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To ensure that we provide the best facilities possible we will be holding the event at the fantastic Corinthia Grand Hotel Royal in Budapest.
We have arranged discounted rates for our delegates at this venue, but please book early to avoid disappointment!
The annual CEE Rail gala dinner will be held at the historic Gundel Restaurant. For more information on this renowned restaurant please visit the link below.
› The Gundel Restaurant
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CEE Rail 2008
Pre conference workshop
28 Oct 8:30am - 5:30pm
Intermodal Transport & Logistics Day
28 Oct 8:30am - 5:30pm
Conference Day 1
29 Oct 8.30am - 5:30pm
Conference Day 2
30 Oct 8.30am - 5:30pm
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Meet our speakers...
Business Unit Manager, Rail,
Ab Ovo
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Mr Arndt, a civil engineer with additional training in transport planning and economics, has more than 20 yrs experience in the transport sector around the world with a focus on rail, road and urban projects. A former consultant, Mr Arndt joined the EIB as a transport sector specialist. He has recently taken over the management of the EIB's Rail and Road division within the Project's Directorate, which handles appraisal and monitoring of all projects financed by the EIB in those sub-sectors, as well as advisory services and policy studies.
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Director General,
ZSSK Cargo
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Head of International Relations,
RZD
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Director General,
PKP Cargo SA
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Rail Freight Advisor for CEE,
CER
Mr. Jacques Dirand (40) spent the first 10 years of his career in Germany, the United Kingdom and France as a consultant for various key accounts in the consumer goods and business-to-business sector.
He started his rail career in 1999 with the French railway operator SNCF as an adviser dealing with the ‘process re-engineering’ of SNCF’s freight operations. He then took on the responsibility for International Affairs in the Freight Strategy Department of SNCF.
Since 2003, he has been responsible for freight policy issues in the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER). In this position, he contributes to the political discussions around intermodality, liberalisation, interoperability, development of rail infrastructure, research and freight quality.
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Corporate Representative for European Affairs, Competition and Regulation,
Deutsche Bahn
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Director,
Federal Office of Transport (Switzerland)
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General Manager,
Navismart Hungary
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Advisor for Central & Eastern European Countries,
Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER)
Since very recently, June 1, 2007 Paul Guitink, a Dutch national, is the Senior Railways Adviser for Central and Eastern Europe in the Community of European Railways and Infrastructure Companies (CER) in Brussels. He has over 30 years of experience in the transport sector, working primarily in road and rail transport, but also having managed a World Bank financed airport runway rehabilitation project in Lima, Peru. Before joining CER, he worked as a Task Team Leader and Program Team Leader in the World Bank, managing and/or advising on transport projects in various Latin American, African, and South Asian countries. The past four years he was based in Skopje, FYROM, as Program Team Leader for a regional South Eastern European Trade and Transport Facilitation program that focused on the removal of physical and procedural bottlenecks to trade and transport in border zones. He also represented the Bank in regional South Eastern European fora with other international financing institutions and the European Commission, such as the High Level Group on Extension of the Core Transport Network into Neighbouring Countries and the Infrastructure Steering Group. He started his career in the Dutch Ministry of Transport, working on the liberalization of road freight transport in the EU.
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Director of International Relations,
České Dráhy (CD)
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Transportation Market Director,
Alcatel-Lucent
Bob Herritty is the Alcatel-Lucent Transportation Market Director and brings to the role more than 20 years experience of the transport industry. He has previously held roles inside Alcatel-Lucent as the Vertical Markets Sales Director in the UK, Managing Director of Alcatel's Saft Power Systems Ltd business unit in London and Managing Director of Saft Singapore (pte) Ltd in Singapore.
Bob also spent 14 years developing business for Alcatel transport oriented speciality business units in North America. His experience has included membership of IEEE SCC29 writing US standards for battery systems; he has been a commissioner on the Production Industries Commission of the London Development Agency and currently is the Alcatel-Lucent representative on the Confederation of British Industry, Council for Wales.
Bob is a graduate of the University of London.
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Director General ,
Port of Rijeka
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Chairman,
Nemzeti Közlekedési Hatóság (National Transport Authority of Hungary)
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In 1993, together with a partner, he created Ventura; an investment company specialized in private equity investments in Hungary.
Acting as Chairman and Board Member of HUNGAROCAMION he focused on strategy and business development and he actively contributed to the turn around of the company.
After this equity involvement Mr. Horvath took over as Managing Director of MASPED. The company is currently changing its strategy and its internal business procedures with the aim of being one of the leading professional freight managers of the CEE region.
Mr. Horváth is also a Member of the Supervisory Board of MASPED Logisztika a warehouse logistic company of the Group and a member of the Management Committee of the European Freight and Logistic Leaders Forum; a high profile business club of the European logistic industry.
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Deputy Director General of DG TREN,
European Commission
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Director General ,
BILK Kombiterminal
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Jan Komárek was born in 1954. After graduation from the College of Transport and Communications in Žilina, where he studied; Track Maintenance and Reconstruction, he worked accross a number of roles at the former Czechoslovak State Railways before the Republic split. Later, he worked for the Czech Railways, State Organization, with the exception of 1995-1999 (when he was employed by a private firm). In 1999 he returned to the Czech Railways, State Organization, first in the function of a Technical Deputy Managing Director of the Infrastructure Division and then he became Managing Director of this division. On 1st January 2003 he was appointed Director General of the Railway Infrastructure Administration, State Organization which is one of the successor organizations of the Czech Railways after its transformation. Within a new-established railway system in the Czech Republic, this organization performs the role of a railway proprietor and its competence include issues dealing with providing operation, operability, modernization and development of the railway infrastructure and also allocating capacity for the railway infrastructure in the Czech Republic.
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Chief Executive Officer,
MÁV Cargo
As Director of Freight Cargo he charts MÁV Cargo’s future. He ensures dynamism and the successful operation of the newborn company with an innovative management and leadership style that continually encourages growth.
Mr Kovács first joined the railway business in 1987 when following graduation from the Transport Faculty of the Karl Marx University of Economics in Budapest, he started working at the freight forwarding department of Győr-Sopron-Ebenfurth Railway Corp. (GySEV Corp.).
He joined MÁV, the Hungarian State Railways Co. in 2003. Prior to becoming Deputy CEO of MÁV Cargo ZRt. (1st January 2006), the private operator, he had already headed the rail freight business unit of MÁV for three years where his main task was to execute major reforms to ensure a smooth separation.
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Chief Executive Officer,
MÁV Start
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Chief Executive Officer,
Infrabel
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Chief State Counsel, Intermodalitiy & Logistics,
Ministry of Post, Transport & Telecommunications (Slovakia)
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Deputy Director General,
MÁV
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Senior Council,
Ministry of Transport (Czech Republic)
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Director of Strategy,
Hungarian Rail Association
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Deputy Director for Railway Interoperability,
CNTK
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Chairman,
Railroad Development Corporation
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Professor,
University of New Orleans
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Director General,
Rail Cargo Austria
Ferdinand Schmidt is Spokesman of the Management Board of Rail Cargo Austria AG.
Rail Cargo Austria AG is a corporate group which operates on an international level. They provide overall logistics services, offering customised logistics and transport solutions - for any cargo, industry or customer requirement.
He started his rail career as a Board-Member of the ÖBB-Group in 2001. Since 2004 he has been the Spokesman of the Management Board of Rail Cargo Austria AG.
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Deputy Minister,
Ministry of Transport (Czech Republic)
Emanuel Šíp (1955) is Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic since February 2007. His responsibilities are recently transport policy development, environment matters and special projects including public-private partnerships (PPP). In 1998 – 2007 Emanuel Šíp was, as Partner of the Allied Progress Consultants Association, active in consulting in transport and investment strategy and PPP for public and private sector. He was consulting member in the team at the Czech Ministry of Regional Development, which prepared the Czech Concession Act No. 139/2006 Coll. In 2003 – 2007 he was Member of the Board of Directors of the European Rail Freight Association (ERFA). Before 1998 he executed more managerial posts in transport industry and banking, including the post of Director General of České Dráhy State Organization. He graduated at the Prague Economic University and is member of the Czech Economic Society and Czech Managers’ Association.
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Director General,
Viamont
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Senior Sales Manager,
MÁV Cargo
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Advisor to the Chairman,
SNCF
SNCF is a railway undertaking operating long distance passenger services, regional passenger services, and freight services. It is also delegated by RFF, the infrastructure manager, to operate and maintain the National Railway Network.
SNCF is a public body of 166.000 employees, and a turnover of 16,7 billions €
Its freight traffic amounts to 40,9 Billions t-km and its passenger traffic to78,8 billions passenger/km.
SNCF is also the mother company of a group of subsidiaries which are operators in the various segments of its activity. The group employs60.000 people and has a consolidated turnover of 5,1 Billions €.
The subsidiaries are either totally controlled by SNCF or partially controlled by SNCF to allow them to operate everywhere and to easily conclude partnerships or joint ventures with foreign companies. For instance, in the logistics business, Geodis is itself a group with a turnover of 3.5 Billion €operating all over the world. On the passenger side Keolis is a leader in the private passenger transport activity by bus and rail. In other cases partnerships like Eurostar, Thalys , and many others have been concluded to operate rail passenger services between France, UK, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Benelux and Spain.
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