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Conference Agenda and Timetable

Program is tentative and may change without notice

Airline Resiliency from Disruptive Events:
Modernizing the Planning Process, Tools, and Technology for Fast Recovery

Monday 5 June 2023

Time Details
 17:00 - 18:00 Delegate registration on 3rd floor of Sheraton
   
 19:00 - 21:00 Welcome reception at 19th floor of Sheraton,
Sponsored by Cirium

Tuesday 6 June 2023

 Time Details 
 07:00 - 08:30 Delegate registration

on 3rd floor of Sheraton & continental breakfast in adjacent exhibit area

 08:30 - 09:00

Introductions / Conference Overview
Michael Irrgang & Yuxi Xiao (AGIFORS Ops co-chairs)
Rod Tjoelker & Patrice Yapo (AGIFORS MX co-chairs)

 09:00 - 09:45

Keynote Address
Santiago Diago -- Chief Operating Officer, Aeromexico & Aeromexico Connect

 09:45 - 10:30 A Long-Term Approach to Irregular Operations Recovery

Ira Gershkoff: T2RL

 10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break - Exhibit Area
 10:45 - 11:30 Piece by Piece – Avoiding Baggage-Driven Disruption
Jörn Weerts & Niels Knak: Deutsche Lufthansa 


 11:30 - 12:15

A deep neural network for the dynamic pathfinding problem applied to the optimization of aircraft trajectories 
Dominik Zurek: CAE

 12:15 - 13:15 Business Lunch - 19th floor dining room
 13:15 - 14:45 Panel Discussion
How can the industry proactively enhance disruptive management and achieve fast recovery when overcoming challenges posed by technology and tools

Michael Clarke, Jeff Meaney, Tim Niznik & Daniel Stecher: CAE, Air Canada, American Airlines & IBS

 14:45 - 15:15 Gold Sponsor Presentation
KLM-BCG Partnership

 15:15 - 15:30 Coffee Break - Exhibit Area
 15:30 - 16:00 The Impact of COVID-19 on U.S. Domestic Market Air Freight Carriers Efficiency With Regards to Freight and Fuel Burn   

Jack Troutt & Nicholas Riggs: Utah Valley University

 16:00 - 16:45 Leveraging AI to Improve Operational Efficiency and Stability in Airline Operations

Laszlo Kovacs: Lufthansa Systems Airline Consulting

 19:00 - 22.00 Buffet Dinner, Sheraton Hotel 19th Floor dining room,
Sponsored by KLM-BCG Partnership


Wednesday 7 June 2023

 Time Details
 07:00 - 08:00 Continental breakfast - exhibit area
 08:00 - 08:45 The Future of Flight Operations Powered by Optimization and Emerging Technologies

Michael Clarke : CAE

 08:45 - 09:30 Amadeus Operations Control - Robust planning and Operations

Thierry Delahaye & Will Turner: Amadeus IT Pacific & Qantas

 09:30 - 10:15 Improved Decision Making for Disruptive Weather Events using Ensemble Forecasts

John Williams,  Mike Robinson & Tim Niznik: IBM & MITRE & AA

 10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break - Exhibit Area
 10:30 - 11:15 Streamlining Aircraft Engine Maintenance: Using Artificial Intelligence for Efficient and Accurate Inspection

Fabian Vogel: zeroG GmbH

 11:15 - 11:45 Gold Sponsor Presentation

Boeing

 11:45 - 12:45

Business Lunch - 19th floor dining room

 12:45 - 17:00 Social Event:
Bus Tour to Pyramids of Teotihuacan,

Sponsored by Boeing

 19:00 - 22:00 Social Event:
Dinner at Mexican Cantina Tenampa,

Sponsored by CAE

Thursday 8 June 2023

 Time Details
 07:00 - 08:00 Continental breakfast - exhibit area
 08:00 - 08:45 Transforming Airline Irregular Operations Management with Operations Research 

Billy Wang: American Airlines

 08:45 - 09:15 Gold Sponsor Presentation

Cirium - David White

 09:15 - 09:45 Applying Modern Technology to the Turnaround Process
Nancy Dolores Hernandez, Francisco Javier España, Luis Eduardo Sanchez: AeroMexico
 09:45 - 10:30 Data-Driven Maintenance Prioritization at United: Maintenance Priority Score
Greg Jackson: United Airlines

 10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break - Exhibit Area
 10:45 - 11:15 Augmenting Predictive Maintenance Models: Simulation Techniques to Improve Airline Decision-Making
Paul Lowe, Emily Haider-Hawkinson: Boeing

 11:15 - 12:00 An optimization approach to solve the hangar maintenance scheduling problem
Max Witteman: TUI Group (Tui Fly)

 12:00 - 13:00 Business Lunch - 19th floor dining room
 13:00 - 13:30 Gold Sponsor Presentation
CAE - Michael Clarke

 13:30 - 14:15 Applying Artificial Intelligence to Reveal the Pathways and Lifecycles of Aircraft Components
Anne Marie Newman: zeroG GmbH / Lufthansa Group

 14:15 - 15:00 Eliminating manual coding of ATA codes using Natural Language Processing
Varun Khemani, Jose Ramirez-Hernandez: American Airlines

 15:00 - 15:15 Coffee Break - Exhibit Area
 15:15 - 15:30Silver Sponsor Presentation
FlightAware

 15:30 - 16:15 Line Maintenance Team Scheduling
Daan Westerveld, Paul van Kessel: KLM

 16:15 - 16:30 Silver Sponsor Presentation
Lufthansa Systems: Miriam Trullo

 16:30 - 17:15 Cross-functional Manpower Planning - overcoming system and organisational silos
Franziska Burmester: WePlan

 19:00 - … Dinner on your own (free night)


Friday 9 June 2023

 Time Details
 07:00 - 08:00 Continental breakfast - exhbit area
 08:00 - 08:45 Understanding the U.S. Pilot Shortage through System Dynamic Modeling
Pablo Guillermo Aguirre: AV8 Analytics

 08:45 - 09:30 Strategic Maintenance Policy Simulator
Paul van Kessel: KLM

 09:30 - 10:00 Prediction of Smoke, Odors, and Fumes Events Related to Auxiliary Power Units
Timothy Sham, Varun Khemani, Jose Ramirez-Hernandez: American Airlines

 10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break - Exhibit Area
 10:15 - 11:00 A simulation study to investigate operational and financial viabilities of super-tugs for Southwest Airlines – A case study

Massoud Bazargan, Petar Grigorov, Khilna Rawal: Embry - Riddle Aeronautical University

 11:00- 11:10 Bronze Sponsor Presentation
IBS - Daniel Stecher

 11:10 - 11:20 Bronze Sponsor Presentation
SlickOR

 11:20 - 11:30 Bronze Sponsor Presentation
Optimen - Oscar Rodriguez

 11:30 - 11:40 Bronze Sponsor Presentation
Gurobi

 11:40 - 11:50 Vendor Presentation
SITA - Cristina Martin

 11:50 - 12:00Vendor Presentation
T2RL - Ira Gershkoff

 12:00 - 13:00 Business Lunch - 19th floor dining room
 13:00 - 13:10 Vendor Presentation
Amadeus - Guy Kavenaugh

 13:10 - 13:20Vendor Presentation
AV8 Analytics - Pablo Aguirre

 13:20 - 13:45 Business Meeting / Award Ceremony

 13:45 - 14:00 Final Coffee Break - Exhibit Hall
 14:00 Conference End

Program is tentative and may change without notice

 

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