Sept 14-16, 2007 - Hilton Montreal Bonaventure Hotel
During that weekend, industry, governmental, scientific, legal, financial, and academic experts from around the world came together to address some of the most critical issues facing civil aviation in these times. Panels addressed issues in aviation technology, law and policy surrounding security, safety, and sustainable development, and attempted to plot a course forward.
Download the Conference program [.pdf]
Papers
Below are some of the papers delivered during the conference, available for download.
Scott Carson – Keynote Address [.doc]
Giovanni Bisignani - Keynote Address [.doc]
Scott Carson, President and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, gave a keynote address on September 16.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
9 am - Roundtable discussion: what has aviation accomplished; what should it accomplish?
11 am - Emerging issues for airports
1:30 pm - Emerging issues for air navigation services
- Bertrand de l’Epinois – Air Traffic Management Challenges [.pdf]
- Charles Schlumberger – Challenges for Developing Countries [.pdf]
- Roderick van Dam - The Just Culture Initiative [.ppt]
- Rudy Kellar - Emerging Issues for Air Navigation Service Providers [.ppt]
- Vince Galloti - Safety and Efficiency An ICAO Perspective [.ppt]
3:45 pm - Aviation security: Are we doing things right, and are we doing the right things?
- Billie H. Vincent - Are We Doing Things Right, And Are We Doing The Right Things? [.doc]
- Denys Wibaux - Latest developments of the Legal work on terrorism in ICAO [.ppt]
- Dominique Antonini - Are We Doing Things Right, And Are We Doing The Right Things? [.pps]
- Tony Beard - Are We Doing Things Right, And Are We Doing The Right Things? [.ppt]
Sunday, September 16, 2007
9 am - Blacklisting of airlines and airports based on safety and security concerns
- Kenneth Quinn – Blacklisting [.ppt]
- Mia Wouters – Blacklisting in the EU [.ppt]
- Mohammed Aziz – Balancing Aviation Safety and Security [.ppt]
9:45 am - Environmental issues: noise
- Andris Vasarins – Noise Abatement [.ppt]
- Dan Cohen-Nir – The Airbus way – Environment/Noise [.pdf]
- Stanley King - Asset Management and Planning of Utilities Infrastructure to Facilitate Green Airport Environments [.ppt]
- Trung Ngo - From The Ground Up: A Complete Approach to Aircraft and The Environment [.ppt]
11:15 am - Environmental issues: emissions
- Aileen Barton - Market driven, Technology enabled [.ppt]
- Billy M. Glover - Aviation and the Environment, Our Commitment to a better future [.ppt]
- Herbert Puempel – Aviation and the Environment – WMO [.ppt]
- Jane Hupe – ICAO’s Work on Aviation Emissions [.ppt]
- Jorge Ramos de Oloveira – Emissions and Aviation [.ppt]
2 pm - Will emissions trading and taxing programmes achieve sustainability? Public policy issues and opinion
Prof. Richard Janda speaking in defence of the EU ETS (Sunday 2pm panel)
- Sam Barone - Emissions Trading & Sustainability [.ppt]
- Richard Janda & Martine de Serres – In defence of the EU ETS [.ppt]
- Martin Staniland - Civil Aviation and the E.U. Emissions Trading Scheme [.ppt]
- Chris Lyle - Tourism, Air Transport And Climate Change - A World Tourism Organization Discussion Paper [.zip]
- Brian Havel - Will Emissions Trading and Taxing Programs Achieve Sustainability? [.ppt]
The conference was held at the Hilton Montreal Bonaventure Hotel