General Session: FTA Update (Rail 2024)

Please join us to hear from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), and learn more about FTA’s public transit priorities and the year ahead.

Featured Speaker:

• Matthew Welbes, Executive Director, Federal Transit Administration

Keynote Introduction:

• Michele Wong Krause, Chair, APTA; Past Chair, DART Board of Directors 2021-2023, Dallas Area Rapid Transit

Panelists:

• Morteza Farajian, Executive Director, Build America Bureau, U.S. Department of Transportation 
• Phillip Eng, General Manager & CEO, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
• Goran Sparrman, Interim CEO, Sound Transit 
• Stephanie Wiggins, Chief Executive Officer, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority 
• Catherine Rinaldi, President, MTA Metro-North Railroad