Cal Poly ITE cordially invites you to attend the 2024 Student Leadership Summit in San Luis Obispo from February 2nd-4th, 2024!
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Cal Poly ITE is excited to host the 11th annual Western District Student Leadership Summit! It is an honor for SLS to be back in San Luis Obispo, where it all started. We are thrilled to have the opportunity for the members of Western District student chapters to share their passion for transportation, build relationships, develop leadership skills, and learn from one another. |
What's in Store?
Over this three-day summit, students and professionals will have the opportunity to tour transportation firms in San Luis Obispo, participate in engaging and educational activities, and network with other students and professionals. For more details, see the Tentative Itinerary below.
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Students
100+ |
Professionals
30+ |
Ideas
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Click here to learn more about previous years' SLS.
Highlights
Friday
Bus Roadeo
Join us at SLO Regional Transit Authority Friday afternoon to experience the Bus Roadeo! Check out the new RTA facility, listen in on a presentation on developments and challenges for a small transit firm, and judge bus operators as they navigate through a skills course. |
Downtown SLO Scavenger Hunt and Social Mixer
First time in San Luis Obispo? Let's have fun downtown and participate in a scavenger hunt to see what Downtown has to offer. After the scavenger hunt with your peers, we'll be having a social mixer at a nearby restaurant. Pizza and fun is given. |
Saturday
Words from the Founders of the Summit
The Student Leadership Summit was founded by a group of Cal Poly ITE students who worked through 2013 and 2014 to plan the first-of-a-kind professional mini-conference, by students and for students. This group of Founders include Brian Sukkar (not pictured); back row: Graham Bultema, Victoria Edington, Nina Levine, Lauren Sotir, Briana Byrne; front row: Daniel Foye, Kevin Carstens, Krista Purser, Travis Low, Alexander Zhang, Sean Carney, and Troy Kawahara, all led by Committee Head Kaylinn Pell (held horizontally in front). The inaugural Summit attracted students from all over the West Coast and has spread to other Districts of ITE, and the Founders are excited to see the Summit entering its second decade! |
Words from Ray Davis, PE, PTOE
Ray is President of RED3 Consulting and has over 45 years of Traffic, Transportation and Public Works experience in both the public and private sectors. He served as Public Works Director (Belmont), City Parking and Traffic Engineer (Santa Monica) and Transportation Administrator (San Leandro) as well as providing contract professional services to the cities of Berkeley, Pacific Grove, and San Pablo. He developed a reputation for creative solutions to complex and politically sensitive issues. Ray is a co-founder of the Cal Poly, SLO Student Chapter of ITE and is celebrating his 50 th year of active involvement with the Institute of Transportation Engineers. He will be speaking on what makes a good leader and to encourage students to push the limits while in school. |
Technical Presentation by Brian Ray, PE
Brian manages Sunrise Transportation Strategies, LLC. bringing more than 35 years' experience in multi-modal transportation planning, traffic engineering, and contextual roadway design. He is passionate about supporting communities from transportation systems planning to project implementation. He’s a nationally recognized subject matter expert via his national research leadership in topics supporting performance-based, contextual multimodal design. He enjoys sharing his technical and consulting experiences. Brian will speak on technical and professional leadership. |
Technical Presentation by Lindsey Van Parys, PE, QSD/P
Lindsey Van Parys is GHD’s Highways, Roads & Bridges Business Group Leader for the US West and has been working in transportation safety and engineering since 2004 and has been with GHD since 2012. She is a registered civil engineer in multiple states and works on projects spanning the globe. Lindsey is driven by a passion for improving people’s lives and the communities they live in, by using her knowledge, training, and skills to bring her ideals to life. Her background includes designing roundabouts, complete streets/streetscapes, multi-use trails, roadway and highway improvements, and many other various types of projects, taking them from the conceptual stage through to construction. Lindsey is involved in several professional organizations. She has been actively involved with ITE serving at different levels throughout the organization which started in an ITE Student Chapter in college and continues to this day through her current position as chair of the Council Leadership Team. She is also involved in ACEC, TRB, APWA and WTS. |
Dinner Banquet with Keynote Speaker Randy Iwasaki
Randy is the President and CEO of Iwasaki Consulting Services, Inc., spent over 10 years as Executive Director of the Contra Costa Transportation authority, and has another 27 years of experience working for the California Department of Transportation. He has been internationally recognized for his contributions to transportation research and innovation. Randy will be speaking on his experience in the industry as well as what he sees in the future for transportation, and particularly how soon-to-be professionals can make an impact. |
Sunday
Keynote Address from Monique Chen, PE
Monique, a founding Principal at CR Associates, has amassed a wealth of experience over the past 25 years providing active transportation and multimodal planning and engineering services to both public and private sector clients. As a registered engineer and seasoned mobility planner, or “plan-gineer,” Monique has overseen dozens complex and multidisciplinary projects ranging from active transportation plans, safety studies, mobility elements, corridor studies, transportation impact analyses, operational and demand assessments, and conceptual engineering, as well as master plans and specific plans. Enthusiastic, supportive, strategic, and fair-minded, Monique is an award-winning project manager who has led numerous mobility planning projects where active transportation and safety play a significant role in recommendation development. |
Panel with Joshua McNeil, PE, TE
Mr. McNeill serves as a Principal Engineer for Iteris’ Mobility Consulting Solutions, and has been with the firm since 2017. He is a registered professional Civil Engineer and Traffic Engineer with 16 years of experience working in the fields of transportation engineering and planning. Mr. McNeill manages projects that provide improvements to traffic signal systems, freeway traffic management, and multi modal networks. He is passionate about providing sustainable transportation design with an emphasis on systems engineering and utilization of emerging technologies. |
Panel with Sowmya Chandrasekhar, PE, TE, PTOE
Sowmya is a licensed professional engineer in the U.S. states of California and Texas with more than 15 years of experience in the transportation industry. She currently works as a senior transportation engineer/project manager with Kimley-Horn in Los Angeles, CA. She has worked on a wide range of transportation projects including operations, traffic/parking studies, as well as design. She is passionate about safety and active transportation that improves mobility for all road users. She received her bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India and master of science in Civil Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, MO, USA. Sowmya has been an active member of ITE since 2014, has served on the ITE Southern California (SoCal) Section Board from 2016 to 2021, as Technical Program Chair for 2020 ITE Western District Annual Meeting, and is Leadership ITE alum. She was the recipient of ITE SoCal Young Transportation Engineer of the Year (2016-2017) Award and the ITE Western District Individual Achievement Award (2021). She is the LAC Chair for 2025 ITE Western District Annual Meeting to be held in Long Beach, CA. |
Technical Presentation by Dave Amos
Dave Amos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. They are also the producer of City Beautiful, a YouTube channel about cities and city planning. Dave’s research interests include active transportation, land use, and street design. |
Technical Presentation by Ray Delahanty
Ray Delahanty is the creator behind CityNerd, a YouTube channel that explores urbanism, transportation, and all the things that make cities unique. The channel's point of view is strongly influenced by his professional background in transportation planning and traffic analysis. Prior to starting his YouTube channel in 2021, Ray's career spanned 15 years as a planner and project manager for consulting firms and public agencies in Portland, Oregon. |
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SPONSORSHIP
Help Make SLS Possible
Our SLS Committee is working hard to put together a fun and exciting schedule for both students and professionals. We hope to offer a plethora of events, including lunch and dinner banquets, and technical tours and presentations throughout this three day event, but we need your support and resources to put together a successful Summit. Your sponsorship will allow your firm to interact with students via technical presentations, the career fair, and mock interviews, and will help participating student ITE chapters continue to strengthen the future of the transportation community.
For more information on sponsorship benefits and how to sponsor the 2024 Student Leadership Summit, please see the attached Sponsorship Packet or reach out to us via the Contact Us page.
For more information on sponsorship benefits and how to sponsor the 2024 Student Leadership Summit, please see the attached Sponsorship Packet or reach out to us via the Contact Us page.
Thank you to our Sponsors!
Expressway
DKS Associates
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CR Associates
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Highway
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California High Speed Rail Authority
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Kimley-Horn
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Arterial
ITE Western District
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W-Trans
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Econolite
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