FTE Global Speakers
FTE Global and APEX IFSA Global EXPO present our strongest speaker line-up yet
Confirmed speakers include


Campbell Wilson
CEO
Air India


Mesfin Tasew
Group Chief Executive Officer
Ethiopian Airlines


Dina Ben Tal Ganancia
CEO
EL AL Israel Airlines


Julian Jäger
CEO
Vienna Airport


Cynthia Guidry
Director
Long Beach Airport
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Speakers who participated in FTE Global 2024 include:


David Decker
President Content Sales
Warner Bros. Discovery


Shai Weiss
CEO
Virgin Atlantic


Ben Smith
CEO
Air France KLM


Anton Vidgen
Vice President, Guest Experience
Riyadh Air


Paul Puopolo
Executive Vice President of Innovation
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport


Christine Trodella
Vice President
Meta


Mukesh Patel
CEO
San José Mineta International Airport


Andre Viljoen
Managing Director & CEO
Fiji Airways


Patricia Cogswell
Partner
Guidehouse


Tony Thompson
Founder and CEO
Air Cahana


Simon Gandy
Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer
The New Terminal One at JFK


Fiona Kiesel
Chief Guest Officer
Breeze Airways


Guðmundur Daði Rúnarsson
CCO and Airport Development Officer
Keflavik Airport


Melissa Conley
Executive Director of Capability Management and Innovation
Transportation Security Administration (TSA)


Martha Todd Edge
Innovation & Experience Director
Charlotte Douglas International Airport


Matt Klein
EVP & Chief Commercial Officer
Spirit Airlines


Ian Law
Chief Innovation & Experience Officer
Los Angeles World Airports


Dimitris Bountolos
Chief Information & Innovation Officer
Ferrovial


Oren Cohen Butansky
EVP & Chief Customer Experience Officer
EL AL Israel Airlines


Tammy Smith
Director, Customer Experience and Development
Toronto Pearson


Keith Walters
Group Transformation Lead
International Airlines Group (IAG)


Amit Rikhy
President and CEO
CAG Holdings (A Carlyle Backed Company)


Natalie Bowman
Managing Director, Product & Digital Experiences
Alaska Airlines


Stephen Snyder
Managing Director, Operations & Partnerships
JetBlue Ventures


Mike Youngs
VP of Information Technology
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport


Alexander Nethers
Senior Manager, Customer Experience & Innovation
American Airlines


Steve Armitage
Head of Innovation
Heathrow


Samuel Ingalls
Principal
Barich, Inc


Myles Tzelepis
CTO/CPO
Embross


Stephen Tukavkin
Vice President IT & Digital
JFK International Air Terminal


Kristin Olsen
Director of Product Management, Travel Experience Guest Digital Technology
Alaska Airlines


Iyad Hindiyeh
Chief Digital Transformation Officer
San Francisco International Airport


Robin Riedel
Partner
McKinsey & Company


John Nilsson
Strategic Planning Manager Electric and Hydrogen Aircraft Infrastructure
Swedavia


Brian Cobb
Chief Innovation Officer
Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky International Airport


Sarah Chou
Senior Sustainability Consultant
Southwest Airlines


Bryan Bernhard
Chief Growth & Infrastructure Officer
Archer


Stanley Tran
Corporate Development - United Airlines Ventures
United Airlines


Pierre Charbonneau
Vice President, Events & Commercial Services
ACI World


Hannah Meredith
Senior Manager of Strategic Innovation
CVG Airport


Gus Naughton
Senior Software Engineer, Emerging Technologies
Alaska Airlines


Jack Kavanagh
Board of Directors of the
National Disability Authority and Center for Excellence in Universal Design


Jo Rowan
Associate Director – Strategy
PriestmanGoode


Dr. Joe Leader
CEO
APEX/IFSA


Ben Klein
CEO
Aero


Ernest Hui
Head of UX/UI Design
Cathay Pacific Airways


Geoffrey Ax
Ax, Principal / Aviation Market Leader
Populous


Robert Silk
Airlines Editor
Travel Weekly


Ben Kaufman
Senior Director, Marketing & Customer Strategy
JSX


Dr. Bjoern Becker
Head of Future Intercontinental Experience Program
Lufthansa


Bastian Schütz
Global Lead, Virtual & Mixed Reality Content Sourcing at Meta (Facebook)
Meta Reality Labs


Camillo Stark
Deputy Managing Director (AR/VR Labs)
MSM.digital


Diane J. Sabatino
Acting Executive Assistant Commissioner of Field Operations
U.S. Customs and Border Protection


Christina Peach
Deputy Assistant Administrator, Requirements & Capabilities Analysis
Transportation Security Administration (TSA)


Daniel Coleman
Founder & CEO
Future Travel Experience


Dr. Jan-Henrik Andersson
Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) & Chief Security Officer (CSO)
Munich Airport


Sammy Patel
Chief Executive Officer, Midway Partnership & Vice President, Commercial
Vantage Airport Group


Tenille Houston
VP Public Relations and Communications
Aurrigo


James Houghton
Aviation Business Development
Materna IPS


Wopke Dost
Programme Management Lead
nlmtd


Dennis van Kleef
Programme Lead Baggage
Royal Schiphol Group


Michael Rousseau
President and Chief Executive Officer
Air Canada


Con Korfiatis
CEO
Oman Air


Perry Cantarutti
President, APEX & Senior Vice President – Alliances and International
Delta Air Lines


Rossen Dimitrov
Chief Guest Officer
Saudia Airlines


Xie Bing
CEO & President
Xiamen Airlines


Catriona Larritt
Chief Customer and Digital Officer
Qantas Group


Christopher Neal
Director of Operations for the Project
Port of Portland


Yvonne Bilshausen
SVP | Global Head of Aviation Architecture + Engineering
AECOM


Bryant L.Francis
Director of Airports
Cleveland Airport System


Kaveh Dabiran
Managing Director, Corporate Real Estate Planning & Development
United Airlines


Mike Hardaker
Chief Asset & Development Officer
MAG


Mike Christensen
Chief Development Officer
Los Angeles World Airports


Cole Wolfson
supporting e Tank team members & Director, xBridge
Pittsburgh International Airport


Kristen Berndt
Senior Manager, Customer Strategy & Innovation
United Airlines


Doug Kreuzkamp
Founder/CEO
Springshot


Zahra Merchant
Chapter Lead Robotics
Royal Schiphol Group


Tomoyuki Kikuchi
Manager, Ground Handling Planning, Airport Support, Operations Support Center
ANA


Maurice Jenkins
Chief Innovation Officer
Miami International Airport


William Rumsey
Head of Product – Airport & Customer Ops
British Airways


Lisa Sullivan
Executive Vice President- Travel and Transport
IDEMIA


Chang Ellison
Identity Management Capability Manager, Enrollment, ID Proofing, and Vetting
Transportation Security Administration (TSA)


Vladimir Stojkovski
VP of Product Management
CLEAR


Wendy Chaves
Deputy Executive Director, Capability Management and Innovation, RCA
Transportation Security Administration (TSA)


Cynthia Guidry
Director
Long Beach Airport


Steven Thody
CEO
JFK Millenium Partners


Manuel van Lijf
Director Aviation Innovation
nlmtd


Sarah Bennett
Head of Heathrow Safety and Security
British Airways


Stuart Holdstock
Head of projects and processes – Operations
Lufthansa


Rosina Kotey
Innovation Lead
Aviation Solutions by Schiphol Group


Darin Juby
Head of Transformation
Future Travel Experience


Kevin Kleist
Head of Emerging Trends
Southwest Airlines


Byron Smith
Chief Technology Officer
NetTracer


Yorick Buys
Head of Baggage
Brussels Airport Company


Bhaskar Chopra
Sr. Director - Digital Solutions
Siemens Logistics


Norman Fekrat
Managing Partner
Imagine Wireless


Richard Clarke
Chief Creative Officer
Greater Orlando Aviation Authority


Nicole Hodges Austin
Manager of Airport Innovation & Standards
Frontier Airlines


William Warbington
Director Alliance Innovation Strategy
SkyTeam


Coralie Klaus Boecker
Head ZRH Innovation Hub
Zurich Airport


Marisa Von Wieding
VP Operations
The New Terminal One at JFK


Rob Cato
Director CX Airport Technology Product Management
American Airlines


Nicolas Tarassoff
Key Account Manager
Scandit


Phillip Chan
Executive Director of Solutions
Samsung


Royce Holden
Cybersecurity Lead/CISO
Mead & Hunt


Faith Varwig
Principal
Faith Group


Yahav Ran
CEO
Synect


Rob Bischoff
Global Digital Experience Design Leader
Gensler


Austin Gould
President
Gould Strategic Solution


Renie Subin
Senior Director, Technology & External Affairs
ACI-NA


Amal Hejles
Digital Strategy Director
MATARAT


James Williamson
CEO
Veovo


Raymond Viggiano
Assistant Manager of Customer Service Delivery
The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey


Jeff Lennon
VP Strategic Sales and Global Partnerships
Vision-Box


Gabriel Wichrowski
VP of Global Business Development
Airside


Gerold Daantje
Immigration Department, Ministry of Justice
Curaçao


Priscilla Duin-Circkens
Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)
Curacao Airport Holding


Matt Gilkeson
Chief Technology, Data, and Artificial Intelligence Officer
Transportation Security Administration (TSA)


Sagi Varghese
Managing Director, Airport Operations & CSD Technology
United Airlines


Bernadette Berger
Director of Innovation
Alaska Airlines


Max Pariazar
Principle Data Scientist for Artificial Intelligence & Data Transformation
Southwest Airlines


Sree Samudrala
Director of AI Delivery
Southwest Airlines


Deesha Desai
Vice President, LAX Hub & West Region
Envoy


Christian George Kessler
Organizational Alignment and Strategic Innovation
Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority


Patrick Skelton
Innovation Research & Development Program Manager
Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority


Doug Wycoff
Director of Digital Technologies & Innovation, HCAA \
Tampa International Airport


Geena Martin
Director of Business Development
Gameway


Kate McFarlane
Director of Content and Creative
Foundations Worldwide


Tim McMullen
Vice President, Business Development
DataArt


Victor Oribamise
CEO
Kquika


Ed Vanga
Vice President of Product Management for Artificial Intelligence
Publicis Sapient


Vikram Baskaran
Vice President, Information Technology
Alaska Airlines


Rolf Felke
Senior Vice President Applications and Partner Management
Fraport


Christiaan Hen
CEO
Assaia
Speakers who participated in FTE Global 2023 include:


Akbar Al Baker
Group CEO
Qatar Airways & Hamad International Airport


Brian J. Glaser
Ph.D, VP & Chief Talent and Learning Officer, Member of Board of Advisors, LIFT Airline & original start up team member of JetBlue


Jeff Shaw
EVP Brand Partnerships & Business Strategy
Live Nation Entertainment


Dina Ben Tal Ganancia
CEO
EL AL Israel Airlines


Justin Erbacci
CEO
Los Angeles World Airports


Anko van der Werff
President & CEO
SAS


Chris Annetts
Chief Strategy Officer
Heathrow


Diane J. Sabatino
Acting Executive Assistant Commissioner of Field Operations
U.S. Customs and Border Protection


Ted Christie
President & CEO
Spirit Airlines


Lutz Weisser
Managing Director
Munich Airport International


Zhao Dong
Chairman
Xiamen Airlines


Tony Thompson
Founder and CEO
Air Cahana


Nina Sproedt
Vice President Product Development
Lufthansa Group


Alex Wilcox
CEO & Co-founder
JSX & Board Member, LATAM Airlines


Maurice Jenkins
Chief Innovation Officer
Miami International Airport


John Thomas
CEO
Connect Airlines


Steven Thody
CEO
JFK Millenium Partners


Anton Vidgen
Vice President, Guest Experience
Riyadh Air


Suhail Kadri
Senior Vice President Technology & Innovation
Hamad International Airport


Lennert l'Amie
CIO
Aviation Solutions by Schiphol Group


Austin Gould
President
Gould Strategic Solution


Julio Toro
CIO
Copa Airlines


Mike Youngs
VP of Information Technology
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport


Matt Breed
CIO
Port of Seattle


Kristen Berndt
Senior Manager, Customer Strategy & Innovation
United Airlines


Nikhil Ravishankar
Chief Digital Officer
Air New Zealand


Eduardo Valencia
CIO
Metropolitan Airports Commission


Nathan VanRheenen
Executive Director, Intelligent Solutions (AI/ML & Analytics)
Boeing


Tarik Galijasevic
Managing Director (Corporate Venture Capital Group)
Allstate Strategic Ventures


James Dorris
Co-Founder and CEO
Odys Aviation


Michelle Buckley
Managing Director, Customer Engagement
Southwest Airlines


Cole Wolfson
supporting e Tank team members & Director, xBridge
Pittsburgh International Airport


Robbie Stephens
Fleets Strategy Lead
Uber


Amber Simonsen
Director, Airport Lobby Transformation
Alaska Airlines


Christian Draeger
VP Customer Experience
Star Alliance


Tara Mulrooney
VP Technology & Innovation
Edmonton International Airport


Harvey Tate
Human API – Digital Transformation
International Airlines Group (IAG)


Carlos R. Estrada
Director of Commercial Homeport Operations
Carnival Cruise Line


Rohit Talwar
CEO
Fast Future


Brian Davis
CMO
Sun Country Airlines


Bert van der Stege
CEO
Harbour Air Seaplanes


Amy Benson
VP of Marketing
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield


Christian George Kessler
Organizational Alignment and Strategic Innovation
Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority


Robin Riedel
Partner
McKinsey & Company


Aura Moore
CIO
Los Angeles World Airports


Dr. Joe Leader
CEO
APEX/IFSA


Mr Akbar Al Baker
Group CEO
Group CEO, Qatar Airways Group, Hamad International Airport and Chairman of Qatar Tourism


Capt Ibrahim Koshy
CEO
Saudia Airlines


Andre Viljoen
Managing Director & CEO
Fiji Airways


Catherine Tobaisinsky
Chief Growth Officer
Dar Group


Stephen Snyder
Managing Director, Operations & Partnerships
JetBlue Ventures


Amit Rikhy
President and CEO
CAG Holdings (A Carlyle Backed Company)


Rob Mitchell
Director, Head of Business Development - Airports, Events & Travel
Uber


Anne Marie Pellerin
Founder and Managing Partner
LAM LHA


Ian Law
Chief Innovation & Experience Officer
Los Angeles World Airports


Matt Gilkeson
Chief Technology, Data, and Artificial Intelligence Officer
Transportation Security Administration (TSA)


Lisa Sullivan
Executive Vice President- Travel and Transport
IDEMIA


Tim Lorenzen
Senior Manager, Security Innovation
American Airlines


Bob Kwik
Worldwide Head of Airports
AWS


Sarah Clark
Senior Vice President - Digital Identity
Mastercard


Dr. Bjoern Becker
Head of Future Intercontinental Experience Program
Lufthansa


Bastian Schütz
Global Lead, Virtual & Mixed Reality Content Sourcing at Meta (Facebook)
Meta Reality Labs


Joshua Hirschheimer
Practice Lead - Aerospace, Transportation and Logistics
Porsche Consulting


Dennis van Kleef
Programme Lead Baggage
Royal Schiphol Group


Manuel van Lijf
Director Aviation Innovation
nlmtd


Chris Runde
Director of Strategy and Innovation
Introba


Paige Stanton Wilson
COO
Acubed by Airbus


Paul Puopolo
Executive Vice President of Innovation
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport


Melissa Conley
Executive Director of Capability Management and Innovation
Transportation Security Administration (TSA)


Richard Vandy
VP - Systems Integration and Partnerships
BagsID


Javed Malik
FTE APEX Asia Expo Advisory Board Member, Managing Partner Ink+ & Managing Director, Ink Arabia
Ink Arabia


Devin Liddell
Principal Futurist
Teague


Kevin Kleist
Head of Emerging Trends
Southwest Airlines


Samuel Ingalls
Principal
Barich, Inc


Michael Youngs
Vice President Information Technology
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport


Walt Shaw
Senior Director of Product
Boingo Wireless


Maarten Van Aerde
General Manager
Citymesh


Daniel Coleman
Founder & CEO
Future Travel Experience


Dan Liebermann
Managing Director, Management Consulting
Publicis Sapient


Charu Jain
Senior Vice President Merchandising & Innovation
Alaska Airlines


Maninder Bahia
Interim Chief Information Officer (CIO)
Frontier Airlines


Ted Hutchins
Chief Information Officer
Norse Atlantic Airways


Jaron Millner
Director, Head of Carrier oneworld Digitalisation
Oneworld Management Company


Darin Juby
Head of Transformation
Future Travel Experience


Shaown Nandi
Solutions Architect & Customer Solutions Leader
Amazon Web Services (AWS) & former CIO of Dow Jones and Head of Shared Technology Services for News Corp


Hervé Muller
Head of Airport Sales
EASIER


Patrick Sgueglia
, Product Development, Airport Experience, Biometrics, Regulatory
Lufthansa


Nael Samha
Executive Director, Targeting, Vetting and Biometrics Systems
U.S. Customs and Border Protection


Arturo Garcia-Alonso
Chief Strategy Officer
Avports


Dr. Jan-Henrik Andersson
Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) & Chief Security Officer (CSO)
Munich Airport


Gus Naughton
Senior Software Engineer, Emerging Technologies
Alaska Airlines


Jean Carlon
Product Manager of Airport Guest Technology
Alaska Airlines


Jasper Quak
Managing Director
BAGTAG


Yvonne Bilshausen
SVP | Global Head of Aviation Architecture + Engineering
AECOM


Philip Autekie
Masterplanning and Design Manager
Brussels Airport Company


Terri Mestas
Chief Development Officer
Los Angeles World Airports


Forth Bagley
Principal
Kohn Pedersen Fox


Yahav Ran
CEO
Synect


Steve Sisneros
VP Airport Affairs
Southwest Airlines


Idar Sørgjerd
Department Manager, BHS, Tech & Op. Excellence
Avinor


Jason Odey
Director, Global Baggage Excellence
Air Canada


Byron Smith
Chief Technology Officer
NetTracer


Jan Vidar Nalbant
CCO
BagID


Mike Byrom
Chief Operating Officer, North America
Swissport


Devon Heyns
Director - Customer Innovation & Solutions
United Airlines


Jens Sanner
Program Director for Digital Services and Transformation
Fraport


Bill Carleton
Director, Advanced Recognition Systems
NEC Corporation of America


Forest Beattie
Solution Engineer Senior Manager
SITA


Haider Arif Hayat
Head of Enterprise Information Architecture, Analytics & AI
Hamad International Airport


Rakan Khaled
General Manager, Airport Solutions
Collins Aerospace


Geoffrey Ax
Ax, Principal / Aviation Market Leader
Populous


Greg Forbes
Managing Director Airport Experience
Delta Air Lines


Christina Cassotis
CEO
Pittsburgh International Airport


Ryan Ghee
Chief Operating Officer
Future Travel Experience


Tino Klaehne
Director Strategic Innovation & Intelligence
Lufthansa Innovation Hub


Naashom Marx
Director of Strategic Innovation - Advanced Mobility
CVG Airport


Chris Hartman
Director Business Development Digital Experience
Airport Dimensions


Holly Miles
Editor
International Airport Review


Derwin Cady
Manager, Airport Technology and Product Development
Air Canada


James Snowdon
IT Director, Infrastructure Airport Applications
Vancouver Airport Authority


Jean-Francois Lennon
Vice President Strategic Sales & Global Partnerships
Vision-Box


Annet Steenbergen
Advisor
EU Digital Wallet Consortium (EWC)


Ray Viggiano
Assistant Manager of Customer Service Delivery
Port Authority of NY & NJ


James Williamson
CEO
Veovo


Susan Lewis
Manager of CX Analytics Team
Southwest Airlines


Nelson Camacho
CEO North America
Swissport


Elizabeth Paul
Manager, Aviation Technology and Innovation
The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (PANYNJ)


Ed Baklor
Partner, Consumer Practice, Travel, Leisure & Hospitality
True


Nancy Knipp
President of the Americas
Airport Dimensions


Oren Cohen Butansky
EVP & Chief Customer Experience Officer
EL AL Israel Airlines


Rupen Singh Philloura
Director of Terminal Operations, Customer Service & AOCC
Miami International Airport


Tomasz Pawliszyn
CEO
AirHelp


Yvo van der Tol
CCO
HRS Crew & Passenger Solutions


Martijn Steur
Managing Director
Kinetic Consultancy


Dave Jones
Deputy Executive Director - Commercial Development
Los Angeles World Airports


Sarah Gipple
Head of Partnerships
CAVU


Dadi Runarsson
Chief Commercial & Airport Development Officer
Isavia


Velissarios Eleftheriou
Expert
Munich Airport International


Suzanne Bremski
Head of Digital & Customer Experience
Harbour Air Seaplanes


Güçlü Batkin
CEO
TAV Operation Services
Vital Event Information
Future Travel Experience Global 2025 is a global forum that brings together airlines, airports, government agencies, vendors, start-ups, terminal designers, architects, ground handlers, destination partners and various other travel industry stakeholders to learn, collaborate and be inspired on their next moves to transform their organisations’ passenger experience, business performance & sustainability strategies.
- Event
- Future Travel Experience Global 2025
- Date
- - September 2025
- Location
- Long Beach Convention Center, California, United States
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