Mark Gander, AICP, is a Principal Planner and Director of Urban Mobility and Development at AECOM, an $18 billion global provider of professional technical and management support services. Gander has over 24 years of interdisciplinary experience in land/real estate development and multi-modal transportation infrastructure services: planning, design, finance, and urban economics.

Joachim Hauser, Director BMW Mobility Services is responsible for business- and product-development of BMW’s latest business unit, targeting sustainable and innovative urban mobility solutions. With a focus on leading edge navigation- and location-based services, Hauser is helping drive BMW’s initiative within the global parking market. A designer engineer for Porsche after earning his mechanical engineering degree, Hauser moved to new market and solutions development at IBM. Hauser became one of IBM's first certified business consultants.

Laura Longsworth is the Senior Vice President of Parking Operations for Brookfield Properties. Longsworth has furthered Brookfield Properties commitment to sustainability, environmental friendliness and technological advancement for the company's parking operations. Longsworth has over 30 years of parking industry experience, including 18 years with Brookfield. She is the Chairperson of the Woman in Parking Association, and an active member of both the National Parking Association and the International Parking Institute.

Martin has over 20 years of client-centric management and executive leadership experience in the technology sector of the parking industry. He has focused on building teams and replicable process-based programs while driving regional and global Class A office, retail, hospitality and airport projects. Prior to joining Park Assist, Martin provided leadership and developed national account project management and support programs in multiple start-ups and with leading PARCS manufacturers Amano McGann and Scheidt and Bachmann USA.

Vicki Pero, principal at a national parking management consultancy, has more than 19 years of experience in parking industry work for national operators in both Operations and Administrative business units. She previously had overall responsibility for a regional territory comprised of 80 locations across five cities, designing training solutions, developing and leading a policy and procedure program, and creating and leading a company’s Field Audit function.

Susi Rowe serves as Vice President of Sustainability for Green Courte Partners, where she is responsible for all sustainability efforts relating to the firm’s portfolio of assets in both the land-lease/manufactured housing community and parking sectors. In addition to her work with GBCI, Rowe serves as Green Courte’s representative with the Real Estate Roundtable’s Sustainability Policy Advisory Committee. She also is a member of the Urban Land Institute, where she focuses on sustainability best practices.

John Schmid is CEO/Managing Partner of Propark America, a national leader in parking management services and parking real estate acquisition. Schmid also serves as managing partner of Winpark, which specializes in providing parking management services tailored to Class-A office towers. Passionate about the environment, Schmid is uniquely involved in the evolution of the green parking movement as the founder and chairman of the Green Parking Council.

President and Chief Executive Officer of The Parking Spot, Kevin Shrier has been with The Parking Spot since its inception in 1998 and is responsible for all strategic and operating elements of the company. During Mr. Shrier’s 27-year real estate career, he has distinguished himself as a proficient transaction executor as well as a proven leader and manager of people. Mr.

CAPP, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP Rachel serves as Vice President of Program Development for IPMI, leading the organization in the areas of in the areas of strategic partnerships, mobility, sustainability, technology, research, and data analytics. She served as editor for multiple publications, including a volume on sustainability and parking design entitled “Sustainable Parking Design and Management: A Practitioner’s Handbook” and the recent release of “A Guide to Parking,” a new textbook for the industry, and contributed as an author to the chapter addressing sustainability.