THE BIGGEST SPEAKERS IN THE INDUSTRY

Mr. Bayan Khader AbuShaban holds a Master’s Degree in Management of Natural Resources from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and a BSc. in Environment and Earth Science from the Islamic University of Gaza, Palestine.He has more than 12 years of environmental sustainability experience, with...

James joined British Railways in 1981 at Derby Locomotive works winning the Fredrick Simpson Apprentice of the year Award. He then moved on to the testing section at Stephenson House before joining the Plant and Electrification department for Regional Railways and then Network South East. He then...

Ahmad Nizam, graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Washington University in St Louis, USA.  He also holds the Malaysian Advanced Diploma Skills in Electric Train Maintenance.Ahmad Nizam started his career in railways when he joined Prasarana’s Kelana Jaya Line LRT in Kuala Lumpur.  He held the...

8.    Present Post    :    Managing Director, Chennai Metro Rail Limited.9.    Training undergone    :    IIM – Ahmedabad,IIFT – New Delhi,IILM- New Delhi & TISS - MumbaiTraining in AbroadDuke University, USAJICA, Osaka, JapanCopenhegan, DenmarkPUB, SingaporeAsian Institute of...

Roger has been developing rapid charging stations for public transport battery electrification for almost a decade and sits on the European committee for charging station standards.

Chris Binns has worked on the Crossrail project since July 2015.  He is the Chief Engineer for the Crossrail Programme providing engineering technical leadership through a team of Heads of Disciplines, and Managers of Engineering.     As the Crossrail engineering technical authority, Chris provides ...

Technical engineer, responsible for grounding concepts and energy recovering projects

Born in Parma, Italy, on October 13th 1975, Andrea Bruschi fully score graduated inarchitecture at Polytechnic of Milan on July 16th 2001 and he’s since then living andworking in Milan, Italy. He worked as a researcher and assistant at Polytechnic of Milan from 2001 to 2003,taking care of research...

Between 1996 and 2011 Stephane worked at Siemens as a systems engineer before joining SNCF as a project manager. Currently focusing on interlocking and train control

Stuart joined the Digital Railway team in September 2016 to lead the ECI programme working closely with the supply chain.He started his career as an engineering sponsored student with British Rail before specialising in project management and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil and Structural...

Since 2001 Paolo has been associated capital projects in Ireland including the very successful Luas LRT in Dublin.With a background in railway engineering previously he has been involved in a number of very successful schemes in Italy, Hungary and Austria in various roles as constructor, consultant ...

Following a long career at DTE Energy, Paul worked across a diverse array of industries in developing and managing complex, high-profile projects spanning engineering design and construction.Additionally, he brings significant global experience in multimodal transportation network design and...

Simon is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered IT Professional and a recognised technical authority in railway systems performance engineering.  He is currently the Head of Profession for Systems Performance Engineering in London Underground where he leads a world-class modelling and simulation...

Howard Collins is the Chief Executive of Sydney Trains.  Previously the Chief Operating Officer of the London Underground, he had a 35-year career with London transport.Since Howard’s appointment as Chief Executive of Sydney Trains in 2013, the network has seen major patronage growth, record...

Paul Comfort is the Administrator and CEO of the Maryland Transit Administration or MTA.  As such he oversees the twelfth largest transit system in America, with over 3,300 employees and a $1.4 billion dollar annual budget; providing almost 400,000 daily trips operating local and express bus, light ...

Mark Curran has been the Underground’s Night Tube sponsor since identifying the business case in late 2012.  He has worked through all aspects of planning and delivery of the Night Tube, and coordinated all the launch activity in the latter part of 2016, when five Underground lines started weekend...

A result oriented transportation professional with more than 25 years of dedicated association with development of transportation network in the city of Kolkata, India and its neighborhood. Presently engaged as Chief Engineer in Kolkata Metro East West Line for last eight years since inception of...

David Dimmer is the Director of Urban Rail Product Strategy for Thales Urban Rail Signalling  He has been working for Thales since 1987.  During that time he has had a leading role in the design and implementation of train control systems for Docklands Light Railway, San Francisco MUNI, the Ankara...

Noel Dolphin is the UK Director for Furrer+Frey and has been managing public transport projects for 15 years.

Tim has worked in various Maintenance roles within Network Rail since 2002, spending the last 6 years delivering innovative projects focusing on efficient and effective maintenance.  In July 2016 Tim was appointed as the Professional Head of Maintenance, with a remit to drive the implementation of...

Jonathan started his career in 1986 as an Operations Management Trainee with British Rail.This led to a number of operational and commercial jobs on British Rail’s former Southern Region culminating in a senior commercial role at London Bridge on the former South Eastern Division.In 1989 he joined...

Norbert Frank studied Material Science in Leoben and started in the field of heat treatment technology at voestalpine Schienen in 1994. He was head of technical customer management and responsible for steel grade development, welding and life cycle costing. Today he is Senior Expert Rail Technology ...

Tony Fulton works with the Construction and Engineering Global Business Unit of Oracle and has an IT and Management Consulting background.  Having spent 17 formative years in the Oil & Gas and Energy & Utilities industries and five years in Travel and Transportation, Tony has extensive...

Now I work in the management of the Moscow Metro. Before that, I worked for the Directorate of High-Speed Communications. I took part in the organization of transportation in Sochi. During the Olympic Games.

I have 18 years of experience in rolling stock maintenance, and the last 10 as Head of Maintenance.As the maintenance responsible of an operator, all our strategy is focused on fleet availability. For that we determine the scheduled maintenance plans and cycle according the commercial needs. 

More than 20 years experience in the rail business within Knorr-Bremse Since 2015 Vice President for Business Segment Hydraulics for LRV/Metro/Monorail/People Mover Market including Production, Purchasing, Development and Global Sales10 years in charge of Sales & Systems for Brake System on...

MTA-New York City Transit Senior Vice President of Subways Wynton Habersham has more than 34 years of dedicated service to NYC Transit, to which he brings a wide array of experience and skill. Wynton has developed a diverse background in Transportation Operations, Electrical/Signals and Capital...

Andy joined British Rail in 1984 and has spent his subsequent career in the development, implementation and operation of high technology command, control and signalling systems in the UK, Asia and Australia. He led Ansaldo STS through the delivery of the Cambrian ETCS Level 2 Early Deployment...

Stuart Harvey started his career with London Underground in September 1981 as an apprentice signalling engineer. He then spent several years post apprenticeship as a computer programmer writing and testing complex code for the Jubilee and Metropolitan lines. After a spell in the Chief Engineer’s...

Mr. AbdulMohsin Ibrahim Younes has 25 years of senior and leading positions in the public sector. He is currently leading The Rail Agency in the role of Chief Executive for the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) in Dubai. Previously he was the Chief Executive Officer of the Strategy and Corporate...

Alan joined Hyperloop One as Vice President - Worldwide Business Development in 2015. He is the primary point of contact for cities, regions and countries around the world seeking to develop Hyperloop transport solutions.  In Europe, Alan is leading the company’s engagement with the EU and the...

Frédéric Jans-Cooremans is a Project Manager at the STIB, Public Transport Company of Brussels. After a long experience in radio matters, he joins the company 7 years ago.Working in a group of signaling experts, his radio knowledge was used to write the tender of a driverless metro system based on...

Navneet Kaushik is an Electronics and Telecom Engineer. He has worked with Indian Railways on main line for more than 17 years on various capacities. Later in 2005, he shifted to Delhi Metro Rail Corporation and has gain an experience of more than 11 years in metro signaling and...

Having studied Material Science, Johannes Kreinbucher held a number of positions within voestalpine. He started in the field of technology and welding engineering. Now he is Managing Director of the voestalpine Signaling group, responsible for R&D, Engineering, Logistics, Production and Quality ...

For more than 20 years, Pascal Labouze has held various transport industry roles designing, developing and deploying complex systems.As the current, Executive Director of Operational Systems in Transport for NSW, Pascal is responsible for the definition, delivery and management of multi-modal...

Working in Public Transport for most of my life I’ve had the opportunity to deliver significant changes to public transport.  In my role at Transport for West Midlands which is part of the West Midlands Combined Authority I am able to deliver change through, people, processes and technology.  In...

Benoit Leridon is a regional IPR Business Development Manager at Nokia, responsible for Transport, Energy and public sector in EMEA.  In his role he is deeply involved in customer projects in the pre-sales phase, to understand customer applications and requirements in order to define the proper...

More than 10 years experience in the rail business within Knorr-Bremse Since 2013 in charge of global Aftermarket business (RailServices) on Hydraulic Brake System (LRV/Monorail/People Mover)2 years of experience in establishing & leading a Product Engineering department at Knorr Bremse Suzhou...

Born in South Africa; Lady Frere, district of Chris Hani Municipality in the Eastern Cape South Africa on 21 September 1975. Grew up near Queenstown and Cape Town in South Africa and now reside in Gauteng Province. Entrepreneur trained at De Beers in the Engineering discipline and after a number of ...

Werner Maritz is a member of the Industry Strategy team in Oracle Construction and Engineering Global Business Unit with a specific focus on Public Sector and Infrastructure development programs.He holds a masters degree in engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, is a...

OpenCapacity is a London based tech start-up, providing Productivity & Performance Intelligence for Public Transport Operators. Our Expertise lies in collecting and combining disparate datasets to produce analysis, insight, forecasts, and reports into areas of operation where reporting is...

Shaun McCarthy is an independent advisor, author and speaker in the field of sustainable business policy and practice. He has been a leader in sustainable supply chain management for 20+ years; having instigated much of today’s best practice. He also pioneered a unique assurance programme over the...

Wyld Mesh is a UK technology start-up that’s developed a Real Time mobile phone/device notification solution for transportation systems utilising their patent-pending mesh-based heterogeneous network. Wyld Mesh alerts passengers of service disruptions, provides peer to peer interaction, and updates ...

Mr. Ba Myint is currently the Senior General Manager / Deputy Managing Director (Inspection) of Myanma Railways, Ministry of Rail Transportation. He is in charge of Operating ,Commercial ,Administration ,Finance ,Inspection total of (5)Department and Governing 4 General Manager under him. He was...

Ng Bor Kiat, as Chief Technology Officer, oversees the Technology Management Office and is responsible for developing and implementing SMRT’s technology investment strategy, as well as enhancing technology partnerships with external organisations. As Senior Vice President of Systems &...

After 13 years in environmental and sustainability consulting Rob joined Crossrail in 2003 as part of the team responsible for delivering the environmental statement (ES) that was deposited along with the Crossrail Bill to Parliament in 2005.  During the passage of the bill through the...

Following on from an entire career in the Railway community, Nicolas is now leading the Metro & LRT business for the UK and for the Northern Europe region.For more than a decade, he previously worked in the Signalling Industry, within the fields of...

David Pickeral is committed to facilitating the deployment of information and communications technology (ICT) to make transportation more effective, efficient, sustainable and safe within and between all modes from the local to the global level.   He has 29 years’ operational, policy and management ...

John joined Transport for London in 2012 and has spent much of last four years developing and delivering the strategy behind some of the most valuable transport advertising contracts in existence. Having started selling local ads on telly at Grampian Television then selling Newspapers, Cinema, then ...

Mr. Mathias Pott-Stahmeyer works as Head of Information Technology and program manager for digitalization for stations at Deutsche Bahn. He represented the train station branch as Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) from 2014 until the end of 2016. Before that, he has been the assistant to the...

Mr. Powers is Assistant General Manager for the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) in Planning, Development and Construction. His executive office is responsible for the design, construction and management of several major rail transit extension projects along with BART’s Real...

After graduating in Civil Engineering – Environment and Transportation at Technical University Graz, Lukas Prettner worked for Technical Customer Services at voestalpine Schienen. He is now Product Manager for Metro Applications at Product Management Department of voestalpine Schienen.

Raheel Qureshi has over 14 years of experience helping organizations excel in the areas of cyber security, threat intelligence, risk management and Engineering system security architecture in a variety of industries including financial and health care sectors.  He is responsible for managing the...

Jorge Aníbal RauberDate of Birth: July 18, 1969                                                                  Electrical engineerWork experienceFebruary 2016 to present:Subterráneos de Buenos Aires S. E. (SBASE)                          General ManagerSBASE is responsible for managing the...

Leanne Redden was appointed executive director of the RTA in October, 2014. In her role as executive director, Redden heads the unit of local government charged with regional financial oversight, funding, and transit planning for the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), Metra and Pace Bus and ADA...

Engr. Roni is a seasoned engineer with over 25 years’ experience in the telecommunications and rail industries. A first class graduate in Electrical Engineering, he also holds an MBA degree. His wealth of experience has been gathered through his working carrier that includes Lecturing at Bayero...

As Uber’s Head of Transportation Policy and Research, Andrew focuses on making Uber an integral part of the future of urban transportation through research, partnerships, and policy development.  He joined Uber in 2013 and became the Senior Operations Manager for New York City, Uber’s largest...

Commonplace is a cloud-based service for cities, infrastructure providers, developers and communities looking to break down barriers to better, faster planning decisions. We enable our clients to connect with citizens widely and deeply, reaching the "unheard majority" in local...

Brad Smid, P.Eng, Brad is the City of Edmonton’s Project Director for Edmonton’s Valley Line Stage 1; a 13 km urban-style, low-floor LRT system which will run from downtown to southeast Edmonton. The Valley Line is the City’s largest infrastructure project to date, and its first project to be...

Erik Stocker studied Material Sciences at the Montanuniversity Leoben and finished his studies with a Master degree in 1999. He works with voestalpine VAE since 1999 and is responsible for Quality Management and the R&D activities of voestalpine VAE. Besides his Master degree as metallurgist...

Lysander van der Sluis (56) is owner of New Thinking (www.newthinking.co.nl). He has a (neuro)marketing background and is specialised in creating experience and influencing behaviour and perceptions of people at points of high traffic. He has worked for Dutch Railways, (creating retail-concepts and ...

Shashi Verma is Chief Technology Officer and Director Customer Experienceat Transport for London. He joined TfL in September 2002 in the Corporate Finance team. Shashi has responsibility for the operation of TfL’s revenue collection system including the Oyster card, the largest smartcard based...

With 18 years’ experience in critical systems including 12 years in the railway industry, Jérémie has a railway systems engineer profile, with specific emphasis on signaling systems and on light rail systems.During his professional experience, he has worked on many HSL, CBTC type metro, tram-train...

David has been Chief Executive of Auckland Transport since its establishment inNovember 2010. Prior to this he was Chief Executive of professional services business CPG, a subsidiary of Downer EDI.David has held a number of roles as Chief Executive / Director in a range of businesses including the...

Mark Wild joined TfL in June 2016 from Australia where he was Special Advisor to the Minister and Secretary of The State Government of Victoria. Just before that he was Chief Executive of Public Transport Victoria, the integrated transport authority based in Melbourne serving a population of some...