Timetable WEDNESDAY 17 JUNE 08.45: EVENT REGISTRATION, NETWORKING AND EXHIBITION HOSTED BY MAIN HALL Welcome address and opening remarks Cllr Jane Urquhart – Portfolio Holder for Planning and Transportation, Nottingham City Council Roger Harrison – Chairman, Tramlink Nottingham and Light Rapid Transit Forum Development of NET using transportation, land use and economic development performance measures Cllr Jane Urquhart – Portfolio Holder for Planning and Transportation, Nottingham City Council HALL A: STRATEGY, PLANNING AND FINANCE HALL B: TECHNICAL AND OPERATIONAL Welcome from Hall A Chair Welcome from Hall B Chair Roger Harrison – Chairman, Tramlink Nottingham Colin Robey – Managing Director, UKTram DAY ONE DAY Funding models and financial considerations in the Low Impact Light Rail delivery of LRT projects Paul Griffiths – Metro & Sprint Programme Director, Centro Nafees Arif – Chief Financial Officer, Tramlink Nottingham Robin Wolfendale – Rail Projects Manager, Trelleborg Can regional devolution benefit UK LRT? – PANEL DEBATE Driving down costs: Making light rail procurement Tobyn Hughes – Managing Director (Transport Operations), NECA more economical – PANEL DEBATE Dr Jon Lamonte – Chief Executive, Transport for Greater Manchester James Hammett – General Manager, UKTram Geoff Inskip – Chief Executive, Centro Taylor Ferguson – Director, Grant Thornton David Hand – Divisional Director and LRT Group Practice Leader, Peter Adams – Head of Metro Development, Centro Mott MacDonald Chris Deas – Project Director, Nottingham City Council Paul Rowen – Deputy Chairman, Light Rail Transit Association Employment creation: Harnessing local suppliers Steve Tough – NET Project Office Team Leader, Don’t throw the tram under the bus: The case for and Nottingham City Council against bus re-regulation – PANEL DEBATE Colin Tomlinson – Resources Manager, Taylor Woodrow-Alstom Phil Hewitt – Executive Chairman, Tramlink Nottingham Ian Morgan – Deputy Chairman, Wellglade Group Robert Montgomery – UK Bus Managing Director, Stagecoach Andrew Braddock – Chairman, Light Rail Transit Association David Young – Chief Executive, South Yorkshire PTE 11.30: REFRESHMENTS, NETWORKING AND EXHIBITION HOSTED BY Getting the message: Improving light rail’s wider visibility – PLENARY PANEL SESSION Sharon Thompson – Director, London Tramlink, Transport for London Peter Cushing – Metrolink Director, Transport for Greater Manchester Claire Ansley – Head of Customer Service, Stagecoach Supertram Steve Lowe – Commercial Director, Tramlink Nottingham 13.00: LUNCH, NETWORKING AND EXHIBITION HOSTED BY HALL A: STRATEGY, PLANNING AND FINANCE HALL B: TECHNICAL AND OPERATIONAL Urban Transport: The EIB Financing Option Utilities debate: Where are we in 2015? – PANEL DEBATE Dimitri Popov – Senior Lending Officer, Western Europe, EIB Phil Hewitt – Executive Chairman, Tramlink Nottingham INTERNATIONAL PROJECT SHOWCASE Andy Steel – Independent consultant Case studies invited from Dubai, Utrecht and Aarhus Paul Gerrard – Performance and Operations Director, National Joint Utilities Group Exporting UK expertise: Doing business overseas Nick Evans – Partner, Bircham Dyson Bell PANEL DEBATE David Rumney – UKTram Working Group David Hand – Divisional Director and LRT Group Practice Leader, Mott MacDonald Approaching the EMC challenge: Utrecht Uithoflijn David Steele – Head of Light Rail Scandinavia, SYSTRA Elske Olthof – Consultant – Transportation, Mott MacDonald Roger Harrison – Chairman, Tramlink Nottingham Off-wire operation and energy recovery systems Alan Newbold – Director, Arup Herve Mazzoni – Director of Safety & System Integration, SYSTRA Paolo Carbone – Business Development Manager, RPA Transport Minister – KEYNOTE ADDRESS (invited) 16.30: opportuNITY FOR NOTTINGHAM EXPRESS TRANSIT TOUR HOSTED BY 18.45: DRINKS RECEPTION HOSTED BY 19.30: NETWORKING DINNER HOSTED BY THURSDAY 18 JUNE 08.45: EVENT REGISTRATION, NETWORKING AND EXHIBITION HOSTED BY HALL A: STRATEGY, PLANNING AND FINANCE HALL B: TECHNICAL AND OPERATIONAL Welcome from Hall A Chair Welcome from Hall B Chair Roger Harrison – Chairman, Tramlink Nottingham Ian Brown – UKTram Centre of Excellence Big Data: Urban transit opportunities Light rail safety and regulation: The switch to ROGS TWO DAY Martin Howell – Worldwide Marketing Communications Director, David Keay – HM Assistant Chief Inspector of Railways, Cubic Transportation Systems Office of Rail Regulation Additional revenue streams Tram Accident and Incident Reporting (TAIR) database Graeme Craig – Commercial Development Director, James Hammett – General Manager, UKTram Transport for London (invited) Optimising tram and traffic interfaces High-speed rail and multi-modal integration PANEL DEBATE Alistair Sim – Interface Manager, Edinburgh Trams Paul Buchanan – Partner, Volterra Partners The future of training and monitoring drivers Norman Baker – Former Under-Secretary of State for Transport and driver behaviour Alistair Kirk – Programme and Safety Director, HS2 Ltd (invited) Ian Rowe – Director, Ian Rowe Associates David Ralph – Chief Executive, D2N2 Martha Grekos – Partner, Head of Planning and Infrastructure, A new approach to Competence Management Systems London, Irwin Mitchell David Nicholls – HQSE Director, KeolisAmey Docklands Mike Rafferty – Principal Consultant, Cuerden Consulting Driving Very Light Rail innovation in the West Midlands Dr Nick Mallinson – Programme Manager, HVM Catapult, University of Warwick 11.30: REFRESHMENTS, NETWORKING AND EXHIBITION HOSTED BY Where next for the tram-train model in the UK? – PLENARY PANEL SESSION Colin Walton – CEO, CS Walton Consulting Peter Cushing – Metrolink Director, Transport for Greater Manchester Simon Coulthard – Head of Tram-Train Projects, Network Rail Tim Kendell – Independent Consultant Dave Haskins – Project Director, Metro 13.00: LUNCH, NETWORKING AND EXHIBITION HOSTED BY HALL A: STRATEGY, PLANNING AND FINANCE HALL B: TECHNICAL AND OPERATIONAL Reputation management: Stakeholders and the public Nottingham’s move to off-tram ticketing Tom Norris – Director and General Manager, Edinburgh Trams Jens Mullak – Managing Director, INIT Cardiff Metro: The UK’s next urban rail ‘big bang’? Implementing successful revenue protection strategies Mark Barry – Advisor to the Welsh Government and minimising fare evasion Andrew Gregory – Director of Strategic Planning, Cardiff City Council Mike Mabey – Head of Operations, Nottingham Trams LRT solutions for mid-size towns SPONSORED BY Strategies to combat vandalism and violence on Paolo Carbone – urban transit systems Business Development Manager, RPA Simcha Ohrenstein – Chief Technical Officer, Jerusalem LRT Manchester Airport Line: Delivery a year early! Track replacement and renewal: Recent lessons Chris Coleman – Managing Director, RATP Dev Marc Walters – Senior Customer Services Manager, Peter Jones – Technical Director, MPT Sheffield Supertram Examining the models for UK light rail concessions Removing obsolescence: Modernising the UK’s Martin Fleetwood – Partner, Bevan Brittan second-generation systems Sharon Thompson – Director, Tramlink, Transport for London Brian Wilson – Head of Engineering, Nexus 16.30: REFRESHMENTS, NETWORKING AND EXHIBITION HOSTED BY 17.30: 10TH UK LIGHT RAIL CONFERENCE CLOSE EVENT SUPPORTED BY ORGANISED BY.