Day One - 14:10
Financing future developments
Martha Lawrence – Senior Railway Specialist Leader, Railways Community of Practice at World Bank – will discuss financing in the railway sector.
Projects & Presentations
Day One - 14:40
Thailand: Railway connection initiative for the prosperity of South-East Asia countries
Nakorn Chantasorn – Adviser to President, National Science & Technology Development Agency, Thailand – discusses the development of integrated freight and passenger railways on the South-East Asian network
Day One - 15:10
Sweden: The East Link Project – the first step towards a Swedish high-speed railway
Johan Sundin – Head of Strategic Production Support, The East Link Project, Trafikverket – presents details of Sweden’s €5.5 billion East Link Project
Day One - 16:20
UK: Designing HS2 for high reliability – Integration of operation and asset management
Niall Fagan – Head of Track Engineering, HS2 – explains how the UK’s HS2 project is being designed to ensure high reliability by integrating operations and asset management
Day One - 17:00
Success story of a completed project: Vienna’s new Central Railway Station
Rudolf Koller – Railway Consultant; former Head of International Relations, ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG – will present innovative ideas for combatting project failure, and focus on how new technology has transformed the process
Day Two - 08:45
Europe-Asia: Euro-Asian transport links – market opportunities for rail
An overview of initiatives, prospects and advantages of different route options of connecting lines in Europe with a view to exploiting the full potential for rail of Euro-Asian transport links
Day Two - 09:30
Rail Baltica: The integration of the Baltic States in the European rail network
Kaspars Briškens – Business Development Director, Rail Baltica – discusses the Rail Baltica project, which aims to integrate the Baltic States in the European rail network through a new rail infrastructure
Day Two - 11:00
Germany: Transmission Technique at Frankfurt main station
Christine Kraft – Project Manager, ETCS, Deutsche Bahn AG – presents an insight of current business activities of its DB KT business unit
Day Two - 11:45
UK: Midland Metro Alliance – the transition to the new digital railway
Alejandro Moreno – Alliance Director, Midland Metro Alliance – describes the challenges surrounding the £1.34 billion project currently underway to transform light rail infrastructure in the West Midlands
Day Two - 12:20
Belgium – Building the smart railway
Carel Jonckheer, Smart Railway Program Director at Infrabel discusses digitalisation initiatives Infrabel is currently undertaking and focus on the work it is putting in to transition its Assets in to ‘Smart Assets’.
Day Two - 13:00
Austria: ÖBB – the transition to the new digital railway
Gerald Schinagl – Digital Innovation Manager, ÖBB (the Austrian Federal Railway) – showcases how ÖBB are making the transformation to digital railways