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75th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL AIR SAFETY SUMMIT

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November 7-9, 2022 | Atlanta, GA U.S.

IASS 2022 in Atlanta Georgia
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International Air Safety Summit 2022 Speakers

Billy Nolen - IASS 2022 Keynote Speaker
MONDAY
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Mr. Billy Nolen

Administrator (Acting), U.S. Federal Aviation Administration

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Mr. Billy Nolen, Administrator (Acting), U.S. Federal Aviation Administration

 

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Ed Bastian IASS 2022 Keynote speaker
TUESDAY
 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
 
Mr. Ed Bastian

Chief Executive Officer, Delta Air Lines

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Ed Bastian, Chief Executive Officer, Delta Air Lines

As CEO of Delta Air Lines, Ed Bastian leads a team of 80,000 professionals that is building the world’s premier international airline, powered by a people-driven, customer-focused culture and spirit of innovation.

Under Ed’s leadership, Delta is transforming the air travel experience with generational investments in technology, aircraft, airport facilities and, most importantly, Delta’s employees worldwide. A 24-year Delta veteran, Ed has been a critical leader in Delta’s long-term strategy and champion of putting Delta’s shared values of honesty, integrity, respect, perseverance and servant leadership at the core of every decision.

Since being named Delta’s CEO in May 2016, Ed has expanded Delta’s leading position as the world’s most reliable airline while growing its global footprint and enhancing the customer experience in the air and on the ground. During his tenure as CEO, Delta has become the world’s most awarded airline, having been named the Wall Street Journal’s top U.S. airline; the top-ranking airline in Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies; the most on-time global airline by FlightGlobal; the Platinum Award recipient for operational excellence by Cirium; among TIME100’s Most Influential Companies; a Glassdoor Best Place to Work; and more.

He has served as a Delta leader and steered the company through the most challenging periods of the company’s history, including 9/11, bankruptcy and COVID-19.

Ed joined Delta in 1998 as vice president – finance and controller and was promoted to senior vice president (SVP) in 2000. He left Delta in 2005 and became SVP and chief financial officer (CFO) of Acuity Brands. He returned to Delta six months later to become CFO, and in 2007 he was appointed to serve as Delta’s President.

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Mr. Aaron Katz
 
National Human Performance Representative, National Air Traffic Controllers Association NATCA
 

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Aaron Katz Bio

Aaron Katz currently lives in Phoenix with his wife Dwan of 22 years as well as their 16 year-old twins. He spent 10 years in construction before deciding to find a better suited career in 2000. In January of 2001, he enrolled in the Air Traffic Control program at the Community College of Beaver County in Pennsylvania.

After graduating, he was hired by the FAA in 2002. He spent 7 years at his first air traffic facility in Champaign, IL. Aaron then transferred to his current facility, Phoenix Terminal Radar Approach Control in August of 2009. Aaron became the facility representative for the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) and served in that role until 2015. He went on to represent NATCA as a Collaboration Facilitator in the Western Service Area and in 2018 he was appointed as NATCA’s Human Performance Representative and continues to serve in that role.

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Mr. Anthony Schneider

Executive Director, the Air Traffic Safety Oversight Service, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration

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Mr. Anthony Schneider

Executive Director, the Air Traffic Safety Oversight Service,

U.S. Federal Aviation Administration  

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Dr. Barbara Holder

Associate Professor and Presidential Fellow, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Dr. Barbara E. Holder

Dr. Holder is a Presidential Fellow at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and an Associate Professor in the School of Graduate Studies in the College of Aviation. She is responsible for growing the aviation applied human factors research capability of the university. She teaches graduate level courses in aviation human factors and human-centered design. Dr. Holder also serves as the Chief Scientist and Associate Director of ERAU’s Center for Aviation and Aerospace Safety. In this role she is responsible for developing and directing the center’s safety research portfolio. Before joining ERAU, she worked at Honeywell Aerospace as a Technology Fellow, and prior to that, at Boeing as Associate Technical Fellow and Lead Scientist of Boeing’s Flight Deck Concept Center.

Dr. Holder has over 20 years of experience researching aviation safety and flight deck human factors. One of her current research programs investigates ways to reduce the risk of Loss of Control In-flight during the go-around maneuver by designing the go-around procedures to direct pilot attention to appropriate flight path parameters. Another of her current research programs is investigating the cognitive consequences of flight deck automation, with the goal of identifying and representing the essential cognitive skills used by airline pilots while performing flight path management tasks.

Dr. Holder has served on numerous industry committees. Currently, she chairs the Subcommittee on Human Factors for the FAA’s Research, Engineering, and Development Advisory Committee. She is also a member of the FAA’s Air Carrier Training Aviation Rule Making Committee’s working group on Flight Path Management.

Dr. Holder is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. She completed her Ph.D. and M.S. in Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego, under the guidance of Professor Edwin Hutchins. Dr. Holder holds a Private Pilot’s License, and is currently pursuing an instrument rating.

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Ms. Bobbi Wells

VP, Safety Systems, Efficiency & Compliance, American Airlines and FSF Board Chair

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Bobbi Wells
 

VP, Safety Systems, Efficiency & Compliance, American Airlines and FSF Board Chair

 
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Mr. Brandon Roberts

Executive Director, Rulemaking, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration

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Brandon Roberts

Executive Director, Rulemaking, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration

Brandon Roberts, Executive Director of the Office of Rulemaking, joined ARM in 2015, and previously served as the Director of the Airmen & Airspace Rules Division and as the Deputy Executive Director. Brandon began his aviation career with the US Air Force.  After graduating from the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs with a degree in Aeronautical Engineering, he attended Undergraduate Pilot Training at Laughlin Air Force Base in Del Rio, TX.  After earning his wings, he completed Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals at Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, GA.  Following training, he spent five years flying the F-15C “Eagle,” stationed at Tyndall Air Force Base in Panama City, FL and Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, VA.  He was a member of the F-15C East Coast Demonstration Team and travelled the world demonstrating the combat capability of the “Eagle” to airshow attendees. He still loves to fly and to share the thrill of flight with others. He is a commercial/instrument/multi-engine-rated pilot with several hundred hours flying civilian experimental aircraft including the Velocity, VariEze, and RV-6.

 

Following his tenure in the Air Force, he joined Triumph Aerospace Systems in Newport News, VA.  As a program manager, he led cross-functional teams that designed, manufactured, and instrumented complex aerospace prototypes.  His primary customers included Bell Helicopter and General Electric Aviation.  For Bell Helicopter, he led the effort to design and build a full-scale TiltRotor Test Vehicle for aerodynamic testing in NASA Ames’ National Full-scale Aerodynamic Complex.  For General Electric, Brandon managed the development of the prototype GE3000 jet engine. This engine is designed to replace the T700/CT7 series, which currently powers Blackhawk and Apache helicopters.

 

Brandon moved to Washington D.C. in 2013 to manage engineering operations for Architecture Technology Corporation, a small business that provides systems engineering services to NASA, DHS, and FAA.  His engineering staff consulted for several offices in the Air Traffic Organization, including the Operational Concepts and Validation group as well as the Terminal Facilities Planning group. 

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Mr. Cengiz Turkoglu

Senior Lecturer in Safety Engineering, Centre for Safety and Accident Investigation, Cranfield University
 

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Cengiz Turkoglu, Senior Lecturer in Safety Engineering,
 
Centre for Safety and Accident Investigation, Cranfield University
 
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Mr. Christopher McGregor

Flight Safety Officer, ATR

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Christopher McGregor

Flight Safety Officer, ATR 

Christopher McGregor started his aviation career in 1992 with Rolls-Royce. Following a number of overseas posts, with a background in engineering development and customer support, he joined BAE Systems Regional Aircraft in 1999, in Toulouse France. Christopher’s career in customer support continued with Airbus. He joined the Airbus Flight Safety Department in 2008, becoming Head of Accident Investigation. Christopher was appointed Flight Safety Officer of ATR in 2015.  A graduate of Heriot-Watt University, Christopher is chairman of the board of AviAssist, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and Member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers.

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Mr. Conor French

Chief Regulatory Officer, Zipline

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Conor French

Chief Regulatory Officer, Zipline

conor@flyzipline.com

Conor leads legal, regulatory, and public affairs for Zipline, the world’s largest automated instant logistics service. We design, manufacture, and operate an uncrewed aircraft system, which to date has made more than 400,000 commercial deliveries containing more than 7 million units of vaccines and other medical products and flown over 27 million autonomous miles in Ghana, Japan, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda and the United States. On average, someone receives a delivery from Zipline every two minutes.

Prior to Zipline, Conor lead US legal, compliance and government relations for Funding Circle, the leading global SME lending platform, on its journey from startup to publicly-traded company and before that served as CEO of Indego Africa, a social enterprise and lifestyle brand that supports artisan women through economic empowerment and education. Conor began his career as a corporate attorney at Latham & Watkins.

Conor is a Presidential Leadership Scholar, a Truman National Security Fellow and a co-founder of several influential public policy organizations including the American Fintech Council, the Responsible Business Lending Coalition and the Alliance for Artisan Enterprise. He has been recognized as the Bay Area’s top private company lawyer, on the US General Counsel Powerlist, and most recently by the Financial Times and National Law Journal for innovation and crisis leadership in COVID-19 pandemic response. Conor graduated from NYU Law and Georgetown and is admitted to the CA, DC, MA and NY bars.

 

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Capt. Conor Nolan

Director, Safety and Security, Aer Lingus, and Chair, Board of Governors, Flight Safety Foundation

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Mr. Connor Nolan

Director, Safety and Security, Aer Lingus, and Chair, Board of Governors,

Flight Safety Foundation

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Mr. Craig Hoskins
 
Vice President of Safety, Security and Technical Affairs Airbus Americas

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Craig Hoskins
 
Vice President of Safety, Security and Technical Affairs
 
Airbus Americas
 
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Mr. Dai Whittingham
 
Dai Whittingham – Flight Safety Foundation European Advisory Committee Vice Chair  

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Ms. Dai Whittingham
 

Dai Whittingham – Flight Safety Foundation European Advisory Committee Vice Chair

Dai Whittingham joined the Royal Air Force as a pilot in 1974.  He flew F4 Phantoms in the Air Defence fighter role, becoming the senior instructor pilot and standards evaluator for the RAF Phantom force, and has instructed at initial jet flight training.  He has commanded an E-3D AWACS squadron and the main operating base at RAF Waddington; he deployed as the Air Component Commander for UK flying operations in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2004.  Staff duties have included aviation policy formulation and regulation of military flying.  As Deputy Commander for the NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control Force, he was the general officer responsible for strategic and operational direction of the programme, regulation and oversight of operations, logistics, safety, development of acquisition requirements, and continued airworthiness. 

 

Dai joined the UKFSC in February 2012 and is active in a wide range of safety-related working groups and industry bodies.  A Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, he is Vice-Chair of the FSF’s European Advisory Committee.

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Mr. Daniel Acquah
 
Director-General, Ghana Civil Aviation Authority

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Mr. Daniel Acquah
 
Director-General, Ghana Civil Aviation Authority

Mr. Daniel Acquah is a product of Mfantsipim (High) School, in Cape Coast, Ghana from 1978 to 1985. He had his university education at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) where he graduated with a BSc. (Hons) Agricultural Engineering degree in 1991. He had his mandatory one-year post university education National Service in the same university as a Teaching/Research Assistant. After the National Service period he furthered his university education in the same university from 1992 to 1994 to obtain an MSc. Degree in Mechanical Engineering (Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics option).  During his master’s degree program, he was teaching Physics at the St. Louis Girls High School in Kumasi, Ghana.

 

After his university education, he worked briefly from 1994 to 1995 with the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission in the Nuclear Engineering Department as a Research/Scientific Officer and was also in charge (operations and maintenance) of the cooling system of Ghana's first nuclear research reactor popularly known as GHARR-1.

 

With his great passion for aviation, Mr. Acquah moved on to join the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) in 1995. He was further sponsored by his new employer (GCAA) to Sheffield School of Aeronautics in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA, where he learnt how to fly and also obtained the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Aircraft Dispatcher’s Licence in 1996.  This was to enable him work efficiently in his new role as a Flight Operations Officer with the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority. He soon rose through the ranks to become Manager for Personnel

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Mr. David Carbon
 
 Vice President, Prime Air, Amazon

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Mr. David Carbon
 
 Vice President, Prime Air, Amazon
 

David Carbon joined Amazon in March 2020 as Vice President, Prime Air. He is responsible for all aspects of Prime Air including Design, Certification, Build, Fulfillment, and Operations. Prior to joining Amazon, Carbon was Vice President of Operations (COO) for Boeing’s 787 Program. In this capacity, he was responsible for the end-to-end build and delivery of the 787-8, 9, and 10. Previously, he led the 747 Operation, Machining and Emergent Operations, Boeing Salt Lake City, and Boeing / Hawker de Havilland Australia. Prior to joining Boeing in September 2001, Carbon worked for the Ford Motor Company, holding roles in Final Assembly, Powertrain, R&D, and the President’s Office. He received his undergraduate degree in legal studies and politics from La Trobe University, a Master of Business Leadership from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and successfully completed the Advanced Management Program (AMP179) at Harvard University. 

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Mr. David Garrison 

 Senior Vice President of Corporate Safety, Security, and Compliance, Delta Air Lines

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Mr. David Garrison 

 Senior Vice President of Corporate Safety, Security, and Compliance,

Delta Air Lines

In his current role, David and his team are responsible for supporting all departments in achieving the highest levels of safety, security, quality, and environmental performance.
Prior to David’s role in CSSC, he was responsible for Delta’s regional carrier flying and staffing services; this includes two wholly owned subsidiaries, Endeavor Air and Delta Global Staffing. The entire Delta Connection fleet consists of over 425 aircraft flying with 6 airlines.

David is a 31 year veteran of Delta Air Lines. Until his most recent change in responsibility, David had spent his entire career in the maintenance organization, TechOps. He started his career as a Propulsion Engineer and over the years has taken on increased areas of responsibility. This includes Engineering, Fleet Reliability, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Engine Maintenance, Component Maintenance, Maintenance planning, Materials and Logistics. These roles have provided David with experience leading large employee groups, a highly technical environment, aircraft and engine certification and fleet modifications. David’s leadership focus is on developing people and teams to improve highly complex operations. His experiences are principled on servant leadership, continuous improvement, systems thinking and innovation.

David holds a bachelor’s degree in Applied Physics from Emory University as well as a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. His wife, Martha, have two children, Andrew (24) and Megan (21). His interests outside of his family and work include bicycling and hiking.

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Mr. David Huntzinger

Safety SME, Laminaar Aviation Infotech Americas

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David Huntzinger

Safety SME, Laminaar Aviation Infotech Americas

Dave is currently the subject matter expert in Safety for Laminaar Aviation Infotech Americas. He is a fixed and rotor wing pilot with experience in over 50 different aircraft types. He has worked in aviation safety in one form or another for over 40 years. Dave was an accident investigator at both Boeing Commercial Airplane Company and Bell Helicopter and the Chief of Fleet Safety at Eurocopter. He was the VP Safety and Security at TAG Aviation. He has held similar roles, of increasing scope and responsibility, at several international aviation organizations and has lived and served in Europe, Asia, Oceania, Canada and the United Sates. The two time winner of the Aerospace Journalist of the Year award, Dave has both a PhD and a Master’s of Science in Safety. His ground breaking doctoral dissertation on Procedural intentional non-compliance (PiNC)  has been given all over the world and is still a relevant discussion topic.  Dave is a Certified Safety Professional, member of ISASI and a frequent speaker in the aviation community. This combination of experience and academics provides a unique and thoughtful perspective on aviation safety worldwide.  And, lastly? What is his favorite plane to fly?

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Ms. Deborah Kirkman

Board of directors, Flight Safety Foundation

 

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Ms. Deborah Kirkman

Board of directors, Flight Safety Foundation

Currently a director at the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF), Deborah Kirkman has worked to enable innovation in aviation for nearly four decades. She is leading FSF’s efforts to develop a research roadmap for future safety innovations including those supporting advanced air mobility (AAM), facilitates FSF’s Autonomous and Remotely Piloted Aviation Capabilities (ARPAC) advisory committee, and recently served on the FAA’s aviation rulemaking committee for Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations.

Deborah began her career at Bell Laboratories. Much of her professional career was spent at the MITRE corporation, where she most recently managed MITRE’s portfolio of work in UAS integration. Her other systems engineering work in air traffic management includes digital pilot-controller communications, National Airspace System performance metrics, the Free Flight program, and NextGen. She has held several leadership roles in RTCA as well, including co-chairing the Business Case and Performance Metrics working group of RTCA’s NextGen Advisory Committee.

An instrument-rated private pilot, Deborah’s original studies were in Electrical Engineering, including a BS from the University of Virginia and an MSEE from Stanford University.

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Mr. Eric Bergesen

Director of Operations, UPS Flight Forward

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Mr. Eric Bergesen

Director of Operations, UPS Flight Forward

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Ms. Elizabeth Mathews

Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Occupational Safety, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Ms. Elizabeth Mathews

Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Occupational Safety,

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Mr. Franklin McIntosh

Vice President, Safety & Technical Training, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration

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Franklin J. McIntosh

Franklin J. McIntosh is the Federal Aviation Administration's Vice President of Safety and Technical Training. Since assuming this role on February 27, 2022, he provides full executive direction as the focal point for safety and quality assurance for the ATO safety management system and quality control of all Air Traffic Organization (ATO) direct mission support technical training.

Previous to the Vice President position, Mr. McIntosh served as the Director for Air Traffic Operations in the Central Service Area of the Air Traffic Organization (ATO).  As the Director, he oversaw and directed air traffic operations for 128 FAA Terminal and Enroute facilities as well as the Federal Contract Towers within the Central Service Area.  Mr. McIntosh maintained close and continuing contact with key representatives of the ATO, the military, other Federal agencies, state and local governments, the aviation industry, and the general public.  Mr. McIntosh also served as the principal staff advisor to the Regional Administrator with regard to the management of air traffic operations within the assigned regions.  

Previous to the Director position, Mr. McIntosh became the General Manager for the Fort Worth District as part of the realignment of Air Traffic Control in 2018.  As the General Manager, Franklin served as the single point of contact between district facilities, senior ATO management and the customer community.  Mr. McIntosh was also responsible for interagency coordination to ensure successful integration and modernization of the National Airspace System.

  
In 2015, Mr. McIntosh was the Air Traffic Manager for Albuquerque Air Route Traffic Control Center, responsible for the oversight of a highly technical workforce that provided air traffic control services through the geographic areas of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, and Kansas.  Prior to that, Mr. McIntosh was the Manager of Collaborative Decision Making and International Operations at the FAA’s Command Center in Warrington, Virginia.  In this role, Mr. McIntosh worked closely with key stakeholders of the National Airspace System while also representing the FAA in key meetings with other Air Navigation Service Providers.

  
Mr. McIntosh entered the FAA in 2000 and held multiple positions while serving at the Albuquerque Air Route Traffic Control Center.

Prior to joining the FAA, Mr. McIntosh served in the United States Air Force as an Air Traffic Controller at Eglin AFB, Florida and Prince Sultan AFB, Saudi Arabia.  

Mr. McIntosh graduated in 1994 with a Bachelor Degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio. 

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Mr. Fred Calvert

Director, Safety Assurance, Executive Jet Management

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Fred Calvert

Director, Safety Assurance, Executive Jet Management

Fred Calvert is the Director of Safety Assurance and an Air Safety Investigator at Executive Jet Management, Inc. in Cincinnati, Ohio. Fred has been with EJM for the last 24 years starting the EJM Safety Department in 2006. He has held various position with Part 91 corporate, 135 and 121 Air Carriers during his 30-year professional aviation career. He is a full member of the International Society of Air Safety Investigators, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association and was a past member of the Flight Safety Foundation Business Advisory Committee.

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Mr. Fred Lopez

 Head of UPS Flight Forward

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Fred Lopez

 Head of UPS Flight Forward

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Mr. Gerard van Es

Netherlands Aerospace Centre NLR 

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Gerard van Es

Bio

For more than 25 years, Gerard van Es has been working with the Dutch National Aerospace Centre NLR as a senior advisor on flight safety and flight operations. During his career he conducted numerous studies looking for the causes of flight accidents and solutions to prevent them. Gerard has been fascinated by the physics of aircraft that operate on wet and contaminated runways. He has managed several flight test campaigns related to this topic.   

 

 

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Mr. Gerardo Hueto

US CAST, Government Co-Chair, PARSAT, FAA

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Gerardo Huerto

US CAST, Government Co-Chair, PARSAT, FAA

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Mr. Gilberto Lopez Meyer

Senior Vice President, Corporate Safety, Security, and Compliance, Korean Air

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Gilberto Lopez Meyer

, Senior Vice President, Corporate Safety, Security and Compliance, Korean Air

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Dr. Hassan Shahidi

President and CEO, Flight Safety Foundation

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Hassan Shahidi 

President and CEO, Flight Safety Foundation 

 Dr. Hassan Shahidi is the president and CEO of Flight Safety Foundation, where he leads a global campaign to improve aviation safety. He directs the Foundation’s mission across several locations around the world, including Melbourne, Australia; Brussels, Montreal, and Washington. Dr. Shahidi has led the Foundation’s initiatives to promote safety culture and proactive safety management around the world. He has launched initiatives to facilitate humanitarian use of uncrewed systems for delivery of vaccines and medicines. His other global priorities include addressing risks of runway excursions, loss of control and controlled flight into terrain.  

 Dr. Shahidi has over 40 years of experience in applying systems engineering and data analytics to advance air traffic control in the U.S. and around the world. He has led several air traffic modernization initiatives including performance-based navigation (PBN), airspace design analytics, traffic flow management, and terminal automation concepts. He holds a private pilot license. Dr. Shahidi is a recipient of various industry awards, including Aviation Week Commercial Aviation Safety Award and RTCA Outstanding Achievement Award. He holds a bachelor and master’s in international economic and studies, a master’s in systems engineering and operations research, and a doctorate in engineering management. 

 

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Capt. Helena Cunningham
 
Director of SMS, Air Line Pilots Association International

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Helena Cunningham
 
Director of SMS, Air Line Pilots Association
 
International
 

Captain Helena (Reidemar) Cunningham has held the position Director SMS in the ALPA Air Safety Organization since March 2019, prior to that she held the position of Director of Human Factors for six years. She was recently appointed as IFALPA SM Working Group Chair and in that capacity serves as an advisor to the ICAO SMP Annex 19. At present she is the Central Air Safety Chair for Delta ALPA. She is currently a Captain of the Boeing 757//767 at Delta Air Lines. Before that, she was a 717 Captain and previously a DC-9 First Officer instructor for 10 years.

 

She has participated in human factors specific industry and academic research and has been published in numerous journals and books over the past 20+ years.  She served as a CIRP coordinator for 5 years and Human Factors Subcommittee chair for nearly 20 years at Northwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines ALPA and in 2018, she was appointed as the subcommittee-chair of SMS at DALPA.

 

Captain Cunningham earned a BS in aviation management from Southern Illinois University; dual specialization (safety & operations) MAS in aeronautical science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University–Daytona Beach; and a PhD ABD in safety engineering. Currently, she is an adjunct professor at the University of Memphis graduate human factors certificate program and has been teaching for over eight years at three universities.

 

Co-chair of A Practical Guide for Effective Pilot Monitoring working group with deliverable document published by the Flight Safety Foundation in 2014.

She was elected Fellow at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London in 2014.  

She received the 2014 Air Safety Award from the Air Line Pilots Association, International

She served six years in the Illinois Army National Guard.

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Mr. Henry Gourdji

Director, Safety Strategy and Policy, Flight Safety Foundation

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Mr. Henry Gourdji

Henry Gourdji, MSC, CD 

 

 

Henry Gourdji is currently Director of Safety Strategy and Policy with the Flight Safety Foundation, and prior to that, spent over twenty-two years with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). He has held such positions as Head of Strategic Planning, Coordination and Partnerships in the Office of the ICAO Secretary General and led the Office responsible for developing and managing the Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme (USOAP). Prior to ICAO, he worked in the Canadian civil service and industry, including ten years with Transport Canada civil aviation authority.  

 

Mr. Gourdji is a recipient of various safety awards, including the prestigious Meritorious Service Cross (M.S.C) from the Governor General of Canada for monitoring compliance and augmenting safety procedures around the world and enhancing Canada’s reputation as an international leader in the field of civil aviation. In 2021, he was awarded the Laura Taber Barbour Air Safety Award for his significant contributions in improving aviation safety worldwide. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautics and completed strategic studies with the Canadian Armed Forces. He is a licensed aircraft maintenance engineer and is an active pilot with a multi-engine rating. He retired after 31 years of Canadian military reserve service attaining the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. 

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Capt. Hovav Ben-David

Vice President Operations, El Al Israel airlines  

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Mr. Hovav Ben-David

Vice President Operations, El Al Israel airlines  

Hovav was appointed VP Operations of ELAL on May 2022.
He is a 25-year civilian pilot and rated on 737, 747, 777, and 787.

Hovav is focused on the re-establishing of El Al's aerial operations production capability. He is also responsible for safety, efficiency, and regulatory compliance programs at El AL.

He spent three years as the company's chief pilot and DFO. In that role, Hovav navigated the challenges brought upon by the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the Summer 2019 GPS blockage of the eastern Mediterranean basin.

Hovav spent the previous years in various management positions, including as El Al's 737 fleet-captain. He specializes in infrastructure and human factors.

Earlier in his career, Hovav spent several years as an avionics project expert for ELBIT Systems.

During Hovav's 21-year military career in the Israeli Air Force, he spent 9 years as an active-duty fighter pilot and Executive Officer. He remained in the active reserves for the next 12 years. For most of his military career, Hovav flew F-15 fighter jets and retired from with the rank of Major.

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Capt. John Deleeuw
 
 Managing Director Safety and Efficiency, American Airlines

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Mr. John Deleeuw
 
 Managing Director Safety and Efficiency, American Airlines

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Dr. Jon Holbrook

Human Factors Discipline Deputy for the NASA Engineering and Safety Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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Dr. Jon Holbrook

Human Factors Discipline Deputy for the NASA Engineering and Safety Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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Mr. Joshua Jackson

Training and Simulation Group (AFS–280), U.S. Federal Aviation Administration

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Josh Jackson

Previous 14 CFR Part 121 Airline Pilot, FAA Aviation Safety Inspector (Operations) – Prior Principle Operations Inspector (POI) for several cargo operators, currently a subject matter expert at AFS-280 (Office of Safety Standards, Training and Simulation Group)

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FAA Advisory Circular AC 120-FPM

The Advisory Circular (AC) provides guidance and recommended practices for operators to implement operational procedures and training for the planning, execution, and assurance of the guidance and control of aircraft trajectory and energy. This is known as flightpath management (FPM).  This AC is currently directed towards parts 121 and 135 CHs conducting multicrew turbojet airplane operations, as well as part 142 training centers.

 

 

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Dr. Julia Behrend

Head of Safety Innovation & Human Performance, Air France

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Julia Behrend

Head of Safety Innovation & Human Performance, Air France

Julia Behrend is a psychologist and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience affiliated with the Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. She is the Head of Safety Innovation & Human Performance at Air France’s Flight Safety Department. Passionate about the complexity of human behavior and technology in aviation, her current role is to ensure an up-to-date understanding of human factors implied in flight safety.

 

Dr. Behrend completed her doctoral dissertation in collaboration with Air France, investigating how personality, habits, hierarchy, and role influenced pilot decision-making under uncertainty. In particular, Julia applies findings from aviation psychology, cognitive science, and neuroergonomics to safety for a better understanding of human performance in high risk environments. Julia has authored or co-authored several research articles in international journals and shared the results with aviation authorities, manufacturers and airlines. In addition, she serves as visiting lecturer at ISAE-SUPAERO in Toulouse.

Dr. Behrend earned her B.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Bremen in Germany. After two M.Sc. in Cognitive Neuroscience (Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris) and in Psychology (Paris Descartes University), she obtained her PhD from Sorbonne University in France.

Dr. Behrend is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Aviation Psychology and Applied Human Factors and is a Board Member of the European Association for Aviation Psychology.

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Mr. Luke Bowman

Senior Product Director GE Digital, Aviation Software

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Luke Bowman Bio

Luke Bowman is a Product Director running the Flight Analytics product line for GE Digital, Aviation Software. He has spent 20+ years utilizing flight data to create innovative applications that deliver insight to aviation customers in critical areas of their business-like fuel, safety, and maintenance. The latest product from his team, FlightPulse, empowers airline pilots with flight data so they can make more informed decisions around safety and fuel consumption.

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Mr. Mark Millam

Technical Programs and Events, Flight Safety Foundation

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Mr. Mark Millam Technical Programs and Events, Flight Safety Foundation

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Mr. Marko Rados

CEO, Inxelo Technologies 

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Co-founder, Inxelo Technologies Ltd.

Marko’s passion towards aviation brought him to his first contact with aviation as he graduated on “Mobile apps for pilot fatigue risk management” thesis in 2015 at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb together with his colleague Mario Rudman. Marko and Mario subsequently founded their aviation software company Inxelo Technologies in 2018 specializing for Safety and Compliance aviation software. Marko has since been involved in worldwide collaborations with partners, safety experts and airlines which further increased his knowledge in aviation safety domain. Using computer science skills, Marko’s company is connecting the two worlds together in simplifying software solutions for air organizations. Today the company counts over 20 customers worldwide.

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Dr. Martin Smith

CEO/Co-Founder, Presage Group Inc.

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CEO/Co-Founder, Presage Group Inc.

In 1981 Dr. Martin (Marty) Smith left a career as an active pilot to pursue another passion, namely studying the psychology of human error in the flight deck.  Upon the completion of his Ph.D. in Psychology (Clinical / Industrial) from the Université du Québec à Montréal, Dr. Smith spent 10 years providing clinical support services in various mental health institutions, as well as providing Employee Assistance Program (EAP) clinical assessments and psychotherapeutic support to numerous airlines.  Dr. Smith utilized his expertise to provide clinical treatment for addictions, depression, anxiety, PTSD, and stress management. 

In 2006 Dr. Smith Co-Founded Presage Group Inc., a software company that has developed numerous decision-making software solutions that target and mitigate the psychological, social, operational, and cultural drivers for non-compliance (human error).  At the onset of COVID, Presage developed and deployed a unique assessment tool that quantified the extent to which an active mental health condition (i.e., Depression and/or Anxiety) compromised compliant decision-making in the moment.  The Presage intellectual property solutions have been deployed at airlines, air navigation services, and airport authorities around the world.  Additionally, other business verticals beyond aviation/aerospace such as utilities, nuclear power, medicine, and food manufacturing have utilized the tools that Dr. Smith has developed to improve safety and operational efficiency. using

In 2021, Dr. Smith joined the University of Waterloo’s School of Aviation, “WISA” (Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Aeronautics) Advisory Board.  Dr. Smith is also a noted conference speaker and consultant to IATA, ICAO, TSB, NTSB, Eurocontrol, and Flight Safety Foundation.  Of equal value and personal importance, Marty remains an active pilot, having accumulated numerous endorsements and licenses over his 43 years of flying.

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Mr. Mike Poole

CEO, Plane Sciences  

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Mike Poole, P.Eng. CEO, Plane Sciences

Mike is a professional engineer (Aerospace) and an active pilot.  He was an accident investigator with the TSB Canada for twenty years and developed the TSB/C’s FDR/CVR laboratory from scratch.  He was the first in the world to animate flight data in 3d on a computer way back in 1985.  He left the TSB in 2002 and started a private company which specializes in assisting governments develop their technical investigation capabilities and he was very involved assisting the PNGAIC develop their FDR/CVR lab which was used for the first time to investigate the B737 accident.  Mike was awarded the International Society of Air Safety Investigators (ISASI) Jerry Lederer Award in 2010 for his international contributions to aviation safety and has presented several times at ISASI and in 2015 at the FSF IASS plenary session.  His company also provides flight data monitoring systems and services to airlines around the world.  Mike was the Canadian expert on the ICAO FLIREC Panel that developed the international Standards and Practices for Flight Data Monitoring programs.

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Capt. Pascal Kremer
 
Flight Safety Foundation European Advisory Committee Chair

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Mr. Pascal Kremer
 
Flight Safety Foundation European Advisory Committee Chair
 
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Mr. Piyush Gandhi
 
Vice President, Operations and Business Development, Presage Group Inc. 

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Piyush Gandhi (MBA, Captain)

(Pronounced “Pee-yoush”)    

Piyush is an experienced executive in the field of aviation.  He is currently the Vice President, Operations and Business Development for the Presage Group Inc. which is an organization that uses psychological science-based analytics to understand the behaviours of employees (primarily pilots) in operational workplaces and provide mitigation strategies that ultimately improve the safety and performance of those organizations.  Most recently, he spent 2½ years with Sunwing Airlines in the role of Vice President Flight Operations.  Along with safety, operational, regulatory, and fiduciary responsibility of more than 30,000 flights in the B737-800/MAX-8 per year, he maintained his pilot proficiency flying on the line as a B737 Captain.  Previously, he was the Vice President Flight Operations at Porter Airlines where he was a founding team member from its inception in early 2006.  He contributed to helping build Porter from its humble 4 aircraft operation to 28 aircraft operating more than 65,000 flights per year carrying more than 3-million passengers.  Prior to that, Piyush spent 10-years with Bombardier Aerospace as their Chief Pilot & Customer Liaison Pilot.  In addition to his OEM certification/production test pilot duties on the Q400 and Global Express business jet, Piyush spent much of his Bombardier tenure overseas training pilots, delivering new aircraft, conducting sales & marketing tours, and providing operational support to various airlines and operators globally.

Since 2018, Piyush has been on the Board of Directors for The Redwood – a not-for-profit shelter for women and their children fleeing domestic abuse.  In 2020, Piyush was the first male elected to the Board of Directors for the Northern Lights Aero Foundation which promotes and celebrates women in the field of aviation and aerospace in Canada.  Piyush founded and chaired the Y.A.Y! (You Are You!) diversity and inclusion committee at Sunwing and he also co-founded/chaired the successful Women Soar at Porter program. Piyush is a member of the international Flight Safety Foundation Business Aviation Advisory Committee (FSF BAC).  He has also been on the Advisory Boards for Colleges, and Universities, most notably, the Seneca College Aviation PAC (Program Advisory Committee). 

Piyush graduated the Seneca Aviation Program (Class ’93) and he completed his Master of Business Administration (MBA) graduate degree at the Rotman School of Business (University of Toronto) in 2014. 

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Mr. Robert Rufli

Director of Operations, Air Charter Safety Foundation 

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Bob Rufli

Bob Rufli is the Director of Operations for the Air Charter Safety Foundation, where he formerly served as Chairman of the Board of Governors, as well as on its Executive Committee. In his oversight, Bob is responsible for maintaining the ACSF SMS Toolkit, and to support the ACSF’s programs, including its Industry Audit Standard, the Aviation Safety Action Program as well as Flight Data Monitoring. In his operations role, he also assists in overall process improvement as well as overseeing ACSF’s non-profit operations.

Prior to joining the ACSF, Bob served as Vice President of Flight Operations and Director of Operations for Pentastar Aviation, in Waterford, Michigan. At Pentastar, Bob helped evolve the firm’s robust Safety Management System (SMS). He also oversaw the implementation of processes to help the aviation firm maintain its leadership role in safety, efficiency and world-class customer service.

Throughout his nearly 40 years in the aviation industry, Bob has held significant leadership roles, including as President of Landmark Aviation; Executive Director of Flight Operations at Aerodynamics, Inc.; and Chief Pilot at PDQ Air Service.

Well-versed in FAA operational certification and certificate merger projects, Bob’s experience also includes worldwide flight experience, startup and operations of corporate shuttles, and implementation of cloud-based data management tools, among other functions.

He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in air commerce from the Florida Institute of Technology, and he has completed flight training in a wide array of aircraft, including: Gulfstream III, Hawker 800XP & 700, McDonnell Douglas MD-80, Airbus A-320, Beechjet 400A and 400, Mitsubishi Diamond and Beech Starship. Also, through Flight Safety International, he received training for the Merlin VIC and 300.

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Mr. Santiago Saltos

Regional Safety Director, Airbus

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Santiago Saltos

Regional Safety Director, Airbus

Santiago Saltos is the Regional Safety Director for Latin America and the Caribbean at Airbus.

 

Santiago has been part of Airbus since June 2019 where he assists and coordinates different safety initiatives that impact Airbus customers and collaborates with other industry stakeholders to improve the safety record of the region. Before that, he served as Head of Tech Ops and Safety for the Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA, by its Spanish acronym) from 2006 to 2019. At ALTA, Santiago developed solid skills addressing the different issues affecting the airline industry in the region, from Maintenance & Engineering, Industry Affairs, and Aviation Safety.

 

He is an active member of the ICAO Regional Aviation Safety Group – Pan America (RASG-PA) where he’s currently the Co-Chairman for the Regional Aviation Safety Team (PA-RAST) in representation of the Industry. He is the former Chairman of the ALTA Pan-American Safety Summit, a position he held from 2011 to 2018. Santiago is th Chairman of the Aviation Committee for Miami’s Beacon Council. He's also a Board Member and one of the founders of ICARO Aviator's Club in South Florida. 

 

Santiago comes from a family of aviators where he has been involved from a young age in his country of origin, Ecuador. He holds a Private Pilot certificate, a Bachelors in Business Administration focused on Airline Management from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) and he holds a Masters in Travel and Tourism from Florida International University (FIU).  In 2017 he became a Certified Professional Coach from the Institute of Professional Excellence in Coaching (IPEC).

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Mr. Sonnie Bates
 
CEO, WYVERN
 

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Mr. Sonnie Bates
 
CEO
 
WYVERN
 

Sonnie Bates is CEO of WYVERN Ltd, the global leader in elevating safety and security for the aviation industry. He began his aviation career in the U.S. Air Force, where he served in various key leadership roles including Instructor Pilot, Flight Examiner, Flight Commander, Aircraft Maintenance Quality Assurance Evaluator, C-5 Galaxy Aircraft Commander, Boeing C-17 Safety Program Manager, and Director of Operations for the largest air freight operation in the U.S. Department of Defense.

Sonnie’s experience in business aviation includes Chief Pilot, Safety Manager, and Captain on various types of business jet aircraft. As CAE’s Falcon 7X Initial Cadre Program Manager, he guided the development of the pilot training program for the Falcon 7X, working closely with leaders from Dassault, CAE, and regulatory agencies in both Europe and the U.S. He also served as Program Director for the International Business Aviation Council (IBAC), overseeing the International Standards program for 700 operators worldwide.

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Mr. Stephanie Moore
 
Human Performance Manager, American Airlines

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Stephanie Moore
 
Human Performance Manager 
 
American Airlines 

Stephanie Moore is the Manager of Human Performance at American Airlines.  She has spent over seven years in the safety department at American Airlines as a Safety Specialist in PHL and with Ground ASAP. She holds a master’s degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University focusing on behavior, learning and relationships between people and systems.

 

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Capt. Steve Jangelis

Boeing 757/767 Captain, Delta Air Lines, Industry Co-Chair for FAA Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing (ASIAS) 

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Mr. Steve Jangelis

Boeing 757/767 Captain, Delta Air Lines, Industry Co-Chair for FAA Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing (ASIAS) 

 

Captain Steve Jangelis is the former Aviation Safety chair for the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l Air Safety Organization (2017-2022). The ALPA Air Safety Organization has over 425 line-pilot volunteer subject-matter experts and is the largest nongovernmental safety organization in the world.  Captain Jangelis was responsible for safety matters representing over 61,000 pilots at 38 airlines in the United States and Canada.

 

Captain Jangelis serves as the industry co-chair of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing (ASIAS) system. He is also representing ALPA as a member of the FAA/Industry Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST) and served on several government and industry groups. These include his tenure as a member on the REDAC subcommittee for Airports, Industry Co-Chair for the FAA’s Runway Safety Council and he also served as a member on the FAA’s Airport Construction Advisory Council.

 

Captain Jangelis has an abundance of safety and operational experience both domestically, internationally, including passenger and all-cargo operations.  Currently a line Captain on the Boeing 757/767 for Delta Air Lines, Captain Jangelis has previously flown the Airbus A320, Boeing 717, 727, and the McDonnell Douglas MD-80/90 series aircraft.  Captain Jangelis has a diverse background in aviation gaining airport operations experience as an airfield operations and maintenance technician at a Midwest U.S. airport and has been a guest speaker and panelist at many airport accreditation schools’ training seminars. Captain Jangelis has participated in safety risk management panels on runway construction, airspace modifications, and UAS and Commercial Space integration.  Captain Jangelis also participated as a simulator operational testing pilot for Data-Comm taxi installations, Final Approach Runway Occupancy Signal (FAROS), and SMGCS evaluations.  Captain Jangelis is a former simulator instructor and line check airman. 

 

Captain Jangelis is an accredited ALPA Accident Investigator.  He has served as ALPA party coordinator and participated in Airports, Voice Recorder and Structures Groups in official NTSB accident and incident investigations for the Delta Air Lines ALPA Master Executive Council and is on ALPA’s Accident Investigation Board.

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Mr. Tzvetomir Blajev

Director, Europe and Global Operational Safety, Flight Safety Foundation 

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Mr. Tzvetomir Blajev

Director, Europe and Global Operational Safety, Flight Safety Foundation

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Capt. Vincent Durel

Captain B737NG, Flight Data Monitoring Expert, Flight Safety Officer, Transavia

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Captain Vincent Durel

Captain Vincent DUREL graduated from ENAC (the French National School of Civil Aviation in Toulouse, France) as an engineer in Aviation Safety Systems and Navigation Systems.

He started his career as a Navigation Systems Engineer at the Lille-Lesquin DGAC office, ensuring ILS, VOR and DME technical support. Beside his duties for the French Civil Aviation Authority, Vincent was a also a Flight Instructor at the Lille Flying Club and was delivering flight training on Mooney and Robin single prop. In 2002, he was back to the ENAC, the French Aviation University in Toulouse, no more as a student, but as project manager, in charge of the Flight Simulator Development Lab. After building their A320 flight simulators to support many ENAC training programs (pilot cadets and master's degrees) and in the frame of an exchange program between ATR and ENAC, Vincent became Ground Instructor at ATR Training in Blagnac, where he was deeply involved in the development of Mechtronix's (now TRU Simulation) innovative FFT-X flight simulator.

As a subject matter expert, Vincent conducted extensive investigative work for ENAC on a new generation of flight training devices, gaining in-depth knowledge of system design and pilot/user interaction.

Since 2007, Vincent is flying as an airline pilot, initially in Airliner and Regional CAE - both airlines merged and became Hop! - and since 2011 in Transavia France.

Captain DUREL is qualified on the ATR, Embraer ERJ and Boeing 737NG.

His attraction to aviation safety led him to take the lead on the TRANSAVIA FRANCE’s project to evaluate, select and adapt their new flight data monitoring system back in 2017.

Captain DUREL has played a key role in opening new ways of distributing flight data and creating new avenues to give pilots broad access to their flight data, and allow them intimate analysis of their own performance, deploying a Pilot Web Interface by the end of 2020.

Vincent is a regular participant and speaker at Transavia safety seminars and in different FDM Workshops inside the AIRFRANCE-KLM Group, with AIRFRANCE, Transavia Netherlands, and HOP.

LinkedIn Link : https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincent-durel-a7413244/

Presentation description in few words

After implementing a Self-debriefing app fully dedicated to Transavia France pilots, we have conducted studies about possible trends or changes in FDM indicators or flight safety Stats.

This presentation will present 2 years of Self-debriefing experience in Transavia France.

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Virginio Corrieri - IASS 2022 Speaker
 
Mr. Virginio Corrieri

Head of Operations, Safety and Security, Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association, ALTA

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Mr. Virginio Corrieri

Head of Operations, Safety and Security, Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association, ALTA

Virginio Corrieri, for 31 years, served as an officer in the Brazilian Army, having reached the rank of Colonel. In the Army, he specialized as a helicopter pilot, in aeronautical accidents investigation and prevention, and took the Master's course in Military Sciences. He was a UN Military Observer in Sudan, worked at the Army Commission in Washington, USA, and, crowning his career, commanded the Presidential Guard Battalion in Brasilia.

In the corporate world, he was responsible for flight safety at OMNI Taxi Aéreo, one of the largest offshore operators in South America, and held the position of Aviation Security Manager at Avianca Brasil airline.

He is currently Director of Safety and Operations at the Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA).

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