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The Operations, Sustainability & Supply Chain Conference Agenda (2019)
Tuesday 11th June 2019 - Day 1
Case studies combining sustainability with airport operations best practice
Opening Keynote
Toronto City Airport Case Study: Improving passenger experience and service levels across the airport – including all service providers – using ASQ benchmarking as a tool


Neil Pakey
Chair
Regional and Business Airports Group (RABA)
“Delivering operational efficiency and commercial and service excellence for airports and their airline/customers”


Samantha O’Dwyer
Strategic Director, Aviation Services
Wilson James
- British Airways: ‘Future Size and Shape’ project at Gatwick
- British Airways: Pier 5 Gatwick requirements, including CUTE pricing
- Gatwick Airport: Capital plan for Q5 and Q6
- Gatwick Airport: Q5 Regulatory Compliance
Sharing sustainability lessons from other sectors


Neal Mehta
Lead Managing Consultant
ICF
Working towards your Sustainable Future


John Goodall
Business Manager
Veolia
The operational considerations of construction: Using technology in managing largescale capital works projects


Michael Konieczka
Director
HKA
Supply Chain Special Briefing - Joint Presentation
Procurement – what it takes to succeed and deliver Heathrow Airport’s non-Expansion projects. Including a Live Poll


Chris Thompson
Senior Project Manager – Development
Heathrow Airport
With


Paul Doherty
Commercial Manager - Finance
Heathrow Airport
The Specialist Sustainability Panel: "The Decarbonised Future of Surface Access to Airports"
Moderator


Milda Manomaityte
Technical and Policy Manager
Railway Industry Association


Graham Cross
Chief Executive
Heathrow Southern Railway


Tony Caccavone
Surface Access Director
Heathrow Airport


Cathy Miller
Deputy Director, Rail, Commercial and Communities - Heathrow Expansion Programme
Department for Transport


Alexander Roy
Head of Strategy – Surface Access
MAG
Wednesday 12th June - Day 2
Keynote Speech: Airport Collaborative Decision Making: Optimising the efficiency of airport operations – how well are all stakeholders actively collaborating in practice?


Kathryn Leahy
Director Operations
Heathrow Airport
Producing an effective and proportionate winter services programme devised by the whole community of stakeholders – airline, airport, provider
Working Together, the Community Approach


Ernie Carter
Ground Operations – Winter Operations Manager
easyJet


Liam Bolger
Head of Airside
London Luton Airport

Andrew Hook
Director
Europe Integrated De-icing Service UK
The Remote Tower Workshop
Jersey Airport digital tower case study, from concept to approval and beyond


Pam Laycock
Business Development Manager
Ports of Jersey

Peter Moore
ATCO/ANS Development Manager
Ports of Jersey
Digital Towers – Which way forward?
Moderator


Niall Greenwood
Director ATM
Baines Simmons


Niclas Gustavsson
VP Development & Governmental Affairs
Saab


Wolfgang Hatzack
Managing Director
ATRiCS


Neil Bowles
Head of ATM
Searidge Technologies


Paul Diestelkamp
Head of Programmes & Development
Air Navigation Solutions Ltd
The new generation of Connected Airports


Gert Taeymans
Growth Sales Leader Airports
Honeywell
Bird hazard management
How airports are moving towards measuring real risk – and not just recorded bird strikes


Siete Hamminga
CEO
Robin Radar Systems
A new approach to bird control


Ian Rogers
Managing Director
Clear Flight Solutions
Monitoring & Mitigating Bird strike Risk with the MERLIN ABAR System

Edward Zakrajsek
General Manager
DeTect Global Ltd
- There is no global consensus on what defines a ‘bird strike’.
- Counting bird strikes around airports is generally the basis for indicating performance, although the difference between a near-miss and an actual bird strike is pretty much luck.
- An increase in bird strikes may reflect better reporting rather than a real physical increase.
- This paper show how airports are moving towards the next-generation of bird hazard Key Performance Indicators by combining cutting-edge avian radars with new data analysis tools to enable objective measurement of real bird strike risk.
Latest news
- Leeds Bradford Airport hits milestone on roadmap to net zero
- AGS Airports CEO Derek Provan to step down in 2023
- Gatwick opens new retail offers including two LEGO stores
- Virgin Atlantic announces new daily service from Heathrow to Tampa
- Manchester Airports Group rebrands merged MAGO and MAG USA as CAVU
- Shannon Airport and regional economy feel bounce as world’s top golfers arrive for JP McManus Pro-Am
- easyJet launches route from Belfast City to Liverpool
- Aer Lingus Regional announces Cardiff and Southampton services from Belfast City base
- London City Airport begins 10-week consultation on changes to existing planning permission
- More businesses can now register their interest in supplying Gatwick

All 2022 Conferences
- Regional And Business Airports Group (RABA)
- World Birdstrike Association Europe Conference
- The UK Civil Aviation Authority’s 3rd British-Irish Accessible Airport Conference
- Innovate to Accelerate Recovery Conference
- British Aviation Group Sessions
- Sustainability – Sustainable Aviation Fuels and Low Noise Arrivals

Previous agendas
- The Heathrow Expansion, Supply Chain, and Best Practice Conference
- The Civil Aviation Authority’s PRM and Airport Accessibility Conference
- 2nd Metropolitan Police Aviation Policing Command Airports Counter Terrorism Conference
- The British-Irish Airports Showcase Conference
- The Heathrow Connectivity Conference at British-Irish Airports EXPO
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