Keynote addresses at annual ACI Airport Operations conference announced

The conference will form part of the 2011 Airport Exchange, in partnership with ACI Europe & ACI Asia-Pacific, which runs November 28-30 in Abu Dhabi.

The Airport Operations conference will assess the main criteria for ensuring efficient and safe airport operations whilst managing the pressures of growth.

  In his keynote address, Voss will offer a global safety overview, and discuss implementing the recommendations of the ICAO Runway Safety Symposium, while Lake will look at the vital airport role in delivery of sustainable ATM capacity.

Other confirmed speakers include: Daniel Bircher - director operations, Bangalore International Airport; Christian Albrecht - VP operations and logistics, Etihad; David Ziegler - head of business development, Airbus; Paul Wilson - head of the airport unit, Eurocontrol; Ian Witter, head of airside policy & standards, BAA airside operations and vice chairman, ACI Europe technical and operational safety committee; Ahmad Al Haddabi – SVP operations, Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC); Jan Metsovitis - director, aviation business unit, Athens Intl. Airport and chairman, ACI Europe technical & operational safety committee; Velis Eleftheriou - aeronautical strategy manager, Dubai Airports Company; Jacques Dopagne - director of network management, Eurocontrol, Dr. Othman Al Khouri - VP - human resources, ADAC; Capt. Mostafa Hoummady - chief of the aviation safety training section of the Air Navigation Bureau, ICA; Philipp Ahrens - manager: safety, capacity, ATM & single European sky, ACI Europe; and Holger Schulz - managing director, Airsight GmbH.

Sessions to be covered during the conference include:

·       Managing the demands of growth during expansion projects and peak periods of traffic

·       Human Resource Management – recruiting, training and maintaining staff

·       Dealing with crisis, disruption and restoring operations

·       Airfield Initiatives