OpenRail Day 2025 Moderation

My amazing co-moderator Kira Correll and I on stage

I had the pleasure to moderate the OpenRail Day 2025 in Paris, organised by the OpenRail Association to share knowledge and experiences about Open Source software in the railway industry. This event brought together railway operators, digital experts, and Open Source communities from across Europe for a day dedicated to showcasing concrete Open Source projects already at work in the railway sector. The conference featured demonstrations, presentations, and workshops around projects like OSRD (Open Source Railway Designer), RCM OSS, LibLRS, and the Netzgrafik-Editor, all hosted by the OpenRail Association.

The event created a space for dialogue between technical, institutional, and industrial stakeholders around key topics such as interoperability, open standards, and international collaboration. Speakers included leaders from major European railway companies like SBB, SNCF, Infrabel, and ONCF, as well as representatives from the European Commission’s Open Source Programme Office. This first edition laid the foundation for a format designed to evolve and establish itself over time, in service of a more open and collaborative digital railway ecosystem.

All session recordings, presentations, and photos are available in the event replay section.