The Tenth International Rail Business Forum
1520 Strategic Partnership

• 10 years of working together: what has been achieved?
• the wide gauge in the global market: centripetal or centrifugal force?
• the future of transport corridors: planning horizons
• joint plans in the new economic situation: how to preserve sustainability of railway business
• fostering competitive edge of the 1520 area: harmonisation of tariff and technical regulation

Moderator:
Andrey Sharonov, Rector, Moscow Management School SKOLKOVO

Speakers:
Jochen Eickholt, CEO, Mobility Division, Siemens AG
Alexander Hedderich, CEO, DB Schenker Rail
Ugis Magonis, Chairman of the Board, Latvian Railway
Askar Mamin, President, Kazakhstan Railways
Henri Poupart-Lafarge, President, ALSTOM Transport
Evgeny Rogachev, First Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications, Republic of Belarus
Maxim Sokolov, Minister of Transport, Russian Federation
Vladimir Yakunin, President, Russian Railways

• strategic approache to integrated projects: how to propel the nations of the 1520 area on to a new development track
• Trans-Eurasian belt Razvitie: creating a new gravity centre
• financing real sector and infrastructure to create growth
• how to measure the effectiveness of infrastructure investments?
• balance of public and private investments: which type of partnership is optimal for large-scale projects?
• profile of a construction worker: what social factors and incentives prompt society to undertake major construction?

Big investments in infrastructure have for long been a magic bullet that could change an economy’s structure to encourage growth in basic and high-tech industries, create jobs and spur innovation. The key question now is how we can redirect investments from the speculative to the real sector? How can we effectively invest in infrastructure, and what are the criteria for efficiency?

Field experts, financers and heads of infrastructure companies from both Russia and Europe will line up to answer these questions. The discussion will make a particular emphasis on socio-economic research to reflect economic opportunities in terms of personal incentives and society’s orientation towards delivering big projects.

Moderator:
Vladimir Yakunin, President, Russian Railways

Speakers:
Antonio Fallico, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Banca Intesa
Sergey Gavrilov, Chairman, Committee on Property, State Duma, Federal Assembly, Russian Federation
Ruslan Grinberg, Director, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Science
Michael Harms, Chairman of the Board, Russian-German Chamber of Foreign Trade
Andrey Kostin, President and Chairman of the Management Board, Member of the Supervisory Council, VTB Bank
Libor Lochman, Executive Director, Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER)
Jean Louis Truel, Founder and Managing Director, International Business Development

• putting clients in the centre of business: which services are in demand and how to rate them
• railways vs roads: how to compete
• sharp angles of tariff corridors: specifics of the pricing tool
• after the storm on the foreign exchange market: how to share the export margin
• key client managers at Russian Railways: how do they work?

Focus on client has recently become the cornerstone of railway transport development . It reveals the basic meaning of the railway system and gives answers to the fundamental questions: which criteria are the most important for the railway business, and how these criteria can be achieved? In order to better understand the involvement of market participants, dialogue is conducted between the carrier on behalf of Russian Railways, and the representatives of the operating companies and shippers.

Moderator:
Boris Poretsky, Partner, Vice-President, A.T. Kearney

Speakers:
Kanat Alpysbaev, Vice-President for Logistics, Kazakhstan Railways
Salman Babayev, Vice-President for Commerce, Russian Railways
Peter Baskakov, President, UTLC
Denis Ilatovsky, Deputy CEO for Logistics, SUEK
Yaroslav Mandron, Director, Department of State Regulation of Tariffs, Infrastructure and Energy Efficiency, Ministry of Economic Development, Russian Federation
Vadim Morozov, First Vice-President, Russian Railways
Mariya Nikitina, Director, Transport Department, RUSAL
Irina Olkhovskaya, Deputy CEO, Kuzbassrazrezugol
Vladimir Sokolov, CEO, Transoil
Vladimir Sosipatorov, Managing Director, Vostok 1520
Tamara Stebunova, Deputy Head, Federal Tariff Service
Konstantin Zasov, Member of the Board of Directors, Rusagrotrans

• regulatory framework of construction activities: initiatives needed for project implementation
• in the quest for investors: revision of existing and potential sources of financing
• demand for engineering and managerial staff: who will shoulder the burden of responsibility?
• equipment and technologies: import vs import substitution
• manufacturing capabilities: is there ample construction capacity in the 1520 area?

The question whether there should be a high speed rail network in the 1520 area and Russia is particularly resolved. Even the sceptics have to concede that the future would be impossible without increased mobility and high speed. Today mainly questions how these plans will be put into practice. There should be sufficient effort to implement the plans, and not to disrupt the economy, to consider all the geographic, demographic, social, economic aspects. In addition, there should be a clear-cut vision of the resources we possess – human, intellectual, technological, financial – and of those which are to be generated.

Moderator:
Dariya Borisova, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company

Speakers:
Didier Bohin, Vice-President TIS Strategy and Portfolio, Alstom Transport
Evgeny Dorot, Deputy CEO for Innovative Development, RZDstroy
Alexey Ivanov, Vice-President - Head of the Steel Division, EVRAZ
Innokenty Ivanov, Partner, Head of the infrastructure and Transport Practice in Russia, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Artem Kudryavtsev, President, TransTeleCom
Alexander Misharin, Senior Vice-President, Russian Railways; President, Russian Transport Academy
Dietrich Möller, President, Siemens in Russia; Vice-President, Siemens AG
Andrey Rosionov, Deputy General Manager, Nomura Research Institute, Moscow Branch
Maxim Shingarkin, Member of Committee on Natural Resources, Wildlife Management and Ecology, State Duma, Federal Assembly, Russian Federation
Alexey Storchak, Director, Co-Head of Debt Capital Markets, Russia and CIS, Deutsche Bank
Mark Svechin, Director for High Speed Traffic in Russia, SNCF
Gennady Talashkin, President, Union of Railway Constructors
Alexey Tsydenov, Deputy Minister of Transport, Russian Federation

• UTLC as a strategic asset of the 1520 area and it impact on container shipping
• contractual and integrated logistics services 3PL/4PL: how the crisis affects market growth rates
• innovative products of logistics companies: demand and customer satisfaction
• green light of international corridors: what are the benefits for transit freight?
• logistics outsourcing: risks and advantages

Logistical technologies should be at the heart of a competitive rail business. They are pivotal to any transportation company and therefore assets are being consolidated across 1520 and some of the world’s best practices are being attracted to the wide gauge area.

Moderator:
Innokenty Ivanov, Partner, Head of the infrastructure and Transport Practice in Russia, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Speakers:
Ivan Besedin, Head, Department for Managing the Transport-Logistics Business Block, Russian Railways
Oleg Dunaev, Chairman, Logistics Committee, Chamber of Commerce and Industry Russian Federation
Alexander Hedderich, CEO, DB Schenker Rail
Konstantin Kholopov, Professor and Head of Chair, Technology of Foreign Trade Transactions, Russian Foreign Trade Academy
Luc Nadal, Chairman of the Board, GEFCO Group
Grigory Rubin, Partner and Managing Director, The Boston Consulting Group
Zhanar Rymzhanova, Senior Adviser to the President, Russian Railways
Albertas Simenas, Deputy CEO, Lithuanian Railways
Sergey Sinyagin, CEO, TelecomExpress
Pavel Sokolov, First Vice-President, UTLC
Alexey Tsydenov, Deputy Minister of Transport, Russian Federation

• the best way of using the innovation opportunities in rolling stock
• energy conservation as a factor in the efficiency of suburban passenger railway transport
• product life cycle; the cost ratio of acquisition and operation
• the service provision of high tech rolling stock and equipment

A long-time partner of the SP1520, Siemens offers to do some calculation and see what are the benefits of both modernisation and improved management. The discussion will also reveal what effects the application of high technologies has on rail business in terms of product life cycles, and which institutional conditions should be established for this. A world-leading manufacturer, Siemens wants to share its thoughts and findings to encourage informed debates and blue-skies thinking with all of the delegates.

Moderator:
Michael Harms, Chairman of the Board, Russian-German Chamber of Foreign Trade

Speakers:
Jürgen Brandes, CEO Mobility Management, Division Mobility, Siemens AG
Peter Cedervall, President, RCS Division, Bombardier Transportation Company
Evgeny Dorot, Deputy CEO for Innovative Development, RZDstroy
Gael Dumetier, Regional President Russia – CIS, Vossloh AG
Johannes Emmelheinz, CEO Customer Service, Division Mobility, Siemens AG
Valentin Gapanovich, Senior Vice-President for Innovation Development, Chief Engineer, Russian Railways; President, NP OPZT
Maxim Kuzemchenko, Deputy CEO for Business Development, United Wagon Company
David Melikyan, Technical Director, Alstom Transport
Dietrich Möller, President, Siemens in Russia, Vice-President, Siemens AG
Alexander Saltaev, CEO, Ural Locomotive
Juri Schlee, Sales Director CIS-States NAUE GmbH & Co. KG
Ilya Shirokobrod, Sales Vice-President, EVRAZ
Viktor Stepov, Vice-President for Management System Development, Russian Railways
Tomasz Szuba, Chairman of the Board, CEO, TINES
Juergen Wilder, Head of BU Mainline Transport, Mobility Department, Siemens AG

• current market indicators and forecast for the future if both transportation models and regulatory framework remain unchanged 
• a “window of opportunities” for operator companies: cooperation, consolidation or bankruptcy?
• limiting competition to boosting the market: any need for a minimum wagon rent?
• what are freight owners and rolling stock manufacturers willing to do for the sake of stability on the operator market?
• measures on supporting rail car manufacturing and measuring the number of rail cars on Russian railways
• a predictive market model for operations and ways to carry them out: legislative initiatives, tariff regulations and ways of self-regulation

Operators of rolling stock are faced with both economic downturn and rail car overproduction. This is a painful blow to the transport market. A recently formed leasing market is also at risk as the rent of a rail car is now much below its production cost. What effect will this situation have? Will only big companies remain? should medium and small operators get any assistance? This is something we need to think about very carefully.

Moderator:
Kirill Yankov, Deputy Chairman of the Consumer Board, Russian Railways; Member, Russian Government Advisory Panel

Speakers:
Dmitry Bovykin, First Deputy CEO for General Management, United Wagon Company
Irina Chiganashkina, Member of the Management Board, Railtransholding
Vitaly Evdokimenko, CEO, Federal Freight
Gleb Kinder, Member of the Presidium, Head of the Railway Transport, Commission Public Organization “OPORA ROSSII”
Dmitry Korolev, Executive Director, Council of Rail Transport Operators
Elena Kunaeva, CEO, Centre for Corporate Transport Service – branch of Russian Railways
Yaroslav Mandron, Director of the Department of State Regulation of Tariffs, Infrastructure and Energy Efficiency, Ministry of Economic Development, Russian Federation
Vladimir Prokofiev, CEO, BaltTransServis; President, Association of Carriers and Rolling-Stock Operators
Yury Saakyan, CEO, Institute of Natural Monopolies Research
Nataliya Yakovenko, Deputy Director, Department for Transport and Communication Supervision, Federal Antimonopoly Service

• lean approach to human resources: what is it all about?
• should we make HR tools different  from region to region and nation to nation?
• professional training: broad-based knowledge vs narrow specialisation
• corporate culture as an instrument of engagement and teamwork
• raising the social status of railway professions and highly-skilled specialists
• staff mobility in big companies

There is a great deal of debate about people’s role in innovation. It is not worth discussing and making plans without considering the human factor. The expression “human factor” has recently acquired a negative connotation for various reasons, but it is this expression which now dominates. History knows many examples when everything was apparently taken into account, but people forgot to set somebody responsible for the implementation of a plan. To ensure we never repeat this mistake, we need to be objective when evaluating people’s skills, and if there are gaps they must be taken into account. We also need to do our best to fill in those gaps.

Moderator:
Mikhail Lavrov, Programme Director, Business Dialogue

Speakers:
Oleg Atkov, Vice-President for Healthcare and Work with NGOs, Russian Railways
Alexander Buzgalin, Co-Chairman, Moscow Economic Forum
Rolf Epstein, Global Account Manager, Mobility Department, Siemens in Russia
Guillaume Foeillet, Head of Electrified Lines Engineering, SNCF
Ruslan Grinberg, Director, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Science
Alexander Dianin-Havard, Founder, Virtuous Leadership Institute
Boris Levin, President, Association of Higher Transport Educational Institutions
Nikolay Nikiforov, Chairman, Russian Railway and Transport Construction Workers’ Trade Union
Vyacheslav Rybkin, Director, Railway Development Directorate (Eastern operating domain), Russian Railways
Dmitry Shakhanov, Vice-President for HR Management and Social Issues, Russian Railways
Еlena Trubnikova, Member of the Board of Directors, RZD-Zdorovie   

• transport infrastructure several decades from now
• passenger transportation and the high speed network
• operator’s model
• competition and synergy between different modes of transport
• transport corridors and the logistics business

Strategic planning is at the core of any business. As strategic guidelines contribute to a clearer path towards a target, railway transport evolves according to its Development Strategy for 2030. However, isn’t it intriguing to take a look beyond this horizon – let’s say for another 20 or even 30 years? The workshop will ask best strategists about how an ideal future might look like, with a focus on infrastructure, transport services and global corridors. The discussion will also welcome the independent directors of the SP1520 so they could listen to deliberations and then share their thoughts and findings at the closing session.

Moderator:
Vladimir Kosoy, President, Centre for the Infrastructure Economy

Speakers:
Jan Harder, Chairman of the Steering Committee, MIR INITIATIVE
Andreas Heym, Director of International Development, AREP; Representative of the CEO, Gares & Connexions Station Directorate, SNCF
Dmitry Kovalev, Partner, PwC Russia
Boris Lapidus, CEO, VNIIZhT, Chairman of the International Council of Railway Studies, International Union of Railways
Alexander Misharin, Senior Vice-President, Russian Railways; President, Russian Transport Academy
Fyodor Pekhterev, CEO, Institute of Transport Economics and Transport Studies
Yury Saakyan, CEO, Institute of Natural Monopolies Research
Viktor Stepov, Vice-President for Management System Development, Russian Railways

Moderator:
Ruslan Grinberg, Director, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Science

Independent Directors:
Piotr Dutkiewicz, Professor and Director, Centre for Governance and Public Management, Carleton University, Canada
Mikhail Khazin, Economist, Publicist, Political Scientist
Jean Louis Truel, Founder and Managing Director, International Business Development

Panellists:
Richard Werner, Chair, International Banking; Director, Centre for Banking, Finance and Sustainable Development; Director, International Development, University of Southampton Management School
Vladimir Yakunin, President, Russian Railways