10:55 a.m. EST Welcoming Remarks

11:00 a.m. - 11:40 a.m. EST Session 1- Fireside Chat

Rich Corrado, President & Chief Executive Officer at Air Transport Services Group Inc. will sit down with a Cargo Facts editor for a one-on-one frank discussion on current industry trends, challenges and opportunities.  

Moderator:

Frederic Horst, Managing Director, Cargo Facts Consulting  

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12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. EST Session 2 - Refiling air cargo’s flight plan: Growth opportunities and obstacles in global airfreight (panel)

• Market dynamics and hindrances in the medium and long term 
• The role of combination carriers — will their reliance on freighters change? 
• How damaged is the air cargo supply chain? 
• Responding to burgeoning e-commerce and volatile capacity in the lower hold  
• An assessment of geopolitical and global trade factors 

Panelists: 

• Tatyana Arslanova, Executive Operating Officer, Volga-Dnepr Group
• Andrés Bianchi, Chief Executive Officer, LATAM Cargo
• Capt. Houston Mills, Vice President Flight Operations, UPS Airlines
• Jessica Tyler, President Cargo and Vice President Airport Excellence, American Airlines
• Dorothea von Boxberg, Chief Commercial Officer, Lufthansa Cargo

Moderator:

• Charles Kauffman, Senior Editor, Cargo Facts

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1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. EST Midday break, Commercial Market Trends Meet Up and one-on-one meetings

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• Opportunity for 1:1 meetings with attendees and Sponsors
• Visit our Sponsors at their virtual booths

1:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. EST Session 3- Powering the next generation: engines, engine supply chain and maintenance (panel)

• Post-pandemic engine availability and values 
• MRO opportunities and challenges 
• Fuel prices and environmental sustainability 
• Supply chain considerations for engines and spare parts 

Panelists:

• Aileen Barton, Marketing Director, Services at GE Aviation
• Les Cronin, Senior Director of Marketing & Sales, The Americas, MTU Maintenance
• Larry Gray, Director – V2500 / PW2000 / PW4000 Marketing, Pratt & Whitney
• Justin Phelan, Vice President Marketing, Engine Lease Finance
• Jamie Sismey, Marketing Executive – Americas, Rolls Royce

Moderator:

• Jeff Lee, Associate Editor, Cargo Facts

2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. EST Session 4 - EFW Market Spotlight: EFW presents its views on current industry dynamics and trends (presentation)

Presenter: Wolfgang Schmid, Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Airbus Freighter Conversions, EFW

Moderator: Charles Kauffman, Senior Editor, Cargo Facts

2:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. EST Session 5 - Big birds and plenty of pallets: Will renewed interest in widebody freighters last? (panel)

• Feedstock availability and timelines for fleet renewal 
• Charter fleet and demand  
• Conversion forecast 

Panelists: 

• Darren Hulst, Vice President, Commercial Marketing, Boeing
• Ted Lytle, Chief Strategy Officer, Western Global Airlines
• Rafi Matalon, Executive Vice President – Marketing, IAI-Aviation Group
• Michael Steen, Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, Atlas Air Worldwide & President and Chief Executive Officer, Titan Aviation Holdings, Inc.

Moderator:

• Jeff Lee, Associate Editor, Cargo Facts

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11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. EST Session 6 - Narrowbody freighters: Prospects for conversion and fleet expansion (panel)

• The status of the parked passenger fleet 
• Post-pandemic appetite for narrowbody conversions  
• Narrowbody fleet evolution in the recovery: Classics versus NGs  
• Changing role of ACMI  

Panelist:

• Dave Andrew, CEO, ASL Aviation Holdings
• Richard Greener, Senior Vice President & Manager, GECAS Cargo
• Stefan Kågeman, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Vx Capital Partners
• Tracy Medve, President, KF Aerospace Group of Companies

Moderator:

• Charles Kauffman, Senior Editor, Cargo Facts

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12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. EST Session 7 - E-commerce unleashed: a temporary surge, or the new normal? (presentation)

• The role of air cargo in catering to e-commerce demand amid the pandemic  
• How retail is forever changed, and what it means for airfreight 
• Market data and analysis from Cargo Facts Consulting  

Presenter:

Frederic Horst, Managing Director, Cargo Facts Consulting  

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12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. EST Midday break, Freighter Market Trends Meet Up and one-on-one meetings

• Participate in the Freighter Market Trends Meet Up

  • During this 30 minute meet up we will allow attendees direct access to a Zoom room. Access will be limited to the first 50 participants. Once you are in the Zoom room we ask that you turn on your camera to promote interaction and that you are an enthusiastic and willing participant. This will be an unmoderated open forum, which means that attendees can and should take the initiative to start discussions around Freighter Market trends.

    As an added feature, there will be an Admin in the room and if you would like to break off into a more private discussion you can message the admin to create a separate breakout room. Simply use the chat feature to message the admin and request whom you would like to move into a private breakout.
• Opportunity for 1:1 meetings with attendees and Sponsors
• Visit our Sponsors at their virtual booths

12:45 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. EST Session 8 - What pax aviation weakness means for regional fleets in the Americas? (panel)

• Status of passenger aviation and the road to recovery  
• Are more feeder freighters needed?  
• Conversions versus new-build freighters 

Panelists: 

• Scot Struminger, Senior Vice President, Business Operations & Express Technology, FedEx Express
• Torque Zubeck, Managing Director, Alaska Airlines Cargo

Moderator:

• Caryn Livingston, Deputy Editor, Cargo Facts

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1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. EST Session 9 - Boeing Market Spotlight: Boeing presents its views on current industry dynamics and trends (presentation)

Presenter: Gregg Gildemann, Regional Director of Market Analysis, Boeing

Moderator: Charles Kauffman, Senior Editor, Cargo Facts

2:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. EST Session 10 - An aircraft valuation market in flux: what’s that freighter worth? (panel)

• Top appraisers address values of freighter aircraft and passenger feedstock types for conversion 
• Post-recovery, which aircraft types will hold their values — and which will not? 
• How will groundings affect up-and-coming conversion programs? 

Moderator: 

• Olga Razzhivina, Director, Oriel

Panelist

• Mark Halsor, President, AISI
• Lindsey Webster, Vice President, Asset Valuations, mba Aviation
• Bert van Leeuwen, Head of Aviation Research, MUFG Bank
• Mike Yeomans, Director-Valuations, IBA

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