Speakers

Philippe Vappereau obtained an Engineer diploma at the French "Supelec" University in 1983 and joined the Regie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP) the same year. He began as an engineer in the department of rolling stock studies and kept this function until 1988.

He then occupied the function of Project manager of ticket vending machines deployment from 1989 till 1991. From 1991 to 1998, he took the position of project manager of Contactless ticketing project, he was also Coordinator of the European project "Icare" (1996-97) and Coordinator of "Calypso" (1998-2000).

In 1998, he became Head of Unit of "Innovative Customers Technologies", in charge of designing and deploying all travel information, ticketing, regulation and supervision systems of RATP. From 2010 to 2013, he was President of Ixxi, a RATP subsidiary in charge of commercialization of passenger information and ticketing solutions.

From 2014 to end 2016, he was risk Manager of the RATP Group and member of the RATP Direction Committee.

From 2017, he is Ticketing Expert in RATP and Chairman of Calypso (CNA) since May 2008, in charge of specifying Calypso Evolutions and promoting it globally. (Calypso is the contactless secure ticketing standard resulting from the EC funded project).