Our Trainers

Mohamed Abou El Enein, MSc., studied mechanical engineering with a focus on digitalized product development and drive technology at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien. Joined “Wiener Linien”, the operator of the largest regional transport network in Austria, in 2019, working in the main department for Vehicle Technology in various innovation & digitization projects. Currently holding the position as a Project Manager for Hydrogen & E-mobility in the department for Motor Vehicles to investigate into battery-electric powertrains and hydrogen powertrains for the decarbonization strategy of Wiener Linien’s bus fleet.

Hans Arby is a senior researcher at RISE Research Institute of Sweden and adviser for public and private mobility actors, focusing on business model and eco system innovation and governance. He is also a member of the Gothenburg City Council and the Urban development board.

He has 20 years of experience within sustainable transport, ITS and has been providing strategic support to cities in developing transport strategies and long term planning and marketing of public transport. He is a member of the UITP Combined Mobility Committee and lead trainer for the MaaS trainings.

He founded UbiGo that launched one of the first commercial, subscription based MaaS (Mobility as a Service) operations in Stockholm.

He holds a MSc in electrical engineering as well as a BA in journalism and have been working with business development, marketing and sales in different high tech industries before entering the mobility industry.

Holding a PhD in Cultural Studies and Media at the University of Nottingham and Master’s degree in Semiotics at the University of Bologna, Alessandro as a 7 years’ experience in innovation, service design and user experience in a multidisciplinary and international environment. He is an
expert of qualitative research on users, behaviors and strategy. He worked as research manager in for consulting companies, digital agencies and marketing and brand strategy research firms in Berlin, Geneva and Paris.

At Attoma, he is responsible of the User Research activities, from the design of research
methodologies to the recommendations to bring user insights at the heart of enterprise
innovation strategies. He has managed and conducted extensive fieldwork and
research within the transportation sectors in particular about user behaviors and digital
usages within public transportation spaces.

Carlo Bianco is a highly experienced senior rail Operations Director with railway management roles stretching back to the 1980s. He has extensive international experience across a broad spectrum of rail mobilization, rail operations and maintenance delivery. He developed his career into ATM group, the operator of Public Transport in the city of Milan (Italy). Recently he focused his activity on driverless metro operation and has been for five years Operations manager in Copenhagen Metro (Denmark), system currently operated by ATM.  

In 2011 he has been responsible for the startup of the automatic people mover of Princess Noura University in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia). In 2012 he returned in Milan as responsible for the startup of the new driverless line 5 which started commercial operation in February 2013. Carlo’s operations experience also extends to the project phase – pre-revenue operation 

He is currently serving as Safety Director for Metro Network and Operation Director for automatic metro lines in ATM Milan. He is also Deputy Chairman of the Board of Metro Service A/S Copenhagen. 

Guido Bruggeman is an urban transport expert with 40 years of experience. After he graduated in 1975 as a transport engineer at the Breda University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands, he started his career at the Municipal Transport Company in Amsterdam.

In 2000, he joined the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London as an Urban Transport Specialist and was involved in many transport projects in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Since 2007 he is acting as an independent consultant and advising international clients on the planning, organization, regulation and operation of urban transport. Among others, Guido acts as project advisor for the World Bank and Asian Development Bank. He is also a Lead Trainer at the UITP Academy. As an international expert he has worked in over 30 countries worldwide.

Büşra Buran received the M.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering from Galatasaray University, in 2012 and is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Management Engineering at Istanbul Technical University (ITU). She is working for ten years. She worked in different departments of IETT such as planning, BRT (Bus Rapid Transit), and service improvement. She currently works as a strategy development manager at the IETT that is the bus transportation authority for Istanbul. She is responsible for the strategic plan, key performance indicators, project management, quality management, energy management, innovation, benchmarking.

Ingeniero de Caminos, Canales y Puertos por la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) y Master of Science en Planificación Urbana y Regional por el Technion: Instituto de Tecnología de Israel.

Durante más de 28 años trabajó en el Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid (autoridad de transporte público de la Comunidad de Madrid) desarrollando trabajos relativos a Movilidad; Planificación de los diferentes modos transporte, Estudios multimodales del sistema de transporte público; Participación en diferentes proyectos europeos; Planes de Movilidad Urbana Sostenible (PMUS) y Planes de Transporte al Trabajo (PTT); etc.

Desde octubre de 2014 trabaja como consultor experto en transporte público y movilidad sostenible, colaborando con el Banco Mundial, Banco Europeo de Inversiones-Jaspers, la UITP y diferentes administraciones en España.

Es ponente en múltiples seminarios, congresos, conferencias a lo largo de diferentes países del mundo. Es profesor ad honorem en la UPM y en masters de transportes.

Es Ingeniero de Caminos, Canales y Puertos especializado en Transporte y Territorio por la Universidad Politécnica de València. Ha desarrollado su actividad profesional principalmente en el sector del transporte y la movilidad sostenible, en los ámbitos público y privado, ejecutando labores consultivas, operativas y ejecutivas.

Como consultor y proyectista ha firmado proyectos constructivos de infraestructuras ciclistas y ha actuado como responsable en la elaboración de Planes de movilidad urbana y en estudios de demanda, viabilidad y modelización de redes urbanas e interurbanas de transporte público entre otros.

Como operador, desarrolló la oficina técnica del Grupo Transvia en 2014 y ostentó el cargo de director gerente en la Empresa Municipal de Transportes de València entre 2015 y 2020.

En la actualidad, desde Moov, consultoría de movilidad y transporte, centra su actividad en la formación y consultoría estratégica en transporte público.

Paul is currently International Business Development Director at INIT GmbH, HQ in Karlsruhe. INIT is the German based leading supplier of integrated telematics and ticketing solutions for more than 700 public transport organizations worldwide.

Paul is originally an electronics engineer, has a 45 year career in military and civilian technologies, the last 20 years in helping people to use Public Transport. Projects in London, Dublin, Nottingham, Pilzen Portland, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia & New Zealand.

Paul is a long serving member of (15 years) the UITP, he’s chaired the technology committee, been member of the Policy Board. He currently chairs the UITP Cyber Security working group; which is developing UITP strategy and a working cyber framework for members.

Paul is a well-known speaker on Public Transport Technology issues at UITP, American Public Transport Association (APTA), Bus and Coach Association (NZ), Bus Industry Confederation Australia, Asia-Pacific Rail and various technology and education events globally.

After graduating from the industrial engineer department, she completed her MBA in London. She completed his PhD in Industrial Engineering at Istanbul Commerce University and completed her PhD thesis on the subject of trasportation hub centers in Istanbul. In 2011, she started working at the Strategy Development Department at IETT and worked on Total Quality Management, Integrated Management Systems, 5S studies and innovation in public institutions. Since 2021, she has been working as the training manager at IETT and is responsible for the training of a total of 15,000 employees, including private public bus drivers. In the last 4 years, she has increased the driver training hours in the institution by 5 times and contributed to the passenger satisfaction of the institution and the development of the individual competencies of the employees. She has been working in the fields of strategic human resources by introducing the OKR (next generation performance system) for the first time in public institutions.

Alok is the CEO & Managing Director of Trans-consult. He is an international expert in public transport operations and management, with specialisation in new technology, artificial intelligence, data analytics, and clean fuel technologies. With 30 years of experience in the industry, Alok has worked with an array of international consultants and leading transport operators such as MTR Corporation Hong Kong and Kowloon Motor Bus Hong Kong.

He is an international expert trainer and a Fellow of Civic Exchange, a Hong Kong-based non-profit independent think tank. He regularly teaches at the University of Hong Kong and serves as a Member of the Transport Policy Committee of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in Hong Kong. He has several publications to his credit, including contribution to a book on best practice in railways operations and management.

Alok is a civil engineer and holds post-graduate degrees in transportation engineering and management.

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Graduating university as a civil engineer, Yo joined RATP in 1980. He began in the marketing team and was duly put in charge of Passenger Information. Over the ensuing years, Yo worked to build up RATP’s Design Management function – progressively integrating all the creative disciplines related to transport environment design – product design, information design, architecture, arts and culture management – becoming Head of Design Projects Management in 2011. Yo retired from RATP in December 2023 after 35 years with the company.

Yo’s department steered many of RATP’s infrastructure investment projects, coordinates policies and ensures the inclusion of Design Quality in RATP Group’s corporate strategy.

He serves on the boards of several organizations focussed on design promotion and design education in France and is a former Chair of the UITP Design & Culture Committee.

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Joe Kenny, CEO of  the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT), Ireland and former Chief Human Resources Officer, Bus Éireann, has over 35 years’ experience in a variety of roles within urban public transport covering Human Resources and Operations Management. He holds BBS and MBA degrees from University College Dublin. He has been directly involved in the design and delivery of many training and coaching initiatives and is Honorary Chairman of the UITP Human Resource Commission and a former member of the UITP Policy Board.

He is a Chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) and a Chartered member of the Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT). Mr. Kenny has operated in a consultative capacity within Operations and Human Resource management and delivers coaching and training interventions. He is currently International Social Dialogue Coordinator with UITP and is also Chairperson of the UITP delegation of the ITF/UITP working group.

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Joe Kenny, CEO del Instituto de Logística y Transporte (CILT) de Irlanda y ex Director de Recursos Humanos de Bus Éireann, cuenta con más de 35 años de experiencia en una variedad de roles dentro del transporte público urbano que abarcan Recursos Humanos y Gestión de Operaciones. Posee licenciaturas en BBS y MBA de University College Dublin. Ha participado directamente en el diseño y la implementación de numerosas iniciativas de formación y coaching, y es Presidente Honorario de la Comisión de Recursos Humanos de UITP y ex miembro de la Junta de Política de UITP.

Es miembro colegiado del Instituto Colegiado de Desarrollo de Recursos Humanos (CIPD) y miembro colegiado del Instituto de Logística y Transporte (CILT). El Sr. Kenny ha trabajado en calidad de consultor en Gestión de Operaciones y Recursos Humanos, y realiza intervenciones de coaching y formación. Actualmente se desempeña como Coordinador Internacional de Diálogo Social con UITP y también es Presidente de la delegación de UITP del grupo de trabajo ITF/UITP.

Arno Kerkhof was born in 1972 in The Netherlands. In 1996, he graduated as a Civil Engineer at the Engineering University of Delft after having obtained in 1995 a Certificate in Transport and Planning at the French Ecole Nationale des Ponts and Chaussées in Paris (ENPC). Arno joined UITP in 2003 where he carried out the Bus of the Future project.

He is currently Global Head of Bus Division and is directly in charge of all content and knowledge-related bus activities within the Association, coordinating members’ work on the Bus Committee, the Trolleybus Committee, its four Technical and Operational Working Groups and the UITP Industry Committee and acts as senior trainer on a worldwide basis in the development of the UITP training services.

Arno develops cross sectoral activities (Tender Structure platform, SORT fuel consumption referential, Standard Bus Activity Model) and is doing research on Bus Systems.

Arno Kerkhof is a confirmed public transport professional with a long practical and field experience in the services as described above.

With a combined academic background in the social sciences and design, Aïcha specialises in user research and service design in cross-cultural contexts. Over the past six years she has been working as a consultant throughout Europe and the United States, helping companies to better understand their users.

Aïcha is passionate about exploring how people think and make decisions. She leverages these insights about the needs of individuals and groups to create products, services, and experiences that connect organisations to their users.

At attoma, Aïcha works with various research methodologies, from interviews and user testing to immersive fieldwork and co-design workshops. She then transforms the findings from this research into actionable insights for the agency’s clients.

Aïcha also enjoys facilitating user research training workshops so she can share with others how to conduct research, and how to analyse its findings to create experiences that are truly user-centred.

Chris is the Operations Manager of International Development Department at Shenzhen Bus Group Co., Ltd., which owns the world’s first and largest pure electric bus fleet and taxi fleet. Chris has worked at SZBG in fleet management, employee training, corporate management and international development. Chris’ current objective is to share the company’s knowledge on electric public transportation, and work with other companies to explore the future of a robust, sustainable and customer focused public transportation system.

Passionate about solving the challenges of sustainable and connected mobility, Nicole has joined Wizway Solutions to support PTAs & PTOs with the rollout of contactless mobile ticketing solutions.

Nicole started into the area of public transport in 1992 when she joined the French Group SNCF. She managed regional profit centers to support PTAs with innovative services (traveler information, ticketing, consulting…). After 12 years, she joined Kapsch TrafficCom in Austria, leaders in ITS, to contribute to their international development. She was recruited by Transdev in 2010 to develop their Smarter Mobility programme in partnership with IBM. In 2015 she continued developing these activities at Kisio/Keolis.

Nicole is graduated from the prestigious Centrale Nantes, and started her career industrial development for the United Nations.

Joe Ma is an urban planner with over 35 years of international experience in the field of urban design and transportation planning spanning from the UK, China, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East.  He is an Eminent Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, a Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute, and a registered Professional Planner (Hong Kong).

Joe is currently an Advisor to the CEO of Saudi Arabia Public Transport Company (SAPTCO).  Prior to joining SAPTCO in 2022, he had been a Deputy General Manager for the Shenzhen Bus Group (SZBG) between 2015 and 2021, taking charge of all international development and branding, procurement, infrastructure construction, and property management, training, and the media business.  A major accomplishment when joining SZBG in 2015 was the successful procurement of over 6000 electric buses and 5,000 electric taxis resulting in SZBG becoming the first fully and largest electric bus and taxi operator in the world. He also took charge of the construction of charging infrastructure including some 2,000 chargers in 150 charging stations for both electric bus and taxi fleets.  As a result of this successful electrification transition, he represented SZBG at the Union Internationale des Transports Publics (UITP) 2019 Stockholm Summit in receiving the international highest “Outstanding Achievement Award”.  He also represented SZBG for high level international governmental and NGO exchanges and cooperation including those with the United Nations, World Bank, Asia Development Bank, European Bank of Reconstruction and Development as well as several climate change organisations such as the California Air Resources Board (CARB), World Resources Institute (WRI), and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

Joe is a regular conference key speaker and trainer for the UITP. Between 2019 and 2021, he was the Chair of the UITP global Taxi and Ride-hailing Committee.

During the Covid 19 pandemic in 2020, Joe penned two articles on how SZBG combated Covid 19 and the normalisation of social and economic activities and conducted over 50 online sessions with the global organisations including the United Nations, World Bank, Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI) For this work, he was nominated as one of the 21 heroes of transportation in February 2021 by TUMI.

Prior to joining the Shenzhen Bus Group, Joe Ma was a Transport Advisory Manager for the Sun Hung Kai Properties Group (SHK)， the largest property development company in Hong Kong and the majority shareholder of Kowloon Motor Bus. Main responsibilities included providing business development advice to the Company Chairman on various business and investment portfolios in the UK, Hong Kong, and China, including TOD developments, logistics, infrastructure, as well as the Group’s franchise bus portfolio at KMB.

Before SHK, he worked in the planning and development consultancy industry for over twenty years as a Partner/Director in Llewelyn-Davies Architects-Planners-Designers, a UK-based company, between 1995 and 2006.  Between 2006 and 2012, he ran his own professional consultancy, TMA Planning, and Design Limited, serving a wide range of government, institutional and private sector clients in Hong Kong, China, Dubai, and Indonesia.

Within the public sector, Joe had served as a Planning Officer for the Housing Department of the Hong Kong Government between 1989 and 1994, responsible for the successful completion of a number of public housing projects and new town developments in Hong Kong.  Prior to that, he held the post of Senior Planner in the London Borough of Haringey between 1987 and 1989 responsible for urban improvement programmes and development control work.

Victoria Markewitz is part of the European Business Development team of Via Transportation and ViaVan, the joint venture between Mercedes-Benz Vans and Via, based in Berlin. She is responsible to drive the launch of Via’s and ViaVan’s licensing partnerships with European and Middle Eastern public transport operators and cities.

Prior to Via, Victoria worked as a management consultant for Roland Berger in the Transportation Competence Center, both in Germany and the Middle East, to consult clients on innovative mobility solutions and strategies.

Victoria graduated from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management with a Bachelor degree in Business Administration and a Master in Management degree.

Angelo Meuleman has worked for Mpact as a project director for shared mobility since 2007. In 2022 he became director of the organisation. He was involved in carpooling and car-sharing innovation projects and supported governments to create Shared Mobility Action Plans. Angelo is cofounder of the Flemish Mobihub Association and the unconventional symposium Shared Mobility Rocks.

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Beat Mueller is since January 2019 an independent consultant in transport and finance working notably with Trans-Missions of France and Protectas Transport Security of Switzerland.

Before he was for 7½ years Director of International Markets at PostAuto/CarPostal, the main bus operator in Switzerland. He started his career in public transport as Finance Director at TPG Public Transport of Geneva. He holds a master’s degree in Economics from the University of Geneva.

He has been chairman of the Transport Economics Committee at UITP from 2015 to 2019 and was elected honorary chairman at the last UITP General assembly.

He was born close to Zurich in Switzerland but has lived for the last 25 years in Geneva.

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Beat Mueller est, depuis Janvier 2019, consultant indépendant en transport et finance travaillant notamment avec Trans-Missions en France et Protectas Transport Security en Suisse.

Auparavant, il était pendant 7 ans et demi Directeur des marchés internationaux chez PostAuto / CarPostal, le principal opérateur de bus en Suisse. Il a débuté sa carrière dans les transports publics en tant que Directeur financier chez TPG public transport à Genève. Il est titulaire d’un master en économie à l’Université de Genève.

Il a été Président du Comité de l’économie des transports à l’UITP de 2015 à 2019 et a été élu Président d’honneur lors de la dernière assemblée générale de l’UITP.

Il est né près de Zurich en Suisse, et vit depuis 25 ans à Genève.

Vefa brings a high level of experience to operating automated and driverless metros. He has worked as a operation line supervisor and chief of operation commissioning 4 metro lines within Istanbul metro system.

His role includes planning and preparing new lines and get them ready for its first passengers, dealing with problems at the commissioning stage or just before it, as well as Budgeting and Planning inventories and staff, testing, staff training, commissioning and operating.

Vefa recently worked as a chief of  operation a driverless metro. He has more than 12 years experience in the industry.

Michael started his professional activity as Engineer in Caracas, Vienna & Barcelona.

He is involved with Public Transports since 1992 when he started at Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB), Barcelona. In this company he played different roles. In 2017 he assumes the International affairs management of TMB.

He is member of the International Public Transport Association (UITP), chairman of the Transport & Urban Life Committee at UITP, member of the European Railway Research Advisory Council (ERRAC) and member of Railgrup, the Catalan railways cluster.

Michael Pellot, Head of International Affairs at TMB, Barcelona

Thomas J. Potter is a Senior Transportation Engineer with Norconsult AS and is based in their offices in Bergen, Norway. He is a railway and public transport engineer with a focus on electric buses, light rail systems and vehicles with over 35 years of experience in the field. He is and has been involved in many international projects sharing his experiences with other cities concerning the planning, design and introduction of new light rail systems and acting as a trainer at several UITP transport management courses.

He received his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from MIT and his M.Sc. in Systems Engineering, Transportation from the University of Pennsylvania where he studied under Professor Vukan R. Vuchic. From 2001 until 2012, he was the Chief Engineer of Bybanen, the new light rail system in Bergen, Norway, which opened in June 2010. The project was recognized as Worldwide Project of the Year at the 2011 Light Rail Awards. In addition, he was Project Manager for the procurement, delivery, testing, modification and maintenance of the vehicles for the system, the Variobahn, supplied by Stadler Pankow GmbH which was awarded the Red Dot Award for Design in 2011.

He worked for Sporveien developing technical specifications for the next generation of light-rail vehicles for Oslo. He is also providing technical advice to Hordaland, Rogaland and Buskerud concerning the introduction of electric buses and the introduction and expansion of trolleybus services using in-motion charging.

Thomas is an American who has lived in Norway since 1987. He has spent most of that time promoting, analyzing, defending and designing the technical aspects of the light rail project, first as a consultant to the City of Bergen and later as the Chief Engineer for the project.

He has also been a consultant to other cities considering or planning the implementation of light rail systems in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Germany and Canada. He has been a member of both the TRB and UITP Light Rail Committees, as well as a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Institute of Transportation Engineers and the Norwegian Society of Graduate Technical and Scientific Professionals (TEKNA). He is a founding member of the Nordic Light Rail Association (NLRA) and was awarded the NLRA Light Rail Prize in 2017.

An urban planner by training, Stéphanie has more than 15 years of experience in the transport and automotive industries and has reached internationally renowned expertise. She has vast experience in supporting authorities (cities, regions and national levels) in the development of strategic policies for transport and mobility : governance, urban planning, competition and market organisation.

In 2015, she established her own international strategic consulting agency in Madrid, Ubiquity Consulting. Ubiquity Consulting specialises in innovation and new technologies for mobility , such as shared, electric and autonomous vehicles.

Une urbaniste de formation, Stéphanie compte plus de 15 ans d’expérience dans les secteurs des transports et de l’automobile, et a acquis une expertise internationalement reconnue. Elle possède une vaste expérience dans le soutien aux autorités (villes, régions et niveaux nationaux) pour le développement de politiques stratégiques en matière de transport et de mobilité : gouvernance, urbanisme, concurrence et organisation du marché.

En 2015, elle a fondé sa propre agence internationale de conseil stratégique à Madrid, Ubiquity Consulting. Ubiquity Consulting est spécialisée dans l’innovation et les nouvelles technologies pour la mobilité, telles que les véhicules partagés, électriques et autonomes.

Edgar joined RATP in 2003. He spent around ten years as an operational manager in the operation of the Paris metro, notably as Head of Transport during the automation of Line 1, and later as Director of the fully automated Line 14. He then led the automation project of Line 4 for seven years, before returning to operations to take on the role of Head of Transport for the entire Paris metro network. At the International Association of Public Transport (UITP), he conducted numerous training sessions and led work on the modernization and automation of metro systems worldwide.

Dr. Matias Sevel Rasmussen is the Signal Systems and R&D Manager at Metroselskabet and Hovedstadens Letbane. He is working with a broad range of signaling related tasks for both the existing Metro’s driverless track circuit-based train control system and also for the driverless CBTC system for the new Cityringen line currently under construction. His responsibilities also include the company’s involvement in different R&D projects. He is a member of the UITP Observatory of Automated Metros and has recently been involved as an expert in the Next Generation Train Control (NGTC) EU project as well as the Danish Ministry of Transport’s investigations on conversion of the

Copenhagen S-train network to a fully automated system. Formerly he has been working with advanced decision support algorithms in routing and scheduling software systems. He holds a Ph.D. from Technical University of Denmark in mathematical optimisation. He has a M.Sc. degree in computer science and a B.Sc. in computer science and mathematics, both from University of Copenhagen.

Jaspal Singh has 16+ years of experience in mobility, innovation, and technology space. Presently serving as the Senior Director of Membership and Global Operations (MGO) at UITP (International Association of Public Transport), he concurrently holds the position of Head of the UITP North America Office. His earlier roles include serving as the Manager of the IT and Innovation Committee and as the Head of the UITP India Office.

He is also the host of Mobility Innovators Podcast. He has a 360-degree view of the sector as he has worked with the public agencies, operator, startups, and consulting firms.

He is also Principal at Valoriser Consultants, Inc. specializing in new mobility, cleantech, startups, electric mobility, and ITS. Previously, he was working with a public transit authority, reforming the urban transport system in India. In past, he also worked with Uber India’s early team to navigate the regulatory challenges and build partnerships.

He has received several awards for his contribution in the field of public transport and social work, as well as has been widely quoted in publications. He completed his Master of Management and Innovation (MMIE) at Queen’s University, Canada and received his master’s in business administration specialized in International Business.

He is actively working with startups in mobility and logistics space as an advisor, mentor, and investor. Jaspal is an avid traveller and travelled to around 55 countries around the world and counting.

Xavier TACKOEN was born in Brussels, Belgium, in 1979. He obtained a Master Degree in Business Administration from ICHEC in Brussels in 2002 and a Master Degree in Transport Management from CIEM in Brussels in 2003. He has a career of about 10 years in the academic sector working for research and training departments at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Since 2009, he works for Espaces-Mobilités, a consultancy specialised in transport strategies, new mobility services and public space design. His fields of expertise are MaaS, shared, connected and autonomous mobility with an extensive knowledge of public transport.

Remziye Tanrıvermiş is an experienced professional specializing in human resources and training within the urban railway transportation sector, with over 25 years of experience. She currently serves as the Head of Metro İstanbul Academy and Technical Training Chief. Her expertise includes designing and executing vocational and technical training programs, establishing learning management systems, and managing large-scale training projects, both nationally and internationally. A graduate of Boğaziçi University, she is fluent in English and holds beginner to intermediate proficiency in several other languages, including Japanese. Active in professional networks, she contributes as Vice President of the HR & Training Commission in TURSID and a member of BURA.

Mr. van de Velde’s research and advisory work concentrates on regulatory reforms in local public transport and the railway sector. He is expert on public transport institutional reforms and has a wide knowledge on practices and reforms undertaken in European public transport during the last decades. He participated in many European research studies on these topics and advised local authorities, ministries and the European Commission on issues pertaining to institutional reforms and the introduction of competition in public transport.

RATP group is presently operating in more than 12 different countries. RATPdev is the subsidiary company of RATP in charge of operation outside of the greater Paris region. Patrick is in charge of the corporate and product marketing activities of innovative services for passengers. He is also assisting the RATPDEV subsidiaries in their local marketing operations, such as BOC for Gautrain in South Africa, ATCM in Modena (Italy), M’Dina bus (Morocco), and many others. Within UITP, Patrick Vautier is now chairing the PRESCOM committee, which is in charge of the UITP’s strategy implementation and management.
He has also been president and founder of the Marketing and Product Development Commission (2003–2007) and he continues to be involved in the UITP Youth programme.

1998 – 2009, leading the marketing division of RATP in Paris:
Marketing strategy, market research, PR and commercial advertising, direct marketing and loyalty programmes. In charge of CRM, internet and mobile internet strategies.
Soft mobility modes RATP policies (bicycle, car sharing, park and ride).

1989 – 1997, at TRANSDEV group:
Marketing and development Director – Saint Etienne and Montpellier Transport companies. Designer and project manager for the new tramway in Montpellier (launched in 2000 transporting 100,000 passengers per day).
Reorganisation of the tariff policy and implementation of shared payment system for concessions.

1984 – 1989, consultant in marketing and communications:
Patrick Vautier received a postgraduate certificate in Geography from the University of Grenoble in 1982. He was born in Toulouse (France) in 1958. He is married with three children. He enjoys alpine skiing and long-distance running. He is also involved as an elected member of his Burgundy village community.

Mr Dávid Vitézy is an expert in public transit and urban mobility. Since May 2022, he is Under Secretary of Transport at the Ministry for Technology and Industry of Hungary responsible for the national transport policy, preparing transport strategic decisions and regulations, supervising the state-owned national bus and railway company (MÁV-Volán Group) with over 55.000 employees and ordering the public services. One of the most important goals of his term is to increase the role of sustainable modes of transport, both in passenger and freight transport.

In 2010 he was the founding CEO of the Centre for Budapest Transport (BKK) which is the transit authority of Budapest. Under his leadership, several major public transit projects were successfully completed including tramway extensions, a new passenger information and traffic control system, new sales channels (customer service centers, ticket vending machines) and a new bike sharing system. Modernization of the vehicle fleet (new buses, trams, trolley buses) was also one of the great achievements of his management.

From 2016 until 2022, as Director General, he was responsible for the construction of the Hungarian Museum of Technology and Transport in a new location, in an abandoned former railway maintenance hall in the middle of the rust area of Budapest.

Between 2020 and 2022 he served as the CEO of the Budapest Development Agency (BFK), a government authority which provided a new institutional background for urban and regional development in and around Budapest. Under his leadership, BFK successfully prepared a new Railway Strategy for the Budapest node until 2040, started the delivery of major new transportation projects including the overall upgrade and development of suburban railway and HÉV lines, new railway stations and a planned new railway tunnel under the Danube.

MSc Antti Vuorela has since 2010 been specializing in digitalization and customer experience. He believes that one must listen to the needs of customers and work together with the customers from the beginning. He has over thirty years of varied experience in public transport and transportation systems. The new concept of Digital Dialogue enabling passengers, operators and authorities to work together is truly unique.

Antti Vuorela managed the developing of the Quality Monitoring System of Public Transport (Jola) that was the first modern real-time fleet quality operations management system in the world. He has spoken at various world conferences and UITP training programs. Expect the unexpected is his motto.

Having worked with zero and low emission buses for the last 15 years, David has gained vast knowledge and knowhow in the operation and maintenance side of bus operations.  Since the start of 2024, David is working as an independent consultant to assist and further develop the operation of zero emission heavy duty vehicles. 

The start of David’s zero emission experience started in 2009 when he worked for Tower Transit, a London bus operator.  He oversaw all aspects of the London hydrogen fuel cell buses that were part of the Clean Hydrogen in European Cities (CHiC) and Environmentally Friendly, Efficient Electric Motion (3Emotion) projects. From the start of the projects, David managed the introduction of the buses including setting up of the associated fuelling station and workshop, plus the daily operation incorporating zero emission buses as part of the overall bus fleet. 

Following his time at Tower Transit, David joined Ballard Power Systems Europe as Market Development Manager continuing to develop and promote the use of fuel cell electric buses. 

Alongside his belief in hydrogen vehicles, David is also a leading authority on other low and zero emission technologies and their operation. 

Prior to his involvement on zero emission vehicles, David worked in the manufacturing industry on new product introduction, aftersales support and quality. 

David is a European and Chartered Engineer (EUR ING and CEng), qualified to master’s degree level in both Hydrogen Safety Engineering and Electronics.