27-28 November 2019
Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
27-28 November 2019
Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Michel Masson is Chief Executive Officer at Infrastructure Victoria, an independent body responsible for delivering Victoria’s first ever 30-year infrastructure strategy.
Michel started his career at Deloitte before joining the Bollore Group where he held various senior finance positions in the transport and logistics division in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. In 2005 he joined Keolis as head of Finance and Operations for the International Division where he was responsible for leading public transport operations in seven countries and held various non-executive director positions in UK and German rail franchises.
Michel was appointed CEO of Yarra Trams in 2009 and helped lead the development of Keolis Downer throughout Australia, before joining the Calibre group in 2014 to create and lead its Transport Infrastructure business.
Michel is a graduate from the EDHEC Business School in France, and the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He also completed the Advanced Management Program from the Harvard Business School.
In 2017, Michel was awarded an Honourary Doctorate in Technology from Swinburne University in recognition of his contribution to shaping infrastructure in Victoria.
Michel became an Australian citizen in 2014.
With over 20 years’ experience in the real estate sector, Angela has broad commercial property experience with particular expertise in property development, urban renewal and infrastructure projects.
The former head of Minter Ellison's National Real Estate, Environment and Planning team, Angela has acted for both public and private sector clients in high-profile property and infrastructure projects. Angela is a member of the Board of Advisors for the Property Industry Foundation and has been a long term contributor to Property Council of Australia and Law Council of Australia committees.
Stuart Moseley has more than 30 years of experience in urban management and project delivery, and has held senior positions in three State Governments, the private sector and local government.
He is a former Chief Executive of the Adelaide City Council, a former National Vice-President of the Urban Development Institute of Australia, a Registered Planner and Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia, and a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Immediately prior to taking the helm at the VPA in June 2017, Stuart oversaw the delivery of a new planning system for Queensland a new regional plan for South East Queensland.
In his VPA role he has driven the repositioning of the Authority as a broad-based State-wide growth planning agency and is now working to deliver the organisation’s largest-ever project portfolio.
Dr Collette Burke is the inaugural Victorian Chief Engineer, with more than 25 years of engineering and construction industry experience in roles such as Site Engineer, Executive Manager and Managing Director. Having completed a PhD in risk management at RMIT and value for money on major infrastructure projects, she is also an internationally acknowledged researcher.
In addition to her role as the Victorian Chief Engineer, she acts as the Managing Director of Exner Group and Karsta in the Middle East and has been appointed as a Director for VicTrack. Formerly, Dr Burke was the National Director of the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC).
Dr Burke has a drive for greater operational outcomes, a focus on strategic and forward planning, people development, effective delivery and commercial strategy.
Emily is the Executive Director Precinct Design in the Precincts and Suburbs Group of the Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions.
Emily is passionate about urban renewal and has worked extensively in place-based partnerships. She holds a Master of Urban Regeneration and has delivered major renewal projects in the UK and Australia.
Prior to joining DJPR, Emily was Executive Director Inner Melbourne at the Victorian Planning Authority including leading work on Arden.
Emily’s focus within Priority Precincts is on delivering great urban experiences and environments by translating policy into place specific plans. Emily leads the Fishermans Bend Taskforce.
Linda Cantan has over 20 years’ experience in infrastructure delivery across a number of sectors including transport, education and health.
Her extensive experience working on Public Private Partnership projects includes the $2.9 billion Eastlink, $1.11 billion Bendigo Hospital project, $367 million Melbourne Convention Centre Development and $309 million Southern Cross Station redevelopment.
As Package Director Tunnel & Stations, Linda has overseen the procurement and contract negotiation for the $6 billion package to build the five new underground stations and Metro Tunnel and is responsible for managing the contract throughout construction.
Steve Nicholls is the new Director of MonashHeart and Professor of Cardiology at Monash University. He will be the Director of the Victorian Heart Hospital. He completed his cardiology training at John Hunter Hospital and PhD at the University of Adelaide, prior to holding a postdoctoral fellowship and faculty appointment at the Cleveland Clinic. He returned to Australia to serve as the inaugural Deputy Director and Heart Health Theme Leader at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute. His research interests focus on the role of metabolic risk factors and imaging in atherosclerosis, with work spanning from early discovery to leadership of large clinical trials. He is Chair of the (i) Australian Atherosclerosis Society Clinical Council, (ii) Australia and New Zealand Alliance for Cardiovascular Trials, (iii) Asia Pacific Cardiometabolic Consortium and (iv) Future Leader Fellowship committee of the National Heart Foundation, Secretary of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, Treasurer of the Australian Cardiovascular Alliance and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
Dr Kate Cornick is the CEO of LaunchVic, the Victorian Government’s startup development agency. Kate is deeply passionate about the role of innovation in our economy and society more broadly, and has considerable experience in technology innovation across startups, academia, corporates and government.
Most recently, Kate led the development of human resources technology startup Rision Ltd, creating new products, partnerships, sales and ultimately a listing on the ASX. Kate sits on a number of boards including the Victorian Government Innovation Expert Panel, The Charles Sturt University Council and the AIIA Victoria Council.
Kate is a telecommunications engineer and was involved in policy development for the NBN. She has held the positions of Senior Telecommunications Adviser and Deputy Chief of Staff to Senator Stephen Conroy, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and has also worked as a General Manager at NBN Co. Kate Cornick undertook her PhD in optical telecommunications at the University of Melbourne and, as part of her studies, spent time at AT&T Research Laboratories, USA.
Joanne Wandel joined the City of Melbourne in October 2015 to lead the delivery of Council’s largest capital works program to revitalise the Queen Victoria Market. Prior to that, she spent four years at Places Victoria where she was the Development Director of the Melbourne Docklands project and later General Manager Land Development and Housing, delivering a range of projects in metropolitan and regional Victoria worth more than $2 billion.
Joanne has a proven track record in delivering and facilitating large projects, working in partnership with the public and private sector. She has held senior roles at the Office of Housing, Ashe Morgan Winthrop, R Corporation, the then Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development and Mildura Rural City Council.
Joanne holds a Master of Commercial Law from the University of Melbourne, an MBA and a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Politics.
Kate Roffey (Chairman) was appointed a Director of VRCA on 1 June 2016. She has extensive experience as a CEO and Senior Executive within the commercial, government and not-for-profit sectors.
Kate is currently the Director of Deals, Investment and Major Projects at Wyndham City, where she has played a critical role in securing a new A League team for Melbourne’s West and developing a Public-Private-Partnership deal that will see Australia’s first privately owned sports stadium built in Wyndham. Prior to that, Kate was the CEO of the Committee for Melbourne where she successfully led a broad cross-section of Melbourne’s most influential companies and institutions to develop initiatives that ensured Melbourne continued to grow as a prosperous globally connected city and retain its mantle as the ‘World’s most liveable city’. As an industry leader in this role, Kate led influential policy discussions around the key issues of infrastructure development, economic growth, urban optimisation and liveability.
Prior to joining the Committee, Kate held an executive position at Tennis Australia as Manager of the Melbourne Park Redevelopment, where she played a leadership role in developing the Masterplan vision of, and secured almost $1 billion in government funding for, the substantial upgrading of facilities for the Australian Open Tennis Championship.
In addition to her Executive roles, Kate is also an experienced non-executive director and is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. In addition to her role at the Victorian Regional Channels Authority, Kate is Vice President of the Melbourne Football Club, is the Chair of the Metro Trains Advisory Board, Member of the Ministerial Review into Planning and Essential Services Board as well as being a member of the Ministerial Freight Advisory Council.
Esther’s in-depth understanding of social procurement, stakeholder engagement, risk management and strategic communication has proven a powerful tool in ensuring her infrastructure clients’ goals are achieved. With over 15 years of stakeholder management experience spanning across Government and private Tier-1 construction and engineering companies, she has a proven ability to develop and execute effective communication and strategic procurement strategies. Esther was the Lead Advisor, Community & Stakeholder Relations at CPB Contractors on the Melbourne Water M40 Preston Reservoir to Merri Creek Water Main Renewal Project, and 3 Main Drains Project, specifically Aberfeldie Drainage Improvement Project. Esther develop the Social Procurement Strategy for the Western Distributor Project and provide strategic input into the Workforce Development Plan, Victorian Industry Participation Policy, and Major Projects Skills Guarantee. Currently Esther is a PhD candidate at Swinburne University undertaking research into social procurement, its practices and opportunities for design and implementation to create positive social outcomes.
Ian Filby is the Project Director for CarbonNet at the Department of Jobs Precincts and Regions, a State and Commonwealth funded project investigating commercial scale carbon capture and storage for Gippsland, enabling new industries such as hydrogen production consistent with Net Zero Emissions by 2050 target.
Ian has bachelor degrees in civil engineering and commerce, with an extensive background working at the interface between government and the private sector on major capital projects. Prior to joining CarbonNet, Ian was involved in the delivery of the Victorian Desalination Project and large scale water recycling proposals for the Latrobe Valley.
Phil joined Bentley in 2011 after the company’s acquisition of FormSys, where he was founder and CEO. He was named senior vice president of reality modeling and cloud services in 2017 and is responsible for the company’s portfolio of reality modeling software and cloud services including ContextCapture, ContextCapture Center, ContextCapture Cloud Processing, ContextCapture Editor, Descartes, Pointools, and ProjectWise ContextShare. Phil also leads the development of a range of new cloud services for mobile access to analysis models and Scenario Services for design optioneering. His prior roles with Bentley include senior vice president of analytical modeling, vice present of offshore and optioneering, vice president of offshore and marine, and director of product development/marine. Phil earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Auckland and a master’s degree in engineering science from the University of Western Australia.
Martin Hawson, General Manager Community, Mildura Rural City Council
Martin has extensive experience in the education and health sectors and has worked in local government at the Mildura Rural City Council for the past 19 years. The Community Department is made up of three Branches’ which are Community Futures, Community Care Services and Leisure and Cultural Services within the Mildura Municipality.
During his career Martin’s integrated approach to addressing disadvantage in communities has been a major focus. This has led to the development of models which aim to address the underlying causes of disadvantage rather than the symptoms. Through community planning and community engagement, the cross sector linkages and models have emerged as practical solutions to overcoming disadvantage in communities. The realisation of these models in a practical sense to deliver outcomes and make a difference is emerging as the key challenge facing communities.
In recent years Martin has overseen several successful major redevelopment projects including the redevelopment of the Mildura Arts Centre (building and theatre), Red Cliffs and Merbein Community Hubs (including libraries) and the Mildura Riverfront.
A current focus of Martin’s is the realisation of the ‘Mildura Future Ready’ Funding and Advocacy Strategy, which has seen Mildura Rural City Council successfully attract over $20.5M in State and Federal Government funding since the strategy’s development in 2017.
Martin holds a Masters in Health Administration, Graduate Diploma in Health Science and a Diploma in Education.
Professor Libby Porter is a scholar in planning and urban geography, based at the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University. She is a writer, researcher, educator and activist about cities and urban place-making, contributing to debates about the impacts of displacement from public housing renewal programs, the relationship between Indigenous people and urban land development, as the well as the displacing effects of mega-events. Her many publications and books include Whose Urban Renaissance? An International comparison of urban regeneration policies(co-edited with Kate Shaw 2008 Routledge); Unlearning the Colonial Cultures of Planning(2010 Ashgate), Planning for Coexistence?(with Janice Barry Routledge 2016) and most recently Planning in Indigenous Australia: From imperial foundations to postcolonial futures with Sue Jackson and Louise Johnson (Routledge 2018). Professor Porter has worked in planning and urban policy practice and taught in planning and geography schools around the world. She is the co-founder of Planners Network UK, a progressive voice for radical planning in the UK and convenor of the Save Public Housing Collective.
Scott Harvey is a professional Account executive with over a decade experience, providing software solutions to the Construction industry. He has proven experience with working in the Australian Construction industry providing technical innovations to impact a company’s bottom line.
Scott brings a wealth of experience to PlanGrid having worked at leading Construction software organisations including Aconex, HILTI and most recently Levesys.
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