Key transport industry leaders announced today for high level London conference on Asset information and Data Management for the Smart Rail transportation sector. Asset Information and data management will allow more precise decisions to be made to balance cost, risk and performance, supporting operational effectiveness and efficiency. The convergence of technology and infrastructure has the ability to transform our communities and economy, reduce emissions as well provide an opportunity for business leaders to optimise asset performance and reduce cost. To realise the benefits of next generation intelligence, a unified vision and strategy is required to ensure we are understanding how to best leverage the information we are receiving, and how we are managing the vast amount of data associated with new systems. On June 26th and 27th, key leaders from the European rail transport sector meet to share insight into how they are developing and implementing asset information strategies, managing data across multiple disparate  systems and leveraging new technologies to optimise performance.  Sponsors: Nexala, Costain, Lloyd's Register Rail Exhibitors: Findlay Irvine, Mpec, Tracsis, Ventyx an ABB Company Full program http://www.railassetinformation.comSPEAKERSKULDEEP GHARATYA, THE HEAD OF RAILWAY SYSTEMS FOR LONDON UNDERGROUNDKuldeep Gharatya is the Engineering Director at the Transport Systems Catapult working within the Technology Office helping to realise the early goals of creating the Integrated Test Environment and supporting the innovation projects coming through the pipeline. He is also the Head of Systems for the Capital Programmes Directorate of London Underground.  ROSS AGNEW, DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, COSTAINRoss is Technology Solutions Director at Costain Group, responsible for the development and tactical implementation of the Group’s wider offering to its diverse blue chip customer base in the core sectors of Highways, Airports, Power, Rail, Water, Hydrocarbons and Nuclear Process.  JOHN DOWNES ENGINEERING ASSURANCE AND EFFICIENCY MANAGER LONDON UNDERGROUND  John heads up London Underground’s Engineering Assurance & Efficiency department tasked with developing and driving the efficiency improvement plan to fundamentally reduce the cost base of LU’s engineering, whilst also ensuring that its engineering activity meets its obligations. MARC ANTONI, ASSET MANAGEMENT AND HEAD OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION, SNCF The SNCF is France’s national state-owned railway company. The SNCF operates the country’s national rail services, including the TGV, France’s high-speed rail network. Jan Swier Strategic advisor and project leader ProRail Asset Management Jan Swier (62 yrs) is an advisor at ProRail Asset Management. After his study civil engineering in Utrecht and military service, he started as a bridge builder at the engineering agency of the former Dutch Railways (NS). PROFESSOR CLIVE ROBERTS, UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM, DIRECTOR OF RAIL RESEARCH Clive is Professor of Railway Systems at the University of Birmingham and Director for Railway Research for the Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education. Over the last 14 years he has developed a broad portfolio of research aimed at improving the performance of railway systems. He leads the University’s contribution in a number of ROSS DENTTEN, ASSET INFORMATION AND CONFIGURATION MANAGER, CROSSRAIL Ross Dentten, Asset Information & Configuration Manager is applying his 25 years transport industry experience to take a lead on assets for the largest construction project in Europe, the £15 Billion Crossrail. He is enabling quality asset information to support 1 million physical assets whilst harnessing standards, information, technology, processes and people within the industry STÉPHANIE HAMMER, PROGRAM MANAGER, INFRABEL Stéphanie Hammer was a project manager for 12 years within different industrial sectors. Since 2011, she’s head of the asset management program at Infrabel. Stéphanie is also member of international working group for asset management best practice exchanges. JON KERBEY, HEAD OF SYSTEMS AND ASSET INFORMATION, HS2 Jon is currently seconded into High Speed 2 as the Head of Systems and Asset Information, and is ultimately responsible for the implementation of BIM within the project with a view to reducing waste in design, construction, operations and maintenance. He holds a masters degree in Business and Management and is a Chartered IT Professional. MARK EADEN, ASSET INFORMATION MANAGER AT HS2 As a manager of multi-disciplinary design teams, Mark has a very good understanding of what it takes to deliver a competent and complete design and he is now applying this expertise to the field of Asset Information Management. He took up his current role early in 2013ILSE VERMEIJ, PRODUCT MANAGER, MEASUREMENT SERVICES 
 Ilse Vermeij heads up the Monitoring and Measurement team at Lloyd’s Register Rail Europe in Utrecht. After completing her degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2001, she started her working career as technical consultant at NedTrain Consulting. In 2011 she obtained a Marketing degree and currently she is an all-round consultant who combines her analytical capabilities   TALHAT KHECHEN HEAD OF ENGINEERING TELECOM, RFF Talhat Khechen, Telecom Engineer, joined RFF in 2011 to participate in the modernization and innovation of the RFF Railway Telecom Networks model, services and applications. He is currently responsible of the Telecom engineering activities, new services, network evolution. He is also the RFF member of the UIC Panel of Telecom Experts (PETER group). Talhat Khechen has over 22 years’ experience in Telecommunications industry within major Telecom Operators in France (France Telecom, T-Systems, SFR and Eutelsat and in International countries( Switzerland, Middle east), in charge  developing Networks Telecommunication and services, managing large and complex projects and management.  CHRISTIAN DANIEL, ECM BUSINESS PROCESS DIRECTOR, ROLLING STOCK DEPARTMENT, SNCFin charge of ECM Business processing for SNCF Rolling Stock Department.2013-Till date :- Management of the Business Processing of the Entity of Charge in Maintenance for the- Defining Maintenance Strategy and Business Process for lean Maintenance- Defining CMMS (Computer Aided Maintenance Management System) for Rolling Stock and- Defining RFID strategy for RailwaysAlso Engineering Director for Regional Train (Managing fleet engineers and key-componentengineers) and Industrial Director in an industrial workshop for TGV. CARLOS ESQUIROZ, ENGINEERING AND MAINTENANCE DIRECTOR, METRO MADRID  Main Duties, Assure the whole functionality of all the railways assets under the responsibility of the Directorate of Engineering and Maintenance and driving a business reengineering process focused in increase the value and level of the maintenance and technical services provided to the Network of Metro de Madrid.  As Engineering and Maintenance Director my challenge is move from repair based, run-to-failure, maintenance regimes in the form of time or rules-based maintenance regimes to maintenance predictive and / or dynamic condition-based monitoring.  By using new IT capabilities, asset information systems and analysis techniques we are developing more effective maintenance regimes based on Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) and real-time Asset Condition Monitoring (ACM). The Directorate of Engineering and Maintenance (DE&M) is divided in four divisions: rolling stock (fleet and trains), fixed installations, IT division and Engineering and R&D bussines unit. By using intensive support of the last two ones the DE&M is improving the performance of the two operational divisions.  This challenge of remaining expert is driven by using new approaches as Big Data initiative supplied by IT division or the Engineering ACM project based in a functional condition of the assets related to its life cycle.     --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Terms and Conditions of booking: Sagacity Media will not accept delegate cancellations, we will accept the nomination of a substitute attendee. Tickets cannot be shared between attendees, however extra tickets can be purchased for additional attendees where available.In the event Sagacity Media cancel an event, refunds will be issued to each registrant, however we accept no further liabilities whatsoever if the event this conference is cancelled, rescheduled or postponed due to an Act of God, unforeseen occurrence or any other event that makes executing the conference or workshop impracticable, illegal or impossible. Acts of God and unforeseen events include, but are not be limited to: war, fire, labour strike, terrorism, extreme weather or other emergency.  Attendees are required to have adequate insurance to attend events as organisers accept no liability for accidents inside or outside venue premises.