Registration and refreshments
08:45 to
09:30
Chair’s welcome and opening remarks
09:30 to
09:40
Speaker:
Robin Groth.
Railway Engineer.
formerly Senior Civil Servant at the Department for Transport.
Support for the delivery of ERTMS and Digital Railway – Government sponsorship
09:40 to
10:05
- Plans and timelines – which routes are next?
- Funding for ERTMS
- What does introduction of GBRTT mean for the digital railway programme?
Speaker:
Jennifer Elevique.
Deputy Director Rail Environment & Digital.
Department for Transport.
Delivering the East Coast Digital Programme
10:05 to
10:30
- Progress and achievements to date
- Preparing for digital migration on ECML
- Fleet fitment and business readiness
Speaker:
Sarah Jane Crawford.
Industry Partnership Director - East Coast Digital Programme.
Network Rail.
Panel discussion: Preparing for the wider use of ERTMS – is the sector ready and how to accelerate deployment?
10:30 to
11:15
- Preparing for wider ERTMS operations – what is needed now?
- Is the sector ready for signals away on the East Coast Mainline?
- How to communicate change throughout the business so everyone is prepared
- The importance of the ERTMS test centre
Speakers:
Sarah Jane Crawford.
Industry Partnership Director - East Coast Digital Programme.
Network Rail.
Raj Patel.
Head of ERTMS.
Govia Thameslink Railway.
Simon Eastmond.
Associate Director.
Arup.
Chris Hardy.
Systems Engineering Manager.
Siemens Mobility.
Morning refreshments
11:15 to
11:45
Operators perspective - managing the implementation and operations of ERTMS
11:45 to
12:10
- Key milestones and challenges faced
- Advice to operators and learnings so far
Speaker:
Ross Beetlestone.
ERTMS Integration and Testing Specialist.
Govia Thameslink Railway.
Freight and ERTMS – progress with preparing for ERTMS and next steps
12:10 to
12:35
- Managing fitment on different sorts of vehicles and with multiple operators
- Challenges and opportunities for freight
- Progress with retro fit
Speaker:
Aleksander Binder.
Head of ERTMS Programme.
Freightliner.
Case study: Using ETCS to improve system efficiency and safety
12:35 to
13:00
- Reasons for upgrade and identifying ETCS as the solution
- Designing Future Signalling and Train Control System Architecture
- Contracting and deployment strategy
- Challenges faced and how these were overcome
Speaker:
Tom Godfrey.
Director.
Arup.
Networking lunch
13:00 to
14:00
Making a success of the Digital Railway – a goal structured approach
14:00 to
14:30
- Industry wide measures that can be used
Speaker:
Steve Denniss.
Technical Director.
WSP.
Establishing safety and standards for ERTMS
14:30 to
15:00
- Standardising requirements and specifications
- Facilitating approvals and authorisations
- What are the software risks?
Speaker:
Darren Jowett.
Head of System Authority.
Network Rail.
Afternoon refreshments
15:00 to
15:30
Preparing for the replacement of GSM-R - The future of radio communications and successfully introducing FRMCS
15:30 to
15:55
- The imperative for change - Why we shall start to cope with it now?
- The successor, FRMCS : Vision & technology
- The interfaces between ETCS and FRMCS
- Managing the transition (From international use cases)
- Development of a GB strategy and roadmap for transitioning to the FRMCS
Speaker:
Amine Triki.
Project Director.
Systra.
Cyber security – what are the risks with ERTMS and how can these be mitigated?
15:55 to
16:20
- Challenges of using ERTMS
- Solutions to the risks
- Comparison of the security of ERTMS and I-ETMS
Speaker:
Tom Chothia.
Professor in Cyber Security.
University of Birmingham.
Skills and training needed – establishing a consistent approach for ERTMS
16:20 to
16:45
- Is there a centralised approach for skills for a digital railway?
- Preparing now for the skills that will be needed going forward
Speaker:
Neil Franklin.
Workforce Planning Advisor.
NSAR.
Chair’s closing remarks
16:45 to
16:55
Close of conference and networking refreshments
16:55 to
18:00