Mats Berlin,

Head of Capacity Management

Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket)

Mats Berlin is the Head of Capacity Management of Trafikverket, the rail infrastructure manager of Sweden. Based in Stockholm, he took up his position in June 2019. Prior to this, Mats Berlin has held senior management positions in private and public organisations in the fields of transports and logistics, mail and distribution and recycling management.

Kurt Bauer,

Head of Long-Distance Passenger Services

Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB)

After graduating from the University of Innsbruck with a degree in International Business in 2000, he started his career as a consultant at Accenture in Frankfurt am Main. After being awarded a MSc in Transport from Imperial College in 2004 Mr. Bauer specialized in the field of Travel and Transportation in the course of several consultant jobs. From 2011 to 2015 Mr. Bauer held various managerial positions at Deutsche Bahn in Frankfurt am Main. In 2015, he finally returned to his homeland as Head of the high-speed and long-distance train services division of ÖBB-Personenverkehr AG.

Giorgio Medeossi,

Technical Director

Trenolab

Giorgio studied railway engineering, receiving a PhD in Transportation Engineering in 2010 from the University of Trieste. He was awarded the Young Researcher Award of the International Association of Railway Operations Research (IAROR) in 2011. He founded TRENOlab to deliver advanced railway simulations and continues to be active in research, co-authoring numerous books and articles on operations planning and simulations. With 15 years of experience and over 100 studies involving railways simulations, he is currently leading TRENOlab in the role of Technical Director.

Stefan Jugelt,

Project Officer – ERTMS and Telematics Unit

European Union Agency for Railways (ERA)

Stefan Jugelt is working for the European Union Agency for Railway Agency in Valenciennes (France). He is responsible for the development of the technical standards for telematics applications for passengers and freight. His main tasks are the management of the further developments of the Technical specifications for Interoperability (TSI) for telematics and the standards used in these TSI’s, the monitoring of the implementation of the telematics applications in the European rail sector and dissemination activities for these TSI`s. Before his career at the European Union Agency for railways he has worked for more than ten years as software developer.

Carsten Lotz,

Partner

McKinsey & Company

Carsten is a Partner in McKinsey’s Paris office, and leads McKinsey’s global transport infrastructure work, with an emphasis on knowledge and people development. His infrastructure experience spans industry sectors, and includes megaproject management, acceleration of planning and approval processes, and project performance management. In the transport sector, Carsten specializes in rail, including strategic traffic planning, asset management, and the digitization of signaling and other processes. He is deeply committed to advancing the railway industry in order to foster low-CO2 modes of transportation for both people and goods.