FTE Global Speakers

Campbell Wilson

CEO

Air India

Mesfin Tasew

Group Chief Executive Officer

Ethiopian Airlines

Dina Ben Tal Ganancia

CEO

EL AL Israel Airlines

Julian Jäger

CEO

Vienna Airport

Cynthia Guidry

Director

Long Beach Airport

Eric Pateman

Vice President, Passenger Experience and Chief Experience Officer

Vancouver Airport Authority

Art Martinson

VP Business Technology

Hamad International Airport

Melanie Bryant

Vice President - IT Delivery and Business Enablement

Emirates

Andrew Tan

Vice President Airport Development PMO (CEO's office)

Air India

Thomas Dworschak

Head of IT Digitalization & Innovation

Vienna Airport

Sree Samudrala

Director of Artificial Intelligence & Automation

Southwest Airlines

Tom Cizauskas

Business Administration Manager

Gerald R. Ford International Airport Authority (GRR)

Jason Fogelman

Senior Director of Airport Innovation, Standards & Training

Spirit Airlines

Nicole Hodges-Austin

Manager of Airport Innovation & Standards

Frontier Airlines

Kaveh Dabiran

Managing Director, Corporate Real Estate Planning & Development

United Airlines

Anja Schuhmacher

Senior Manager Airport Experience & Partnerships

Lufthansa

Paige Stanton Wilson

Chief Development Officer

Acubed by Airbus

David Decker

President Content Sales

Warner Bros. Discovery

Shai Weiss

CEO

Virgin Atlantic

Ben Smith

CEO

Air France KLM

Anton Vidgen

Vice President, Guest Experience

Riyadh Air

Paul Puopolo

Executive Vice President of Innovation

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport

Christine Trodella

Vice President

Meta

Mukesh Patel

CEO

San José Mineta International Airport

Andre Viljoen

Managing Director & CEO

Fiji Airways

Patricia Cogswell

Partner

Guidehouse

Tony Thompson

Founder and CEO

Air Cahana

Simon Gandy

Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer

The New Terminal One at JFK

Fiona Kiesel

Chief Guest Officer

Breeze Airways

Guðmundur Daði Rúnarsson

CCO and Airport Development Officer

Keflavik Airport

Melissa Conley

Executive Director of Capability Management and Innovation

Transportation Security Administration (TSA)

Martha Todd Edge

Innovation & Experience Director

Charlotte Douglas International Airport

Matt Klein

EVP & Chief Commercial Officer

Spirit Airlines

Ian Law

Chief Innovation & Experience Officer

Los Angeles World Airports

Dimitris Bountolos

Chief Information & Innovation Officer

Ferrovial

Oren Cohen Butansky

EVP & Chief Customer Experience Officer

EL AL Israel Airlines

Tammy Smith

Director, Customer Experience and Development

Toronto Pearson

Keith Walters

Group Transformation Lead

International Airlines Group (IAG)

Amit Rikhy

President and CEO

CAG Holdings (A Carlyle Backed Company)

Natalie Bowman

Managing Director, Product & Digital Experiences

Alaska Airlines

Stephen Snyder

Managing Director, Operations & Partnerships

JetBlue Ventures

Mike Youngs

VP of Information Technology

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport

Alexander Nethers

Senior Manager, Customer Experience & Innovation

American Airlines

Steve Armitage

Head of Innovation

Heathrow

Samuel Ingalls

Principal

Barich, Inc

Myles Tzelepis

CTO/CPO

Embross

Stephen Tukavkin

Vice President IT & Digital

JFK International Air Terminal

Kristin Olsen

Director of Product Management, Travel Experience Guest Digital Technology

Alaska Airlines

Iyad Hindiyeh

Chief Digital Transformation Officer

San Francisco International Airport

Robin Riedel

Partner

McKinsey & Company

John Nilsson

Strategic Planning Manager Electric and Hydrogen Aircraft Infrastructure

Swedavia

Brian Cobb

Chief Innovation Officer

Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky International Airport

Sarah Chou

Senior Sustainability Consultant

Southwest Airlines

Bryan Bernhard

Chief Growth & Infrastructure Officer

Archer

Stanley Tran

Corporate Development - United Airlines Ventures

United Airlines

Pierre Charbonneau

Vice President, Events & Commercial Services

ACI World

Hannah Meredith

Senior Manager of Strategic Innovation

CVG Airport

Gus Naughton

Senior Software Engineer, Emerging Technologies

Alaska Airlines

Jack Kavanagh

Board of Directors of the

National Disability Authority and Center for Excellence in Universal ‎Design

Jo Rowan

Associate Director – Strategy

PriestmanGoode

Dr. Joe Leader

CEO

APEX/IFSA

Ben Klein

CEO

Aero

Ernest Hui

Head of UX/UI Design

Cathay Pacific Airways

Geoffrey Ax

Ax, Principal / Aviation Market Leader

Populous

Robert Silk

Airlines Editor

Travel Weekly

Ben Kaufman

Senior Director, Marketing & Customer Strategy

JSX

Dr. Bjoern Becker

Head of Future Intercontinental Experience Program

Lufthansa

Bastian Schütz

Global Lead, Virtual & Mixed Reality Content Sourcing at Meta (Facebook)

Meta Reality Labs

Camillo Stark

Deputy Managing Director (AR/VR Labs)

MSM.digital

Diane J. Sabatino

Acting Executive Assistant Commissioner of Field Operations

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Christina Peach

Deputy Assistant Administrator, Requirements & Capabilities Analysis

Transportation Security Administration (TSA)

Daniel Coleman

CEO & Founder

Future Travel Experience

Dr. Jan-Henrik Andersson

Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) & Chief Security Officer (CSO)

Munich Airport

Sammy Patel

Chief Executive Officer, Midway Partnership & Vice President, Commercial

Vantage Airport Group

Tenille Houston

VP Public Relations and Communications

Aurrigo

James Houghton

Aviation Business Development

Materna IPS

Wopke Dost

Programme Management Lead

nlmtd

Dennis van Kleef

Programme Lead Baggage

Royal Schiphol Group

Michael Rousseau

President and Chief Executive Officer

Air Canada

Con Korfiatis

CEO

Oman Air

Perry Cantarutti

President, APEX & Senior Vice President – Alliances and International

Delta Air Lines

Rossen Dimitrov

Chief Guest Officer

Saudia Airlines

Xie Bing

CEO & President

Xiamen Airlines

Catriona Larritt

Chief Customer and Digital Officer

Qantas Group

Christopher Neal

Director of Operations for the Project

Port of Portland

Yvonne Bilshausen

SVP | Global Head of Aviation Architecture + Engineering

AECOM

Bryant L.Francis

Director of Airports

Cleveland Airport System

Kaveh Dabiran

Managing Director, Corporate Real Estate Planning & Development

United Airlines

Mike Hardaker

Chief Asset & Development Officer

Manchester Airports Group

Mike Christensen

Chief Development Officer

Los Angeles World Airports

Cole Wolfson

Director, xBridge

Pittsburgh International Airport

Kristen Berndt

Senior Manager, Customer Strategy & Innovation

United Airlines

Doug Kreuzkamp

Founder/CEO

Springshot

Zahra Merchant

Chapter Lead Robotics

Royal Schiphol Group

Tomoyuki Kikuchi

Manager, Ground Handling Planning, Airport Support, Operations Support Center

ANA

Maurice Jenkins

Chief Innovation Officer

Miami International Airport

William Rumsey

Head of Product – Airport & Customer Ops

British Airways

Lisa Sullivan

Executive Vice President- Travel and Transport

IDEMIA

Chang Ellison

Identity Management Capability Manager, Enrollment, ID Proofing, and Vetting

Transportation Security Administration (TSA)

Vladimir Stojkovski

VP of Product Management

CLEAR

Wendy Chaves

Deputy Executive Director, Capability Management and Innovation, RCA

Transportation Security Administration (TSA)

Cynthia Guidry

Director

Long Beach Airport

Steven Thody

CEO

JFK Millenium Partners

Manuel van Lijf

Director Innovation – Travel & Transportation

nlmtd

Sarah Bennett

Head of Heathrow Safety and Security

British Airways

Stuart Holdstock

Head of projects and processes – Operations

Lufthansa

Rosina Kotey

Innovation Lead

Aviation Solutions by Schiphol Group

Darin Juby

Head of Transformation

Future Travel Experience

Kevin Kleist

Head of Emerging Trends

Southwest Airlines

Byron Smith

Chief Technology Officer

NetTracer

Yorick Buys

Head of Baggage

Brussels Airport

Bhaskar Chopra

Sr. Director - Digital Solutions

Siemens Logistics

Norman Fekrat

Managing Partner

Imagine Wireless

Richard Clarke

Chief Creative Officer

Greater Orlando Aviation Authority

Nicole Hodges-Austin

Manager of Airport Innovation & Standards

Frontier Airlines

William Warbington

Director Alliance Innovation Strategy

SkyTeam

Coralie Klaus Boecker

Head ZRH Innovation Hub

Zurich Airport

Marisa Von Wieding

VP Operations

The New Terminal One at JFK

Rob Cato

Director CX Airport Technology Product Management

American Airlines

Nicolas Tarassoff

Key Account Manager

Scandit

Phillip Chan

Executive Director of Solutions

Samsung

Royce Holden

Cybersecurity Lead/CISO

Mead & Hunt

Faith Varwig

Principal

Faith Group

Yahav Ran

CEO

Synect

Rob Bischoff

Global Digital Experience Design Leader

Gensler

Austin Gould

President

Gould Strategic Solution

Renie Subin

Senior Director, Technology & External Affairs

ACI-NA

Amal Hejles

Digital Strategy Director

MATARAT

James Williamson

CEO

Veovo

Raymond Viggiano

Assistant Manager of Customer Service Delivery

The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey

Jeff Lennon

VP Strategic Sales and Global Partnerships

Vision-Box

Gabriel Wichrowski

VP of Global Business Development

Airside

Gerold Daantje

Immigration Department, Ministry of Justice

Curaçao

Priscilla Duin-Circkens

Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)

Curacao Airport Holding

Matt Gilkeson

Chief Technology, Data, and Artificial Intelligence Officer

Transportation Security Administration (TSA)

Sagi Varghese

Managing Director, Airport Operations & CSD Technology

United Airlines

Bernadette Berger

Director of Innovation

Alaska Airlines

Max Pariazar

Principle Data Scientist for Artificial Intelligence & Data Transformation

Southwest Airlines

Sree Samudrala

Director of Artificial Intelligence & Automation

Southwest Airlines

Deesha Desai

Vice President, LAX Hub & West Region

Envoy

Christian George Kessler

Organizational Alignment and Strategic Innovation

Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority

Patrick Skelton

Innovation Research & Development Program Manager

Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority

Doug Wycoff

Director of Digital Technologies & Innovation, HCAA \

Tampa International Airport

Geena Martin

Director of Business Development

Gameway

Kate McFarlane

Director of Content and Creative

Foundations Worldwide

Tim McMullen

Vice President, Business Development

DataArt

Victor Oribamise

CEO

Kquika

Ed Vanga

Vice President of Product Management for Artificial Intelligence

Publicis Sapient

Vikram Baskaran

Vice President, Information Technology

Alaska Airlines

Rolf Felke

Senior Vice President Applications and Partner Management

Fraport

Christiaan Hen

CEO

Assaia

Akbar Al Baker

Group CEO

Qatar Airways & Hamad International Airport

Brian J. Glaser

Ph.D, VP & Chief Talent and Learning Officer, Member of Board of Advisors, LIFT Airline & original start up team member of JetBlue

Google

Jeff Shaw

EVP Brand Partnerships & Business Strategy

Live Nation Entertainment

Dina Ben Tal Ganancia

CEO

EL AL Israel Airlines

Justin Erbacci

CEO

Los Angeles World Airports

Anko van der Werff

President & CEO

SAS

Chris Annetts

Chief Strategy Officer

Heathrow

Diane J. Sabatino

Acting Executive Assistant Commissioner of Field Operations

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Ted Christie

President & CEO

Spirit Airlines

Lutz Weisser

Managing Director

Munich Airport International

Zhao Dong

Chairman

Xiamen Airlines

Tony Thompson

Founder and CEO

Air Cahana

Nina Sproedt

Vice President Product Development

Lufthansa Group

Alex Wilcox

CEO & Co-founder

JSX & Board Member, LATAM Airlines

Maurice Jenkins

Chief Innovation Officer

Miami International Airport

John Thomas

CEO

Connect Airlines

Steven Thody

CEO

JFK Millenium Partners

Anton Vidgen

Vice President, Guest Experience

Riyadh Air

Suhail Kadri

Senior Vice President Technology & Innovation

Hamad International Airport

Lennert l'Amie

CIO

Aviation Solutions by Schiphol Group

Austin Gould

President

Gould Strategic Solution

Julio Toro

CIO

Copa Airlines

Mike Youngs

VP of Information Technology

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport

Matt Breed

CIO

Port of Seattle

Kristen Berndt

Senior Manager, Customer Strategy & Innovation

United Airlines

Nikhil Ravishankar

Chief Digital Officer

Air New Zealand

Eduardo Valencia

CIO

Metropolitan Airports Commission

Nathan VanRheenen

Executive Director, Intelligent Solutions (AI/ML & Analytics)

Boeing

Tarik Galijasevic

Managing Director (Corporate Venture Capital Group)

Allstate Strategic Ventures

James Dorris

Co-Founder and CEO

Odys Aviation

Michelle Buckley

Managing Director, Customer Engagement

Southwest Airlines

Cole Wolfson

Director, xBridge

Pittsburgh International Airport

Robbie Stephens

Fleets Strategy Lead

Uber

Amber Simonsen

Director, Airport Lobby Transformation

Alaska Airlines

Christian Draeger

VP Customer Experience

Star Alliance

Tara Mulrooney

VP Technology & Innovation

Edmonton International Airport

Harvey Tate

Senior Manager Airport Automation

International Airlines Group (IAG)

Carlos R. Estrada

Director of Commercial Homeport Operations

Carnival Cruise Line

Rohit Talwar

CEO

Fast Future

Brian Davis

CMO

Sun Country Airlines

Bert van der Stege

CEO

Harbour Air Seaplanes

Amy Benson

VP of Marketing

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield

Christian George Kessler

Organizational Alignment and Strategic Innovation

Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority

Robin Riedel

Partner

McKinsey & Company

Aura Moore

CIO

Los Angeles World Airports

Dr. Joe Leader

CEO

APEX/IFSA

Mr Akbar Al Baker

Group CEO

Group CEO, Qatar Airways Group, Hamad International Airport and Chairman of Qatar Tourism

Capt Ibrahim Koshy

CEO

Saudia Airlines

Andre Viljoen

Managing Director & CEO

Fiji Airways

Catherine Tobaisinsky

Chief Growth Officer

Dar Group

Stephen Snyder

Managing Director, Operations & Partnerships

JetBlue Ventures

Amit Rikhy

President and CEO

CAG Holdings (A Carlyle Backed Company)

Rob Mitchell

Director, Head of Business Development - Airports, Events & Travel

Uber

Anne Marie Pellerin

Founder and Managing Partner

LAM LHA

Ian Law

Chief Innovation & Experience Officer

Los Angeles World Airports

Matt Gilkeson

Chief Technology, Data, and Artificial Intelligence Officer

Transportation Security Administration (TSA)

Lisa Sullivan

Executive Vice President- Travel and Transport

IDEMIA

Tim Lorenzen

Senior Manager, Security Innovation

American Airlines

Bob Kwik

Worldwide Head of Airports

AWS

Sarah Clark

Senior Vice President - Digital Identity

Mastercard

Dr. Bjoern Becker

Head of Future Intercontinental Experience Program

Lufthansa

Bastian Schütz

Global Lead, Virtual & Mixed Reality Content Sourcing at Meta (Facebook)

Meta Reality Labs

Joshua Hirschheimer

Practice Lead - Aerospace, Transportation and Logistics

Porsche Consulting

Dennis van Kleef

Programme Lead Baggage

Royal Schiphol Group

Manuel van Lijf

Director Innovation – Travel & Transportation

nlmtd

Chris Runde

Director of Strategy and Innovation

Introba

Paige Stanton Wilson

Chief Development Officer

Acubed by Airbus

Paul Puopolo

Executive Vice President of Innovation

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport

Melissa Conley

Executive Director of Capability Management and Innovation

Transportation Security Administration (TSA)

Richard Vandy

VP - Systems Integration and Partnerships

BagsID

Javed Malik

Former COO, AirAsia Group; former COO, BLR Airport; and Founder

Bytes not Bricks

Devin Liddell

Principal Futurist

Teague

Kevin Kleist

Head of Emerging Trends

Southwest Airlines

Samuel Ingalls

Principal

Barich, Inc

Michael Youngs

Vice President Information Technology

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport

Walt Shaw

Senior Director of Product

Boingo Wireless

Maarten Van Aerde

General Manager

Citymesh

Daniel Coleman

CEO & Founder

Future Travel Experience

Dan Liebermann

Managing Director, Management Consulting

Publicis Sapient

Charu Jain

Senior Vice President Merchandising & Innovation

Alaska Airlines

Maninder Bahia

Interim Chief Information Officer (CIO)

Frontier Airlines

Ted Hutchins

Chief Information Officer

Norse Atlantic Airways

Jaron Millner

Director, Head of Carrier oneworld Digitalisation

Oneworld Management Company

Darin Juby

Head of Transformation

Future Travel Experience

Shaown Nandi

Solutions Architect & Customer Solutions Leader

Amazon Web Services (AWS) & former CIO of Dow Jones and Head of Shared Technology Services for News Corp

Hervé Muller

Head of Airport Sales

EASIER

Patrick Sgueglia

, Product Development, Airport Experience, Biometrics, Regulatory

Lufthansa

Nael Samha

Executive Director, Targeting, Vetting and Biometrics Systems

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Arturo Garcia-Alonso

Chief Strategy Officer

Avports

Dr. Jan-Henrik Andersson

Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) & Chief Security Officer (CSO)

Munich Airport

Gus Naughton

Senior Software Engineer, Emerging Technologies

Alaska Airlines

Jean Carlon

Product Manager of Airport Guest Technology

Alaska Airlines

Jasper Quak

Managing Director

BAGTAG

Yvonne Bilshausen

SVP | Global Head of Aviation Architecture + Engineering

AECOM

Philip Autekie

Masterplanning and Design Manager

Brussels Airport Company

Terri Mestas

Chief Development Officer

Los Angeles World Airports

Forth Bagley

Principal

Kohn Pedersen Fox

Yahav Ran

CEO

Synect

Steve Sisneros

VP Airport Affairs

Southwest Airlines

Idar Sørgjerd

Department Manager, BHS, Tech & Op. Excellence

Avinor

Jason Odey

Director, Global Baggage Excellence

Air Canada

Byron Smith

Chief Technology Officer

NetTracer

Jan Vidar Nalbant

CCO

BagID

Mike Byrom

Chief Operating Officer, North America

Swissport

Devon Heyns

Director - Customer Innovation & Solutions

United Airlines

Jens Sanner

Program Director for Digital Services and Transformation

Fraport

Bill Carleton

Director, Advanced Recognition Systems

NEC Corporation of America

Forest Beattie

Solution Engineer Senior Manager

SITA

Haider Arif Hayat

Head of Enterprise Information Architecture, Analytics & AI

Hamad International Airport

Rakan Khaled

General Manager, Airport Solutions

Collins Aerospace

Geoffrey Ax

Ax, Principal / Aviation Market Leader

Populous

Greg Forbes

Managing Director Airport Experience

Delta Air Lines

Christina Cassotis

CEO

Pittsburgh International Airport

Ryan Ghee

Chief Operating Officer

Future Travel Experience

Tino Klaehne

Director Strategic Innovation & Intelligence

Lufthansa Innovation Hub

Naashom Marx

Director of Strategic Innovation - Advanced Mobility

CVG Airport

Chris Hartman

Director Business Development Digital Experience

Airport Dimensions 

Holly Miles

Editor

International Airport Review

Derwin Cady

Manager, Airport Technology and Product Development

Air Canada

James Snowdon

IT Director, Infrastructure Airport Applications

Vancouver Airport Authority

Jean-Francois Lennon

Vice President Strategic Sales & Global Partnerships

Vision-Box

Annet Steenbergen

Advisor

EU Digital Wallet Consortium (EWC)

Ray Viggiano

Assistant Manager of Customer Service Delivery

Port Authority of NY & NJ

James Williamson

CEO

Veovo

Susan Lewis

Manager of CX Analytics Team

Southwest Airlines

Nelson Camacho

CEO North America

Swissport

Elizabeth Paul

Manager, Aviation Technology and Innovation

The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (PANYNJ)

Ed Baklor

Partner, Consumer Practice, Travel, Leisure & Hospitality

True

Nancy Knipp

President of the Americas

Airport Dimensions 

Oren Cohen Butansky

EVP & Chief Customer Experience Officer

EL AL Israel Airlines

Rupen Singh Philloura

Director of Terminal Operations, Customer Service & AOCC

Miami International Airport

Tomasz Pawliszyn

CEO

AirHelp

Yvo van der Tol

CCO

HRS Crew & Passenger Solutions

Martijn Steur

Managing Director

Kinetic Consultancy

Dave Jones

Deputy Executive Director - Commercial Development

Los Angeles World Airports

Sarah Gipple

Head of Partnerships

CAVU

Dadi Runarsson

Chief Commercial & Airport Development Officer

Isavia

Velissarios Eleftheriou

Expert

Munich Airport International

Suzanne Bremski

Head of Digital & Customer Experience

Harbour Air Seaplanes

Güçlü Batkin

CEO

TAV Operation Services