Brighid Sammon is a senior urban planner at Hansen Partnership and the 2017 PIA Australian Young Planner of the Year. She is convenor of the Women’s Planning Network; and a tutor at RMIT University and the 2018 Susan and Isaac Wakil Foundation
 John Monash Scholar. Brighid has been published widely including The Australian and The Real Estate Conversation.

Andy Fergus is an urban design critic, commentator and practitioner. He is an urban designer at the City of Melbourne, co-director of Melbourne Architours and studio lead at Melbourne School of Design. He currently leads City of Melbourne’s design review of major projects along with the research and development of policy to elevate design quality. Andy is a finalist in the City of Sydney Alternative Housing Ideas Challenge. He is a regular contributor to ArchitectureAU and Assemble Papers.

Claire is a senior planner with experience across statutory planning, strategic planning and urban design.

She specialises in assessing applications and negotiating with Council, enabling an ability to identify and address potential issues at the early stages and avoid delays throughout the process. 

Claire has a thorough understanding of Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) processes and has presented at the tribunal on a number of occasions. She holds certificates in the following PLANET courses; Assessing Neighbourhood Character, Building Design and Architecture, Development of Four or More Storeys. Claire was nominated as one of the Property Councils 500 Women in Property 2018.

Landscape architect Simone Bliss, is the founder of Melbourne-based SBLA studio, a design studio focused on civic projects, multi-residential housing and design with play.

Prior to SBLA studio, Simone worked as a senior landscape architect at Taylor Cullity Lethlean (TCL) and Hobart based Playstreet. She has fourteen years experience, designing and documenting internationally award-winning projects, including the Auckland Waterfront redevelopment and the National Arboretum's Pod Playspace.

Simone teaches for the University of Melbourne’s Master of Landscape Architecture and Bachelor of Urban Horticulture, and is part of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architect’s mentoring program.

Dan McKenna began his professional career with Breathe Architecture, He led a range of projects across the country, winning multiple awards, including the 2016 NSW Australian Institute of Architecture Award for Residential Architecture (Alterations and Additions) for his Double Life House. He also initiated the groundbreaking Commons and Nightingale 1 housing projects.

Dan joined the newly founded Nightingale Housing team in 2017, and leads all new project inception. He has had work published in various publications across Australia, New Zealand, Italy and Japan. He holds a Bachelor of Architectural Design, and Masters of Architecture, both from Monash.

Jessie is the Good Designs founder, she established and was inaugural CEO at Nightingale Housing and is an adviser at construction start up Matrak. She specialises in start-ups working in the built environment and advocacy for quality multi-residential development. Jessie started her career working in government on major state Infrastructure Projects at Creative Victoria. Jessie has recently spoken and chaired panels at Purpose conference SYD, Remix Conference QLD, Fifth Estate’s Hacking Housing Event SYD.