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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

10:00 - Keynote panel discussion: Better, faster, more connected and personal: The future of rail in the transport eco-system

Speakers:
Gerhard Paal, Head of Sales for Digital Services, Siemens Mobility
Bertrand Minary, Director Innovation & Digital Freight, Chief Innovation & Digital Officer Freight, Rail Freight & Intermodal Division, Logistics, SNCF
Keir Fitch, Head of Unit, Rail Safety and Interoperability, European Commission

11:30 - The future of railway communications systems: 5G

Speakers:
Christian Chavanel, Director of the Rail System Department, UIC

11:45 - Achieving interoperability in rail

Speakers:
Carlo Borghini, Executive Director, Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking

12:00 - Digital maintenance and its bearing on lifecycle optimisation

Speakers:
Victor Martinez, Business Development Manager Railway Mechatronics and Condition Monitoring, SKF

12:15 - Exploring First Group’s approach to 5G

Speakers:
Simon Holmes, Group Head of Digital, First Group

13:30 - Case Study – Providing digitisation to the UK’s largest freight rail shipper

Speakers:
Chris Swan, Head of Rail, Tarmac
John Felty, Managing Director, Amsted Digital Solutions SAS.

13:45 - Examining Indonesia’s future rail strategy

Speakers:
Erni Basri, Deputy Director for Track and Building Infrastructure Railway Area I and Project Manager, Construction of Light Rail Transit LRT Jabodebek, Ministry of Transportation Indonesia

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14:40 - Condition Based Monitoring and the Digital Supply Chain

Speakers:
David McGorman, Digital Director, Unipart Rail, Managing Director, Instrumentel

14:40 - Digital Intelligent Rail or Remote Condition Monitoring?

Speakers:
Behzad Heravi, C-founder and CTO, Vortex IoT Limited.

14:55 - Case study: ProRail

Speakers:
Thymo van den Brug, Manager Development, Asset Management Information, ProRail

14:55 - Case study: Infrabel

Speakers:
Carel Jonckheere, Project Director, Smart Railway, Infrabel

15:10 - Deep dive round table discussion

Speakers:
Chris Stanley, Route Asset Data & Analysis Manager, Network Rail
Michael Robson, Managing Director, Robson's International Rail Transport Consultancy
Diego Galar, Professor of Condition Monitoring, Lulea University of Technology (LTU)

15:10 - Deep dive round table discussion – moderated by KONUX

Speakers:
Christine Kraft, Project Manager, ETCS, Deutsche Bahn AG
Thomas Böhm, Chief Data Scientist, KONUX

15:40 - Case study: SNCF

Speakers:
Bertrand Minary, Director Innovation & Digital Freight, Chief Innovation & Digital Officer Freight, Rail Freight & Intermodal Division, Logistics, SNCF

15:40 - Case study: Network Rail

Speakers:
Toufic Machnouk, Route Programme Director, London North Eastern & East Midlands, Network Rail

15:55 - Absolute track geometry – a case study

Speakers:
Florian Auer, Director of Technology and Innovation, Plasser & Theurer

16:25 - Case Study: Bane NOR

Speakers:
Chris Stanley, Route Asset Data & Analysis Manager, Network Rail
Diego Galar, Professor of Condition Monitoring, Lulea University of Technology (LTU)