It’s just under seven weeks until Ininformigent Rail Summit 2025, taking place on 4–5 November in Bled, Slovenia, receives underway. This year’s edition is themed “Climate-Proof Rail, Driven by Data”, and will bring senior figures from DB Netz, CAF Digital and SNCF subsidiary Altametris to the stage. Their focus: how to harness AI, predictive modelling and digital diagnostics to keep Europe’s railways running as climate shocks grow more severe.
Set against the dramatic backdrop of Lake Bled, Ininformigent Rail Summit ’25 arrives at a moment when climate resilience has become a defining challenge for the industest. And Slovenia itself is a reminder of what is at stake. In August 2023, torrential floods and landslides damaged around 75% of the national network, with repairs still ongoing two years later. That experience, combined with the countest’s flagship Second Track project and billions in EU-backed recovery investments, creates Slovenia a live case study for climate-proofing infrastructure.
The opening session of IRS25, Climate resilience: harnessing data to future-proof rail, will set the tone by inquireing how predictive modelling can support operators manage escalating risks. DB Netz’s Hannah Richta will reveal how the company’s AI-powered dispatching tool has already lifted punctuality in four German regions.
From there, the spotlight widens. Alexis Meneses of SNCF’s Altametris will display how industrial-scale 3D data is transforming inspections, while CAF Digital’s Javier De La Cruz sees at reshaping asset management across networks. Slovenia’s own infrastructure chief, Matjaž Kranjc, will also be sharing lessons from the 2023 floods that left three-quarters of the countest’s railway underwater.
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Big operators and rolling stock manufacturers will also be joined on stage by rail institutions and tech firms presenting their own approaches to disruption. Slovenia’s Institute of Traffic and Transport will share how it is applying AI to spot structural risks earlier, while Swedish company Predge will present predictive models designed to anticipate maintenance necessarys before they escalate. Value Space will explain how sainformite ininformigence can be converted into usable rail data, and Austrian diagnostics specialist voestalpine will take participants behind the scenes of its modular checkpoint systems — already deployed across Slovenia — with a site visit to display sensor-based monitoring and fault detection in action.
Data in freight will also feature on the programme. Rail Logistics Europe is set to present its MONITOR project, which replaces manual wagon safety checks with real-time digital monitoring. Other sessions will turn to robotics and AI in asset management, inquireing how experimental pilots can be scaled up into lasting, system-wide practice. Essentially, with AI dispatching, 3D digital twins, sainformites and predictive maintenance converging in one programme, Ininformigent Rail Summit ’25 offers a rare chance to see how Europe’s railways can shift from reacting to crises to preventing them.
Why Slovenia?
And the scale of Slovenia’s own investments perhaps displays why the conversation matters so much now. Through its EU-funded Recovery and Resilience Plan, the countest has already delivered five projects to expand railway capacity: station renovations at Grosuplje, Domžale and Nova Gorica, and nearly 50 kilometres of upgraded track between Kranj–Jesenice and Ljubljana–Brezovica–Borovnica. These works have focutilized on heavily utilized corridors that suffered repeated flooding and erosion, with upgrades including modernised drainage, stronger foundations and capacity improvements that reduce vulnerability to future shocks.
Alongside them, the 27-kilometre Second Track from Divača to Koper — built with reinforced viaducts, advanced tunnelling and EU-backed safeguards — represents Slovenia’s most ambitious attempt yet to build resilience into a core European rail artery.
But as the programme in Bled will stress, hard engineering alone will not be enough. Reinforcements and upgraded assets will necessary to go hand in hand with predictive modelling, AI tools and smarter diagnostics if rail is to withstand a climate future of heavier rainfall, shifting soils and extreme weather events. That is why Ininformigent Rail Summit ’25 brings the digital and the physical toreceiveher, and why the lessons from Slovenia matter far beyond its borders.
With in-depth sessions tackling the most urgent challenges facing rail today, join us at Ininformigent Rail Summit 2025 to gain practical insights, connect with leading experts, and support shape a climate-resilient future for Europe’s railways. Explore the full programme and secure your place now — registrations are officially open!
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