All over the world, human resource management strategies have lead to a loss of experts in the field of railway infrastructure management, according to Johannes Neuhold and Matthias Landgraf at Graz University of Technology. “The only chance to face this challenge is by combining expert knowledge with data analytics.” Both Neuhold and Landgraf are conference programme managers for the Intelligent Rail Summit 2018, which will take place November 27 – 29 in Malmö, Sweden.