Overview
Created in 2014 by Aéroport de Paris, La Tribune and Forum Media, the Paris Air Forum brings together a succession of debates, conferences and keynotes involving the personalities that make the news, major decision makers and experts in the aerospace, defense and space sectors. The objective: to decipher the challenges of the present and the challenges of the future to better address the challenges of tomorrow. As with every edition, the new generations are an integral part of this reflection with the presence of some twenty of the most innovative startups in the Innovation Village, they are the ones who open the sessions with percussive pitches. The 2018 Paris Air Forum theme is the theme "Connected aviation and smart territory". Objective, highlight the changing relationships and processes of civil and military aeronautics and space as well as new balances of the most dynamic and innovative international industrial sector.
Agenda
9:30 — 10:20
REUSABLE LAUNCHERS, THE BEST OF THE BEST
Alain Charmeau
Chief Executive Officer of ArianeGroup
Daniel Neuenschwander
Director of Launchers at ESA
WHAT ARE THE INNOVATIONS FOR SMOOTHER-FLOWING AIRPORTS?
Edward Arkwright
Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Groupe ADP, in charge of development, engineering and transformation
Kjeld Binger
Chief Executive Officer of Amman Airport - Jordan
Barbara Dalibard
Chief Executive Officer of Sita
Véronique Deplace
Deputy Director of Security & Defence at DGAC
HOW CAN AIR TRAFFIC THAT DOUBLES EVERY FIFTEEN YEARS BE ABSORBED?
Philippe Crebassa
Vice-President of ENAC
Maurice Georges
Director of Air Navigation Services at DGAC
Angela Gittens
Director General of ACI World
Alexandre de Juniac
Director General and Chief Executive Officer of IATA
DOES FRANCE’S MILITARY PLANNING LAW REALLY MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE MILITARY?
Général Eric Bellot des Minières
Staff of the Armies
Christian Cambon
Chairman of the French Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Armed Forces
Bruno Even
Chief Executive Officer of Airbus Helicopters
10:40 — 11:30
WHAT WILL THE FUTURE EUROPEAN FIGHTER PLANE LOOK LIKE?
Philippe Duhamel
Executive Vice-President, Defence Mission Systems at Thales
Caroline Laurent
Strategy Director at DGA
HOW WILL REGIONAL AVIATION BE RECONFIGURED?
Christian McCormick
Managing Director-Finance at China Aircraft Leasing Corporation
Christian Scherer
Chief Executive Officer of ATR
Pierre Vellay
Chief Executive Officer of New & Next Consulting
HAS THE TIME COME FOR LOW-COST, LONG-HAUL TRAVEL TO TAKE A GIANT LEAP?
Marc Rochet
Chief Executive Officer of French Bee
Laurent Magnin
Chief Executive Officer of XL Airways and La Compagnie
WILL FRANCE BE RESILIENT ENOUGH IN THE EVENT OF A MASSIVE CYBERATTACK?
Marc Darmon
Executive Vice-President of Secure Communications and Information Systems at Thales
Patrick Gandil
Director General of DGAC
Emmanuel Germain
Deputy to the Director General at ANSSI
11:50— 12:40
A.I., DIGITISATION: REINVENTING HOW WE BUILD PLANES?
Guillaume Faury
President of Airbus Commercial Aircraft
Philippe Petitcolin
Chief Executive Officer of Safran
WHAT IS THE STRATEGY FOR AIR TRANSPORT IN FRANCE?
Alain Battisti
Chairman of FNAM
Vincent Capo-Canellas
Senator for Seine-Saint-Denis, Mayor of Le Bourget
Jean-Baptiste Djebbari
Deputy for Haute-Vienne
Thomas Juin
President of UAF
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF EUROPEAN DEFENCE?
Louis Gautier
Former Secretary-General for National Defence, commissioned by the President of the Republic to head a mission on European Defence
Hervé Guillou
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Naval Group
Alberto Maestrini
General Manager of Fincantieri
Amiral Christophe Prazuck
Chief of Staff for the French Navy
WHAT IS THE VISION FOR EUROPE IN SPACE?
Tomasz Husak
Head of Cabinet of European Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska
Jean-Yves Le Gall
President of CNES
Etienne Schneider
Minister of Defence of the Luxembourg (under reserves)
14:30 — 15:20
HOW WILL AIRPORTS AND TERRITORIES INTEGRATE?
Henri-Michel Comet
Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Groupe ADP
Alain Falque
Aeronautical Consultant
Michel Kerkloh
President & Chief Executive Officer of Munich Airport
HOW WILL THE AIR TRANSPORT ENVIRONMENT IN EUROPE EVOLVE?
Bjorn Kjos
Chief Executive Officer of Norwegian
Johan Lundgren
Chief Executive Officer of easyJet
Franck Terner
CEO of Air France & Deputy CEO of Air France-KLM
WILL NEW SPACE PUT SOME PET PROJECTS INTO ORBIT?
Benoit Deper
Chief executive officer and founder of Aerospacelab
Jean-Jacques Dordain
Former Director General of ESA
Joël Korsakissok
Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Syntony
Grégory Pradels
Founder of New Space Factory
A.I.: HAS WARFARE OF THE FUTURE ALREADY ENTERED THE OPERATIONAL ARENA?
Emmanuel Chiva
Deputy Chief Executive Officer & Chief Strategy Officer at Agueris
Jérôme Lemaire
Head of Artificial Intelligence and Digitisation of Operational Systems at DGA
15:40 — 16:30
CONNECTED PLANES: HOW DO WE GO FURTHER?
Anne Rigail
Executive Vice President for customer relations at Air France
Steve Collar
Chief Executive Officer of SES
WHICH PLANES FOR WHICH MARKETS?
Ihssane Mounir
Senior Vice-President of Sales and Marketing at Boeing Commercial Airplanes
Eric Schulz
Chief Commercial Officer at Airbus
CONNECTED PLANES: HOW DO WE GO FURTHER?
Général Charles Beaudoin
Eric Baissus
Chief Executive Officer of Kalray
Thierry Michal
General Technical Director at ONERA
Jean-François Ripoche
Defence Research and Technology Director at DGA
ARE THE HUB SYSTEMS OF AIRLINES UNDER THREAT?
Alain-Hervé Bernard
Chief Operating Officer and Accountable Manager at Air France
Marc Houalla
Executive Director of Groupe ADP, Managing Director of Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airpor
Fred Lam
Chief Executive Officer of Hong Kong Airport
Marc Rochet
Chief Executive Officer of French Bee
Speakers
Bruno Even, CEO of Airbus Helicopters
Elisabeth Borne, Minister of transport
Guillaume Faury, CEO of Airbus Commercial Aircraft
Hervé Guillou, Chairman & CEO of Naval Group
Jean-Loïc Galle, President & CEO of Thales Aliena Space
Marc Darmon , Executive Vice President of Thales Secure Communication and Information Systems
Philippe Petitcolin, Chief Executive Officer of Safran
Venue
Location: Paris La Défense
Address: La Grande Arche de la Défense