Anna Paltauf

Head of IT & Digitalization

Title

Data analysis challenges at ÖBB Personenverkehr AG

Sub headings

Integrating and harmonizing data
Preparation of easy-to-use data for analysis
Getting the right tools in place

Bio

Anna started her career in the year 2000 at the Accenture in Vienna. There she worked mainly on projects in the financial services industry mainly for Austrian and German bank and insurance companies.

After that, Anna worked for the Schwabe, Ley & Greiner. She gained experience in Treasury Consulting, Cash Logistics and Payment Strategy and Processes, working on national and international projects with various companies in Austria and Germany.

In 2006, she started her job at Raiffeisen International. As a Process Manager she was responsible for designing and streamlining payment processes for all RI banks in CEE.

From 2008 to 2017 she worked with The Advisory House in Vienna. Focusing on the utilities industry she led various projects for strategy definition and process optimization for Austrian, German and Swiss utility companies.

In 2017, following a successful implementation of the new distribution system for ÖBB, Anna started working with ÖBB Personenverkehr. Since 2018 Anna is the head of the IT & Digitalization department.

Bertrand Minary

Chief Industry & Innovation Officer

Title

Rail freight forward vision for efficient and sustainable rail freight, serving multimodality

Sub headings

European and national Initiatives, making sector moving
Start for current experience and converge with common building blocks
Towards the future autonomous freight train system

Bio

Bertrand MINARY is Chief Industry & Innovation Officer at SNCF Logistics Rail & Multimodal Division (Fret SNCF, CapTrain, VIIA, VFLI, …), which is the 3rd rail freight company in Europe. Due to his important experience in Supply Chain, rail and Digital, he is in charge of reinventing rail freight business with added value, using Lean startup, UX and Agile approaches. He is also in charge of the management of innovation, to make possible for every worker to enhance the company.

He entered at SNCF in 2000, as project leader dealing with freight techniques at international level.

He began to work for Fret SNCF in 2006, as projects manager for the CEO. Then he had different rail freight operations positions during 10 years: customer center manager for automotive clients, Sales&Operations planning program manager, operations manager for Fret SNCF in the Rhone Alpes region (270 employees – 280,000 wagons per year).

He previously worked at Michelin as Supply Chain Manager.

Bertrand MINARY is graduated in Transport and Logistics. He also teaches logistics and international transport in engineering schools (Ecole Centrale de Lille, ESTACA) and IAE Business School in Lyon.

He was certified on July 2018 as “Digital Transformation Facilitator” by Nextexplo / ESC Paris, one of the first course dedicated to digital transformation in Europe

Giorgio Travaini

Head of Research & Innovation

Title

On the way to a new Rail Research and Innovation Programme

Sub headings

Building together the European future rail concept of operations
What to expect from rail research and innovation during the next years
Migration plans in view of the deployment

Bio

Giorgio is responsible for the Shift2Rail’s R&I programme since 2015.

Before, he was a Senior Corporate advisor at UNIFE, advising on strategic topics and preparing S2R.

In 2007, as Senior Technical Manager, he supervised several R&I projects, teams and technical committees. He was also secretary of ERRAC.

In 2006, he assisted Mr Paolo Costa, Chairman of Transport Committee of the European Parliament.

In 2004 he worked for the European Chamber of Commerce association and the Valle d’Aosta Regional representation office.

Prior to that he worked for Procter & Gamble in Rome and for BNP Paribas Cardiff in Paris.

He holds an Engineering Degree (Polytechnic of Turin) and a Master Degree in Public Affairs (London South Bank University).

Christian Sagmeister

Head of Railway Systems

Title

Digital railway operations - challenges and opportunities

Sub headings

Digitalisation projects at ÖBB infrastructure
How technologies can support your business processes?
Opportunities for the railway system

Bio

Christian Sagmeister manages the railway systems division of ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG. During the last 15 years he has been responsible for various tasks within the ÖBB Group (among others implementation of the Austria-wide digital train system GSM-R, expansion of energy networks and securing the energy supply of the ÖBB group, introduction of the european train protection system ETCS L2 and set-up of the lifecycle management unit telematics).

In his current position, he is responsible for ensuring the availability, security and economic operation of telecommunication networks as well as the control and security systems. In addition, he is responsible for the digitalization initiatives of ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG, which set the course for automated train operation and the automation of operations management.

Furthermore, Christian Sagmeister also acts as Chair of ITS Austria and is a member of the Management Board of the Austrian Traffic Telematic Cluster (ATTC). He is leading the working group Rail & Road Traffic Management in the Austrian Society for Traffic and Transport Science (ÖVG) and has also been a member of various international working groups for many years.

Helmut Klarer

Chief Information Architect for OT & Network

Title

Digital Success Concepts & Needs Enabeld by IoT

Sub headings

The “magic formula” for digital success: Digitalisation, IoT and AI
Digitalisation is more than on Project
Lessons learned: Topics to address

Bio

Helmut Klarer, as member of the Strategic Group IT Management division of ÖBB-Holding AG since 2018, manage strategic concepts. The strategic manager, who holds a Master degree in business economic and telecom technologies also member in national and international cybersecurity communities.

Mr Klarer embarked on his professional career as industrial automation technology manager for the operational infrastructure department.

Up from 2010, as asset- and lifecycle manager he merges organisational and HR conditions to the automation and SCADA renewing process, forces industrial security, and monitoring systems for power substations and energy distribution systems during operations.

As information security officer, he started modifying OT environment to reducing overall cost. He controlled strategic agendas for digitisation the company with a specific focus to availability, security and safety.

In his todays position, Mr Klarer is responsible to preparing external interests and views with the digital business strategy of ÖBB Group as well as shareholder orientation within the Group for OT, IoT and Network.

Nicole Friedrich

Head of Procurement Infrastructure

Title

Changing perspectives: Germany needs “Strong Rail”

Sub headings

How to manage massive investments in infrastructure?
Why is there no alternative to digitization in rail infrastructure?
What are Implications for the procurement infrastructure?

Bio

Nicole Friedrich is the Head of Procurement Infrastructure within DB Procurement. She ensures that the business units worldwide are supplied with materials, capital goods and services in nine technology fields (such as “structural & civil engineering”, “passenger train facilities” and “digital infrastructure”) – economically, on time and with the right quality.

Graduating from an engineering school as a mechanical engineer, Nicole started her career at the DB ICE factory in Krefeld focusing on process optimization and vehicle maintenance while gaining more and more management experience.

Before joining Procurement in July 2021, she led various departments at DB Netz including the asset and maintenance management as well as operations management (region central) and was responsible for the further development of maintenance procedures/processes and the corresponding IT.

She won the DB Award with her team in 2006 and 2012 in the categories “Innovation” and “Quality”.

Eric Pfaffmann

Vice President Customer Service Logistics

Title

link2rail: Digital services for easy rail freight

Sub headings

link2rail is the digital platform of DB Cargo that creates easy access and easy management of Rail freight for customers
Wagon Intelligence is an enabler for a set of IoT-/AI-based services which boosts attractiveness of Rail logistics
link2rail delivers the ability to customize particular services and provides access via API, App or portal

Bio

Target-oriented innovator and networker with great passion for digital business development. Eric has more than 20 years of experience in European Rail-based logistics in Sales, Project Management and Digital Transformation. After his PHD in International Management and Innovation, he joined the Corporate Strategy Department of Deutsche Bahn as In-house Consultant with a focus on turnaround management and process redesign. Throughout his career, Eric has always been enthusiastic about bringing people together to make things happen beyond organizational limitations. Since 2017, he is responsible for customer service management in the DB Cargo industry sectors Automotive, Chemistry, Mineral Oil, Pulp and Paper, and Consumer Goods. In dual role, Eric leads digitalization of the customer interface and conducts a digital transformation program for the Sales Department. He is co-creator of the link2rail approach and heads the module “link2rail - the digital platform in Rail freight” within the Corporate group program “Strong Rail” of Deutsche Bahn.

Marco Gallini

Head of the Maintenance Vehicles and Mobile Diagnostics Department

Title

The ISO 55001 certification of the mobile and intagible assets management system of RFI - Rete Ferroviaria Italiana

Sub headings

Which benefits may be achieved through an ISO 55001 certification?
How can digitalisation help asset management systems?
Is digitalisation an opportunity or a risk?

Bio

Marco Gallini was born in Rome (Italy) on 15.08.1972.

After his high school studies in Lausanne (Switzerland), he graduated in 2000 in Civil Engineering at "La Sapienza" University of Rome, with a thesis about the use of spectral analysis of surface waves for the assessment of cracks in railway tunnels.

After a short experience as infrastructure designer at the engineering company “Bonifica SpA”, he began his 20 years experience at the Italian railway infrastructure management company RFI – Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, initially as maintenance engineer, and then as Head of the Infrastructure Unit of Bari.

From 2013 to 2015 he served as Regional Director of the Infrastructure Department in Naples.

In 2016, he moved back to the RFI headquarters in Rome as Head of the National Safety Department.

Since 2017 he is serving as Head of the Maintenance Vehicles and Mobile Diagnostics Department in Rome.

Olivier Waeber

Leader of Innovation & Technology Management

Title

Building an innovative organization

Sub headings

The nature of innovation and how ideas evolve
Hindering Innovation: Why companies have difficulties in making innovation successful
Implementing innovation is hard work: Insights into SBB Infrastructure

Bio

Olivier Waeber joined the SBB AG in 2017 and currently coordinates 13 technological, cross-functional competence centers: Augmented and Virtual Reality, Predictive Maintenance, Drones, Artificial Intelligence, Additive Manufacturing, Energy Storage, Crowd Management, Machine Perception, Internet of Things and others. In addition, he is responsible to further develop the company wide innovation and technology management processes, structures, procedures and similar. This involves defining priority topics in innovation and technology management. Olivier received his diploma from ETH in Zurich and his Ph.D. in Strategy and Innovation from EPFL in Lausanne. Finally, he worked as a Business Consultant for Business Innovation and the Digital Transformation in various industries. He has overseen many digitization initiatives and is an expert in innovation and technology management.

Philippe Citroën

Director General

Title

R&I is key for keeping the EU Rail Supply Industry leadership:

Sub headings

The European Rail Supply Industry at the heart of the EU rail research and innovation strategy
Towards a fully digitalised railway system (incl. ERTMS)
Public Procurement and promotion of innovation-related criteria and best price-quality ratio (with the MEAT principle)

Bio

Philippe Citroën joined UNIFE in 2011 as Director General. He began his career as Transport Advisor at the French Permanent Representation to the EU and then became Member of the Cabinet of the French Transport Minister. In 1993 he became Manager and Chief of Staff at RATP Paris and joined the SNCF as Strategy Director in 1999. Prior to assuming his position at UNIFE, he served for 8 years as CEO of Systra, one of the world’s leading public transport engineering companies.

P. Citroën is a graduate of Paris II University in Public Law, holds a Diploma from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) and also studied at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA), where he also lectured about Rail and Urban Transport.

Philippe Citroën is married and has three children.

Roland Moser

Chief Technology Officer

Title

Applying new technologies to rail business

Sub headings

Artificial Intelligence in Predictive Maintenance
Machine Perception in Infrastructure Monitoring
Alternative Energies and propulsion systems to reach global CO2 goals

Bio

Roland Moser is the SBB Head of Technology Office. Before joining SBB in January 2021, he served in various global corporate technology management roles at General Electric (GE) and Alstom. Roland holds an MSc and PhD in Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He held various research positions with NASA, the Stanford Research Institute and the University of Tokyo prior to starting his industrial career managing the electronic engineering department of a Swiss textile machinery manufacturer. He is author and co-author of over 20 peer reviewed journal papers, over 30 peer reviewed conference publications and over 20 patents in the field of sensors, robotics, machine tools and magnetic levitation. Roland was scientific advisor to the Institute of Production and Robotics of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), winner of the 2010 Europ/Euron Technology Transfer Award and finalist of the 2010 IEEE-IFR Invention and Entrepreneurship Award. Roland won two times an Alstom Innovation Award and was a finalist in the 2018 Global New Venture Challenge with an electric motorbike project.

Charles Caputo

Programme Manager Wagon Telematic

Title

The Digital Freight Train as an Ecosystem

Sub headings

Why the Digital Freight Train is the only solution to deliver the required transport growth while achieving our climate and social targets
What the Digital Freight Train ecosystem includes and which specific problems it addresses
How the Digital Freight Train impacts the competitiveness and productivity of freight rail transport

Bio

Charles strives to make rail transport competitive! An IoT system manager, Charles started his career at Siemens Mobility integrating communications systems in rail technologies: Tetra, LTE, PIS, SCADA. He then took over as technical lead for Station Management Systems, including elements for capacity forecast, demand responsive operation and passenger information. Since 2020 Charles leads the Wagon Telematics team to design, deploy and operate Siemens IoT solution for freight wagons and locos which focuses on increasing efficiency on operational processes, maximizing asset utilization and reduce associated costs. Charles’ main focus is on designing solutions for customers’ problems which result in user centric designs, sustainable production and a continuous improvement approach. He also held positions leading business development for railway signalling in Canada. “But not everything is about delivering, enjoying the working life is a must, collaborating and pulling together are basic pillars in the teams I have worked on. Getting there is important; how to get there, is as important. We should not miss on our company values”.

Max Schubert

Managing Director

Title

Securing digital innovation in Rail

Sub headings

IT-Security meets Railway Safety
Secure engineering of railway systems and assets
Ensuring IT-Security over the life-cycle successfully

Bio

Max Schubert holds a degree in electrical engineering. Already during his studies, he worked on security systems at German and Finnish railroads as well as at CERN. Afterwards, he accompanied various positions and projects in the field of electrical engineering, signalling, sensor technology, and security at Deutsche Bahn. Within this position Max Schubert was responsible for strategic and realization projects focussing on innovation as well as life cycle management. Since 2020 he is leading INCYDE – Industrial Cyber Defense – as managing director, which is focusing on IT security for industrial system like railway and automotive. With his company he supports different railway operators in their analysis, planning, and realization phase to reach the required security level efficiently. Research projects, same as standardisation initiatives, guarantee continuous improvement and state of the art strategies as well as technologies for the customers.

Alessandro Borzacchi

Project Manager

Title

Augmented Wagon Inspection

Sub headings

Traceability of rolling stock inspection operations
Remote assistance for the wagon inspector
Rolling stock data acquisition for train preparation

Bio

Alessandro is a Project Manager at Rail Cargo Carrier Italy and he is responsible for Innovation and Continuous Improvement at group level.

With a previous experience in the manufacturing industry, he has been working with Rail Cargo since 2018 and his first focus area has been the Rolling Stock Department, where he led the introduction of office automation and RPA to reduce manual data inputs and non value added activities accounting for more than 50% of the working hours related to locomotive management.

Now Alessandro is leading the first ever project in Railways for field railcar inspection using Augmented Reality and Smart Glasses. Started in 2019, the project has already successfully passed the first Proof of Concept in Italy and it is now ready to scale into a second bigger and group-wide Pilot Phase with the aim of saving many field service hours and to “connect” field workers with the entire company IT backbone, improving their safety conditions and their field experience.

Dr. Andrea Bracciali

Professor

Title

The ISO 55001 certification of the mobile and intagible assets management system of RFI - Rete Ferroviaria Italiana

Sub headings

Which benefits may be achieved through an ISO 55001 certification?
How can digitalisation help asset management systems?
Is digitalisation an opportunity or a risk?

Bio

Dr. Andrea Bracciali is a Professor at the University of Florence, Italy, lecturing on "Rolling Stock Design and Manufacturing" and "Integrated Design of Rail Systems" in the Master Course "Railway Vehicles" for Mechanical Engineers.

He is a member of several standardization groups in the CEN/TC256 "Railway Applications" Technical Committee.

In the last decade he was deeply involved in investigations and technical support after railway accidents, including Viareggio and Pioltello derailments.

Prof. Bracciali organized the 8th International Conference on Contact Mechanics and Wear of Rail/Wheel Systems "CM2009" in Florence, Italy.

In the last 30 years he offered consultancy to many private and public companies for metro, tram and railway systems in Italy and abroad.

He published over 130 papers on noise, vibrations, structural design, safety, running dynamics, rail/wheel wear, rolling contact fatigue, etc.

He is currently co-operating with the Italian IM (RFI SpA) to develop an advanced system to calibrate track geometry inspection vehicles.

Plasser & Theurer - has influenced the progress in the construction and maintenance of railway tracks more substantially than any other company. As a full-range supplier operating worldwide, the Austrian family business supplies track maintenance machines of almost all kinds and sizes and provides high-quality services over the entire life cycle of the machines. Our success story began with the production of tamping machines that stood out from all other products on the market due to their technical superiority. To this day, Plasser & Theurer tamping machines are the standard in track maintenance. Over decades, new machine models have been added to the machine programme. Today, the machines we offer cover almost all works to be performed when maintaining, laying and renewing railway tracks. In addition to machines for all track gauges in all parts of the world, we offer machines in all output categories meeting our customers’ needs. From a classic machine manufacturer to a modern full-range supplier.

Today, Plasser & Theurer is more than just a machine manufacturer. As a full-range supplier collaborating with 19 partner companies around the world, Plasser & Theurer offers comprehensive after-sales services, covering training, spare parts supply and technical service. The farreaching innovations in mechanised track maintenance not only involve new machine technologies, but also set new standards for the cost-efficient operation of machines. Developed by Plasser & Theurer, the PlasserSmartMaintenance initiative provides digital solutions that ensure greater transparency, connectivity and efficiency for both the maintenance of individual machines and entire machine fleets.

Sustainable quality increases cost-efficiency The contributions we make towards the cost-efficiency and sustainability of the railway system define our success. We set store by quality, innovative technologies and solutions providing the customers with real economic benefits.

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STIMIO designs and produces Wireless Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) solutions to connect assets and measure performance. Our solutions help customers to improve their operational efficiency and propose new business models.

We have developped a Railway certified solution, STIM-TRAIN, that connect train’s equipement and boost the operational maintenance of rolling stock. It is composed of a Generic IoT Box (RAILBOX), and a cellular gateway (RAILGATE). RAILBOX is completely autonomous (with an embedded battery) and wireless. This makes it very easy to install on legacy equipment, enabling advanced predictive maintenance of assets on-board such as water/lubricant/sand tanks, doors/HVAC, pantograph etc. The RAILGATE bridges the RAILBOX to legacy wired train network and/or a 3G/4G network. STIM-TRAIN leverages the latest technologies of the industrial IoT, and adapt them to the railway industry.

STIMIO provides remote monitoring IoT solutions for railway companies to optimise operations, enable condition-based & predictive maintenance, reduce safety risks and increase service availability.

STIMIO’s end-to-end solutions are composed of three main components:

The data acquisition based on railway certified and battery-powered devices endowed with AI and Edge Computing capabilities,
The connectivity to transmit the data over LPWAN or cellular networks,
The IoT platform to process the data, interface with customer IT systems, define patterns with prediction algorithms, manage the devices remotely and provide relevant insights to take actions.

Benefits of our IoT solutions:

Operational reliability: proactive management & suppression of failures-to-come,
Enhanced rolling stock reliability & availability: remote inspection & “pit-stop” preparation,
Cost reduction: drop in duration and number of maintenance tasks & resources needed,
Risk management: better insight & decision-making in operational centres,
QoS: guarantee of service, higher customer satisfaction & comfort,
Sustainability: extended assets lifetime.

Typical use cases:

Rolling Stock:

Fluid levels monitoring : water, oil, windshield washer
Battery voltage level monitoring
Compressor operation monitoring
Doors monitoring
PLCs error code remote retrieval
HVAC system monitoring
Critical system temperature monitoring (engine, axle boxe, etc.)

Infrastructures

Track geometry and defects monitoring
Catenary monitoring : tensioning, frost, temperature
Rail temperature monitoring

Signalling

Cable Isolation drift monitoring

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Meet the Speakers

Helmut Klarer

Nicole Friedrich

Audrey Raveneau

Roland Moser

Alessandro Borzacchi

Marco Gallini

Dr Eric Pfaffmann

Christian Sagmeister

Bertrand Minary

Juergen Rudolf

Bigna Ruppen

Giorgio Travaini

Philippe Citroën

Florian Auer

Olivier Waeber

Daniel MacGregor

Stefan Kalmund

Slaven Stekovic

Philipp Lepold

Lara Spendier

Benjamin Wecker

Theo Quick

Charles Caputo

Christian Pucher

Jean-Michel Evanghelou

Dr Michael Leining

Max Schubert

Dr. Andrea Bracciali

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