The gala dinner of UIC HIGHSPEED 2012 offers an excellent networking opportunity in an elegant setting!

This dinner will take place in the Grand Hall of the Pennsylvania Convention Center. The Grand Hall used to be the Reading Railroad Terminal, built in 1893. It was a monument to the extraordinary railroad wealth of the time, designed to bring trains into a spectacular train shed with a single span arched roof. After an underground rail link was built in 1984, the Terminal was rendered obsolete and was closed in 1985. When it was proposed as the site for the new Pennsylvania Convention Center, city architects took great pains to preserve its extraordinary historical elements. The striking train shed arch stayed, and the headhouse (the passenger station and company headquarters) was incorporated into the Center and the attached Marriott Hotel. 

World congress participants and their guests are invited to attend this dinner on Thursday 12 July from 19:00 – 21:00. The dress code is business attire.

This dinner is included in full congress and guest/spouse registrations.
Please contact us if you have dietary requests.

Be sure to attend this exclusive gala evening and register now!