Meet Our 2026 Speakers
Discover the trailblazers shaping the future of air transport at FTE EMEA & FTE Ancillary.
Gain insights from thought leaders, disruptors and key decision-makers.
FTE EMEA & Ancillary 2025 Speakers
Ted Christie
Industry Pioneer and Former President & CEO, Spirit Airlines
Eric Pateman
Vice President, Passenger Experience and Chief Experience Officer
Vancouver Airport Authority
Jonathan Pollard
Chief Commercial Officer
Gatwick Airport
Sonja Arnorsdottir
Chief Commercial Officer
PLAY Airlines
Baris Findik
Chief Technology Officer
Pegasus Airlines
Guðmundur Daði Rúnarsson
Chief Commercial and Airport Development Officer
Keflavik Airport
Sinead Quinn
Director of Inflight
Ryanair
Dave O’Donovan
Chief Digital & Transformation Officer
Aer Lingus
John Hurley
Chief Technology Officer
Ryanair
Tom Lyons
Author
Aer Dogs
Dr. Jan-Henrik Andersson
Chief Commercial Officer
Munich Airport
Emanuele Calà
Senior Vice President of Transformation & Technology
Aeroporti di Roma
Christian Draeger
Senior Vice President, Passenger Experience
Berlin Brandenburg Airport
Martin Jones
CEO
CAVU
Tanya McCaffrey
Head of Ancillary Products
Virgin Australia
Johannes Noack
Product Manager eCommerce
Fraport AG
Greg O’Gorman
Director of Ancillary Revenue
Ryanair
Tiddo Veldhuis
VP Offer Management & Ancillaries
Air France KLM
Surya Kuchibotla
VP eCommerce, Ancillary & Retailing
Oman Air
David Turton
Chief Technology Officer
Branchspace – digital reinvented
Eric Leopold
Founder
Threedot
Ruairí Kell
Head of Innovation
daa Labs
Dr Jost Daft
Head of Order Transformation
Lufthansa Group
Yorick Buys
Head of Baggage
Brussels Airport
Tom Kelly
Director – Ground Operations
Ryanair
Darin Juby
Head of Transformation
Future Travel Experience
Nawaf A. Alzadjali
Senior Director – Customer Experience
Riyadh Airports
Juan Pablo Lafosse
CEO
TravelX
Nolan Hough
Chief Growth Officer
CAVU
Bastian Schütz
Head of XR in Travel
Meta
Morna McAulay
Director of Trips Data Engineering
Booking.com
Daniel Coleman
Founder & Chairman
Future Travel Experience
Jamie Heaslip
Ireland & UK Strategic Growth Lead
Stripe & International Rugby Legend
Vincent Harrison
Chief Commercial & Development Officer
daa
Ina Eldøy
CEO
BagID
Pablo Lopez Loeches
Head of Ideation & Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Customer Experience Directorate
Aena
Laurie Keita
Head of Baggage & Logistics
British Airways
Wopke Dost
Programme Management Lead
nlmtd
Giorgia Marizza
Acceleration Program, Open Innovation & Digital Specialist
Aeroporti di Roma
Kevin Kleist
Head of Emerging Trends
Southwest Airlines
Rahel de Vriend
Head of Innovation Research & Scouting
TNW Programs
Javed Malik
Founder, Bytes not Bricks (former COO, AirAsia Group and BLR Airport)
Bytes not Bricks
Prithveesh Reddy
Co-Founder & CEO
Arcube
Maristela Venturini
Commercial Director
Hands In
Jan Solecki
Aviation Partner
nomtek
Nacho Tovar
Head of Corporate Venture Capital
International Airlines Group (IAG)
Dr. Joe Leader
Group CEO
APEX/IFSA/FTE
Andrew Price
Aviation Consultant
Opermium
Hakan Sögüt
SVP Customer Solutions
Turkish Airlines Technology
Julian Rott
Head of Data & Processes (and Deputy VP Digital)
Munich Airport
Willem de Jongh
Innovation Manager
Royal Schiphol Group
Ryan Ghee
Chief Operating Officer
Future Travel Experience
Harvey Tate
Senior Manager - Airport Automation
International Airlines Group (IAG)
Silvia Rey Abeijón
Innovator, Innovation Hub
Royal Schiphol Group
Asteris Apostolidis
Senior Lead, Technical Innovation & Emerging Technologies
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Martine Skaret
Senior Marketing and Business Growth Manager
Emu Analytics
Juuso Klemola
Co-Founder
myPlane
Ciara Sheahan
CEO
Orb Media
Stuart Adamson
CEO & Founder
Platform 195
Sebastian Blumenthal
Head of Digital Platforms, Product Innovation & Performance, Service Delivery
Emirates
Roberto Patti
Digital Brand Manager
Qatar Airways
Alaa Khalefa
Design Futures Manager
Qatar Airways
Johanna Gustafsson
Head of Brand
SAS
Şafak Şeber
Corporate Solutions Manager
SunExpress
Oğuzhan Doğan Albayrak
Performance Analysis Senior Specialist (IOCC)
SunExpress
Dagmar Fischer
Head of Customer Experience
TUI
Lewis Munro
Customer Experience Manager – Digital, Communication & Innovation
TUI
Enda Kavanagh
Product Manager (Inflight Customer Experience)
Aer Lingus
Rany Francois-Marie Saad
Designated CEO, AIRIVERIA and Executive Committee Member
Global
Joonas Leppävuori
Head of Products & Retailing Development
Finnair
Albert Jan Prevoo
Director Innovation (Travel Retail)
nlmtd
Kevin O’Shaughnessy
Founder
CityHook · Indigo
Anne-Marie Tremblay-Quenneville
Ancillary Revenue Strategy Manager
Icelandair
Claire Walraven
Program Manager, Ancillary Revenue
WestJet
Alan Dunne
Chief Product Officer
Datalex
Antonio Penim
Airline Engagement Director
Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX)
Kasia Holthouse
Sales Manager
Meta
Camillo Stark
Deputy Managing Director (AR/VR Labs)
MSM.digital
Ross Falconer
Head of Content
Future Travel Experience
Stephan Heinz
Director, Partnerships & Monetisation
LATAM Airlines
Ella Alkalay Schreiber
SVP & GM of Fintech
Hopper Technology Solutions
Oana Savu
Strategic Advisor
Threedot
Ruairi O'Driscoll
Head of Data Science
Protect Group
Perry McShane
Director of Strategic Accounts
Blink Parametric
Carlos Ruiz
Director of Commercial Management
Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky International Airport
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Neal McMahon
Chief Operations Officer
Ryanair
Sean Donohue
CEO
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport
Tero Taskila
CEO
BEOND
Anko van der Werff
President & CEO
SAS
Guðmundur Daði Rúnarsson
Chief Commercial and Airport Development Officer
Keflavik Airport
Steven Greenway
CEO
flyadeal
Annalisa Gigante
Board Member of Hangar 51 & Head of Innovation
International Airlines Group (IAG)
Martin Jones
CEO
CAVU
Karin Gylin
Head of Strategic Development and Innovation
Swedavia
Mark Breen
CEO
Oneiros Aerospace
Jennifer Schwierzke
VP of Customer Strategy & Innovation
United Airlines
Adrian Dunne
COO
Aer Lingus
Gregory Owens
VP of Europe and Africa
X
Kevin Kleist
Head of Emerging Trends
Southwest Airlines
Linda Schucroft
Vice President Innovation and Customer Experience
King Salman International Airport
Rohit Talwar
CEO
Fast Future
Dr. Joe Leader
Group CEO
APEX/IFSA/FTE
Sammy Patel
Chief Executive Officer, Midway Partnership & Vice President, Commercial
Vantage Airport Group
Melanie Harris
Managing Director - Digital Technology
United Airlines
Arthur Reijnhart
Executive Director Schiphol Commercial
Royal Schiphol Group
Eric Leopold
Founder
Threedot
Dr Jost Daft
Head of Order Transformation
Lufthansa Group
Gerald Ong
Strategy and Commercial Development
Hamad International Airport
Daniel Coleman
Founder & Chairman
Future Travel Experience
Manuel van Lijf
Director Aviation Innovation
nlmtd
Darin Juby
Head of Transformation
Future Travel Experience
Alan Kiernan
Founder & CTO
Cation Consulting
Stephen Keane
Head of Digital Transformation, Customer Services
Ryanair
Carlijn Brinkman
Service Designer
KLM
Gus Naughton
Principal Software Engineer – Innovation
Alaska Airlines
Tara Spielhagen
Founder & CEO
Swiipr
Tomasz Pawliszyn
CEO
AirHelp
Garret Malone
Chief Operations Officer
Arajet
James Lemon
Global Lead – Travel, Transport & Leisure
Stripe
Jamie Heaslip
Ireland & UK Strategic Growth Lead
Stripe & International Rugby Legend
Gail Taylor
Chief Commercial officer (Non Aero)
Edinburgh Airport
Andrew Price
Aviation Consultant
Opermium
Nick Woods
CIO
Manchester Airports Group
Giovanni Gennaro
Head of Open Innovation
Aeroporti di Roma
Seth Miller
Contributing Editor
PaxEx.Aero
Andrea Carroll
Group Head of Sustainability
daa
Gary Byrnes
Founder & CEO
Tao Climate
Celia Leiro del Álamo
Customer Experience Specialist
Aena
Yusuf Tungekar
Head Operations Business Systems
Dubai Airports
Johannes Noack
Product Manager eCommerce
Fraport AG
Dilanur Çetinalp
Digital Transformation and Channel Management Supervisor
İGA İstanbul Airport
Gertjan Bluemink
Business Development Director
Aviation Solutions by Schiphol Group
Kevin O’Shaughnessy
Founder
CityHook · Indigo
Kieran Harte
Head of Ireland
Uber
Arnaud Cervantes
Project Manager
Air France
Mohammed Ahteshamuddin
Head of IT (CIO)
flydubai
Lisa Samways
Business Development Manager
International Airlines Group (IAG)
Hansjuergen Lehmann
Senior Manager
Lufthansa Group
Adam Rouncivell
Head of Product Management
Qatar Airways
Hakan Sögüt
SVP Customer Solutions
Turkish Airlines Technology
Pierre-Hugues Schmit
Chief Commercial and Operational Officer
VINCI Airports
Carlos Boyero
Deputy Operations Manager
Smartvel
Ajintha Pathmanathan
CEO
Galeri AG
Thomas Sermon
European Sales Director
ZestIOT
Johnny Bosche
Founder
Cielo
Martine Skaret
Senior Marketing and Business Growth Manager
Emu Analytics
Barry Klipp
CEO & Co-Founder
InterLnkd
Greg Kott
CEO
LiFE in the Air
Shabbir Girach
Managing Director
Shabstec Limited
Uri Sperling
Founder & CEO
UCPlaces
Harvey Tate
Senior Manager - Airport Automation
International Airlines Group (IAG)
Claus Grunow
Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Digitalization
Fraport
Dennis van Kleef
Programme Lead Baggage
Royal Schiphol Group
Wopke Dost
Programme Management Lead
nlmtd
Idar Sorgjerd
Department Manager, BHS, Tech & Op. Excellence
Avinor
Dongmin Lim
Senior Manager BHS Engineering & Renovation
Incheon International Airport Corporation (IIAC)
Ross Falconer
Head of Content
Future Travel Experience
Charlotte Posada Kandel
Manager Ancillary Products
SunExpress
Bill McKimm
VP of Travel Sales
eSIM Go
Timothy Haupt
Manager, Ancillary Strategy & Commercial Development
Lufthansa Group
Juliana Ramirez
VP Ancillary Revenue & Digital Experience
Flair Airlines
Ella Alkalay Schreiber
SVP & GM of Fintech
Hopper Technology Solutions
Martin Thomas
(Acting) Head of Above Wing Automation
IAG Airports
Alex McEvoy
Product Manager, Airports and Lounges
Aer Lingus
Rebecca Thorp
Partnership Director – Strategic Projects and Business Development EMEA
Collinson Group
Jennifer Koontz
Vice President, Airport Properties & Relations
Enterprise Mobility
Carlos Ruiz
Director of Commercial Management
Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky International Airport
Caroline Bergstroem
Head of Ancillary Products, Connectivity and Retail
SAS
Nick Ashton
Global Airline Lead
Protect Group
Adrian Keating
Independent Aviation Consultant
Ursula Silling
CEO
Branchspace – digital reinvented
Bill Carleton
Director, Advanced Recognition Systems
NEC Corporation of America
Vanesa Calvo
Head of Funding and Innovation Trends department
Aena
Martijn Steur
Managing Director
Kinetic Consultancy
Mammen Tharakan
Vice President, Investment & Partnerships
King Salman International Airport
Joel Godfrey
Digital Product Director
CAVU
Ahmet Er
Digital Transformation and Channel Management Deputy Manager
İGA İstanbul Airport
Jonas von Kruechten
Principal Advisor & Founder
dgtlsky
Glenn Morgan
Partner
Threedot
Christophe Guittard
Senior Vice President for Digital
Qatar Airways
Swapnal Chouhan
Head of Competence (Airport Management & Commercial)
Munich Airport
Niels Colemont
Head of New Optimization Programs
FLYR
Abe Dev
Vice President - Digital Technology and Innovation
Riyadh Air
Bryan Porter
Chief Revenue Officer
Datalex
David Griffiths
Founder & CEO
The Travel Retail Consultancy
Andrew Harrison
Managing Director UK Travel
WHSmith
Luis Marin
President & CEO Europe, Middle East and Africa
Avolta
Ricard Vilà
Chief Digital Officer
LATAM Airlines
Keith Martin
Senior Strategy Manager
Lufthansa Group
Wong Mei Hong
Head, Ancillary Revenue
AirAsia
Sir Tim Clark
President
Emirates
Russell Pert
Director, Head of Industry, Financial Services and Travel
Meta
Klaus Goersch
CEO
NEOM Airlines
Tero Taskila
CEO
BEOND
Michael Cawley
Chairman
Hostelworld Group & Non Executive Director, Ryanair
Kenny Jacobs
CEO
daa
Jamie Heaslip
Ireland & UK Strategic Growth Lead
Stripe & International Rugby Legend
Georg Haraldsson
Chief Information Officer
PLAY Airlines
Arturs Garais
Web3 Project Lead
airBaltic
Kevin Kleist
Head of Emerging Trends
Southwest Airlines
Mats Berglind
Innovation Manager - Strategic Initiatives and Innovation
Swedavia
Dr. Bjoern Becker
Head of Future Intercontinental Experience Program
Lufthansa
Peter Mohn
Owner & CEO
m1nd-set
Stéphane Ormand
VP Distribution
Air France KLM
Sammy Patel
Chief Executive Officer, Midway Partnership & Vice President, Commercial
Vantage Airport Group
Christian Hylander
VP Global Strategy, Travel & Entertainment Industry
Mastercard
William Kramer
Transformation & Continuous Improvement Lead- Inflight Retail
easyJet
Darin Juby
Head of Transformation
Future Travel Experience
Bastian Schütz
Head of XR in Travel
Meta
Arlette van der Veer
Senior Manager Radical Innovation
KLM
Sujata Suri
Vice President Strategy and Commercial Development
Hamad International Airport
Charu Jain
Senior Vice President Merchandising & Innovation
Alaska Airlines
Eric Leopold
Founder
Threedot
Paul Carroll
Chief Commercial Officer
AirAsia
Bobby Healy
Co-Founder
Meili & Manna Drone Delivery
Andrea Chiappetta
Head of Innovation
ITA Airways
Rohit Talwar
CEO
Fast Future
Nick Cole
CEO
daa International
Sinead Finn
Founder
affinnity
Chris Phillips
Vice President of Global Sales
ATPCO
Fatima Zahra El Mernissi
Digital Strategy Manager
Royal Air Maroc
Roland Jaggi
CCO
Aegean Airlines
Camillo Stark
Deputy Managing Director (AR/VR Labs)
MSM.digital
Glenn Morgan
Partner
Threedot
Emanuele Calà
Senior Vice President of Transformation & Technology
Aeroporti di Roma
Daniel Coleman
Founder & Chairman
Future Travel Experience
Dr. Joe Leader
Group CEO
APEX/IFSA/FTE
Mohamed El Mehdi Driouiche
Vice President Digital & IT
Royal Air Maroc
Aileen McCormack
Chief Commercial Officer
CarTrawler
Andrew Murphy
Chief Business Officer
CarTrawler
Ricard Vilà
Chief Digital Officer
LATAM Airlines
Mohamed Amine Briuni
Head of Digital Strategy & Governance
Royal Air Maroc
Ola Barramou
Innovation & Culture Lead
Royal Air Maroc
Martin Jones
CEO
CAVU
Jonas von Kruechten
Principal Advisor & Founder
dgtlsky
Job Heimerikx
CEO and Founder
AirFi & APEX Board Member
David Kondo
Executive Manager, Inflight Customer Experience
Qantas
Martijn Steur
Managing Director
Kinetic Consultancy
Ibrahim Ibrahim
Managing Director
Portland Design
Elisabeth Sailer
Chief Commercial Officer
Munich Airport International
Dr Jost Daft
Head of Order Transformation
Lufthansa Group
Mesfin Tasew
Group Chief Executive Officer
Ethiopian Airlines
Martin White
Director, Ancillary Products
Spirit Airlines
Bobby Healy
Co-Founder
Meili
Jennifer Koontz
Vice President, Airport Properties & Relations
Enterprise Mobility
Chris Gwilliam
Senior Vice President, Global Business Development
Airport Dimensions
Randel Darby
CEO and Founder
AirPortr
Lucinda Pike
Sales Director Europe
Inmarsat
Ursula Silling
CEO
Branchspace – digital reinvented
Simon C. Pitt
CCO
PNG Air
Alex Mans
Founder & CEO
FLYR
Matt Klein
EVP & Chief Commercial Officer
Spirit Airlines
John Moriarty
Founder & CEO
Beyond
Neil Tolefree
Head of Network Development EMEA
Airport Dimensions (Part of Collinson Group)
Güçlü Batkin
CEO
TAV Operation Services
Manuel Jose Alvarez
Data & Business Intelligence
Flybondi
Juan Pablo Lafosse
CEO
TravelX
James Lemon
Global Lead – Travel, Transport & Leisure
Stripe
Benjamin Ritschel
Vice President Digital Strategy & Core Services
Fraport
Ryan Ghee
Chief Operating Officer
Future Travel Experience
Andrew Price
Aviation Consultant
Opermium
Luca De Angelis
CEO
HRS Crew & Passenger Solutions
Yvo van der Tol
CCO
HRS Crew & Passenger Solutions
Tom Garrison
Solutions Architect, Innovation & Emerging Trends
Southwest Airlines
Marlon van der Meer
Founder
BagsID
Heather Figallo
Chief Transformation Officer
Vueling
Guido Woska
Global Executive Partner & Managing Director
Manyone
David Wilson
Managing Partner
daa International
Jörg Moßmann
Senior Project and Portfolio Manager
Fraport AG
Idar Sørgjerd
Department Manager, BHS, Tech & Op. Excellence
Avinor
Manuel Wiesner
Leader Business Development
FraAlliance
Michelle Herr
Leader Customer Experience
FraAlliance
Haider Arif Hayat
Head of Enterprise Information Architecture, Analytics & AI
Hamad International Airport
Per Lilie
Founder
Transform Digital (formerly of Spotify, SAS & Qatar Airways)
Russell Braterman
Proposition & Innovation Director
easyJet
Bob Kwik
Worldwide Head of Airports
AWS
Clyde Hutchinson
General Partner
Team ABC (former Head of Viva Air Labs)
Sjoerd Blum
Schiphol Group Aviation Solutions
Aviation Solutions by Schiphol Group
Viktor Nekrylov
Co-Founder & CEO
DRCT
João Fernandes
Junior Venture Development Manager
Lufthansa Innovation Hub
Katerina Glynatsi
Copywriter & Content Manager
MPASS
Uri Sperling
Founder & CEO
UCPlaces
What Our Community Says
Hear directly from the airline, airport, and industry leaders who make FTE Global the definitive event for air transport innovation.
“It has been very valuable for us to network with our airport partners here at APEX FTE Dublin, as well listening into what the future is going to be bringing us, considering the customer experience and evolution of the airport environment. We also had a chance to meet with some service providers, which may be contributing to our products and …offers. So, it’s a great opportunity to meet with stakeholders from the airport environment and exchange ideas. In terms of networking, I think it’s wonderful that we are given the opportunity to set up some catch-up times with the other attendees, and it gives us an opportunity to meet with senior executives of the airports and other companies too. I’m pleased that we’ve been attending APEX FTE Dublin for a long time now and we will hopefully be back again next year. ”
“It has been a marvellous and very well organised event, with great speakers and excellent networking. I think it is a very personal show with the opportunity to meet many potential partners. I have really enjoyed it. ”
“The experience here at FTE EMEA and FTE Ancillary & Retailing has been really great. What I have most enjoyed is the networking opportunities, which have enabled us to make many new connections and will potentially lead to new commercial relationships. ”
“The event has been very good, with lots of interesting new companies to talk to. Some of the tech on display is excellent, so I have been delighted to spend time here and hopefully there will be some opportunities for us afterwards with new companies. I would thoroughly recommend attending FTE EMEA and FTE Ancillary & Retailing – it has …been very enjoyable, with lots of good new relationships being built here. ”
“It’s been a good few days for us here at APEX FTE Dublin, with excellent networking and the opportunity to discuss our solutions with the airlines and those that are looking at the ancillary products. I’ve actually had the opportunity to attend some of the conference sessions as well and they’ve been very fruitful, with a lot of insight into …AI and automation. The social events at APEX FTE Dublin are fantastic – we always get off to a great start with the ‘Ice Breaker’, which is perfect for informal networking. This is our third year attending and we are committed to attending again next year. A big thumbs up for FTE. ”
“My overall experience here at APEX FTE Dublin has been very good. It’s a well-balanced event, with great content, well attended, and excellent networking. It’s nice and easy to connect with people here and I have found the networking opportunities fantastic. The social events have been in great venues, really well managed, and we have made a lot of good …connections. APEX FTE Dublin is definitely an event I would come back to. ”
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APEX FTE EMEA 2026 will be the region’s most forward-thinking passenger experience and ancillary-focused event. The show will bring together the most progressive airlines, airports, vendors, startups, and other stakeholders to learn, collaborate and be inspired on how to transform commercial and operational performance through innovation, automation, AI, digital, partnerships and new business models.
- Event:
- APEX FTE EMEA 2026
- Date:
- – June 2026
- Location:
- RDS Dublin, Ireland