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Matthew has more than 30 years’ experience in infrastructure delivery, gained from local, interstate and international projects. He brings proven leadership skills and a passion for delivering complex projects efficiently and effectively.

Matthew oversees:

• All 110 level crossing removals across Melbourne
• Delivery of network improvement projects
• The upgrade of regional passenger and freight lines across Victoria through the Regional Rail Revival program
• The Melbourne Airport Rail to Sunshine Superhub project
• Property developments integrated with level crossing removals to support Victoria’s housing objectives
• Specialist advice to the Department of Transport and Planning to support and develop Melbourne’s metropolitan and regional rail network

Matthew is committed to sharing the benefits and learnings from his experiences to help create a more open, collaborative and solution-focused industry.

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Chris Lunson is an Executive Director with RoadTek, a branch of the Department of Transport and Main Roads, Queensland. Chris has over 20 years' experience, specialising in Civil Construction, Project, Program and Business Management. Through experience in managing various projects and operations across Queensland he has developed an approach based on relationships, optimisation and leadership.

Chris holds a position on the Queensland Council of Lean Construction Australia and New Zealand (LCANZ) and is a current Board member of AustStab.

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James Pease currently leads a US$8B portfolio of projects using IPD, Design/Build and Public Private Partnerships.

He has consulted on over US$3B in Lean IPD projects. He co-authored the IPD focused book - Integrated Project Delivery, An Action Guide for Leaders and developed a certificate based on the contents in collaboration with the Integrated Project Delivery Alliance of Canada.

James is a current board member and acting treasurer for the Lean Construction Institute. He is a past chairman of the Lean Construction Institute’s Northern California Community of Practice. He is a frequent speaker and Lean IPD coach/consultant, focused on furthering Lean Integrated Project Delivery in the design and construction industry.

James is a licensed CA general contractor and has a BS in Management Science from the University of California, San Diego.

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Jon is a highly experienced strategist, relationship builder, and problem solver with 40 years of experience working in multiple countries and for a diverse range of clients in the construction industry. Renowned for an optimistic outlook, influential leadership, and a commitment to industry reform, Jon has built a reputation for challenging the status quo and driving sustainable, productive, and inclusive outcomes across with government, industry, and unions.

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Andrew Moore is a Lean transformation specialist and project performance expert with more than 30 years’ experience improving complex projects and major capital programmes across the UK and internationally.

As Director of Rubicon Wigzell Ltd since 2008, Andrew has supported major programmes across multiple sectors, including The Shard, the Library of Birmingham, the London 2012 Olympics, National Highways Major Projects, HS2, Crossrail, and Network Rail’s Trans-Pennine Route Upgrade, among many others.

He has long been driven by a fundamental question at the heart of construction: how long should it take to deliver a project — and why? His work examines the reliability of programme estimates, constrained productivity, the realism of activity durations, and the effective application of contingency.

Through extensive research and hands-on practice, Andrew has developed 14 practical “Programme Improvement Levers (PIL’s)” that organisations can apply to materially improve schedule certainty and responsibly compress delivery timescales.

Andrew specialises in Lean strategy deployment, collaborative planning, programme compression, and organisational change. Known for his practical, “learning whilst doing” approach, he has trained hundreds of industry professionals through the hands-on FLITe programme and has led large-scale capability development initiatives that embed lasting behavioural and systemic change.

A passionate advocate for industry evolution, Andrew speaks on Lean construction, collaborative delivery models, modern methods of construction and the emerging role of artificial intelligence in infrastructure performance. His sessions combine strategic insight with real-world case studies, offering audiences practical lessons drawn from some of the UK’s most complex and high-profile programmes.

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I am a highly experienced and disciplined Civil Engineer and Continuous Improvement leader, with a proven track record having worked on and led a variety of multi-million-pound major schemes in the United Kingdom and the Middle East.​
I have over 20 years’ experience in the deployment of Lean-Sigma in the construction industry gained working for both Contractors, Consultants and large government Clients. My knowledge base covers: Highways; Airfields and airports; Retail and Technology Park design; Residential Layout design; Restaurant and Hotel designs; Large scale agricultural developments; environmental engineering and waste management facilities. I am an accredited Black belt in Lean, Six Sigma and TRIZ (Structured Innovation) with major litigation leadership and professional witness experience.​

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Duncan Maxwell is the Director of the Future Building Initiative at Monash University, a research group dedicated to advancing industrialised building practices. The Future Building Initiative undertakes applied research with industry and government partners
to explore improvement and systematisation in how buildings are designed,
developed, and made. Duncan’s personal research interest lies in DfMA and the use of product platforms for construction.
Additionally, Duncan is also a registered architect and Research Program Lead for Monash University at Building 4.0 CRC, Australia's largest collaborative research program for the built environment.

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Paul Bradley has more than 25 years of professional experience across engineering, construction delivery, planning and project controls. Before entering the construction industry in 2008, Paul served for eight years as an engineering officer in the British Army. He has since worked across major infrastructure projects in Australia and the United Kingdom, spanning tender and delivery phases and a range of commercial models, including construct-only, design and construct, target-cost, alliance and PPP contracts.

At FBIS26, Paul will examine how John Holland applies lean construction principles to short-term site planning. Drawing on its continuous planning cycle, make-ready planning and weekly work planning processes, he will argue that the next major improvements in construction planning will be behavioural rather than technical—requiring stronger participation, clearer commitments and a sustained focus on removing constraints.

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Marton is a leading voice in Lean construction and production system improvement, helping infrastructure and construction teams deliver more reliable, high-performing outcomes.

An experienced and engaging speaker, Marton challenges conventional thinking and helps leaders cut through complexity to focus on what actually drives performance. He has delivered keynote presentations and executive sessions across Australia and internationally, supporting organisations to embed Lean thinking and improve project delivery.

His work focuses on applying Lean production and Total Quality Management principles to real project environments—improving workflow, coordination, safety and quality across complex programs.

Marton is co-author of *Total Quality Management – Lean Quality in Capital Project Delivery* and has contributed to more than 150 publications, research papers and industry resources. He has worked with teams across Australia, North America and Asia, bringing a practical, global perspective to improving how projects are delivered.

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Koichi Murata is a professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering & Management, College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University, Japan. His research interests include operations & production management, kaizen, lean, visual management, sustainable supply chain, and others. With nearly 20 years of experience in lean management across industry and academia, Prof Koichi Murata’s interest in lean construction began in 2013 following an email exchange with Lauri Koskela (Lean Construction guru)

Since then, Koichi have been involved in ongoing international collaborations with colleagues around the world. More recently, Koichi has developed online courses on lean management in collaboration with the Asian Productivity Organization (APO) and the Association for Overseas Technical Cooperation and Sustainable Partnerships (AOTS). Koichi has also delivered face-to-face lectures at companies and universities in several countries. In 2024, Prof Koichi serves as Scientific Co-Chair of IGLC33 in Japan.

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Applies sleep/circadian/nutrition/team dynamics research to behaviour change for 24/7 teams

Katherine Meagher is co-founder of Elaro, a science communication and behaviour design company helping high-pressure teams work in ways that better match human biology. Elaro translates leading research on sleep, circadian rhythm, nutrition, habits and team dynamics into practical tools for immediate and long-term impact.

Elaro has supported organisations across healthcare and frontline services, cyber security, trucking, government and big tech to reduce fatigue risk, strengthen resilience, and improve attraction and retention. In Australia alone, more than four million people regularly work at night. How work is designed matters.

Using her background in marketing and strategic design, Katherine specialises in turning complex evidence into engaging products that drive real behaviour change and better decision-making. Her focus is simple: make high performance humane, practical and sustainable, day and night, so people in critical roles can thrive, not just survive.

Synopsis:

(Working title) The most complex machine on site: the human.

Modern infrastructure projects rely on a critical system component that is rarely modelled with the same discipline as materials, schedules or risk controls: human biological capacity. This presentation draws on neuroscience, human factors engineering and circadian biology to describe humans as biological machines whose cognitive performance is finite, time-dependent and shaped by a small number of controllable signals. The session offers a transferable systems lens for understanding why decision quality degrades under sustained load, why ambiguity hardens under pressure, and why productivity plateaus despite increased effort.

By framing wellbeing as capability and circadian optimisation as scientific signal alignment rather than lifestyle change, the presentation positions light, timing, recovery and cognitive load as design variables that influence reliability, safety and performance in any complex system.

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Eric has over 30 years of experience in the Infrastructure delivery space. Starting his career in Manufacturing Automation before transitioning to Major Infrastructure Construction. He has managed teams within Tier 1 Engineering and Construction companies having practical experience as a Design Manager and Project Director.

Eric is currently a Director for buildingSMART International and the Chair of buildingSMART Australasia, who develop global (ISO) standards for the delivery of BIM. Eric is regularly invited to advise government on the transition to Digital Delivery and is regularly engaged as an Executive advisor in the Digital space. Eric has developed and delivered training programs to thousands of Engineers.

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Rebecca is – primarily – a construction lawyer, who provides construction procurement/tendering, contracting and project delivery support. She also advises about the laws, regulations and rules that govern building and construction projects. Rebecca has almost 20 years’ experience supporting government (local and state), asset owners, contractors and consultants to understand and negotiate contracts, address project risks, comply with contractual obligations and deliver projects.

Rebecca is also in the final throes of a PhD in construction law reform. As part of that study, Rebecca has examined how Australia’s construction laws impact its people, and how construction laws can be reformed to improve the Australian construction industry’s culture to benefit the mental health and wellbeing of its workers.

It is through this work that Rebecca was approached to join the Wellness In Infrastructure Board in 2024; she was appointed as its Chair that year and is now its Chief Executive Officer. Rebecca leads Wellness in Infrastructure with a profound sense of responsibility to the people who design, build, and sustain the infrastructure that underpins Australia’s economy and communities.

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Alex Afshar is the CEO and Founder of Dolanto, an Australian infrastructure technology and advisory business focused on smarter assurance, governance, and asset-centric project delivery. He leads Dolanto’s work combining AI-enabled assurance tools with strategic consulting to help infrastructure organisations improve compliance visibility, contract alignment, and decision-making across complex projects.

With more than two decades of experience across infrastructure and asset-intensive sectors, Alex has worked across Australia, the Middle East, and North America in strategy, policy, and operational delivery. He also serves as a Project Gateway Reviewer for Victoria’s Department of Treasury and Finance and is an accredited Asset Management System Assessor / Technical Expert with JAS-ANZ under ISO 55001, with oversight of more than 100 certifications.

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PHD in Research backed solutions to enable successful delivery of mega infrastructure projects

Dr Mike Rollo is an experienced infrastructure and construction executive and company director with ~40 years’ experience working across Australia, Asia and the UK. He brings unique experience as he has not only led major contractor and executive roles spanning risk, commercial, procurement and delivery, he as also completed a PHD in managing mega infrastructure projects, bringing together theory and practice.

His 2020 PhD focused on linking the theory of organisational systems, complexity, and the conditions needed for successful project delivery, with the boots on the ground experience only 40 years in the industry can provide.

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Jared Chesterman is the Co-Founder of ProgressAmp, where he designs practical operating systems that help complex delivery environments move together - in rhythm, with trust, and with purpose. He works at the intersection of delivery, design, and systems trust, helping multi-stakeholder project ecosystems build clarity, momentum, and sustainable, predictable progress.

Jared brings 25+ years of major infrastructure design and leadership experience across Australia and the UK, including senior roles with Arcadis (London and Australia) and Principal Project Manager responsibilities at SMEC on the Murray Basin Rail Alliance. His work spans Lean and Agile transformation, Lean Design and Target Value Design (TVD), stakeholder alignment, measurement systems, and rhythm-based workflows that improve reliability without forcing complex systems into artificial certainty.

He holds a Graduate Certificate in Change Management (Victoria University), is a PMP (PMI), and trained as a Lean Practitioner through the UK National Highways Programme. His current focus is how leaders and teams can manage complexity by building stronger sensemaking systems – starting with a clearer understanding of the value of ambiguity.