The XV International Conference and Exhibition “Infotrans 2010” will take place in Saint Petersburg from 26 to 29 October. The event is dedicated to information technologies in rail transport. The general partner is Russian Railways. The event organiser is Business Dialogue, with support from CNews.

Companies such as Schneider Electric, Kaspersky Lab, Eurosib, NefteTransServis, Novaya Perevozochnaya Kompaniya, Rusagrotrans, Infokom, STM, ABB, TVEMA and Lester Information Technologies, and also the Moscow State University of Railway Engineering, have already confirmed that they will take part in the event. In addition, representatives of Russian Railways’ data processing centres from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok will take part in the event.

The 15th Infotrans conference will be substantially different to previous events, with a more packed programme, including topics dealing with the most important issues in the development and application of information technologies and communications systems in business management.

“Information and telecommunications technologies are one of the main tools for managing modernisation in all areas of the economy. The importance of innovation in rail transport must not be underestimated, bearing in mind the geographical characteristics of our country. The opportunity to boost communication between specialists from all spheres in the railway industry is of great significance, and for this we need a constant lively exchange of views between different participants in the market, in order to utilise best practices as we move forward in computerisation,” says Alexei Illarionov, RZD’s Director of Information Technologies and head of its Department of IT and Corporate Management Processes. “I would like to wish the participants, guests and organisers of the conference productive work and mutually beneficial agreements.”

Anatoly Kitsura, Director General of Business Dialogue, which is organising the international conference and the Infotrans exhibition, comments: “Speaking frankly, this year’s event is a challenge for our company. This is the first time we’ve taken it on and naturally we are running into some difficulties. However, I can assure you that the experience we have gained over 10 years of organising events in the railway sector enables us to say confidently that no one knows better than us all the detail of this industry’s objectives. We are partnering with the CNews agency, which is an expert in IT and will give us top-quality assistance in delivering the organisation of this event at the highest level. We invite you to take part in the XV International Conference and Exhibition “Infotrans 2010”.