Speakers

Bart Van der Spiegel started in 1992 as engineer designing the power distribution for Belgian railways. Since 2005 focus has shifted towards the integration of an open energy market into an open railway market. He is responsible for the product Your Power delivering traction energy towards the Railway Undertakings active in Belgium. He has been active on all European workgroups regarding the measuring of energy consumption on-board of trains and on the exchange of related data. He is member of Eress Steering Board and convenor of CENELEC working group Energy Metering. He is also active in field of Driving Advisory Systems, Automatic Train Operation, automating energy functions and charging of battery trains.

Esteban Coito is a project officer in the European Unio Agency for Railways ERA and, among several tasks, he is responsible for the Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSIs), for Energy subsystems and interfaces with rolling stock subsystems. He is also in charge of several vehicles authorisations.

He has also been working in the European Parliament, for the TRAN Committee, and several years in the Spanish infrastructure manager ADIF for maintenance, monitoring and commissioning of energy, infrastructure rolling stock subsystems.

Esteban has a Master in Industrial Engineering with an Specialization Annual Course in Railways Technologies.

Esteban Coito is a project officer in the European Unio Agency for Railways ERA and, among several tasks, he is responsible for the Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSIs), for Energy subsystems and interfaces with rolling stock subsystems. He is also in charge of several vehicles authorisations.

He has also been working in the European Parliament, for the TRAN Committee, and several years in the Spanish infrastructure manager ADIF for maintenance, monitoring and commissioning of energy, infrastructure rolling stock subsystems.

Esteban has a Master in Industrial Engineering with an Specialization Annual Course in Railways Technologies.