The future of rail in Asia

Catherine Baxter is Chief Operating Officer at Metro Trains Melbourne. Catherine and her team are responsible for operating metropolitan passenger services safely including Train Operations, Passenger Experience, OCMS, Rollingstock and Infrastructure Asset Management.  In this role she leads a...

As Chief Information Security Officer at Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA), Shao Fei spearheads the cybersecurity programme across land transport. He is also concurrently Director for Cybersecurity and Director for Data Science at LTA. Prior to joining LTA, Shao Fei had served in...

Anson Lim leads SMRT Safety & Inspectorate in driving SMRT’s safety and security systems, including trains quality assurance, in partnership with respective Divisions and Business Units to achieve a safe and reliable transport system and environment. He forges close collaborations with relevant ...

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...

Dr Rai has 34 years of experience in the rail sector, operating in a government domain. He is well-versed in technology in rail systems and also plays a dual role as Electrical Inspector to the Indian Government.He holds a Doctorate in Engineering, with interest in modeling, sustainable...

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...

Gaurav is a Civil Servant in Ministry of Railways of Government of India. he has vast experience both at the cutting edge level of service delivery and also at the Railway Board. He is a Mechanical Engineer by academia and has completed two Masters, one each from National University of Singapore...

Punit is Chief Project Manager (Systems) at National High Speed Rail Corporation Ltd., an organisation entrusted with the development of a high speed network in India. At present Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed corridor is under construction with equity participation of the central and state...

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...

Mr Chia Choon Poh is Deputy Group Director of Rail Assets, Operations & Maintenance of the Land Transport Authority of Singapore.  He is also Director of Rolling Stock & Depot as well as Chief Specialist, Rolling Stock & Depot Equipment.

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...

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...

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 ...

Suffering from a heavy hearing loss, Fabian learned early, that success needs focus and a strong team – both on and off the basketball court. He is a passionate, empathetic leader with a natural ability to think strategically and in a cross-functional, holistic manner. As a thought leader Fabian...

I have done Management (PGDM) from IIM Ahmedabad and am currently working as a Director level Officer in Indian Railways in a leadership position, leading a workforce of about 2000 as Group “A” Gazetted Officer of the Indian Railways in Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot at Guwahati. I have been...

Mr Jeffrey Sim is Head of Rail Development at SBS Transit, which is a leading bus and rail operator in Singapore. It is also a member of the ComfortDelGro Group which operates in seven countries including Australia and the United Kingdom. As Head of Rail Development, he is responsible for business...

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...

Daniel Kindler is Managing Partner Blockchain & DLT for the business units Infrastructure and Logistics in the Blockchain Crew of DB Systel. He studied industrial engineering at the DHBW Mannheim. He then worked for DB Cargo in the areas of production planning and quality management and...

An experienced construction industry professional, Roger Bayliss rejoined MTRCL in March 2019 as Projects Director and a Member of the Executive Directorate.  Previously he worked for Skanska AB, a Swedish international contractor-developer where his most recent role was Senior Vice President...

Rikke Carmichael is Head of Air Operations at Network Rail. Her team specialise in data collection from multiple aerial vehicles. The data is used to assist with rail conditions and maintenance and supporting specific company projects. This helps to identify potential problems ahead of failure...