Tim has nearly 15 years’ of geotechnical consulting experience including managing and performing geotechnical site investigation works for projects of varying sizes throughout Australia and internationally.  In his current role with Macquarie Geotechnical Tim governs the company’s geotechnical data generation practices including design, training, and supervision of data recording practices to suit client specific, AS 1726, and AGS4AU requirements, as well as collaborating with end users to identify and implement new digital engineering opportunities enabled by the data we produce.

Phil Wade is the founder and managing director of Datgel. He holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and master’s degree in geotechnical engineering. He worked in geotechnical site investigations and consulting initially, then for majority of his career has developed and marketed geotechnical data software, customised gINT and conducted scores of gINT and Datgel software training courses. Phil is an expert gINT and gINT Rules API developer, and an experienced VB.NET/C#/Database developer and Windows/MS Azure administrator. He currently sits on the AGS UK Data Management Working Group, and the AGS 4.1 Australia committee. Phil was the primary author of AGS 3.1 RTA 1.1 for NSW Australia and contributed to developing AGS 3.1 (SG) for Singapore.

Stephen is currently the National Executive of Geotechnical Laboratories and is a technical assessor for NATA (National Association of Testing Authorities) and formerly the authorised NATA representative for Golder Associates. He is also responsible for developing and maintaining WSP geotechnical laboratory quality systems and has experience with geotechnical and geo-environmental data handling and development of specialist software including the WSP global Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS). Stephen is also a Principal Geotechnical Engineer with over 25 years’ experience in Managing geotechnical and geo-environmental site investigation projects, reporting, preparing presentations and reports for expert witness work.  Stephen’s special interest is in slope stability analysis, soft ground engineering and remedial design. His principal areas of expertise are engineering geology; geotechnical engineering; soil engineering; water engineering; rock engineering and numerical modelling. 

Sven is a geotechnical engineer with 15 years experience in ground data collection, management and interpretation in the UK, Africa, central Asia and Australia. He has spent the last ten years in Sydney on the delivery of large infrastructure projects. Until recently, Sven was Geotechnical Manager for Sydney Metro, then Principal’s Representative on site investigation and survey contracts across all Sydney Metro projects, in parallel with his role as Project Manager – The Bays & Tunnels for the Sydney Metro West – Eastern Tunnelling Package. Sven is passionate about extracting value from ground data and has published numerous papers on the topic. His contributions to the industry include developing Sydney Metro specifications on construction & ground data, making unprecedented amounts of ground data publicly available on Minview, and contributing to this AGS4.1 AU working group.

After graduating from Purdue University, Tim was a Peace Corps volunteer in Panama where he taught land surveying to high school students. He began with Arup in New York City before moving to London for three years to work on preparations for the 2012 Olympics.  Tim arrived in Brisbane in late 2009, and launched the Queensland Geotechnical Database (QGD) with Jared Priddle of FSG in 2017.  He is currently the National Deputy Chair of the AGS.