FTE Global 2023 Confirmed Speakers

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

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

COO

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

Royal Schiphol Group

Austin Gould

Assistant Administrator of Requirements and Capabilities Analysis (RCA)

Transportation Security Administration (TSA)

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, Baggage Strategy & Innovation

United Airlines

Nikhil Ravishankar

Chief Digital Officer

Air New Zealand

Cesar Mateus

Managing Director, Digital Portfolio Office

Delta Air Lines

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

Human API - Digital Transformation

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 Digital Transformation Officer

Los Angeles World Airports

Matt Gilkeson

Director, Innovation Task Force

Transportation Security Administration (TSA)

Lisa Sullivan

Executive Vice President- Travel and Transport

IDEMIA

Tim Lorenzen

Senior Manager, Security Innovation

American Airlines

Bob Kwik

Global Head of Airports

Amazon Web Services

Sarah Clark

Senior Vice President - Digital Identity

Mastercard

Dr. Bjoern Becker

Head of Future Intercontinental Experience Program

Lufthansa

Bastian Schütz

Product & Business Development

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

nterim Director – Innovation – Venture Building

nlmtd

Chris Runde

Director of Strategy and Innovation

Introba

Paige Stanton Wilson

COO

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

Chair of the Advisory Board

Ink Innovation

Devin Liddell

Principal Futurist

Teague

Kevin Kleist

Senior Emerging Trends Advisor

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

Founder & CEO

Future Travel Experience

Ravi Vanmali

Managing Director, Operations Strategy, Data, & Implementation

Delta Air Lines

Dan Liebermann

Managing Director, Management Consulting

Publicis Sapient

Charu Jain

Senior Vice President Merchandising & Innovation

Alaska Airlines

Sveinn Akerlie

CEO

Plan3 & former CIO of WOW air

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 Baggage Transformation, Future Travel Experience & Managing Director, Operational Performance Transformation

Greater Toronto Airports Authority

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

Vice President of Aviation, U.S. West & Canada

Hill International

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

Vice President, Airports & Crew Services

Spirit Airlines

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

Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky International 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

Keflavik Airport – Isavia Ltd

Velissarios Eleftheriou

Expert

Munich Airport International

Suzanne Bremski

Head of Digital & Customer Experience

Harbour Air Seaplanes

Güçlü Batkin

CEO

TAV Operation Services

John Picard

Futurist

Michael Rousseau

President and Chief Executive Officer

Air Canada

Scott Kirby

CEO

United Airlines

John Thomas

CEO

Connect Airlines

Jacqueline Yaft

CEO

Austin-Bergstrom International Airport

John Couluris

Vice President, Lunar Permanence

Blue Origin

Jeff Crist

SVP, Enterprise, Regional Properties, and Gaming Technology and Digital

MGM Resorts International

Rocky Wiggins

Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer

Spirit Airlines

Justin Erbacci

CEO

Los Angeles World Airports

Devin Liddell

Principal Futurist

Teague

Goutam Kundu

EVP & Chief Digital Strategy and Information Officer

Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority

Naashom Marx

Director of Strategic Innovation - Advanced Mobility

Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky International Airport

Alex Wilcox

CEO & Co-founder

JSX & Board Member, LATAM Airlines

Robin Riedel

Partner

McKinsey & Company

Ed Baklor

Partner, Consumer Practice, Travel, Leisure & Hospitality

True

Geoffrey Ax

Ax, Principal / Aviation Market Leader

Populous

Mike Byrom

Vice President, Airports & Crew Services

Spirit Airlines

Rishma M. Khimji

Chief Information Technology Officer

Harry Reid International Airport

Scott DeAngelo

Executive Vice President – Chief Marketing Officer

Allegiant

Rohit Talwar

CEO

Fast Future

Brian Cobb

Chief Innovation Officer

Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky International Airport

Duncan Bureau

Chief Commercial Officer (CCO)

Canada Jetlines

Linda Schucroft

Director, Innovation

YVR

Samuel Ingalls

Principal

Barich, Inc

Preston Peterson

Director of Customer Experience Innovation

American Airlines

Lisa Sullivan

Executive Vice President- Travel and Transport

IDEMIA

Oz Eliav

CEO

Cockpit Innovation

Stephen Snyder

Managing Director, Operations & Partnerships

JetBlue Ventures

Manish Raniga

CEO of Airline Investments

777 Partners

Thanos Smith

Chief Visionary Officer

Paragon VTOL Aerospace

Bryant Walker

ACM / Aviation Administrator

City of Brownsville – Department of Aviation

Michael Taylor

Managing Director of Travel, Hospitality, and Retail Intelligence

J.D. Power

Dr. Joe Leader

CEO

APEX/IFSA

Gordon Wilson

VP of Identity Verification

Entrust

Daniel Coleman

Founder & CEO

Future Travel Experience

Chris Annetts

Chief Strategy Officer

Heathrow

Doug OGorden

Director of Digital Media & Events

FINDBiometrics.com & MobileIDWorld.com

Amena Ali

CEO

Airside

Kris Ranganath

Senior Vice President of Innovation

Paravision

Eduardo Valencia

CIO

Metropolitan Airports Commission

Maurice Jenkins

Chief Innovation Officer

Miami International Airport

Mike Youngs

VP of Information Technology

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport

Jay Floyd

VP Corporate Strategy, Sales and Product Development

ExteNet Systems

T.J. Schulz

President

Airport Consultants Council

Nishant Rao

Economic Development Professional | Aviation & Aerospace Top 20 Under 40

Nieuport Aviation

Jesus Saenz

Director of Airports

City of San Antonio

Jimmy Hahn

SVP, Central Operations & Innovation

CLEAR

Kevin Shrier

President of the Americas

CAVU

Pietro Caminiti

Head of IT solutions

Aeroporti di Roma

Ajay Amlani

SVP - Head of Americas

iProov

Jeff Lennon

Vice President of Strategic Sales

Vision-Box

Patrick Sgueglia

, Product Development, Airport Experience, Biometrics, Regulatory

Lufthansa

Matt Gilkeson

Director, Innovation Task Force

Transportation Security Administration (TSA)

Dave Wilson

Founder & CEO

The Airport Guy

Justin Phy

President & Principal Consultant

Barich, Inc

Tom Stevens

CX Pioneer & former Director of Brand and Customer Experience, British Airways

Ryan Ghee

Chief Operating Officer

Future Travel Experience

Alex Peric

VP & Chief Operating Officer

Gerald R. Ford International Airport Authority (GRR)

Kevin Kleist

Senior Emerging Trends Advisor

Southwest Airlines

Ryan Chou

Venture Investor

JetBlue Technology Ventures

Simon Dempsey

CCO

Plan3 and FTE’s ‘Mayor for Startups’

Daniel McCoy

Chief Innovation Officer

Transportation Security Administration (TSA)

Tom Mano

Vice President, Products & Services Planning

All Nippon Airways

Megan Bozarth

Assistant Vice President of Customer Program Development

DFW International Airport

Julie Melnick

Founder & CEO

SkySquad

Chris Runde

Director of Strategy and Innovation

Introba

Shaun Klann

Head of Strategic Growth

Willow

Eve Machol

Managing Director, Airport/Transportation Industry

Microsoft

Haider Arif Hayat

Head of Enterprise Information Architecture, Analytics & AI

Hamad International Airport

Nael Samha

Executive Director, Targeting, Vetting and Biometrics Systems

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Jason Van Sice

Vice President

NEC

Sherry Stein

Head of Technology Strategy, Americas

SITA

Marcus Session

Vice President Information Technology Services

Tampa International Airport & Chair of the ACI Innovation@Airports Working Group

Bob Kwik

Global Head of Airports

Amazon Web Services

Rakan Khaled

General Manager, Airport Solutions

Collins Aerospace

David Wilson

Managing Partner

daa International

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)

Dan Tanciar

Chief Innovation Officer

Pangiam

Diane J. Sabatino

Acting Executive Assistant Commissioner of Field Operations

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Austin Gould

Assistant Administrator of Requirements and Capabilities Analysis (RCA)

Transportation Security Administration (TSA)

Greg Forbes

Managing Director Airport Experience

Delta Air Lines

Anique Kamphuis

Senior Product Owner Baggage Teams Business Platform Ground

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

Arturo Garcia-Alonso

Chief Strategy Officer

Avports

Ian Scoley

Head of Design

AMP (Applied Mobility Partners)

Justin Towles

President

Crown Consulting

James Dorris

Co-Founder and CEO

Odys Aviation

Pierre Gourdain

Senior Managing Director, US, Canada

FlixBus

Myron Keehn

Vice President - Air Service, Business Development, ESG and Stakeholder Relations

Edmonton International Airport

Yemi Oshinnaiye

Chief Information Officer (CIO)

Transportation Security Administration (TSA)

Cole Wolfson

Director, xBridge

Pittsburgh International Airport

Chamil Liyanage

Managing Director, Airport Passenger & Hospitality Services

Plaza Premium Group

Asha Jacob

Head of Airport Solutions, Travel and Hospitality, Strategic Initiatives Group

Tata Consultancy Services

Ron Glickman

Vice President

Snowfall

Carlos Conde

Commercial Manager, Panama, Central America and Mexico

Air Europa

Erika Moore

COTS- Chief Officer Travel Supply

TravelX

Thomas Kearns

Digital Innovation Strategist

Perkins and Will

Jooyoon Choi

Manager - Fast Travel Team / Passenger Innovation Group

Incheon International Airport Corporation (IIAC)

Clyde Hutchinson

General Partner

Team ABC (former Head of Viva Air Labs)

Sarah Wittlieb

Vice President Sales & Innovation

LabCampus GmbH

Amit Singh

Sustainability Solutions Lead

Publicis Sapient

Shane O’Flaherty

Global Director: Travel, Transportation & Hospitality

Microsoft

Erwan Perhirin

Product Marketing

T-Mobile

Amanda Drescher

Senior Product Manager

Alaska Airlines

Miguel Ruiz

Principal Software Engineer

Alaska Airlines

Gary McDonald

President, Americas

Materna IPS USA Corp.

Jasper Quak

Managing Director

BAGTAG

Gus Naughton

Senior Software Engineer, Emerging Technologies

Alaska Airlines

les Wuisman

Director – Integral Analytics KLM Operations

KLM

Darin Juby

Head of Baggage Transformation, Future Travel Experience & Managing Director, Operational Performance Transformation

Greater Toronto Airports Authority

Marlon van der Meer

Founder

BagsID

Eleonore Wenzl-Bery

Passenger & Baggage Processes

Lufthansa Group

Lars Mehrtens

Research Associate

Fraunhofer IML

Per Engelbrechtsen

Business Development Director

Beumer Group

Byron Smith

Chief Technology Officer

NetTracer

Jose Salamo

Associate Director, Baggage Services Terminal 1

Greater Toronto Airports Authority

Jason Odey

Director, Global Baggage Excellence

Air Canada

Idar Sørgjerd

Department Manager, BHS, Tech & Op. Excellence

Avinor

Gerardo Fuster

Business Development Manager

Americas at Plaza Premium Group

Anand Sebastian Bosco

Client Partner

Tata Consultancy Services

Pascal Belanger

Senior Vice-President, Commercial Development and Operations

Plaza Premium Group

Andrew Yiu

Vice President, Customer Experience

Air Canada & Air Canada Rouge

Steven Murtoff

Senior Director, Inflight Operations, Southwest Airlines and President, Board of Directors

International Flight Services Association (IFSA)

Vanessa Lindstrom

Director – Food Safety and Regulatory Compliance

United Airlines & Board Member, International Flight Services Association (IFSA)