Programme

8:15

Registration and Welcome Refreshments in the Exhibition Area

8:45

Ben Holliday | Managing Director | Rotaia Media (Organiser) and Daniel MacGregor | Co-Founder | Nexxiot (Chairman)

Organisor and Chairman’s Welcome

8:50

Henri Caddeo | Senior Vice President & CIO | SJ AB

Driving Digital Excellence: How SJ’s CIO Is Transforming Rail Through Technology

• SJ’s digital journey toward becoming a high-performing tech-driven rail operator
• Key technology initiatives enabling efficiency, reliability, and customer experience
• Leadership, culture, and capabilities powering SJ’s long-term digital acceleration

9:05

Palle Mørkøre | Senior Vice President | DSB (INVITED)

9:20

Jarek Rosinski | CEO | Transmission Dynamics & Jenny Hudson | Managing Director | Transmission Dynamics

Development of Trains with Brains® Technologies: Predicting the Unpredictable

• Proven success stories demonstrating the measurable impact of AI and smart sensors in rail
• Turning IoT data into actionable insights that prevent failures and reduce maintenance costs
• Showcasing how predictive analytics and edge intelligence are transforming rail reliability and safety

9:35

Mads Thostrup | Head of Operation and Maintenance | Metroselskabet I/S

Asset performance issues in a 24-hour revenue operating system

• Symptoms and detection
• Handling of issues, root cause
• Resuming to operations and learnings

9:50

Francis Vander Ghinst | Sales Director | Railnova

Enhancing Fleet Maintenance Management (ECM3) Productivity with AI-Driven Ticket Intelligence

• Defect tickets as the backbone of fleet maintenance management: how their quality impacts every downstream process
• Leveraging AI to enrich and structure ticket data, enabling faster and more reliable maintenance decisions/automatic ticket classification
• Help ECM2 analyze feedback from automatic ticket classifications (failures, incidents, wear patterns) to improve the maintenance plan

10:05

Ann-Kristin Österholm | Head of Engineering & Asset Management | Connecting Stockholm (INVITED)

10:20

Morning Refreshments and Networking in the Exhibition Area

10:45

Björn Sandgren | Head of Operations | TX Logistik AB (INVITED)

11:00

Thomas Hörl-Weinhold | VP Sales and Business Development | Symeo

Big data and new capabilities in infrastructure monitoring with imaging radar

• Complex rail infrastructures require new technology for real time monitoring
• Imaging radar enables new analytical capabilities
• Presentation of real test data examples with front looking and side looking radar

11:15

Erik Halland | Director Rolling Stock | CargoNet

11:30

Christoph Jakob | Head of Sales | Siemens Mobility GmbH (RESERVED)

11:45

Andreas Lundin | Head of Rolling Stock Maintenance & ECM | Green Cargo

Asset management system that enables optimized maintenance during periods when the rolling stock is not in revenue service

• Driving Green Cargo into the future with condition-based maintenance
• Dividing maintenance tasks into smaller work packages, many activities can be performed in time slots as short as 5 hours
• A single system integration allows significantly more maintenance and operational tasks to be performed

12:00

Jacopo Vincenzi | Product Line Management Office | MERMEC (RESERVED)

12:15

Lunch and Networking in the Exhibition Area

13:15

Carl-Fredrik Bernmar | Asset Management Director | Transdev Sweden

Operational excellence in rolling stock maintenance

• Advantages with insourced maintenance
• Integrated systems for planning, execution, and follow-up
• Optimising warehouse management and spare parts supply

13:30

Joakim Andersson | Project Leader | Norske tog AS

National Data Platform - building an OCM ecosystem to enable collaboration and data sharing in the Norwegian railway industry

• Our vision - Transforming rail operation through shared data and collaboration within Norwegian railways
• Information as a service – Creating standardized, enriched and actionable rail data products to serve different consumers and scenarios
• IT architecture - implementing secure IT solutions handling large volumes of data in real-time

13:45

Slot Available

14:00

Tuomas Valkola | Manager, Fleet Technology | VR Group (INVITED)

14:15

Albert Schoeppl | Senior Executive Consultant | LogObject Group

14:30

Teddy Frank | Maintenance Director | Metro Service

Driving the Future: Digitalisation and automation for enhanced efficiency in maintenance of driverless metro systems

• Leveraging digital technologies for predictive maintenance
• Automating routine maintenance tasks
• Improving operational efficiency and safety for passengers

14:45

Rail Operators Panel Discussion

From your experience, what real-world outcomes have you seen from integrating digital tools across your railway operations — and what areas still hold untapped potential?

• With increasing pressure to drive a modal shift from road to rail, what infrastructure, operational, or digital hurdles are you facing in scaling up capacity and service reliability?
• To what extent do legacy regulations and long-standing operational norms constrain innovation in your organisation, and how are you navigating these limitations to move forward with digital initiatives?
• With access to growing volumes of operational data, how are you leveraging analytics and smart technologies to enhance decision-making, improve service delivery, and reduce downtime across your network?

Panelists:

• Henri Caddeo | CIO | SJ AB
• Carl-Frederik Bernmar | Director of Asset Management | Transdev AB
• Andreas Lundin | Head of Rolling Stock Maintenance & ECM | Green Cargo
• Palle Mørkøre | Senior Vice President | DSB
• Christoph Jakob | Head of Sales | Siemens Mobility GmbH
• Francis Vander Ghinst | Sales Director | Railnova

15:15

Afternoon Refreshments and Networking in the Exhibition Area

15:45

Reserved

16:00

Anki Svärdby-Bergman | Programme Manager for Datadriven & Intelligent Railway Maintenance | Trafikverket

Implementing a datadriven & intelligent rail maintenance at Trafikverket

• New way of measuring our assets
• Using AI to detect status, manage AI-models and training data
• How to organise new way of working

16:15

Marie Breum | Head of Strategic Asset Management | Banedanmark

Impressions from building and maturing an Asset Management organisation in Banedanmark

• lifecycle management
• Implementing a value model for decision making
• Build up of organisation and knowledge

16:30

Pål Midtlien Danielsen | Head of Innovation | Jernbanedirektoratet

Utilizing technology and data to improve Norwegian rail

• Data-driven development and condition monitoring
• Condition-based and predictive maintenance
• Innovation processes and initiatives in Norway

16:45

Mailis Alt-Adamson | Head of Digital | Estonian Railways

From mess to success

• Fostering a change mindset – Estonian Railways Digital journey
• Successful tools for the shifting of mindset
• Lessons learned

17:00

Infrastructure Manager Panel Discussion

How are digital advancements transforming your approach to infrastructure planning and operational decision-making in the rail sector today?

• The rail industry often relies heavily on established protocols. What cultural or structural shifts do you believe are necessary to accelerate digital transformation and foster a more agile innovation environment?
• As AI and advanced analytics become more prevalent, how crucial is active collaboration with technology partners to stay ahead of infrastructure challenges and optimise performance?
• With data collection at an all-time high, what strategies are you using to filter and translate this abundance of information into actionable insights that directly support predictive maintenance and asset reliability?

Panelists:

• Mailis Alt-Adamson | Head of Digital | Estonian Railways
• Marie Breum | Head of Strategic Asset Management | Banedanmark
• Pål Midtlien Danielsen | Leader Innovation | Jernbanedirektoratet
• Teddy Frank | Maintenance Director | Metro Service
• Anki Svärdby-Bergman | Datadriven & Intelligent Rail Management | Trafikverket
• Rein Lemmens | CEO | Kapernikov

17:30

Chairman’s Closing Comments

17:35

Drinks Reception