An impressive selection of speakers have been announced to present their ideas, opinions and insight during the Plenary conference sessions at this year’s AusRAIL Conference and Exhibition, which will take place in Adelaide on November 22 and 23.
Rail Express is the official media partner of AusRAIL, the Australasian Railway Association’s annual exhibition and conference.
You can download your copy of the AusRAIL 2016 brochure here. The following schedule has been announced (subject to change):
Day 1 – November 22, 2016
7:30 Registration and morning coffee
9:00 Welcome and opening remarks: Danny Broad, CEO, Australasian Railway Association (ARA)
9:10 Market outlook for Australia: Adrian Hart, Senior Manager, Infrastructure and Mining, BIS Shrapnel
9:40 The customer’s customer: Rail’s role in delivering expectations and improving the customer experience: Chris Brooks, National Transport Manager, Woolworths Limited
10.00 Making rail more competitive and profitable by introducing barcoding to better control inventory and assets: Maria Palazzolo, Chief Executive Officer, GS1 Australia
10.20 Morning tea and official exhibition opening
11.00 Australia’s transport challenge: Prioritising investment to meet the growth of our cities: Marion Terrill, Transport Program Director, Grattan Institute
11.20 Road-Rail Pricing: Achieving a shift from debate to reality: The Hon John Anderson AO, Chair, Australasian Centre for Rail Innovation (ACRI)
11.40 FORUM – Investment and innovation: How can we fast-forward change in the freight game
- Facilitator:Nicole Lockwood, Chair, Freight and Logistics Council WA
- John Fullerton, CEO, ARTC
- Marika Calfas, CEO, NSW Ports
- Paul Larsen, CEO, Brookfield Rail
- Greg Pauline, Managing Director, Genesee & Wyoming
- Clare Gardiner-Barnes, Deputy Secretary, Freight, Strategy and Planning, Transport for NSW
- Alan Piper, Group General Manager Sales & Commercial, KiwiRail
12.30 Lunch – served within the exhibition Sponsored by ARTC
2.00 Afternoon technical streams: Click here for the technical stream schedule
5.30 – 7.30 AusRAIL 2016 Exhibition Networking Drinks Sponsored by McConnell Dowell
Day 2 – November 23, 2016
8:00 Welcome coffee
9:00 Welcome and opening remarks: Danny Broad, CEO, Australasian Railway Association (ARA)
9:10 FEDERAL OPPOSITION ADDRESS: Anthony Albanese MP, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Cities and Tourism
9:30 ARA CHAIRMAN’S ADDRESS: Bob Herbert AM, Chairman, Australasian Railway Association (ARA)
9:50 Morning tea
10.30 FORUM – Women in rail
- Facilitator: David Irwin, CEO, Pacific National
- Sue McCarrey, CEO, The Office of the National Rail Safety Regulator
- Emma Thomas, Director-General, Transport Canberra and City Services ACT
- Naomi Frauenfelder, Executive Director, TrackSAFE Foundation
- Luba Grigorovitch, Victorian Branch Secretary, RTBU
- Rowenna Walker, Global Service Leader, Rail and Mass Transit, Aurecon
- Jenny McAuliffe, Executive General Manager People, ARTC
- Sinead Giblin, Director of Operations, Northern, Jacobs
11.30 Young Rail Professionals Innovation Pitching Competition
12.00 Lunch
1:30 INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE ADDRESS – Wheels of fortune: MTR’s Value Capture Model: Terry Wong, Head of Australian Business, MTR Corporation Limited
2:00 A tale of two cities – Metro in Sydney and Melbourne: Rodd Staples, Program Director, Sydney Metro, Transport for NSW
2:40 Afternoon tea – served within the Exhibition
3:10 FORUM – Technology, social media and big data: Embracing change to improve the customer offering
- Facilitator:Prof Graham Currie, Chair of Public Transport and Director, Public Transport Research Group, Institute of Transport Studies, Monash University
- Howard Collins, Chief Executive, Sydney Trains
- Andrew Lezala, CEO, Metro Trains Melbourne
- René Lalande, Managing Director, Bombardier Transportation
- Loretta Lynch, Managing Director, Gold Coast Light Rail, Keolis Downer
- Kevin Wright, Chief Operating Officer, Queensland Rail
- Michael Miller, Acting CEO, Downer Rail
- Paul Gelston, Chief Operating Officer, Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure, South Australia
4.30 Close of conference
7:00 AUSRAIL 2016 GALA DINNER Sponsored by Downer
