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Keenan Kitasaka<\/h2>\n

ITS Technical Lead, Transportation \u2014 AECOM Canada ULC<\/p>\n

Email:<\/strong> keenan.kitasaka@aecom.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Keenan Kitasaka is a Senior Professional Engineer with over 40 years of experience, including almost 28 years in the public sector (federal, provincial and regional levels) and 13 years in the private sector. Keenan\u2019s 40 year career has been in all phases of ITS, from strategic planning to design, construction support, acceptance testing, operations, and maintenance. Keenan has worked extensively throughout Canada and the US, leading ITS initiatives in highways, transit, tolling, commercial transportation, traffic management centres, digital plans, border ports of entry, and technology assessments. Keenan is an active speaker \/ moderator \/ supporter of transportation associations such as ITS Canada, TAC, and CITE. Keenan has served for 3 terms on the ITS Canada Board of Directors and on various technical committees.<\/div>\n
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I am speaking at:<\/h3>\n
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T20 AI General<\/a><\/p>\n
Thu, May 21, 2026<\/span> · 10:30\u202fAM \u2013 12:00\u202fPM<\/span> · Jasper\/Lake Louise Room<\/span><\/div>\n
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Moderator <\/strong>Phil Pierce, Principal, Senior Systems Lead, Integrated Systems Lead, PBX Engineering<\/p>\n

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  1. Understanding AI in the Transportation Sector by Chris Teolis, Arup and Alicia Wallis, Mott MacDonald<\/li>\n
  2. From Detection to Understanding: VLMs in Intelligent Traffic Systems by Don Maxey, Keenfinity Inc<\/li>\n
  3. A Case Study of Vision\u2013Language Models for Temporal Scan-Path Description in Driver Monitoring by Ghazal Farhani, Shabnam Shabani, Taufiq Rahman, National Research Council of Canada<\/li>\n
  4. ITS at the Intersection of AI and Cyber Security by Keenan Kitasaka & Elena Abu Khuzam, AECOM<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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