Draft programme

Day 1 – March 25th 2010

10:00 – 11:00 Welcome Coffee

11:00 – 11:30 Opening speech

Speakers:

• Ştefan Roşeanu, Secretary General – Romanian Railway Industry Association (AIF) /
                            Senior Partner – Club Feroviar

11:30 – 13:00 Railway transport market liberalisation – building a single transport market

Topics:

• The experience of railway transport market liberalisation – best practices in passenger transport liberalisation
• Building the institutional framework necessary to the well-development of railway transport activities
• Railway infrastructure technical condition – hindrance or support in establishing a competitive market
  

Speakers:            

• Dinu Drăgan, General Manager – Romanian Railway Authority (AFER)
• Carmen Filipescu, International Relations Manager – CFR Călători
• Constantin Pestrea, Chairman - Romanian Rail Operators' Association (ATFER)
• Gheorghe Popa, Secretary of State – Romanian Ministry of Transports and Infrastructure
• Emil Sabo, General Manager – CFR SA

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 16:00 Increasing railway operators' transport capacity.
                       Business development strategies in response to climate change challenges

Topics:      

• Strategies in approaching the railway markets in the wider Black Sea area
• Increasing railway transport attractiveness to freight transport undertakings
• Technologies to reduce the environmental impact of railway transport
  

Speakers:            

• Claudiu Dumitrescu, Head of the Directorate for Infrastructure and Railway Transport – Ministry of Transport
                                  and Infrastructure
• Liviu Pescăraşu, General Director - CFR Călători
• Alin Popescu, Area Sales Manager – Magic Engineering

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 – 18:00 Technologies and policies for increasing freight transport capacity

Moderator:      

• Gabriel Stanciu, Head of Rolling Stock Department – AIF / General Manager Alstom Transport Romania

Speakers:            

• Sorin Chinde, General Manager – GFR
• Mihai Frăsinoi, General Manager – CFR Marfă
• Vizante Tomoni, Chairman -The Employers’ Organisation for Rolling Stock Repairs (OPREMAR)
• Gabriel Stanciu, Rolling Stock Division Manager – Siemens
• Paul Turcanu, Market Field Manager -  Sika Romania SRL

20:00 Dinner

Day 2 – March 26th 2010

09:30 – 10:00 Welcome Coffee

10:00 – 11:30 Railway transport – significant element of urban regeneration projects (part I)

Topics:      

• Long-distance services and high-speed trains – path to reconfiguring the perception of space
• Development of urban and sub-urban railway transport in urban expansion context
• The industry's answer to the requirements of urban regeneration strategies

Moderator:     

•  Corneliu Luscalov, Head of Infrastructure Department AIF / Senior Technical Executive – Vossloh Tehnica Feroviară
  

Speakers:            

• Daniele Matteini, Manager – ECM
• Mihai Rădulescu, General Manager – Inda
• Gabriel Stanciu, General Manager – Alstom Transport România
• Daniel Tudorache, Head of Rolling Stock Department – METROREX

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 – 13:30 Railway transport – significant element of urban regeneration projects (part II)

Topics:

• Expanding the underground network to the metropolitan extended area
• Integrating urban and sub-urban railway transport
• Solutions to reduce the environmental impact of public railway transport

Moderator:     

•  Octavian Udrişte, Consultant – Club Metropolitan
  

Speakers:            

• Claudiu Alexandru, General Manager – Atelierele CFR Griviţa
• Costel Comana, General Manager - RC-CF TRANS
• Ion Ghiţă, President – Softronic
• Mircea Marian, Country Manager – Bombardier Transportation Romania
• Romulus Pop, General Manager – Remarul “16 Februarie”

13:30 Elaborating and adopting a common action plan for the players in the railway industry in order to
          build attractive railway passenger and freight transport systems in the wider Black Sea area