Training Session - Evidence and Technology to Drive Impact
22 May 2026, Friday | 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Auditorium Hall 1
Eiji Yamada
Senior Research FellowJapan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
Speakers
Yi Jiang
Director
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Jamie Leather
Director, Transport
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Sveta Milusheva
Senior Economist
The World Bank
Zhigang Li
Principal Economist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Priti Gautam
Senior Transport Specialist
(Road Safety)
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Facilitators
Bhakta Mani Sitoula
Associate Project Officer
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Bidisha Barooah
Economist (Development Impact)
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Minhaj U. Mahmud
Senior Economist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Training Session - Monitoring Progress of the UN Decade of Sustainable Transport
22 May 2026, Friday | 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Auditorium Hall 2
Holger Dalkmann
CEO and Founder; Transport Team Lead
Sustain 2030; Climate Compatible Growth
Astra Bonini
Chief
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA)
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)
Pawan Mulukutla
Executive Program Director
World Resources Institute (WRI) India
Sudhir Gota
Co-Team Leader
Asian Transport Observatory (ATO)
Focus Session - LEZ Maturity Assessment and Tools for Tackling Transport - Related Air Pollution
22 May 2026, Friday | 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Auditorium Hall 3
Rebecca Stapleton
Senior Transport Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Speakers
Honor Puciato
Associate Director and Air Quality Lead
Ricardo
Sebastian Mueller
Data Analyst
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Joonho Ko
Full Professor
Hanyang University
Showcase Session - From Ideas to Impact — Innovations and Private Sector Engagement
22 May 2026, Friday | 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Auditorium Hall 4
Moderator
Masayoshi Ono
Senior Transport Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Boeey Bonifacio
Chief Corporate Affairs Officer
Grab Philippines
Safiah Moore
Associate Principal
ARUP
Glynda Bathan-Baterina
Deputy Executive Director
Clean Air Asia
Ran Wang
International Road Transport Union (IRU)
Yrhen Bernard Sabanal Balinis
Country Lead
Ocean Centers Philippines
Björn Antonsson
Regional CEO Asia-Pacific
Candela (Sweden)
Joyce Rivera
Transport Policy Advisor
GIZ Philippines
Training Session - Translating Poverty and Social Analysis into Transport Project Action
22 May 2026, Friday | 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Auditorium 1
Moderator
Jeff Turner
Social Development Consultant
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Emily Wang
Consultant
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Teja Malladi
GIS Consultant
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Wilson Pak Sang Leung
Transport Professional
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Training Session - Using Transport Data for Better Investment Decisions
22 May 2026, Friday | 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Auditorium Hall 2
Rika Hayashi
Principal Knowledge Management Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Alvin Mejia
Co-Team Leader
Asian Transport Observatory (ATO)
Holger Dalkmann
CEO and Founder; Transport Team Lead
Sustain 2030; Climate Compatible Growth
Sveta Milusheva
Senior Economist
The World Bank
Greg Smith
CEO
International Road Assessment
Programme (iRAP)
Michael Anyala
Senior Transport Specialist (Road Asset Management)
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Colin Broadwood
Head
TRL
Training Session - Electric Mobility—Transforming Public Transport Management
22 May 2026, Friday | 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Auditorium Hall 3
Diana Páez
Senior Director, Energy & Mobility
University of Michigan
Speakers
Zulfia Gafurova
Head, Department of Strategic Development and Financial Analysis
JSC Toshavtobustrans (Uzbekistan)
Setia N. Milatia Moemin
President Director
DAMRI (Indonesia)
Sveta Harosyan
Program Lead
Yerevan Urban Development Investment Projects PIU (Armenia)
Ramiz Aliev
Deputy Mayor
Municipal Government of Bishkek (Kyrgyz Republic)
Swati Mitchelle Dsouza
Climate Change Specialist (Just Transition)
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Abhishek Hegde
Senior Private Sector Development Specialist
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Claire Charamnac
Associate Principal
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Bert Fabian
Deputy Executive Director
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Training Session - New Modes of Urban Transport — Ropeways and Innovative Urban Mobility Solutions
22 May 2026, Friday | 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Auditorium Hall 4
Harold Hurel
Consultant
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Nicolas Pralong
Head
POMA
Fortunado Sanchez
Manager
Doppelmayr
Aglaée Degros
Professor and Head
TU Graz
Manoj Paudel
Special Advisor to the Chairman
IME Group
Keshab Sharma
Former Secretary
Ministry of Physical Infrastructure
and Transport (Nepal) (To be confirmed)
Prashant Jain
Vice President
National Highways Logistics
Management Ltd (India) (To be confirmed)
Site Visit - Malolos-Clark Railway Project and Philippine Railway Institute
22 May 2026, Friday | Departure: 7:30 a.m.; Return: 5:00 p.m.
Clark and Apalit, Pampanga; Calumpit, Bulacan; Valenzuela City, Metro Manila
Timothy John Batan
Undersecretary
Department of Transportation
(Philippines)
Narciso R. Preclaro Jr.
Project Manager
Department of Transportation (Philippines)
Sangyeob Lee
Project Manager
POSCO E&C