Let's be visionary and hyper-realistic: let's dream the dream of a European railway organization
- combining the best of all national railways: Swiss efficiency and punctuality, French speed, Czech hospitality
- connecting countries, cities and communities through efficient and ecological public transportation
Now, how do we get that done?
And above all: how could Europe-wide coordination and planning be achieved in practice?
These leading European railway experts discuss these issues with you:
- Dominik Brühwiler
Director Zurich Transport Network
- Ed Butcher
HS1 Limited, Head of Business Development, London
- Katja Christ
Member of the Commission for Transport and Telecommunications in the Swiss National Council, Basel
- Eric Cosandey
CEO SMA and Partners, Zurich
- Floire Nathanael Daub
Founder of 8 million City, City Leadership practitioner and CEO of SPACEGROUP, Oslo
- Alexander Ernert
Director Government Relations Europe of Trainline, Paris
- Balthasar Glättli
Swiss National Councillor and President of the Green Party of Switzerland, Zurich
- Dariush Kowsar
Director for European Affairs SNCF Réseau, Paris
- Susanne Henckel
State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Digital Affairs and Transport, Berlin
- Vincent Kaufmann
Asociate Professor of urban sociology and mobility at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
- Isabel Pfaff
Correspondent of the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Switzerland
- Jon Pult
President of the Committees for Transport and Telecommunications in the Swiss National Council, Chur
- Ulrich Weidmann
Ulrich Weidmann, Professor for Transport Systems / Vice President for Infrastructure at ETH Zurich
The debate will be co-chaired by Cécile Boutelet, Le Monde, and Simon Strauss, Frankfurter Allgemeine. Knowledge partner is SMA and Partners Ltd.
