October, 29
7.30 – 9.00	Registration of participants. Salutatory coffee break
9.00 – 9.30	Opening speech Sergey Ivanov, Deputy Head of Government of Russian Federation
9.30 – 11.00	Plenary meeting «Appraisal of reforming results and prospects of structural development in railway sector» Railway sector reforming mechanisms on the basis of government control of the JSC Russian Railways activities Alexander Zhukov, Deputy Head of Government of Russian Federation, Chairman of Board of Directors, Russian Railways Russian railways reforming: results and prospects Vladimir Yakunin, President, Russian Railways Development of regulatory and legal framework of reforming Sergey Shishkarev, Chairman, State Duma Committee for Transport Regulatory support of structural transformation in railway sector Nikolay Ryzhkov, Chairman, Commission on Natural Monopoly of Federation Council The topic is in discussion Valentin Zavadnikov, Chairman, Industrial Policy Committee of Federation Council Prospects of structural reforms in railway sector Vladimir Mau, Rector, Academy of National Economy under the Government of Russian Federation Development of competition in railway sector Sergey Generalov, President, Industrial Investors Group       State tariff policy in railway transport on 3rd stage of the reform Vitaly Evdokomenko. Deputy Director, Federal Tariffs Service of Russia
11.00 – 11.30	Coffee break
11.30 – 13.00	Resumption of plenary meeting «Appraisal of reforming results and prospects of structural development in railway sector» Reform of the railway transport in Russia and prospects of structural transformation after 2010 year Evgeny Yasin, Scientific adviser, SI – Higher School of Economics, Doctor of Science (Economics), professor Cooperation of «1520 area» countries in conditions of railways reforming Tadeush Shozda, Chairman, Executive Committee of the Organization for Cooperation of Railways Structural reforms: experience of German railways Hartmut Mehdorn, Chairman of the Board, Deutsche Bahn AG       International cooperation development in frames of Russian railways technical reforming Hans-Joerg Grundmann, President of Mobility Division, Siemens AG Structural reforming: cooperation between contractors and operators Stephan Krenz , President, Business Unit Germany & Scandinavia and Managing Director Germany Passengers , Bombardier Transportatio Russian Railways JSC – operator companies interaction  Vadim Morozov, First vice-president, Russian Railways Realization of the railway transport structural reform: experience of the First Cargo Company,JSC Salman Babaev, General Director, FREIGHT ONE Company Cooperation of operator companies with other participants of transport market Vladimir Prokofev, President, Association of Carriers and Rolling-Stock Operators, Chief Executive Officer, BaltTransService        Social protection for Russian Railways JCS employees in conditions of the field refor Nikolay Nikiforov, Chairman, Russian trade union of railman and transport builders
13.00 – 14.30	Lunch
14.30 – 16.30	Round-table discussion № 1 Sponsor of the round table “Strategic planning in Russian railways as accelerator for socioeconomic growth of a country” How to ensure further increase in effectiveness of state policy on the railway transport development? What is necessary in the long-term prospect to implement the Strategy for the Russian railway transport development up to 2030? What is necessary to launch the construction of high-speed railway lines? How to effectively combine the plans and certain projects of railway infrastructure development with the development of other modes of transportation, industries and regions of Russia? Infrastructure facilities built with the use of state-private partnership tools: how to effectively manage them? What methods of state support for railway transport are the most advisable in the course of implementation of the Strategy for the Russian railway transport development up to 2030? Presenter: Boris Lapidus, Senior vice-president, Russian Railways Participants: Dmitry Aratsky, Deputy Minister of Regional Development of Russian Federation Alexander Bolotsky, Head of State Policy in Railway Sector Department, Ministry of Transportation of Russian Federation Andrey Dementev, Deputy Minister of Industry and Commerce of Russian Federation Innokenty Ivanov, Senior lawyer, «Freshfields Bruckhouse Deringer » Nigmatzhan Isingarin, Chairman, Association of National Forwarding Agents of Kazakhstan, Doctor of Science, Economics Dmitry Macheret, Head of Economic Forecasting and Strategic Development Department, Russian Railways Carl-Stefan Neumann, Office Director in Frankfurt am Main, McKinsey Consulting Company Yury Saakian, General Director, Natural Monopoly Problems Institute
	Round-table discussion № 2                       Sponsor of the round table  “Cooperation of the JSC RZD and operators in conditions of railway transportation market liberalization How to find balance between economic and technological interests of consignors, car owners and JSC Russian Railways? What rights must a freight carrier have to raise the effectives of work with the rolling stock fleet? How to establish effective transport service of the economy under conditions of continuing increase in the share of private car fleet, including the consideration of possibility to start the second transportation company? How to organize transportation process with planning and dispatching loaded and empty cars under conditions of active growth of the fleet of freight cars? What technology for executing empty private cars should we have? When and under what conditions may the ‘car constituent’ be deregulated? Presenter: Alexander Retyunin, Editor-in-Chief, RZD-Partner magazine Participants: Nikolay Averkov, General Director, Refservice Igor Asaturov, First deputy General Director on Commerce and Production, FREIGHT ONE Company Anatoly Golomolzin, Deputy Director, Federal Antimonopoly Service Aleksey Grom, Managing Director, Firm “Transgarant” Еvgeny Derevenskov, Deputy General Director insurance, ZHASO Aleksey Illarionov, Head of Department of information and corporate managerial processes, «Russian railways » Elena Kunaeva, General Director, Transport Service Centre, Russian Railways Valery Reshetnikov, Vice-president of Organization of Railway Transportation, Russian Railways Dmitry Nikolaev, General Director, TransGroup AS Irina Chiganashkina, Technical Director, DVTG
	Round-table discussion № 3 «Investment prospects for Russian railways: IPO of transport companies as a tool to attract private sector capital into the field” What is the prospect for the IPO tool for attracting assets for the development of transport companies? IPO or strategic investor? Is IPO possible for JSC Russian Railways? Can the company with regulated tariffs perform IPO? Is it necessary to separate infrastructure from the rest of the business in this case? What are the criteria for evaluating attractiveness of railway companies for investors? In what way will the crisis at international financial markets affect the demand for the shares of railway companies? Presenter: Fedor Andreev, Senior Vice-president, Russian Railways Participants: Olesya Dianova, Lawyer, «Freshfields» Vladimir Klimenko, Deputy of State Duma of Federal Assembly of Russian Federation Roman Zhurkov, Director of Department of investment banking, TransCreditBank  Igor Kolomeysky, Head of Investing Activities Department , Russian Railways Rafael Nagapetiyanc, Managing Director, «Alfa-Bank» Zhanar Rymzhanova, Senior Banker, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Yury Soloviev, Head of Investment Business, VTB Group Alexey Taycher, First Deputy General Director, FREIGHT ONE Company Andrey Sharonov, Managing director, Troika Dialog Group of Companies
16.30-17.00	Coffee brake
17.00–19.00	Round-table discussion № 4 “Rolling stock production and repair: current status and prospects for development” How to stimulate the development and capacities increase in the Russian transport machine building industry? What is the role of the state in this process and are the taken measures of state support enough? How to reach balance between the interests of Russian and foreign manufacturers of products and machinery in their struggle for the Russian market? How should Russian enterprises penetrate into foreign markets? How to ensure the growth of quality level of products and constituent parts? Will the system of branch standards and volunteer certification help fulfill this task? What technologies are critical for the Russian transport machine building today? What is necessary for mastering them? What stimuli are necessary to localize modern effective foreign technologies in Russia? How to increase the effectiveness of work of the acquired equipment during its life cycle? What are the ways to reduce expanses on the rolling stock repairs? Presenter: Valentin Gapanovich, Senior Vice-president, Russian Railways Participants: Sergey Barbarich, Deputy Director, VNIIZHT Yury Boronenko, General Director, NVC “Vagony” Mikhail Burmistorov, Editor-in-Chief, «INFOline» Mikhail Ivanov, Operational director, «Eurosib SPb-Transportation systems» Serhey Kaletin, Deputy General Director for technical development, FREIGHT ONE Company Yury Maslukov, Chairman of State Duma Committee for industry Vladimir Matushin, President, NC «Union of car- builders» Dietrich Moeller, Vice-president, Siemens AG Sergey Palkin, Head, Center for quality control and acceptance inspection , Russian Railways Gennady Prokh, GeneralDirector, UGSHK Mikhail Sapetov, First Deputy Head, Central directorate for freight cars repair, Russian Railways Alexander Ovanesov, Partner, Strategy Partners Group «Pro-Invest» Viktor Semenov, Head of Department of key branch of industry, Ministry of industry and trade Igor Tyagunov, Technical Director, Firm “Transgarant” Viktor Tikhonov, General Director, TSZ “Titran-Express” Mikhail Khromov, Director General “EDS-Xolding”  Irina Chiganashkina, Technical Director, DVTG   Vladimir Shneydmuller, Technical Director, «Transmashkholding»
	Round-table discussion № 5 “Cooperation between participants of transport process in conditions of sector reforming as basis for global competitive growth of Russian railways” What competitive tools are used: tariff, delivery speed, complex service? What is necessary to develop competitiveness not between companies, but national transport systems? What is necessary for balanced development of sea ports and port railways capacities? How to balance investment programs of sea ports and JSC Russian Railways during the implementation of the Strategy for the Russian railway transport development up to 2030? Integration of sea ports and freight carriers: is there any effect? Through logistic chain providing the guaranteed speed, ‘door-to-door’ delivery, guaranteed rate for delivery, balance of participants’ interests – dream or reality? Who shall be the integrator? Presenter: Andrey Guriev, First deputy of editor-in-chief, RZD-Partner magazine Participants: Alexander Abrashko, General Director, Locomotive-Tranzit Gennady Bessonov, Secterary General, Coordinating Council on Transsiberian Transportation Vladimir Vorobev, Vice-president, Russian Railways Vyacheslav Gavrilov, , The head of department of investments and development, Federal Marine and River Transport Agency Tatiana Kuznetsova, Head, Port Activities Department , N-Trans Igor Lobko,  Head of DTFTO, Oktyabrskaya Railway –“Russian Railways” brunch   Fedor Pekhterev, Director, “GiprotransTEI” Alexey Tsydenov, Deputy Director, Department of state policy in railway transport, Ministry of Transport of RF Vladimir Chisnakov, General Director, «Russkaya Troyka» Viktor Sharov, Deputy Director, «NIIAS » Representative of Association of commercial seaports of Russia Alexander Shimansky, General Director, Representative office of commercial seaport Association in Moscow
	Round-table discussion № 6                    Sponsor of the round table “Reforming of long distance passenger complex as a tool to provide a mobility of population and transport accessibility of regions” Passenger transport is business, isn’t it? How to make this kind of activity attractive for private investments? Is it enough to introduce social order to attract private business and private investments? Establishment of the Federal passenger company: daughter enterprise of JSC Russian Railways or state company: risks and prospects? What is the practicability to develop private passenger carriers in long distance segment? The model of franchises in passenger transportation for Russian railway transport – prospects for implementation? How to apply the best result of international experience in reforming passenger complex under Russian conditions? What are the prospects for solving the problem of unprofitability of passenger transportation? How to ensure effective development of railway stations and passenger flag stations? The role and place of private investors and responsibility of state authorities? Presenter: Mikhail Akulov, Vice-president, Russian Railways Participants: Sergey Abramov, Head, Directorate for Railway Stations, Russian Railways Petr Birukov, The Moscow City First Deputy Mayor, The Moscow City Government Michael Zelman, General director, ARPICOM Petr Katsyv, Deputy Prime Minister of Moscow region Viktor Kvitko, Head of transport control administration, Federal Tariffs Service of Russia Alexander Misharin, Deputy Minister of Transport of Russian Federation Alexei Rahaev, General Director, Tverskoi Express Valery Shataev, General Director, Federal Passenger Directorate, Russian Railways Maxim Shneyder, General Director, Sverdlovsk Suburban Company Flavio Canetti, Senior Director Business Development Passengers Bombardier Transportation
	Round-table discussion № 7                   Sponsors of the round table  “Railway transport reform in Russia as a part of worldwide practice experience” Implementation of what reforming model is the most practical for Russia? How to develop further competitiveness in the sphere of freight traffic? What decisions can be applied taking into account the international experience? The achievement of what aims must help develop competitiveness in railway transport? What tariff system out of those applied worldwide is the most optimal for Russia? Is it necessary to preserve cross-subsidy between the classes of freights and directions of freight traffic? What approaches to liquidate unprofitability of passenger transportation and to perform full-scale reforms in this sector can be implemented in Russia? Presenter: Rolf Epstein, International expert Participants: Valery Veremeev, Head of construction and reforming Department, Russian Railways Evgeny Demidov, Deputy General Director, «3R» Erkin Zhusanbaev, Managing Director for corporate development, Kazakstan Temir Zholy Vadim Mikhailov, Partner, Ernst & Young Andrey Nedosekov, Deputy Minister of Transport of Russian Federation Tapio Simos, Managing Director, VR Group Ltd. (railways of Finland) Tadeush Shozda, Chairman, Executive Committee of the Organization for Cooperation of Railways (OSJD)
19.00 – 22.00	Official annual award ceremony "Partner of JSC RZD - 2008"

October, 30
9.00 – 10.00	Registration of participants. Salutatory coffee break
10.00 – 11.00	Briefing “Natural monopolies reforming: lessons and prospects” Presenter: Sergey Brilev, Announcer, The Russia TV Channel Participants: Igor Levitin, Minister of Transport of Russian Federation Grigory Berezkin, Chairman of the Board of Directors, ESN Group of Companies Valery Golubev, Vice Chairman of Executive Board, Gazprom Boris Lapidus, Senior Vice-president, Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin, President, Russian Railways
11.00 – 11.30	Coffee break
11.30 – 13.30	Panel discussion № 1 “Transport services  market grouping is the object of the third stage of reform: facilities, instruments and prospects” What are the aims for competitiveness development in railway transport and how to achieve them? What is a natural monopoly in railway transport – infrastructure or transportation? How to expand the presence of private capital in the sphere of freight traffic? Will own trains and local carriers help attract private business without the transport load growth on the users and reduction of JSC Russian Railways profitability? Is the breakeven result for long-distance and suburban service is a stimulus for the inflow of private investments? How should the system of state regulation change to establish a new institutional environment of the market of railway transport services? What prevents the liberalization of tariffs in competitive market sectors? How to optimize the cooperation between carriers and owners of rolling stock? To what extent it is practical and possible to separate infrastructure from freight traffic? Competitive and natural monopoly sectors: objectives of state regulation. State order and franchises: what will attract private capital to the industry? Presenter: Yury Saakyan, General Director, Institute of natural monopolies problems Participants: Sergey Adadurov. General Director, “NIIAS” Alexey Druzhinin, Director of Legal Groundwork and Legislation Department, Ministry of Transportation of Russian Federation Vitaly Efimov, President, Union transport workers of Russia Nigmatzhan Isingarin, Chairman, Association of National Forwarding Agents of Kazakhstan, Doctor of Science, Economics Dmitry Komissarov, Chairman Board of Directors, ”Technological company” Mikhail Kurbatov, Deputy Department Director on State Rate Regulation and Infrastructure Reforms, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Russian Federation Gennady Petrakov, Head ad interim, Federal Rail Transport Agency Valery Reshetnikov. Vice-president, Russian Railways Alexander Sapronov, Deputy General Director for strategy and corporate development, FREIGHT ONE Company
13.30 – 15.00	Lunch
15.00 – 17.00	Panel discussion № 2 “Tariff regulation in conditions of reforms” What methods of tariff regulation should be applied under new conditions of development and reforms in the industry? How to ensure new stimuli during the tariff regulation to optimize expanses and raise the quality level of services? How to stop cross-subsidy in the course of improvement of tariff system? What is the prospect for deregulating price determination and transfer to free (contractual) tariffs in the competitive and temporarily monopoly segments of the market? Is it possible to transfer from the determination of tariff levels to the establishment of ‘price corridor’? Transfer from state regulation of tariffs for transportation to state regulation of tariffs for infrastructure services. Suppositions, prospects, risks? Profitability of investment capital or state financing for infrastructure? Presenter: Alexander Retyunin, Editor-in-Chief, RZD-Partner magazine Participants: Rene Varek, First Deputy General Director, RTA Gennady Verkhovikh, Head of Department for passengers services, Russian Railways, Georgy Davydov, President, National Transportation Association Viktor Kvitko, Head of transport control administration, Federal Tariffs Service of Russia Dmitry Korovyakov, First Deputy Managing Director, Mechel Trans Igor Nikolaenko, Head of Transport and Logistic Department , EVROCEMENT trade Vyacheslav Petrenko, Head of Cargo Transportation Marketing and Tariff Policy Department, Russian Railways
17.00 – 17.30	Coffee break
17.30 – 18.10	Official closing of the conference Presenter: Vladimir Yakunin, President, Russian Railways Participants: Fedor Andreev, Senior Vice-president, Russian Railways Mikhail Akulov, Vice-president, Russian Railways Valentin Gapanovich, Senior Vice-president, Russian Railways Andrei Guriev, First deputy of editor-in-chief, RZD-Partner magazine Boris Lapidus, Senior Vice-president, Russian Railways Dmitry Nikitin, General Director, ”Eurosib” Alexander Retyunin, Editor-in-Chief, RZD-Partner magazine Yury Saakyan,  General Director, Institute of natural monopolies problems Rolf Epstein, Director of Department at Siemens Mobility
18.10 – 22.00	Evening reception on occasion of 10th anniversary of RZD-Partner magazine. Awarding by special magazine prizes.

Confirmation from speakers is expected.
Organizers retain the right to amend the program.