Ministers, world CEOs, innovators, and senior transport leaders will convene, representing companies with a mixed annual turnover of over $140 billion.
• Individuals from greater than 100 nationalities to assemble in Abu Dhabi to form the way forward for transport.
Etihad Rail hosted a press convention to announce the speaker line-up for World Rail 2025, the area’s largest mobility and transportation exhibition, which is able to happen in Abu Dhabi from 30 September to 2 October. The announcement contains confirmed participation from authorities ministers, world CEOs, and senior transport leaders from over 100 nationalities.
Held below the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister, and Chairman of the Presidential Court docket, and with the assist of His Highness Sheikh Theyab bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chairman of Etihad Rail, Etihad Rail will host World Rail 2025 in collaboration with the UAE Ministry of Power and Infrastructure (MoEI) and dmg occasions.
Among the many audio system on the press convention have been H.E. Sheikh Nasser Al Qasemi, Assistant Undersecretary for Infrastructure and Transport at MoEI, Ahmed Al Musawa Al Hashemi, CEO of Hafeet Rail and Chairman of the Government Committee of World Rail, Salman Abou Hamzeh, Senior Vice President at dmg occasions, together with Kholoud Almazrouei, Director of Particular Tasks at Etihad Rail.
The landmark occasion will deliver collectively the worldwide transport neighborhood from throughout your complete worth chain, to advance cross-border collaboration and innovation in mobility, logistics and infrastructure. The occasion is anticipated to welcome over 20,000 members throughout three days of strategic dialogue, undertaking showcases, and technical trade.
This 12 months’s exhibition will span 4 halls, that includes greater than 200 exhibiting firms and types throughout 14 sectors, from infrastructure and rolling inventory to digital innovation, financing, and sensible mobility. Greater than 70 firms are exhibiting for the primary time, becoming a member of 11 nationwide rail operators together with Etihad Rail, Hafeet Rail, Qatar Rail, Korea Railways Company, India Railways, East Japan Railways, ONCF Chad, Afghanistan Railways, Jordan Hejaz Railway, Renfe Operadora, and Keolis. Collectively, they replicate the extraordinary development and worldwide standing that World Rail has achieved in simply its second version. Moreover, World Rail 2025 will convene companies with a mixed annual turnover of over $140 billion, underscoring the occasion’s pivotal function within the world transport trade.
With world passenger site visitors anticipated to succeed in 9.5bn by the tip of 2025, World Rail represents a novel alternative to ignite future-forward dialogue, collaboration, and transformation throughout the transportation trade. The theme of this version, ‘Driving the Way forward for Transport and World Connectivity’, displays World Rail 2025’s mission to behave as a bridge that can drive world conversations on accelerating multimodal mobility, forging infrastructure partnerships, and shaping the way forward for sustainable transport.
Confirmed ministers and senior officers attending World Rail 2025 embody greater than 20 ministerial delegations and senior leaders from the private and non-private sectors, together with:
Gulf Cooperation Council
• H.E. Jasem Mohamed AlBudaiwi – Secretary Basic of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf
United Arab Emirates
• H.E. Suhail Mohamed AlMazrouei – Minister of Power and Infrastructure
• H.E. Dr. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi – Minister of International Commerce
• H.E. Omar Sultan Al Olama – Minister of State for Synthetic Intelligence, Digital Economic system, and Distant Work Functions
• H.E. Mohammed Ali Al Shorafa – Chairman, Abu Dhabi Division of Municipalities and Transport
Afghanistan
• Is Proper Mohammad Ishaq
Armenia
• H.E. Davit Khudatyan – Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure
• H.E. Armen Simonyan – Deputy Minister, Ministry Of Territorial Administration And Infrastructure
Bahrain
• H.E. Dr. Shaikh Abdullah bin Ahmed Al Khalifa – Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications
Chad
• H.E. Fatima Goukouni Weddeye – Minister of Transport, Civil Aviation, and Nationwide Meteorology
France
• H.E. Philippe Tabarot – Minister of Transport
Jordan
• He Dr. nidal al-Qatamin– Minister of Transport
Kenya
• H.E. Davis Chirchir, EGH – Cupboard Secretary for Roads and Transport
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)
• HE Saleh bins Al-Jasser-Jaser-Ministry of Transportation and Logistics Companies
Korea
• H.E. Lee Seong Hai – Chairman & Chief Government Officer, Korea Nationwide Railway
Kuwait
• H.E. Dr. Nourah Mohammed Khalid Al Mashan – Minister of Public Works
Pakistan
• H.E. Muhammad Hanif Abbasi – Federal Minister for Railways
South Sudan
• H.E. Caesar Oliha Marko – Undersecretary, Ministry of Transport
Turkmenistan
• He Mammed AkMammedov – Minister of Railway Transport
• H.E. Mammetkhan Chakiev – Basic Director of the Transport and Communications Company below the Cupboard of Ministers
Uganda
• H.E. Fred Byamukama – Minister of Works and Transport
Uzbekistan
• H.E. Laziz Kudratov – Minister of Funding, Business and Commerce
Alongside government-level participation, the occasion may even characteristic audio system from main transport, logistics and infrastructure firms, together with AECOM, Alstom, Asyad, Bayanat, CAF, DB E.C.O. Group, DP World, Jacobs, Hitachi Rail, Keolis, MTR Company, SAR, SBS Transit, Siemens Mobility, Škoda Group, and Talgo.
Commenting on the announcement, H.E. Sheikh Nasser Al Qasemi, Assistant Undersecretary for Infrastructure and Transport at MoEI stated: “Internet hosting World Rail 2025 displays the UAE’s strategic place as a worldwide hub for logistics and transport and embodies its imaginative and prescient of constructing a complicated and sustainable ecosystem. The occasion will function a key platform to showcase nationwide achievements in infrastructure growth and to debate essential matters, together with sustainability, multimodal integration, eco-friendly transport, synthetic intelligence, and the most recent practices in security and safety—additional reinforcing the UAE’s place on the forefront of world innovation.”
Talking on the press convention, Ahmed Al Musawa Al Hashemi, CEO of Hafeet Rail and Chairman of the Government Committee of World Rail stated: “World Rail 2025 displays the size of our ambition, not just for the UAE, however for the worldwide transport ecosystem. With the unwavering assist of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and the continued steerage of His Highness Sheikh Theyab bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, we’re proud to host this landmark occasion in Abu Dhabi. World Rail is a robust platform to showcase the UAE’s management in advancing sensible mobility, local weather motion, and financial resilience by way of rail, which is extra very important than ever in shaping a sustainable, interconnected future.”
Salman Abou Hamzeh, Senior Vice President, dmg occasions, stated: World Rail 2025 has in a short time turn into the definitive platform for the world’s transport and mobility neighborhood. In simply two editions, the occasion has grown in scale, ambition and impression, convening ministers, CEOs, innovators and traders from throughout the globe, in Abu Dhabi. This 12 months, with over 200 exhibitors, 20,000 attendees and an expanded programme of strategic and technical conferences that includes new initiatives, World Rail 2025 will act as a launchpad for partnerships, innovation and funding that can outline the way forward for mobility. We’re proud to organise this landmark occasion in collaboration with Etihad Rail and our esteemed authorities and trade companions.
Strategic and Technical Conferences
World Rail 2025 will characteristic two world-class conferences — Strategic and Technical — spanning three days of panel discussions, case research, hearth chats, and unique undertaking insights, with 200 audio system confirmed to take part throughout each conferences.
The Strategic Convention will host 55+ expert-led classes, overlaying themes reminiscent of high-speed rail undertaking supply, intermodal operations, sustainable financing, coverage and governance, interoperability and community harmonisation, AI and automation, and future metropolis planning.
The Technical Convention will complement these discussions with expert-led classes on engineering, digitalisation, rolling inventory, asset administration, and operational innovation, that includes world specialists, analysis establishments, and pioneering R&D.
The occasion may even rejoice the second version of the World Rail Innovation Award, a flagship initiative providing an AED 1 million grant to speed up transformative options in transport, mobility, and logistics. This 12 months, the award acquired 242 entries, greater than 3 times final 12 months’s complete, reflecting the award’s rising fame as a launchpad for innovation in transport and mobility.
Devoted Exhibition Zones and World Illustration
World Rail will characteristic a variety of devoted zones and worldwide showcases, providing unmatched world publicity and deal-making potential.
Key options embody:
• 9 Nation Pavilions, that includes participation from:
Austria, Germany, India, Jordan, Poland, Qatar, South Korea, Spain, and the UK.
• Worldwide Tasks Pavilion, highlighting billion-dollar infrastructure plans and funding alternatives from 8 international locations together with: Afghanistan, Chad, Kenya, Paraguay, South Sudan, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan
• Finance Pavilion, connecting builders, OEMs, operators, and financiers, that includes 8 banks and monetary establishments together with, First Abu Dhabi Financial institution (FAB), AIIB, Euler Hermes, Industrial and Business Financial institution of China (ICBC), KFW IPEX-Financial institution, OeKB-Austria, UK Export Finance, and Emirates NBD.
• The Innovation Hub will highlight AI, automation, and next-generation mobility applied sciences from over 25 firms together with Nevomo, CEMIT, Hitachi, Space42, IronBox, ADNOC, and extra, underlining innovation as a driving power for resilience, competitiveness, and real-world transformation throughout the worldwide transport sector.
For the primary time, World Rail 2025 may even host a Youth Hackathon in collaboration with universities throughout the emirates, participating college students in real-world mobility challenges below trade mentorship.
The occasion will conclude with a significant announcement and funding designed to additional cement the UAE’s function on the world forefront of mobility, making certain momentum continues past Abu Dhabi.
World Rail 2025 reinforces the UAE’s place as a worldwide strategic juncture for transport innovation and infrastructure growth, constructing on Etihad Rail’s progress in delivering one of many area’s most bold mobility initiatives. As a platform formed by real-world impression and worldwide ambition, the occasion will deliver collectively the world’s foremost decision-makers to form the way forward for mobility. Additional programme updates and speaker bulletins might be shared within the lead-up to the occasion.
Sponsors:
Hosted by
• Etihad Rail
Supported by
• Ministry of Power & Infrastructure
Companions
• Abu Dhabi Funding Workplace
• ADT (Abu Dhabi Transport)
• Abu Dhabi Tasks and Infrastructure Centre (ADPIC)
Finance and Funding Chief
• First Abu Dhabi Financial institution (FAB)
Affiliate Strategic Convention Sponsors
• Alstom
• Memtu & Atal
• Hill Worldwide Inc.
Affiliate Technical Convention Sponsor
• Jacobs
Lanyard Sponsor
• Emirates NBD
Networking Break Sponsor
• United Trans
Finance Roundtable Sponsor
• Dentons
Supporting Railways Affiliation
• Worldwide Union of Railways (UIC)
Data Associate
• McKinsey & Firm
Cultural and Vacation spot Associate
• Abu Dhabi Conference & Exhibition Bureau
Venue Associate
• Adnec Heart Abu Dhabi
Organised by
• dmg occasions
