Edwin Lai is a Graduate Transport Engineer at Jacobs who is passionate about improving the connectivity and resilience of communities through sustainable infrastructure and innovative transport solutions. He first became interested in the transport industry during university and his fascination only grew after studying and interning in Korea and Singapore. Edwin has a strong interest in emerging technologies including Mobility as a Service, Micromobility and Electric Vehicles, where he has presented his research on Mobility Hubs and MaaS at the ITS Mobility and ITS Australia Summit conferences in 2022. He is also passionate about giving a voice to young professionals and is excited to contribute towards this industry.

Jessica Athayde is a transport planner and civil engineer with a strong foundation in customer-centred design in cities, places, teams, and transport planning. She has led design research in transport infrastructure and championed customer insights within the integrated technical design response. Jessica is committed to driving the shift to sustainable travel facilitated through vision-led policy, strategy and infrastructure delivery to help shape safer and connected cities. Jessica is currently working as a project officer at Sydney Metro in the Customer & Product team, working collaboratively across transport planning, customer experience and operations and maintenance and feeding through to the design and delivery teams in Metro West.

Isabella Kim is a passionate young professional who has working experience in the private and public sectors. Currently, she is a Senior Transport Engineer at Blue Mountains City Council and is leading several projects that involve strategic transport planning, active transport and precinct-based transport studies. Throughout her career, Isabella has been given the opportunity to work in many different areas within the industry where she started in traffic engineering but quickly became interested in traffic modelling, working in the transport planning space and exploring GIS opportunities. Isabella has also presented at the 2019 AITPM National Conference on travel behaviour variations across Sydney and was the recipient of the 2020 AITPM Young Professional Award.