Sergio Barcena, Director of Operations Planning and Maintenance in Ouigo Spain has long experience in high speed trains operations and maintenance across Europe. After graduation in Aeronautics Engineer, Sergio initiated his professional experience in the energy sector as power generation...

Israel is a critical infrastructure cybersecurity expert with nearly two decades of experience. During his professional career, he was an officer in the Israeli Ministry of Defense, responsible for securing the country's national resources and infrastructure. Later, he became Israel...

Born in 1979, Diego holds a degree in Public Relations. He gained experience in consulting firms with specific focus on language simplification of public utility communication for local administrations, public service companies and banks. He worked on the social media & reputation strategy of...

Jason is the Head of Environment at Govia Thameslink Railway where he takes the strategic lead in directing GTR on environmental issues including the continued development, management, and improvement of the company’s environment strategy. Jason has worked in the rail industry for almost a...

Mr. CF Chan, Assistant Director/Railways, Electrical and Mechanical Services Department, Hong Kong SAR Government Mr. CF Chan is the head of the railway safety regulator in Hong Kong responsible for technical assessment of new railway lines, promotion of railway safety, and regulating the safety...

David Choda: Principal Engineer Telecoms, Technical Authority, Network Rail David has +20 years rail and telecommunication Industry experience. Since joining Network Rail in 2015, David was responsible for the Telecommunication Network Architecture team that owned the drive & delivery toward...

Irene Cid is Dean of COIIPA and expert in Cybersecurity. Her last years have been spent in teaching creation, operation, and testing secure computer systems while also working on forensic, digital evidence, and technical law reports. With a solid background as Computer Engineer in international and ...

Christian holds a degree in Law from the Universidad del Zulia (Venezuela) and a Master in Insurance and Risk Management from the Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca (Spain). Christian has 15 years of experience in the insurance industry in companies such as Telefónica and XL Insurance, where he...

Ilse lives in the Netherlands and is mother of two boys, Jelle and Siem. She is driven/passionate to pass on the earth to them in a better, more sustainable and beautiful way. Ilse has been working on making the rail sector more sustainable for over 10 years at Dutch Railways (NS). She started as a ...

Joseba A. Delgado holds a degree in Industrial Organization Engineering and a Masters in Commercial Management & Marketing. Joseba A. Delgado has developed his career mainly in consulting, helping companies to be more productive. He has 14 years of experience in advanced manufacturing, Industry ...

Sébastien Denis, Senior Programme Manager, Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking Sébastien Denis joined Europe’s Rail JU in 2018 and is currently working as Senior Programme Manager, in charge of Flagship Project 3 - Intelligent & Integrated asset management, and Flagship Project 4 - sustainable and ...

Begoña Domingo Ortuño, Project Officer, ERA (EU Agency for Railways) Begoña Domingo is part of the ERTMS Unit in the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) since 2011, focusing on the radio matters, in the Change Control Management process and supporting various Working Parties. She holds a...

Simon Fletcher has been a railway professional since 1977 and has a vast array of practical and strategic experience in operational, safety and standardisation topics in local, regional, national and international positions. This has included 10 years at Eurostar from conception to inception of the ...

Mark is the Global Train Networks Director for Westermo, which he joined at the start of 2020.  Alongside a technical team and global rail experts, Mark is responsible for global rail strategy driving sales and marketing, shaping the future of rail networking technology.  With a background is...

Barbara Grau is the Head of European and International Affairs in the Corporate Human Resources Department of SNCF since 2011. She represents SNCF in several European and international bodies: in the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (HRD Group), the European Sectoral...

Wayne is the chairman of Societal Security Management Committee and Workgroup Leader for CEN-ELEC 391 Working Group 3 (Civil Protection/Crisis Management). He is panel member on CEN-ELEC TC391 CBRNE Working Group 2 exploring novel and emerging pathogenic risks. He works with UK Government (DEFRA)...

Over his career, Marc Hoffmann has been involved in all aspects of the passenger train business. After gaining a degree in Electrical Engineering in Zurich, he started his professional life in the rolling stock industry, working for Adtranz in Zurich, Switzerland, first in commissioning, then in...

Heidi has worked for the past 17 years in Iarnród Éireann has an Environmental Officer and now acting in the role of Sustainability and Environmental Manager for Operations. She has a leading role in several Sustainability Working Groups that address social and economic as well as environmental...

He started his career in the railway sector in ADIF in 2010 and has now over 12 years of experience in different positions related to Operations, Research and Innovation, Regulation and TSIs. He has been involved in the development and implementation of different EU and international projects, such ...

Karina Jacobsen is a senior mechanical engineer working for the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, a research center under the U.S. Department of Transportation. With over 20 years of experience in the field of train crashworthiness, her roles include conducting accident investigations...

After studying Aerospace Engineering in Stuttgart and a PhD in Toulouse, Felix Jaegle joined Bosch Research in 2012. After pioneering new methods to simulate complex flow phenomena, he started to venture into new business opportunities in innovative mobility systems. Today, he is product owner and...

Bob has worked in R&D for ETCS and CBTC signalling for over 20 years with Siemens, Alcatel and Matra. He has over 10 years’ experience paving the way for digitisation of signalling systems and automated information exchange, initially with railML and for the past four years for EULYNX’s Data...

Simon is the Chief Executive of the Global Centre of Rail Excellence, the UK’s first purpose built rail test and research facility that aims to accelerate innovation, improve reliability and drive efficiency for the entire rail industry.Until recently Simon was Director for Economic Infrastructure...

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...

Born in Cagliari on 5 May 1977, married with two children, Gianbattista La Rocca graduated in Engineering from La Sapienza University, Rome in 2003.He is currently CEO and General Manager in Italo - Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori SpA. Since May 2023 he has also been President of Itabus, a...

Have been working on railway signalling for more than 10 years. Past ten years for the Finnish railway infrastructure manager as a project manager in the Investments division. Main focus at the moment is to lead Finnish railways to digital era starting from radio based ETCS implementation and...

Amir Levintal CEO, CylusAmir Levintal is the CEO and co-founder of Cylus, which provides cybersecurity solutions for the rail industry. Prior to co-founding Cylus, Amir served as the Director of the Cyber R&D Division of the Israel Defense Force’s Elite Technological Unit. With over twenty...

Mr. Gentian Liko is the Administrator of the Albanian Railways Sh.a. since April 2022. He has a long international experience in project management with solid professional achievements in the field of construction and infrastructure.Mr. Liko completed his higher studies in Istanbul and graduated in ...

Daniel Lopour is Market development Officer responsible within the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) for managing activities regarding EU Space services introduction in land transport. In this area, Daniel is also managing multinational research and development projects funded...

Léa Loucas is a French-Lebanese Architect and BIM Manager.She grew up in Lebanon, where she graduated in 2017 from the prestigious architecture school “Académie Libanaise des Beaux Arts” (ALBA). She got her master’s degree with distinction and received several awards for her graduation...

I have worked in Bane NOR as BIM manager since 2014, and before that I have 25 year experience with infrastructure inter discipline design and software training. In my current job I have discipline responsibility for BIM and geomatics in Bane NOR and lead a department with 23 employees. I am...

Toufic Machnouk is Director, Industry Partnership for Digital Railway where he is leading a pioneering cross-industry partnership to create and deliver the next generation railway enabled through digital train control technology. This represents a once in a generation modernisation of the railways ...

From 1999 Stefano Marcoccio has worked in the Control & Automation field, configuring and carrying out the implementation of numerous Automatic Process Control Systems in chemical plants. He has been employed in RFI S.p.A since 2003 and is currently a Project Manager in the ERTMS Unit. His...

Training and Development Director at Infraestruturas de Portugal – IP (public company responsible for railways and road infrastructure management). Has 30 years of professional experience in HR management positions in public and private companies. He’s teaching organizational psychology, human...

Andrew Murphy is Head of Sustainability at Eurostar Group since December 2022, leading the Group’s efforts to be the backbone of sustainable travel in Europe. Prior to joining Eurostar, he worked for over eight years on EU climate and energy policies for multiple NGOs in Brussels, with a focus on...

Léa Paties joined Europe’s Rail in March 2017 and oversees the Flagship projects dedicated to Network management planning & control and Digital & Automated up to Autonomous Train Operations.Between 2010 and 2017, she was Project Manager at UNIFE where she was first involved in the...

Alfredo Peinado Gonzalo was born in Ciudad Real, Spain, in 1994. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in the fields of mechanical and industrial engineering from the Universidad de Castilla-la Mancha, Spain. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering with the Birmingham...

I am a Spanish engineer with a passion for efficient and sustainable transportation. After completing my Civil Engineering studies, I pursued further knowledge in transport and embarked on an international career in Denmark. I hold a degree Master's degree in Transport and Logistics from DTU...

Tom Remberg (CISO at Bane NOR) has 25 years experience with IT and security leadership, both as a consultant as well as the last 10 years in different line roles with security strategy, governance and as CISO. Through his responsibilities, he set the global requirements, drive the strategic...

Michel Ruesen is the Managing Director of the ERTMS Users Group since 2010. He is active in the Railway business since 2003, when he joined the Dutch Infrastructure manager ProRail as a deputy director of Maintenance and Asset Management. While working for ProRail, he was the President of the ERTMS ...

Sonja studied Business Administration in Frankfurt / Main, Berlin and Copenhagen. During her Bachelor and subsequent Master, she specialized in Finance & Accounting and International Management, with an additional focus on Transportation Economics. In 2014 she started working for DB Cargo AG as ...

10/2007 - 09/2010        University studies: Project Engineering, DBHW Mannheim, Germany 02/2014 - 08/2016        University studies: Alternative drive systems in rolling stock engineering, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, GermanySince 07/2022                Head of Climate Protection and...

Mr. Ralf-Charley Schultze is 57 years old and lives in Germany with his family, after moving from Vienna. Before going to Austria, he was responsible during five years within the freight department of the Swiss railways (SBB Cargo) for the combined traffic, the automotive business and the partner...

Transformation lover, Gediminas Šečkus is the FREE Rail Program Manager at LTG (Lithuanian Railways) with responsibility to shift and integrate Lithuanian Railways in the European railways system in terms of regulation, technologies, and IT solutions. Beginning as a junior legal advisor at the...

Oliver Sellnick is VP European Corridors and Cooperations of DB Netz AG covering also political relations at European level. He started at DB Netz AG as VP Corporate Development and Strategy. Before, he was part of the management team at UIC International Union of Railways in Paris as Director...

Fabio Senesi graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1991 and obtained a PhD in Applied Electromagnetism from Rome University ‘La Sapienza’. In 1994, he started work at Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) covering many roles in technical management to develop and deploy innovative signalling and...

Melissa Shurland is a Research Program Manager in the Office of Research, Development & Technology at the USDOT Federal Railroad Administration (FRA).  Melissa is part of the Rolling Stock Research Division, and she manages the Rail Energy, Emissions & Engine Technology Research portfolio.  ...

Nicola Small has been working for Local Government in the transport sector since 2003, starting out in the field of Sustainable Transport and moving to infrastructure delivery in later years. Nicola has a track record of delivering soft measures as well as large infrastructure schemes. In October...

Adam Swallow is an experienced Police officer with 15 years in law enforcement with the British Transport Police, Guardians of the Railway. Having worked in operational response teams, neighbourhood policing, stakeholder management, and most recently in the disruption & drones department, Adam...

Pierre Tane is Head of Digital Modelling at UIC, notably coordinating efforts on RSM (Railway System Model) and OntoRail (Ontology for Rail). He held various positions spanning standards, customer solutions and architecture in Nortel Networks, Kapsch CarrierCom and Kontron working on wireless...

Richard Thorp Director of Engineering & Sustainability High Speed 1 Ltd (HS1)Richard is a Chartered Engineer, with over 25 years’ experience in delivering and developing asset management capabilities for both UK main-line and high-speed railways. Responsible for providing client leadership to...

Economista, con amplia experiencia y un largo recorrido en finanzas y control de gestión. Desde 2021 es la Chief Financial Officer del Grupo Renfe. Ha sido directora financiera en diversas empresas privadas y públicas. En el sector público ha tenido responsabilidades de dirección...

Senior manager of East Japan Railway Company Paris office, in charge of the standardization issues of rolling stockAlso belongs to Rolling Stock & Energy, Railway System department, International union of railways(UIC) Area of expertise: Operations/maintenance of commuter train Education : ...

Tamo Vahemets, chairman of the board at Operation Lifesaver Estonia, has been active in the railway sector since 1995 and was in the period of 1995-2013 responsible for security in Estonian Railways Ltd. In 2004, he was the initiator of establishing Operation Lifesaver Estonia, a non-profit...

Kurt Van Ruyskensvelde specializes in automation and digital strategy from an operational point of view. He has been working on several types of strategic industrial integration projects in public transport since the mid-aughts. As from 2021 he joined Infrabel, that builds, operates and maintains...

Dimitri joined NS (Dutch Railways) in 2021 as their Chief Information Security Officer. He has been in the field for 3 decades as CIO, CTO and CISO. His responsibilities span cybersecurity matters on governance, mobilitychains, IT-, IoT- and OT strategy and European Railway Cyber Projects. Next to...

Raúl is a Mechanical Engineer from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. He began his professional career in 1988 in the design of industrial installations in TEICE. With more than 25 years of underwriting experience, Raúl brings a wealth of expertise and more than 12 years of successful...

Cross River Rail is a new underground line being constructed under the city of Brisbane in Australia and in total will deliver 15 new stations as well as the installation of a new ETCS Level 2 world class signalling system. Russ Vine is the General Manager for Communications & Engagement at...

Studied economics at the University of Passau and Eberhard Karls University of TübingenCEO DB Cargo Scandinavia since 2021 in Copenhagen, DemarkWorking with Arriva UK Trains from 2016 – 2020 as Customer Projects Director Digital ServicesWorking for Deutsche Bahn AG since 1993A dynamic leader and...

Matej Zakonjšek is an experienced government and private-sector leader dedicated to supporting the integration of Western Balkans’ transport markets into the European Union. He began his career as a diplomatic attaché at the permanent representation of Slovenia to the European Union, focusing on...

Maria Antonietta Zocco is the Technical Director at Mercitalia Intermodal (FS Group). She has over 17 years’ experience in Railways sector after 10 years in  Logistics and Supply Chain. Marianto is also the Head of Wagons Fleet at Mercitalia Logistics, the Logistic Business Unit of FS Group. Her...

A mechanical engineer with more than 15 years of experience in railway, Angel heads up KONUX activities in Spain. He is driven by the vision to support Infrastructure Managers in transforming their operations using AI. Angel prioritizes helping customers achieve their goals through high added value ...