2019 Speakers

Arja has very long experience of working in the transport sector, particularly with the railway development as a focus.She has promoted the development of passenger traffic services in many railway projects, cooperation groups and transport system planning projects in Finland. She has also managed...

Camilla Ahston has a Master of Law Degree from the University in Lund and she has specialized in public procurement.Camilla works as a senior international strategist at the Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket).She is responsible for the work for attracting more international companies...

Born September 23rd, 1971. Married. He graduated as a Lawyer from Universidad de Belgrano (an Argentine Univiersity), in the Argentine Republic. He was professor of Corporate Law and Bankruptcy Law at Universidad de Buenos Aires and Universidad de Belgrano. He completed an in –depth postgraduate...

Andrew Allum is a partner at L.E.K. Consulting, a global management consulting firm. He is a senior member of L.E.K.’s transport practice and has more than 20 years’ experience in the rail industry, advising a variety of operators, infrastructure managers, suppliers and investors. He has worked at...

Jorge Alvar Villegas es licenciado en Derecho y en Economía por la Universidad Carlos III y técnico comercial y economista del Estado desde 2006. Su trayectoria profesional está vinculada a la política comercial y el comercio exterior, con diversos puestos de responsabilidad en la Subdirección...

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Jon Alzate is heading  the  On-Board Business Unit of CAF Signalling  since 2014, committed to offer innovative signalling solutions for the transportation business. With more than 18 years of experience in the rail industry, he started his career as Engineer in CAF S.A. and since 2010 he joined...

Sudath is a member of the Australian Senior Public Service with valuable experience in Major construction, Infrastructure development and Business operations and Management. He is working as a Senior Rail Professional for the unique Precincts and Infrastructure Group of TfNSW. Sudath Graduated from ...

Roberto Andreoli, Chief information and Technology Officer ATM – Azienda Trasporti Milanesi University degree in Industrial Mechanical Engineer With specialisation in nuclear environment.In ATM since 2005, today he is Group Director of IT, Telecommunications and Ticketing Systems and sales...

Andres Arizkorreta is the Chairman & CEO of CAF Group. Holding a degree in Economics from Deusto Business University, he joined CAF in 1980. He has pursued his professional career in this company holding several management positions in the organisation. Furthermore, he is a member of several...

Managing Director of Dakar Urban Transport Council (CETUD)Thierno Birahim AW is the Managing Director of Dakar Urban Transport Council (Conseil Exécutif des Transports Urbains de Dakar, the Urban Transport Authority for Dakar metropolitan area) since September 2016. He worked as research assistant...

He has 15 years’ experience as a Mechanical Engineer in the area of Manufacturing Technologies. He is responsible of the innovation area at Danobatgroup. Fields of activity: innovation management, machine tool, strategic planning, technology roadmaps, product-market planning. He has been ...

Dr. Michael Barillère-Scholz has been Managing Director at ioki since 2017 - the new business line for Demand Responsive Transport, Mobility Analytics and Autonomous Driving of Deutsche Bahn. His special passions are sustainable mobility of tomorrow as well as agile, employee-centered...

Becrom is a Principal in L.E.K.’s London office, who joined the firm in 2005. He has 13 years of senior consulting experience with L.E.K., during which time he has led many significant engagements in our transport, travel and new mobility sectors. Becrom holds a MEng in Chemical Engineering from...

Paolo Belforte was born in Turin (Italy) on March 11th 1977. He graduated in Mechanical engineering in 2001 and got a PhD in Railway dynamics in 2005.He worked as assistant professor in the Technical university of Milan until 2008. After he joined Italo - Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori, participating...

Experienced Professional with a demonstrated history of working in the transportation / trucking / railroad industry with skills in Operations Management, Freight, Transportation Planning, IT solutions, Procurement, and Supply Chain Management. As General Manager CRIS, Vinod is looking after...

Amaia is Telecommunications Engineer and she works as TETRA Service Manager in ITELAZPI. She joined ITELAZPI at the beginning of 2008, coinciding with the implementation of a regional TETRA network in the Basque Country, initially in the TETRA Customer Manager function, and nowadays she is...

After a PhD in Acoustics, dedicated to a global model implementation for the simulation of train pass-by noise, Estelle BONGINI has started in 2008 to manage innovation & research projects at SNCF, in the fields of acoustics, vibrations and diagnostics. Since 2015, she has developed and...

Carlo BorghiniExecutive Director, Shift2RailMr Carlo Borghini was appointed Executive Director of the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking on 16 February 2016 and is responsible for the overall management of the S2R JU activities.Prior to this posting, Mr Borghini was EDA Corporate Services Director, where ...

EDUCACIÓN 2016                                      MINISTERIO DE FOMENTO – CEDDET, ESPAÑADiploma Ferrocarriles Metropolitano 2015                                       INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ADMINISTRACIONES PÚBLICAS, CEDDET, ESPAÑA                                                Diploma...

Since 2016, Richard has been working for Transport for Wales as part of the team that procured the new £5bn Wales & Borders Rail Service using a competitive dialogue process. He is now the Authority’s Senior Project Engineer for the Core Valley Lines Transformation which is a £738M project to...

James Brown joined Angel Trains in 2015 where he has filled a new role to use data science to drive performance across Angel Trains asset base.  James works within Angel Trains’ Product Technology Team which is introducing new Technology & Analytics to the industry in order to cut...

Astrid Bunt, Director of Stations at ProRail, is responsible for the development, building and maintenance of safe, sustainable and comfortable train stations in the Netherlands since August 2017. She has a commercial background as a lawyer and consultant and is committed to the public cause of...

Sviatoslav Butskyi is a Consultant at Blockchain and DLT Solutions team at DB Systel, the IT provider & Digital Partner of Deutsche Bahn AG, the largest mobility and logistics provider in Europe. His focus at work are the projects aiming to help digitalization of Deutsche Bahn and external...

Eduard Cabrera is an experienced engineer in light rail/tram projects based in Barcelona. Over the last sixteen years, he has been mainly working involved in the tram reintroduction project in Barcelona area.This experience has been developed in distinct positions: from operations through technical ...

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

Jude Carey is Head of Asset Management for Irish Rail. His responsibilities include raising the Asset Management Capability of the Irish Rail network to ISO55001 standard and the development of Irish Rail's Asset Management Systems. He joined Irish Rail in 2007.  He is an active member of the...

 Radek Cech, Ph.D. graduated in Charles university and Czech Technical University, he has taken  PhD. studies at University Pardubice. He is working for Sprava zeleznicni dopravni cesty as strategy director. He is responsible for infrastructure planning including high speed railway and...

Telecom BCC Manager & Technology Innovation Officer Ingénieur avec 16 ans d’expérience dans tous les domaines de l’ICT et dans le ferroviaire. Responsable de la stratégie Telecom au sein de la direction ICT d’Infrabel, incluant les résaux fibres optiques, SDH, MPLS, IP, GSM-R ainsi que les...

In 1997 he joined Metro de Madrid, holding different technical positions in Engineering until 2003, when he was appointed Head of the Electrification Service in the Maintenance Department. He joined the Board of Directors of Metro de Madrid a few years later, in October 2007, when he was promoted...

Electrical Engineering background MBA  (International Management) from “Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées” – Paris;  MBA (Investment Management) from John Molson School of Business-Concordia university –MontrealAlmost 30-years experience in different fields and mainly in...

Jonathan is Head of Policy (Freight and Stations) at Rail Delivery Group where he leads the RDG Station Strategy Group (SSG) and RDG Freight Board.  He has more than 25 years’ experience in the UK rail industry having previously worked for a train operator and for Network Rail.  During his career...

Philippe Citroën joined UNIFE in 2011 as Director General. He began his career as Transport Advisor at the French Permanent Representation to the EU and then became Member of the Cabinet of the French Transport Minister. In 1993 he became Manager and Chief of Staff at RATP Paris, and joined the...

Philippe CLÉMENT is Research & Development Manager and Ecomobility Manager at SNCF Rolling Stock Engineering Department. His career at SNCF is rich of experiences in rubber articulations, static and fatigue tests of components and train structures, dynamic comfort of passengers, management of a ...

Norrie Courts is the Director of Stations for Network Rail and heads up the National Stations Team. The directorate is working to deliver a consistent, high quality service to Network Rail’s customers and act as a focal point of specialist advice and best practice for its 20 managed stations. The...

Rebecca Cranshaw is Community and Environment Manager for Eurostar International. Rebecca joined Eurostar at the beginning of 2017, initially in the Energy & Environment function. Rebecca now leads Eurostar’s sustainability programme and is responsible for the Tread Lightly sustainability...

Geoff Cross is the Vice-President of Planning and Policy at TransLink in Metro Vancouver. TransLink is unique among North American transit agencies in that it has a broad mandate for managing the movement of people and goods across the regional network. This remit encompasses the...

Cruse has been director of the Swedish tramway advocacy organization "Spårvagnsstäderna" for several years. With a background in sustainability science, his main task is to facilitate the process of cities and regions interested in acquiring a tramway or light rail system, or better use...

Patricia Cuvelier (°1971) is general manager at SNCB Stations, in charge of strategic and investment planning & monitoring, the design & engineering team and the PMO. After a 10-years’ experience in international law firms, Patricia joined the SNCB in 2007.  She was first in charge of...

Jasmijn is working as a data scientist at Infrabel, the Belgian Railway Infrastructure Manager. She is the team leader of the Business Analytics team, situated within the division of Traffic Management and Services. In this function, Jasmijn is responsible for several big data analytics...

Education:2018: Executive master in Digital Transformation IE Business School2017: Deusto Business School: Big Data and Business programme.Double Graduated from Zaragoza's University. Industrial engineering and fromUniversité de Technologie de Compiègne. Transportation & Automotive...

He’s Mba of Business Economics from Deusto University (Bilbao). Director of Amurrio Ferrocarril y Equipos SA since 1992 and Board member since 2011.Administrator of Montajes Ferroviarios SL since 1998.Founding member of Mafex (2004).

Deep Desai is currently the Global Systems Manager for Frauscher’s FTS product line. He manages a focused engineering team handling commercial FTS projects. Deep has been involved numerous in technical business development and product development as a result of 8 years of background in Distributed...

Rory Dickerson is a Senior Engineer for Traction & Rolling Stock in the Mechanical & Electrical Engineering department, part of the Safety, Technical & Engineering directorate at Network Rail in Great Britain. In his current role, Rory mainly focuses on railway system...

David Alvarez is a Chemical Engineer with ten years’ experience as senior materials research engineer in R&D of steel products. He has completed a Master in Innovation Management and Business Development and his main activity focuses on the designing, development and manufacturing of new...

An acclaimed Railway Administrator and an efficient infrastructure builder. An eminent institution builder and urban transport professional. Presently heading Nagpur/Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. as Managing Director.Associated with Indian Railway for over 30 years including association...

Jonny Dymond is a Royal Correspondent and Presenter for BBC News.  He started his career with the BBC at their Westminster office, covering British politics. He was a Foreign Correspondent for 15 years, with postings in Istanbul, Brussels and Washington DC.  He reported on the attacks of 9/11 from...

2014 Master in Civil Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich, Major in Geotechnics & Traffic Engineering2014-2016 Technical Trainee with Swiss Railways SBB, Positions at Asset Management of Track, Technical Fleet Management of Rolling Stock and in the long-term...

With a background in marketing, product and project management and market research Nicole Eckiert started as a communication manager for S-Bahn Munich in 2013. While taking care of communication and stakeholder management, she is focusing on building bridges between operations and passenger...

Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy AlbaniaAlbanian Railways (HSH), ALForeign Affairs, Responsible person    From 1 April 2013 ongoing in 2018Albanian railways S.A. (HSH) the company is 100% state capital in ownership of the Albanian Ministry of Finances and Economy, in charge of economic...

Prior to his appointment as CEO of ProRail in April 2015, Mr Eringa was chairman of the Albert Schweitzer hospital in Dordrecht and turned this into the best hospital in the Netherlands. Mr. Eringa is an experienced executive in public service and public administration. He has been responsible for...

Duilio Fatti is Head of Knowledge Management and Interfaces in Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (FS) International department since its constitution in 2016. Formerly he was SVC Rolling Stock in Egyptian National Railways and Supply Chain Director in Trenitalia. Duilio has been working with FS since...

Eugenio Fedeli is heading Research&Development of RFI (Italian Infrastructure Manager) since 2018. From 2014 to 2017 he headed the Bologna Operation Direction. He joined Italian Railways in 1993. He graduated in Electrotechnical Engineering (Dipl. Ing.) from Rome La Sapienza University in...

I help companies understand what is in the digitalisation handtool for them specifically. I help my customers navigate and understand what is in the 4.0 portfolio that can help them build a roadmap that will successfully achieve their objectives in a safe, riskless and always ROI positive path.

He has 25 years of experience in the Railways industry, starting as system engineer in the areas of electrical propulsion and train control and management systems. With more than 15 years in management positions, he is the head of the Engineering Center in Spain, located in Trápaga...

Working Experience:07/2017 - present: Head of Rolling Stock Technology, Deutsche Bahn03/2014 - 06/2017: Head of Maintenance and Depot Leader, S-Bahn Berlin10/2011 - 02/2014: Depot Leader and representative principal for renewal of the Depot, S-Bahn Berlin08/2010 - 09/2011: Program Manager for...

RICARD FONT I HEREU, nacido en octubre de 1971 en la Seu d’Urgell, casado y con tres hijos. Formación académica:•    Licenciado en Ciencias Jurídicas por la Universidad de Girona.•    Máster en Derecho del Territorio, Urbanismo y Medio Ambiente, realizado en la Universidad Pompeu Fabra.•    Máster...

Industrial Engineer at Univesidad Pontificia de Comillas with more than 18 years of experience in the Railways Sector. Joined CAF in 2007.Appointed as Commercial Director of CAF Investment Projects the 100% Subsidiary of CAF Group in charge of the Public Partnership Projects.

Mr. Joubert Fortes Flores Filho, 62, has extensive experience in transports and people management.He began his career in MetrôRio in 1974. Nowadays he is senior adviser in Metrôrio. He served during 12 years as engineering Director and Institutional Relations and Humans Resources...

Configuration manager – system and telecom expertOver 15 years of experience in railway (hardware design and CBTC)Joined SNCF in 2013

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James Gallagher is the Chief Operations Officer for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro). He has more than 40 years of experience in all facets of transportation operations, including the past three years at LA Metro. As COO, James oversees all of Metro’s service...

Dynamizing New Business Projects, with a management experience of more than 10 years during which she has held important positions in various industrial, insurance and health sectors. With general technical training (Industrial Engineering), extensive technical-commercial experience and development ...

Marc Giesen held various management positions at Deutsche Bahn - one of the world’s leading mobility, logistics and railway infrastructure providers -  since 1998, including Director International Sales and Director of International Long-Distant Rail for Eastern and Northern Eu-rope. In 2014, he...

Simon is the Chief Technolgy Officer of Deutsche Bahn International Operations and Executive Director Asia Pacific at DB Engineering & Consulting, where he is responsible for all business activities in that region.Simon is a dyed-in-the-wool railway man, having worked in operational service, in ...

TRAINING-    NATIONAL POLYTECHNIQUE SHOOL OF ALGIERS 1976 :BSCE civil engneering-    University of Washington USA 1979 (MSCE in Structural Engineering)SKILLSTRANSTEV : CEO of a  public holding transports(guided transports(metro,trams,cablecars), intercity bus , bus terminal  from FEBRUARY 2016 -    ...

Markus Halder is heading SBB’s Power Demand Management Program since June 2017. From 2012-2017 he headed the department Energy Management Traction of SBB Infrastructure, Energy in Bern. He joined Swiss Federal Railways SBB in 2006 in the Rail Environment Center followed by the Department of...

James has been involved in the Light Rail Industry for over 28 years and has spent the majority of his 23 year working career in this sector. Having been involved in Tramways & Light Railways from an early age James started out in the industry as an apprentice engineer, he worked his through...

Gordon has worked in the public sector side of passenger transport for 38 years, holding senior positions in both local authority and in central government. During that time he has built up extensive close relationships with many senior people across all the public transport modes, and with most...

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...

Mr. Janne Hauta, Ministerial Adviser, Data Department, Data Business Unit of the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications. The Unit promotes the use of data and intelligent automation in all modes of transport. The main responsibilities lie within the regulatory matters on national, EU and...

Jarrick is part of the tools department, situated in the division Build. He has a bachelor’s degree in electronics/ICT. His job at Infrabel, which is his first, started with a training to work as a field technician. After this he started working as a key-user/product owner for databases providing...

Javier Hinojal has a degree in Economics from the University of Cantabria, in Business Administration with honors from the University of Wolverhampton (UK) and Master in Marketing and Sales Management from ESIC and General Management Program by IESE Business School. He began his professional career ...

Advisor to the DB Board Member for Digitisation and Technology; coordinating priority innovation projects; sustainable transport solutions; international relations and innovation (eg. Europa, China, Japan and Israel); innovation and technology management

Nigel is the Managing Director of London Underground, the world's oldest underground railway, dating back to 1863. His current responsibilities include the safe and efficient operation of the world's 11th busiest metro system - handling up to 5 million passenger journeys per day - made up...

Ching-shinn Huang received his master degree in Transportation Engineering and Management from National Chiao Tung University. He joined the Taipei Metro in 1996 and participated in the operation of the first metro line in Taipei city.Mr. Huang has held various management positions including...

Baseliyos Jacob Earned his degree in Electrical Engineering in information- and communication-technologies at the University of Applied Sciences of Augsburg in 2010 and a Master of Business Administration in General Management from the University of Wales/Fern-University Hagen in 2016. He started...

Esmé started her career as an attorney-at-law for more than 10 years and then started working for one of her clients, Dutch Railways. For almost 15 years she has worked in different functions within the company. Achieving joint goals with different parties in difficult circumstances is her...

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Florian Kappler joined BLS in 2017 as head of strategic planning railway. In this role he was responsible for the strategic services development, demand forecasting, customer oriented design of rolling stock as well as customer services. Since November 2018 Florian is the BLS project leader and...

Oleksandr is in charge of the formation and implementation of the company’s strategy. While developing the strategy of one of the largest railways on the continent he also participates in several investment projects targeted on the renewal of key assets.He joined the company in 2015 and since then...

Strategic leadership and experienced program and project director.Jens has combined an insight in management at director level in public companies with a comprehensive experience with program and project management. For the last 7 years, Jens has been director for the 1,1 billion € upgrade of the...

Tim B. Keith serves as President of Texas Central Partners (TCP), a private, Texas-based company that is developing a high-speed passenger railway that will connect Dallas and Houston. As a seasoned executive and investor with nearly 25 years of financial and operational experience in large real...

Jon is Director of BIM at High Speed 2, having been with the organisation since 2012. He is responsible for the strategic and standardised implementation of BIM across the programme with a view to increasing efficiency through design, construction, testing, operations and maintenance. Jon holds a...

Professional Experience: Since 2015 senior advisor to the Minister of infrastructure of Ukraine, director of the Reform support team, Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine. 2012 – 2015 worked at the Univer Group, where obtained a position of Senior Associate 2005 - graduated from the Larenstein...

Ian Koeppel has worked 21 years at Esri, the world’s leading provider of geo-spatial technology. He leads Transportation Business Development in Europe, and is based in the Paris area. Previously Ian was Managing Consultant at Accenture, and Director of IT at the New York City Department of Parks...

Petr Kolář works at the Strategy Department at the state organization Správa železniční dopravní cesty (Railway Infrastructure Administration) in Czech Republic. His work is focused on the use of new technologies for railways, on the development of ERTMS (GSM-R, ETCS) and he is involved in the...

Kristian Kolind works as Head of Corporate Strategy & M&A at  the leading Nordic transport company NSB (Norwegian State Railways), based in Oslo. At NSB, he developed the company’s new mobility strategy, and is now leading the screening, prioritisation and establishment of NSB’s last mile...

Martin Köppel joined DB Netz AG in 2018 as an expert for railway automation and perception systems. He is part of the team “Intelligent PerCeption” (IPC) working in the program “Digital Rail for Germany”.He received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in Media Technologies from the Technical University of...

Acting Head, RST Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine Master of Law, Master of Public Administration, LawyerResponsible for legal support of the reform processes• Facilitating the deregulation and liberalization of the transport sector• Development of draft legal acts

As Project Manager of ETCS at DB Kommunikationstechnik (Telecommunication technology), Christine Kraft has implemented the transmission technique at the Corridor A in Germany Region West, since 2015. Furthermore, she has also implemented key projects with transmission technique, such as the newly...

Barend Kuenen has over 18 years of commercial experience in the railway station industry. He has been working on railway stations development projects in the Netherlands, food services developments on stations in France, Belgium and the UK, bike-sharing developments (OV-fiets) and the management of ...

Mr. Kuukankorpi is responsible for the traffic operations in the metro and tramways in Helsinki, Finland. Both the metro and the tramways are being extended and at the same time there is increasing pressure for improving cost efficiency in the operations. New digital solutions are also being...

Mark Langmead is Director, Compass Operations with TransLink.  He is responsible for revenue collection and the customer experience with the Compass smart card and ticket program in Vancouver BC. In this capacity, Mark developed and implemented the strategic plan to transition the organization from ...

Iván Larzabal is Traction System R&D at CAF Power & Automation. As a member of Traction Technical Management Team, he is Traction Shift2Rail Technology Demonstrator. With more than 20 years of experience in R&D Integration Systems Projects, he is graduated in Electronic...

Sam Li is a Senior Innovation Officer in the Innovation Team at Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) with 10 years’ experience working in the mobility innovation sector. Sam’s comprehensive experience in the development and implementation of innovative mobility technology projects, in both...

Mathias Linden was born 1986 in Koblenz, Germany. Mathias studied in Montpellier (France) and Koblenz and holds a Master of Science degree in Information Management from the University of Koblenz-Landau. Currently he is working on his PhD thesis and works as Project Leader of the Competence Center...

Mark is Project Group Director for MyHSR Corporation, the Malaysian government entity responsible for delivering the KL – Singapore High Speed Rail project in Malaysia. He leads a team of local and international staff in the development, design, and construction of the Malaysian portion of the...

Francisco Javier López GiménezIngeniero Industrial En Railtech Sufetra (ahora Pandrol) desde 1998, pasando durante estos años por diferentes puestos; desde Director de I+D, hasta el puesto actual de Director Comercial. Responsable de varios desarrollos, como sistemas de tres hilos y...

Project position: COO, Technical Director, Odense Letbane P/S and member of the Executive ManagementDate of birth: March, 1953Nationality: DanishYears of professional experience: 42 Mr. Steen Lykke is a highly qualified and experienced director, manager and engineer, who as Project Manager and...

Alisa Maas has been active in the fields of mobility, IoT, logistics and fleet management since early 2010, gaining extensive topic expertise with regard to digital business models and product development.In her role as Senior Product and Marketing Manager at Daimler FleetBoard GmbH, she...

Gaurav Malse joined Air Canada’s Payments team in Oct 2017 with responsibility for identifying, implementing and managing new payment solutions intended to enhance and evolve Air Canada’s customer value proposition globally. He was previously Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives responsible for...

Dr-Ing Juliette Marais received the Engineer degree from ISEN in 1998, a master of Electronics in 1999 and a PhD in Electronics in 2002. Her PhD was dealing with satellite availability prediction in rail applications and has conducted to the PREDISSAT software development. Her research interest is...

Philip Meikle is an advocate of public transport to the extent he does not own a car. Throughout life, he has been fortunate enough to use the Tyne and Wear metro to education, to football, to family events and to work. His transport career began on the frontline of the rail industry: in call...

Born in 1968, Dieter Michell-Auli studied mechanical and production engineering at Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg. After graduating in 1993, he held various managerial positions in Siemens AG’s Automation and Mobility divisions in both Germany and China.In 2009, he joined...

Bertrand MINARY is Chief Innovation & Digital Officer at Fret SNCF, which is the first railway freight company in France. With its important experience in logistics and rail, he is in charge of reinventing rail freight services and optimising techniques, using a lean startup and agile...

・April 2009~ 　Tohoku Construction Office, East Japan Railway Company.・April 2013~　Tohoku Construction Office, East Japan Railway Company.　Developed and estimated a new function of “ATACS” to control rail crossing.　“ATACS” is a signaling system based on wireless technology, and that is equivalent to ...

Dr Das Mootanah is the Chief Executive Officer of Metro Express Ltd since July 2018. He is a Senior Director, Professional Engineer, Strategic Project Management & Risk Management expert with over 27 years’ international cross-sector Leadership experience in London, Sydney and Mauritius in Mega ...

Iori Mori currently holds his position in Technology Innovation HQ, the newest organisation developed in JR-EAST this June. His unique team, Mobility Innovation Group is named after a consortium established in 2017. Now holding 130+ member companies nationwide, its mission is to tackle myriads of...

Integration and validation engineer on interlocking and CBTC projectExpert in modeling and toolsInterlocking principles expert Joined SNCF in 2015 INSA Lyon Engineer

Amandine graduated as an engineer from Ecole Polytechnique and Telecom Paris Tech, France.After a first experience as consultant in China, she joined RATP in 2015 in the team dedicated to metro line 4 automation and part-time working on the international affairs.

Born in Madrid on 20 January 1975. Married with four children. BA in Economics (University Complutense of Madrid), postgraduate diploma (Diploma of Advanced Studies – DEA) in History of Economic Thought by University Complutense of Madrid.He started his career in several departments of Caja...

U Ba Myint born on 25th August 1960 , son of U Tin Ohn (Retired Chief Engineer of Myanma Railways) and Daw Kyi Kyi ,married Daw Win Thanda  ,and  have two sons Dr. Htet Myat Aung, Master of Public health Candidate, Cularlongkorn University ,Kingdom of Thailad,Dr. Thet Myat Naung ,House Surgeon...

Master’s degree in law.Professional Experience: Since 2003- lawyer, head of the legal department, deputy director on jurisprudence, director of the department of commercial and international law in different companies.Since 2018 project manager, head of the railway sector reform sector, Reform...

Karsten Oberle received the Dipl.-Ing. (FH) degree in communications engineering from the University of Applied Sciences "Fachhochschule für Technik" Mannheim, Germany, in 1998. In the same year, he joined the Alcatel Research Center in Stuttgart. Currently he is leading the Global...

Managing Director of the company Tåg I Bergslagen (TiB) since 2010, a passenger train company owned by 4 regions in Sweden. The company has 28 EMUs and 3 million passengers annually.  We procure the of our traffic including maintenance on a 10-year contract basis. There are 12 similar tax-funded...

Minister of Infrastructure of UkraineVolodymyr OmelyanBorn on January 30, 1979 in Lviv, Ukraine.Education: complete higher education, in 2000 graduated from Ivan Franko Lviv State University, and in 2001 – from Lviv Polytechnic National University.Specialization: finance, international...

Senior Msc civil engineer as Urban light transport manager in Idom 20 years of experience in urban light rail projects over the world , I have worked in Spain , Portugal, Sweden , Denmark , Colombia , Ecuador , Croatia , Macedonia amongs other 20 countries in tramway Lrt projects Idom is is one of...

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Has been working with Research & Design Institute NIIAS, subsidiary of Russian Railways, for over 10 years in various positions related to research, signalling business unit and international cooperation. He is Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Development of Electro-technical and...

In 2004 I graduated high school (subject: automotive engineering).After two years at an Austrian automobile club, were I did technical and purchase advice and got first work experience, I changed to Wiener Linien in 2007. My career started as a bus driver. It was a deliberate decision to get in...

Isabel Pardo de Vera Posada was born in Lugo in 1975, she graduated as a Civil Engineer from the University of A Coruña, she has completed her training in management development programs at business schools and infrastructure management.•    She is currently the President of the Railway...

Torkel Patterson is a member of the board of Central Japan Railway Company, whichoperates the iconic Shinkansen between Tokyo and Osaka and which has begunconstruction of the world’s first Superconducting Maglev line between Tokyo andNagoya. He concurrently is Vice Chairman of the International...

Mr Juan Francisco Paz Pascual was born in Chile. He studied his degree as an architect in Spain at the Polytechnic University of Madrid.  Having developed his career over many years in SENER, he is now Head of the Architecture Department and Station expertise. During these years he has specialized...

Cormac Rabbitt has a Bachelor of Civil and a Master of Industrial Engineering Degrees from the National University of Ireland. He has a track record of taking initiatives that have helped influence the Irish Government to alter and proceed with the development of motorways and railways. They...

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...

RATP “Infrastructure & Platform Screen Doors” Project manager for Paris Line 4 automation from 2013 onward: signalling and Track renewal, Platform reinforcement, PSD installation, Station platform refurbishing; 2007 – 2013 head of Paris Métro ‘s OCC maintenance technical entity: ATS and CBTC...

Chief Operating Officer and Member of the Management BoardKaspars Rokens is an experienced manager in power distribution and generation, retail, building automation and industrial applications’ business. Since 1994 he has served in multinational technical trading companies as sales teams’ and...

.PhD in Theoretical Physics and Chair of International Transport and Logistics Management at Intl. School of Management (ISM), Frankfurt 1997-2006  McKinsey - Consultant2006-2011  Oliver Wyman Consulting - Director Travel and Transportation2011-2014  DB AG - SVP Strategy Infrastructure and...

Studies: Information technology in mechanical engineering, Technical University of BerlinPhD: Development of an internet based process control system for hot rolling mills.Working since 2000 in different areas for companies such as Siemens, hotel.de, Krones AG, Zühlke Engineering GmbH as a software ...

Randy is an Innovative IT executive with a diverse background leading technology strategy, operations and solution delivery for leading-edge organizations. He has a varied work background in highly-regulated industries like Financial Services, Global Telco and Cloud Services...

Alvaro leads the Spanish Lime team coordinating the country’s operations, expansion, government relations, and marketing.Coming from a design background, Alvaro has been working in conceptual, visual, and business development for top-notch retail, corporate, and tech clients as well as lecturing...

Felipe Sanjuan is Business Development Director in Transportation of TELTRONC, Hytera Group. He has been working for TELTRONIC, many years being specialist in professional telecommunication systems as analogue, radio trunking, TETRA, DMR, and LTE broadband technology.During years, he has been Head...

Gerald started his career in the media-field, programming software to deal with the archiving of multimedia data and advanced to the role of an enterprise architect in the aviation industry. A main project was the introduction of the collaborative decision making process and connecting IT-Tools...

Since 2010, Mr. Jörn Schwarze is a board member of the Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe AG and responsible for the technical department. Mr. Schwarze studied mechanical engineering at the University of Hanover and graduated with a diploma degree.  After his studies, Mr. Schwarze worked at Siemens AG as...

LinkedIn:  Alexander Sdrakas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asdrakas/ Bio: Alexander Sdrakas has been with Deutsche Bahn since 2011. With a background in computer science and telecommunications and many years of Project Management experience for the railway infrastructure of Deutsche Bahn, he is now...

Richard Sendi is the Head of Planning and Strategy at the Standard Gauge Railway Project – Ministry of Works and Transport in Uganda since may 2015. He worked as a Senior Policy Analyst at the Ministry of Works and Transport from September 2011 and as a Lecturer/Head of Department at Cavendish...

Javier Serra es licenciado en Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales (especialidad de Economía Internacional) desde 1984, por el CEU-Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Su carrera en diplomacia económica se iniciacuando accede al cuerpo de Técnicos Comerciales y Economistas del Estado, en 1988.Sus...

Sherisse has nine years’ experience in the passenger transport industry working in bus and rail.  She has been involved in projects with developing and introducing new ticketing schemes including barcodes and smartcards.  At Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) she is working to improve the customer...

Lidia holds a Master’s degree from École des Ponts of Paris, France, in Urban Mobility Planning and Design. Coming from a background in social sciences, she further specialised in International Cooperation at the Paris School of Urban Planning as well as an International Master in European Project...

In addition to consulting, Anne’s most recent role was Director of Quality Management at Snom Technology/Vtech where she assisted in performing quality audits on the factory floor and experienced first-hand the problems with efficiency, waste, and trust that could all be solved with a successful...

Adam Stead is a pioneering leader of change in UK rail. He is the founder and CEO of Apollo Rail, a UK-based startup developing advanced train control systems to unlock capacity, lower cost, and enable autonomy. Adam was formerly Chairman of Young Rail Professionals and awarded Rail Person of the...

Johan Sundin holds a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm and has been with the construction sector since 1987, both as client and as contractor.In the beginning of the 90´s he worked at the Swedish Embassy in Bonn monitoring the technical ...

Born 2nd March 1958, and married with two children, Isaías Táboas majored in Contemporary History at the Universitat de Barcelona and received further qualifications from ESADE (Public Administration) and EADA (Marketing and Management).He has developed his career in both the public and private...

Currently in charge of Sales Management for the EMEA market in Fluidmesh Networks, Marco joined the company in 2013 after a previous experience in the wireless communication sector. After his MS in Telecommunication Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Marco gained experience and today he is an...

Enterprise Asset Management Transformation People - Establish Asset Management Office Process - Standardize Enterprise Processes across Asset Categories/Classes Technology - Infor Implementation, Enterprise GIS, integration to ERP and SCADA sensors, mobilityroll-out, analytics, EDRMS (Opentext)...

LRT Almaty Department was founded in May 2017, to implement the project. In September 2018, we announced an open international tender to determine private partner.Before the announcement we explored and visited several LRT systems in Sydney, Brussels, Gold Coast, Barcelona, Brussels, Tokyo.

PhD from Ecole Polytechnique, after 10 years in research and innovation at PSA Peugeot Citroen, mixing customer data and material modelling for better design, Jean-Jacques pursued his career in innovation for mobility at SNCF. Particularly, he has set up a wide program of workshops aiming at the...

Licenciado en Derecho por la Universidad de Barcelona (1976-1981) y Diplomado por el Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores en Comercio Internacional y de la Unión Europea (1984). Actualmente es Director general CIMALSA, así como de las empresas Autometro, SA; Cargometro Rail Transport, SA...

Born in Barcelona in 1961. Civil Engineer (Specialist in Water and Power) from the Polytechnic University of Barcelona in 1985.From 1985-1990 he works as a civil engineer in private consultancy, specializing in railway projects.From 1991 he began his career in Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de...

Giorgio Travaini as Shift2Rail Head of Research & Innovation is responsible for coordination of the JU’s programme with a view to ensuring that the activities contribute to the fulfilment of the objectives of the S2R Master Plan. Prior to this posting, Giorgio Travaini was Senior Corporate...

Ianko Valero is Technical Director at Ingeteam power technology traction business. He has a deep experience on railways sector: in 2006, he joined the INGETEAM Group  as R&D Engineer and has developed different positions on R&D, projects and technical areas. Previously, he held other...

Innovative out of the box thinking while analyzing local and worldwide supplier technologies that might be potential for Lithuanian railways digital development.- Infrastructure rail monitoring gadget creatuon using drone and Lidar laser system together with GIS/BIM/VOULT.- Test bed management for...

Koen Van Lancker (°1974) is a Belgian Engineer-Architect, working for NMBS, with a 19 years’ experience in working in and around stations. In the beginning of his career he played a leading role in the awarded renovation of the station Antwerpen-Centraal. He has always been interested in complex...

In the past 25 years Geert held various leadership positions at Siemens in Germany, Belgium and the UK. Geert is a Belgian citizen and speaks fluent English, French, German and Dutch. After graduating as an Electro-Mechanical Engineer (Hons), Geert started his career in Brussels. He gained...

Fernando has an extensive experience working at complex projects. He is an expertise of tunnels with rock TBM, EPB machines, drilling and blasting (D&B) methods in rock and conventional hand mining in soil, structural design and underground projects.During his 20 years’ experience, Fernando has ...

Danny is an expert in Light Rail Engineering, Asset Management and Operations.  He has worked on projects in Australia, Ireland and the UK in consulting, public sector and private sector organisations.While primarily focussed on delivering excellence in Operations, Asset Management and Customer...

Marleen Verheyen, strategic coordinator at Infrabel.Marleen is part of the Performance Data Department, situated within the Traffic Management and Services division. She has a masters in history with a broad view on business needs and currently works as a people manager with years of experience...

André von der Marck has over 20 years experience managing large scale infrastructure projects. Previous projects he has worked on include the Nice Tramway system including the extensions to this system in the build up to Euro 2016.Since 2014 he has overseen the construction and operation of the new ...

Marco Wilfert became in 2014 Head of Special Investment Programmes at DB Netz AG (key activities: enhancement and extension strategies for the short-distance traffic and suburban railways network in Germany; strategy and policy development with a focus on Special Investment Programmes of the German ...

Greg Williams is a leading authority on technology trends and the ways they impact business and society. As editor-in-chief of WIRED, Greg meets the innovators, thinkers, scientists, entrepreneurs and creatives who are changing the world and writes on a variety of subjects, including...

Dr. Olga Willner is project lead for IoT & Data Analytics at the division of Deutsche Bahn in charge of train stations. Previously, she worked as a researcher at ETH Zurich as well as MIT. The experiences she gained in that role, she now uses to explore and test innovative IoT technologies at...

Susanne Wolf-Eberl is chairwoman of the Austrian association WIMEN (Women in Mobility, Energy, Environment Network), researcher and entrepreneur. She founded WIMEN 2011, after receiving the gender award of the bmvit. Her professional interests include commuter flows, commuting to and from work, the ...

Tim Wood has over 24 years’ experience in railway design and delivery and prior to this, 11 years spent in the construction industry. As Northern Powerhouse Rail Director, he is taking on the challenge to make the strategic outline business case (SOBC) for investment in an ambitious plan for a...

As an insight specialist Ian has spent his career getting under the skin of consumers in many sectors, to understand their needs and motivations. This has been whilst working for research agencies, consultancies and his own company. At Transport Focus  this means growing the organisation’s...

Ingeniero Civil por la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, con postgrado en Gerencia de Proyectos bajo modalidad PMI, por la Universidad San Francisco de Quito, y en Seguridad y Salud Ocupacional por el Consejo Colombiano de Seguridad. Cuenta con capacitación en Estados...

Asa Yehoshafat, an urban planner (MA), graduated from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.Asa acquired extensive professional experience in transportation infrastructure design, while he was in charge of several projects at Netivei Israel National Transport Infrastructure Company, a government...

B.C. Yen holds an MA in civil engineering from the University of Texas and a BA in civil engineering from National Cheng Kung University. With over 40 years’ experience in the transportation industry, he is one of a few transportation professionals in Taiwan to have held executive positions both at ...

As the Building Information Modelling (BIM) Strategy Manager at HS2, Sonia is responsible for the strategic and consistent implementation of BIM across the programme with a view to increase efficiency through design, construction, testing, operations and maintenance. Through digital disruption and...

Yves Zischek is Program Manager of SmartRail 4.0 for the digitalization of train services in Switzerland. He has been working at SBB (Swiss Railway Services) since 2013, formerly as Head of Telecommunication in the Infrastructure Department. Yves holds a master's degree in Business...