2019 Speakers

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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 ...

Mauricio Anderson Salazar Gerente General - EPMMQ Preside Metro de Quito desde 2014, donde lidera los equipos técnicos, legales y socio-ambientales, que llevan adelante la construcción de la Primera Línea de Metro de Quito. Este el primer proyecto de infraestructura ferroviaria financiado por...

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 ...

Israel Baron, the current CISO of Israel Railways Ltd. served for 9 years in the Israeli Ministry of Defense at the DSDE (Director of Security of the Defense Establishment) as a Technology & Information security officer and acted as the regulator for the Israeli Defense Industries. In his...

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Corey is an attorney and policy wonk focusing on emerging technology transportation solutions. He joined Lyft in 2017 as a Transportation Policy Manager, working with government officials and other stakeholders to develop policies and promote Lyft's vision for the future of...

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...

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...

Juan José Gainza has over ten years experience in Sales and Marketing supported by a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from The University of North Carolina in Charlotte, USA. He has spent many of those years in Product Development living abroad and working on a global scale

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...

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...

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...

Piia Karjalainen is currently working as Senior Manager for MaaS Alliance at ERTICO – ITS Europe. She is based in Brussels. Previously she has been working for the European Parliament and the Finnish Ministry of Transport & Communications. She has been working her whole career in different...

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...

On January, 16, 2018, the Board of Directors selected Brian P. Kelly as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the California High-Speed Rail Authority.  He comes to the Authority with a wealth of experience in transportation.  Kelly served as the first secretary of the new California State...

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...

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...

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 developement projects in the Netherlands, food services developements on stations in France, Belgium and the UK, bike-sharing developents (OV-fiets) and the management...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

26 years of professional experience: Energy management, Procurement, Supply Chain, Sustainable Development, Engineering, Sales and Marketing in international and large corporations, in France and abroad (including 2 years in Hong Kong).•   Since December 2007 at SNCF (French Railways): currently...

Ms Kirsi Miettinen, Senior Adviser for Legislative Affairs, 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...

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 ...

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...

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.

Korea Railroad Corporation (KORAIL) President and CEO NameOh, Young-sik Education1984                            Yang-chung High School1993                            Korea University, Bachelor’s Degree in Laws2001                            Korea University, MBA in Finance and Economics2010        ...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...