18 September 2020, 14:00 - 16:00 CEST

ABOUT THE WEBINAR:
The most important aspect of regaining passenger confidence is ensuring that stations and trains are safe and hygienic spaces. Also important is ensuring that passengers are made aware that this is the case. This webinar session, the first part of the series ‘The power of digital to inspire rail passenger confidence’ will look at measures being taken to directly improve hygiene in stations and on trains.
What digitally enabled technologies and strategies are operators, rolling stock manufacturers, and innovative solution providers, using and developing? Topics to be covered in detail could include ways to identify unhealthy individuals, ventilation, sanitisation, and automated cleaning.
The audience will hear from senior figures at the International Union of Railways (UIC), Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), Alstom and Industrial IoT experts Advantech.

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Speakers

Olivier Waeber,
Leader in Innovation and Technology Management
Swiss Federal Railways (SBB)
Oliver coordinates 8 technological, cross-functional competence centres: Augmented and Virtual Reality, Predictive Maintenance, Interaction between Rail and Rolling Stock, Drones, RFID in Rail, Additive Manufacturing, Energy Storage, and Machine Perception. His focus is the company-wide development and operationalization of specific use cases. In addition, Oliver is responsible for further developing technology management at SBB. This involves defining the technology strategy and corresponding technological tactics and principles. Oliver holds a PhD in Strategy and Innovation from EPFL in Lausanne. He has worked as a consultant for innovation management. 

Yasunari Nakajima,
Director, Paris Office
East Japan Railway Company (JR East)
Yasunari is Director of JR East’s Paris Branch. He is an expert in signalling systems, project management and standardisation.

Maurice van der Aa,
Senior Product Sales Manager & Solution Architect Intelligent Systems
Advantech
Before joining Advantech, Maurice worked for 12 years in commercial IT where he had roles in sales, purchasing and product management, all within the BeNeLux market. He holds a degree in Computer Interface Technique from R.O.C. de Leijgraaf. In 2012 he joined Advantech as Product Sales Manager, where he manages the Intelligent System products for Europe. His main focus is on High Performance IPC, Industrial Server & Edge AI. In 2019 he also started to work as a Solution Architect, enabling new domain-focused partnerships together with Advantech’s sales teams. He has set up strategic collaboration with software partners to enable Edge Solution Ready Packages for the European marketspace.

Stéphane Feray Beaumont,
Vice President Innovation & Smart Mobility
Alstom
Stephane Feray-Beaumont has been Vice President Innovation & Smart Mobility for Alstom since 2018. Holding a Ph.D in Control Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Stéphane is a rail expert who benefits from 25 years of experience in the command control industry.
Moderator

Marc Guigon,
Coordinator Latin America & Coordinator Covid-19 Taskforce
International Union of Railways (UIC)
Marc Guigon is Passenger Director at UIC (International Union of Railways), responsible for passenger activities, including the development of High-Speed Rail worldwide, railway stations, distribution, regional and commuter traffic services, and tourist trains.
He is also coordinator of UIC Latin-American Region and chair of the UIC Covid-19 Task Force, which comprises 70 UIC members and 18 International organisations.
Prior to joining UIC, Marc worked 7 years in the office of the French Prime Minister, being responsible for French national transport policies in the field of spatial planning: including railways, roads, urban transport, airports, ports, and waterways.

Agenda

14:00 Introduction: Jules Omura
14:05 Opening remarks: Marc Guigon
14:15 Presentation 1: Crisis response: Insights on how to win back the trust of customers, Olivier Waeber
14:25 Presentation 2: How JR EAST is meeting the challenge of Covid-19, Yasunari Nakajima
14:35 Interview: Olivier Waeber and Yasunari Nakajima, interviewed by moderator
14:45 Presentation 3: Defining your AI Eco-System with Advantech, Maurice van der Aa
15:00 Presentation 4: Stéphane Feray Beaumont
15:10 Panel discussion & Audience Q&As: All speakers
15:55 Closing remarks: Marc Guigon