SESSION 4 PROGRAM


This Aurecon facilitated workshop will bring ideas and examples from speakers across the health, energy and other demand sensitive industries, allowing participants to break into groups and apply innovative cross-sector solutions to our transport demand challenges.  

This cross-pollination workshop will provide an interactive experience that engages leaders from non-transport sectors, who have solved management demand challenges in their own businesses, to share with us their insights on how we might apply their lessons learnt to the transport industry.


MEET OUR SPEAKERS

THURSDAY 7 OCTOBER | 11:00 – 13:00 AEDT

SESSION 4: Interactive Workshop




Sam Linke
Integrated Transport & Mobility Capability Leader, Aurecon

Sam is passionate about the power of integrated transport planning to create a better future. She believes that visionary, inclusive, and adaptable planning is at the heart of creating smarter, safer, and more liveable cities. As international engineering, design, and advisory company Aurecon’s Global Capability Leader for Integrated Transport & Mobility, Sam brings a diverse skillset of planning, technology, and engineering to increase resilience of and reduce pressure on our public and private transport services.

Sam leads a team that undertakes planning, analysis, and design of transport and places that integrate seamlessly. Aurecon’s ITM capability works across full project lifecycles, providing strategic advice early to anticipate evolving mobility and market needs, delivering insight-driven analytics and design, through to efficient operations. Sam facilitates connection, collaboration, excellence, and innovation in the ITM network.  

Sam has experience in leadership and delivery of complex transport infrastructure projects, and specialist expertise in pedestrian planning and modelling. She has a strong commercial and risk focus, and is adept at bringing together diverse teams that are shaping the future of cities and the transport networks that keep people and goods moving.




Lauren Davis
Design to Innovate Partner, Aurecon

Lauren Davis is Aurecon’s Innovation Partner for South Australia and Victoria, she brings 17 years of international industry experience across sectors. 

Lauren loves the design process, in particular working to understand the needs of users and stakeholders to ensure that project outcomes provide the maximum benefit to all. Using Aurecon’s  Design to Innovate process, Lauren has worked across industries to help bring clarity to 'wicked problems' and bring focus to the underlying challenges and issues which aren't always immediately clear. By working in this consultative manner, the ideas and perspectives of diverse sets of stakeholders are considered, resulting in innovative design outcomes which are tailored to the specific user needs.




Michael O'Brien
Lead Experience Designer, Aurecon

After a 12 year career as a structural engineer, Michael turned his attention to looking at the human impact of what we design. He is now a Lead Experience Designer and specialist facilitator at Aurecon where he applies his skills in working with design teams to explore and deeply understand the experience of the people who will interact with the projects we design. 

He is therefore able to bring his understanding of engineering together with a passion for ensuring that our infrastructure is fit for purpose through human-centred design. Michael also specialises in drawing insights out of a diverse range of stakeholders through workshop facilitation and interpreting them to draw meaningful conclusions.




Lora Colussi
Integrated Transport and Mobility Practice Leader, Victoria & South Australia, Aurecon

Lora is a Principal Transport Planning leader based in the Aurecon Melbourne office.  She is experienced in a wide range of transport planning and engineering areas  such as strategic network planning, the Movement and Place Framework and road safety.  Lora is passionate about delivering wholistic transport solutions that not only move us but improve the places we live, work and play.  




Hester De Wet
Portfolio Performance Manager, LUMEA, Transgrid

Hester is the Portfolio Performance Manager at Lumea, driving portfolio excellence through alignment of customer needs with Lumea’s strategic goals.

Hester is a chartered electrical engineer with industry experience from Mining, Energy, Rail, Civil Aerospace, Construction and Digital Consulting. Having worked in countries across the world leading Business Development, Capability Growth and Strategy Enablement, always with a future focus on the ever changing technological landscape.




Colin Hackwood
Planning Director,Victoria Health Building Authority

Colin is a father of two daughters, husband to a paediatric nurse for the Sydney Children's Hospital Network, and works for the Victorian Government, providing strategic advice and directorship to teams managing master planning, feasibility and business case processes for new hospital developments and redevelopments. 

He has extensive leadership experience in major and minor public health infrastructure development, planning, procurement and contract delivery processes, as well as performing executive operational and hospital commissioning roles in healthcare services in Australia and abroad.

One of his recent roles was providing strategic advice and coordinating the demand management of patient flow processes in Qatar's tertiary and secondary public hospital network.

He is a Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Service Management (ACHSM), a Councillor of the regional ACHSM NSW Branch, and a professional mentor for emerging leaders in the national 2021 program for the Australian Institute of Project Management.

His undergraduate studies were in Nursing, and his postgraduate Masters qualifications are in Project Management and Business Administration.




Philip Motteram
Industry Leader, Aurecon

Philip is a 28 year building engineering professional with Aurecon based in Melbourne. Having started his career in Adelaide, he has worked in Sydney, and recently moved to Melbourne after 7 years based out of Singapore.  

While in Singapore, Philip was responsible for Aurecon’s Data Centre business in Asia delivering large scale data centre projects across South East Asia for some of the biggest names in the Co-location and Cloud data centre industry. In his current role as Industry Leader Built Environment, Philip is responsible for Aurecon’s Built Environment strategy and client engagement in Victoria and South Australia, while also maintaining an active role in the APAC wide data centre business. An active industry participant, Philip has served on the Practice Committee of the Association of Consulting Engineers Singapore, and prior to that the Executive Committee of Consult Australia in South Australia.




Abel Immaraj
Rivers, Waterways & Catchment Management  Leader, Aurecon

Abel Immaraj is one of the nation’s most eminent water stewards and advocates. He has directly contributed to major water projects in almost every Australian state and territory in a career stretching more than 30 years. 

An acknowledged expert in water governance, regulation, and reform, Abel has been directly involved in transforming two of the largest state-based water authorities – WaterNSW, and Seqwater – leading the former as its CEO for eight years. He also directly contributed to the drafting of the Commonwealth Water Act (2007), Murray-Darling Basin Reforms and was on the Prime Minister’s three member independent panel to review compliance with the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. 

Abel was a principal advisor to the Commonwealth Government on investments under the National Water Initiative. Respected by his colleagues for his innovative, collaborative approach to problem solving, Abel was recently named Queensland Water Professional of the Year by the Australian Water Association.