Registration and refreshments
08:45 to
09:30
Conference welcome from Addleshaw Goddard
09:30 to
09:35
Speaker:
Martin Fleetwood.
Transport Consultant.
Addleshaw Goddard.
Chair’s welcome and opening remarks
09:35 to
09:40
Speaker:
Steve Denniss.
Technical Director.
WSP.
Keynote address: Department for Transport
09:40 to
10:05
- Facilitating ERTMS and building the UK digital railway
Speaker:
Jennifer Elevique.
Deputy Director Rail Environment and Digital.
Department for Transport.
Panel Discussion: Deployment – How can we accelerate?
10:05 to
10:50
- Moving from digital signalling islands to corridors and networks
- Focus on infrastructure gaps and how to close them
- Terminal accessibility
- Fleet renewal and retrofitting
- Safety and capacity considerations
Speakers:
Paul Boyle.
Head Of ERTMS.
LNER.
Jennifer Elevique.
Deputy Director Rail Environment and Digital.
Department for Transport.
Michel Ruesen.
Managing Director.
ERTMS Users Group.
Morning refreshments
10:50 to
11:20
Plans for delivering Digital Railway
11:20 to
11:45
Speaker:
James Dzimba.
Chief Control, Command & Signalling Engineer.
Network Rail.
ATO specification status and deployment readiness
11:45 to
12:10
Speaker:
Nicola Furness.
Engineering Expert (Europe CCS).
Network Rail.
Networking lunch
12:10 to
13:10
Delivering and implementing ERTMS efficiently at the strategic level – what are the challenges and opportunities?
13:10 to
13:35
- Where are we now with ERTMS?
- Revisiting the benefits of using ERTMS and how to overcome the challenges to delivery and ERTMS at the large scale project level.
- Expert-led insight into why switching to ERTMS is worthwhile and what we are learning about the strategic considerations for implementations.
Speaker:
Alfonso Lorenzo.
ERTMS Project Manager.
Ineco.
System integration - navigating increasing complexity
13:35 to
14:05
- Integrating different systems
- Integration of ATO,ETCS and CBTC
- Best practices for the integration of different systems
- How do the different systems interface and work together
Speaker:
Karl King.
Senior Principal Systems Engineer.
Jacobs.
Afternoon refreshments
14:05 to
14:35
Panel discussion: What is the future of signalling and digital railway?
14:35 to
15:25
- What is the future of digital signalling?
- What are the challenges trying to overcome?
- Is ERTMS the answer? What other systems?
- Obsolescence and future proofing systems
Speakers:
Tom Godfrey.
Director, Rail Systems Engineering Lead.
Arup.
Richard Lockett.
Principal Consultant.
IPEX Consulting.
Michel Ruesen.
Managing Director.
ERTMS Users Group.
Chair’s closing remarks
15:25 to
15:30
Close of Day 1 and Networking Drinks
15:35 to
17:00