In recognising the need for better quality, improved reliability and greater customer service, there is no doubt that the Railways of Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland are world leaders in embracing change – and are recognised globally as digital trailblazers.
How we change the way we work, with asset management
Claus Hincke is the CTO of the Banedanmark and are heading a new Asset Management strategi with a certification ambition in 2027. Before being named CTO in January 2023, Claus has headed Asset & maintenance divisions in Airports in 15 years. He played a key role in Copenhagen airports becoming the most efficient airport in 12 years, heading the Asset & Maintenance management journey. Prior to joining the Airport industry, Claus was Director in Novo Nordisk and responsible for LEAN maintenance. Claus earned an MMD from Copenhagen Business School.
Making the vision a reality, implementing digitized asset capability to boost maintenance
Björn Dellås is currently Senior advisor with the railway systems department at Trafikverket (Swedish Transport Administration) as well as chairperson of the Railway Research Centre at Luleå University of Technology. Mr Dellås joined Trafikverket in 2020 as head of Technical Asset Management within Railway Systems Department. Mr Dellås has been in rail and train business since 2011 and has held engineering director positions in Bombardier in Sweden, Germany, and UK as well as working as an independent consultant. Prior to that Mr Dellås has held several positions as Engineering director or VP in several industries in household appliances and telcom. Mr Dellås has a M.Sc in Engineering Physics from Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden.
Digitalisation as a consequence of purchase of new rolling stock
In my career i have always been part of acquisition of Rolling Stock. I bring value to the purchase processes regarding acquisition of Rolling Stock and my aim is that the Rolling Stock in Service give good value to Rail passengers. What makes my Job satisfying is also that Railway is part of turning the globe towards a greener and more environmentally balanced world.
Currently I am holding a position with Danish State Rail with teams that contribute in Rolling Stock Engineering, Project Management, Maintenance Engineering and Inspection of Rolling Stock. I and my teams are ensuring that the projects currently managed by Danish State Rail are progressing. From that position i am advising my team members and the project managers in their work with the Rail suppliers.
Technology enabled innovation from the core of the Business at Green Cargo
Ingo Paas is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Digital Officer (CDO) at the Swedish railway transport company Green Cargo. He received the Award CIO of the Year in 2022 in Sweden from the International Data Corporation (IDC/IDG) and was recognized as one of Sweden’s TOP50 tech influencers in 2023. In April 2023 he released the first book about digital composable enterprises, demystifying the challenges of transforming future digital resilient and AI ready businesses.
Throughout his career, Ingo has been at the forefront of innovation and digital composable transformations, demonstrating his leadership skills and ability to bring about positive change. He has over 28 years of international executive experience in multinational enterprises such as Ericsson, adidas Group, and ICA Group in Sweden. He is a visionary, innovative, technology-savvy, business-oriented executive and leader who worked on various large-scale international digital, data, and technology-driven transformations, to generate ground-breaking profitable technology-inspired business improvements & innovation.
The future of data usage is super complex. Is your organization neglecting data governance?
Matti Pesu is a development manager at the Finnish transport infrastructure agency (FTIA). He has a background in GIS, geography and earlier he has been steering the Finnish national road information system. At his current post he takes care of the infrastructure data property of the FTIA. This means enhancing data management and boosting data governance on route to the digital twin of the Finnish transport network.
Transparency as a tool to improve reliability
Commercial director for CargoNet - responsibility for intermodal and industrial train solutions. Services offered in Norway and between Norway and Sweden. Holds a MBA degree from the Norwegian Business School BI, board member for Norwegian Logistics and Freight Association, and has more 15 years of experience with freight trains and intermodal train solutions.
Digital Tools Revolutionizing Railways: From Development and Tender to Construction and Operation
Jannik Nisted Nipper is a dedicated professional with two decades of diverse experience in finance, IT, and rails. Throughout his career, he has been driven by a passion for applying technology to support and strengthen business operations. Jannik's educational background lies in business administration and management, providing him with a solid foundation that combines a creative, innovative, and strategic mindset.
Jannik's journey in the professional world has been marked by continuous learning and growth. He has had the privilege of assuming leadership roles for a significant portion of his career, contributing to digital transformation efforts in various organizations. Whether optimizing financial processes, improving IT systems, or exploring innovative solutions in the rails industry, Jannik remains committed to finding ways to drive business progress through technology.
Integrated production planning in rail logistics
Harri (MSE, Logistics) is a transport business professional and experienced leader in railway and airline industries. He has experience in mergers and acquisitions, as well as company turnaround programs. In past few years, he has also prepared bids for railway operation tenders in Finland, Sweden and Norway.
Currently, Harri leads VR’s train operations planning and operations control team and targets to integrate production planning and control processes with business planning.
Digital Innovations in a Greenfield Railway
Andy is a specialist in Innovation and Digital Architecture at RB Rail AS, the joint venture for the implementation and coordination of the Rail Baltica development. This greenfield project will connect Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to the wider European rail and transport networks and forms a unique opportunity to deliver a world-class sustainable and digital railway, with wider economic and environmental benefits for the region.
Prior to joining the project, Andy was directly involved in rolling stock and infrastructure digitalisation / analytics projects at Transport for London, and has worked in enterprise and mission-critical IT and telecoms projects both in the UK and worldwide.
Heavy Metal Innovation – Between smart visions and rough reality?
Passionate about creating the future of mobility: Alexander Wehnert is not by chance responsible for the development of DB Cargo’s business strategy in Scandinavia. Upon completing his studies in strategic management and trainee programmes at Munich Airport and A.P. Møller-Mærsk, he joined Deutsche Bahn AG in Berlin as executive assistant to the Board Member for Digitalization & Technology.
At DB Cargo Scandinavia, Alexander drives forward change together with the CEO and department leaders. His focus encompasses strategic transformation, digitalization, sustainability and organizational performance.
Boosting the implementation of innovations for a competitive railway
Linda is the President of the European Rail Freight Corridor ScanMed and responsible for International development and relations on railways at Trafikverket and also the vice President of RailNet Europe. She has approximately 20 years of experience in the railway sector and has been responsible for roles such as national traffic management, business development, maintenance, strategy, traffic information, customers and associations.
Railway maintenance benefits from advanced analytics
Anki Svärdby-Bergman is teamleader for The Advanced analytics fabric in the Maintenance department at Trafikverket in Sweden. Her main focus is supporting development of connecting new data from sensors or external information services and advanced analytics for further use in analysing status of assets – all together with a fast growing analytics team! Anki has worked over 20 years with information modelling and data quality for road and rail. First as consultant and since three years at Trafikverket. Anki has studied Survey engineering at The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
IoT for Rail, a supplier's view
As the Head of Connectivity and IoT since 2019, bringing over a decade of expertise in the Railway industry, he has demonstrated a profound commitment to driving transformative change through technology. His professional journey at Siemens Mobility commenced in Rail Automation in 2013, where he played a pivotal role in the successful implementation of the ETCS L2 & ATO signalling system in the UK, and the delivery of critical signalling infrastructure for ETCS Level 2 in Belgium in 2016.
Driven by his passion for innovation and a vision of fostering societal betterment alongside sustainable progress, has led a multidisciplinary team. His responsibilities encompass fostering global collaborations, engaging with diverse stakeholders, and providing comprehensive support in widespread signalling products. Under his leadership, the team has been at the forefront of propelling solutions toward a comprehensive digital transformation through IoT, remote advance diagnostics, cybersecurity, and freight automation, ensuring the continued advancement of railway technology for a more connected and sustainable future.
Technology Without Borders
James Simester is Technology Director for Unipart Technologies Group. An innovative engineering led organisation who provide solutions that deliver proven business benefits, through its transformational hardware, software and data science capabilities. With significant engineering and technology experience across a range of sectors and applications, James has had great success in driving projects for customers by bringing deep technical competencies and operational contexts together, which provide new, actionable insights.
Instrumentel is a company within Unipart Technologies Group (a division within Unipart Group). Instrumentel is a world-leading provider of asset monitoring solutions for precision measurement in extreme environments. Our solutions include condition-based predictive maintenance, condition monitoring of remote assets and predictive analytics to improve asset performance, saving customers time, money and carbon.
Driving Sustainability - preserving the environment and saving millions with rolling stock optimisation
Business Developer at SISCOG. Studied Computer Engineering at the University of Lisbon. Has over 10 years of experience in developing and customising scheduling software and prototypes for planning and optimisation, with focus on different personnel classes of railway and metro operations, including Dutch Railways, Norwegian Railways, London Underground, Lisbon Metro, and others.
The value of ISO 55001 – can it be a competitive advantage, and a driver for change?
Trains with Brains® - Redefining rail infrastructure and rolling stock monitoring and maintenance regimes
Jarek Rosinski holds an MSc in Vibroacoustics and PhD in machine dynamics. He started his career as a lecturer of machine dynamics at the Institute of Mechanics and Vibroacoustics in Krakow. In 1989 he joined the National Gear Technology Centre at Newcastle University. As an internationally renowned consultant in the field of instrumentation, machine dynamics, power transmission systems, he then founded Transmission Dynamics in 1996. He worked extensively with industry solving highly complex cases across all industrial sectors. In 2006, after 18 years of service, Jarek left Newcastle University, to pursue his company Transmission Dynamics full time.
Trains with Brains® - Redefining rail infrastructure and rolling stock monitoring and maintenance regimes
Jenny Hudson (BA, MBA) is Business development Director at Transmission Dynamics, who specialise in Industrial Internet of Things solutions that utilise advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence to support remote condition monitoring of high value assets globally. Having spent her career supporting SMEs to grow through innovation, she has been with Transmission Dynamics since October 2020, helping them take scale up deployment of their technologies to all critical industrial sectors around the world. Jenny’s day to day role is to support this extraordinary multi-disciplinary team and their clients, with the highest level of relationship, project and business.
Mr. Peter Juel Jensen is innovation manager at Plasser & Theurer and internationally recognized subject matter expert in railway asset management. Peter has a wide knowledge about railway in general and is expert in track technology, domestic and international standards, and implementation of smart solutions for operation and maintenance.
With a background as railway engineer and positions in an infrastructure manager, as advisory consultant and now in the industry, Peter can view challenges from several point-of-views, and through experience with managing 20+ internal R&D projects in Banedanmark, as well as many different projects as technical manager in COWI, Peter has obtained comprehensive knowledge about operation and maintenance of railway track on operational, tactical and strategic level, which he use to drive innovation in the railway sector.
Peter’s current position in The Digital Railway Solutions Alliance on behalf of Plasser & Theurer is to lead internal and external innovation products concentrated on end-to-end lifecycle management solutions.
Communication among Transport Stakeholders via State Intervention Web Portal: the Latvian case.
Justina Hudenko, Dr.oec., serves as the CEO of the Latvian Capacity Allocation and Track Access Charging Body, bringing over ten years of experience to her role. Certified as an expert in transport economy by the Latvian Academy of Sciences, she is also an associated professor at Riga Technical University, focusing on digital competency within transportation management. In 2021, Justina led several research projects aimed at modelling transportation systems in various countries. Notably, she spearheaded the development of a model for the Latvian Ministry of Transport, aiming to comprehensively understand the impact of state interventions on the key performance indicators (KPIs) of the main transportation system.
How cooperation in an open ecosystem can create transformative value for railway networks
Pierre Henri is currently the head of digitalization at Vossloh Group, he is in charge of a European wide team to support the development of digital solutions for the various business units of Vossloh. Harnessing latest technologies for (IoT, AI, 5G…) to create transformative value for end customers. Pierre Henri as 10 years of experience in the railway in various positions with prior experiences in automotive and aerospace industry.
Building digital platforms for future
Aivaras Liutvinas is currently CEO of Blue Bridge Code, the creators of CargoRail. We believe in a step-by-step revolution that brings changes to companies but keeps their business processes unharmed. I have always been passionate about process optimization and digital transformation. From working as a business consultant to my current roles, I create future value-building platforms for change and agility.
Attractive financing options for long-term infrastructure investments
Jens is a Director of KfW IPEX-Bank and is heading since 2022 one team within the Mobility Department being responsible for the acquisition and structuring of land-based transportation projects within Europe, Middle East. In 2023, the team originated new business with a volume of EUR 1.6bn comprises corporate, leasing and export finance transactions.
Jens joined KfW in 2006 and has worked in the mobility and infrastructure sector for 16 years, first in Portfolio Management, where he managed an extensive portfolio of existing Project and Asset Finance transactions and since 2011 on the structuring and origination side. He has worked on several mobility and infrastructure export and project finance deals including (inter alia) rail infra deals in Egypt or leasing and public transportations transactions in Europe and road projects in Africa, rail and road PPPs in Europe as well an ECA-covered and non-recourse port projects in Australia, India and Europe.
From data collection to predictive maintenance in the field?
Master in electronics, signalling and communication at the NTNU – Norwegian technical university in Trondheim. Worked in oil business, telecoms and mobile systems before joined Bane NOR in 2009. IN Bane NOR worked as a project manager for telecoms and signalling systems, before started with Smart maintenance – condition monitoring of switches and track circuits in 2014. Condition monitoring; IT and maintenance since then. Leading the IT development of tools for mobile sensors, in addition to leading the analytic group in the technical dept. producing the analysis.
Want to tell operators about immediate performance benefits, and asset owners about life extension
Adapting fleet monitoring systems at MTR
Ann-Kristin Österholm has 20 years of experience in Rail industry and is currently Head of Engineering and Asset Management at MTR. In her team lies the responsibility for developing methods to realize benefits from fleet monitoring systems in asset management and maintenance. The team is also involved in the implementation of new fleet monitoring system for new metro vehicles, C30, and upgraded C20 wagons. Prior to that she has had different management roles within operational excellence, production methods and operational control center within MTR. She has a MSc degree in Engineering at KTH, Royal institute of Technology.
Adapting fleet monitoring systems at MTR
Magnus Dormvik is a senior train data specialist at MTR Tech in charge of retrieving and adapting the MTR organization to the Orbita Fleet monitor (OFM) that is being implemented for the Metro trains. While MTR was responsible for the Stockholm commuter trains maintenance he was in charge for the Rail vehicle monitoring system (RVM) that we used for the trains and the further development of the system. Magnus has 12 years of experience working with vehicle data and the development of SCN Lavalin fleet monitoring system for the commuter trains in Sweden with prior experience within enterprise data systems. He has a MSc degree in Engineering at KTH, Royal institute of Technology.
Common data space for mobility: the ERA KG building block and the data asset management feed
PhD on Telecommunication Engineering. More than ten year’s experience in the control centre of different railway companies, major heavy haul railway companies in Brazil. Research lead in many railway research projects and, currently, data lab and interoperable data coordinator in the European Union Agency for Railways.
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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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MERMEC is an Italian multinational company founded in 1970, member company of ANGEL, the larger private Italian high-tech holding that includes some of the most innovative companies in transportation, aerospace, and digital mechatronic sectors. MERMEC is active in advanced technologies for rail transport (signalling, measuring trains and systems, asset inventory and management, electric traction, telecommunication), urban electric mobility and industrial application. The company HQ is in Italy with branches, offices, and facilities in 21 countries through which it provides project management, sales support as well as technical assistance to its customers worldwide. With about 1400 highly qualified employees (of whom, 1000 Engineers), MERMEC boasts an unmatched technical know-how that has allowed it to develop and market a well-structured portfolio of advanced solutions currently in use in 71 countries over the world.
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Cervello is a trusted railway cybersecurity leader dedicated to ensuring railway safety, reliability, and business continuity for railway organizations globally.
Our unique, zero-trust and yet fully passive cybersecurity solution provides a complete contextual representation of the operational activity and continuously monitors the railway’s mission-critical assets, enabling railway operators and infrastructure managers to mitigate threats as they arise and avoid disruption — all without interfering with the highly sensitive and complex railway infrastructure.
Railway organizations rely on Cervello to secure both their legacy and modern systems so that they can continue to operate safely.
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About the Rhomberg Sersa Rail Group
As a full rail infrastructure service provider, the Rhomberg Sersa Rail Group offers an almost complete range of services in the fields of railway track, systems and structures. Its portfolio covers track construction, track renewal, track maintenance and the overhaul of railway tunnels through to electromechanical infrastructure, power supply and telecommunication, consultancy, design, security and access systems, surveying and measuring technology as well as logistics services. The full railway engineering service provider also offers innovative products such as slab track construction systems and the SLS Sersa Second Life System® and drives forward the digitalization and automation of construction sites with among others Building Information Modeling (BIM). The company focuses on customer-oriented and tailor-made solutions for local and long-distance railways, freight lines or private infrastructure, acting as a general contractor.
The company employs approx. 2,600 members of staff. During the 2021/22 financial year, the Group achieved a turnover of EUR 574 million in seven countries on three continents.
For further information visit rhomberg-sersa.com.
Press contact: Rhomberg Sersa Rail Group Mariahilfstraße 29, A-6900 Bregenz, Austria
Contact: Torben Nakoinz
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Sersa Group AG (Schweiz)
Würzgrabenstrasse 5, CH-8048 Zurich, Switzerland
Contact: Beatrice Müller
T: +41 43 32223-23, F: +41 43 32223-99
E-mail: beatrice.mueller@rsrg.com
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Dronecloud are one of Europe’s leading Drone operations and UTM platform companies. We specialise in creating a turn-key system for managing Road and Rail owners’ entire drone operations and airspace.
In the UK, Network Rail and National Highways both use Dronecloud to manage their entire drone operations with over 350 pilots and 25,000 drone flights a year.
Dronecloud are working with rail and road Infrastructure organisations and government funded projects to enable and deliver a route to scalable BVLOS by integrating flight planning, Risk, Detect & Avoid, UTM and Aircraft in a single platform.
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