Don Onwiler began his career as a Grain Warehouse Examiner for the State of Nebraska and later was Program Manager for the Nebraska Weights and Measures Division.  During that time, he was also an authorized evaluator under the National Type Evaluation Program for heavy capacity scales.  Don served as chairman of the Central Weights and Measures Association in 2004 and in 2006 he was Chairman of the National Conference on Weights and Measures. In 2008, Don Onwiler left public service and was hired as Executive Director of the National Conference on Weights and Measures, or NCWM.  There, he oversees all aspects of daily operations of the organization which sets the weights and measures standards for the United States.  In addition to meetings, membership, publications and communications, NCWM administers the National Type Evaluation Program for commercial weighing and measuring devices and a Professional Certification Program for weight and measures officials. 

https://www.ncwm.com/

Jaspal Singh is currently working as Senior Expert – IT and Development and is based in Toronto, Canada. Prior to this he was working as Head of UITP India Office since 2013. He has more than 13 years of experience in urban transport and management consultancy. He has setup a consultancy firm – Valoriser Consultants, Inc. which is engaged with companies in the areas of Bus operation, new mobility, Transport Planning, clean fuel technologies and ITS. Previously, he was working as Deputy Manager with Delhi Integrated Multi-Modal Transit System Limited, a joint venture of Government of Delhi. He is also subject matter expert on taxi and information transport, and has been widely quoted in national and international publications. He has received several awards for his contribution in the field of public transport and social work. Mr. Singh has received his Master’s in Business Administration specialized in International Business from University School of Management Studies, GGS Indraprastha University, Delhi.

https://www.uitp.org/

Mr. King W. Gee is the Director of Engineering and Technical Services for the American Association of State Highway And Transportation Officials (AASHTO), a non-profit, non-partisan association which advocates transportation-related policies and provides technical services to support states in their efforts to efficiently and safely move people and goods. He oversees the development of technical publications and standards for roads and bridges; the development and licensing of AASHTOW are software products; the review and accreditation of laboratories through the AASHTO Materials Reference Lab (AMRL); the support to numerous AASHTO committees and task forces; the implementation of products from the second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP2); and the development of transportation policy and legislative proposals. Previously, Mr. Gee had a 35 year career with the Federal Highway Administration where he served in progressively responsible positions related to engineering and program management issues. Born and raised in New York City, he holds B.S. and M.E. degrees in Civil Engineering both from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Ms. Prachi Vakharia lives and works in Washington DC, where she works with Steer's Planning Division (previously Steer Davies Gleave) and works on Autonomous Vehicles, V2X technologies and shared mobility projects in DC, NY and LA. Previously, she worked with the World Bank and pursued her curiosity of technology, entrepreneurship, business and transportation by working with startup companies -- myTaxi, Car2go, RideScout and RideAmigos -- 3 of which were acquired by Daimler AG (German auto maker of Mercedes Benz) for $100 million in a single deal on a single day. WOMANIUM is modelled after DARPA and ARPA-E. It is one of the most unique Science+Entrepreneurship organizations in USA that has worked with NASA, ARPA-E, NIH, Industries, etc. for women's advancement in STEM+Entrepreneurship in domains ranging from Energy, Space, Astronomy, Computational Neuroscience, Industrial Additive Manufacturing (3-D Printing), Automation, Transportation to Nuclear Weapons Safety. Ms. Vakharia serves as the first Global Chairperson for the development of new worldwide Digital & Shared Mobility Standards with SAE and she also chairs 3 committees for the National Academies of Sciences Transport Research Board.  She grew up between Bombay, Hong-Kong and London, and has lived in Boston and Washington DC in USA -- cities and cultures that have helped to create her views on people, trade and transportation, which she uses to advance cities to aid people and trade through transportation. 

https://www.womanium.org/

Robert Puentes is President and CEO of the Eno Center for Transportation a non-profit think tank with the mission of improving transportation policy and leadership. Prior to joining Eno, he was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program where he directed the program’s Metropolitan Infrastructure Initiative. He is currently a non-resident senior fellow with Brookings. Before Brookings, Robert was the director of infrastructure programs at the Intelligent Transportation Society of America. Robert has worked extensively on a variety of transportation issues, including infrastructure funding and finance, and city and urban planning. He is a frequent speaker to a variety of groups, a regular contributor in newspapers and other media, and has testified before Congressional committees. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Virginia where he served on the Alumni Advisory Board, and was an affiliated professor with Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute. Robert serves on a variety of boards including the Shared-Use Mobility Center, UCLA’s Institute of Transportation Studies, and Young Professionals in Transportation. Recent appointments include the Federal Advisory Committee on Transportation Equity, New York State’s 2100 Infrastructure Commission; the Advisory Council of the West Coast Infrastructure Exchange, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Transportation Reinvention Commission; the District of Columbia’s Streetcar Financing and Governance Task Force; the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority’s Technical Advisory Committee; and the Falls Church, Virginia Planning Commission where he lives with his wife and three sons.

https://www.enotrans.org/

Steven H. Bayless is the Vice President, Technology and Markets, and Senior Director of Telecommunications and Telematics at the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America). He is responsible for providing guidance to ITS America's Board of Directors and senior staff on matters involving new technologies, wireless services and evolving automotive platforms, intelligent transportation infrastructure, operations and customer services. Steven previously served as staff advisor and Presidential Management Fellow in the Secretary of Transportation's policy office at US DOT headquarters. Steven had cabinet-level lead in policy related to research and development, spectrum management and telecommunications policy. As a detailee to the White House, he assisted in formulation of several presidential directives on aerospace policy, focusing in particular on satellite navigation. He also advised the State Department and the Federal Aviation Administration in negotiations on space and aviation cooperation with the European Union, the Russian Federation and Japan. In the surface transportation domain, Bayless supported secretarial policy initiatives regarding the reorientation of federal research and development, highway safety, and transportation infrastructure finance reform. Steven's career also includes tenure as a management consultant with American Management Systems (now CGI) in Washington DC, and as a Project Coordinator for DuPont Europe in Budapest, Hungary. Steven holds a specialized masters degree from the Fletcher School at Tufts University in International Security Studies and Business. His bachelor degree is in Economics and Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia. He has also completed graduate work at Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge Massachusetts, and at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary.

https://www.itsa.org/