Last Year's RailTrends Topics and Conference Agenda

7:30-8:00
Continental Breakfast and Registration

8:00-9:00
Discussion of Key Rail Stakeholder Issues
Presenter(s): Ed Hamberger, President and CEO, Association of American Railroads (AAR)
Tom Simpson, President, Railway Supply Institute (RSI)

10:00-10:30
Morning Networking Break

10:30-11:30
The Current Short-Line Story
Presenter(s): John Hellmann, President and CEO, Genesee & Wyoming Inc.
Rick Webb, Chief Executive Officer, Watco Companies
Thomas Hoback, President and CEO , The Indiana Rail Road Company

11:30-0:00
Federal Railroad Administration
Presenter(s): Joseph Szabo (invited), Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration

12:00-1:30
Networking Lunch

2:00-2:45
Analysts Take on the New Energy World
Presenter(s): Donald Broughton, Managing Director, Senior Transportation Analyst, Avondale Partners, LLC
Tony Hatch, Senior Transportation Analyst, ABH Consulting

3:30-4:00
Afternoon Networking Break

4:00-4:30
Rail Car Counts Update
Presenter(s): Toby Kolstad, Principal, Rail Theory Forecasts, L.L.C.

5:00-6:00
Cocktail Hour

7:30-8:00
Continental Breakfast

8:00-8:30
CSX Viewpoint
Presenter(s): Cindy Sanborn, Vice President and Chief Transportation Officer, CSX Corporation

8:30-9:00
2013 Rail Innovator of the Year
Presenter(s): Charles Moorman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Norfolk Southern Corp.

9:30-10:00
Networking Break

10:00-10:30
Canadian Pacific's New Perspective
Presenter(s): E. Hunter Harrison, Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Pacific

10:30-11:00
Crude by Rail Report
Presenter(s): Graham Brisben, CEO, PLG Consulting