Arup Mukherjee is a Professional Engineer with 30 years experience in Municipal Engineering.  He recently retired as Director of Public Works for the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville in Eastern Ontario. Prior to that, he worked for both local and regional governments in Toronto, Markham, York Region and Bradford. He is a member of Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) and Municipal Engineers Association (MEA). He is also the Chair of the Ottawa Valley Branch for the Ontario Public Works Association (OPWA).

Rachel started her career in private consulting where she focused on water and wastewater treatment.  She has since worked in municipal government for over 15 years where her focus has been solely on stormwater and water resources.  In her current role, as the Stormwater Manager at the Town of Milton, Rachel is involved in many different areas of stormwater management including Development Engineering, Environmental Compliance and Operations. She is a graduate of Conestoga College in both Civil Engineering Technology and Environmental Engineering Applications.

Rowan Peterson is Junior Legal Counsel with the City of Ottawa’s Municipal & Regulatory Law Practice Group. Called to the Ontario Bar following articling with the City, Rowan has acted as a prosecutor before the Provincial Offences Court, represented the municipality as counsel at various levels of court as well as before administrative tribunals, and provides legal support to the municipality on a broad variety of topics.

Art Winslow is the National IPD (Integrated Project Delivery) Director at Colliers Project Leaders. He is a Certified Lean Construction and IPD instructor.

Art has trained and advised teams to use lean and IPD methods to improve predictability, cost and schedule in design and construction projects. During his 30+ years in the construction industry, Art has successfully managed and delivered projects worth billions of dollars using traditional and alternative/collaborative delivery contracts. Art is a founding board member of the Lean Construction Institute of Canada and Certified Lean Instructor for Associated General Contractors of America. Art has been doing Lean construction for the last 15 years.

Art served as the subject matter expert for the CCDC (Canadian Construction Documents Committee) task force committee member to develop CCDC 30 (Integrated Project Delivery Contract) document. Art has conducted numerous training and boot camps for Lean and IPD contracts across Canada and the US, including the Department of National Defence, Canada.

Asim Masaud has been working as the owner’s project manager and advisor for water and wastewater design and construction projects. Currently, Asim is the Senior Project Manager and Owner’s representative for the Barrie Wastewater Treatment Facility Upgrade Project.

With more than 25 years of experience in project management, infrastructure planning, and construction contract development, Asim possesses a wealth of knowledge and expertise in delivering successful projects using traditional (design-bid-build) and alternative/collaborative (design-build, progressive design-build, construction manager at risk, and integrated project delivery) contracts. Before joining the City of Barrie, Asim served as Senior Project Manager with the Ontario Clean Water Agency for 17 years, where he was responsible for developing and executing capital projects.

Asim holds a Master of Science in Environmental Engineering from the University of Manchester, UK, and is a Certified Project Management Professional.

Kelly has worked in municipal government for over 40 years and currently serves as the CAO for the County of Frontenac. With degrees in planning, landscape architecture, and business, Kelly considers himself a generalist who strongly emphasizes supporting and empowering employees. He is also a part-time professor in the Laurentian University BBA program at St. Lawrence College where he teaches human resources, organizational behaviour and labour relations at the senior level.

Max is a Senior Engineer with a wealth of hands-on, road safety engineering experience and is an accredited Senior Road Safety Auditor. Max regularly conducts Road Safety Audits at all stages of a project’s life. Max is a passionate advocate for safer cycling and keeps up to date with best practice for designing and delivering cycling infrastructure. Max sits on the advisory group for CycleRAP – an international panel of cycling safety experts – and keeps abreast of how the world delivers innovative, technically excellent cycling projects often in constrained and complex sites. Max also runs the ‘Cycling Auditor Training Course’ which is aimed at sharpening road safety practitioner’s skills in identifying and providing solutions for cyclist safety. This course has amassed hundreds of eager graduates who have injected their newly acquired skills to their own transport projects.