INCOSE's Calling All Systems: Transportation is at a Crossroads – But is Anyone Steering?
Date: 17 December 2025
Time: 11:00am EST (16:00 UTC)
Abstract:
Modern society relies on Transportation as a critical part of the social fabric. Why does transportation infrastructure cost 10x more, take 10x longer to build than advertised while also missing key performance objectives? Is there accountability? Has society essentially “given up” because these problems are so ingrained in traditional civil construction practices? Can we learn from other domains, such as lean manufacturing? Global experts talk about the problems they see and how they propose to solve them.
Meet the Host
Dale Brown joined NSI in 2025 as Practice Lead, Systems Engineering bringing 40+ years of Transit and Rail engineering experience. He is a licensed professional engineer with extensive R&D, design, management, and business development experience. Dale has travelled to forty-nine countries and has further been awarded several design patents in the rail sector for rolling stock control systems.
Dale has acquired expertise in digital electronics design, software development and embedded control of specialty equipment, mining, heavy construction, military, and rail vehicles throughout the US, Canada, South America, and Europe.
Dale is chair of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) Transportation Working Group and Assistant Director of Technical Operations at INCOSE. Dale is the founding chair of the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Systems Lifecycle Engineering (SLE) Subcommittee. Dale is also the relationship manager for the APTA/INCOSE cooperative agreement. Dale is currently president of the INCOSE Chicagoland chapter.
Dale is highly motivated to advance practical systems engineering approaches within his selected industry segment - to enhance the safe, efficient and sustainable movement of people and goods throughout the global surface transportation sector. Dale is currently leading a team to develop a joint INCOSE-APTA Systems Lifecycle Engineering Standard as a pragmatic, domain specific extension of INCOSE products and related international SE standards.
Meet the Panel
Marcel van de Ven is a CSEP INCOSE certified Systems Engineer. He holds a position as Senior Consultant Systems Engineering at Heijmans in the Netherlands. Heijmans is a major contractor for infrastructure, complex buildings and housing construction. In his daily work he consults large projects in Risk Management, general Process Management, Requirements Management and V and V. He also developed the tooling to support the above activities for the employees in the large complex projects. For INCOSE Marcel holds a position as Co-chair for Smart Cities Initiative, Chair Infrastructure Working Group and Chair of the Dutch MBSE Working Group, Co-chair/ active member of Transportation Working Group and member of the Critical Infrastructure Working Group and Risk Management Working group. He is involved in TechOps to enhance collaboration between Working Groups. In his previous job Marcel was a Systems Engineer at engineering, construction and commissioning Dutch Freight railway Betuweroute and the renovation of the largest tunnel in the Netherlands: Westerscheldetunnel. He has over 20 years of experience in large infrastructural works and he is co-author of the “Application Guide for large Infrastructural Works”. This guide is currently being updated.
Henri BERINGER: Transportation & Mobility Solution Director Dassault Systèmes. In his current role, Henri leverages innovative software solutions to help the Transportation & Mobility industries optimize their customer experiences.
In his career, Henri had various direction roles relating to Artificial Intelligence and Optimization software in various companies including IBM, ILOG and several startups such as DELMIA Quintiq proposing applications to transform and optimize mobility operations.
Henri graduated from Ecole Polytechnique, France and holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence.
William Hui is the director of Systems Engineering at TransLink in Vancouver, Canada, and he has been with the organization for 18 years. An engineering graduate from the University of British Columbia, he leads a team of project managers and engineers delivering capital projects for rail and bus that involve operational technologies, supporting both state of good repair and expansion.
His experience in capital project delivery includes fare collection, rail extensions, automatic train control, and bus rapid transit. William is the chair of the APTA Systems Lifecycle Subcommittee and was selected as one of the top 40 under 40 by Mass Transit Magazine in 2015.
Amber Watts is a systems engineering professional with a focus on requirements management, systems integration, and project oversight across complex transit and infrastructure programs.
With nearly a decade of experience spanning requirements analysis, asset and procurement management, risk and change management, configuration management, and database administration, she supports multidisciplinary teams in delivering projects with traceability, technical rigor, and stakeholder confidence.
She received a B.S. in Urban and Regional Studies & Planning with a minor in Business from Virginia Commonwealth University and recently earned her INCOSE Associate Systems Engineering Professional (ASEP) certification.
Her background allows her to bring an entrepreneurial mindset to her work and she enjoys learning, researching, and building efficient systems. Outside of work, she spends time traveling, playing and practicing music, studying aviation and mass transit, exploring new cultures, and staying curious about how the world moves.
We hope to see you there!