Brooke Wharton is an urban and regional planner with a genuine passion for urban design and placemaking. Brooke’s experience spans urban renewal, place revitalisation and management, and major infrastructure provision. At Transport for NSW, she leads a multi-disciplinary team delivering state-wide programs aimed at helping enhance the walking and cycling experience for communities in neighbourhoods, local centres and transport hub precincts state-wide. This includes the Safer Cities Program, Streets as Shared Spaces, Business Improvement Districts Pilot, Places to Love, NSW Public Spaces Charter, Great Places Toolkit, The Festival of Place and more.

(Dr.) Richard Shepherd, Director Transport Planning, leads and contributes to resolution of significant transport and integration issues across all four major projects at Sydney Metro. He is passionate about active and public transport advocacy in decision-making, and supporting sustainable mode choices and their role in creating great urban outcomes. Richard holds degrees in urban planning and economic development from UNSW and TU Darmstadt (Germany). He also lectured on transport planning at UNSW during his PhD studies. Prior to joining Sydney Metro, Richard worked at Transport for NSW and RailCorp.

David has worked in road safety and operations for approximately 20 years starting off in London before arriving in Sydney approximately 10 years ago. I have a major interest in improving road safety wherever possible and ensuring equitable access is provided for all user groups across the road network. As part of my current role, I am responsible for the operation of approximately 4,600 traffic signals across NSW.

Martin Prowse is a highly skilled and experienced business owner and manager who currently serves as CEO of the team at Matrix Traffic and Transport Data. With more than 34 years of experience in the traffic and transport industry.  Martin started counting cars as his part time university job while studying for his Bachelor of Town Planning.  Since then Martin has honed his expertise in traffic data collection, analysis, and planning.

Under Martin’s leadership, Matrix has expanded to have offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Perth, Auckland NZ, Wellington NZ and the UK.  Matrix has operational offices in Hobart, Newcastle, and North Queensland.

Julie leads the Transport for NSW Transport Strategy team, responsible for setting the long-term vision for an integrated, multimodal, customer-centric transport system. Her team deliver better community outcomes through collaboratively creating strategies and tools informed by robust evidence that anticipate future challenges and opportunities. This includes creating guidelines and practical tools to support its implementation (including Movement & Place), and multimodal strategic network planning across NSW. She has 30 years’ experience in planning, policy, advocacy and research roles across state and local government, consultancies, universities and the community sector.

Koosha has over 13 years’ experience in transport planning, management and engineering. Koosha started his career at Cardno (now Stantec), with a focus on traffic and transport assessments and transport modelling. In his time at Transport for NSW, Koosha has been responsible for managing the Walking and Cycling Program, delivering key long term transport guidance documents and delivering frameworks that help guide our ways of working. Koosha has a passion for helping the industry make informed decisions through evidence based approaches to drive better outcomes for the community.

Rory is the Acting Executive Director, Smart Places, in the Active Transport and Vibrancy Branch at Transport for NSW. Rory has led the Smart Places team for the last two and half years and has been part of NSW’s Smart Places award-winning journey since the inception in 2019. In this role he drives an agenda to deliver great place and public space outcomes for people using connected technologies and data solutions.

Graham is a transport planner and traffic engineer with over 25 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 modelling, 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 Urbis, GHD, Transport for NSW, Roads and Maritime Services and City of Sydney.