Todd Latham, Founder & President of Actual Media Inc.

Todd is a media entrepreneur with twenty-six years of experience in business publishing, marketing and communications. He is Founder and President of Actual Media Inc. a specialized Canadian publishing and creative agency that produces ReNew Canada – the infrastructure magazine, the Top100 Infrastructure Projects report and Water Canada – the complete water magazine.

Todd is a cross-industry participant, advisor and communicator with broad practical knowledge and an extensive network in the global environment, infrastructure and water sectors. He is also President of Blue Events Inc. (organizer of the Canadian Water Summit series) and serves on the Board of Directors of the Ontario Public Works Association (OPWA) and the Canadian Network of Asset Managers (CNAM). He is co-founder of the Canadian Brownfields Network, a senior associate of the Canadian Urban Institute and an award-winning member of the University of Toronto Environmental Finance Committee. He is a trusted advisor and consultant to companies and institutions for his media brand experience, editorial direction, communications planning and marketing execution. He is a leader who inspires, motivates and exudes optimism with an instinct for creative communications, connectivity and common sense. He is an articulate, engaging public speaker and opinionated editorial writer. In March 2011 he travelled to Antarctica with Sir Robert Swan and became an alumnus of 2041 – an international group committed the renewable energy and the preservation of the continent. He is married with two daughters and lives in Toronto.

Pious Map, Region of Halton
 

As an asset management practitioner Pious has for the last 8 years been leading the Asset Management Program in Public Works at the Region of Halton, Ontario. Pious has financial and strategic management experience spanning over 24 years’ in both the private and public sector. Pious is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and holds an MBA. He has done a number of presentations on asset management at WEAO and CNAM conferences and is an avid advocate for Account-neering.

Leanne Brannigan, Region of Peel

Leanne Brannigan is Manager of Corporate Asset Management at the Region of Peel and has been foundational in the development of Peel's overarching Asset Management Strategy and establishing the internal relationships necessary for rolling it out across all of Peel’s diverse Services and infrastructure.  Leanne lead the development of Peel’s risk strategy which established the basis for Peel’s Long-Term Financial Planning Strategy direction that state of good repair is funded prior to any other works in the capital infrastructure budget.

Leanne leveraged her experience and passion as the founding Chair of AMONTario, the premier community of practice for Public Infrastructure Asset Management in Ontario.  Leanne also serves as a member of FCM’s MAMP Technical Working Group, is a member of the National AM Communities of Practice and has been appointed to OGRA’s AM Certification Board.

Michael Lewis, City of Ottawa

Process-oriented Mechanical Engineer who undertakes complex projects, meets tight deadlines and problem solves. Possesses practical knowledge in maintenance systems, power generation, process, manufacturing and mechanical design. Effective communicator that enjoys implementing change and providing continual process improvement.

Simon Bush, WSP

Simon is an asset management specialist, with over 22-years’ experience.  Simon’s experience spans several countries including the UK, Canada, Malaysia, New Zealand and Australia.  Simon’s specialism is bridge asset management.  Applying this skill to networks of bridges and single long-span bridges, such as the Penang Crossing, Malaysia.  While Simon’s specialism is bridge asset management He has also worked with clients developing asset management approaches for buildings, ferries, national parks assets, and provincial parks assets.  Simon is also a certified asset management assessor, and as such can provide technical support to auditors who are assessing an organization for compliance to the ISO 55000 suite of asset management standards.

Simon blends operational experience with academic qualifications, which helps to provide rigour to the work he carries out.  In 2011 Simon completed his Masters degree, which focused on the data collection and monitoring strategies for asset management of New Zealand’s Highway bridges.  More recently, Simon completed his PhD, which took a systems-thinking approach to improving the freight performance of New Zealand’s state highway bridges.  In his research, Simon used an Agent-Based to model a large complex interconnected network of bridges and the hauliers that interacted with the network.  Based on his New Zealand case study Simon Identified that significant savings could potentially be made, if a whole network of bridges was modelling in one capital improvement plan.