Grab your name badge, breakfast and start your networking early

Following the scrapping of the Northern legs of HS2, what and where is the £19.6 bn being invested in the North? It was stated that a brand-new station and line connection be built in Bradford, for the purpose of reducing journey times from 56 to 30 minutes to Manchester via Huddersfield. Listen to Simon talk about the opportunities and where does Greater Manchester go from here.

• James Webster, Director System Integrations, Atkins Realis
  

Grab a coffee, mid morning snack and a fist full of business cards during the first networking opportunity of the day

Grab your lunch, talk to the speakers about how you can help with their challenges and network with new customers.

The newly-appointed Rail Minister, Lord Peter Hendy of Richmond Hill CBE brings decades of experience to help realise the Government’s ambition of transforming infrastructure and improving public transport to deliver for passengers. He will discuss the key priorities that include improving performance on the railways and driving forward rail reform as well as delivering greener transport and better integrating transport networks. Join the session to understand what this means for the North and rail industry.

Kevin’s will introduce the background and context that led to the introduction to Design for Reliability (which is a mandated part of Product Acceptance required for all controlled products introduced to the Rail Infrastructure) before giving an overview of the DFR process, what it actually means for suppliers and finally signposting them towards the support that is available.