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Conference
Full Schedule
Tuesday May 13, 2025
Morning Sessions: Main Stage
Time | Title | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
1. 9:00 am to 9:20 am | Opening Remarks | Mark Salsberg and Paul Murphy (TRACCS) |
2. 9:20 am to 9:25 am | Address from the Minister of Transportation | Hon. Prabmeet Singh Sarkaria |
3. 9:25 am to 9:35 am | Keynote Addresses | Special Guests |
4. 9:35 am to 10:10 am | Expanding market engagement | Stephanie Davies (Chief Capital Officer at Toronto Transit Commission)
Tharshini Markandaier, Head of Procurement
Laura Gould, Head of Commercial |
5. 10:10 am to 10:50 am | Progressive Contracting | Chris Phillips - Senior Vice President- Project Delivery (LRTs) at Infrastructure Ontario
Meghan Mulligan (Executive Vice President of Commercial Management at Metrolinx) |
6. 10:50 am to 11:30 am | CDPQ Infra's Vision and Projects | Daniel Farina (CDPQi) |
7. 11:30 am to 12:10 pm | Gatineau Tramway | Stephanie McNeely, Directrice d’infrastructure surface à la Société de transport de l'Outaouais (STO) |
8. 12:10 pm to 1:00 pm | Fireside Chat: Operations and Maintenance with Canadian Transit Agencies |
Afternoon Sessions (three stages)
Time | Title | Speakers | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|
B1. 2:15 to 3:00 | Metrolinx Heavy Rail Emissions Strategy: Advancing Sustainable Transit Solutions | Rob Sherrin (Vice President of Electrification and Fleet (Engineering and Asset Management), Metrolinx) | B |
B2. 3:00 pm to 3:40 pm | Enhanced Train Control Deployment Challenges | Thomas Casselman (VP of signalling at Metrolinx) and Daniel Dau () | B |
B3. 3:40 pm to 4:20 pm | Alliancing in action | Joshua Strub (Margie Strub Construction Law LLP)
Marcia Medrano (Metrolinx)
Tim Shepherd (Kiewit)
Kate Borg (WSP) | B |
B4. 4:20 pm to 5:00 pm | TRACCS powered by Achilles | Katie Ferrier (Achilles) | B |
C1. 3:00 to 3:40 | Integration Management Essentials – A Practical Tutorial |
Dale Brown (Director of Systems Engineering at Hatch Rail & Transit ) | C |
C2. 3:40 to 4:20 | Compliance to Code- NFPA based design for Metro projects , Integrated NFPA EN Based Safety management Approach | Masoud Rezaei (Egis) | C |
C3. 4:20 to 5:00 | Digital Twin and Smart Solutions for Transit Projects | Lucy Casascia (Arcadis) | C |
TS1. 1:45 pm to 2:45 pm | Cybersecurity Panel | Goran Novkovic (Director of Industrial Cybersecurity at TTC) | Technology showcase |
TS2. 3:00 pm to 3:40 pm | Protection of Maintenance of Way Vehicles | Robert Hanczor | Technology showcase |
TS3. 4:20 pm to 5:00 pm | Hatch Enhanced Track Assessment (HETA) | Miqdaad Fatakdawala | Technology showcase |
Wednesday May 14, 2025
All Day, Two Rooms
Time | Title | Speakers | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|
ROOM B | |||
9:30 am to 9:45 am | Day 2 Opening Remarks | TRACCS Board Directors | B |
9:50 am to 10:30 am | Fireside Chat | Mario Peloquin (President & CEO at VIA Rail) and Mark Salsberg (Chairperson at TRACCS) | B |
10:30 am to 11:10 am | Transition Tracks: Designing for Maintainability
| Rashid Dorj (Rail Cantech Inc.) | B |
11:10 am to 11:50 am | Bloor-Yonge Station Capacity Improvements Project | Chris Duyvestyn (Project Director- Major Projects Department at TTC) | B |
BREAK | |||
12:30 pm to 1:50 pm | Women Leading Transit and Rail Operations: Challenges and Opportunities | Panellists:
- Kirsten Watson
- Josee-France Poxon
- Ellen Stassen
- Tracy MacPhee
Moderated by Sonia Rahman | B |
1:50 pm to 2:30 pm | TRACCS +CSA - Standards Next Steps | Ana-Maria Tomlinson (CSA) and Mark Salsberg (TRACCS) | B |
2:30 pm to 3:10 pm | Putting Standardization to Work: Improving Efficiency in Canada’s Transit Rail System | Pierre Bilodeau (VP Standardization Services at Standards Council of Canada) | B |
3:10 pm to 4:20 pm | Fireside Chat: the Standards initiative | > Ian Hodgkinson (Alstom)
> Jonathan English
> Stephen Wickens
> Tony Kearns (K2C Rail) | B |
ROOM C | |||
10:30 am to 11:10 am | AI, Automation, and Health and Safety: The Intersection | Mathew MacLeod, CRSP
Senior Occupational Health and Safety Specialist, CCOHS | C |
11:10 am to 11:50 pm | Systems Engineering for Rail | Leslie Barnes, Director of Operations at WGD Consulting - moderator
Mike Markoulakis, Director of Engineering at WGD Consulting
Mark Willer
and Larisse Nana-Kouadjo, Vice President, Major Projects Pursuit, EGIS | C |
BREAK | |||
12:30 pm to 1:10 pm | Upgrading Existing Lines : Challenges and Solutions in Resignalling | Serge Mabaya, Senior Director of Project Engineering
Management, Hitachi Rail | C |
1:10 pm to 1:50 pm | Health and Safety in Transit Rail Projects | Wayne Warren (Chief Safety Officer at ONxpress) | C |
1:50 pm to 2:30 pm | Transforming Canadian Transportation with Mobility as a Service (MaaS) | Alex Wehmeyer: Head of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) at Siemens Mobility North America | C |
2:30 pm to 3:10 pm | From Paper to Performance: Why Collaboration is the Heart of Contracts & Delivery | Darshpreet Bhatti, Principal at Stratix Group Inc. | C |
The Yard and The Demos
See the best equipment in action in our yard, with guided demos from the experts who can answer all your questions!
Aureos
Holland LP
Readypower Canada
Ballast Tools Equipment
Integrity Rail
Toromont Material Handling
CG Equipment
J. Lanfranco Fastener Systems
Toronto Transit Commission
Gear Equipment
Liebherr-Canada Ltd.
ZÖLLNER Signal GmbH
Orgo-Thermit Goldschmidt
Rail Xtra
The Technology Showcase
The Digital Rail Enterprise
The best and most forward-thinking technologies applied to Passenger Rail.
Aeon Green
Piper Networks
Cansel Survey Equipment Inc.
Polycorp
ITBA Solutions Ltd.
SitePhotos
Knick Interface LLC
WSP
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