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YPT Vancouver’s 6th Annual Meet the Managers
The Vancouver Chapter of Young Professionals in Transportation (YPT) would like to extend an invitation to you to attend our most anticipated event of the year – the 6th Annual Meet the Managers. Building off the continued success of this networking and mentorship event, we strive to bring together influential managers who are leaders in the transportation industry to discuss their career and share their experiences with enthusiastic young professionals.
This is a great opportunity to meet eager and aspiring young professionals and keen students who are starting their careers and are passionate about transportation. Who knows, you might meet your next hire!
When:
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Feel free to stay after the scheduled portion of the night!
Where:
From the comfort of your own home.
This year’s event will be hosted virtually using REMO Conference software.
More information on how to use the platform will be provided prior to attending.
Registration
YPT Members = Free
Student Rate = $5
Non-Members = $20
Manager Attendance & Sponsorship:
To register for the 6th Annual Meet the Managers event, please RSVP to our email at YPTVancouver@gmail.com.
For information on the $100 sponsorship package offered by YPT Vancouver for this event, please contact us at the above e-mail.
This event would not have been possible without the support of our generous sponsors.
Event Summary: YPT Vancouver’s 8th Annual Trivia Night – Online Edition
Fellow transportation enthusiasts met up virtually on February 25th, 2021 to partake in YPT Vancouver’s 8th Annual Trivia Night – Online Edition. Conducted through multiple formats including multiple choice, which is bigger, and open answer, teams worked their way through the various fun and challenging transportation trivia. There were epic battles, close calls, and networking between industry professionals and students. In the end, “Trans-Canada Express” emerged victorious and will have their names engraved for eternity on the Trivia Trophy.
Congratulations to the winners and thank you to everyone who attended!
Event Summary: Granville Bridge Connector Project
Thanks to everyone who joined us for the Granville Bridge Presentation! The event was a huge success! A big shout out to the City of Vancouver presenters Alex Liaw and Dylan Passmore for their great presentation!
Originally designed for high-volume freeways that were never built, Granville Bridge presents significant accessibility and safety challenges for today’s urban context. The Granville Bridge Connector would address a major gap in the city’s active transportation network and serve some of the densest parts of the city. With City Council having recently approved the first phase of delivery, Dylan and Alex will discuss the exciting opportunities and challenges of retrofitting this icon of 1950’s thinking to better respond to the City’s growing needs. The project is key to accommodating the City’s growing number of people living, working, and playing in the city and region, and helping us meet our Climate Emergency Response targets.
About the Presenters:
Dylan Passmore is a senior plangineer with the City of Vancouver where he currently leads a handful of corridor design projects as well as accessible design practices in transportation. Over his career in the public and private sectors, he has also led numerous active transportation design and planning projects across southern Ontario and Brazil.
Alex Liaw is a transportation engineer with the City of Vancouver and focuses on the design and implementation of active transportation projects that improve the safety and accessibility for people getting around Vancouver.
2020-2021 YPT Vancouver Board
Thank you to those who voted in this year’s YPT election. We have a great mixture of YPT Vancouver board members, and the new leadership team for the 2020-2021 term is excited and energized in anticipation of another successful year! We hope you will continue to support our chapter and check out our exciting events!
CHAIR
Kurtis Mayne
ISLEngineering and Land Services
DEPUTY CHAIR
Chi Yan Leung
City of Vancouver
VICE CHAIR FOR ADMINISTRATION
Kyle Briggs
Great Northern Engineering Consultants
VICE CHAIR FOR FINANCE
Michael Elder
Vorum RC
And
IMMEDIATE PAST-CHAIR
Eric Tam
Great Northern Engineering Consultants
We would also like to acknowledge our tremendous supporting team of officers including:
Mona Dahir
Jeremy Tse
Ben Corbett
Alex Fraser Bridge Presentation
As a shift to an online based platform due to health and safety precautions, YPT Vancouver was able to partner up with R.F. Binnie & Associates to deliver the Alex Fraser Improvement Project presentation webinar style on June 3rd, 2020.
Serving as a critical connection for both commuters and goods movement in the transportation network, the Alex Fraser Bridge is a key segment in the Highway 91 corridor. The Alex Fraser Bridge Improvement Project included adding a seventh lane to the existing bridge, adding a new movable barrier counter-flow system to improve capacity and help reduce traffic congestion during peak periods, and installing 13 new dynamic message signs throughout the Lower Mainland to inform motorists of estimated delays on the four major Fraser River crossings.
A huge thank you to our presenters, Edmund Lee and Simon Church, for discussing the various aspects of the project’s background and schedule, as well as sharing their thoughts during the post-event Q&A session.
For those of you who may have missed the presentation, more information can be found on the project’s website. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/transportation/transportation-infrastructure/projects/alex-fraser-bridge
Online Event Summary: Casual Social – Meet the Leadership Team!
YPT Vancouver hosted a casual online social on Thursday, April 30, 2020 at 6 PM. Thanks to everyone that came out and joined us! It was a pleasure getting to see familiar faces, and a few new faces!
Event Summary: 5th Annual Meet the Managers Night
YPT Vancouver hosted the 5th Annual Meet the Managers event on the evening of Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 at the St. Regis Bar & Grill in Downtown Vancouver. Participants connected with transportation industry leaders to discuss potential career paths and experiences throughout the evening in a series of short rotations, followed by free-form networking.
This event would not have been possible without the support of our generous sponsors.
Event Summary: YPT Vancouver 7th Annual Trivia and Pub Night
Fellow transportation enthusiasts met up on Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020 at Mahony & Sons to partake in YPT Vancouver’s 7th Annual Trivia & Pub Night. Conducted jeopardy style, teams worked their way through the various fun and challenging transportation trivia. There was food. There were drinks. There was networking between industry professionals and students. In the end, “Green is Go” emerged victorious and will have their names engraved for eternity on the Trivia Trophy.
Event Summary: YPT-ACEC Breakfast Seminar: Advancing Your Career – Strategies for Success
YPT Vancouver hosted a joint breakfast seminar with ACEC-BC on December 10th, 2019 at Metropolitan Hotel Vancouver, featuring William Hui, Manager of Systems Engineering at Translink. In his presentation, William shared strategies for advancing one’s career and his personal experiences along his journey to a management role within 10 years after completing his degree at UBC.
William is the manager of Systems Engineering within the Engineering Project Delivery group. He leads a team of 24 in the Systems department and is responsible for a capital portfolio of $150M (Canadian) that includes projects involving Automatic Train Control, Telecommunications, Power and Life Safety systems.
2019-2020 YPT Vancouver Board
Thank you to those who voted in this year’s YPT election. We have a great mixture of YPT Vancouver board members, and the new leadership team for the 2019-2020 term is excited and energized in anticipation of another successful year! We hope you will continue to support our chapter and check out our exciting events!
CHAIR
Eric Tam
Great Northern Engineering Consultants
DEPUTY CHAIR
Kurtis Mayne
ISL Engineering and Land Services
VICE CHAIR FOR ADMINISTRATION
Chi Yan Leung
City of Vancouver
VICE CHAIR FOR FINANCE
Michael Elder
Vorum Research Corporation
And
IMMEDIATE PAST-CHAIR
Calvin Pin
Parsons
We would also like to acknowledge our tremendous supporting team of officers including:
Mona Dahir
Kevin Wong
Andrew Picard
Kyle Briggs
Event Summary – Brewhall Casual Social
Although the Double Decker Bus & Richmond Transit Depot Tour was postponed, YPT Vancouver planning team and friends met up for a casual bite at BREWHALL on November 6, 2019! This was an evening filled with great laughs and meeting other transportation enthusiasts. The event ended off with ice cream nearby Olympic Village.
Event Summary: Commercial-Broadway Station Upgrade Tour
On Wednesday, October 9th, 2019, YPT Vancouver hosted Matt Edwards, a manager in TransLink’s Engineering Project Delivery department, on an exciting behind-the-scenes tour of the recently completed Commercial-Broadway SkyTrain Station upgrade.
Commercial–Broadway Station is one of the busiest stations on the network with 90,000 station trips per day on the Expo and Millennium Lines and 60,000 bus trips per day using the 99 B-Line and two other frequent transit bus routes.
The presentation focused on some of the challenges faced during the design and construction of the improvements, as well as discussion on future service expansion. The tour was attended by 17 YPT members / friends and they all had plenty of opportunities to ask their provocative questions and discuss in more detail the topics that interested them.
Following the presentation, we made our way to a nearby pub/restaurant for food, drinks, and socializing.
Event Summary: YPT Vancouver Golf – The Masters
On August 22nd, 2019 YPT Vancouver hosted the first annual YPT Vancouver golf event: The Masters.
This exciting event was the first of its kind, bringing together some of the finest young professionals the transportation industry has to offer to play the beautiful game of (Pitch & Putt) Golf.
Become a YPT Member now to receive notifications of more amazing events such as this one!
Event Summary: The Rolling Tour – Experience Vancouver’s Active Infrastructure
With bike to work week in full swing, YPT Vancouver partnered with Vancouver bike share company Mobi to ho a guided bike tour led by City of Vancouver engineering staff. We saw and experienced the infrastructure that helped the City reach its target of making over 50% of trips by foot, bicycle, and public transit! As part of this tour, Mobi generously provided VIP passes to use the bikeshare system for the day.
After the tour, we convened at a restaurant in Olympic Village for drinks / food and socializing.
Event Summary: TransLink B-Line – What’s the Buzz About?
On May 2nd 2019 at the beautiful Anvil Centre, YPT hosted Brian Elery Phillips, P.Eng for a presentation on TransLink’s B-Line Program. Brian is a Senior Planner on TransLink’s B-Line team. He leads the planning and conceptual design of transit priority measures for the new B-Lines.
The presentation focused on the varied aspects of transit priority planning, ranging from concept and analysis, to stakeholder relationship management and negotiation.
Brian also recently wrote an article regarding B-Lines for the latest issue of ITE’s Transportation Talk – Read the article here
The B-Line program is a part of Phase One of the Mayors’ Council 10-Year Vision, in which TransLink is launching three new B-Line services later this year, with another seven on the way in Metro Vancouver.
Following the presentation, we made a B-Line to a nearby pub/restaurant for food, drinks, and socializing.
Event Summary: 4th Annual Meet the Managers Night
On Wednesday, March 13th 2019, YPT Vancouver hosted this highly anticipated event for the fourth year in a row. Meet the Managers connects leaders in the industry looking to share their knowledge with young professionals and students seeking to make their own mark in the transportation field.
Participants conversed in small groups with managers from different organizations through a series of short rotations and partook in a free-form networking session towards the end of the evening.
This event would not have been possible without the support of our generous sponsors:
About YPT Vancouver
We are proud to be the first chapter of Young Professionals in Transportation (YPT) in Canada! Established in 2013, YPT Vancouver connects young transportation professionals and enthusiasts in the Metro Vancouver area who share similar interests in transportation.
Vision
Our goal is to foster a community that provides networking and learning opportunities to our members and friends through activities like tours, social gatherings, and inspiring talks. We aim to make YPT Vancouver a fun and exciting place to connect with like-minded peers. We welcome practitioners, academics, and leaders from all areas of the industry from front line staff to administrators and everything in between. YPT Vancouver is also a place for students, recent graduates, and those wanting to explore what the industry has to offer.
Through field trips, happy hours, and the occasional seminar, we want to create opportunities for professionals to gather on an informal basis, which will, over time, foster a community that provides mentorship and networking opportunities. We envision partnering with existing organizations such as the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) and Connecting Transportation Professionals (CTP) to deliver meaningful events. But most of all, we want to make YPT Vancouver fun!
Contact / Connect With Us
If you have any questions about YPT Vancouver or other inquiries, you can reach the chapter by:
- Email – YPTVancouver@gmail.com
- Twitter – @YPTVancouver
- Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/YPTVancouver/