Conference Program – AIAC Summit

Tuesday, November 8

7:00 AM	Registration
Rideau Canal Atrium	sponsored by

7:45 AM	Breakfast
Canada Hall 1-2	sponsored by and

8:15 AM - 4:30 PM	B2B & Exhibit Hall
Canada Hall 1-2	sponsored by and

8:15 AM - 4:30 PM	Aerospace as a Career – Silent Auction
Canada Hall 1-2	sponsored by

	Conference Room
Ottawa Salon	sponsored by

8:20 AM	Opening Remarks
Ottawa Salon	Featuring: Summit Chair Salimah Lalji, Senior Contracts Manager, Contracts & Legal, Defense & Security, CAE Mike Mueller, President & CEO, AIAC Richard Foster, Chief Executive & Vice President, L3Harris Technologies Canada

8:30 AM	Keynote
Ottawa Salon	Featuring: The Honourable Dr. Helena Jaczek, M.D., Minister of Public Services and Procurement, Government of Canada

8:45 AM	Super Session
Ottawa Salon	Featuring: Lieutenant-General E.J. (Eric) Kenny, CMM, MSC, MSM, CD, Commander, Royal Canadian Air Force

9:15 AM	Super Session
Ottawa Salon	Featuring: Éric Martel, President and CEO, Bombardier

9:45 AM	Refreshment Break
Canada Hall 1-2	sponsored by

10:30 AM	Super Session
Ottawa Salon	Featuring: LeAnn Ridgeway, Chief Sustainability Officer, Collins Aerospace

11:00 AM	Small Business Panel
Ottawa Salon	Featuring: Barney Bangs, Executive Chairperson, Tulmar Group of Companies Keith Donaldson, Vice President, Apex Industries Inc Stephen Kearns, President & CEO, Avior Anita Pawluk, President, RaceRocks

12:15 PM	Networking Lunch (Exhibit Hall)
Canada Hall 1-2

1:45 PM	Super Session – Air Mobility Panel
Ottawa Salon	Featuring: Joe Armstrong, VP, Single Synthetic Environments & Immersive Technologies, CAE Michael J. Dyment, Managing Partner, Nexa Capital Partners, LLC Lyne Moreau, Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, NAV Canada E. Brandon Robinson, Co-founder and CEO, Horizon Aircraft

2:30 PM	SUPER SESSION
Ottawa Salon	Featuring: Chris Raymond, Chief Sustainability Officer, The Boeing Company

3:00 PM	Refreshment Break
Canada Hall 1-2

3:45 PM	Fireside Chat
Ottawa Salon	Featuring: Kim Douglas, Vice-President, Business Development and Marketing, Canadian Commercial Corporation Sven List, Senior Vice-President, Corporate & International, Export Development Canada

4:15 PM	Fireside Chat – Gateway to Global Leadership
Ottawa Salon	Featuring: Mike Mueller, President & CEO, AIAC Alexandre Gagnon, Executive Director, Transformation, Pratt & Whitney Canada

4:30 PM	Super Session
Ottawa Salon	Featuring: Benoît Schultz, Chief Executive Officer, Airbus Canada Limited Partnership

5:00 PM	Closing Remarks
Ottawa Salon	Featuring: Summit Chair Salimah Lalji, Senior Contracts Manager, Contracts & Legal, Defense & Security, CAE

5:30 PM	Annual Aerospace Reception (cocktail)
Parliament Foyer 1-2	sponsored by

6:45 PM

Annual Aerospace Dinner

Trillium Ballroom

Dinner sponsored by

James C. Floyd Award sponsored by

Lifetime Achievement Award sponsored by

Small Business Innovation Technology Award sponsored by

Centerpieces sponsored by

Wednesday, November 9

7:30 AM	Registration
Rideau Canal Atrium	sponsored by

8:00 AM	Breakfast
Ottawa Salon	sponsored by

	Conference Room
Ottawa Salon	sponsored by

8:30 AM	Opening Remarks
Ottawa Salon	Featuring: Summit Chair Salimah Lalji, Senior Contracts Manager, Contracts & Legal, Defense & Security, CAE Mike Mueller, President & CEO, AIAC Amandeep Kaler, Chief Executive Officer, Avcorp Industries

8:45 AM	Super Session
Ottawa Salon	Featuring: Brigadier-General C.A (Chris) McKenna, OMM, MSC, MSM, CD, Director General Air and Space Force Development (DGASFD), Royal Canadian Air Force, Canadian Armed Forces

9:15 AM	super session
Ottawa Salon	Featuring: Lisa Campbell, President, Canadian Space Agency

9:45 AM	AI Panel
Ottawa Salon	Featuring: Julien Billot, CEO, Scale AI Ghislain Gagné, Partner, Montreal, McKinsey & Company Nivine Kallab, Vice President, Customer Programs, Pratt & Whitney Canada Siegfried Usal, VP, Digital Innovation and General Manager, Thales Digital Solutions

10:30 AM	Refreshment Break
Ottawa Salon	sponsored by

10:45 AM

Labour Market Panel

Ottawa Salon

Opening Remarks:
Tala Abou Rizk, Third-year mechanical engineer student minoring in aerospace engineering, McGill University

Featuring:
Robert Donald, Executive Director, Canadian Council for Aviation & Aerospace
Joseph Galimberti, Senior Vice President, Public Affairs, PAL Aerospace
Alexander Tsoulis, Senior Advisor – Business Development & Advanced Technologies, MHI Canada Aerospace Inc.
Uwe Zachau, PH.D., Managing Director & CEO, MTU Maintenance Canada

11:30 AM	Fireside Chat
Ottawa Salon	Featuring: David Riggs, Advisor to the CEO, De Havilland Canada

12:30 PM	Leadership Luncheon Reception
RCA Foyer

12:55 PM

Aerospace Leadership Luncheon

Ottawa Salon

Featuring:
Simon Kennedy, Deputy Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, Government of Canada

Luncheon sponsored by and

Speaker sponsored by

2:00 PM

Member Briefing

Gateway to Global Leadership

Featuring:
Mike Mueller, President & CEO, AIAC

3:00 PM

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