Stephen Engblom is an architect, urbanist, and real estate development expert with over 20 years of experience. He has worked on projects across the globe and a wide range of place types. Stephen most recently worked at CBRE, the world’s premier provider of integrated real estate and advisory services, where as Senior Managing Director and thought leader, he launched the firm’s Infrastructure and Public Enterprise practice. Prior to CBRE, Stephen worked for 20 years at AECOM where he grew from an urban design practitioner to a global executive vice president responsible for conceiving of and developing AECOM Cities, an integrated practice that focused on primary urban markets around the world. By working with clients to reframe their most intractable challenges, AECOM under Stephen’s leadership was able to develop integrated urban solutions that spanned planning, design, infrastructure engineering, and program and construction management. Over the course of 7 years, the Cities practice consistently surpassed its short-term and long-term goals. Stephen is a faculty member at the University of California Berkeley, a San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) board member, and is active in the Urban Land Institute (ULI) as a volunteer leader, panelist, and member. He contributes thought leadership to industry journals and lectures and teaches at universities and institutes worldwide. He serves on the Rice University School of Architecture Advisory Board. In 2022, Stephen was nominated as a member of the Lambda Alpha International: Society for the Advancement of Land Economics.

David Yam started his career in rail business as a planner. He is proficient in railway planning and operations, project management and commercials. In his early years David involved in feasibility study to multiple rail projects across Asia. Since 2008 he has been leading business transactions for MTR Corporation Ltd (“the Company”) in SE Asia, Australia, India, and Middle East. In 2014, David led a consortium to win the first overseas investment project valued AUD3.7B dollars for the Company. David has been appointed as a corporate representative in several joint ventures overseeing the execution of the Company’s investment projects overseas. He is also a director of some of the subsidiaries of the Company. David holds a Bachelor degree (Hons) in Business Administration from University of Bolton, UK and a Master degree from the Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Yvonne Yeung is the Principal, Practice Lead for Planning Sustainable Cities and Communities at Hatch Urban Solutions - covering Transit-oriented Communities, Planning and Infrastructure, Sustainability and Climate Change, Strategy and Implementation. She is a professional planner, urban designer, landscape architect, LEED accredited professional and project management professional with over 23 years of private and public sector experience delivering high-quality, award-winning, sustainable transit-oriented communities and vibrant public spaces worldwide. Her work focuses on informing how cities can better position infrastructure investment to deliver healthy, equitable, 15-min walkable complete communities through synergistic collaboration as a blueprint. Appointed as ULI Curtis Infrastructure Fellow, Yvonne authored the "15-Minute Communities: A Leadership Guide." As Vice-chair of the ULI SDRC Product Council, member of ULI Toronto Advisory Board and the ULI WLI Women’s Leadership Initiative Champions, Yvonne founded the "Getting to Transit-Oriented Communities Initiative", leading the strategic engagement across the region and North America, promoting progressive city-building practices and collaborations between public and private sectors. Specialized in team building, executive strategy, large-scale transformation and cross-sector implementation, Yvonne is the recipient of the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management MBA Award, the American Society of Landscape Architects Honour Award, a founding board member of the OALA Ground Editorial and past member of the City of Toronto Public Art Commission, the Canadian Standards Association Design Standards Committee and the Green Building Certification Institute LEED Review Committee. Her projects have won planning and design excellence awards from the Waterfront Centre in Washington DC, the Canadian Institute of Planners, the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects, the international Grands Prix Du Design, the Ontario Professional Planner Institute and the City of Toronto Urban Design. Yvonne has served as a speaker at Urban Land Institute, UN-Habitat, University of Toronto School of Cities, Smart Cities Expo, Green Roof for Healthy Cities, AMCTO Municipal Leadership Forum, Civic Action, Janes Walk, and university design studios at Toronto, Waterloo, Ryerson, Guelph, Oklahoma, and York. Yvonne travels regularly and has recently been to Oslo, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo to document the emerging trends and innovation in sustainability, technology, transit-oriented system, family-oriented urban living, and land development business models.

Michael Sutherland leads Urban Solutions for Hatch in Canada, bringing together economics, planning strategy, urban design, transportation and engineering for real estate and infrastructure owners and developers, public and private. Michael works and collaborates all over the world. Hatch’s Urban Solutions practice includes airport and port area planning and masterplanning, and is a leader in initiating and delivering Transit Oriented Development (TOD) projects. Based in Toronto, Michael has made major contributions to the development of projects in the Toronto Area such as GO Regional Express Rail, subways, light rail projects, and foundational major urban development projects like CIBC Square, East Harbour and Christie Cookie redevelopment. Michael led the development of the business case framework now used by Ontario, Metrolinx and governments across Canada for decision-making. Michael is a recognized expert in cities, transport hubs and transportation, infrastructure economics and funding and land use. Michael holds degrees in Civil Engineering from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario; Cities from London School of Economics, London, UK; and Law from University of Toronto.