Programme (Previous 2018 Event)
The past decade has seen a real boom in technology and innovation, and the digitalisation of existing railway assets alongside brand-new railway technologies are making ground-breaking strides in keeping the rail industry at the very forefront of this technological boom.
The railway sector has a well-deserved reputation for embracing new technological advances to improve their operations, and with estimates putting the total population at 8.6 billion by mid-2030, change is necessary. The adoption of digital technologies is a cost-effective way of releasing significant additional capacity on the existing network and the successful implementation of digitalised initiatives can streamline operations.
In conjunction with the UIC, the Digital Rail Revolution conference will focus on some of the most important rail digital initiatives taking place around the world and discuss and debate what the future of the rail industry may look like.
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Programme
08:50 - Chairman’s opening address
Speakers:
Francis Bedel, Chief Digital Officer, UIC
08:55 - Keynote speech from the UIC
Speakers:
Jean-Pierre Loubinoux, Director General, International Union of Railways (UIC)
09:10 - Opening panel: Why invest in digitalisation?
Speakers:
Toufic Machnouk, Route Programme Director, London North Eastern & East Midlands, Network Rail
Nick Brooks, Secretary General, ALLRail
Ilja Lorenzo Volpi, Head of Public Affairs, Community of European Railways and Infrastructure
Krzysztof Wilczek, Head of Track Analytics, Plasser & Theurer
Francis Bedel, Chief Digital Officer, UIC
09:50 - Technology trends driving track maintenance
Speakers:
Krzysztof Wilczek, Head of Track Analytics, Plasser & Theurer
10:05 - The train of tomorrow: SNCF’s autonomous train project
Speakers:
Rémy Lagay, Deputy Director of the Autonomous Train Program, SNCF
11:00 - Using continuous condition information to enhance asset confidence and drive down cost and downtime – with 20 000 data points
Speakers:
Robert Mulder, Sales Director, Perpetuum Ltd
11:15 - Panel discussion: Cyber security in digitalised rail
Speakers:
Toufic Machnouk, Route Programme Director, London North Eastern & East Midlands, Network Rail
11:50 - Panel discussion: Focusing on the passenger – how new technology can improve the passenger journey
Speakers:
Michael Stalter, Head of Sales & Account Management Northern, Central and Eastern Europe & America
Jenny Gejke, Head of Digital Channels, SJ
Erik Evtimov, Deputy Secretary General, Project Coordinator, Comité international des transports ferroviaires (CIT)
12:30 - A new milestone due to digitalisation. How can train monitoring help you to reduce downtime and streamline maintenance resources?
Speakers:
Marc Gispert, CEO and Founder, smart motors®
Digitalisation in infrastructure
Digitalisation for the operator
13:45 - Transforming asset management through new technologies – the example of the UK High Speed network
Speakers:
Joao Rocha, Senior Asset Manager, Network Rail (High Speed) Ltd
13:45 - The use of smart assets in real operational use cases
Speakers:
Philippe de Laharpe, Project Manager of Télédiagnostic, SNCF
14:15 - Bogie bearings IoT and digital transformation
Speakers:
Filip Rosengren, Railway Segment Manager, SKF
14:30 - Fast Terminal: Modernising existing rail systems
Speakers:
Harald Jony, Managing Director, WienCont Container Terminal Gesellschaft m.b.H.
14:45 - 2018 case study: Tangible business benefits from the digitisation of rail stations
Speakers:
Dan Shields, CEO, Shields Energy Services
15:00 - The challenges of big data to improve business processes
Speakers:
Marleen Verheyen, Advisor, Traffic Management & Services, Infrabel
Dieter Galle, Data Scientist, Infrabel
16:00 - The Internet of Rail and effective Asset Management
Speakers:
Christophe Sanguina, Market and Portfolio Director - Services, Alstom
16:15 - Artificial Intelligence in Railways and Beyond
Speakers:
Lindsey Mancini, Senior Manager, Security and IT in Public Transport, UITP
16:50 - Panel discussion: Internet of Rail
Speakers:
Yves Perreal, Director of Advanced Studies at Thales, Chairman of the UNIFE Digitalisation Platform
Erik Evtimov, Deputy Secretary General, Project Coordinator, Comité international des transports ferroviaires (CIT)
17:30 - Chairman’s closing remarks
Speakers:
Francis Bedel, Chief Digital Officer, UIC