Asia Pacific Rail 2022 kicks off with a series of interviews with C-Level rail operator leaders followed by an interactive panel discussion. Don’t miss these exclusive insights from the region’s most forward-thinking executives.
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Jayaram Naidu / Keynote Presentation: The future of rail in Asia Pacific is digital and green
Jayaram Naidu, Managing Director, Singapore & Malaysia; and Vice President Services, Asia Pacific, Alstom
Jayaram Naidu was appointed the Managing Director for Singapore & Malaysia cluster, and the Vice President for Alstom’s Services product line supporting Asia Pacific region in 2021, following the Group’s merger with Bombardier Transportation (BT). Currently based in Singapore, Jayaram is...
TC Chew / Keynote Rail Leader Interviews
TC Chew, Director, Global Rail Business Leader, Arup
As Arup’s Global Rail Leader, TC leads an international team of rail experts working on all kinds of rail transit systems, including high-speed, metros, light and heavy rail.As an advisor to governments and delivery bodies responsible for major rail projects, TC’s focus is on helping clients to...
Pichet Kunadhamraks, Deputy Director General, Department of Rail Transport, Ministry of Transport
Dr.Pichet started his career and served as a Policy and Planning Analyst with the Ministry of Transport in the Planning Division. His job was operations with respect to national plans, transportation projects and government policies. After graduating doctoral degree in transportation engineering...
Chong Kheng Chua / Keynote Rail Leader Interviews
Chong Kheng Chua, Deputy Chief Executive - Infrastructure And Development, Land Transport Authority
Er. Chua has more than 30 years of experience in urban land transport infrastructure development and management in Singapore. He was amongst the pioneers involved in the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) System projects in Singapore.Er. Chua is currently the Deputy Chief Executive (Infrastructure &...
TC Chew / Keynote Rail Leader Panel - Future of rail: delivering a sustainable, reliable, and integrated transport services
TC Chew, Director, Global Rail Business Leader, Arup
As Arup’s Global Rail Leader, TC leads an international team of rail experts working on all kinds of rail transit systems, including high-speed, metros, light and heavy rail.As an advisor to governments and delivery bodies responsible for major rail projects, TC’s focus is on helping clients to...
Pichet Kunadhamraks / Keynote Rail Leader Panel - Future of rail: delivering a sustainable, reliable, and integrated transport services
Pichet Kunadhamraks, Deputy Director General, Department of Rail Transport, Ministry of Transport
Dr.Pichet started his career and served as a Policy and Planning Analyst with the Ministry of Transport in the Planning Division. His job was operations with respect to national plans, transportation projects and government policies. After graduating doctoral degree in transportation engineering...
Chong Kheng Chua / Keynote Rail Leader Panel - Future of rail: delivering a sustainable, reliable, and integrated transport services
Chong Kheng Chua, Deputy Chief Executive - Infrastructure And Development, Land Transport Authority
Er. Chua has more than 30 years of experience in urban land transport infrastructure development and management in Singapore. He was amongst the pioneers involved in the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) System projects in Singapore.Er. Chua is currently the Deputy Chief Executive (Infrastructure &...
Sukhy Barhey / Digital Rail Track Chairperson
Sukhy Barhey, Managing Director, Barhey International Limited
Dr. Sukhy Barhey is an experienced safety and risk management specialist. With over 30 years of global experience on rail projects and with operators throughout Asia, Europe, and the US. Hehas been involved in addressing risk and safety management, system safety, and Asset management involving the ...
Ekkarut Viyanit, Principal Researcher & Director, National Science And Technology Development Agency
Currently a principal researcher and serving as a director of Rail and Modern Transports Research Center (RMT), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Thailand. He was a research associate at Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin, Germany during...
Sebastian Gintschel / Signalling & Communication Track Chairperson
Sebastian Gintschel, System Integration Manager, WSP
Born in Bamberg Germany.Moved to Thailand when I was 16Bachelor in Mech. Eng. from Thammasart Uni.Master in Eng. from Mahidol Uni.Worked for WSP for the last 10 years and presently the WSP Manager for the MRTA Yellow Line
Tayakorn Chandrangsu / Thailand Signalling & Communication Safety Standard
Tayakorn Chandrangsu, Acting Director of Safety and Maintenance Standards Division, Department of Rail Transport
Education: PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Sydney Career History: Current - Acting Director of Safety and Maintenance Standards Division in Department of Rail Transport Past - Head of Building Code Research and Development Center in Department of Public Works and Town and Country...
Pannaphat Somwang / Thailand Signalling & Communication Safety Standard
Pannaphat Somwang, Electrical Engineer, Department of Rail Transport
Currently is the elecrical engineer in Department of Rail Transport, having M. Eng. in Electrical Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, between 2011 – 2014 worked as a electrical engineer at Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand
Lena Harnisch / How to protect your driverless operations system connected in the future with 5G
Lena Harnisch, Product Manager Cybersecurity Solutions, Siemens Mobility
Lena is the productmanager for cybersecurity solutions at Siemens Mobility, Mass Transit in Germany. She ensures the cybersecurity portfolio is state of the art and allows the best possible solution for clients around the world. She spent the last 3 years in London testing and integrating the...
Michael Mcgowan / Panel: Achieving operational excellence – best practices and challenges
Michael Mcgowan, Director, Australasia Region Transport Leader, Arup Singapore Pte Ltd
Michael McGowan leads Arup’s Transport business across Australasia, delivering integrated transport solutions for public and private sector clients. Michael brings an established track record in the rail industry and is passionate about helping regulators and operators maximise the railway...
Henri Pottier / Panel: Achieving operational excellence – best practices and challenges
Henri Pottier, Vice President Asia-Pacific, RATP Dev Asia-Pacific
Henri Pottier is Vice-President Asia Pacific for RATP Dev since July 2019. He has joined RATP Dev in 2014 as Deputy Director of the Business Unit Asia-Middle East and North Africa and was later in charge of the performance of the metro line 9 of Seoul (600,000 daily passengers) from 2017 to...
Boon Cheow Yee / Panel: Achieving operational excellence – best practices and challenges
Boon Cheow Yee, Group Director, Rail (E&M), Land Transport Authority
Boon Cheow is a railway professional with more than 23 years of experience. He has been involved in the project management and implementation of various rail projects since 1999:Completed projects:(a) Bukit Panjang LRT (completed in 1999)(b) Circle Line (completed in 2009-2012)(c) Marina...
Muhammad Effendi / Panel: Achieving operational excellence – best practices and challenges
Muhammad Effendi, Operation and Maintenance Director, PT MRT Jakarta
Muhammad Effendi, Operation and Maintenance Director of MRT Jakarta, has more than 30 years' experience in various industries such as, Railway Operation and Maintenance Railway Construction, Underground Tunnel and Station Project for Railway, Mega Oil & Gas Offshore/Onshore for both...
Chatuporn Wanichsooksombat / Passenger Flow in stations: innovation through digitalization
Chatuporn Wanichsooksombat, Operations Director, KONE
2 years KONE Thailand as Director, Delivery Operations responsible for Engineering, Customer Solutions, Technical Field Support, Technical training, Site Survey, Project Execution, Contract Management, Installation works, Test and commissioning, Tools & Equipment and logistics.11 years “Emerson ...
Paul Pafumi / Digital Innovation at Metro Trains Melbourne
Paul Pafumi, General Manager Innovation, Metro Trains Melbourne
Paul Pafumi has headed up the Innovation stream at Metro Trains Melbourne (MTM) for three years, assessing and championing new ways of supporting service and performance efficiencies, enhancing safety, and improving passenger experience. For two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has shaped how these ...
Philippe Mercier / Globalising and localising innovation to shape the future of rail travel
Philippe Mercier, Innovation Station Manager, Singapore, Alstom
Philippe Mercier is the Singapore Innovation Station Manager within the Asia Pacific region of Alstom, effective November 2021. He is responsible for implementing the Group’s first Station, paving the way for scaling up mobility innovation around the world. Through such Stations, he promotes...
Jaydeep Pawar / Digital Asset Management of rail systems with RCM Predictive Maintenance Solution in Indian Railways for Signalling assets
Jaydeep Pawar, Chief Signal Engineer, Indian Railways
In charge of Maintaining Signal and Telecom gears. Planning for procurement and installation of EI /PI Systems as well as Railway Communication Systems and doing Network Modernisation
John Lim / Leveraging Data Analytics to Improve System Reliability
John Lim, Lead for System Engineering (Signalling), SBS Transit
John began his career in SBS Transit's Rolling Stock maintenance and overhaul team and was eventually rotated to the Signalling department. Having 4 years of experience both in Rolling Stock and Signalling, he was eventually placed in a strategic role within a new division called Rail...
Kiattiphoom Cammona / SmartLi UPS: Digitizing Your Power
Mr. Kiattiphoom Cammona is Advisory Product Manager of Huawei Asia Pacific Digital Power Data Center Power Business Development Department. He is responsible for solution, technical and ecosystem cooperation of Huawei Data Center products, especially UPS system he has experience more than 9 years...
Ben Guy / 3D Planning for Rail - improving safety, efficiency, quality and culture
Ben Guy, Chief Executive Officer, Urban Circus 3d planning
Dr Ben Guy has set up a company to support complex integration projects in the built environment. This company has been operating successfully in Australia and globally for 20 years, using 3D technologies and services to help clients
TC Chew / Decarbonising rail: Is net zero by 2050 achievable?
TC Chew, Director, Global Rail Business Leader, Arup
As Arup’s Global Rail Leader, TC leads an international team of rail experts working on all kinds of rail transit systems, including high-speed, metros, light and heavy rail.As an advisor to governments and delivery bodies responsible for major rail projects, TC’s focus is on helping clients to...
Reuben Lamack / Design, Construction and Maintainability of Trackwork for a Mass Rapid Transit System
Reuben Lamack, Director, JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP MALAYSIA
Reuben is a Chartered Engineer with over 32 years’ experience in rail and underground work. He specializes in design and construction of Mass Rapid Transit, Light Rail Transit, High Speed Rail, Heavy Rail and Tunnel projects from concept to close out. He is a Director with Jacobs...
David Beach / From Driverless to Self-Driving: Recent Developments in Rail Autonomy
David Beach, Product Line Architect, Research and Technology, Thales
David earned his Master of Applied Science from the University of Toronto, and spent over a decade working on computer vision systems for space applications, including robotic planetary mining, on-orbit damage inspection, and automated rendezvous and docking. He has been with Thales, in...
Sri Viknesh / Sustainable rail: how to utilise rail systems, technology and collaboration for a net zero future
Sri Viknesh, Associate - Rail Systems, Arup
Ir. Sri Viknesh is a Malaysian railway professional with more than 15 years experience on local rail projects. He has been involved in various rail transit systems in Malaysia throughout his career and has extensive participation in several key rail project developments within the nation. He is ...
Robert Bell / An innovative approach to improving productivity of track repair and replacement
Robert Bell, International Technical Sales Manager Plant and Equipment, Unipart Rail
Professional Mechanical Engineer with over 20 years experience of working in the Rail Industry on a Global Scale. Specialising in Infrastructure on track repair, Installation and Removal, Rob has extensive knowledge of Plant Machinery, both Civils and Rail based plant equipment. With an innovative...
Mike Collins / Keynote panel discussion: Towards Net Zero Rail
Mike Collins, Head of Infrastructure APAC, DIT
Mike Collins – leads the DIT Infrastructure Sector across Asia Pacific, he is an experienced sales and strategy expert with deep knowledge of construction and infrastructure gained from 20-years of international projects in Middle East and Africa, more recently working with Government and...
David Munt / Keynote panel discussion: Towards Net Zero Rail
David Munt, Business Development Director, Ricardo Rail
Has worked within the rail industry for 24 years. Having started in the UK with Balfour Beatty Rail I moved to Singapore in 2006 and spent a number of years with Balfour Beatty - Gammon JV on various infastructure projects in Singapore. In total I spent 14 years as a project manager with the...
Ouk Sota / Keynote panel discussion: Towards Net Zero Rail
Ouk Sota, Deputy Director Of Railways, Ministry of Public Works and Transport, Railways Department
Ouk Sota is the Deputy Director of Railway Department, Ministry of Public Works and Transport, Kingdom of Cambodia. He has been involved with many road and railway construction/rehabilitation/improvement projects in Cambodia, including Feasibility Study, Detailed Design, Constructionand Operation...
Tony Canavan / Keynote panel discussion: Towards Net Zero Rail
Tony Canavan, Global Transport Leader, EY
Tony is the Global Transport Leader for EY, giving him insight into the initiatives, challenges and opportunities being pursued by transport agencies the world over. He brings more than 35 years experience in transport, having held leadership positions in large infrastructure...
Gavin Steele / Keynote panel discussion: Towards Net Zero Rail
Gavin Steele, Director of Infrastructure, Asia, Turner & Townsend
Gavin Steele leads Turner & Townsend's Infrastructure team across Asia. Turner & Townsend are an independent professional services company specialising in programme management, project management, cost and commercial management and consulting across infrastructure and the built...
Devni Acharya / Keynote panel discussion: Towards Net Zero Rail
Devni Acharya, APAC Climate Services and Sustainability Adviser, Arup
Devni is a leading force for climate services and sustainability across Asia Pacific. She has wide-ranging experience advising infrastructure clients, property developers and cities on how they can incorporate and benefit from adopting climate strategies to meet their triple bottom line...
Pablo Rocha / Benefits of PMR outdoor Base Stations in Rail Environments
Pablo Rocha, Regional Sales and Global Transportation Director, Damm Cellular
Pablo Rocha is a Telecommunication Engineer holding a Master's Degree in Technology Services Management for Public Transport, and he is now leading the Global Transportation Market activities at DAMM Cellular System A/S. Throughout his career, he has been consistently involved in projects...
Daniele Coldebella / Successfully transitioning to a digital railway
Daniele Coldebella, ASIA Systems Engineering Director, Systra
In charge of the ASIA Systems engineering activities. Daniele COLDEBELLA has 20 years of engineering consulting experience in signaling and railway transportation, which he has gained in Italy, France, and Singapore. Daniele joined SYSTRA Group in 2015 as Mainlines System Unit Manager, then as...
Ruengdej Mangkorndejsakul / Thailand's Rail Transport Infrastructure Development Plans
Ruengdej Mangkorndejsakul, Director of Strategic and Planning Division, Department of Rail Transport
Ruengdej Mangkorndejsakul has been working as a Director of Strategy and Planning Division at the Department of Rail Transport (DRT), Ministry of Transport (MOT), Thailand, since 2021. He is responsible for the development of railway transport projects. He has a BE in civil engineering from...
Rudolf Vidacak / ABB in Transportation Rail & Infrastructures - Innovative solutions for Sustainable Mobility
Rudolf Vidacak, Global Rail Industry Marketing & Sales Manager, ABB Electrification
Rudolf is the Global Marketing & Sales Manager for the Transportation Rail Industry Segment in ABB Electrification. Working for over 10 years in the rail industry, supporting companies by providing innovative and energy efficient solutions for rail infrastructure and rolling stock, helping to...
Stephen Rutherford / Driving robust investment decisions through big data insights
Stephen Rutherford, Vice President, Global Director of Transport Planning, Jacobs
Stephen is the Global Director of Transport Planning at Jacobs, responsible for developing and applying thought leadership, innovation and delivering global experience locally. He has over 35 years of experience in transport planning and has worked in more than 40 countries. He was resident in ...
Roland Stadlbauer / From ETCS performance increase to disruptive performance boost
Roland Stadlbauer, Head of Product Policy Train Control / Product Line Manager, Thales
Roland has 19 years experience in the railway signalling industry.He started his career in a research group at the Vienna University of Technology, designing and testing new ETCS components. As Product Line Manager is responsible for ETCS trackside and onboard solutions since 2005. Additionally...
James Crowell / 8 Questions to Ask Before Implementing Your Rail Project Controls Software
James Crowell, Industry Consultant, Hexagon
James is an Industry Consultant for Hexagon, based in Singapore. He has a proven track record of working with leading project delivery companies to eliminate disparate spreadsheets and point solutions in favor of an enterprise project performance system that provides a consistent platform to...
Dr Deepak Tripathi / Industry 4.0 Enabled Rolling Stock and Assets Management: Initiatives of Indian Railways & Konkan Railway
Dr Deepak Tripathi, Chief Mechanical Engineer and Head Traction, Rolling Stock and Projects, Konkan Railway Corporation Limited
An Indian Railway Service (IRSME) officer with three decades of experience in the Railway Industry in Railway Logistics Operations & Maintenance; Manufacturing, Product & Vendor Development, Quality Assurance and Supply Chain Management for Rolling Stocks; Infrastructure & Technology...
Tony Vidago / Panel: Designing, testing and implementing critical control systems of the future
Tony Vidago, Director Global Rail Systems, Arup
Bringing over 40 years of experience, Tony leads Arup’s global train control systems capability. He has deep technical knowledge of the railway operating environment, and the inter-relationship between train controls and operational outcomes; extensive experience of planning, design and...
Yanto Yulianto / Panel: Designing, testing and implementing critical control systems of the future
Yanto Yulianto, Informations System and Technology Division Head, PT MRT Jakarta
More than 20 years Experience in Railway System, involved in the first Indonesia Subway Metro Railway. Specialisation on Project Management and Railways System
Robert Cooke / Panel: Designing, testing and implementing critical control systems of the future
Robert Cooke, Deputy Chief Specialist (Signalling), Land Transport Authority
Robert is a Railway Signalling Engineer with over 30 years of experience. He started his career with London Underground on the Central Line and Jubilee Line Extension projects. At Invensys Rail (now Siemens) he worked on the generic principles of the Distance to Go Radio system now deployed on...
Phuritath Phanitphotjamarn / Panel: Designing, testing and implementing critical control systems of the future
Phuritath Phanitphotjamarn, Division Manager Maintenance & Engineering System, Bangkok Expressway and Metro
Phuritath has 19 years working experiences in Railway M&E System including Communication, Signaling, Rolling Stock, Platform screen Door, SCADA, etc. He has joined Bangkok Expressway and Metro Public Company Limited (BEM) in 2011 and now working in the position of Division manager in the...
Richard Day / Panel: Future proofing rail systems through digitalization
Richard Day, Associate Director, Arup
Richard Day is a railway systems professional with over 35 years' experience at all phases of projects from inception/specification to end user handover more recently working on commissions related to ongoing O&M, upgrades and extensions. Currently based in Bangkok, Thailand, Richard has...
Cyrille Bataille / Panel: Future proofing rail systems through digitalization
Cyrille Bataille, Head of ICS Domain, Integrated Communications and Supervision, Thales
Cyrille Bataille is the Thales Head of Integrated Communications and Supervision Business for Singapore and the Region. Before being appointed in his role in 2018, Cyrille was in charge of Rail Transportation Projects in Asia. Since he joined Thales in 2000, he served several management roles in...
Kitipat Supakleelakul / Panel: Future proofing rail systems through digitalization
Kitipat Supakleelakul, Engineering and Maintenance Director, Bangkok Expressway and Metro
Kitipat is Director Engineering and Maintenance Department of BEM Rail Business in Thailand (Bangkok Expressway and Metro Public Company Limited). He graduated Bachelor degree in Instrument Engineer in 1995 and then obtained his Master degree in Advanced Control System Engineer from UMIST (England) ...
Paul Chua / Presentation: Achieving operational reliability target: LRTA Case Study
Paul Chua, Deputy Administrator For Operations And Engineering, Light Rail Transit Authority
Dr. Paul Chua, a Career Executive Service Officer, was appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte as Deputy Administrator for Operations & Engineering of Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA). Dr. Chua is an advocate of continuous learning both local and foreign. He finished eight (8) Executive...
Boon Yeow Koh, Head of NEL/SPLRT Engineering, SBS Transit Limited
Mr Koh is currently the Head of Engineering for the North East Line (NEL) and the Sengkang Punggol Light Rail Transit (SPLRT) operated by SBS Transit Rail Pte. Ltd. in Singapore. Prior to this appointment, he assumed the Head of Rolling Stock for both lines as well as Head of Signalling and...
Adityo Ariwibowo / LRT Jakarta: Operations Efficiency - pretesting to post operations.
Adityo Ariwibowo, Rolling Stock Maintenance Manager, PT LRT Jakarta
Adityo is a digital transformation and start up enthusiast with seven years of diverse project management, operation, maintenance management, and engineering experience. Adityo is a problem solver with a positive track record of successful project delivery and achieving business goals. Adityo is...
Arezki Touat / Chairperson's opening remarks
Arezki Touat, Senior Vice President, Systra
Arezki has a Civil Engineering background with a specialty in Bridges, and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration.Throughout his 22-year long career at Systra, he managed several transport infrastructure projects including metros, railways, high speed rail and Highways; in...
Sumit Srisantithum / Keynote Presentation: Are we ready for the Post-Covid world?
Sumit Srisantithum, Chief Operating Officer, Bangkok Mass Transit System Public Company Limited (BTS)
Sumit Srisantithum has over 23 years extensive operational experience and managerial skills in all aspects of metro Operations. Currently he is the Chief Operating Officer for BTS SkyTrain. The first mass transit system that provides safe, fast and reliable services for the capital of Thailand with ...
Narelle Rogers / Keynote panel discussion: Operating world leading rail operations in the new normal - what’s next?
Narelle Rogers, ANZ Rail Systems Lead, Jacobs
Narelle has worked in the Australian rail industry for over 15 years. Her career has spanned safety and compliance, operations, and technical and leadership capability building, across consultancy, rail operators and construction. She is the current Jacobs Rail Systems Lead for Australia and...
Toby Tiberghien / Keynote panel discussion: Operating world leading rail operations in the new normal - what’s next?
Toby Tiberghien, Managing Director, East Asia, Alstom
Toby Tiberghien is the Turnkey and Rolling Stock Director for East Asia within the Asia Pacific region of Alstom since 1 April 2021. Currently based in Bangkok, Thailand, he oversees the ongoing implementation of iconic turnkey and rolling stock projects in the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and...
Alvin Gee / Keynote panel discussion: Operating world leading rail operations in the new normal - what’s next?
Alvin Gee, Deputy Managing Director - Administration, Bangkok Expressway and Metro
Alvin Gee is Deputy Managing Director - Administration at Bangkok Expressway & Metro Public Co. Ltd. He previously held the position of Managing Director & Executive Director at Nam Ngum 2 Power Co., Ltd., Managing Director & Executive Director at Southeast Asia Energy Ltd. and Investor ...
Hugues Zarka / Digital Rail Track Chairperson
Hugues Zarka, Asia Pacific Digital Engineering Director, SYSTRA
From of a master's degree in Civil Engineering giving me the sense of rigor and detail, combined to an extensive knowledge and experience in digital business over decades, I propose to organizations, support for defining their business digital vision, strategies and implementation...
Andrea Giuricin / Mainline Track Chairperson
Andrea Giuricin, Chief Executive Officer, TRA Consulting
Adj. Prof. Dr. Andrea Giuricin is CEO of TRA consulting, a strategic consultancy company based in Barcelona and Milan with international customers from Europe, Middle East, Asia, America working with the top management (CEO and President) in the strategic and operational decisions.He is teaching...
Chaisak Srisethanil / Building Thailand’s First Monorail System(s): Project Updates
Chaisak Srisethanil, Chief Executive Officer, BTS Infrastructure Development
Dr. Chaisak Srisethanil is CEO of the consulting and engineering arm of BTS Group – the holing company of the BTS Sky Train. He is also holding position as Project Director for MRT Pink and MRT Yellow Line Monorail Projects in Bangkok. Pink Line (34 Kilometers) and Yellow Line (30 Kilometers) ...
Stéphanie Joudrier, Product Line Manager, Video and Security, Thales
Stéphanie Joudrier joined Thales in 2012 as part of the joint Thales/CEA Visionlab where she led several European and national R&D projects in the field of urban security, public transportation security, video analytics and intelligent sensors. Since 2017 she is Product Line Manager for Video...
Ramdani Akbar / LRT Jakarta Project Update & Partnership Opportunities
Ramdani Akbar, Deputy Project Director of LRT Jakarta, PT LRT Jakarta
As a Professional with extensive background on Construction, Project Management and Railway Industries. Working as Deputy Project Director of LRT Jakarta, experienced on trasportation regulation helps development of urban mass rapid transit especially for greater Jakarta area.
Wesley Wong / Panel: The future of mainline projects in Asia Pacific
Wesley Wong, Head of Sector – Transport, Infrastructure & Built Environment, ESEA & Country Director, Jacobs
Dr Wesley Wong leads Jacobs Transport, Infrastructure and Built Environment Sector in East & South East Asia region and Country Director of Jacobs Malaysia. He has served as Technical Adviser, Project Director, Project Manager and Structural Engineer working in multi-disciplinary projects in...
Ahmad Nizam Mohamed Amin / Panel: The future of mainline projects in Asia Pacific
Ahmad Nizam Mohamed Amin, Chief Technical Officer, KTM Berhad
Ir Ahmad Nizam, graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Washington University in St Louis, USA in 1993. He is a registered Professional Engineer with the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM). Healso holds the Malaysian Advanced Diploma Skills in Electric Train Maintenance. For the last 25...
Nelson Theethayi / Battery traction for emergency recovery in urban metros
Nelson Theethayi, Turnkey and Rolling Stock Director, Singapore & Malaysia, Alstom
Nelson Theethayi is the Turnkey and Rolling Stock Director of Singapore and Malaysia, within the Asia Pacific region of Alstom, effective March 2021. Interfacing with customers, he leads the project and engineering teams across various geographical sites from bid phase to revenue service operations ...
Mathieu Melenchon / Panel: Digitalization in Ticketing
Mathieu Melenchon, System Engineering Manager, Systra
Mathieu has more than 20 years’ experience in railway systems and system engineering, acquired on both contractor and employer side, from the bidding phase to the go live. He has a strong technical background in System Engineering, Safety-related systems, Low Voltage systems, including...
Muhamad Kamaluddin / Panel: Digitalization in Ticketing
Muhamad Kamaluddin, President Director, PT JakLingko Indonesia
Mr. Muhamad Kamaluddin is the president director of PT JakLingko Indonesia, a company that integrates the fare and payment system between four public transportation modes plus other private transportation modes in greater Jakarta with more than 30 Million population. JakLingko is building an...
Jean-Guy Ravel / Panel: Digitalization in Ticketing
Jean-Guy Ravel, Director Strategy and Marketing, Thales
Jean-Guy RAVEL was born in France and currently leaves in Paris, France with his family. He holds a degree in Physics and graduated in Engineering in “Ecole Nationale de Physqique de Strasbourg”. He started his career as Engineering Consultant working in several technology companies in domains...
Sara Cheung / Panel: Digitalization in Ticketing
Sara Cheung, Managing Director, Asia era one
Over 30 years of experience in railway (metro, light rail, high speed rail, maglev, monorail, etc), has worked in many countries including HK, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Japan, UAE, Saudi Arabia, etc. Experience including operations and maintenance...
Anand Singh Bisht / Upcoming Projects and Special Initiatives by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation
A Postgarduate in Structural Engg with 32 years of experience in Planning, Construction and Design of Major Projects out of which 16 years is in Metro Construction in Delhi. Involved in Planning and Execution of 44 km Elevated corridor and 27 km of Underground corridor in Delhi Metro Rail...
Yuji Sakamoto / Solutions for Urban Transport by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group
Yuji Sakamoto, Senior Business Manager, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd.
Mr. Sakamoto is acting as Senior Business Manager in Thailand Red Line Project from 2016 to present. He has 20 years’ experience in the Land Transportation Systems and Chemical Plant industry.
He started his career in Mitsubishi Heavy Industries since 2002, mainly engaged in export of business...
Siv Bhamra / Managing Upgrades of Major Railways
Siv Bhamra, Principal Vice President & Global Rail Lead, Bechtel
Siv Bhamra is the global Rail lead for Bechtel. In this role, Siv is for the company’s global strategy on Rail, oversight and support to clients, current Rail projects and future prospect pursuits. Managing the acquisition and deployment of Rail subject matter talent and provision of expert support ...
Walaiporn Leelawannee / Integrating expertise for enhanced mobility
Walaiporn Leelawannee, Bangkok Engineering Techno Centre Director, Alstom
Walaiporn Leelawannee was appointed the Bangkok Engineering Techno Centre Director for Thailand in January 2021, following the Group’s merger with Bombardier Transportation (BT). She is responsible for the core technology development of both mainline and mass transit signalling product and...
David Moran / Everything connected: how to realise the value of digital twins in rail
David Moran, Director, Advanced Digital Engineering – Strategy and Advisory, Arup
David leads the technology strategy and architecture practice at Arup in the United Kingdom. He has a successful track record leading agile consulting teams and delivering large, complex digital transformation programmes. He is also the digital rail advisory leader, accountable for the performance...
Dr Harm Hauke Ross / Innovative financing options for mainline rail and public transport projects
Dr Harm Hauke Ross, Director - Aviation, Mobility & Transport, KfW IPEX-Bank
18 years of banking experience with a focus on asset, project & export finance deals across Europe, Asia and Africa. Currently responsible for originating financing opportunities in the aviation, mobility & transport sector throughout the APAC region.
Christophe Bardoul / Rail features: Connect Before Break Technology
Christophe Bardoul, Sales Director, Acksys
Sales and Marketing Director at ACKSYS Communications & Systems, based in Paris area, France. Started as a technical engineer in telecommunications. Lived and worked in the USA for several years. Customer oriented, Mr. BARDOUL moved from a technical role to sales positions. Passionate by...
James Crowell / Digitally Transform Your Rail Project Lifecycle Management
James Crowell, Industry Consultant, Hexagon
James is an Industry Consultant for Hexagon, based in Singapore. He has a proven track record of working with leading project delivery companies to eliminate disparate spreadsheets and point solutions in favor of an enterprise project performance system that provides a consistent platform to...
Eyal Milner / RADWIN: Broadband Connectivity Solutions for Trains
Eyal Milner, Business Development Manager, RADWIN
I'm leading the Business Development for the Transportation segment in RADWIN, addressing broadband wireless solutions for rail, metro, mining and other critical infrastructure.Having close to 20 years of experience in the communication segment, in both technical and business...
Timothy John Batan / Keynote presentation: Philippines railway pipeline : Update on current projects
Timothy John Batan, Undersecretary for Railways, Department of Transportation
Undersecretary TJ Batan has been working in the Philippine transportation department for seven years, first as a Planning Officer in 2015 working on several maritime, airport development, port modernization, and other mass transit projects until he was eventually appointed as an Assistant...
Jeffrey Sim / Keynote presentation: Reliability & Digitalization Journey of SBS Transit Rail
Jeffrey Sim, Chief Executive Officer (Rail), SBS Transit Limited
Mr Jeffrey Sim is currently the Chief Executive Officer of SBS Transit Rail Pte Ltd, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of SBS Transit that operates the rail business.Mr Sim is a Chartered Engineer and sits on the Board of the Singapore Rail Academy. He is also an Industry Advisory Committee member ...
Sara Cheung / Keynote presentation: Customer service touch points for airport railway
Sara Cheung, Managing Director, Asia era one
Over 30 years of experience in railway (metro, light rail, high speed rail, maglev, monorail, etc), has worked in many countries including HK, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Japan, UAE, Saudi Arabia, etc. Experience including operations and maintenance...
Patrick Desforges / Project Updates Track Chairperson
Patrick Desforges, Business Development Director Asia, Systra
Patrick Desforges has a Msc. in Civil Engineering and is certified as PMP®. Through his different assignments on major projects in France, Middle-East and Asia, Patrick Desforges gained an extensive experience on large multidisciplinary infrastructure Projects development for various industries: ...
Ranganathan Raman / Chennai Metro Rail Phase 2 Project Update
Ranganathan Raman, General Manager, Chennai Metro Rail Limited
Completed my Bachelors degree from Anna University. Worked in Private sector for 37 years. Handled all positions excluding the Designs. Many land mark bridges were completed in my time when I was an Operations head. Some of the bridges are Narmada extradosed bridge at Gujarat, Cable statyed...
Andrew Went / Enduring lessons: maximising whole life cycle value for future high speed railway
Andrew Went, Director, Global High-Speed Railway Leader and Rail Business Leader, UK, India, Middle East and Africa, Arup
Andrew has over 30 years’ experience within transport and civil engineering with a specific focus on the maintenance and renewal of rail assets and the technical delivery of strategic major rail investment. At Arup, Andrew leads the global high speed rail business and is also the regional rail...
Jakub Cunat / Rail Cybersecurity
Jakub Cunat, Cybersecurity Consultant, Aviation & Rail, Egis
Jakub is an aviation & rail cybersecurity expert with extensive experience in security risk management and assessment, security policies and standards, system security architectures and implementations, and the application of cybersecurity best practices in critical operational...
Mark Miller / Rail Projects Victoria Project Update
Mark Miller, Deputy Director Strategic Operations, Rail Projects Victoria
A civil engineer with 36 years experience with the last 21 years associated rail infrastructure and major rail project planning, development and delivery in Victoria. Mark has experience in all stages of the project life cycle and with rail operators, major contractors and the government transport...
Sumet Ongkittikul / Digitalization in Thailand's rail ticketing
Sumet Ongkittikul, Research Director for Transportation & Logistics Policy, Thailand Research Development Institute
Sumet Ongkittikul is a research director for transportation and logistics policy at the Thailand Development Research Institute. He holds a PhD in Social Sciences (Transport Studies) from Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His main research interests are in the fields of transport...
Leo Mak / Managing HSR Project – opportunities & challenges for a PPP Project
Leo Mak, High Speed Rail Project Director, Asia Era One Co. Ltd.
Mr. Leo Mak is the Project Director of the Asia Era One Co. Ltd. of Thailand for the project of the High Speed Rail connecting the three international airports of Thailand. Leo is a Chartered Engineer holding master degrees of Engineering as well as Business Administration from the University...
Ir Mohd Azha Abu Samah PMP / Project Management of Rail Projects in Prasarana Malaysia Berhad
Ir Mohd Azha Abu Samah PMP, Executive Vice President, PRASARANA MALAYSIA BERHAD
Ir. Mohd Azha Abu Samah received his Bachelor in Electromechanical Engineering (Power Electrical) from the Free University of Brussels, Belgium (1991) and has Master of ProjectManagement (MPM) from the Open University Malaysia (2015). He began his engineering career with Engineering Consultancy in...
Andrea Giuricin / HSR: business cases for success stories in Asia Pacific
Andrea Giuricin, Chief Executive Officer, TRA Consulting
Adj. Prof. Dr. Andrea Giuricin is CEO of TRA consulting, a strategic consultancy company based in Barcelona and Milan with international customers from Europe, Middle East, Asia, America working with the top management (CEO and President) in the strategic and operational decisions.He is teaching...
Ved Parkash Dudeja / Land Monetisation and Station Redevelopment – An Indian Railways Perspective
Ved Parkash Dudeja, Vice Chairman, Rail Land Development Authority
Ved Parkash Dudeja is a Graduate in Civil Engineering and also a Post Graduate in Structures from the prestigious Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh. Dudeja is an IRSE officer of 1986 batch and in his illustrious career of 34 years in Indian Railways, he has commissioned over 700 Kilometre...
Gaurav Agarwal / Pay with your face: Rail ticketing for the next decade
Gaurav Agarwal, Chief Mechanical Engineer, COFMOW, Ministry of Railways India
Gaurav Agarwal is a Civil Servant in Indian Railways with over 24 years of experience in the domains and functions of operations, maintenance, manufacturing, research and corporate coordination. He is a ‘Chevening Gurukul Scholar’ from King’s College, London and has done two Masters from foreign...
Ouk Sota / Rehabilitating Cambodia's railway networks to build regional connectivity
Ouk Sota, Deputy Director Of Railways, Ministry of Public Works and Transport, Railways Department
Ouk Sota is the Deputy Director of Railway Department, Ministry of Public Works and Transport, Kingdom of Cambodia. He has been involved with many road and railway construction/rehabilitation/improvement projects in Cambodia, including Feasibility Study, Detailed Design, Constructionand Operation...