The future of rail in Asia

Muhammad Effendi is currently an Operation and Maintenance Director of PT MRT Jakarta since October 26, 2018 and has experience in construction management in the oil and gas sector, business development, and Occupational Health and Safety, for 30 years. He was appointed as the Head of Project...

Dr. Padet Praditphet, born on January 9, 1963 in Nonthaburi, Thailand is  Doctor of Philosophy (Chulalongkorn University 2007), and Director of the Common Ticketing Administration Office, Office of Transport Policy & Planning, Ministry of Transport Thailand since 2012. Prior to this, he was...

Nick has a background in trying to make passenger rail more attractive through both improved service and cheaper price. Previously, he was Head of EU Affairs at Trainline, Europe’s leading digital rail retail platform. Prior to that, he was employed as Head of Sales & Business Development at...

Prof. Nalinaksh S. Vyas has been at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur since 1987 and also currently functions the Chairman of the Technology Mission for Indian Railways, for the Government of India. The current major areas of activities include implementation of Industry 4.0 protocols for...

Pierre Gosset is the Chief Technical Officer of SYSTRA Group. He is a member of Systra’s Executive Board. As part of his responsibilities, he oversees all technical activities including the Innovation and Digital development of SYSTRA Group in the new mobility field. Pierre has 25 years of...

Boyd Cohen, Ph.D., is an urban strategist. He is a Fellow at the Singapore University of Social Sciences in their Fintech and Blockchain group.  In 2017, he co-founded Iomob, a Mobility as a Service software company seeking to decentralize the mobility sector by providing an open protocol for the...

Dr Klebsch is a physicist and engineer. For 20 years he worked as a developer, project leader and manager at Siemens in the field of mobile phones until he joined the VDE in 2006. On behalf of federal ministries, he leads consortium projects with systemic-technical backgrounds. Since 2017, he...

Gerhard Kreß is responsible for Data services in Siemens Mobility, building up new customer offerings enabled by data analytics for both rail vehicles and infrastructure. In this function, Gerhard Kreß is responsible globally for the “Mindsphere Application Centers” for rail.Before that he was in...

Caroline Sapriel is the founder and Managing Partner of CS&A, a specialist risk and crisis and business continuity management consulting firm with offices in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, Belgium, The Netherlands, Singapore, and the United States. With over 25 years’ experience in risk and...

Christian Schlehuber studied informatics and IT-Security at the TU Darmstadt with a specialization in critical infrastructures. After receiving his master degree he started to research at the Security Engineering Group of TU Darmstadt on the topic Critical Infrastructure Protection in 2013. In 2015 ...

Azmale has 23 years of experienced working in the Rail industry out of 27 years working experience accumulated in total. He started his career with Track Network Maintenance (TNM), Ampang Line in 2001 and has held various capacities since then. Azmale has been entrusted with the position of Head of ...

Peter is an expert in the transportation sector for 30 years. He has degrees in electrical engineering and economic psychology, because for him, technology and people belong together, especially when it comes to digital transformation and the application of artificial intelligence.By living and...

Dr Siv Bhamra is the Global Rail Sector Lead for Bechtel’s Infrastructure business unit. In this role, Siv is responsible for the company’s overall strategy, project performance, and resource allocation on global rail and transit projects.With 30 years of experience, Siv is an internationally...

I belong to 1988 batch of Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers. I joined for my first assignment on 21st January,1992. I had worked in various assignments such as maintenance of diesel locomotives, inspection of safety related materials, posting in Ministry of Railways and dealing with...

Tilly Loughborough joined Metro Trains Melbourne as General Manager Passenger Experience in July 2019. With 15 years of global experience, at board-director level, Tilly has an in depth knowledge of public transport operations and a specialism of putting thecustomer at the heart of all...

Kumar Keshav, Managing Director, Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation is leading a team of professionals for implementation of Lucknow Metro, Kanpur Metro, Agra Metro and Meerut Metro from 2014. Kumar Keshav is an officer originally belonging to Indian Railway Service of Engineers and is a...

Naoto Kimura joined Tokyo Metro’s predecessor, Teito Rapid Transit Authority, in 1984.  In his early career, he gained experience in formulating the business plan, as well as rolling stock planning.  After becoming Deputy Manager  in March 1995, his posts included work in railway business...

Yong Bok Lee is an alumnus of Korea National Railroad University and holds a Master of Transportation Economics from Inha University as well as a Ph.D of Business Administration, Woosong University.

Evan Tattersall has 35 years' experience in construction across many industry sectors including transport and building. His extensive experience working in Melbourne's metropolitan rail environment includes Craigieburn Electrification Project and leading the complex inner city packages on...

Mr. Daniel Weitze (Head of Digital Mobility) is helping the world moving forward.Aiming to increase the quality of life for human beings in smart cities.Since August 2018 – after gaining 15 years of experience in transportation around the globe (Europe, North and South America, Asia) in several...

Olivier Rivalta, an engineer with solid experience in urban transport systems, joined Egis Rail in 1998. Since then, he has worked on metro projects (Singapore, Lyon, Alexandria, etc.), LRT projects (Marseille, Dublin, Lyon, Strasbourg, Grenoble, etc.) and Amtrak's High Speed North East...

Natasha is Stakeholder Director at YTL, an integrated infrastructure developer with operations globally. She is also the Founder Director of Women in Rail Malaysia, a not-for-profit entity which was established to support and promote equality and diversity within the Malaysian rail industry.She is...

T C Chew is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK. He is also a fellow of a number of UK professional institutions. He has been involved with the railway and construction industries globally for over 40 years. In January 2017, TC joined Arup London as leader of the ...

Techie Entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of working in the renewable energy industry. Skilled in business strategy, market analysis and product commercialisation. Prior starting my venture with Resync, I was working at REC Solar as a New Product Development engineer and commercialised...

Professional career for more than 20 years (both International and local) mainly focused on Railway Signaling (project and construction management), Railway Telecommunication, Building M&E and Maintenance, GIRN and Intelligent Traffic System (ITS) for road traffic signal.The experience includes ...

Frank is a highly competent senior manager in the transport operations & customer service industry, with over 22 years of senior management experience leading and influencing large teams.      He is a proven results-focused problem solver, team-player and communicator at various levels working...

Pauli has over 25 years’ experience of managing Abloy international businesses in several locations globally, he is currently working as a Regional Director for Abloy in Asia Pacific. Pauli has been working closely to develop security solutions to the Critical Infrastructure verticals, one of these ...

Roy is the Managing Director, Asia Pacific at Axon Vibe with years of experience building up businesses within the region. He is a lawyer by training with experience ranging from large fortune 500 corporates to start-up. He is also an entrepreneur with his own company in Australia. In between...

Bulatov Hamid Bashirovich was born on December 11, 1976 in the city of Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan.On July 12, 2012  was appointed to the position of Deputy Head of the Department of Transport and the Development of Road Transport Infrastructure of Moscow.On November 05, 2013 was appointed to ...

Ofer Nagar is responsible for the RADWIN’s business operations in Asia Pacific. In the past 5 years Ofer is based in Hong Kong, after holding managing positions at RADWIN HQ looking after Strategic Alliances, Business Development, and sales in Asia for 7 years. Ofer Nagar has more than 25 years of...

Wichai Siwakosit is an associate professor in mechanical engineering and a director of Kasetsart University rail engineering center (KURAIL).  He is currently serving as a chairman of the institution of railway signal engineers Thailand section (IRSE TS).  He has been a member of the PPP selection...

James is an Industry Consultant for Hexagon PPM, based in Singapore.  In this role, James supports companies in their evaluation of EcoSys, Hexagon’s enterprise projects performance software.  He is PMP certified with international experience implementing project management systems.  His experience ...

Cris D. Tran is the Regional Head and Managing Director of Infinity Blockchain Ventures (IBV), a consulting firm dedicated to providing practical blockchain solutions. He is also the Principal Managing Partner of Asia Blockchain Review, a market leader in the media and blockchain community. Prior...