Aviation Week Accelerates Innovation and Fosters Key Collaboration
in Asia-Pacific
NEW YORK, Nov. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Asia is positioned to overtake Europe and North
America in terms of air traffic in the near future, and
Singapore continues to drive
itself as Asia's largest, most
qualified and accessible MRO hub. Asia-Pacific's aviation maintenance, repair
and overhaul (MRO) will bring together first-rate speakers, trusted
data and analytics and the most reliable information on aviation
maintenance in the Asia Pacific
region. Aviation Week's 12th annual MRO Asia 2012 will
take place on November 13-15 at the
Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. MRO
Asia aspires to galvanize success in innovation in the global MRO
sphere.
Themed "Accelerating Innovation and Collaboration in
Asia-Pacific," the forum will
deliver integrated content that encompasses end-to-end MRO from
leasing to IT to engines. Attendees will hear from key decision
makers, airline buyers and industry leaders, and gain exposure to
peer-to-peer learning with case studies and proven methodologies.
As an open platform for OEMs, airlines, MROs, suppliers and buyers
to build contacts and exchange ideas, this event is the
one-stop-shop for all MRO products and services in the industry's
leading exhibition floor.
Together with local government, regional and international
airlines, MRO suppliers and maintenance providers, MRO Asia is
expected to draw 2,500+ attendees from around the world. Kicking
off with a series of in-depth, interactive workshops, MRO Asia
hones in on providing valuable solutions and tactics. Attendees
will meet the industry's finest experts to gain insights, network,
and examine best practices. MRO and aviation leaders and experts
include the guest-of-honor, Josephine
Teo, Minister of State (Ministry of Finance, Ministry of
Transport), and opening remarks from Charles Chong, President, Association of
Aerospace Industries (Singapore). Additional speakers
include:
- Ran Ackerman, Head of Aircraft Acquisitions & Sales,
Maintenance & Engineering, El Al Israel Airlines Ltd.
- Alimir Aimbetov, Technical Procurement Manager, Air
Astana
- Hervé Alexandre, VP Technical Procurement, Air
France
- Felix Ammann, SVP
Component Services, SR Technics
- Leonardo Machado Amorim,
Director Customer Support, Asia
Pacific, Embraer
- Robert Anton, SVP
Component Services, Air France Industries
- Erwin Bamert, SVP
Component Maintenance, SR Technics
- Adrian Beirne,
Engineering Manager (Deputy CTO), Jetstar Pacific
Airlines
- Frank Bodenhage, President & CEO, MTU Maintenance
Zhuhai
- Ian Britchford, Director
of Fuel Saving, ETS Aviation
- Jonas Butautis, CEO, FL Technics
- Gina DeNunzio, Foreign
Repair Station Program Lead, Office of Global Strategies, TSA
- Noutchemo Simo Fadimatou, Logistics Manager, Camair-Co
(Cameroon Airlines Corporation)
- Hiroki Fukuyama,
Assistant Manager, Airframe Group, JAL Engineering Co, .Ltd.
- John Gough, Director Fuel
& Carbon Solutions, GE Aviation
- Dr. Orkun Hasekioglu,
R&D Projects Manager and former CIO, Turkish Airlines
Technic
- Mark Hayman, Executive
Director Engineering, Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company
(HAECO)
- Dinesh Jeganathan, Flight
Safety Representative, Embraer Asia Pacific and former Safety &
Security Executive, SilkAir
- Kham Joon Wui, VP
Commercial Business, Engineering & Development Centre, ST
Aerospace
- Tom Lane, Managing
Director, HEATCON Composite Systems (Europe)
- Peter Lendermann, CEO, D-SIMLAB Technologies Pte.
Ltd.
- Michael Leung, Director,
AAR Engineering Services-Asia
- Peter Lundberg, VP Sales,
Satair SG
- Olivier Mazzucchelli,
Managing Director & CEO, Spairliners
- Mike McBride, CFO &
EVP, TeamSAI
- Sunny Mirchandani, VP
Engineering & International Sales, Taikoo Spirit AeroSystems
(Jinjiang) Composite Co. Ltd
- Michael Parsons, Director
Applications Centre of Excellence, MRO Solutions Asia-Pacific,
Oracle
- Richard Patry, Head of
Engineering & Manufacturing, DHL
- Mark Pettitt, Managing
Director, Permagard Australasia
- Raj Ramanujam, Managing Director, Fokker Services
Asia
- Pierre Reville, Head of
Services Solutions, Airbus
- Tohru Saito, GM Engine
Maintenance Center, JAL Engineering Co., Ltd.
- Ivo Schindler, Customer
Project Manager, Aircraft Component Services, Lufthansa
Technik
- Ravinder Pal Singh, CIO,
Air Works
- Jan Steenbock, VP
Marketing & Sales Far East Asia, MTU Maintenance
- David Stewart, VP,
SH&E
- Jeff Tomei, Director,
Business Development, Sales, & Marketing, Spirit
AeroSystems
- Arjo Widjoseno, GM Internal Audit & Control, GMF
AeroAsia
- Lutz Wierschin, Director, Component Development,
Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance and Engineering Co. Ltd
- Mohd Yuzer Mohd Yusoff,
Senior GM, Malaysian Aviation Training Academy
Attendees will enhance their experience at the conference by
downloading the free MRO Asia 2012 App, which features customized
event information, access to planning the day's agenda, scheduling
meetings with other attendees for networking, interactive show map
and exhibitor floor, updates on speakers and sessions, and
identifying favorite exhibitors and sponsors. Additionally, this
free app provides attendees with simple access to work through the
MRO Asia Web portal just a screen tap away to utilize these show
features from a desktop PC. Additional information and online
registration are available at
http://events.aviationweek.com/current/mas/register.htm. On
Twitter, follow @avweekevents or search for #MROA.
MRO Asia is produced by Aviation Week, in partnership with
Association of Aerospace Industries (Singapore). Silver sponsors include Airbus,
Avmat, Embraer Commercial Aviation, Heico Seal Dynamics, Spirit
Aerosystems and UTC Aerospace Systems. Bronze sponsors are
Bombardier, Pratt & Whitney and StandardAero. Abu Dhabi
Aircraft Technologies, Mubadala Aerospace MRO Network and SR
Technics are the titanium sponsors. Supporting organizations
include Airlines for America, Association of Asia Pacific Airlines,
Association of European Airlines, Agency for Science, Technology
and Research, Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, EDB Singapore, IATA, Singapore
Exhibition & Convention Bureau, YourSingapore, and Future Ready
Singapore. Aviation Week & Space Technology and
Asian Aviation are media sponsors.
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integrated business tool, now has increased capability through more
fleet and MRO data and an expanded team of data analysts.
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