers including the Future of Delivery: Unleashing the potential of micromobility…

Sara Stace is a city shaper, strategic thinker and innovator with extensive knowledge about cities, land use, and urban transport. She is Australia’s Director of Cities for management and consultancy firm WSP Global, providing strategic advice on urban policy related to places and precincts, active transport, master planning, and governance Over the past 24 years,…

Fiona Campbell is the Cycling Strategy Manager at the City of Sydney, where she leads a team that manages one of Australia’s largest cycling infrastructure design, construction and promotion budgets. Fiona is possibly the best-known and most highly regarded local government cycling implementation practitioner in Australia. She will report on City of Sydney’s progress on implementing…