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Informa Australia and the Australasian Railway Association (ARA) are pleased to announce Light Rail 2020. Canberra has been selected as host city, following on from the highly anticipated and successful launch of stage one of the Light Rail network for our nation’s capital. The event will be held at the Hyatt Hotel on 4 and 5 March, 2020.

The conference will bring together operators, manufacturers, contractors and industry and government stakeholders of every level across the light rail sector to hear cutting-edge case studies, project updates and learn from successful projects in Australasia and the world. Across Australasian, light rail is reshaping the transport landscape and transforming the way we travel by offering smart solutions and completing multimodal connections. Light rail provides sustainable, smart and safe solutions to the congestion and capacity challenges currently faced by our cities and regions. With investment in light rail at record levels, now it is the time to build a long-term, strategic future that benefits all.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Glenn Bentley, CEO, ALTRAC
• Julien Dehornoy, CEO, Yarra Trams
• Chris Steel MLA, Minister for Transport, Minister for City Services, Minister for Roads and Active Travel, Minister for Recycling and Waste Reduction, Minister for Multicultural Affairs
• Duncan Edghill, Chief Projects Officer, Major Projects Canberra
• Brian Brennan, Chief Officer, Light Rail Operations, Transdev Australasia
• Tilo Franz, General Manager, Operations & Maintenance, CMET
• Michelle Batsas, Executive Director, International Association of Public Transport (UITP)
• Anand Thomas, Program Director, Parramatta Light Rail, Transport for NSW
• Michelle Blicavs, CEO, Consulting Surveyors National
• Jean-Francois Blanc, Solution Director, Tramway Systems, Alstom
• Dr Ali Parvizi, National Marketing & Sales, Traction, ABB Australia
• Becky Wood, Global Service Leader, Rail & Mass Transit, Aurecon
• Steve Dudley, Technical Director, Aurecon
• Mike Ford, Senior Track & Civil Design Engineer, Jacobs
• Anna Loughnan, Graduate Civil Engineer, Jacobs
• Michael Charlesworth, HSEQ Manager, Speno Rail Maintenance Australia
• Ash Athukoralalage, Wheel/Rail Interface Engineer, Speno Rail Maintenance Australia
• Paul Fergusson, Team Lead Project Management Services (Newcastle), SNC-Lavalin Atkins
• Kenneth Ooi, Senior Consultant, SNC-Lavalin Atkins
• Scott Ney, Section Executive, Transport Advisory and Planning, WSP

Topics will include:

• Project updates
• Finance, procurement and funding options
• Planning, design, delivery and asset management
• Customer engagement and experience: Ensuring passengers feel safe, confident, empowered and informed
• Data and disruption
• Signalling, communications, control systems and integration
• Meeting future passenger, traffic and network capacity needs
• Emerging technologies and designing the next generation of trams

Highlights for 2019 included:

Great networking opportunities and the dinner was excellent
– Transdev Auckland

Learning about the new light rail projects recently delivered or about to be delivered throughout Australia, especially learning about the shared lessons and similar experiences
– Bombardier

Great people with great experience presenting
– PTV

EXTENDED FOR 2019!

Young Professionals rate (Under 35)*
The ARA is delighted to offer reduced registration fees to young rail professionals, aged 35 years old and under on 4 March 2020, to attend this year’s ARA Light Rail conference.