The Fourth International Rail Salon
of Engineering and Technologies EXPO 1520

• Projects for the development of the Russian rail network: industrial growth driver and impact on the country’s economy
• Russian industrial policy: goals set in the State Programme to develop industrial capabilities  and improve competitive growth until 2020 in the field of railroad engineering
• Current areas of support for transport engineering enterprises in the context of Russia’s accession to WTO and the establishment of the Common Economic Space
• Legislative incentives to stimulate demand for innovative equipment and the introduction of cutting-edge technologies

Speakers:
Vladimir Yakunin, President, Russian Railways
Alexey Rakhmanov, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation
Guillaume Pepy, President, SNCF
Jochen Eickholt, General Director, Rail Systems Division, Infrastructure and Cities Sector, Siemens AG
Alexander Nesis, President and CEO, ICT Group
Dmitry Pumpyansky, Chairman of the Board, Sinara Group
Henri Poupart-Lafarge, President, ALSTOM Transport

• International alliances as a means to stimulate innovation-driven development and the competitiveness of mechanical engineering companies
• Combining the research and development, production and managerial resources of manufacturers in the 1520 and 1435 spaces to localise the production of a new-generation of rolling stock
• Harmonization of requirements for the localization of production in Russia and operation of a new generation of rolling stock
• IRIS international standard: New growth incentives for 1520 manufacturers
• Protecting intellectual property and registering joint patents in the process of production localisation

Moderator:
Valentin Gapanovich, Senior Vice-President for Innovative Development-Chief Engineer, Russian Railways; President, NP Union of Industries of Railway Equipment

Speakers:
Evgeny Gritsenko, General Director, Sinara-Transport Machines
Bernard Kaufmann, General Manager, IRIS Group
Sergey Kofman, Director, High-Speed and Suburban Trains, Department of Rail Transport Systems, Siemens in Russia and Central Asia
Kirill Lipa, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Zheldorremash
Vladimir Matyushin, Vice-President, Non-commercial Partnership ‘Association of Railway Equipment Producers’
Louis Negre, President of the French Association of Railway Industry
Robert Pokorski, Technical Director, Miner Enterprises, Inc.
Vladimir Salamatov, General Director, World Trade Center
Andrey Shlyonsky, Deputy General Director for Railway Equipment, Uralvagonzavod
Roman Timofeev, Head, Office for Intellectual Property, Russian Railways

• Reaction of manufacturers to reduction in purchase volume of new rolling stock
• Is it possible to achieve parity between the retirement of an aging fleet and the purchase of new rolling stock?
• Programme to boost demand for innovative railcars: Tariff reduction or discount from the manufacturer?
• Increasing the service life of old cars… and what to do with transport safety?
• Can an innovative railcar generate a profit in five years and not at the end of the planned service life?

Moderator:
Boris Lapidus, General Director, Russian Research and Development Institute of Railway Transport; Chairman, International Railway Research Board under the International Union of Railways

Speakers:
Sergey Barbarich, General Director, Innovative Railcar Manufacture
Dmitry Bovykin, Deputy General Director, Executive Director, United Wagon Company
Andrey Shlyonsky, Deputy General Director for Railway Equipment, Uralvagonzavod
Alexey Sokolov, Chief, Design Office - Branch of Railway Research Institute; Vice - Chairman of Joint Scientific Council of Russian Railways

• Russian Railways – the driving force and sponsor of the technical modernisation of rail track production in Russia
• Long-term objectives for track maintenance efficiency and the introduction of innovative technical maintenance technologies
• EVRAZ Group – owner of the most advanced rail manufacturing technologies
• Extensive use of 100-metre long tracks – advanced innovative track maintenance technology
• Prospects for the development of rail technology and high-performance rail production in Russia
• Advanced techniques for extending the lifespan of rail tracks through improved technology and production modernisation; improvement of rail track quality
• Harmonising Russian and Western requirements for rail production
• Improving the conformity assessment procedure, eliminating unnecessary barriers to innovative developments in the rail industry
• Pricing policy – its role and place in the system of incentives for the technical re-equipment and modernisation; introduction of cutting-edge technology

Moderator
Sergey Palkin, Director for Technical Regulation, EVRAZholding; Vice-President, Non-Commercial Partnership ‘ Association of Railway Equipment Producers’

Speakers:
Norbert Frank, Head of Technology, VOESTALPINE SCHIENEN
Alexey Golovatenko, Operational Director, Division “Railway rolling”, EVRAZ – West Siberian Metallurgical Plant
Katsuya Iwano, Senior Manager, Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corporation, Japan
Alexey Kushnaryov, Managing Director, EVRAZ – Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant
Roman Litvinov, Chief, Department for Rail Production, EVRAZ - Nizhny Tagil Iron and Steel Works
Dmitry Merson, Director, Scientific Research Institute “Advanced Technologies”, Togliatti State University
Dmitry Shaburov, Head, Technical Office, Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant
Maxim Shtayger, Deputy Director, Technical Audit Center, Russian Railways; Head of the Track Section, Non-commercial Partnership “Railway Equipment Producers Association”
Vyacheslav Yermakov, Chief Engineer, Track and Station Office, Central Infrastructure Directorate, Russian Railways

• Developing high-speed lines as a factor for growth in the national economy
• The balance of private and state interests in developing new infrastructure
• Generating investment in the high-speed lines project – ensuring a high return and minimising risks
• Aspects of managing major infrastructure projects such as high-speed lines
• Staff and competencies in the design team. Creating a basis of highly skilled specialists

Moderator:
Yuri Spektrov, managing partner, Bain&Co Russia and CIS

Speakers:
Alexander Misharin, First Vice-President, Russian Railways; CEO, High-Speed Rail Lines
Renato Casale, CEO, ItalFerr S.p.a
Michel Cote, CEO of Bouygues Construction
Michel Leboeuf, Adviser to President SNCF
Dietrich Moeller, President, Siemens in Russia and Central Asia
Henri Poupart-Lafarge, President, ALSTOM Transport
Niko Warbanoff, Head of Business Development, Deutsche Bahn AG; Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors, DB International GmbH

• Global experience of creating an efficient system for financial cooperation between the public and private sectors. Organisational and legal plans to implement high-speed line projects
• The Russian model of PPP: creating a system of trust between the private and public investor
• Experience of private investors’ involvement in major infrastructure projects
• Plans for financing high-speed line projects around the world
• Aspects of taxation in the implementation of high-speed line projects
• Meeting obligations: how to adhere to the construction schedule and not overspend the budget
• The role and objectives of the project office
• The role of consulting companies in implementing major infrastructure projects

Moderator:
Andrey Galiyev, General Director. NPTV

Speakers:
Alexander Misharin, First Vice-President, Russian Railways; CEO, High-Speed Rail Lines
Denis Borisov, Managing Partner, Borisov Law Office
Innokenty Ivanov, Partner, Head of Practice for Infrastructure and Transport in Russia, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Thomas Maier, Managing Director, EBRD
Yuri Molchanov, Senior Vice-President, VTB
Sergey Nekrasov, Senior Vice–President, Gazprombank
Evgeny Schwartz, Director, Conservation Policy, WWF Russia
Julian Smith, Partner, Practice Leader in the Field of Railway and Transport Infrastructure, PricewaterhouseCoopers Russia
Olga Revzina, Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills

• Development of techniques, technologies, machines and mechanisms of building infrastructure

Moderator:
Valentin Gapanovich, Senior Vice-President for Innovative Development-Chief Engineer, Russian Railways; President, NP Union of Industries of Railway Equipment

Speakers:
Martin Benkler, COO and Member of the Rhomberg Sersa Group, Sersa Group Management AG
Konstantin Danilov, General Director, RPM Group
Alexandra Manhart, Sales Manager in Russia, Plasser and Theurer
Mikhail Mavrin, General Director, Geismar-Rus
Stefan Mayerl, Head, International Sales, ROBEL
Franz Messerli, Managing Director, Matisa
Mikhail Permyakov, Sales Director, Russia and CIS, Desec Ltd
Anatoly Slyadnev, General Director, Tehnovotum

• Reconciliation of the incompatible: how to adapt to the Russian legislation
• Operation and maintenance of the high-speed line: best practices  
• How to achieve technology localization for high-speed line
• Environmental assessment: a construction site with a human face

Moderator:
Ernest Sultanov, Director, Department of International Relations and Public Affairs, High-Speed Rail Lines

Speakers:
Alexander Misharin, First Vice-President, Russian Railways; CEO, High-Speed Rail Lines
Flavio Canetti, Director of business development, Bombardier
Jocelyn Gallou, International Development Manager, Integrated Security Systems, Engineering Department, SNCF-Infrastructure
Rolf Epstein, Director of Locomotives and Components Business Unit, Rail Transport Systems Division, Sector of Infrastructure and Cities, Siemens in Russia and Central Asia
Jan Harder, Vice-President for Rolling Stock, Russia and CIS, ALSTOM Russia
Louis Negre, President of the French Association of Railway Industry
Georgy Petrushenko, Head of Centre for Organising Fast and High-Speed Services, Russian Railways

• Best global practices of implementing production automation systems and optimising resources
• The introduction of Just-in-time compilation, computer-aided manufacturing ad computer-aided engineering technologies
• 3D design in Russia – the transition to non-drafting technologies
• Global trends in engineering – unification of models, the use of standard platforms, design modularity
• Attracting engineering companies in order to introduce new technologies and production management methods
• Production technology audit and the development of new technologies
• The need to outsource

Moderator:
Anton Zubikhin, Deputy General Director for External Relations and Innovation, Sinara-Transport Machines; Vice-President, NP Union of Industries of Railway Equipment

Speakers:
Olivier Giacomoni, New Products Development Director, Transmashholding
Stefan Hahn, Head of Engineering, Department of Rail Transport Systems, Siemens in Russia and Central Asia
Andreas Lipp, Deputy Head, Department of Design Research and Development, Ural Locomotives
Alexander Lubyagov, Deputy General Director, Locomotive Technology
Sergey Morozov, Co-Founder and CTO, Datadvance
Alexey Okun, Director, Department for Corporate Customers, MTE Group
Sergey Tsybukov, General Director, Scientific and Production Association Plastic Processing name of “Komsomolskaya Pravda”; President, Institute of Polymers

• Transition to the Technical Regulations of the Customs Union, challenges and objectives
• The role of the Standards in the Technical Regulations conformity audit
• Innovative equipment certification, problems associated difficulties with the process of safety confirmation
• Standardisation programme at the final stage of preparations before introducing the Technical Regulations
• Regulatory documents for the operational stage, supervision system within the Customs Union
• The role that the harmonisation of standards plays when introducing a new stage of technical regulations
• The role of experts and the expert community in the new system of railway equipment compliance assessment within the 1520 Area
• Cost cutting opportunities in compliance assessment and safety confirmation
• European experience of the TSI conformity assessment of railway equipment
• Tests as a basis for confirming the safety of railway equipment, new approaches and testing methods; the organisation of testing procedures

Moderator:
Vladimir Matyushin, Vice-President, Non-commercial Partnership ‘ Association of Railway Equipment Producers’

Speakers:
Valentin Gapanovich, Senior Vice-President for Innovative Development-Chief Engineer, Russian Railways; President, NP Union of Industries of Railway Equipment
Rolf Epstein, Director of Locomotives and Components Business Unit, Rail Transport Systems Division, Sector of Infrastructure and Cities, Siemens in Russia and Central Asia
Eduard Gunchenko, Director, Certification Registrar, Federal Agency for Railway Transport
Aleksandr Kosarev, Deputy General Director, Russian Railway Research Institute
Jean-Pierre Loubinoux, General Director, International Union of Railways
David Melikyan, Technical Director, ALSTOM Transport Rus
Sergey Pugachev, Director, Department of Technical Regulation of the National Association of Builders (NOSTROY)
Yefim Rozenberg, First Deputy General Director, Research and Design Institute of Information, Communication and Automation in Rail Transport
Oleg Senkovsky, Deputy Head of the Technical Audit Centre, Russian Railways; Vice-President, Non-commercial Partnership ‘Association of Railway Equipment Producers’
Gennady Voronin, Editor in Chief, “Standard and Quality” Magazine
Valery Tolstov, Technical Director, Sinara-Transport Machines

Moderator:
Kirill Yankov, Economic Policy Director, Centre for Strategic Research Foundation; Chairman, Passengers Union International Public Organisation

Speakers:
Juan Jose Garcia, Area Director International Division, CAF
Evgeny Golubev, First Deputy Director General, TramRus
Flavio Canetti, Senior Director of New Business Development, Bombardier Transportation
Roman Churakov, Senior Lawyer for Infrastructure and PPP Projects, Herbert Smith Freehills CIS
Andreas Heym, Director of International Development, AREP; Representative of the General Director, Gares & Connexions Station Directorate, SNCF
Sandra Gott-Karlbauer, Head, City Transport Division, Siemens AG
Sergey Parsegov, Director, Department of Management of Investment Projects, Pokrovka Finance
Andrey Shlyonsky, Deputy General Director of Railway Technology, Uralvagonzavod
Matthias Stohr, Sales Director for CIS Countries, Stadler
Tomasz Szuba, Chairman of the Board, General Director, AO TINES

• Modern approaches to operational cost cutting
• The development of production systems. The experience of Russian Railways and its partners
• Introduction of resource-saving technologies to increase the efficiency of technological processes
• Ways to reduce losses in production using Lean Manufacturing tools
• Motivating and involving staff in continuous improvement

Moderator:
Artur Akopyan, Deputy Director of  Technical Policy Department, Russian Railways

Speakers:
Alexey Baranov, Director, Senior Expert Consultant, Orgprom Group
Olga Efimova, Professor, Moscow State Railway University
Boris Ivanov, Deputy Director of Technical Policy Department, Russian Railways
Alexey Kostyukov, Technical Director, SPC Dynamics
Elena Kropotina, Operations Director, Rail Transport, Promzheldortrans – Service
Andreas Labrens, Director of Rail Automation Division, Sector of Infrastructure and Cities, Siemens in Russia and Central Asia
Igor Lakin, Head, Department of Scientific and Technological Development, TMH-Service
Oleg Nazarov, Deputy General Director, Russian Railway Research Institute
Oleg Pertsovsky, Director, Scientific and Technical Development of the Energy Efficiency Cluster, Fund Skolkovo
Yefim Rozenberg, First Deputy General Director, Research and Design Institute of Information, Communication and Automation in Rail Transport
Alexey Soldatenkov, Development Director of Business Systems, Severstal
Oleg Spai, Production Director, Locomotives and Carriages, Ural Locomotives
Anton Vorobyev, Chairman of the Board of the Institute of Fundamental Independent Expert, Consulting and Service; Chairman of the Subcommittee on International Standardization and Certification of the Sverdlovsk Oblast Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs
Pierre-Jean You, Director of Production System, Transmashholding
Anton Zubikhin, Deputy General Director for External Relations and Innovation, Sinara-Transport Machines; Vice-President, NP Union of Industries of Railway Equipment

Meeting of the Target Program “Youth of Russian Railways” with Valentin Gapanovich, Senior Vice-President for Innovation Development - Chief Engineer of Russian Railways

Welcoming remarks
Vadim Morozov, Doctor of Technical; First Vice President, Russian Railways

• Background and the main features of the railway transport renaissance in the 21st century
• Macroeconomic and geo-economic role of railways in the context of globalisation
• The need to form a global railway development strategy until 2050
• Mechanisms for the innovative development of the industry taking into account the intensification of existing railway lines

Moderator:
Boris Lapidus, D.Sc. in Economics; Professor; General Director, Research and Development Institute of Railway Transport; Chairman, International Railway Research Board at the International Union of Railways

Speakers:
Vadim Morozov, Doctor of Technical; First Vice President, Russian Railways
Jean-Pierre Loubinoux, General Director, International Union of Railways
Fyodor Pekhterev, D.Sc. in Economics, General Director, Institute of Transport Economics and Development
Emilio Garcia,Technical Director, Talgo
Alexander Korchagin, Candidate of Economic Sciences; Director, Innovative Development Centre of JSCo Russian Railways; member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
Jan Harder, Vice President for Main Lines, Alstom Transport Russia
Rostislav Demin, First Deputy Director, State Research Center Ukrainian Railways
Dennis Schut, Head of Research Department, International Union of Railways
Sergey Zamyatin, Head of Specialised Technical Engineering Division, DB System Technic

• The construction of mobile low-cost rail services
• The use of new materials, traction types, track structures, rolling stock and principles for their interaction to make rail transport cheaper and faster
• Removing cost barriers for the development of high-speed passenger transport
• The organisation of low-cost long-distance passenger transport
• The development of high-tonnage traffic as a tool for making bulk cargo transport cheaper
• Prospects for the development of rapid and high-speed transport for goods with high added value on railway transport

Moderator:
Anton Ryshkov, D.Sc. in Economics; Director, Department of Economic Conditions and Strategic Development, Russian Railways; Member, Joint Research Council, Russian Railways

Speakers:
Dmitry Macheret, D.Sc. in Economics; Professor; First Deputy Chairman, Joint Research Council, Russian Railways
Marcus Montenecourt, General Director, LLC Transolutions CIS/Amsted Rail
Andrezj Zurkowski, Director, Railway Institute, Warsaw, Poland
Vasily Fomin, Doctor of Physics and Mathematical Sciences; Professor; Director, Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Oleg Nazarov, Deputy General Director, Russian Railway Research Institute (VNIIZhT)
Vladimir Kosoy, Vice President, Centre for Strategic Research Foundation
Marek Babel, Head of Design and Construction of Rolling Stock, Krakow University, Poland
Alexey Sokolov, Deputy General Director, Russian Railway Research Institute (VNIIZhT), Deputy Chairman, Joint Research Council