About AusRAIL 2026
AusRAIL is the Australasian Railway Association's annual conference and exhibition, and the largest rail industry event in the Asia-Pacific region. It brings together more than 3,000 people from across the sector - rail owners and operators, government and delivery agencies, contractors, consultants and suppliers - for three days of conference sessions, site tours and exhibition. The 2026 edition runs from 23rd-25th November at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.
This year nPlan is AusRAIL's Satellite Workshop sponsor. On Wednesday 25th November, nPlan CEO Dev Amratia will run a hands-on workshop: AI-Led Project Delivery: Choose Your Own Rail Adventure.
About the workshop
The workshop gives rail leaders and experienced project professionals a practical, first-hand look at AI-led project delivery: what it means, how it works, and how it changes the decisions project teams make.
Delegates will work in teams around tables as the delivery team on the Wattle Ridge Rail Link, a fictional new passenger line in South East Queensland with a schedule under pressure. Each team will face a series of delivery decisions of the kind rail project leaders deal with every week, argue through the trade-offs and vote. Then we'll reveal what the data says, using nPlan's AI - trained on more than 750,000 past project schedules, and already in use on programmes including the Transpennine Route Upgrade in the UK, the MBTA in the US and Victoria's Infrastructure Delivery Authority - and compare it with the room's instincts.
It's a rail edition of the workshop we ran at the ECC Conference in Austin, Texas in September, for around 290 project controls and project management leaders.
Session details
- When: Wednesday 25th November, 11:15-12:35
- Where: Room P3, Plaza Level, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre
- Who it's for: rail leaders and experienced project professionals
- Places: limited to 60, open to all AusRAIL delegates. Reserve yours on the AusRAIL workshop page.
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Room P3, Plaza Level, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Australia
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Meet the speakers
Dev Amratia
Dev worked at Shell for 9 years as a Project Manager on Flagship Capital Projects, generating a wealth of technical and commercial experience across a variety of strategic projects in the Energy Industry. Author of the UK Government AI Review (2017) alongside Prof. Dame Wendy Hall and Jerome Pesenti. Dev holds an MEng in Aerospace Engineering, and CEng (Chartered Engineer) from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
