This is the PRELIMINARY agenda - presentation order may change. The event schedule is complete
Program is tentative and may change without notice. Technical presentations in black, panel in pink, airline update in brown, sponsor presentations in green, and breaks & social events in blue
Navigating Through Disruptions with Analytics
Sunday 11 May 2025
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Details |
| 17:00 - 18:00 |
Delegate registration lobby of Marriott Hotel |
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| 18:30 - 21:00 |
Social Event:
Welcome reception and cocktail Sponsored by Amadeus
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Monday 12 May 2025
| Time |
Details |
| 07:00 - 08:00 |
Delegate registration
lobby of Marriott Hotel & continental breakfast in adjacent exhibit area
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| 08:00 - 08:30 |
Introductions / Conference Overview
Michael Irrgang & Yuxi Xiao (AGIFORS Ops co-chairs)
Rod Tjoelker & Patrice Yapo (AGIFORS MX co-chairs)
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| 08:30 - 08:35 |
Qatar Airways Welcome & Introduction: Captain Cliff Chetcuti
Chief Flight Operations Officer, Qatar Airways
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| 08:35 - 09:30 |
Keynote Address: Captain Fatih Kaçmaz
Senior Vice President Network Operations, Qatar Airways
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| 09:30 - 10:05 |
Proactive vs. Reactive Disruption Management: Enhance Trust and Efficiency
Julius Bauß; M2P Consulting |
| 10:05 - 10:20 |
Coffee Break - Exhibit Area - Sponsored by ISA |
| 10:20 - 10:50 |
Gold Sponsor Presentation
KLM + BCG Partnership |
| 10:50 - 11:35 |
NASA Center for Air Transportation Resilience: Data-Driven Research and Analytics to Identify, Mitigate Disruptions and Create Foundations for a More Resilient Air Transportation System Max Z. Li; University of Michigan
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| 11:35 - 12:10 |
A Density-Based Traffic Following Algorithm for Air Traffic Control
John-Paul Clarke; UT Austin/Cayman Airways
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| 12:10 - 13:10 |
Business Lunch - In the conference room
Sponsored by Collins Aerospace
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| 13:10 - 13:45 |
Modeling Airline Disruptions in Order to Predict Optimization Complexity and Solution Shape
Thierry Delahaye; Amadeus |
| 13:45 - 14:15 |
Gold Sponsor Presentation
CAE
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| 14:15 - 14:50 |
Two-Stage Stochastic Optimization for Resilient Airline Operations: Cost Efficiency and On-Time Performance Under Ground Time Uncertainties via CI Adjustments and Hub-Centric Swaps
Mehmet Ertem; Turkish Airlines
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| 14:50 - 15:25 |
Real-Time Recovery: A Duty Manager’s Daily Experience with Automated Disruption Management
Horacio Garcia Esparza, Pau Collellmir Cardenal; Viva Aerobus, BigBlue Analytics |
| 15:25 - 15:40 |
Coffee Break - Exhibit Area - Sponsored by ISA |
| 15:40 - 16:15 |
Machine Learning-Driven Classification of Schedule Interruption Data
Sean Huynh, Gevik Sardarbegians; Boeing |
| 16:15 - 16:50 |
Reducing Distributional Impact of Commercial Space Launches
Roberta Zimmerman, William Steinberg; United Airlines, JetBlue |
| 16:50 - 17:25 |
Closing the Loop: Turning Flight Delay Predictions into Actionable Strategies
Anand Krishna; ISA |
Tuesday 13 May 2025
| Time |
Details |
| 07:00 - 08:00 |
Continental breakfast - exhibit area |
| 08:00 - 08:35 |
Qatar Airways Airline Update
Operational Achievements and Resilience in 2024 in an Ever-Changing Environment
Philippa Rowe, Guy Shipton, Sadaqat Ali Soomro
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| 08:35 - 08:45 |
Bronze Sponsor Presentation
Gurobi
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| 08:45 - 09:30 |
Passenger Recovery in Lufthansa Group’s OPS Suite
Kadir Göcer, Daniel Kappeler; Swiss
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| 09:30 - 10:00 |
Gold Sponsor Presentation
Amadeus
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| 10:00 - 10:15 |
Coffee Break - Exhibit Area - Sponsored by ISA |
| 10:15 - 12:15 |
Panel Discussion: AI in Operations Control
Moderator: Daniel Stecher; IBS Software
Panelists: John Paul Clarke, Michael Clarke, Fernando Bosch, Sadaqat Ali Soomro, Lavanya Marla, Kenichi Tsutsui; UT Austin / Cayman Airways, CAE, British Airways, Qatar Airways, University of Illinois, All Nippon Airways
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12:15 - 13:15
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Business Lunch - In the conference room
Sponsored by Collins Aerospace
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| 13:45 - 18:45 |
Social Event:
Meet in lobby, take buses there from hotel. Bus tour of Northern Qatar: Al Bayt Stadium, Al Khor dhow harbor, Al Zubarah fortress
Sponsored by KLM + BCG Partnership
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| 18:45 - 21:45 |
Social Event:
Dinner at the Doha Beach Club
Sponsored by KLM + BCG Partnership
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Wednesday 14 May 2025
| Time |
Details |
| 07:00 - 08:00 |
Continental breakfast - exhibit area |
| 08:00 - 08:35 |
Simulating Flight Disruptions to Improve Recovery Strategies of a Disruption Management Tool
Markus Kühlen, Shayekh Hassan; German Aerospace Center, KLM
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| 08:35 - 09:10 |
Data-driven Insights to Maximize Air Traffic Efficiency
Jennifer Leslie, Emma Thompson; United Airlines
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| 09:10 - 09:25 |
Silver Sponsor Presentation
Collins Aerospace
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| 09:25 - 10:00 |
Improved Regret Bounds for Online Decisions in Airline Recovery
Lavanya Marla; University of Illinois |
| 10:00 - 10:10 |
Bronze Sponsor Presentation
Lufthansa Systems
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| 10:10 - 10:25 |
Coffee Break - Exhibit Area - Sponsored by ISA
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| 10:15 - 11:00 |
Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics: Proactive Decision-Making in Airline Control Centers
Sadaqat Ali Soomo, Abdallah Kourri; Qatar Airways
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| 11:00 - 11:10 |
Bronze Sponsor Presentation
BigBlue Analytics
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| 11:10 - 11:45 |
Block Season Definition for Volaris Airlines using Sequential Hidden Markov Models
Ed Stephens; Gavin Grochowski Boeing
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| 11:45 - 12:00 |
Silver Sponsor Presentation
ISA
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| 12:00 - 13:00 |
Business Lunch - In the conference room
Sponsored by Collins Aerospace
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| 13:00 - 13:35 |
Smart Gating at American Airlines: Enhancing Efficiency and Sustainability
Guodong Zhu; American Airlines
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| 13:35 - 14:20 |
A Genetic Algorithm–Based Optimizer for Balancing Planned CASK and Schedule Quality
Evert Meyer, Alan Sagan, Ben Hinton-Lever; Virgin Australia
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| 14:20 - 14:30 |
Bronze Sponsor Presentation
IBS Software
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| 14:30 - 15:15 |
Augmenting Operations Research with Large Language Models
Sumaya Abdul Rahman, Sanjay Chawla; Hamad bin Khalifa University |
| 15:15- 15:25 |
Bronze Sponsor Presentation
FICO
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| 15:25 - 15:40 |
Coffee Break - Exhibit Area - Sponsored by ISA
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| 15:40 - 15:50 |
Bronze Sponsor Presentation
GE Aerospace
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| 15:50 - 16:35 |
Common Misconceptions in Airline Fuel Panning and Consumption - and the Mistakes They Lead To
Michael Irrgang; Independent Consultant |
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| 17:15 - 19:00 |
Social Event:
Meet in lobby, take buses there from hotel. A walk around the Souq Waqif -- a traditional Arab bazaar
Sponsored by CAE
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| 19:00 - 22:00 |
Social Event:
Dinner at the Parisa Restaurant, a traditional restaurant of fine Middle Eastern cuisine
Sponsored by CAE
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Thursday 15 May 2025
| Time |
Details |
| 07:00 - 08:00 |
Continental breakfast - exhibit area |
| 08:00 - 08:35 |
Quantifying baggage mishandling : Analyzing key factors and operational improvement
Rim Jabri; Groupe ADP
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| 08:35 - 09:10 |
Prognostic Health Management with Reliability
Shashvat Prakash; Collins Aerospace
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| 09:10 - 09:45 |
Enhancing Leak Detection and Proactive Management in the 787 Integrated Cooling System (ICS) for Operational Efficiency
Aman Misri; United Airlines |
| 09:45 - 10:20 |
SRM Damage Type Classification Sean Huynh, Gevik Sardarbegians; Boeing
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| 10:20 - 10:35 |
Coffee Break - Exhibit Area - Sponsored by ISA |
| 10:35 - 11:10 |
Predictive Tool Development for Heavy Maintenance Non-Routine Findings
Gevik Sardarbegians, Sean Huynh; Boeing
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| 11:10 - 11:45 |
Agent Based Reinforcement Learning Approach to Airline Maintenance Planning and Optimisation
Syed Shaukat; University of New South Wales
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| 11:45 - 12:45 |
Business Lunch - In the conference room
Sponsored by Collins Aerospace
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| 12:45 - 13:20 |
Data-driven Optimization for Fleet Availability: A Rapid Solution for KLM’s Embraer 195-E2 Engine Challenges
Paul van Kessel; KLM Royal Dutch Airlines |
| 13:20 - 14:00 |
Business Meeting / Conference Closing / Award Ceremony
Michael Irrgang & Yuxi Xiao (AGIFORS Ops co-chairs)
Rod Tjoelker & Patrice Yapo (AGIFORS MX co-chairs)
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Program is tentative and may change without notice