Olivier Waeber,

Leader in Innovation and Technology Management

Swiss Federal Railways (SBB)

Oliver coordinates 8 technological, cross-functional competence centres: Augmented and Virtual Reality, Predictive Maintenance, Interaction between Rail and Rolling Stock, Drones, RFID in Rail, Additive Manufacturing, Energy Storage, and Machine Perception. His focus is the company-wide development and operationalization of specific use cases. In addition, Oliver is responsible for further developing technology management at SBB. This involves defining the technology strategy and corresponding technological tactics and principles. Oliver holds a PhD in Strategy and Innovation from EPFL in Lausanne. He has worked as a consultant for innovation management. 

Yasunari Nakajima,

Director, Paris Office

East Japan Railway Company (JR East)

Yasunari is Director of JR East’s Paris Branch. He is an expert in signalling systems, project management and standardisation.

Maurice van der Aa,

Senior Product Sales Manager & Solution Architect Intelligent Systems

Advantech

Before joining Advantech, Maurice worked for 12 years in commercial IT where he had roles in sales, purchasing and product management, all within the BeNeLux market. He holds a degree in Computer Interface Technique from R.O.C. de Leijgraaf. In 2012 he joined Advantech as Product Sales Manager, where he manages the Intelligent System products for Europe. His main focus is on High Performance IPC, Industrial Server & Edge AI. In 2019 he also started to work as a Solution Architect, enabling new domain-focused partnerships together with Advantech’s sales teams. He has set up strategic collaboration with software partners to enable Edge Solution Ready Packages for the European marketspace.

Stéphane Feray Beaumont,

Vice President Innovation & Smart Mobility

Alstom

Stephane Feray-Beaumont has been Vice President Innovation & Smart Mobility for Alstom since 2018. Holding a Ph.D in Control Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Stéphane is a rail expert who benefits from 25 years of experience in the command control industry.

Marc Guigon,

Coordinator Latin America & Coordinator Covid-19 Taskforce

International Union of Railways (UIC)

Marc Guigon is Passenger Director at UIC (International Union of Railways), responsible for passenger activities, including the development of High-Speed Rail worldwide, railway stations, distribution, regional and commuter traffic services, and tourist trains.

He is also coordinator of UIC Latin-American Region and chair of the UIC Covid-19 Task Force, which comprises 70 UIC members and 18 International organisations.

Prior to joining UIC, Marc worked 7 years in the office of the French Prime Minister, being responsible for French national transport policies in the field of spatial planning: including railways, roads, urban transport, airports, ports, and waterways.