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.

Kenn is the Principal Engineer of Safe System Solutions Pty Ltd – a specialist road safety engineering consultancy and is a world leader in applied road safety engineering. Before founding Safe System Solutions Pty Ltd in 2013, Kenn worked for VicRoads (the Victorian road authority) in a variety of roles including Manager Planning, Manager Program Development and Team Leader Road Safety Engineering. During his career Kenn has undertaken over 400 Road Safety Audits on some of the world’s most high profile and complex infrastructure projects. Kenn has been the lead trainer for road safety technical training courses in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Thailand, The Philippines and the USA. Austroads appointed Kenn as the specialist technical advisor for SAG2060 and SAG6221 – updating the Guide to Road Safety Part 6: Road Safety Audit, and he led the update to the Austroads Guide to Road Safety Part 2: Safe Roads.

Kenn is a registered road safety engineer, Senior Road Safety Auditor and transport planner, with further qualifications in training and assessment.

Listen to Kenn Beer as he discusses Road Safety Audits with Thomas and Jared of the Good Roads Podcast: https://youtu.be/QO6U4m56zjg

Dina Barazza is the President and Chief Learning Officer of The Talent Consortium, a consulting practice specializing in human resources. Her work includes business and HR consultation, leadership, and diversity programs.  

She draws on more than 30 years of experience in business, human resources, organizational effectiveness, learning & leadership, education, sales, business development, marketing, project management and not-for-profits, to achieve ethical business & people results. 

As a trail blazer in leadership, Dina is a professional & motivational speaker. She is an advocate and voice for all who wish to further develop themselves, while focusing her efforts on women, persons with disabilities, and young professionals. 

Fraser has more than 12 years of experience in the Horizontal Directional Drilling field. He is thoroughly knowledgeable about HDD drilling rigs, downhole tools, tracking, drilling fluids, feasibility and risk analysis, and QA/QC. Currently, he works for LDL Directional Drilling and Tunneling Services and is a consultant and instructor at the Trenchless Institute. Previously, Fraser served as corporate product manager for Ditch Witch Eastern Canada Division (Brandt Group of Companies) and possesses a Resources Drilling and Blasting Diploma from Fleming College.