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Roundtable discussions: two informal rotating 40-minute discussion sessions

Roundtable 1: Having it All: Sustainability, Resilience and Safely 

Elena Romanova, Global Business Manager – Land Transportation, Scott Bader

 

Roundtable 2 : Designing for Yesterday’s Fire? Rethinking Rail Station Fire Dynamics.

  • Exploration of how modern trains behave in fire scenarios and how to ensure our design assumptions keep pace. 
  • Are current fire size assumptions still valid for modern rolling stock? 
  • What testing and research are being done today in the rolling stock industry to determine the fire behaviour of modern trains? 
  • What is needed to formalise updated testing and feed it into standards and best practice in the fire industry? 

Lauren Teague, Fire Engineer, Mott Macdonald

Alice Pike, Fire Engineer, Mott Macdonald

 

Effective Fire Protection maintenance

  • What are the constraints preventing effective maintenance?
  • Maintenance stakeholders and their perspectives
  • The hierarchy of maintenance
  • Do we really know if our maintenance strategy is effective?
  • What does a “Young Engineer” need to know?

Sifting Through Chaos: Applying a Quality by Design Approach to Data Governance

  • Why applying a Quality by Design approach to data governance is needed to prevent the high costs of data sprawl
  • How data governance ensures Data is FAIR and meets ALCOA++ requirements to ensure data integrity and reliability
  • The components of a comprehensive data governance framework, including data definition, discovery, remediation, reporting, alerting, and retirements
  • How to implement a phased approach to transition from data chaos to control