Events

Paris Air Forum

Location: Paris, France Date: Jun 20, 2018

Overview

Created in 2014 by Aéroport de Paris, La Tribune and Forum Media, the Paris Air Forum brings together a succession of debates, conferences and keynotes involving the personalities that make the news, major decision makers and experts in the aerospace, defense and space sectors. The objective: to decipher the challenges of the present and the challenges of the future to better address the challenges of tomorrow. As with every edition, the new generations are an integral part of this reflection with the presence of some twenty of the most innovative startups in the Innovation Village, they are the ones who open the sessions with percussive pitches. The 2018 Paris Air Forum theme is the theme "Connected aviation and smart territory". Objective, highlight the changing relationships and processes of civil and military aeronautics and space as well as new balances of the most dynamic and innovative international industrial sector.  

Agenda

8:50 — 9:00

INTRODUCTION

Augustin de Romanet Chief Executive Officer of Groupe ADP

9:00 — 9:30

OPENING

Elisabeth Borne
French Minister of Transport

9:30 — 10:20

REUSABLE LAUNCHERS, THE BEST OF THE BEST

Alain Charmeau
Chief Executive Officer of ArianeGroup

Daniel Neuenschwander
Director of Launchers at ESA

WHAT ARE THE INNOVATIONS FOR SMOOTHER-FLOWING AIRPORTS?

Edward Arkwright

Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Groupe ADP, in charge of development, engineering and transformation

Kjeld Binger
Chief Executive Officer of Amman Airport - Jordan

Barbara Dalibard
Chief Executive Officer of Sita

Véronique Deplace
Deputy Director of Security & Defence at DGAC

HOW CAN AIR TRAFFIC THAT DOUBLES EVERY FIFTEEN YEARS BE ABSORBED?

Philippe Crebassa
Vice-President of ENAC

Maurice Georges
Director of Air Navigation Services at DGAC

Angela Gittens
Director General of ACI World

Alexandre de Juniac
Director General and Chief Executive Officer of IATA

DOES FRANCE’S MILITARY PLANNING LAW REALLY MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE MILITARY?

Général Eric Bellot des Minières
Staff of the Armies

Christian Cambon
Chairman of the French Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Armed Forces

Bruno Even
Chief Executive Officer of Airbus Helicopters

10:40 — 11:30

WHAT WILL THE FUTURE EUROPEAN FIGHTER PLANE LOOK LIKE?

Philippe Duhamel
Executive Vice-President, Defence Mission Systems at Thales

Caroline Laurent
Strategy Director at DGA

HOW WILL REGIONAL AVIATION BE RECONFIGURED?

Christian McCormick
Managing Director-Finance at China Aircraft Leasing Corporation

Christian Scherer
Chief Executive Officer of ATR

Pierre Vellay
Chief Executive Officer of New & Next Consulting

HAS THE TIME COME FOR LOW-COST, LONG-HAUL TRAVEL TO TAKE A GIANT LEAP?

Marc Rochet
Chief Executive Officer of French Bee

Laurent Magnin
Chief Executive Officer of XL Airways and La Compagnie

WILL FRANCE BE RESILIENT ENOUGH IN THE EVENT OF A MASSIVE CYBERATTACK?

Marc Darmon
Executive Vice-President of Secure Communications and Information Systems at Thales

Patrick Gandil
Director General of DGAC

Emmanuel Germain
Deputy to the Director General at ANSSI

11:50— 12:40

A.I., DIGITISATION: REINVENTING HOW WE BUILD PLANES?

Guillaume Faury
President of Airbus Commercial Aircraft

Philippe Petitcolin
Chief Executive Officer of Safran

WHAT IS THE STRATEGY FOR AIR TRANSPORT IN FRANCE?

Alain Battisti
Chairman of FNAM

Vincent Capo-Canellas
Senator for Seine-Saint-Denis, Mayor of Le Bourget

Jean-Baptiste Djebbari
Deputy for Haute-Vienne

Thomas Juin
President of UAF

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF EUROPEAN DEFENCE?

Louis Gautier
Former Secretary-General for National Defence, commissioned by the President of the Republic to head a mission on European Defence

Hervé Guillou
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Naval Group

Alberto Maestrini
General Manager of Fincantieri

Amiral Christophe Prazuck
Chief of Staff for the French Navy

WHAT IS THE VISION FOR EUROPE IN SPACE?

Tomasz Husak
Head of Cabinet of European Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska

Jean-Yves Le Gall
President of CNES

Etienne Schneider
Minister of Defence of the Luxembourg (under reserves)

14:30 — 15:20

HOW WILL AIRPORTS AND TERRITORIES INTEGRATE?

Henri-Michel Comet
Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Groupe ADP

Alain Falque
Aeronautical Consultant

Michel Kerkloh
President & Chief Executive Officer of Munich Airport

HOW WILL THE AIR TRANSPORT ENVIRONMENT IN EUROPE EVOLVE?

Bjorn Kjos
Chief Executive Officer of Norwegian

Johan Lundgren
Chief Executive Officer of easyJet

Franck Terner
CEO of Air France & Deputy CEO of Air France-KLM

WILL NEW SPACE PUT SOME PET PROJECTS INTO ORBIT?

Benoit Deper
Chief executive officer and founder of Aerospacelab

Jean-Jacques Dordain
Former Director General of ESA

Joël Korsakissok
Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Syntony

Grégory Pradels
Founder of New Space Factory

A.I.: HAS WARFARE OF THE FUTURE ALREADY ENTERED THE OPERATIONAL ARENA?

Emmanuel Chiva
Deputy Chief Executive Officer & Chief Strategy Officer at Agueris

Jérôme Lemaire
Head of Artificial Intelligence and Digitisation of Operational Systems at DGA

15:40 — 16:30

CONNECTED PLANES: HOW DO WE GO FURTHER?

Anne Rigail
Executive Vice President for customer relations at Air France

Steve Collar
Chief Executive Officer of SES

WHICH PLANES FOR WHICH MARKETS?

Ihssane Mounir
Senior Vice-President of Sales and Marketing at Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Eric Schulz
Chief Commercial Officer at Airbus

CONNECTED PLANES: HOW DO WE GO FURTHER?

Général Charles Beaudoin

Eric Baissus
Chief Executive Officer of Kalray

Thierry Michal
General Technical Director at ONERA

Jean-François Ripoche
Defence Research and Technology Director at DGA

ARE THE HUB SYSTEMS OF AIRLINES UNDER THREAT?

Alain-Hervé Bernard
Chief Operating Officer and Accountable Manager at Air France

Marc Houalla
Executive Director of Groupe ADP, Managing Director of Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airpor

Fred Lam
Chief Executive Officer of Hong Kong Airport

Marc Rochet
Chief Executive Officer of French Bee

Speakers

Bruno Even, CEO of Airbus Helicopters 

Elisabeth Borne, Minister of transport

Guillaume Faury, CEO of Airbus Commercial Aircraft

Hervé Guillou, Chairman & CEO of Naval Group

Jean-Loïc Galle, President & CEO of Thales Aliena Space

Marc Darmon , Executive Vice President of Thales Secure Communication and Information Systems

Philippe Petitcolin, Chief Executive Officer of Safran

 

Venue

Location: Paris La Défense

Address: La Grande Arche de la Défense

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