DAY 1
8:00 - 09:00
REGISTRATION OF PARTICIPANTS
9:00 - 10:00
OPENING OF THE EVENT
- Carmen Filipescu, Former Chairwoman of the CIT Committee
- Reprezentant – Ministerul Transporturilor și Infrastructurii
- Reprezentant – Primăria Municipiului București
- Mihai Barbu, General Manager – Telecomunicații CFR
- Daniel Apostolache, General Manager – CFR Marfă
- Daniel Istrate, General Manager – STB SA
- Mariana Miclăuș, General Manager – METROREX
- Mircea Arnăutu, ONFR Director – AFER
10:15 - 11:00
OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION AND TOUR OF THE RAILWAY TECHNOLOGY EXHIBITION
11:00 - 12:30
Moderator:
Carmen Filipescu
Former Chairwoman of the CIT Committee
PANEL 1 - Legislation, regulations, contractual relations and financial relations in the rail transport market
(railway transport, ways to increase market share in the transport sector – the role and levers through which the State can intervene to contribute to rail transport becoming the first choice; access and charging for the use of railway infrastructure, levers for a competitive intramodal market; competition from the part of road transport and complementarity with it in intermodal transport)
- Enno Wiebe, Director General – UNIFE
- Ralf-Charley Schultze, President – UIRR
- Mihai Frumosu, Senior Transport Expert – Banca Europeană de Investiţii
- Marian Mihail Călin, General Manager– Astra Vagoane Călători
- Edvīns Bērziņš, General Manager – Liaison Office RTSB India
- Petru Bogdan, General Manager – ASFR
13:00 - 14:30
Moderator:
Mihai Frumosu
Senior Transport Expert
Senior Transport Expert – Banca Europeană de Investiţii
PANEL 2 - "Modern" methods of railway business development
(price, safety, reliability, comfort, use of Artificial Intelligence)
- Constantin Ichimoaei, Executive Director – ABB Romania
- Olesea Lachi, Sales Area Director – Škoda Transportation a.s.
- Gabriel Stanciu, General Manager – Alstom Romania, Bulgaria & Republica Moldova
- Nicola Cavallo, Area Manager – ZITRON
- Paolo Picchianti, Export Sales – Railway Department – JSW Steel Italy Piombino
14:30 - 15:30
Lunch
16:00
Departure for technical visit
19:00
Networking dinner
DAY 2
INFRASTRUCTURE
09.00 – 11.30 – PANEL 1 – The role of railway infrastructure in increasing the quality of railway services
(financing of railway infrastructure projects – current and future sources; ongoing projects for the modernization of the railway; projects needed in the future)
Moderator: Michael Robson, Managing Director – Robson’s International Rail Consultancy
- Maciej Chrzanowski, Advanced Building Solutions and Sustainability Cluster Lead | CEE & Nordics – ArcelorMittal
- Andrzej Cholewa, Member of the Board – Track Tec
- Adrian Revnic, General Manager – Oradea Transport Local
- Elisabeth Bremski, Commercial Manager – SAARSTAHL RAIL
- Andrei Dorcioman, Director Internal Works Division – ELECTROMONTAJ
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break
12.00 – 14.30 – PANEL 2 – Modernization of the railway, urban and peri-urban infrastructure
(modernizing tram lines in cities; reintroducing tram infrastructure where it has been abandoned; rail lines around major cities – can they be converted into urban transport lines; building new rail links around major cities, especially to airports)
Moderator: Gabriel Stanciu, General Manager – Alstom Romania, Bulgaria & Republica Moldova
- Mariana Miclăuș, General Manager – METROREX
- Dorian Alexandrescu, Chief Operating Officer – voestalpine Railway Systems Romania
- Franjo Klujcik, Technical Director, Special Projects Division – PORR România
- Andreas Schöbel, Docent for Railway Operation at Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Transportation
- Daniel Doman, Head of Maintenance and Repairs Department – STB SA
14.30 – 15.30 Lunch
ROLLING STOCK
09.00 – 11.30 – PANEL 1 – The role of rail operators in developing, transforming, progressing and stopping rail travel inefficiencies
Moderator: Carmen Filipescu, Former Chairwoman of the CIT Committee
- Adrian Pușcașu, General Manager – Knorr-Bremse Romania
- Geani Dabu, Chief Engineer Transportation Maintenance and Repair Rolling Stock Directorate – STB SA
- Laurențiu Dumitru, General Manager – AGIFER
- Laurențiu Zaharia, Head of Rolling Stock Laboratory Services – AFER
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break
12.00 – 14.30 – PANEL 2 – Interoperability, digital solutions, the implementation of new technologies and methods of protecting and modernizing rolling stock
(projects related to sustainability, performance, safety, efficiency and compatibility, cost reduction in public rail transport)
Moderator: Prof.PhD.eng. Gabriel Popa, Dean of the Faculty of Transport – “Politehnica” University of Bucharest
- Adrian Revnic, General Manager – Oradea Transport Local
- Bogdan Baltac, Managing Director – Novatech