Inaugurated by Railways Minister Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu, the session, about how to fast track the process of technology upgradation of Indian Railways, was started with a keynote by Mangal Dev, Director, Rail Systems Company, Hitachi India Pvt Ltd. The panel comprised of Akhil Agrawal, Adviser (Signal), Railway Board; Prashant Rao, Executive Director (Signal & Telecommunication), Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd - India; Alok Sinha, Managing Director, Frauscher Sensor Technology India Pvt Ltd; V.G. Ramesh Kumar, Head of Engineering, India - Railways and Mass Transit, Ansaldo STS Transportation Systems India Pvt Ltd; Hiroyuki Hara, General Manager, Rail Systems Company, Hitachi India Pvt Ltd and Mangal Dev, Director, Rail Systems Company, Hitachi India Pvt Ltd.
