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18 19 January 2015, Conrad Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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ProgrammePanellists in italics have been invited and still to confirm their participation.

Day One 18 January 2015

Registration

Welcome Address and Opening Keynote : His Excellency Sultan Bin SaeedAl Mansoori, Minister, UAE Ministry of Economy

Session 1: The importance of developing modern air transportation systems

If its not broken, dont fix it? Communicating to a wider audience why the modernisation of airtransportation systems is of critical economic importance

All aboard: co-operations, collaboration and harmonisation acrossall industry stakeholders arecrucialinorder to maximise any airspace efficiency gains, but who should pay for it?

Strengthening the business case: what are the broader economic and environmental factors to be

considered in the modernisation of air transportation systems

Panellists:Adel Abdullah Ali, Chief Executive Officer, Air ArabiaPaul Griffiths, Chief Executive Officer, Dubai Airports Thierry Antinori, EVP and Chief Commercial Officer, Emirates

Jeffrey Johnson, Vice President Boeing International and President, Boeing Middle East

Moderator: Jeff Poole, Director General, Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO)

Coffee and networking break


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Session 2: Encouraging regional cooperation to deliver increased efficiency and capacity of MENA airspace

Exploring potential steps that could be taken to increase the efficiency and capacity of MENA airspace Understanding the military mission in order to develop coordinated use of airspace between commercial

and military users Are modern avionic systems sufficient to allow cooperation to increase efficiency and capacity?

Panellists:Ahmed Al Jallaf, Assistant Director General ANS, General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) and Chairman, MiddleEast Airspace Enhancement Programme (MAEP)Achim Baumann, Regional Director Safety, Operations and Infrastructure, International Air TransportAssociation (IATA)Mohamed Khonji, Regional Director, International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO)Ibrahim Al Jabri, Director General of Air Traffic Management, Saudi Arabia General Authority of Civil Aviation(GACA)

Moderator: Bo Redeborn, former Principal Director ATM and Director SESAR & Research, EUROCONTROL

Session 3: The dos and donts lessons learnt from other regional airspace modernisation programmes

Presenting SESARs and CAAS operational and technological improvements and how these aim tocontribute to the modernisation of the European and Asia-Pacific ATM system

Highlighting NexGenmovement toward satellite-based digital technologies and new procedures to makeair travel more predictable

Reviewing the MEAUSE workgroup plans creating a platform for the continuous engagement of allstakeholders to shape a future vision and plan for the region

Panellists:Steve Bradford, Chief Scientist, NexGen, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)Philippe Merlo, Director Air Traffic Management, EUROCONTROLFlorian Guillerment, Executive Director, Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR JU)Mukesh Chand Dangi, General Manager, ATM, Airports Authority of India and Chair, Arabian Sea and IndianOcean ATS Coordination Group (ASIOACG)

Moderator: SbastienBorel, Vice-President, Customer Affairs, Airbus ProSky

Lunch and networking break


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Session 4: Regulatory panel discussion: providing first-class global governance for a modern air transportationsystem

Should there be a common global standard for avionics? Is the modernisation of air transportation systems necessary for the aviation industry to meet its growing

environmental targets? Are regulators too reactive? How can regulators keep ahead of developments rather than trailing them?

Panellists:Ismaeil Mohammed Al Balooshi, Assistant Director General, Aviation Safety Affairs, UAE General Civil Aviation

Authority (GCAA) Geoff Hounsell, Vice President, Flight Operations Support Services & ATM, EmiratesAhmed Al Haddabi, Chief Operating Officer, Abu Dhabi AirportsMohamed Abu Baker Farea, Director of Aviation, Development and Planning Division, Department of Transport,Abu Dhabi

Moderator: Richard Deakin, Chief Executive Officer, NATS

Session 5: Your workforce is only human. The importance of human factors and training

The aviation workforce needs to increase in linewith the forecast increase in air traffic. How is the industryresponding to this challenge?

How can new technologies be employed to ease the pressure on human capital? How is training be ing implemented in order to up-skill the existing workforce?

Panellists:NicklasDahlstrom, Human Factors Manager, Emirates

Ashish Jain, Senior Vice President Group Safety & Security, Qatar AirwaysEd Sims, Chief Executive Officer, Airways New Zealand

Patrick Ky, Executive Director, European Aviation Safety Agency

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Session 3: Opening up commercial airspace to unmanned aerial systems

Highlighting the challenges of integrating unmanned aerial systems into an airspace that is alreadycongested

Exploring the viability of the capability for unmanned aerial systems to automatically detect and avoidconflicts with aircraft

Analysing steps to be taken in order to regulate unmanned aerial systems and which stakeholders need tobe involved in this process

PanellistsDouglas Raaberg, Chief Executive UAE, Northrop GrummanBAE SystemsFederal Aviation Administration (FAA)

Lunch and networking break

Session 4: Introducing new technologies to increase efficiencies with airport ground operations

Debating the benefits of accelerated real -time decision making through enhanced information and datesharing amongst all stakeholders

Increasing throughput by allowing ground operations at the gate, air traffic control and airlines to shareinformation and data for inbound and outbound flights

Can CDM lead to improvements in the quality of information management and distribution amongst allstakeholders?

PanellistsMichael Ibbetson, Chief Information Officer, Gatwick Airport Mr. Ali Zaid Al Balushi, General Manager, Operations, Oman Airports Management Company (OAMC)

Arasnipala T Srinivasan, CIO, Qatar Airways

Session 5 Industry debate: should the introduction of satellite technology be accelerated and be made arequirement of the commercial airline industry?

End of Summit

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