Speakers

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  Bonnie Shaw Chief Innovator - Municipal Association of Victoria
  

  Bonnie Shaw

  Chief Innovator - Municipal Association of Victoria

  Chief Innovator in Residence at the Municipal Association of Victoria. Professor of Practice in the School of Design and Social Context at RMIT University – focused on the impacts of stress in decision making and innovation.

  Bonnie Shaw is Professor of Practice in the School of Design & Social Context at RMIT University where she leads a program of research focused on the cognitive and behavioural impacts of chronic stress. The Brain Health Futures Summit is a convening of leading practitioners that Bonnie has connected with through her research. The program tells a story about the growing challenges of chronic stress, its impacts on the brain, the body, the workplace and community, and explores some of innovative ways that we might step up to these challenges with purpose.

  Bonnie is also the Chief Innovator in Residence at the Municipal Association of Victoria where she leads the MAVlab – and innovation lab serving all 79 councils in Victoria.

  Bonnie has worked at the forefront of advanced technology development and innovation, strategic change management and community engagement with Federal, State and Local government agencies, Banks, leading brands, community non-profits and start-ups. In her role as the Smart City Practice Lead at the City of Melbourne, Bonnie helped to establish and lead Australia’s first (and multi-award winning) Smart Cities team.

  Bonnie has held adjunct professor roles at both Georgetown University (Washington DC), Melbourne Business School (Melbourne VIC). She was a finalist in the prestigious Australian and New Zealand Women in AI Awards, was awarded a Relativity Award for AI Leadership, and is a trained Human Potential Coach, bringing data driven bio-hacking approaches to stress management and performance enhancement.

  Bonnie is the convenor of the Brain Health Futures Summit and will act as host and guide throughout the day, weaving the threads of connection between this diverse group of leaders.

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  Chris Lunson Executive Director - Transport and Main Roads Queensland
  

  Chris Lunson

  Executive Director - Transport and Main Roads Queensland

  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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  Dean Riha Nation Manager-Civil Operations - Fulton Hogan
  

  Dean Riha

  Nation Manager-Civil Operations - Fulton Hogan

  Dean Rahi is the National Manager of Civil Operations at Fulton Hogan, with deep experience leading delivery across complex civil project environments. He brings a practical, frontline perspective on how workforce conditions, coordination pressure, and operational decision-making shape project performance in real time.

  In addition to his operational leadership role, Dean has contributed to industry conversations on workforce experience and sustainable performance through the Culture in Construction agenda, including sharing practical insights on applying culture-focused approaches in project settings. This gives him a unique perspective on the connection between culture, capacity, safety, and delivery outcomes.

  Dean is well placed to speak about what sustainable performance looks like in practice — and how leaders can improve reliability and productivity without driving overload.

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  Dr Mike Rollo Director - WatermanBurns Associates
  

  Dr Mike Rollo

  Director - WatermanBurns Associates

  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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  Grant Fuller Director - Wellness in Infrastructure
  

  Grant Fuller

  Director - Wellness in Infrastructure

  Grant Fuller is an experienced health, safety and wellbeing (HSW) leader with more than 13 years of senior management experience in the infrastructure construction industry. He has worked across major infrastructure projects, leading teams and partnering with clients and stakeholders to address complex HSW challenges through practical, collaborative approaches.

  Grant is particularly focused on creating psychologically safe work environments that enable leaders and teams to perform at their best. He is passionate about improving mental health outcomes across the infrastructure sector and advancing sustainable, industry-wide solutions to wellbeing challenges.

  He is a founding board member of Wellness in Infrastructure, a not-for-profit initiative focused on improving wellbeing outcomes in the sector, and has also contributed to the Mentally Healthy Workplaces Consultative Committee at the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet, supporting the development of policy and strategy to improve worker wellbeing across Victoria.

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  Jared Chesterman Co-Founder | Director - ProgressAmp
  

  Jared Chesterman

  Co-Founder | Director - ProgressAmp

  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.

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  Katy Cooper Co-Founder | Co-CEO - DISCO Consulting
  

  Katy Cooper

  Co-Founder | Co-CEO - DISCO Consulting

  Katy Cooper is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of DISCO Consulting, specialising in designing collaborative, human-centred organisations that can thrive amid growing complexity. A certified Futurist trained through the Institute for the Future, POLI.design (Milan) and the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies, Katy brings a futures and systems lens to transformation – helping leaders align strategy, culture and day-to-day ways of working to meet the realities they can’t yet see.

  With 25+ years across retail, customer experience, strategic management, HR, financial services, tourism and hospitality, technology and local government, she is known for translating complexity into practical design choices that improve performance and reduce harm. Katy’s work focuses on alignment as the engine of successful change: ensuring every level of the organisation understands where it’s going, why it matters, and how to adapt as the wider system shifts, without losing coherence.

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  Matthew Gault CEO - VIDA-Rail
  

  Matthew Gault

  CEO - VIDA-Rail

  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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  James Pease Vice President Health Major Capital Projects - UCSF Health
  

  James Pease

  Vice President Health Major Capital Projects - UCSF Health

  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 Davies Former CEO - Australian Contractors Association
  

  Jon Davies

  Former CEO - Australian Contractors Association

  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 Director & Lead Consultant - Rubicon Wigzell Ltd UK
  

  Andrew Moore

  Director & Lead Consultant - Rubicon Wigzell Ltd UK

  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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  Duncan Maxwell Associate Professor at Monash University and Building 4.0 CRC
  

  Duncan Maxwell

  Associate Professor at Monash University and Building 4.0 CRC

  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 Group Manager – Planning, John Holland
  

  Paul Bradley

  Group Manager – Planning, John Holland

  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 Marosszeky Principal - Marosszeky Associates
  

  Marton Marosszeky

  Principal - Marosszeky Associates

  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 Professor - Nihon University, Japan
  

  Koichi Murata

  Professor - Nihon University, Japan

  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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  Katherine Meagher Co-Founder and Director at Elaro
  

  Katherine Meagher

  Co-Founder and Director at Elaro

  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 Bugeja Chairperson - buildingSMART
  

  Eric Bugeja

  Chairperson - buildingSMART

  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 Dickson CEO - Wellness in Infrastructure
  

  Rebecca Dickson

  CEO - Wellness in Infrastructure

  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 CEO & Founder - Dolanto
  

  Alex Afshar

  CEO & Founder - Dolanto

  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.