Nick Stanton is a Chartered Professional Engineer and the Registrar (RE: Chief Engineer) of Engineers Australia. He is responsible for a wide range of aspects within Engineers Australia including the application of professional engineering standards, Registration matters across all Australian States and Territories, international engagement for mobility of professional Engineers, training needs, education and auditing for professional development just to name a few.

He is a recently retired senior Army Officer who served over 36 years in the Australian Army as a Soldier, Commander and Engineer including in combat zones in the Middle East. Nick is also a highly experienced Project Manager, Leader and Innovator having been associated with several large and successful Defence Projects over the years. He was awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross (CSC) for his leadership and innovative solutions in 2009 in the field of advanced technical training.

Nick cares passionately about the engineering profession and assisting others on their professional journey. He always regards a problem as an opportunity awaiting an Engineer to address, preferably over coffee. Please note that after many years of drinking substandard coffee in cold, wet and remote locations around the globe, he is always appreciative of a good coffee and a chat in a dry venue.

Luke is the Assistant Secretary Space and Communications Branch at the Department of Defence. Luke’s role is to lead the delivery of space and communications capabilities to the Australian Defence Force. Luke has specific responsibilities for Position, Navigation and Timing and beyond line of sight communications as well as a general role to help coordinate broader Defence Space Capabilities. Luke has extensive experience across Emerging Projects, Program Management and Engineering Management. ·

Luke’s qualifications include:

RMIT University
Degree Name Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.)
Field Of Study: Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering

Queensland University of Technology
Degree Name Executive Master of Business
Field Of Study: Complex Project Management

Loughborough University
Degree Name Master of Science (M.Sc.)
Field Of Study: Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering 

Teresa is a project, program and portfolio management specialist with over twenty years’ experience in the Defence environment. A former Navy officer, she has also held Project Control and Senior Project Manager roles in Defence industry, as well as inside the Department of Defence in the roles of Director Major Program Control, and Director Investment Portfolio Management.

As the current Assistant Secretary Maritime Analysis in Contestability Division, she delivers independent assurance of the Navy’s major projects and programs in terms of scope, budget, schedule and strategy. She is also responsible for the contesting and assuring of Defence Force Design, and Strategic Cost Analysis.

Teresa holds a Project Management Professional accreditation, undergrad qualifications in Management, English and Information Systems, and a Masters in Politics and Policy. She resides in Canberra with her husband and five-year old daughter.

Kazi is an ambitious and conscientious finance and costing professional, with experience in complex environments; delivering in the areas of cost estimation, budgeting, pricing, analysis, business improvements and reporting.

Kazi focusses on the enhancement of controls to effectively and accurately capture costs, recognise risks and financial obligations to facilitate enhanced business decision making.

He has deep experience in reporting and improving the quality of information, by identifying ways to streamline processes and systems to maximise efficiency.

Kazi’s qualifications include:

– Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA)
– Bachelor of Commerce, University of Canberra
– Advanced Diploma in Applied Business and Information Technology
– Certificate IV in Training and Assessment 

Debra is a certified Project Management and Risk Management Professional (PMP, RMP) and Supplier Relationship Management Practitioner (SRMP) with over 20 years of experience. Debra’s Project Management career spans across various industry segments (Defence, Telecommunications, Energy sector) and reflects diverse project experiences. Debra has consistently provided recommendations for improvement of Project Management processes particularly in the areas of Project Controls and Governance. She works closely with Cost and Schedule Analysts in order to integrate Cost & Schedule analysis into the Risk Management processes. She pioneered the Quantitative Risk Analysis and the 3-point estimate approach (Monte Carlo simulation) with the intent to determine the overall Program risk exposure and realistic and achievable cost and schedule targets on a Major Defence project.

During her career with Ericsson, Debra managed telecommunications projects locally and towards Ericsson customers in Asia Pacific and Africa. Debra holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Industrial Relations from the University of Melbourne and Bachelor’s degree in Political Sciences.

Originally an aircraft mechanic for C-130 Hercules and the F18-Hornet fighter jet, Simon White now ensures that the Aerospace Business Unit for BAE Systems has reliable, repeatable Project Controls.

He is passionate about ‘evolution by enquiry’, asking questions, and applying solutions that are fit for purpose, whether they be conventional or not.

He believes in breaking the rules, because if you always follow the process, you will never do anything different. And if you never do anything different, you will never change or evolve, so once in a while, breaking the rules is a must.

Colin Cropley has over forty years’ experience of project management, project controls and risk management. He has experience in project and risk management consulting, software development, training and lecturing, in sectors including infrastructure, oil & gas, minerals processing, IT, power and defence. He has conducted risk management processes, schedule and cost risk analyses and training for companies including BHP Billiton, BP Australia, Downer EDI, Leighton Contractors, Oman LNG, Origin Energy, Santos, Tenix Defence, Thiess and Woodside Petroleum. Colin is a chemical engineering graduate of the University of Melbourne and was chairman of the Victorian Primavera Users Group from 1997 to 2009. He has guest-lectured in project management at universities between 1991 and 2018 and has delivered presentations at many project management and controls-related conferences, including AACE International’s Annual Meetings, the International Cost Engineering Council’s World Congress, PMI’s PMOz & PMICoS. He is a member of AACE International, the Australian Cost Engineering Society (currently on the National Committee) and the Australian Risk Engineering Society (both Technical Societies of Engineers Australia). In 2016, Colin contributed a chapter titled “The Case for Truly Integrated Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis” to a book “Handbook of Research on Leveraging Risk and Uncertainties for Effective Project Management”.

A Mechanical Engineer and accredited Project Management Professional with over 25 years’ experience working across Australia, Asia Pacific and South America.

Romildo is a Director for Turner & Townsend. He manages the Infrastructure, Energy and Resources sector in South Australia generating businesses opportunities and leading the team while delivering a range of advisory and risk management services.

He works with large local and international organisations, employing his global experience to maximise performance. Romildo works with blue-chip clients in his portfolio including BHP, BP, BAE Systems, Santos, Anglo American and Inpex to name a few.

Romildo has been on the Board of Directors of the Project Management Institute in Adelaide for many years, holding positions in finance, events and marketing. Romildo also lectures Risk Management for the University of Adelaide and was responsible for developing the entire subject as part of their Bachelor of Project Management degree. He also serves on three committees for SACOME, the South Australian Chamber of Mine and Energy.

Stacey has over 18 years of experience in Defence, following on from a 9 year career in the banking, electricity and insurance sectors.  

She has led teams undertaking quality assurance, software estimation, project controls, reform implementation and policy development.

Prior to joining Synergy, Stacey led a large team implementing major reform in Project Controls in CASG.

She has led major initiatives such as the implementation of the Cost Estimation, Analysis and Modelling Tool (CEAMOT), the development of the 12 Step Cost and Schedule Estimation process,  and the development of the Software Estimation Program in Defence.  

Stacey also leads broader activities such as Mindfulness and United Leadership Programs, focussed on the development of high performing teams and individuals. 

Anthony Navarro is the Business Developer and Project Manager for PRICE Systems International. As part of his mission he is responsible for the pre-sales and implementation phases within the key PRICE Systems’ accounts both for government institutions and industries. Anthony contributed to the PRICE Systems’ offer evolution. Prior to joining PRICE Systems International in March 2017, Anthony was the transnational project manager to implement an integrated Cost Estimation Framework solution within Airbus Defence and Space for a Bid Process Improvement project. As part of his mission, he was responsible for the specification, the development and the deployment of a global estimation solution across France, Spain, Germany and the United-Kingdom countries within the same organization.

Anthony was responsible for the parametric methodology development supported by the software TruePlanning on Earth Observation Satellites systems and used to perform Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) cost estimation and analysis of alternative architectures for space systems. In parallel, Anthony was part of a bidding team and responsible for the financial data consistency for Institutional, Commercial and Export businesses (bid management, cost consolidation, price elaboration and negotiation support). Anthony possesses a master’s degree in mechanical and sensory engineering. In his free time, Anthony used to be the captain of a basketball team for more than thirteen years and frequently practices snowboarding in the French high mountains.

Loretta Hudson leads Victoria’s Portfolio and Program Management (PPM) Team and has a highly accomplished 20 year career in delivery and assurance of large complex programs. Initially joining EY’s London Practice in 2008, Loretta has transformed and delivered complex and strategic programs, for some of the largest private and public sectors organisations across the globe including the London 2012 Games. In joining EY’s Oceania Practice in 2010, Loretta was critical in establishing, what is today’s PPM Team of over 150 professionals within Australia and New Zealand alone.

Prior to embarking on her consulting career with EY, Loretta delivered drilling, capital and operational programs for ExxonMobil across Bass Strait and the North West Shelf. Loretta later progressed into executive leadership roles for KBR and held major program delivery accountabilities including Risk & Controls Manager for the Shell $10b GTL program. In the capacity of Business Development Manager for both Azerbaijan and KBR’s subsidiary organisation (Granhere, UK), Loretta successfully negotiated major contracts which delivered KBR favourable financial performance.

Loretta holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) and Bachelor of Business from RMIT, Melbourne. Loretta’s international qualifications includes a MBA in Program Management from the University of Reading (UK).

Loretta is also a respected advocate and role model for improving diversity and female representation within STEM professions, for both EY and client organisations.

Stacey has over 18 years of experience in Defence, following on from a 9 year career in the banking, electricity and insurance sectors.  

She has led teams undertaking quality assurance, software estimation, project controls, reform implementation and policy development.

Prior to joining Synergy, Stacey led a large team implementing major reform in Project Controls in CASG.

She has led major initiatives such as the implementation of the Cost Estimation, Analysis and Modelling Tool (CEAMOT), the development of the 12 Step Cost and Schedule Estimation process,  and the development of the Software Estimation Program in Defence.  

Stacey also leads broader activities such as Mindfulness and United Leadership Programs, focussed on the development of high performing teams and individuals. 

Originally an aircraft mechanic for C-130 Hercules and the F18-Hornet fighter jet, Simon White now ensures that the Aerospace Business Unit for BAE Systems has reliable, repeatable Project Controls.

He is passionate about ‘evolution by enquiry’, asking questions, and applying solutions that are fit for purpose, whether they be conventional or not.

He believes in breaking the rules, because if you always follow the process, you will never do anything different. And if you never do anything different, you will never change or evolve, so once in a while, breaking the rules is a must.

Alex is a senior executive in project delivery and the project control industry, with over 26 years of managing and delivering large scale infrastructure projects and programs. In-depth understanding of the commercial and government operational environment enables him to lead an effective project controls and delivery team. He has strong analytical, communication and dispute resolution skills that lead to greater success in complex project environments. He is a patient communicator and negotiator with the ability to illustrate and articulate complex project management issues and provide objective advice and solutions to senior stakeholders to achieve project goals

Alex’s significant experience in mega project planning and delivery including recent experience with West Connex, Changi Airport and Sydney Metro enabled him to draw on his knowledge base to create innovative solutions to tackle some most complex challenges in project delivery

Keith is an experienced Project Controls Manager who has lead project controls teams at NBN, PTV and British Telecom and currently works with Jacobs as Manager of Project Planning and Controls. Keith’s journey began in music management over 20 years ago. From there he has worked his way through the disciplines of project management in several industries and found himself at home within the dynamic world of project controls. Keith has been the Facilitator for the AIPM Project Controls Community of Practice (Victorian Chapter) for the past 2 years, where he keeps his finger on the pulse of Project Controls. Keith appreciates the need for a people centered approach to projects while also integrating evolving technologies in an ever-challenging project controls landscape. Keith is passionate about project controls and is delighted to share his view of the future at the Expo

Matt has over 20 years experience supporting, implementing and architecting Enterprise and Cloud software. He has worked across multiple industries including Public Sector, E&C and Oil & Gas. At Oracle, Matt has been instrumental in leading some of the largest project management deployments throughout Australia & New Zealand.

Rob joined InEight in March 2018 at Executive Vice President, Asia Pacific. Rob is responsible for sales and general operations of InEight throughout the Asia Pacific region.

Before joining InEight, Rob was Director of Operations for ECI Solutions, leading sales and operations for their Australian business. Previous to that he was Chief Operating Officer with TeamBinder, as they secured the use of their system on over $100b worth of projects, including numerous Government infrastructure projects and contractors from across the Globe. Prior to that Rob was General Manager for IBISWorld Business Information. Rob started his career in London, working in marketing and public relations, following an education that saw him switch from database and systems management to marketing and communications.

Rob has led sales and operations for a range of cloud based product and service organizations, with significant experience in leading high growth software business servicing the construction and engineering sector.

Away from the office Rob enjoys trail running over short course and ultra-distance events, as well as being a father of three young and quickly growing children.

James is an Industry Consultant for Hexagon PPM, based in Singapore. He is PMP certified with international experience implementing project management systems. His project controls experience spans the entire project life cycle from initiation and planning to execution and closeout. James has a proven track record of working with leading project delivery companies to eliminate disparate spreadsheets and point solutions in favour of an enterprise projects performance system that provides a consistent platform to standardize processes and boost project outcomes. In this role at Hexagon PPM, James is the subject matter expert on all things project management and supports companies in their evaluation of EcoSys, Hexagon’s enterprise project controls software.

lulia has more than 25 years’ experience in technical sales, solution design, implementation and software support. Her comprehensive knowledge extends to Project Controls and Project Management Systems and procedures. She’s helped build solutions and add value to software processes and procedures for many clients both domestically and internationally. Her work includes implementations across many market sectors including oil and gas, infrastructure, mining, engineering and construction. lulia brings with her broad experience. She has worked with both private and government clients, from small projects all the way up to megaprojects.

Gideon Klipstein is the Vice President Business of Cost Engineering Consultancy, the company behind Cleopatra Enterprise, one of the world’s leading Project Cost Management software solutions. Next to developing software, the company is one of the leading consultancies in the field of Project Controls, as well as an established knowledge provider with their Cost Engineering Academy.

He holds Bachelor, Post bachelor and Post Master’s degrees in various Business Administration topics and has been providing services to numerous large industrial companies for about 9 years. During that time, he has built up an international network in various industries such as mining, infrastructure, oil & gas, energy, offshore, chemicals and shipbuilding. In his current job he advises leading companies how to improve their project control activities with the combination of software tooling, consultancy services and the Academy.

Additionally to the above, Gideon is leading the company’s strategic business development initiatives in the Australasian region.

With over 18 years' experience in Planning and Scheduling, Santosh is an independent consultant to projects or organisations looking to improve their capabilities and deliver results though improved Project Planning, Scheduling and Risk Analyses. Co-founder and CEO of Linear Project Software and Director of Australasian Project Planning.

Laith Adel is a principle Consultant with pmo365 in Australia. With a strong background in engineering, project management and information technology, Laith provides consulting (both business and technical) and management services to customers, helping them to successfully implement and deploy project portfolio management solutions within their organisations.

He has worked with Microsoft’s Enterprise Project Management (EPM) product set since its early versions and has been involved in many Microsoft EPM solution implementation projects around the world. His strong hands-on experience comes through his involvement with a number of professional services organisations including Microsoft Consulting Services (MSC) and Strategic Data Management (SDM). Through pmo365, Laith has successfully implemented PPM applications to tens of organisations with different maturity levels.

His approach focuses on the realisation of the business objectives of the implementation of the technology by integrating it with the organisation’s process and ensuring the end-users’ adoption. Laith provides a unique style of consulting that challenges the status quo, and shares valuable insights and lessons learned from other organisations.

Geoffrey has over 25 years experience Providing Strategic Direction, Advisory and Leadership advising at board level on; business cases, risks and program performance. Leading regulatory reviews, ensuring projects and programmes adhere to best practice standards. An expert in building strong, diverse, high performing teams, developing capability within the organisation and leading on diversity.

Leading the provision of Program Management, Technical Services, PMO, Integrated Project Controls, Commercial and Procurement with a demonstrable track record of delivering great outcomes.

Geoffrey has the ability to integrate into organisations quickly, obtaining results by strong leadership linking up with colleagues at all levels, ensuring programs and projects are delivered safely to agreed quality, time and cost by professional collaboration with all stakeholders.

A degree qualified Civil Engineer with extensive experience in Planning Management, Programming & Scheduling and Project Controls across highly complex multi-disciplinary portfolios and projects.

Initially started career as a Project Engineer based on site, working on a major construction project, gaining excellent understanding of the technical aspect of construction. This exposure to the construction process, enables the development of accurate schedules and controls that can be practically implemented on site.

Demonstrates excellent technical ability and analytical skills to extract schedule data and provide accurate insight to enhance performance, overcome delivery problems and manage risk.

In recent years has worked on major capital works programmes including building, civil, rail components, involving multiple delivery partners and complex interfaces. This includes working on exceptionally high profile projects in compressed timeframes, requiring the ability to update and re-engineer the program on the fly to overcome challenging delivery problems.

Jonathan is an experienced planner and project controls specialist who has worked extensively in both the United Kingdom and Australia.

Prior to joining TBH, he provided planning and cost management services on the £10b West Coast Route Modification Project in the United Kingdom and then later with SMEC on the $1.5b M7 Westlink Project in Sydney, NSW.

Jonathan joined the TBH Sydney office in December 2003 where he was largely engaged on site based planning and project controls roles. In 2007 he transferred to the Perth office and was instrumental in establishing the branch as a sustainable operation. He became a director of TBH in 2011 and was the profit centre manager for Western Australia for 4 years prior to relocating back to NSW in 2015.

Jonathan has a broad range of skills gained on a variety of projects valued between $1m and $50b across a diverse range of industries including major resources, oil and gas, transport infrastructure, power, water, health, commercial and residential construction. Since moving back to NSW Jonathan has predominantly been engaged to provide client side advice on large infrastructure projects with the focus on master scheduling, constructability, program and portfolio management. Jonathan has also presented a number of training seminars on Microsoft Project, Primavera, critical path planning and delay analysis.

Loretta Bayliss is an internationally experienced IT executive recognised for working closely with clients to achieve high-value, project-focused business and technology solutions.

Known for her drive, energy and passion, as well as her frank and forthright approach, Loretta has an unrelenting commitment to the pursuit of excellence and a constant thirst for knowledge. Highly structured in her thinking, Loretta leaves nothing to chance and makes sound judgement calls that are in the best interests of Prescience Technology’s clients.

Loretta possesses a proven ability to inspire, motivate, and manage exceptionally energized, focused and highly performing teams in challenging project conditions and environments. She has a talent for making rapid assessments of diverse situational and technical challenges and developing and leading the resulting action plans.

Loretta is committed to her support of Act for Kids, a Brisbane headquartered organisation that improves the lives of abused children across Australia. She has hiked through central Australia and the Southern Alps of New Zealand to raise funds for this outstanding cause, and will hike a significant section of Western Australia's iconic Bibbulmun Track in 2018 to raise further awareness for the work that Act for Kids does for Aussie kids and families.

In her spare time, Loretta enjoys playing taxi driver to her three children, regularly runs half marathons and also squeezes in the occasional trail run, cycle, swim or hike.

Vikrant Mulgund leads EY’s Capital Infrastructure and Asset Management solutions across the Asia Pacific region. Over a career approaching 2 decades, he has developed a speciality in megaprojects development and delivery and complex operations in asset-intensive industries; having worked in operational leadership and strategic advisory roles across Asia Pacific, Middle East and North America

His megaproject leadership experience includes - Head of Program Office for the Western Sydney Airport for the Federal Government over 3 years, project management roles on Gladstone LNG over 3 years, Final Investment Decision advice on Snowy Hydro 2.0, among others.

He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) and MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

Rhys is an information systems manager who began as an estimator, moved to engineering across both mechanical and civil and then found himself in information technology with combined experience of almost 14 years. As an analyst, Rhys specifically managed the development and implementation of worldwide group solutions down to the project and/or task related Business improvements. In the past 12 months his focus has been on the Level Crossing Removal Projects (LXRP) working for the Western Program Alliance (WPA) to implement initiatives to ultimately deliver value for money to the state. This is being achieved through the optimisation of value-add activities with a longer-term strategy to create a fully integrated project site. One key initiative during this time has been the management for WPA the ‘Connected Sites’ through the Pilot phase and now beyond.

Phil is an authentic transformation leader with a focus on team collaboration, continual improvement and innovation. He has 15 years of experience working across the civil engineering industry. In project and engineering management roles he has led teams on a variety of projects throughout Australia and New Zealand, including in the rail, roads, marine and telco sectors. After 5 years in McConnell Dowell’s engineering team, Phil joined the Western Program Alliance (WPA) in 2017 to lead Innovation & Continuous Improvement. In this role he has led a transformative agenda of innovation and improvement that has shifted the Alliance culture and is now impacting and benefiting more widely across the Level Crossing Removal Project and broader industry.

Glenn Drew is the CEO of two software companies notably TOTECS.com that offers integrated eCommerce and SQUIZZ.com that is the world’s first Connected Commerce platform. Glenn is a passionate thought leader and develops technology solutions that tackle some of the greatest IT challenges in modern times. As a Computer Science Engineer, his work centres around key topics such as information security, relatedness & trust, data sovereignty, data engineering, AI, BIM, project management & controls, secure social networks, business intelligence, scalable cloud architecture, devops, ERP, intelligent systems, universal systems integrations and digital governance. Glenn chairs the Smart Cities Innovators Round Table think tank located in Melbourne and is affiliated with other initiatives such as the Digital Built Legal Environment (DBLE) and BIMMEPAUS. Glenn’s current focus is to design an open Smart Asset specification that can be harnessed to integrate the secure relationship framework of SQUIZZ.com with Smart Assets. Integrating the commercial relationship landscape is paramount for interconnected Smart Cities to thrive.

Abhijit Dubey (Avi) is focused and result-driven Project Management professional and passionate about improving project outcomes through robust Project Planning and Risk Management methodologies. He enjoys creating sustainable value for the clients and improves business processes through effective and flexible Project Management approaches, tools and techniques. He enjoys working closely with stakeholders and clients in order to understand time and requirement management. He helps to negotiate risk appetite levels related to financial risk, innovation risk, operational risk and other types of risk that are specific to the organisation. Essentially, he capitalizes and translates his interest in assessing, analysing and researching Project Risks and digs deeper into the project challenges and constraints that could potentially impact the project as a whole in terms of schedule and costs, if not calculated and mitigated at the early stage of the project. He has experience within the mining industry in Australia where he provided consulting services and carries extensive experience in EPC and unit-rate contract type in India where he worked closely with the client during the ideation and initiation phase to identify risk appetite and tolerance. Outside work likes playing indoor cricket or spending time in the gymnasium, doing yoga, listening to instrumental music and engage in professional development activities such as workshops-Dale Carnegie of Queensland and volunteering service with PMI. He exercises Emotional Intelligence during the decision-making process across various levels and types of relationships. Supplementing his broader and deeper Project Management knowledge, Avi is an active member of Project Management Institute-USA, Australian Cost Engineering Society and Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy(AusIMM). He is currently studying to obtain the PECB Certified ISO 31000 Risk Management. In addition, he holds the following qualification and credentials.

1. International Professional Certification in Project Planning and Control from APMG International- United Kingdom

2. Post Graduation Degree in Project Management, India.

3. Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management, Auckland, New Zealand

4. Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from India, accredited by Queensland Overseas Qualification Authority.

Originally an aircraft mechanic for C-130 Hercules and the F18-Hornet fighter jet, Simon White now ensures that the Aerospace Business Unit for BAE Systems has reliable, repeatable Project Controls.

He is passionate about ‘evolution by enquiry’, asking questions, and applying solutions that are fit for purpose, whether they be conventional or not.

He believes in breaking the rules, because if you always follow the process, you will never do anything different. And if you never do anything different, you will never change or evolve, so once in a while, breaking the rules is a must.

Pela has been in our Navy for over 34 years holding the rank of Lieutenant Commander. She has held bold transformational executive roles in engineering, infrastructure, asset management and project management. She is a trusted advisor to CEOs, executive teams, and boards of directors on development, project planning and infrastructure design, controls and delivery. Pela is often considered the company “conscious”, always ethical with an unwavering commitment to innovation and continuous improvement. She has led PMOs and Project Controls departments. Pela has significant commercial experience particularly in infrastructure and the defence industries and joined MRPV in late 2018 as Director Project Controls.

Santhosh is a seasoned engineer and a strategic thinker, with over 35 years of hands-on experience and a proven track record of delivering several megaprojects globally, holding senior executive level roles as a client, consultant and as an EPC contractor. He is currently working as a Technical Director for Risk at Jacobs across Asia Pacific and the Middle East. He has project managed and provided governance and risk leadership on many multi-billion dollar megaprojects / programs including complex infrastructure schemes for motorways, tunnels, heavy rails / light rails, ports and airports, dams and pipelines, oil and gas and CSG, mining, process plants and power plants, defence, renewable energy to name a few.

Santhosh holds MTech in Civil Engineering and is currently pursuing his CPA. He is a Certified Practicing Project Director, FIEAust, CPEng and an RPEQ. He is a regular speaker at National and International events.

Sangrah is a delivery focused, results oriented and versatile Project Controls Manager with over twelve years of experience in the Oil & Gas, Mining, Utilities, Infrastructure, Building, Defence and Rail industries working for leading Engineering & Construction organisations.

Sangrah’s primary area of focus has been in the successful management and delivery of Project Controls and Earned Value Management on projects and portfolio of projects ranging from $1m to $2bn in value across multiple sectors and industries.

Delivering best practice Project Controls and Earned Value Management systems, processes and methodologies has given Sangrah valuable experience in understanding how to apply and execute Project Controls and Earned Value Management on real life mega projects successfully to produce meaningful and value adding outputs that help influence and inform project decision making.

Sangrah is a Member of Engineers Australia, Australian Cost Engineering Society (ACES) and the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM) and holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), a Graduate Certificate in Engineering Maintenance Management from Monash University and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Deakin University.

Jessica is an entry-level risk champion based in Sydney, Australia. For just over a year she has been working in project controls for Sydney Metro City & Southwest, as a management consultant through HKA. She has observed the practices and processes of project management professionals with her early career curiosity and enthusiasm, harnessing insights through on-the-job exposure and experience. The unique complexity of mega-infrastructure projects has sparked her interest in contributing to delivery innovation. Before this, she worked in partner operations at Uber and studied a double degree in Communication and Creative Intelligence and Innovation at the University of Technology Sydney.

Civil construction engineer with over 30 years of experience in construction contracting on projects including road, rail, bridge, dam, airports and and utility services.

Highly developed skills in the analysis and valuation of construction project cost and time from pre-tender, through detailed planning, estimating, construction, operation and maintenance to contractual resolution. Successfully adopted innovative methods to save time and cost and avoid pitfalls, while boosting continual improvement through the risk management and value management processes.

Darrin Kinney is a senior project controls professional with over 20 years of experience in project cost control, planning, and finance. Darrin has worked for Fluor, Bechtel, Jacobs and Samsung C&T. He has had extensive international exposure having held positions in Asia, the Middle East, the United States and Australia. Serving mostly the EPCM and EPC business, Darrin’s job experience runs the full spectrum from all sides of project controls and almost all businesses. He has worked at Oil Refineries, Infrastructure, Rail, and Mining both on site and in home office locations.

Verghese Kochummen is a project management consultant with over 15 years of experience setting up enterprise solutions for construction and infrastructure project control teams. Verghese is the principal architect of Executive-Eye, a stakeholder management platform designed for busy project Executives needing to be updated on their project progress within ‘Executive-Time’.

In his work with industry leading infrastructure and construction companies, Verghese has had the opportunity to closely interact with Executive teams whose needs often go above and beyond conventional project control practices. Today, he works closely with owners of mega infrastructure projects to ensure they get accurate view of their project progress and empower them with the tools to conduct Executive level briefings to other stakeholders.

Caitlin’s expertise in 5D Quantity Surveying combined with her in depth knowledge of the construction and development industry has seen her play an integral role within the Mitchell Brandtman 5D Cost Planning team on some of the company’s largest and most challenging projects.

In her career, Caitlin has been involved in the delivery of projects varying in range from local townhouse developments through to major aged care facilities, multi-residential developments, public and private hospitals, helicopter maintenance facilities and more recently led the delivery of MB’s 5D+4D BIM implementation role on the $5B+ KVMRT rail project in Kuala Lumpur for construction international giant, Gamuda.

With over 15 years with the firm, Caitlin has a wealth of knowledge to share and is regularly invited to provide guest lectures and presentations on the subjects of Cost Planning, BIM (Building Information Modeling) and 5D Quantity Surveying at various national universities and industry bodies.

Caitlin is a recognised and respected leader amongst her peers for her knowledge and use of technology to drive positive industry change.

Engineering, technical operations and process specialist with over 17 years experience in international management roles in the USA, Europe, Asia and Australia. A significant portion of my experience comes from over 10 years in the automotive industry expanding the footprint of a top 20 global supplier; implementing products and lean operations on an international scale.

My role at Ynomia has been leading and supporting the IoT software and hardware technology roadmap alongside CSIRO’s Data61, our technology development partner.

Nishant is a qualified project manager, engineer and planner with over 20 years’ of experience on projects of value exceeding $ 9.52 billion delivering services of project management, project planning & program interrogation; program delivery strategy formulation and contractual claim assessment/ defence. His work exposure covers large and complex multi-disciplined building & infrastructure works; with varied forms of procurement from Managing Contractor and Early Contactor Involvement, design & construct and construct only forms; covering project delivery phases: master planning & feasibility programs, design program management, procurement advisory, delivery & controls, handover and transition to operations. He has represented the interests of clients and contractors on public and private sector projects.

Alan is a chartered engineer with 25 years’ experience in project management and engineering across the Technology and Infrastructure sectors. His career began in Scotland where as an engineer, he first discovered and studied artificial intelligence. As his career progressed, he developed a passion for project and people management. His experience includes senior management roles on multibillion-dollar mining projects and the management of large project portfolios in excess of one billion dollars. Most recently he led a technology project delivery function for BHPs Coal business. Alan continued to maintain a keen interest in artificial intelligence, leading him to identify an opportunity for its use in project management. The result was BitWinder, the company which Alan founded to innovate with artificial intelligence in project management.

Caitlin’s expertise in 5D Quantity Surveying combined with her in depth knowledge of the construction and development industry has seen her play an integral role within the Mitchell Brandtman 5D Cost Planning team on some of the company’s largest and most challenging projects.

In her career, Caitlin has been involved in the delivery of projects varying in range from local townhouse developments through to major aged care facilities, multi-residential developments, public and private hospitals, helicopter maintenance facilities and more recently led the delivery of MB’s 5D+4D BIM implementation role on the $5B+ KVMRT rail project in Kuala Lumpur for construction international giant, Gamuda.

With over 15 years with the firm, Caitlin has a wealth of knowledge to share and is regularly invited to provide guest lectures and presentations on the subjects of Cost Planning, BIM (Building Information Modeling) and 5D Quantity Surveying at various national universities and industry bodies.

Caitlin is a recognised and respected leader amongst her peers for her knowledge and use of technology to drive positive industry change.

Nishant is a qualified project manager, engineer and planner with over 20 years’ of experience on projects of value exceeding $ 9.52 billion delivering services of project management, project planning & program interrogation; program delivery strategy formulation and contractual claim assessment/ defence. His work exposure covers large and complex multi-disciplined building & infrastructure works; with varied forms of procurement from Managing Contractor and Early Contactor Involvement, design & construct and construct only forms; covering project delivery phases: master planning & feasibility programs, design program management, procurement advisory, delivery & controls, handover and transition to operations. He has represented the interests of clients and contractors on public and private sector projects.

Alan is a chartered engineer with 25 years’ experience in project management and engineering across the Technology and Infrastructure sectors. His career began in Scotland where as an engineer, he first discovered and studied artificial intelligence. As his career progressed, he developed a passion for project and people management. His experience includes senior management roles on multibillion-dollar mining projects and the management of large project portfolios in excess of one billion dollars. Most recently he led a technology project delivery function for BHPs Coal business. Alan continued to maintain a keen interest in artificial intelligence, leading him to identify an opportunity for its use in project management. The result was BitWinder, the company which Alan founded to innovate with artificial intelligence in project management.

Nick Stanton is a Chartered Professional Engineer and the Registrar (RE: Chief Engineer) of Engineers Australia. He is responsible for a wide range of aspects within Engineers Australia including the application of professional engineering standards, Registration matters across all Australian States and Territories, international engagement for mobility of professional Engineers, training needs, education and auditing for professional development just to name a few.

He is a recently retired senior Army Officer who served over 36 years in the Australian Army as a Soldier, Commander and Engineer including in combat zones in the Middle East. Nick is also a highly experienced Project Manager, Leader and Innovator having been associated with several large and successful Defence Projects over the years. He was awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross (CSC) for his leadership and innovative solutions in 2009 in the field of advanced technical training.

Nick cares passionately about the engineering profession and assisting others on their professional journey. He always regards a problem as an opportunity awaiting an Engineer to address, preferably over coffee. Please note that after many years of drinking substandard coffee in cold, wet and remote locations around the globe, he is always appreciative of a good coffee and a chat in a dry venue.

Luke is the Assistant Secretary Space and Communications Branch at the Department of Defence. Luke’s role is to lead the delivery of space and communications capabilities to the Australian Defence Force. Luke has specific responsibilities for Position, Navigation and Timing and beyond line of sight communications as well as a general role to help coordinate broader Defence Space Capabilities. Luke has extensive experience across Emerging Projects, Program Management and Engineering Management. ·

Luke’s qualifications include:

RMIT University
Degree Name Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.)
Field Of Study: Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering

Queensland University of Technology
Degree Name Executive Master of Business
Field Of Study: Complex Project Management

Loughborough University
Degree Name Master of Science (M.Sc.)
Field Of Study: Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering 

Teresa is a project, program and portfolio management specialist with over twenty years’ experience in the Defence environment. A former Navy officer, she has also held Project Control and Senior Project Manager roles in Defence industry, as well as inside the Department of Defence in the roles of Director Major Program Control, and Director Investment Portfolio Management.

As the current Assistant Secretary Maritime Analysis in Contestability Division, she delivers independent assurance of the Navy’s major projects and programs in terms of scope, budget, schedule and strategy. She is also responsible for the contesting and assuring of Defence Force Design, and Strategic Cost Analysis.

Teresa holds a Project Management Professional accreditation, undergrad qualifications in Management, English and Information Systems, and a Masters in Politics and Policy. She resides in Canberra with her husband and five-year old daughter.

Kazi is an ambitious and conscientious finance and costing professional, with experience in complex environments; delivering in the areas of cost estimation, budgeting, pricing, analysis, business improvements and reporting.

Kazi focusses on the enhancement of controls to effectively and accurately capture costs, recognise risks and financial obligations to facilitate enhanced business decision making.

He has deep experience in reporting and improving the quality of information, by identifying ways to streamline processes and systems to maximise efficiency.

Kazi’s qualifications include:

– Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA)
– Bachelor of Commerce, University of Canberra
– Advanced Diploma in Applied Business and Information Technology
– Certificate IV in Training and Assessment 

Debra is a certified Project Management and Risk Management Professional (PMP, RMP) and Supplier Relationship Management Practitioner (SRMP) with over 20 years of experience. Debra’s Project Management career spans across various industry segments (Defence, Telecommunications, Energy sector) and reflects diverse project experiences. Debra has consistently provided recommendations for improvement of Project Management processes particularly in the areas of Project Controls and Governance. She works closely with Cost and Schedule Analysts in order to integrate Cost & Schedule analysis into the Risk Management processes. She pioneered the Quantitative Risk Analysis and the 3-point estimate approach (Monte Carlo simulation) with the intent to determine the overall Program risk exposure and realistic and achievable cost and schedule targets on a Major Defence project.

During her career with Ericsson, Debra managed telecommunications projects locally and towards Ericsson customers in Asia Pacific and Africa. Debra holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Industrial Relations from the University of Melbourne and Bachelor’s degree in Political Sciences.

Originally an aircraft mechanic for C-130 Hercules and the F18-Hornet fighter jet, Simon White now ensures that the Aerospace Business Unit for BAE Systems has reliable, repeatable Project Controls.

He is passionate about ‘evolution by enquiry’, asking questions, and applying solutions that are fit for purpose, whether they be conventional or not.

He believes in breaking the rules, because if you always follow the process, you will never do anything different. And if you never do anything different, you will never change or evolve, so once in a while, breaking the rules is a must.

Colin Cropley has over forty years’ experience of project management, project controls and risk management. He has experience in project and risk management consulting, software development, training and lecturing, in sectors including infrastructure, oil & gas, minerals processing, IT, power and defence. He has conducted risk management processes, schedule and cost risk analyses and training for companies including BHP Billiton, BP Australia, Downer EDI, Leighton Contractors, Oman LNG, Origin Energy, Santos, Tenix Defence, Thiess and Woodside Petroleum. Colin is a chemical engineering graduate of the University of Melbourne and was chairman of the Victorian Primavera Users Group from 1997 to 2009. He has guest-lectured in project management at universities between 1991 and 2018 and has delivered presentations at many project management and controls-related conferences, including AACE International’s Annual Meetings, the International Cost Engineering Council’s World Congress, PMI’s PMOz & PMICoS. He is a member of AACE International, the Australian Cost Engineering Society (currently on the National Committee) and the Australian Risk Engineering Society (both Technical Societies of Engineers Australia). In 2016, Colin contributed a chapter titled “The Case for Truly Integrated Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis” to a book “Handbook of Research on Leveraging Risk and Uncertainties for Effective Project Management”.

A Mechanical Engineer and accredited Project Management Professional with over 25 years’ experience working across Australia, Asia Pacific and South America.

Romildo is a Director for Turner & Townsend. He manages the Infrastructure, Energy and Resources sector in South Australia generating businesses opportunities and leading the team while delivering a range of advisory and risk management services.

He works with large local and international organisations, employing his global experience to maximise performance. Romildo works with blue-chip clients in his portfolio including BHP, BP, BAE Systems, Santos, Anglo American and Inpex to name a few.

Romildo has been on the Board of Directors of the Project Management Institute in Adelaide for many years, holding positions in finance, events and marketing. Romildo also lectures Risk Management for the University of Adelaide and was responsible for developing the entire subject as part of their Bachelor of Project Management degree. He also serves on three committees for SACOME, the South Australian Chamber of Mine and Energy.

Stacey has over 18 years of experience in Defence, following on from a 9 year career in the banking, electricity and insurance sectors.  

She has led teams undertaking quality assurance, software estimation, project controls, reform implementation and policy development.

Prior to joining Synergy, Stacey led a large team implementing major reform in Project Controls in CASG.

She has led major initiatives such as the implementation of the Cost Estimation, Analysis and Modelling Tool (CEAMOT), the development of the 12 Step Cost and Schedule Estimation process,  and the development of the Software Estimation Program in Defence.  

Stacey also leads broader activities such as Mindfulness and United Leadership Programs, focussed on the development of high performing teams and individuals. 

Anthony Navarro is the Business Developer and Project Manager for PRICE Systems International. As part of his mission he is responsible for the pre-sales and implementation phases within the key PRICE Systems’ accounts both for government institutions and industries. Anthony contributed to the PRICE Systems’ offer evolution. Prior to joining PRICE Systems International in March 2017, Anthony was the transnational project manager to implement an integrated Cost Estimation Framework solution within Airbus Defence and Space for a Bid Process Improvement project. As part of his mission, he was responsible for the specification, the development and the deployment of a global estimation solution across France, Spain, Germany and the United-Kingdom countries within the same organization.

Anthony was responsible for the parametric methodology development supported by the software TruePlanning on Earth Observation Satellites systems and used to perform Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) cost estimation and analysis of alternative architectures for space systems. In parallel, Anthony was part of a bidding team and responsible for the financial data consistency for Institutional, Commercial and Export businesses (bid management, cost consolidation, price elaboration and negotiation support). Anthony possesses a master’s degree in mechanical and sensory engineering. In his free time, Anthony used to be the captain of a basketball team for more than thirteen years and frequently practices snowboarding in the French high mountains.

Matt has over 20 years experience supporting, implementing and architecting Enterprise and Cloud software. He has worked across multiple industries including Public Sector, E&C and Oil & Gas. At Oracle, Matt has been instrumental in leading some of the largest project management deployments throughout Australia & New Zealand.

Rob joined InEight in March 2018 at Executive Vice President, Asia Pacific. Rob is responsible for sales and general operations of InEight throughout the Asia Pacific region.

Before joining InEight, Rob was Director of Operations for ECI Solutions, leading sales and operations for their Australian business. Previous to that he was Chief Operating Officer with TeamBinder, as they secured the use of their system on over $100b worth of projects, including numerous Government infrastructure projects and contractors from across the Globe. Prior to that Rob was General Manager for IBISWorld Business Information. Rob started his career in London, working in marketing and public relations, following an education that saw him switch from database and systems management to marketing and communications.

Rob has led sales and operations for a range of cloud based product and service organizations, with significant experience in leading high growth software business servicing the construction and engineering sector.

Away from the office Rob enjoys trail running over short course and ultra-distance events, as well as being a father of three young and quickly growing children.

James is an Industry Consultant for Hexagon PPM, based in Singapore. He is PMP certified with international experience implementing project management systems. His project controls experience spans the entire project life cycle from initiation and planning to execution and closeout. James has a proven track record of working with leading project delivery companies to eliminate disparate spreadsheets and point solutions in favour of an enterprise projects performance system that provides a consistent platform to standardize processes and boost project outcomes. In this role at Hexagon PPM, James is the subject matter expert on all things project management and supports companies in their evaluation of EcoSys, Hexagon’s enterprise project controls software.

lulia has more than 25 years’ experience in technical sales, solution design, implementation and software support. Her comprehensive knowledge extends to Project Controls and Project Management Systems and procedures. She’s helped build solutions and add value to software processes and procedures for many clients both domestically and internationally. Her work includes implementations across many market sectors including oil and gas, infrastructure, mining, engineering and construction. lulia brings with her broad experience. She has worked with both private and government clients, from small projects all the way up to megaprojects.

Gideon Klipstein is the Vice President Business of Cost Engineering Consultancy, the company behind Cleopatra Enterprise, one of the world’s leading Project Cost Management software solutions. Next to developing software, the company is one of the leading consultancies in the field of Project Controls, as well as an established knowledge provider with their Cost Engineering Academy.

He holds Bachelor, Post bachelor and Post Master’s degrees in various Business Administration topics and has been providing services to numerous large industrial companies for about 9 years. During that time, he has built up an international network in various industries such as mining, infrastructure, oil & gas, energy, offshore, chemicals and shipbuilding. In his current job he advises leading companies how to improve their project control activities with the combination of software tooling, consultancy services and the Academy.

Additionally to the above, Gideon is leading the company’s strategic business development initiatives in the Australasian region.

With over 18 years' experience in Planning and Scheduling, Santosh is an independent consultant to projects or organisations looking to improve their capabilities and deliver results though improved Project Planning, Scheduling and Risk Analyses. Co-founder and CEO of Linear Project Software and Director of Australasian Project Planning.

Laith Adel is a principle Consultant with pmo365 in Australia. With a strong background in engineering, project management and information technology, Laith provides consulting (both business and technical) and management services to customers, helping them to successfully implement and deploy project portfolio management solutions within their organisations.

He has worked with Microsoft’s Enterprise Project Management (EPM) product set since its early versions and has been involved in many Microsoft EPM solution implementation projects around the world. His strong hands-on experience comes through his involvement with a number of professional services organisations including Microsoft Consulting Services (MSC) and Strategic Data Management (SDM). Through pmo365, Laith has successfully implemented PPM applications to tens of organisations with different maturity levels.

His approach focuses on the realisation of the business objectives of the implementation of the technology by integrating it with the organisation’s process and ensuring the end-users’ adoption. Laith provides a unique style of consulting that challenges the status quo, and shares valuable insights and lessons learned from other organisations.

Geoffrey has over 25 years experience Providing Strategic Direction, Advisory and Leadership advising at board level on; business cases, risks and program performance. Leading regulatory reviews, ensuring projects and programmes adhere to best practice standards. An expert in building strong, diverse, high performing teams, developing capability within the organisation and leading on diversity.

Leading the provision of Program Management, Technical Services, PMO, Integrated Project Controls, Commercial and Procurement with a demonstrable track record of delivering great outcomes.

Geoffrey has the ability to integrate into organisations quickly, obtaining results by strong leadership linking up with colleagues at all levels, ensuring programs and projects are delivered safely to agreed quality, time and cost by professional collaboration with all stakeholders.

A degree qualified Civil Engineer with extensive experience in Planning Management, Programming & Scheduling and Project Controls across highly complex multi-disciplinary portfolios and projects.

Initially started career as a Project Engineer based on site, working on a major construction project, gaining excellent understanding of the technical aspect of construction. This exposure to the construction process, enables the development of accurate schedules and controls that can be practically implemented on site.

Demonstrates excellent technical ability and analytical skills to extract schedule data and provide accurate insight to enhance performance, overcome delivery problems and manage risk.

In recent years has worked on major capital works programmes including building, civil, rail components, involving multiple delivery partners and complex interfaces. This includes working on exceptionally high profile projects in compressed timeframes, requiring the ability to update and re-engineer the program on the fly to overcome challenging delivery problems.

Jonathan is an experienced planner and project controls specialist who has worked extensively in both the United Kingdom and Australia.

Prior to joining TBH, he provided planning and cost management services on the £10b West Coast Route Modification Project in the United Kingdom and then later with SMEC on the $1.5b M7 Westlink Project in Sydney, NSW.

Jonathan joined the TBH Sydney office in December 2003 where he was largely engaged on site based planning and project controls roles. In 2007 he transferred to the Perth office and was instrumental in establishing the branch as a sustainable operation. He became a director of TBH in 2011 and was the profit centre manager for Western Australia for 4 years prior to relocating back to NSW in 2015.

Jonathan has a broad range of skills gained on a variety of projects valued between $1m and $50b across a diverse range of industries including major resources, oil and gas, transport infrastructure, power, water, health, commercial and residential construction. Since moving back to NSW Jonathan has predominantly been engaged to provide client side advice on large infrastructure projects with the focus on master scheduling, constructability, program and portfolio management. Jonathan has also presented a number of training seminars on Microsoft Project, Primavera, critical path planning and delay analysis.

Loretta Bayliss is an internationally experienced IT executive recognised for working closely with clients to achieve high-value, project-focused business and technology solutions.

Known for her drive, energy and passion, as well as her frank and forthright approach, Loretta has an unrelenting commitment to the pursuit of excellence and a constant thirst for knowledge. Highly structured in her thinking, Loretta leaves nothing to chance and makes sound judgement calls that are in the best interests of Prescience Technology’s clients.

Loretta possesses a proven ability to inspire, motivate, and manage exceptionally energized, focused and highly performing teams in challenging project conditions and environments. She has a talent for making rapid assessments of diverse situational and technical challenges and developing and leading the resulting action plans.

Loretta is committed to her support of Act for Kids, a Brisbane headquartered organisation that improves the lives of abused children across Australia. She has hiked through central Australia and the Southern Alps of New Zealand to raise funds for this outstanding cause, and will hike a significant section of Western Australia's iconic Bibbulmun Track in 2018 to raise further awareness for the work that Act for Kids does for Aussie kids and families.

In her spare time, Loretta enjoys playing taxi driver to her three children, regularly runs half marathons and also squeezes in the occasional trail run, cycle, swim or hike.

Vikrant Mulgund leads EY’s Capital Infrastructure and Asset Management solutions across the Asia Pacific region. Over a career approaching 2 decades, he has developed a speciality in megaprojects development and delivery and complex operations in asset-intensive industries; having worked in operational leadership and strategic advisory roles across Asia Pacific, Middle East and North America

His megaproject leadership experience includes - Head of Program Office for the Western Sydney Airport for the Federal Government over 3 years, project management roles on Gladstone LNG over 3 years, Final Investment Decision advice on Snowy Hydro 2.0, among others.

He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) and MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

Rhys is an information systems manager who began as an estimator, moved to engineering across both mechanical and civil and then found himself in information technology with combined experience of almost 14 years. As an analyst, Rhys specifically managed the development and implementation of worldwide group solutions down to the project and/or task related Business improvements. In the past 12 months his focus has been on the Level Crossing Removal Projects (LXRP) working for the Western Program Alliance (WPA) to implement initiatives to ultimately deliver value for money to the state. This is being achieved through the optimisation of value-add activities with a longer-term strategy to create a fully integrated project site. One key initiative during this time has been the management for WPA the ‘Connected Sites’ through the Pilot phase and now beyond.

Phil is an authentic transformation leader with a focus on team collaboration, continual improvement and innovation. He has 15 years of experience working across the civil engineering industry. In project and engineering management roles he has led teams on a variety of projects throughout Australia and New Zealand, including in the rail, roads, marine and telco sectors. After 5 years in McConnell Dowell’s engineering team, Phil joined the Western Program Alliance (WPA) in 2017 to lead Innovation & Continuous Improvement. In this role he has led a transformative agenda of innovation and improvement that has shifted the Alliance culture and is now impacting and benefiting more widely across the Level Crossing Removal Project and broader industry.

Glenn Drew is the CEO of two software companies notably TOTECS.com that offers integrated eCommerce and SQUIZZ.com that is the world’s first Connected Commerce platform. Glenn is a passionate thought leader and develops technology solutions that tackle some of the greatest IT challenges in modern times. As a Computer Science Engineer, his work centres around key topics such as information security, relatedness & trust, data sovereignty, data engineering, AI, BIM, project management & controls, secure social networks, business intelligence, scalable cloud architecture, devops, ERP, intelligent systems, universal systems integrations and digital governance. Glenn chairs the Smart Cities Innovators Round Table think tank located in Melbourne and is affiliated with other initiatives such as the Digital Built Legal Environment (DBLE) and BIMMEPAUS. Glenn’s current focus is to design an open Smart Asset specification that can be harnessed to integrate the secure relationship framework of SQUIZZ.com with Smart Assets. Integrating the commercial relationship landscape is paramount for interconnected Smart Cities to thrive.

Abhijit Dubey (Avi) is focused and result-driven Project Management professional and passionate about improving project outcomes through robust Project Planning and Risk Management methodologies. He enjoys creating sustainable value for the clients and improves business processes through effective and flexible Project Management approaches, tools and techniques. He enjoys working closely with stakeholders and clients in order to understand time and requirement management. He helps to negotiate risk appetite levels related to financial risk, innovation risk, operational risk and other types of risk that are specific to the organisation. Essentially, he capitalizes and translates his interest in assessing, analysing and researching Project Risks and digs deeper into the project challenges and constraints that could potentially impact the project as a whole in terms of schedule and costs, if not calculated and mitigated at the early stage of the project. He has experience within the mining industry in Australia where he provided consulting services and carries extensive experience in EPC and unit-rate contract type in India where he worked closely with the client during the ideation and initiation phase to identify risk appetite and tolerance. Outside work likes playing indoor cricket or spending time in the gymnasium, doing yoga, listening to instrumental music and engage in professional development activities such as workshops-Dale Carnegie of Queensland and volunteering service with PMI. He exercises Emotional Intelligence during the decision-making process across various levels and types of relationships. Supplementing his broader and deeper Project Management knowledge, Avi is an active member of Project Management Institute-USA, Australian Cost Engineering Society and Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy(AusIMM). He is currently studying to obtain the PECB Certified ISO 31000 Risk Management. In addition, he holds the following qualification and credentials.

1. International Professional Certification in Project Planning and Control from APMG International- United Kingdom

2. Post Graduation Degree in Project Management, India.

3. Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management, Auckland, New Zealand

4. Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from India, accredited by Queensland Overseas Qualification Authority.

Originally an aircraft mechanic for C-130 Hercules and the F18-Hornet fighter jet, Simon White now ensures that the Aerospace Business Unit for BAE Systems has reliable, repeatable Project Controls.

He is passionate about ‘evolution by enquiry’, asking questions, and applying solutions that are fit for purpose, whether they be conventional or not.

He believes in breaking the rules, because if you always follow the process, you will never do anything different. And if you never do anything different, you will never change or evolve, so once in a while, breaking the rules is a must.

Pela has been in our Navy for over 34 years holding the rank of Lieutenant Commander. She has held bold transformational executive roles in engineering, infrastructure, asset management and project management. She is a trusted advisor to CEOs, executive teams, and boards of directors on development, project planning and infrastructure design, controls and delivery. Pela is often considered the company “conscious”, always ethical with an unwavering commitment to innovation and continuous improvement. She has led PMOs and Project Controls departments. Pela has significant commercial experience particularly in infrastructure and the defence industries and joined MRPV in late 2018 as Director Project Controls.

Santhosh is a seasoned engineer and a strategic thinker, with over 35 years of hands-on experience and a proven track record of delivering several megaprojects globally, holding senior executive level roles as a client, consultant and as an EPC contractor. He is currently working as a Technical Director for Risk at Jacobs across Asia Pacific and the Middle East. He has project managed and provided governance and risk leadership on many multi-billion dollar megaprojects / programs including complex infrastructure schemes for motorways, tunnels, heavy rails / light rails, ports and airports, dams and pipelines, oil and gas and CSG, mining, process plants and power plants, defence, renewable energy to name a few.

Santhosh holds MTech in Civil Engineering and is currently pursuing his CPA. He is a Certified Practicing Project Director, FIEAust, CPEng and an RPEQ. He is a regular speaker at National and International events.

Sangrah is a delivery focused, results oriented and versatile Project Controls Manager with over twelve years of experience in the Oil & Gas, Mining, Utilities, Infrastructure, Building, Defence and Rail industries working for leading Engineering & Construction organisations.

Sangrah’s primary area of focus has been in the successful management and delivery of Project Controls and Earned Value Management on projects and portfolio of projects ranging from $1m to $2bn in value across multiple sectors and industries.

Delivering best practice Project Controls and Earned Value Management systems, processes and methodologies has given Sangrah valuable experience in understanding how to apply and execute Project Controls and Earned Value Management on real life mega projects successfully to produce meaningful and value adding outputs that help influence and inform project decision making.

Sangrah is a Member of Engineers Australia, Australian Cost Engineering Society (ACES) and the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM) and holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), a Graduate Certificate in Engineering Maintenance Management from Monash University and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Deakin University.

Jessica is an entry-level risk champion based in Sydney, Australia. For just over a year she has been working in project controls for Sydney Metro City & Southwest, as a management consultant through HKA. She has observed the practices and processes of project management professionals with her early career curiosity and enthusiasm, harnessing insights through on-the-job exposure and experience. The unique complexity of mega-infrastructure projects has sparked her interest in contributing to delivery innovation. Before this, she worked in partner operations at Uber and studied a double degree in Communication and Creative Intelligence and Innovation at the University of Technology Sydney.

Civil construction engineer with over 30 years of experience in construction contracting on projects including road, rail, bridge, dam, airports and and utility services.

Highly developed skills in the analysis and valuation of construction project cost and time from pre-tender, through detailed planning, estimating, construction, operation and maintenance to contractual resolution. Successfully adopted innovative methods to save time and cost and avoid pitfalls, while boosting continual improvement through the risk management and value management processes.

Darrin Kinney is a senior project controls professional with over 20 years of experience in project cost control, planning, and finance. Darrin has worked for Fluor, Bechtel, Jacobs and Samsung C&T. He has had extensive international exposure having held positions in Asia, the Middle East, the United States and Australia. Serving mostly the EPCM and EPC business, Darrin’s job experience runs the full spectrum from all sides of project controls and almost all businesses. He has worked at Oil Refineries, Infrastructure, Rail, and Mining both on site and in home office locations.

Verghese Kochummen is a project management consultant with over 15 years of experience setting up enterprise solutions for construction and infrastructure project control teams. Verghese is the principal architect of Executive-Eye, a stakeholder management platform designed for busy project Executives needing to be updated on their project progress within ‘Executive-Time’.

In his work with industry leading infrastructure and construction companies, Verghese has had the opportunity to closely interact with Executive teams whose needs often go above and beyond conventional project control practices. Today, he works closely with owners of mega infrastructure projects to ensure they get accurate view of their project progress and empower them with the tools to conduct Executive level briefings to other stakeholders.

Caitlin’s expertise in 5D Quantity Surveying combined with her in depth knowledge of the construction and development industry has seen her play an integral role within the Mitchell Brandtman 5D Cost Planning team on some of the company’s largest and most challenging projects.

In her career, Caitlin has been involved in the delivery of projects varying in range from local townhouse developments through to major aged care facilities, multi-residential developments, public and private hospitals, helicopter maintenance facilities and more recently led the delivery of MB’s 5D+4D BIM implementation role on the $5B+ KVMRT rail project in Kuala Lumpur for construction international giant, Gamuda.

With over 15 years with the firm, Caitlin has a wealth of knowledge to share and is regularly invited to provide guest lectures and presentations on the subjects of Cost Planning, BIM (Building Information Modeling) and 5D Quantity Surveying at various national universities and industry bodies.

Caitlin is a recognised and respected leader amongst her peers for her knowledge and use of technology to drive positive industry change.

Engineering, technical operations and process specialist with over 17 years experience in international management roles in the USA, Europe, Asia and Australia. A significant portion of my experience comes from over 10 years in the automotive industry expanding the footprint of a top 20 global supplier; implementing products and lean operations on an international scale.

My role at Ynomia has been leading and supporting the IoT software and hardware technology roadmap alongside CSIRO’s Data61, our technology development partner.

Nishant is a qualified project manager, engineer and planner with over 20 years’ of experience on projects of value exceeding $ 9.52 billion delivering services of project management, project planning & program interrogation; program delivery strategy formulation and contractual claim assessment/ defence. His work exposure covers large and complex multi-disciplined building & infrastructure works; with varied forms of procurement from Managing Contractor and Early Contactor Involvement, design & construct and construct only forms; covering project delivery phases: master planning & feasibility programs, design program management, procurement advisory, delivery & controls, handover and transition to operations. He has represented the interests of clients and contractors on public and private sector projects.

Alan is a chartered engineer with 25 years’ experience in project management and engineering across the Technology and Infrastructure sectors. His career began in Scotland where as an engineer, he first discovered and studied artificial intelligence. As his career progressed, he developed a passion for project and people management. His experience includes senior management roles on multibillion-dollar mining projects and the management of large project portfolios in excess of one billion dollars. Most recently he led a technology project delivery function for BHPs Coal business. Alan continued to maintain a keen interest in artificial intelligence, leading him to identify an opportunity for its use in project management. The result was BitWinder, the company which Alan founded to innovate with artificial intelligence in project management.

Caitlin’s expertise in 5D Quantity Surveying combined with her in depth knowledge of the construction and development industry has seen her play an integral role within the Mitchell Brandtman 5D Cost Planning team on some of the company’s largest and most challenging projects.

In her career, Caitlin has been involved in the delivery of projects varying in range from local townhouse developments through to major aged care facilities, multi-residential developments, public and private hospitals, helicopter maintenance facilities and more recently led the delivery of MB’s 5D+4D BIM implementation role on the $5B+ KVMRT rail project in Kuala Lumpur for construction international giant, Gamuda.

With over 15 years with the firm, Caitlin has a wealth of knowledge to share and is regularly invited to provide guest lectures and presentations on the subjects of Cost Planning, BIM (Building Information Modeling) and 5D Quantity Surveying at various national universities and industry bodies.

Caitlin is a recognised and respected leader amongst her peers for her knowledge and use of technology to drive positive industry change.

Nishant is a qualified project manager, engineer and planner with over 20 years’ of experience on projects of value exceeding $ 9.52 billion delivering services of project management, project planning & program interrogation; program delivery strategy formulation and contractual claim assessment/ defence. His work exposure covers large and complex multi-disciplined building & infrastructure works; with varied forms of procurement from Managing Contractor and Early Contactor Involvement, design & construct and construct only forms; covering project delivery phases: master planning & feasibility programs, design program management, procurement advisory, delivery & controls, handover and transition to operations. He has represented the interests of clients and contractors on public and private sector projects.

Alan is a chartered engineer with 25 years’ experience in project management and engineering across the Technology and Infrastructure sectors. His career began in Scotland where as an engineer, he first discovered and studied artificial intelligence. As his career progressed, he developed a passion for project and people management. His experience includes senior management roles on multibillion-dollar mining projects and the management of large project portfolios in excess of one billion dollars. Most recently he led a technology project delivery function for BHPs Coal business. Alan continued to maintain a keen interest in artificial intelligence, leading him to identify an opportunity for its use in project management. The result was BitWinder, the company which Alan founded to innovate with artificial intelligence in project management.