IRS9 Sofitel Warsaw Victoria, Poland
Breaking down barriers through digital transformation
The IRS9 conference programme discussed how rail can use digital technology to bring down barriers to smoother travel and trade. How do we provide seamless mobility within cities, countries, and continents? Sector leaders tackled the governance of modern multimodal transport systems, standardisation and interoperability, intercontinental freight, environmental sustainability, and cyber security.
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06.00Breakfast
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08.30Registration
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09.00Welcome by Chairman
09.00-09.10
Speaker
Francis Bedel
Chief Digital Officer
International Union of Railways (UIC)
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09.10Keynote: Promote a savvy digital transformation
09.10-09.20
Speaker
François Davenne
Director General
International Union of Railways (UIC)
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09.20Keynote: CONNECTED GOVERNANCE: CAN DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY DRIVE SEAMLESS MOBILITY?
09.20-09.35
Speaker
Marcin Horala
Secretary of State,
Poland Ministry of Infrastructure
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09.35Keynote: CONNECTED GOVERNANCE: CAN DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY DRIVE SEAMLESS MOBILITY?
09.35-09.50
Speaker
Elisabeth Werner
Director Land Transport, DG MOVE
European Commission (EC)
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09.50Keynote: CONNECTED GOVERNANCE: CAN DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY DRIVE SEAMLESS MOBILITY?
09.50-10.05
Speaker
Mirosław Antonowicz
Member of the Board
Polish State Railways (PKP)
Miroslaw has been a board member of PKP S.A. since May 2017. He is a former board member of PKP CARGO. From 2006-2010 he was Vice-President of the Railway Transport Office (UTK), specialising in market regulation. He is a member of staff at Kozminski University, and a Director of the Research & Business Centre, Logistics, Transport and Procurement.
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10.05Panel discussion: CONNECTED GOVERNANCE: CAN DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY DRIVE SEAMLESS MOBILITY?
10.05-11.00
Moderator
Libor Lochman
Executive Director
Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER)
Speaker
Elisabeth Werner
Director Land Transport, DG MOVE
European Commission (EC)
François Davenne
Director General
International Union of Railways (UIC)
Philippe Citroën
Director General
Association of the European Rail Industry (UNIFE)
Stephane Feray-Beaumont
Vice President Innovation & Smart Mobility
Alstom
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11.00COFFEE
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11.10Switch Maintenance Quality Check - Moving to Prescriptive Maintenance
11.10-11.25
Speaker
Borislava Kyurkchieva
Marketing Team Lead
KONUX
Borislava studied International Business and Politics at Copenhagen Business School and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). After six years in management consulting, helping global B2B companies build strategic differentiation and drive growth, Borislava moved to KONUX to lead the marketing team. Since its foundation in 2014, KONUX has raised more than $50 million from world-leading investors and was selected into the World Economic Forum’s prestigious group of “Technology Pioneers” as one of the world’s 30 most innovative start-ups and scale-ups worldwide.
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11.30Meeting 1Technical Review 1
11.30-11.45
Speaker
Kiko Li
Sales Account Manager
Streamax Technology
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11.35Turning data into insight, creating a condition based maintenance regime supported by a dynamic supply chain
11.45-12.00
Speaker
Sam Bussey
Sales and Business Development Manager, Instrumentel
Unipart Rail
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12.05Meeting 2
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12.05Panel discussion: SMART MULTIMODALITY: SHOULD WE COMPETE OR COLLABORATE?
12.05-13.10
Moderator
Carlo Borghini
Executive Director
Shift2Rail
Speaker
Michel Quidort
President
European Passengers Federation
Stephan Pfeiffer
Head of Strategic Partnerships & Public Affairs
ioki - a DB company
Marcin Ruciński
Business Development Manager
Thales Revenue Collection Systems
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12.40Meeting 3
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13.10LUNCH
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13.20New features of Automatic Passenger Counting systems
13.20-13.35
Speaker
Sven Lewerenz
Head of Global Sales
iris-GmbH
Sven is the Head of Global Sales at iris-GmbH. He has been working in the business of IT systems for Public Transportation since the year 2000. He has been in charge of introducing modern IT solutions to customers in numerous projects throughout the world.
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13.40Railway Vegetation Management: Digitisation and artificial intelligence, the evidence!
13.40-13.55
Speaker
Sylvestre Jobic
Global Public Affairs and Sustainability Community Manager
Bayer
Sylvestre oversees global Public Affairs and Sustainability at Bayer Environmental Science. He has over 25 years of experience encompassing global marketing, portfolio management, and team leadership. Sylvestre is passionate about new technologies such as artificial intelligence and how it can be adapted to industries like railways maintenance, public health in emerging countries, biodiversity management.
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14:10Meeting 4Presentation: STANDARDISING OUR WAY THROUGH BARRIERS TO SYSTEM EFFICIENCY
14:10-14:20
Speaker
François Davenne
Director General
International Union of Railways (UIC)
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14.20Keynote: Standardisation lessons and analogies from aviation
14.20-14.35
Speaker
Timothy Tenne
Senior Director Standardisation and Evaluation
Amtrak
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14.35Panel discussion: STANDARDISING OUR WAY THROUGH BARRIERS TO SYSTEM EFFICIENCY
14.35 - 15.50
Moderator
Simon Fletcher
Director Standards & Coordinator Europe
International Union of Railways (UIC)
Speaker
Kaspars Briškens
Head of Business Development
Rail Baltica
Adrian Scrase
Chief Technology Officer
European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)
Timothy Tenne
Senior Director Standardisation and Evaluation
Amtrak
François Davenne
Director General
International Union of Railways (UIC)
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14.45Meeting 5
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15.20Meeting 6
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15.50COFFEE
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15.50Supporting decision makers today to assess the railway performance of tomorrow: the TRENISSIMO network wide simulator
16:00-16:15
Speaker
Igor Perkon
Managing Consultant
Trenolab
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16.20Meeting 7Presentation : DRIVERLESS FREIGHT TRAINS: A GAME CHANGER FOR GLOBAL TRADE?
16.20-16.35
Speaker
Joost Overdijkink
Senior Advisor
International Union of Railways (UIC)
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16.35Presentation : DRIVERLESS FREIGHT TRAINS: A GAME CHANGER FOR GLOBAL TRADE?
16.35 - 16.50
Speaker
Norbert Kahl
Head of Shift2Rail IP5
DB Cargo
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16.50Keynote: DIGITAL AS PASSPORT TO SECURE AND SMOOTH INTERCONTINENTAL RAIL FREIGHT
16.50-17.05
Speaker
Carsten Hinne
SVP Corridor Development China/New Silk Road
DB Cargo
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16.55Meeting 8
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17.05Panel Discussion: DIGITAL AS PASSPORT TO SECURE AND SMOOTH INTERCONTINENTAL RAIL FREIGHT
17.05-18.00
Moderator
Francisco Furtado
Modeller/Analyst
International Transport Forum (ITF)
Speaker
Joost Overdijkink
Senior Advisor
International Union of Railways (UIC)
Satoko Kagawa
Technical Officer Procedures and Facilitation Sub-Directorate
World Customs Organization (WCO)
Mark Verhulst
Chairman
RAILDATA
Keith Dierkx
Global Industry Leader - Freight, Logistics & Rail
IBM
Carsten Hinne
SVP Corridor Development China/New Silk Road
DB Cargo
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17.30Meeting 9
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18.00Chairman's Remarks
18.00 - 18.10
Speaker
Francis Bedel
Chief Digital Officer
International Union of Railways (UIC)
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18.10Free time
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19.00Transfer to dinner
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19.30OFFSITE DINNER - Stary Dom restaurant