header

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Training Session - From Strategy to Action – The ADB Green Ports Toolkit
21 May 2026, Thursday | 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Auditorium Hall 1

Moderator


Adrian Sammons
Senior Transport Specialist
Asian Development Bank


Speakers


Jackie Spiteri
Managing Director
SESG Limited



Gian Marcelino
Communication and Knowledge Specialist (Consultant)
Asian Development Bank (ADB)



Rika Idei
Senior Transport Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Unite Head, Project Administration
Transport Sector Office
Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Port Strategy Consultant
Haskoning

Managing Director
Sri Lanka Ports Authority

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Training Session -  Green Roads Workshop
21 May 2026, Thursday | 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Auditorium Hall 2


Moderator

   
   Rebecca Stapleton
Senior Transport Specialist
    Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Speakers


Henry Kerali
CEO
Tego Digital Solutions



Frank van Steenbergen
Technical Director
MetaMeta



Filippo Giustozzi
Professor
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)

Transport Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Senior Project Officer (Transport)
Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Senior Transport Specialist (Road Asset Management)
Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Project Director
Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Focus Session -  Data-to-Deal— Partnerships for Catalyzing Transport Decarbonization Finance
21 May 2026, Thursday | 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Auditorium Hall 3

Moderators


Johanna Zilliacus
Consultant
Asian Development Bank (ADB)



Bert Fabian
Senior Transport Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Speakers


Mark Howells
Programme Director
Climate Compatible Growth (CCG)



Jamie Leather
Director, Transport
Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Co-Team Leader
Asian Transport Observatory (ATO)

Section Chief
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
Senior Transport Specialist
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)

Senior Transport Officer
Asian Development Bank (ADB)


First Assistant Secretary
Department of Works and Highways (Papua New Guinea)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Focus Session - Transport Project Management and Contract Execution in Crises
21 May 2026, Thursday | 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Auditorium Hall 4


Moderators


Aruna Nanayakkara
Transport Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB) 




Yidan Luo
Transport Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)




Chen Chen
Director, Transport
Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Speakers


Jeff Taylor
Deputy Director General
Procurement, Portfolio and Financial Management Department (PPFD)
Asian Development Bank (ADB)



Darshika Jayasekara
Additional Director General
Network Planning and Asset Management Road Development Authority (Sri Lanka)



Natsuko Totsuka
Country Operations Head
Afghanistan Resident Mission
Asian Development Bank (ADB)



Atif Rasheed
General Manager (Aided Projects)
National Highway Authority (Pakistan)

Former Secretary
Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport (Nepal)

Principal Transport Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Principal Private Sector Development Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Focus Session - Donor Roundtable  
21 May 2026, Thursday | 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Auditorium Hall 2

Moderator


Jamie Leather
Director, Transport
Asian Development Bank, (ADB)

Speakers


Andres Pizzaro
Manager
Public Sector Clients Department (Region 1)
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)



Katrin Luger
Section Chief
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)



Carly Gilbert-Patrick
Secretary General
Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport (SLOCAT)

Chief Advisor
GIZ Philippines

Partner Funds
Asian Development Bank (ADB)


Practice Manager, Transport and Logistics
The World Bank


Advisor, SPOD
Asian Development Bank (ADB)


Chief of the Integrated Policy Analysis
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA)

Programme Director
Climate Compatible Growth (CCG)

Director, Mobility Department
European Investment Bank (EIB)


Senior Program Officer
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

Economic and Climate Counsellor
British Embassy Manila, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)

Global Urban Mobility Director
World Resources Institute (WRI)


Environment Programme Coordinator
UNCRD-DSDG/UN DESA

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Showcase Session - From Ideas to Impact – European Transport Solutions
21 May 2026, Thursday | 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Auditorium Hall 1


Moderator


Andri Heriawan
Senior Transport Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Speakers


Bertrand Furno
Executive Director
BDIR



Josephine Ong
Vice President, Cities & Public Services
Dassault Systèmes



Xavier Pascual
Global Director Consulting and New Technologies
Sener



David Moncholí i Badilloa
Director of Mobility and Transport
IDOM





João Pimentel
Chief Executive Officer & Partner
Sweroad




Chief Operating Officer
Finnish Overseas Consultants (FinnOC)




Bridge Project Manager and Structural Design Lead
Egis Design Center Thailand





Yves Barthelémy
Digital Technology Specialist
(Earth Observation)
Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Executive Director
BDIR

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Showcase Session - From Ideas to Impact — Tailored Regional Solutions
21 May 2026, Thursday | 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Auditorium Hall 3


Moderator


Yongkeun Oh
Principal Transport Specialist
Asian Development Bank  (ADB)


Speakers


Ma Yi
Deputy General Manager
Shenzhen Bus Group




Tego Digital Solutions



Adrian Sammons
Senior Transport Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)




Robin Workman
Principal International Consultant
TRL


Hee Mun Park
Senior Research Fellow
Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technologies (KICT)

Deputy Director of the Digital Transport Center
Ministry of Transport (Uzbekistan)
Professor
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
Associate Principal
ARUP

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Focus Session - Smarter Transport and Urban Planning Using Mobile Phone Signal Data
21 May 2026, Thursday | 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Auditorium Hall 4

Moderators


Sin Wai (Angel)  Chong
Transport Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)



Saugata Dasgupta
Senior Transport Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Speakers


Hiroaki Yamaguchi
Senior Director, Transport
Asian Development Bank (ADB)



Kanzo Nakai
 Director, Transport
Asian Development Bank (ADB)



M.S. Awanthi Senaratne
Additional Secretary (Development)
Ministry of Transport, Highways and Urban Development (Sri Lanka)

Sonam Choden
Executive Engineer
Department of Surface Transport
Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (Bhutan)

Founder
Transit Intelligence LLLP

CEO
Equity AI Limited

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Training Session - Local Initiatives Driving Better Railway Asset Management and Maintenance
21 May 2026, Thursday | 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Auditorium Hall 1

Moderator


Mohammad Nazrul Islam
Senior Transport Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)


Speakers


Satomi Sakaguchi
Senior Transport Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)




Al Fattah Md Masudur Rahman
Additional Director General (Infrastructure)
Bangladesh Railway




S. M. Salimullah Bahar
Rector of Railway Training Academy 
Bangladesh Railway

University Professor
Graz University of Technology

Senior Transport Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Focus Session - Roundtable Discussion on Advancing Transport Leadership Program (ATLP)
21 May 2026, Thursday | 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Auditorium Hall 2


Moderator


Chen Chen
Director, Transport
Asian Development Bank (ADB)


Speakers


Hiroaki Yamaguchi
Senior Director, Transport
Asian Development Bank (ADB)




Arghya Sinha Roy
Climate Change
Asian Development Bank (ADB)




Samantha Cook
Director, Disaster Risk Management
Asian Development Bank (ADB)




Mohammed Azim Hashimi
Director, Advisory Division 1
Asian Development Bank (ADB)





Siddhartha Shah
Director, Markets Development Advisory Division 2
Asian Development Bank (ADB)



Michael Anyala
Senior Transport Specialist (Road Asset Management)
Asian Development Bank (ADB)




Yidan Luo
Transport Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)




Charymuhammet Shallyyevi
Director
CAREC Institute





K. E. Seetha Rham
ADBI Fellow
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)



Manabu Takami
Financing Partnerships Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)




Biao Guo
Principal Financing Partnerships Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)





Mariko Iwai
Transport Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)



Atif Rasheed
General Manager (Aided Projects)
National Highway Authority 




Diana Marie Hernandez-Louis
Senior Transport Officer
Asian Development Bank (ADB)




Miko Mojica
Human Resource Officer
Asian Development Bank (ADB)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Training Session - Building the Path to Scale Non-Motorized Transport Initiatives
21 May 2026, Thursday | 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Auditorium Hall 3


Moderator


David Margonsztern
Principal Transport Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)






Speakers


Aglaée Degros
Professor, Head of Institute
Graz University of Technology Institute of Urbanism




Poornima Singh
Manager, Research and Membership Services
International Association of Public Transport (UITP)




Christopher Kost
Consultant
Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Independent Consultant
Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Programme Manager (Asia)
MobiliseYourCity

Carly Gilbert-Patrick
Secretary General
SLOCAT

Director IV for Road
Transport  and Infrastructure
Department of Transportation (Philippines)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Training Session - Past, Present, and Future of Regional Connectivity and Economic Cooperation—Learning from CAREC, GMS, and SASEC
21 May 2026, Thursday | 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Auditorium Hall 4

Moderator


Max Ee
Principal Consultant
SCMi Group LLP






Speakers


Ari J. Kalliokoski
Principal Transport Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)




Masato Nakane
Principal Transport Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Principal Transport Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)



Sin Wai (Angel) Chong
Transport Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Transport Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

CAREC Smart Mobility Working Group Meeting
21 May 2026, Thursday | 8:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Multi Functions Halls 1-2


(by invitation only)