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DAY 1 - THURSDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2010

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07.45  REGISTRATION & WELCOME COFFEE

Kindly sponsored by Rolls-Royce

 

08.30  SUMMIT OPENING

Session begins with a welcome from Summit Host Paul Steele, Executive Director, ATAG


The session continues with speeches from the heads of the coordinating associations:

  • Angela Gittens, Director General, Airports Council International (ACI)
  • Graham Lake, Director General, Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO)
  • François Gayet, Chair, International Coordinating Council of Aerospace Industries Associations (ICCAIA) and Secretary General, Aerospace and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD)

 

09.00  SETTING THE SCENE: OUR TARGETS, OUR PATHWAY

Keynote address from Roberto Kobeh González, President of the Council, International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)  by video


The aviation industry has set out a roadmap to reduce CO2 emissions between now and 2050. This session will look at the roadmap in more detail and put it into a global political context while exploring the progress of the government and regulatory framework being developed as part of the crucial ICAO and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) processes.

Discussion:

  • Paul Steele, Executive Director, ATAG
  • Achim Steiner, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (tbc)

 

10.00  COFFEE BREAK
Kindly sponsored by Rolls-Royce
10.30  PANEL 1: MAXIMISING TECHNOLOGY AND BIOFUELS OPPORTUNITIES

Scene-setting: ATAG Board member Steve Csonka, Director, Environmental Strategy & Ecomagination, GE Aviation and 
Dr James Rekoske, Vice-President & General Manager, Renewable Energy and Chemicals, Honeywell UOP


This session will look at the latest breakthrough technologies and developments in the biofuels sphere and the area of funding and incentives - how governments, the industry, its suppliers and the academic world can collaborate on new technology R&D and how governments can create the right incentives to boost the supply of sustainable aviation biofuels.


Moderator: Steve Csonka, Director, Environmental Strategy & Ecomagination, GE Aviation


Panel discussion with:

  • Prof Volker Gollnick, Director, Institute of Air Transport Concepts and Technology Evaulation, DLR
  • Dirk Kronemeijer, Managing Director,SkyNRG and Vice-President, Business Innovation, AIR FRANCE-KLM
  • Dr Ian Maxwell, Senior Vice-President, Ignite Energy, New Zealand
  • Robert Nuttall, Vice-President, Strategy Marketing, Rolls-Royce plc
  • Doris Schröcker, Policy Officer, Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport, European Commission

Interactive Q&A with the audience

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