Wednesday February 14th Hour Previous Activity Location 10:00 20:00 Registration Lobby Peninsula Convention Center 10:00 17:30 Field visit of railroad facilities in Valladolid, Yucatan Hotel Iberostar Lobby Peninsula Convention Center Hotel Iberoestar 10:00 10:30 Registration (extra cost) 10:30 18:00 Transfer by Bus Valladolid, Yucatán Visit to Cementos Cruz Azul crossdock and CFE storage facility. Lunch Return by Bus 19:00 21:30 Welcoming Cocktail. Pool Zone
Thursday February 15th XX Saloon Plenary session prior to the inauguration Moderator: Humberto Treviño, Consultant (To be confirmed) Hour Activity 09:00 09:10 Mexico City Metro Line 12 Extension (Mixcoac Observatorio), Edgar tungüí, Secretary of Public Works, Mexico City Government 09:10 09:20 Mexico City s section of Mexico-Toluca, Guillermo Nevárez, General Director of Railway and Multimodal Development SCT 09:20 09:30 Pro-Rail Strategy in Latin America, Roland Zamora, General Secretary of ALAMYS 09:30 09.45 Time Adjustment 09:45 10:00 Celaya Bypass, Juan Carlos Miranda, Planning Director of Ferromex- Ferrosur 10:00-10:15 Celaya Bypass, To be confirmed, KCSM 10:15 10:30 Manzanillo Tunnel, API Manzanillo, To be confirmed SCT DGDFM 10:30 10:45 Infrastructure and Rail Services in the New Port of Veracruz, Juan Ignacio Fernández, General Director API Veracruz 10:45 11:00 Recess Inauguration 11:00 11:05 Message from the General Director of the STC Metro CDMX, Jorge Gaviño 11:05 11:10 Message from Alfredo Rodríguez, President of the Transport Committee of the Congress of the Union 11:10 11:15 Message from the Ferrocarrileros Workers Union of the Mexican Republic. 11:15 11.20 Message of Ferromex Ferrosur, Lorenzo Reyes Retana, General Manager of Proyects of Ferromex Ferrosur, and ExPresident of AMF. 11:20 11:25 NAFTA and Railways, Pat Ottensmeyer, CEO Kansas City Southern 11:25 11:30 Message from Secretary of Communications and Transport, Gerardo Ruiz Esparza. 11:30 11:45 Message and Inauguration from Presidente of the United States of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto. 11:45 12:00 Recognition of Members of the Presidium 12:00 12.45 Breakout to Sessions
Thursday February 15th Freight Rail Session 12:45 13:20 Panel: Ussers (to be defined) Moderator: (To be confirmed) CEMEX Mexichem Cargill o ADM La Corona Soap Borderless Silos Tysa KCSM Ferromex 13:20 14:00 Opportunities in the energy sector panel José G Zozaya Délano, CEO KCSM and ExPresident AMF Others to be defined 14:00 15:00 Lunch 15:00 16:30 Investment Program Panel: Moderator: Benjamín Alemán, Headline of Rail Transport Regulatory Agency Ferromex, Lorenzo Reyes Retana, General Manager of Proyects of Ferromex Ferrosur KCSM, Oscar del Cueto Operation Executive Director LCD, Lázaro Rodríguez, General Manager Ferrovalle, Erich Wetzel, General Manager Ferroistmo, Gustavo Baca, General Manager 16:30 18:00 Panel: Grade Crossings Technologies.
Thursday February 15th Passenger Trains s Session 12:45 14:00 Innovation and technology panel (Philip Tetley coordinates) 14:00 15:00 Lunch 15:00 17:00 Latin America s Metros ALAMYs panel Moderator: Roland Zamora, General Secretary of ALAMYS: Metroferrovia radiography in Latin America The modernization of Buenos Aires Subways, Eduardo de Montmollin, General Manager of Buenos Aires Subways and President of ALAMYS Update on the logistics operators The role of new technologies in transport. SITEUR case. Rodolfo Guadalajara, General Manager of SITEUR Actual Situation Metrorrey, Lorenzo Aguilar, General Manager Metrorrey The development of the network of suburban trains in CDMX, Max Noria, Marketing Manager, Suburban Railways 17:00 17:30 CETRAM observatory, Jorge Gaviño. General Management Metro CDMX 17:30 18:00 Feasible technologies for Express Passanger Train to the New International Airport of Mexico City Panel.
Thursday February 15th AAR MECHANICAL SEMINAR 09:00 14:00 Conference 09:00 09:05 Openning and Welcome, Juan M. Sotelo Palato, FTVM 09:05 10:00 Changes and update of the exchange rules of the AAR - 2018, Progress 10:00 10:45 To be defined 10:45 11:30 Mechanical inspection department: main findings in 2017 in the MID inspection, Association of American Raildroads 11:30 12:15 Tactics and strategies of the AAR 2018 exchange rules, Association of American Raildroad 12:15 12:30 Recess 12:30 13:15 Tests of air brakes in initial terminal for freight trains, Rafael Carballo, Wabtec 13:15 14:00 Basic rules of Exchange, Association of American Railroad 14:00 15:00 Lunch 15:00 16:15 Panel: changes in the specification of tanks tanks for the transport of hazardous materials: Moderator: ARTF Francisco Gonzalez, Federal Railroad Administration Greenbrier Tytal 16:15 18:00 To be defined
Friday February 16th Hour Activity Location SPORT ACTIVITIES 06:30 08:00 5 Kilometres Race 06:30 07:00 Registration and warm up 07:00 08:00 Race