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Day One – October 5, 2022
9:30 - 10:00
Opening Session – Keynote Speeches
9:30 - 9:35
Welcome Adress
Miroslav Fukan, OLTIS Group
9:35 - 9:40
Welcome Adress
Martin Kupka, Minister of Transport of the Czech Republic
9:40 - 9:45
Welcome Adress - Video Message
Adina Ioana Vǎlean, European Commission / Commissioner for Transport
9:45 - 9:50
Welcome Adress
HE Alexis Dutertre, Ambassador of France to the Czech Republic
9:50 - 9:55
Welcome Adress
HE Fredrik Jörgensen, Ambassador of Sweden to the Czech Republic
9:55 - 10:00
Welcome Adress
HE Hideo Suzuki, Ambassador of Japan to the Czech Republic
10:00 - 11:15
Session 1 – Rail Sector Contribution to the EU Green Deal
MODERATOR
Libor Lochman, DACcelerate
10:00 - 10:15
Jiří Svoboda, Správa železnic
10:15 - 10:30
New Challenges for EU Railway Sector for 2022 - 2030
Walter Götz, European Commission
10:30 - 10:45
Green Planet Needs Green Railways
Philippe Froissard, European Commission / DG RTD
10:45 - 11:00
Let’s Make the Single European Railway Area a Reality
Alberto Mazzola, CER
11:00 - 11:15
The European Rail Supply Industry’s Contribution to the EU Green Deal
Philippe Citroën, UNIFE
11:30 - 12:00
Coffee-break - Sponsor: LEVEL Systems
11:30 - 12:00
Coffee-break
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Sponsor: LEVEL Systems
12:00 - 13:00
Session 1 – EXPERT AND OPEN DISCUSSION
12:00 - 13:00
Answers to the moderator’s questions
Lukáš Svoboda, Czech Railways
Carlo Borghini, Europe’s Rail JU
Radek Čech, Správa železnic
Ralf-Charley Schultze, UIRR
François Bausch, The Luxembourg Government
13:00 - 14:30
Lunch – Sponsor: Cargo Wagon
13:00 - 14:30
Lunch
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Sponsor: Cargo Wagon
14:30 - 17:00
Session 2 – Railway Interoperability and Standardization
MODERATOR
Josef Doppelbauer, European Union Agency for Railways
14:30 - 14:45
Importance of Interoperability and Standardization for EU Rail Competitiveness
Keir Fitch, European Commission / DG MOVE
14:45 - 15:00
TSI Revision Cycle 2022
Kamil Pravdík, European Union Agency for Railways
15:00 - 15:15
ERTMS deployment trackside and on-board. Opportunities and challenges
Matthias Ruete, European Commission / DG MOVE
15:15 - 15:30
Digital Automatic Coupler (DAC) – Challenge for Rail Freight
Cyrille Guyon, ERMEWA
15:30 - 15:45
How TSIs, DAC and ERTMS Can Change the Freigth RU Business?
Tomáš Tóth, ČD CARGO
15:45 - 15:55
ERTMS as a ticket to Advanced Technologies for Traffic Management
Vladimír Kampík, AŽD Praha/UNISIG
15:55 - 16:05
Concept FRMCS
Martin Bajer, TTC MARCONI
16:05 - 17:00
EXPERT AND OPEN DISCUSSION
Answers to the moderator’s questions
Alberto Mazzola, CER
Oldřich Sládek, ŽESNAD.CZ
Miroslav Táborský, DAKO-CZ
Sandra Géhénot, UIC
20:00 - 24:00
Gala Dinner - Sponsor: Czech Railways
20:00 - 24:00
Gala Dinner
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Sponsor: Czech Railways
Day Two – October 6, 2022
08:00 - 08:45
Europe’s Rail JU "Welcome Coffee"
08:00 - 08:45
Europe’s Rail JU "Welcome Coffee"
9:00 - 11:00
Session 3 – EU’s Research and Innovations in a Globalized World
MODERATOR
Carlo Borghini, Europe’s Rail JU
9:00 - 9:15
Cluster 5 in Horizon Europe and Europe's Rail JU
Philippe Froissard, European Commission / DG RTD
9:15 - 9:30
The Digital Railway - From Research to Deployment
Keir Fitch, European Commission
9:30 - 09:40
New role of SRG and Member States in the Europe's Rail JU
Miroslav Haltuf, Europe’s Rail JU SRG
09:40 - 09:50
Hydrogen – Solution for Zero-emission Rail Transport?
Petr Mervart, Ministry of Industry and Trade
09:50 - 10:00
AŽD experience as founding member of Europe’s Rail JU
Michal Pavel, AŽD Praha
10:00 - 10:15
Modern and ecological transport = railway
Antonín Felber, The Green Rail Association
10:15 - 11:00
EXPERT AND OPEN DISCUSSION
Answers to the moderator’s questions
Petr Buchníček, OLTIS Group
Christophe Cheron, SNCF
Sarah Bittner – Krautsack, Austrian Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Innovation and Technology
Miroslav Táborský, DAKO-CZ
Daniel Lopour, EUSPA
Ralf Marxen, Deutsche Bahn
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee-break - Sponzor: PST CLC
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee-break
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Sponzor: PST CLC
11:30 - 13:30
Session 4 – High Speed Rail System as a Mobility Driver
MODERATOR
Ondřej Kovařík, European Parliament
11:30 - 11:45
Role of the Ministry of Transport in Building Czech High Speed Rail Network
Jindřich Kušnír, Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic
11:45 - 12:00
Plans for Building Czech High Speed Rail Network up to 2030
Martin Švehlík, Správa železnic
12:00 - 12:15
International Cooperation in Development of High Speed Rail System
Jean-Christophe Rouja, SNCF International
12:15 - 12:30
High Speed Rail in Austria – Needs and Experience
Johann Pluy, ÖBB Infrastruktur
12:30 - 12:45
HSR - Business Model in Japan
Misho Hirato, East Japan Railway Company
12:45 - 13:00
High Speed Rail, impatience is a good attitude
Wim van de Camp, European commission
13:00 - 13:30
EXPERT AND OPEN DISCUSSION
Answers to the moderator’s questions
Martin Kolovratník, Chamber of Deputies – Parliament of the Czech Republic
Mikołaj Wild, Centralny Port Komunikacyjny
Jan Sviták, Liberec Region
13:30 - 15:00
Lunch – Sponsor: OLTIS Group
13:30 - 15:00
Lunch
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Sponzor: OLTIS Group
15:00 - 17:00
Session 5 – TEN-T - Transcontinental Resilient Network
MODERATOR
Wim van de Camp, European Commission,
15:00 - 15:15
Via Vindobona – Intergal Part of the TEN-T Network
Radek Čech, Správa železnic
15:15 - 15:30
Changes in legal framework for crossborder transport at TEN-T
Erik Evtimov, CIT
15:30 - 15:45
Military mobility
Boris Leštinský, Ministry of Defense of the Czech Republic
15:45 - 16:00
TEN-T and Ukraine – Potential New Connections
Peter Hrapko, Advisor to the state secretary of MTC SR for intermodal transport
16:00 - 16:15
Impact of the Ukrainian Crisis to the Rail Business on Existing Connections
Alojz Filipek, BUDAMAR
16:15 - 17:00
EXPERT AND OPEN DISCUSSION
Answers to the moderator’s questions
Michael Breuer, IBS
Conor Feighan, European Rail Freight Association
Bogdan Ciobanu, UNICOM Tranzit
Andrii Miroshnikov, Ukrainian Railways
Ondřej Kovařík, European Parliament
19:00 - 23:00
Czech Dinner - Sponsor: DAKO-CZ
19:00 - 23:00
Czech Dinner
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Sponsor: DAKO-CZ