International Rail Business Forum "1520 Strategic Partnership" celebrates its 5th anniversary this year.
Anniversary V International Rail Business Forum "1520 Strategic Partnership" will take place from 26 to 28 May in "Radisson SAS Lazurnaya" Hotel (Sochi, Russia). A key theme of the forum will be "Strategy of modernization of “1520 area”: Innovation, investment, integration, intellect." Traditional Organizer of the Forum is the "Business Dialogue" company. General partner is Russian Railways.
Anniversary Forum will be a key event in the industry in 2010 and the main communication platform for countries using the railways with a width of 1520 mm (CIS, Baltic States, Finland and Mongolia). In addition, the participants will include European and Asian partners of "1520 area" - the leading players of the world market of transportation services - Alstom Transport (France), Deutsche Bahn AG (Germany), Siemens AG (Germany), Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (Japan), representatives of Russian business: ONEXIM Group, IST Group, SINARA Group, "Troika Dialog", etc.
The Forum will discuss the most pressing issues of modernization of the railway industry: innovation development strategy, the formation of the key business challenges and possible solutions in the formation of the path of accelerating vehicle development, analysis of the dynamics of the segments of the transport sector in the long term, improving the competitiveness of the railway industry in “1520 area” , optimization of government and business relations in the transport sector, an analysis of current results of the Reformation of the transport sector, the development of the station infrastructure.
The delegation of Russian Railways will be leaded by Vladimir Yakunin, the president of the company.
The letters of support
Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia
Dear friends! I am delighted to welcome you to the business forum in Sochi and to wish you interesting discussions and fruitful work.
I am pleased to continue a fine tradition by sincerely welcoming the participants, guests and organizers of the International Rail Business Forum “1520 Strategic Partnership”.
On behalf of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation and myself I would like to welcome the participants, guests and organizers of the Fifth International Rail Business Forum “1520 Strategic Partnership”.
Alexandr Shokhin, President of Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs
On behalf of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and myself personally I would like to greet the participants and guests of the fifth International Rail Business Forum “1520 Strategic Partnership”.
