Ian Jefferies
President and Chief Executive Officer, Association of American Railroads, USA

Dr Alan Beroud
Chairman, UIC + CEO, Polish State Railways

Dr Masamichi Sogabe
Executive Director, Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI), Japan

Kari Gonzales
Chair, IHHA + President & CEO, MxV Rail, USA

James M Derwinski
CEO/Executive Director,
Metra

Richard Cohen
Managing Director Rail, Port & Core Services, Rio Tinto Iron Ore, Australia

Dr Jasmin Bigdon
CTO,
Deutsche Bahn, Germany

Kate Holling
General Manager Rail, BHP,
Australia

Dr Fuminao Okumura
Board Member, Japan Transport Safety Board (JTSB), Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan

Mario Tartaglia
Head of Research, FS Italiane, Italy

Eric J. Gehringer
Executive Vice President-Operations, Union Pacific, USA

John Orr
Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, Norfolk Southern, USA

Giorgio Travaini
Executive Director, Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking

Guilherme Mello
CEO,
MRS Logística, Brazil

Hon Ronald L Batory
Director,
Amtrak Board, USA

Luisa Moisio
Director of Research,
RSSB, UK

John R. Fleps
Vice President & Chief Safety Officer, Norfolk Southern, USA

James Schwichtenberg
Vice President and Chief Safety Officer, CSX, USA

Gina Trombley
Executive VP of Sales & Marketing, and Chief Commercial Officer – Americas, Wabtec Corporation, USA

Professor Ravi Ravitharan
Director, Monash Institute of Railway Technology, Australia

Tiffany Wenrich
Education Chair, League of Railway Women, USA

Scott Cummings
AVP, Research and Innovation, MxV Rail, USA

Thomas Blechinger
President & CEO,
Plasser American Corporation, USA

David De Almeida
Head of Research,
SNCF, France

Robert Bremmer
Group Vice President, Product Management, Wabtec Corporation, USA

Sharon Odetunde
Head of Partnerships,
RSSB, UK

Niki Toussaint
Senior AVP Marketing & Education, MxV Rail, USA

Tom Praderio
Director of Engineering, Parallel Systems, USA

Tim Hoare
Managing Director, APAC, Pandrol, Australia