Program

• approaches to developing human resources potential in areas 1520 and 1435
• Setting up joint training programmes
• Raising labour mobility to ensure proper balance in human resources across railway sector
• Effective staffing policy: training future top managers from the ranks of a company’s career staff

Moderator:
Richard Germain, Director, Deutsche Bahn and Russian Railways Center for International Logistics and Supply Chain Mgmt

Participating:
Kanat Alpysbaev, Vice-President, Kazakhstan Railways
Boris Levin, President, Moscow State University of Railway Engineering
Dmitry Matsenov, CEO, Mobility Division, Siemens Russia
Nikolay Nikoforov, Chairman, Russian Trade Union of Railway Employees and Transport Builders
Karl-Friedrich Rausch, Member of the Board, DB Mobility Logistics AG
Sergey Salikov, General Manager, ANCOR
Dmitriy Shahanov, Vice-President, Russian Railways

• The future of transport building. How to raise service quality and reduce projects time-frame delivery?
• The prospects of engaging contractors and equipment suppliers from countries of narrow gauge: sharing experience and technologies
• Export of construction services. What are the competitive advantages of area 1520?
• Delivering innovations in transport building: advantages of LVT-technologies
• The impact of environmental factors on priorities and strategy of transport building

Moderator:
Viacheslav Rybkin, General Director, Lengiprotrans

Participating:
Rolf Epstein, Deputy Head, Mobility Division, Siemens Russia and CIS
Roman Sergushko, Head, Section of Delivering Public Services in Urban Planning, Architecture, Construction and Urban Planning Policy Department, Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation
Vitaly Votolevsky, General Director Roszheldorproject
Gennady Talashkin, First Deputy General Director, RZDstroy
Sergey Zamiatin, Director, Deutsche Bahn AG in Russia
Anatoly Zaytsev, Deputy, Legislative Assembly of Leningrad Region of the Russian Federation

• Multimodal transport: new opportunities for international terminal and logistics centres
• Prospects for containerisation of freight in order to expand transit
• How can the harmonisation of transport law within the borders of the Eurasian transport system be accelerated?
• Modern marketing and B2B solutions: how to reduce transport and logistics costs for freight owners?
• Effective business models in the export deliveries sector: rational logistics and reduced costs
• Rolling stock: how to ensure flexible response to the needs of all stakeholders on the market?
• Insurance for freight: modern ways of defining risks and framing agreements

Moderator:
Alexander Retyunin, Editor-in-Chief, Gudok Newspaper and RZD-Partner Magazine

Participating:
Igor Asaturov, General Director, First Freight Company
Salman Babayev, Vice-President, Russian Railways
Vladimir Chisnakov, First Deputy General Director for Operational Planning and Sales, TransContainer
Vitaly Evdokimenko, General Director, Freight Second
Elena Kunaeva, General Director, Company Servicing Center, Russian Railways
Andrey Lokshin, Director, Central Sales Directorate, ZHASO
Arnout Lugtmeijer, Chairman of the Board, Vopak E.O.S.
Sergey Maltsev, General Director, Globaltrans; Chairman of the Board, Participants of the Railway Rolling Stock Operator Market Nonprofit Partnership
Dmitry Nikitin, General Director, Eurosib
Michael Peter, Deputy Head Rail Automation, Mobility Division, Siemens AG
Andrey Sapronov, General Director, Independent Transport Company
Sergey Siniagin, Deputy General Director, Telecom Express
Harm Sievers, Director, Port of Sassnitz Alexander Tertychny, General Director, NefteTransService

• Tariff regulation: business profitability and social responsibility
• Marketing tools to make rail journeys more attractive: loyalty and passenger incentive schemes, charter and group trips
• Ensuring stable work of passenger transport in peak traffic periods, and measures against force majeure
• Increasing service quality for passengers with disabilities. How to ensure they feel comfortable enough compared with other passengers?

Moderator:
Mikhail Akulov, Vice-President, Russian Railways - General Director, Federal Passenger Company

Participating:
Christian Brambring, Managing Director, DB Autozug, DB Mobility Logistics
Johannes Emmelheinz, Head of Service, Mobility Division, Siemens AG
Evgeny Glinin, First Deputy General Director, Master Cleaning
Dmitry Pegov, General Director, High Speed Directorate, Russian Railways
Valery Seleznev, Deputy, State Duma, Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Maxim Schneider, Head, Centre of Corporative Management of Local Traffic Network, Russian Railways
Tamara Stebumova, Deputy Head of Department for Transport, Regulation Federal Tariffs Service
Dmitry Vitchinka, General Director, Telecom Express
Akbulat Zhagiparov, President, Passenger Transportation

• Modernisation on the basis of innovative tools: harmonious synergy with a city’s infrastructure
• Intermodality of the transport system: effective links between railway stations and airports
• Architectural solutions for a modern railway station: the multi-faceted approach and rationalisation
• New approaches to running services: the railway station as a business and entertainment centre
• New offers in railway stations’ informatization
• Security, prevention and response to emergency situations
• Ensuring uninterrupted work of railway stations and service quality in peak traffic periods

Moderator:
Sergey Abramov, Head, Railway Stations Directorate, Branch of Russian Railways

Participating:
Vladimir Andreev, Managing Partner, NAI Becar Projects
Rolf Epstein, Deputy Head, Mobility Division, Siemens Russia and CIS
Mikhail Grudinin, General Director, RZD-Railway Stations Development
Alexei Krivoruchko, General Director, Aeroexpress
Freddy Opsomer, Foreign Markets Manager, Eurostation
Valery Seleznev, Member, State Duma, Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Julian Smith, Partner, M&A and Infrastructure Leader, PwC
Etienne Tricaud, General Manager and Chief Architect, AREP
Carlos Ventura, Chairman, Station Managers Group, International Union of Railways
Sergey Zamiatin, Director, Deutsche Bahn AG in Russia

• Dinamics on the market: analysis of demand for rolling stock, with factors impacting on investment programmes of both owners and the Russian Railways
• Partnerships between companies in creating a product of a much higher level and integration of areas 1520 and 1435 into international transport corridors
• Prospects of cooperation in creating improved management and secutiry systems
• Localization of manufacturing processes of railway equipment and components: exchanging experience and technologies
• Creating new jobs and regional development with the help of railway machine building
• Price factor. How to optimise maintanace and service costs for rolling stock in the teeth of deficit of freight carriage and carriage casting

Moderator:
Valentin Gapanovich, Senior Vice-President, Russian Railways

Participating:
Alexej Beljajev, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Tatravagonka, a.s.
Nikolay Bochkarev, Head, Central Directorate of Freight Carriage Repair, Branch of Russian Railways
Peter Cedervall, Vice-President,
RCS devision, Bombardier Transportation Sweden AB
Irina Chiganashkina, General Director, Inter Cargo Company
Rolf Epstein, Deputy Head, Mobility Division, Siemens Russia and CIS
Bernard Gonnet, Managing Director Russia and CIS, Alstom Russia
Sergey Kaletin, Deputy General Director for Technical Development, Freight One
Dmitry Korolev, Executive Director, Participants of the Railway Rolling Stock Operator Market Non-commercial Partnership
Vladimir Kutergin, Director, NPC Springs, ROSNANO
Nikolay Lysenko, Vice-President and CEO, Union of Railway Equipment Manufacturers
Sergey Palkin, Vice-President, Union of Industries of Railway Equipment Non-commercial Partnership
Sergey Poriadin, Deputy General Director for Technological Development, Freight Second
Alexander Saltaev, General Director, Ural Locomotives
Andrey Shlensky, Deputy General Director for Railway Equipemnt, Research and development Corporation Uralvagonzavod
Vladimir Shneidmüller, Technical Director, Transmasholding
Oleg Trudov, Deputy General Director, Natural Monopolies Institute
Igor Tsyplakov, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Tikhvinsky Wagon-Building Plant
Evgeny Yakovlev, General Director, Remputmash

• Actual mechanisms of co-financing infrastructural projects in railway transport
• Investments to infrastructure: guarantees for timely shipping and increased exports by way of enhanced traffic-carrying capacity
• Reducing institutional barriers for investing in infrastructure through public-private partnership

Moderator:
Vadim Mikhailov, Senior Vice-President, Russian Railways

Participating:
Evgeny Bogdanov, Director for Manufacturing and Transport Companies in Russia and CIS, A.T. Kearney
Andrey Burlinov, Co-Director, Department of Natural Resourses and Heavy Industry Management, VTB Capital
Alexander Burov, Deputy Governor of the Komi Republic
Dmitry Eremeev, Deputy General Director for Economy and Finances, Freight Second
Yury Fedorov, Deputy General Director, Institute of Transport Economy and Development
Innokenty Ivanov, Partner, Head of Infrastructure and Transport in Russia, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Irina Romanovskaya, Director for Transport Distribution, Evraz Group S.A.
Yury Saakyan, Vice-President, Union of Railway Equipment Manufacturers; Member of the Advisory Board, General Director, Institute of Natural Monopolies
Albert Sagiryan, CEO, Goldman Sachs
Alexey Taicher, First Deputy General Director, Freight One
Alexey Tsydenov, Deputy Director, Department of Industry and Infrastructure, Government of the Russian Federation
Yan Tavrovsky, Managing Director, JP Morgan, Head of Investment Banking for Russia and Ukraine

• A concept of development of area 1520: new algorithms of cooperation
• The Single Economic Space and Customs Union: advantages for the ‘wide’ gauge businesses
• Transportation and infrastructure: pros and cons of separation in area 1520
• Improving cargo transportation with the help of new railroads
• Development of rail infrastructure at the sea ports

Moderator:
Ermolai Solzhenitsyn, Managing Director, McKinsey and Company Moscow

Participating:
Salman Babayev, Vice-President, Russian Railways
Iliya Dudinsky, Deputy General Director for Commerce and Manufacturing, Freight Second
Edil Iskakov, President, Kedentransservice
Tatiana Paramonova, General Director, ZHASO
Fedor Pekhterev, General Director, Institute of Transport Economy and Development
Valery Reshetnikov, Senior Vice-President, Russian Railways
Ēriks Šmuksts, Vice-President, Latvian Railways
Valery Veremeev, Director, Department of Economic Situation and Strategic Development, Russian Railways
Erkin Zhusanbayev, Executive Director, Corporate Development, Kazakhstan Railways

• Priorities of R&D in terms of aligning with business interests
• Effective forms of scientific cooperation between areas 1520 and 1435. Creating joint scientific schools, research and experimental base
• Сutting-edge technologies to encourage greener transport: light trains, piggyback transportation, environment monitoring mechanisms

• Prospects for increasing technical and technological co-operation between areas 1520 and 1435
• A University of area 1520: integration of science and knowledge within the wide gauge

Moderators:
Boris Lapidus, General Director, Railway Transport Research Institute VNIIZhT; Chairman, International Railway Research Board, International Union of Railways
John Prideaux, Special Adviser for Rail Transport Policies, FIPRA

Participating:
Viktor Cherkasov, Head, Department of Health Protection, Labour Safety and Environmental Control, Russian Railways
Sergey Goldin, Director for Regulation and Certification, Alstom Transport
Vladimir Kolesnikov, President, Rostov State University of Railway Engineering
Alexander Korchagin, Director, Centre of Innovative Development - RZD subsidery
Boris Levin, President, Moscow State University of Railway Engineering
Nikolay Nikoforov, Chairman, Russian Trade Union of Railway Employees and Transport Builders
Igor Rosenberg, First Deputy General Director, Research and Design Institute for Information Technology
Sergey Sharapov, Deputy General Director, Institute of Transport Economy and Development
Sergey Stavtsev, Director for Corporate Communications, Eurosib
Baurjan Urynbasarov, Managing Director and Chief Engineer, Kazakhstan Railways

• Experience of applying integrated intelligent security systems in areas 1520 and 1435
• Ensuring security with the help of satellite surveillance systems. Prospects for their joint usage
• Risk and reliability assessment of transport security systems

Moderator:
Alexander Tichanin, Vice-President, Russian Railways

Participating:
Sergey Adadurov, First General Director, Research and Design Institute for Information Technology, Signalling and Telecommunications on Railway Transport
Kanat Almagambetov, Managing Director, Kazakhstan Railways
Jochen Eickholt, Head of Rail Automation, Mobility Division, Siemens AG
Andrey Galakhov, Technical Director, Alstom Russia
Vadim Lapidus, General Director, Centre Priority
Sergey Palkin, Vice-President, Union of Industries of Railway Equipment Non-commercial Partnership
Gennady Sarafanov, Head of State Rail Control, Rostransnadzor