Sydney ITS Business Networking Event 2024

As NSW Minister for the Arts, Minister for Music and the Night-time Economy, Minister for Jobs and Tourism, Minister for Roads, Special Minister of State and Deputy Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council the Hon. John Graham MLC is working at the intersection of culture, technology & entrepreneurship. He was elected in 2016 to serve the people of NSW. He is committed to supporting vibrant and inclusive cultural industries, creative cities, and the creative economy.

Adele Beachley is the Executive Director of Sydney Co-ordinated Adaptive Traffic Systems (SCATS) in the Customer Strategy and Technology Division. With a strong background in technology and business development, Adele has decades of experience across global organizations in various industries. She specialises in deploying technology, RFID, mobility, and analytics in transport and logistics. Recently, Adele has ventured into innovation, creating products and applications centered on computer vision and machine learning for frontline workers' smartphones.

Apart from her professional role, Adele is a dedicated volunteer board advisor for a grassroots non-profit organization that utilizes technology and innovation for humanitarian causes. Fluent in five languages, she has a personal interest in beekeeping, wellness, and brain health. Adele, with her commercial expertise, took on the role of leading the SCATS business at Transport for NSW in January 2022, driving its strategic agenda forward.

Simone Roberts’ career in data and analytics spans over 20 years and across a variety of sectors, including transport, financial services, digital, telecommunications, retail and media, both here in Australia and in the UK. Over this time, Simone has led many teams to build data and analytics capabilities to improve business and customer outcomes. Simone is passionate about exploring new ways of using data to make a difference in people’s lives. She is proud to have established Transport’s first Enterprise Data Office, bringing together many data experts from across the enterprise to help realise the power of data.

Flavien is a experienced professional in Operations and Deployment, with over two decades of experience across four continents. He has worked on various Telecom and Intelligent Transport Systems projects, taking on diverse roles such as pre-sales, bid support, project management, roll-out, contract management, subcontractor follow-up, and cost control. He is currently a Program Manager at Q-Free Australia, where he has successfully delivered the Cross City Tunnel replacement project, the QLD Tolling System upgrade project, and the Harbour Crossing Tolling Project in the past five years.

Manuel is a PMI member with over 10 years of international project management experience, delivering highly complex technical projects in the intelligent transport systems and tolling industries.

While delivering projects in the UK and Australia Manuel has been exposed to all aspects of project lifecycle; project management, requirements specification, conceptual design, detailed design, risk analysis, software development, installation, commissioning, testing, configuration, training, maintenance and operations, and is working to expand SICE operations in the Asia Pacific market, and managing SICE operations in both Australia and New Zealand.