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Railway engineering: Prospects, Technology and Priorities Business forum on the development of Russia-EU partner relations to be held at the EXPO 1520
The VIII International Conference entitled ‘Railway Engineering: Prospects, Technology, Priorities’ will be held as part of the Fifth International Fair of Railway Equipment and Technologies EXPO 1520.
The business programme will have more than 12 formats, including the international business forum called ‘Developing Russia-EU Partner Relations: Joint Projects outside of Politics’. The forum will be conducted with the support of the Association of European Business.
The speakers include:
- Philippe Pegorier, Chairman of the Association of European Business in Russia;
- Valentin Gapanovich, Senior Vice President of JSC Russian Railways and President of NP OPZhT (a non-commercial partnership, the Association of Railway Equipment Industries);
- Philippe Citroen, General Director of the Association of the European Rail Industry (UNIFE):
- Frank Schauff, CEO of the Association of European Business.
The experts will consider the prospects for innovatively developing and increasing the competitiveness of engineering companies, as well as addressing the problems of harmonising technical regulations, licenses and rules in railway transportation for the European Union and the Customs Union.
The Fifth International Rail Fair EXPO 1520 will be held at the VNIIZhT Experimental Ring in Sherbinka, Moscow, on 2-5 September 2015. It will be a venue for presenting advanced railway equipment and technologies manufactured by Russian and overseas railway engineering companies. National railway authorities in various CIS, European and Central Asian countries, operators and leasing companies, freight owners and carriers are the key customers of these products. Owing to the high standard of the Fair’s organisation, its unique character and scale in the 1520-gauge area, as well as active involvement of international companies, numerous high-ranking government officials, heads of railway ministries and CEOs of major European corporations visit the event as distinguished guests and delegates. In September 2013, the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry (UFI) acknowledged the international status and superior organisation of EXPO 1520.
General Partner: Russian Railways
Organiser: Business Dialogue
For more information about the forum, contact Business Dialogue’s press center:
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