Registration and refreshments
08:45 to
09:30
Welcoming remarks from Arup
09:30 to
09:35
Speaker:
Stefan Sanders.
Network Rail Client Relationship Director.
Arup.
Chair's welcome and opening remarks
09:35 to
09:40
Speaker:
Michel Ruesen.
Managing Director.
ERTMS Users Group.
Government support for the Digital Railway
09:40 to
10:05
- Support, plans and timelines for implementation of digital railway
- Investment and available funding
Speaker:
Jennifer Elevique.
Deputy Director Rail Environment & Digital.
Department for Transport.
The Digital Masterplan
10:05 to
10:30
- The journey to CP7
- Masterplan stages
- CP7 priorities and challenges
Speaker:
David Thomas.
Senior Portfolio Manager, IPDR.
Network Rail.
Panel discussion: Accelerating the deployment of ERTMS and Digital Signalling - enabling business change
10:30 to
11:15
- Lessons from implementation so far
- Impacts of updated ERA standards and interoperability
- How to communicate change - bringing teams with you throughout implementation and operation
Speakers:
Martin Beeton.
Director & UK Head of Control Command and Signalling.
Arup.
Andrea Palermo.
Technical Solutions Manager, Digital Rail.
Hitachi Rail.
Darren Jowett.
Head of System Authority.
Network Rail.
Morning networking and refreshments
11:15 to
11:45
Moving the implementation of digital signalling forward
11:45 to
12:10
- Tools supporting delivery – how can these improve quality?
- Reducing costs and shorten timelines for delivery
- Learning from TRU and East Coast Mainline
Speaker:
Simon Eastmond.
Associate Director.
Arup.
Operators insight – lessons from the Thameslink Core and Northern City Line
12:10 to
12:45
Speaker:
Matthew Teller.
ERTMS Integration Manager.
Govia Thameslink Railway.
Ensuring safety requirements for new systems
12:45 to
13:10
- Establishing updated safety processes
- Managing risks
- How to regulate new technologies - what is needed?
Speaker:
Ian Maxwell.
Head of Train Control Systems.
Office of Rail and Road.
Networking lunch
13:10 to
14:10
ETCS Retrofit – 10-year reflection’
14:10 to
14:40
- Headline insight of passenger train retrofit in the UK as experienced through NJRP
- Collaboration – the full picture of all those involved
- What to think about in future delivery models
Speaker:
Andy Norris.
Partner at CPC Project Services and Programme Director for NJRP.
CPC.
Progressing towards a low cost signalling solution
14:40 to
15:10
Speaker:
Steve Denniss.
Technical Director.
WSP.
Afternoon networking and refreshments
15:10 to
15:40
System Integration Hazards of ETCS Implementation
15:40 to
16:10
Speaker:
Karl King.
Senior Principal Systems Engineer.
Jacobs.
Freight & ETRMS - how can freight be ready for ERTMS
16:10 to
16:40
- Transforming freight through digital signalling
- Implications to freight of ERTMS
- Opportunities and challenges
Speaker:
Moatassem Ghubbass.
Project Manager – ERTMS.
Colas Rail.
Chair's closing remarks
16:40 to
16:50
Close of conference & networking refreshments
16:50 to
18:00