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The T-Tech 2024 Future Transport Conference finished with an awards ceremony for the best presentations. The annual conference hosted by ITSNZ and co-hosts Transportation Research Centre was held on June 25-26 exploring real-world innovations and new tech-enabled solutions for transport, it was attended by over 180 delegates.
![Supreme Award winner Dave Keenan, Aimsun](https://itsnz.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/T-Tech_Dave_Keenan-720x377.png)
The conference featured some 70 speakers, award winners were selected from those who submitted abstracts for inclusion in the T-Tech programme. Abstracts were scored and accepted into the programme having been reviewed by a team of judges from across the industry and acedemia. A record number of abstracts were received for this year’s conference, a 44% increase on 2023, signalling the conference’s growing importance and popularity in New Zealand’s calendar of transport conferences and events.
T-Tech speaker awards were given for each of the conference’s six topics and a supreme award winner chosen from the most popular of those.
This year’s Supreme award winner for best presentation was Dave Keenan, Aimsun
Best Presentation Award winners per topic:
(click on their names to read their T-Tech speaker profiles)
- Public and Shared Transport Technologies and Solutions – Daniel Hoyne, Kapsch TrafficCom
- Demand Management and Road User Pricing – Peter Carr, EROAD
- Electric, Connected and Automated Transport- Emily Bobis, Compass IoT
- Data, AI, Analytics and Cybersecurity – Andy Prow, Qubit Cyber
- Technologies for Safe and Resilient Infrastructure – Jessica Tong, Kapsch TrafficCom
- Smart Transport Modelling, Operations and Asset Management – Dave Keenan, Aimsun
ITSNZ thanks and acknowledges the contribution of time and effort of the T-Tech judges panel for their work in assessing all abstract submissions for T-Tech 2024
T-Tech 2024 Judging panel:
- Armin Guttke, ITSNZ Director of Memberships (Head Judge)
- Andy Prow, Qubit Cyber
- Antony Dixon, ITSNZ Director / Cubic Transportation Systems
- Brent Lewers, NZTA Waka Kotahi
- Doug Wilson, ITSNZ Director for Education and Research /University of Auckland’s Transportation Research Centre
- Gareth Robins, ITSNZ Director / Robinsight
- Kirsten Corson, CEO, Drive Electric
- Leah Murphy, NZTA Waka Kotahi
- Mark Gregory, ITSNZ Director / Beca
- Martin Huang, Stantec
- Shannyn Hiroti, ITSNZ Director / Urban Connection
- William Liu, Unitec