See below for the upcoming RTA brunch event, which will be held in August 2025.
For information on last year’s 2024 RTA brunch event, click here.
RTA Transportation Brunch 2025:
Moving towards a FAST transit future
Friday, August 8, 2025
9 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. (9 am – networking; 10 am – program begins)
Westin Raleigh-Durham Airport
3931 Macaw Street, Raleigh, NC
Click here to register or to sponsor the event. See below for list of current sponsors.
Partial list of confirmed speakers:
- Sarah Gaskill, FUJIFILM Biotechnologies; RTA 2025 chair
- Scott Levitan, Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina; RTA legislative and policy chair
- Dana Martinez, Amgen; RTA sustainability and environment chair
- Mike Landguth, Raleigh/Durham Airport Authority, president and CEO
- Brian Smith, GoTriangle, president and CEO
- Jennifer Portanova, NCDOT, I-40 Regional Partnership executive
- Brennon Fuqua, NCDOT, director of integrated mobility division
- Becca Gallas, NCDOT, division engineer, division 5
- Paul Kallam, City of Raleigh, director of transportation
- Morven MacLean, WSP
- Greg Saur, WSP; FAST 2.0 transit study project manager
- Kristen Hess, HH Architecture
- Siler Ransmeier, HH Architecture
- Joe Milazzo II, RTA
Join more than 300 regional business and civic leaders for the annual summer meeting of the metropolitan Triangle’s regional business leadership group on transportation. This year’s event will focus on the release of the regionwide FAST 2.0 transit study – a nearly $1 million initiative coordinated by NCDOT that is examining ways to accelerate the implementation of an enhanced regional Freeway, Arterial, Street, and Tactical-based (FAST) transit system for our market.
The FAST transit study includes recommendations to connect our region’s 10 proposed BRT corridors together via transit priority infrastructure, including linkages to RTP and RDU Airport. The event will also provide a brief, timely update on construction of the first Wake BRT corridor, along Raleigh’s New Bern Avenue – the first BRT corridor in the Carolinas. This year’s brunch event will be held in concert with the I-40 Regional Partnership — a cooperative initiative of RTA and NCDOT with other area partners, founded 15 years ago to provide an ongoing focus on I-40 for travel and commerce.
Tickets included with RTA membership, and additional ticket pricing:
- RTA Gold level members receive 4 tickets included with their membership investment.
- RTA Silver members receive 3 tickets included with their membership
Senior Regional Partners, and Bronze members receive 2 tickets included with their membership. - All RTA Gold, Silver, and Bronze members also receive recognition at the event.
- RTA Standard members have 1 ticket included with their membership.
- Additional RTA member tickets are $75
- Non-RTA member tickets are available for $150
- Nonprofit partner tickets are $75
- Public-sector partner/elected official tickets are $45
- Note: RTA reserves the right to limit event attendance at any time depending on pandemic conditions
No registration refunds after [Thursday, July 31, 2025], although you may transfer your registration to another colleague after that date.
Sponsorships
Current sponsors:
- Amgen (premier sponsor)
- Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina (premier sponsor)
- Fidelity Investments
- GoTriangle
- HH Architecture
- Martin Marietta
- Pennoni
- Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority
- Sunrock Industries LLC
- Town of Cary
- WSP
Sponsorship options and pricing
- Included with Omnia Gold membership ($25,000 annually, includes both RTA State of Mobility and RTA Transportation Brunch events)
- Also available as stand-alone sponsorship ($20,000 per event)
- Opportunity to participate in event agenda
- Reserved parking with firm logo
- Logo recognition in RTA promotional e-mails
- Prominent recognition at event and on RTA event webpage
- Plus all Event Sponsor benefits below
Event Sponsor ($975)
- Company name displayed on event signage and event agenda
- Name and verbal recognition at event
- Name recognition in RTA promotional e-mails
- Name recognition on RTA event webpage
- Registration for eight (8) participants at event with at-table name recognition
- RTA membership is not required to serve as an Event Sponsor
Note: RTA Gold level, Silver, and Bronze memberships also include recognition benefits at and tickets to all events
Upcoming RTA brunch dates:
RTA Transportation Brunch 2026: Advancing airport infrastructure elevates our region
Date TBD 2026
9 am – 11:30 am
Westin RDU Airport in Raleigh
Most recent prior RTA annual summer events:
RTA Transportation Brunch 2024: Accelerating Multimodal Freeways in the Metropolitan Triangle
held on Tuesday, August 6, 2024, in concert with the I-40 Regional Partnership; click here for more information
RTA Transportation Breakfast 2023: Launching BRT Across the Triangle
held on Friday, July 21, 2023: click here for more information
RTA Transportation Breakfast 2022: Celebrating Innovation in Life Science and Transportation
held on Friday, July 22, 2022: click here for more information
RTA Transportation Breakfast 2021: The Future of Business Travel and RDU
held on Friday, July 9, 2021: click here for more information
RTA
Regional Leadership Team
RTA Gold Members
Amgen
Dewberry
Duke Energy
First Citizens Bank
FUJIFILM Biotechnologies
Google
Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce
HDR
HH Architecture
IBM Corporation
Kane Realty
Kimley-Horn
Martin Marietta
McAdams
Pinnacle Financial Partners
Raleigh Chamber
Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority
Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina
The Spectrum Companies
Smith Anderson
Sunrock Industries LLC
United Therapeutics
VHB
Wake County Economic Development (EDGE6)
Wetherill Engineering, Inc
WSP
RTA Silver Members
Bolton & Menk
Capitol Broadcasting Co., Inc.
Chatham Park / Preston Development
Coastal Federal Credit Union
CSL Seqirus
DRMP
Duke University
Enbridge Gas
Fidelity Investments
First National Bank
Forge Nano
Fox Rothschild LLP
GFT
GoTriangle
Greater Raleigh Convention and Visitors Bureau
Helix Ventures
KCI
KDC
Lenovo
North Carolina State University
Novo Nordisk
RTI International
SAS Institute Inc.
Stewart
STV Inc.
The Umstead Hotel & Spa
TowneBank
Truist
UBS
UNC Chapel Hill
UNC Health
Wake Technical Community College
Westin Raleigh-Durham Hotel
York Properties, Inc./McDonald-York Building Company
RTA Senior Regional Partners
Capital Area MPO
Central Pines Regional Council
Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro MPO
City of Durham
GoRaleigh / City of Raleigh
GoTriangle
Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority
Town of Cary
Town of Knightdale
Town of Morrisville
Town of Holly Springs
RTA Bronze members
Acuity Design Group (ADG)
AT&T
AECOM
Alfred Benesch & Company
Atkins
Clancy & Theys Construction Company
Gregory Poole Equipment Company
Highwoods Properties
McKim & Creed
Pennoni
PNC
Strada Architecture
Summit Design and Engineering Services, PLLC
WakeMed Health & Hospitals
