Ontario Intercity Travel Summit
Improving the Windsor-Toronto-Ottawa Corridor
Toronto Metropolitan University - Ted Rogers School of Management
October 2, 2026 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Speakers
(In alphabetical order)
Maria Luisa Dominguez
Alto
With more than 25 years of extensive executive experience in the rail industry, María Luisa Domínguez González joined Alto High-Speed Rail as Chief Project Management Officer. Prior to joining the organization, Maria Luisa oversaw the successful expansion of Spain’s HSR network. During her time at Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (ADIF), María Luisa held several senior management roles, including Head of High-Speed Projects, Managing Director for Strategy, Planning and Projects, and President-CEO. She also served as President of the European Railway Infrastructure Managers Association (EIM). María Luisa holds a Master’s Degree in civil engineering with a specialization in transport infrastructure, a Master’s Degree in International Strategic Management from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), and earned a Law Degree from the National University of Distance Education (UNED). Dedicated to continuous learning, she has completed several management development programs and regularly contributes to the training of young professionals by giving masterclasses at various universities – a commitment that led to her appointment as Ad Honorem Professor at UPM.
Erin Durant
Durant Barristers
Bio coming soon!
Adrian Lightstone
CPCS
Adrian Lightstone is Senior Vice President, Advanced Markets (Canada, UK, US) at CPCS. His expertise is unlocking major infrastructure projects for clients, and has led several complex multidisciplinary transportation projects relating to regional transportation, intercity rail, transit and freight. Having served clients in Canada, the US, the UK, Sweden and Australia, Adrian mixes his strategic advisory experience and deep knowledge of feasibility and due diligence studies, business case, financial and economic modelling, policy and stakeholder engagement. Prior to joining CPCS, he worked with WSP and HDR. Adrian holds a Master of Science in Economics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and a Bachelor of Science and Engineering from Queen’s University in Kingston.
PANEL DISCUSSION: Where the Wheels Hit the Road, Rail and Tarmac
Quito Maggi
Mainstreet Research
A graduate from Carleton University with a degree in Economics, Quito began his professional career as an analyst in the investment industry. He spent his time measuring market forces, segmenting investor demographic characteristics, and building algorithms of investor behaviour. During this period, Quito became a trusted advisor and manager for municipal, provincial, and federal election campaigns. In these roles, he implemented the analytical techniques he learned in the investment industry to help his candidates win. Currently Quito serves as the President and CEO of Mainstreet Research, a nationally trusted firm which is regularly used by governments at all levels and featured in nationally syndicated news organizations.
Peter Miasek
Transport Action Canada
Peter Miasek is a retired chemist who worked over 30 years in the oil industry. He is now actively involved in numerous advocacy initiatives for sustainable transportation and improved urban planning.
SESSION: Assessing Corridor Alternatives and Opportunity Costs
Robert Miller
Davies Howe LLP
Robert (Bob) Miller is a partner at Davies Howe LLP who practices in the areas of land development, municipal law, and expropriation law. He was called to the Ontario Bar in June 1989. He represents both public and private sector clients, providing guidance on the resolution of infrastructure, land acquisition, land use and division matters, including official planning, zoning, variance, site planning, consent, subdivisions, and expropriation matters. Prior to joining Davies Howe, Bob was the Assistant Town Solicitor for a GTA local municipality and the senior planning lawyer for a GTA regional municipality. Bob regularly appears before the Ontario Land Tribunal, the Ontario Energy Board and other administrative tribunals, municipal councils and committees, and the courts to advocate for his clients.
Chris Prentice
Canadian Transit Heritage Foundation
A native of Toronto and a graduate of York University, Chris has an extensive background in public transit management in Welland, Brampton and Halifax, beginning his career as an operating coach cleaner with the Toronto Transit Commission in 1967. He was a Senior Public Transit Consultant with Delcan, IBI Group and Arcadis for 33 years and is a past President of the Ontario Urban Transit Association. He is also a past member of the Board of Directors of the Ontario Public Transit Association and the Canadian Urban Transit Association (CUTA). He was chair of CUTA’s Awards Committee for 22 years. With a life-long passion for public transit and its history, Chris is a founding Director of the Canadian Transit Heritage Foundation and has been its President since 2003. He was the recipient of CUTA’s William G. Ross Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019.
SESSION: Assessing Corridor Alternatives and Opportunity Costs
Matti Siemiatycki
Infrastructure Institute at the School of Cities, University of Toronto
Matti Siemiatycki is the Director of the Infrastructure Institute at the School of Cities, University of Toronto, and Professor in the Department of Geography & Planning. Matti’s work focuses on delivering large-scale infrastructure projects, evidence based infrastructure investment decisions, and the effective integration of infrastructure into the fabric of cities. His recent studies explore transit policy decisions, the value for money of public-private partnerships, the development of innovative mixed-use buildings as a form of place based infrastructure policy, and the diversity gap in the infrastructure industry workforce. Matti consults widely on infrastructure policy and is a frequent media commentator on infrastructure and city planning. He holds a Ph.D in urban planning from the University of British Columbia and a Master’s in Geography from Oxford University.”
SESSION: Assessing Corridor Alternatives and Opportunity Costs
Michael Sutherland
Hatch Ltd.
Michael Sutherland brings together urban planning and design, economics, transportation and engineering. He is a recognized expert in Transit Oriented Development (TOD) and cities. He works globally as Hatch’s global lead for TODs in Australia, UAE, UK and North America, working across Hatch’s Place, People and Environment practice. Prior to joining Hatch almost 9 years ago, Michael developed the business case process for Metrolinx, developed projects and programs like the light rail projects currently under construction, subway extensions and the GO Expansion program. He used the business case method and helped advance TODs by initiating CIBC Square. He also worked closely with government to advance transit funding and finance ideas and tying them to regional planning. Michael holds degrees in Civil Engineering from Queen’s University; Cities, London School of Economics; and Law, University of Toronto.
Becca Nagorsky
HDR
Becca Nagorsky, HDR’s global Transit Planning Practice Leader, is an urban and transit planning professional with more than 17 years of experience in the field. At HDR, Becca has a dual role providing leading-edge transit planning service to clients around the world and growing capacity for transit planning work through team-building and staff development. Before joining HDR, Becca spent 13 years in the Planning Division at Metrolinx, most recently as the VP of Stations Planning. At Metrolinx, Becca led projects spanning from writing the business case for the Ontario Line, to a station access strategy to improve multi-modal trip-making, to long-range transit network planning. In 2022-23, Becca served as the Planner in Residence at the University of Waterloo, where she taught an undergraduate course on Wicked Problems in Transportation Planning. Prior to her time in Toronto, Becca worked as a Transit Planner in Jerusalem on a redesign of the bus network to support implementation of the city’s first LRT line. Becca holds a Master of Urban Planning from New York University and a BA from McGill University.
