Destination Digitalisation

Rail Alliance - not to be used wef Jan 2022

Destination Digitalisation, an exciting new event for 2020 focusing on the opportunities and challenges for introducing digital technologies to the railway. Following the success of Destination Decarbonisation in September 2019, Destination Digitalisation will be the the second event in this series to take place and will bring the rail industry together with government, public and client bodies, and wider stakeholders, to address the key digital challenges and trends specific to the entire railway eco-system.
 
Taking place on the 26 February 2020 at the Edgbaston Park Hotel at the University of Birmingham, the Rail Alliance in partnership with the Birmingham Centre of Rail Research (BCRRE) invites organisations in the digital space to engage with world-leading industry experts and researchers to share knowledge and ideas that can drive rail digitalisation strategies forward. This one day event will incorporate a conference, technical workshops, meet the buyer sessions in addition to an exhibition to showcase technologies and innovations along with practical examples presented in the form of industry case studies. FREE to attend.
 
AGENDA: 
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09.00 - Registration Opens 10.00 – Morning Plenary: Welcome and introduction Alex Burrows, MD BCRRE/Rail Alliance – (10 mins) 10.10  - BCRRE – Datathon (10 minutes) 10.20   - Keynote Speaker: Will Wilson, CEO, Siemens (20 minutes) 10.40 - Clive Roberts, Head of School of Engineering, University of Birmingham (10 minutes) 10.50 – BCRRE/Siemens Announcement (15 minutes) 11:05 - Coffee, Networking & Exhibition 11.20 – Simon Rennie, Head of Digital, Siemens, Rolling Stock - Deep Tube & Digital (20 minutes) 11.40 - Interactive Workshop “What does the digital landscape really look like?” – Steve Mills, BCRRE & Martin Little BCRRE/Rail Alliance (40 minutes)
12.20 – Lunch (plus Siemens meet the buyer in room 1 & Digi-Rail Case Studies in room 2 (1hr)
13.20 - Afternoon Plenary: Introduction to Digi-Rail “Journey to Digitalisation” (40 minutes) 14.00 - Keynote Speaker: Tracy Westall, Chair & Non-Executive Board Member for Curium Solutions, DfT, WM5G and Bruntwood Scitecha (20 minutes) 14.20 – Opinsta – Daniel Kong - Head of Business Development – “Amplifying Operational Potential through the use of Mobile Technology” (10 minutes) 14.30 - Elastacloud – Andy Cross- Co-owner and founder of Elastacloud Ltd - “Intelligent Edge Devices and IOT- Connecting to, managing and monitoring remote devices and using the data to build predictive models” (10 minutes) 14.40 – Q&A (5 minutes) 14.45 – Coffee, Networking & Exhibition (10 minutes) 14.55 -  RSSB, Giulia Lorenzini, Senior Partnership and Grants Manager, RSSB - "Getting more value from data to improve network performance - Data Sandbox+ initiative" (1hr) 15.55 – Q & A and Wrap up (20 minutes) 16.15 – Event close 
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Sponsored by:
Opinsta 
Elastacloud

Edgbaston Park Hotel

Please contact eli.rees-king@railalliance.co.uk

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