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The event is organised by Business Dialogue.The Forum will be supported by Russian Railways JSCo (RZD JSCo), which will be represented at the conference by First Vice-President Vadim Morozov, Senior Vice-President Valentin Gapanovich and other company executives.

During the course of the plenary session “The Future of Rail Transport. Scientific Achievements as a Catalyst of Transformations in the Sector”, members of the international scientific community and transport business officials will discuss the following topics:

  • 175 years of Russian railways: mission, problems, prospects
  • segmentation of scientific research priorities on the basis of the hierarchy of railway sector technological problems
  • creating a self-developing innovative environment: multiplier effect of continuously growing innovation on development of the railway sector
  • creating an integrated smart system for managing the technical condition of the tracks and rolling stock
  • changing conditions for funding R&D: optimising R&D planning and improving interaction between customer and contractor

The moderator of the plenary session will be Professor Boris Lapidus, D.Sc., General Director of OAO VNIIZhT, Chairman of the International Railway Research Board under the International Union of Railways.

Russian Minister of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko declared in an address to the forum:  “Development of the transport sector is an important precondition for developing the Russian economy and enhancing its competitiveness. Obviously, this area requires a consolidation of the efforts of all the parties concerned: the state, business and the academic community.

“The forum ‘Transport Science: Innovative Solutions for Business’ already has a reputation as a representative and authoritative site where professionals discuss the whole range of current issues involved development of railway transport, possible solutions to existing problems are proposed, and experience and ideas are actively exchanged. It is important that the II International Forum ‘Transport Science: Innovative Solutions for Business’ plans to focus particularly on the issues of training scientific personnel and international integration of transport science.”

The work of the breakout groups will cover the most topical issues in the transport sector: scientific achievements as a catalyst to transformation in the sector; optimising transport flows in the interests of business: innovative approaches to carriage management; research personnel as the basis for innovative development of railway transport; integration of transport science on a Pan-European scale; transport engineering: scientific-technical novelties in the service of producers.
The speakers include the following experts and analysts:

  • Mikhail Blinkin, Director of the Institute for Transport Economics and Transport Policy Studies, Higher School of Economics, member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation
  • Leonid Mazo, D.Sc., independent expert with JSC TransBasis
  • Richard Germain, Ph.D. in marketing, Professor at EBS University Wiesbaden, Germany; Director for the International Logistics and Supply Chain Management with Deutsche Bahn AG and RZD JSCo, Graduate School of Management, St Petersburg State University
  • Jaroslav Grim, member of the Board of Directors, General Director of the Railway Research Institute, Czech Republic
  • Dennis Schut, Head of the Research Unit, International Union of Railways
  • Eduard Simson, Professor, D.Sc. in Engineering, R&D Director, JSC UPEC; member of the National Engineering Academy of Ukraine
  • Andrzej Zurkowski, Ph.D. in Engineering, Director, Railway Transport Institute, Warsaw.

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