Horizons Program - RISSB Training

Horizons – Shaping Rail’s Technical Future

RISSB is offering a unique opportunity to up and coming young professionals in the rail industry to be part of shaping rail’s technical future.

The RISSB Horizons Program brings together knowledge sharing and leadership development as a catalyst for up and coming professionals to help shape rail’s technical future and secure the future of the industry.

In its 6th year, the Horizons Program 6.0 will:

Extend the participant’s professional network both within and outside the industry;
Provide participants with the skills to drive and manage change;
Engage participants to provide technical input into RISSB’s and the industry’s future;
Assist in improving the safety and productivity of the rail industry;

Participants will be taken on a practical professional journey, growing their knowledge of use of technology in the rail industry and developing an innovative mindset that will help position your organisation as a business of the future. The next generation of leaders will evolve their skills in critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, communication and collaboration alongisde leaders from Australia, and hear about the vision of the rail industry of the future.

Horizons 6.0 will excite up and coming professionals and challenge their thinking amongst like-minded professionals in the industry building a strong foundation in their professional journey in shaping rail’s technical future.

Horizons Program Format

The Horizons Program includes:

Face to face forums featuring CEOs, technical leaders and other influencers;
Leadership Workshops;
Developing an understanding of what RISSB does and how Standards are developed;
Developing and presenting group ideas (pitching) to panels of industry leaders.

The program fee is $2595 (ex GST) and covers all face-to-face Forums, online mentoring sessions, completion and debrief of individual DISC Profile and networking events (3).

Who can apply?

Horizons 6.0 is open to all leaders within the rail industry. It is expected nominees will be highly regarded in their organisation and interested in the program, able to attend ALL stages of the program and be prepared to learn and contribute.

Please note that this program is for RISSB member organisations only. *RISSB reserves the right to limit the number of participants per organisation.

Nomination Form

If you are interested in nominating someone in your organisation, please complete the online form. Click here for more information about the RISSB Horizons Program brochure.

Horizons Program 5.0 Interoperability Strategy Competition winners

In our most recent Horizons Program 5.0, participants took part in The Interoperability Strategy Competition. This competition involved teams identifying five key challenges currently facing the Australian rail industry, and providing staged solutions to implement and deliver an interoperable future in the industry.

Team ‘Eurostar’ were announced as the winners of the 2023 Interoperability Strategy Competition, pictured below accepting their award from the CEO of RISSB, Damien White. (from left to right)

Amelia Barnes, Station Design Coordinator, Suburban Rail Loop Authority;
Michael McGhie, Manager Safety Strategy, QR;
Tomos Luker, Design Engineer Rail, Cold Forged Products;
Ken Liu, Senior Manager, Workforce Modelling, Sydney Trains;
Damien White – CEO RISSB.

Absent: Karen Sheiles, Crewing Coordinator, One Rail Australia and Suresh Sangarapillai, Design Engineer, Downer

The work produced by the teams for this competition will ultimately benefit the rail industry as a whole through the work of RISSB to help improve its safety standards and performance.

Below you can view the reports produced by the top three groups: