2010 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Day 1 
Tuesday 27 April 2010

0900-1000  Session 1 - Opening Remarks and Keynote Addresses (all conference tracks)
1. Mr. Randy Babbitt, Administrator, FAA
2. Captain Rory Kay, Executive Air Safety Chairman, ALPA

1000-1100 Coffee - Sponsored by EPST & MPS

1100-1230 Session 2 - Operational Safety Insights (all conference tracks)
1. Captain Winston Scott, Dean, College of Aeronautics, Florida Institute of Technology (FIT)
2. Captain John Bent, Director Training Strategy, Sino-Foreign Aviation Education Associates Ltd.
“Training for Safety”
3. Captain John Cox, President/CEO, Safety Operating Systems and Dr. Kathy Abbott, Chief Scientific and Technical Advisor, Flight Deck Human Factors, FAA

12:30-1400 Lunch - Sponsored by CAE

1400-1530  Session 3 – WATS Maintenance: FAA Project Showcase 
1. Bruce Corsino,  Plain Language Program Manager, FAA
“Communicating with Plain Language”
2. Dan Cheney, Manager Safety Programs, Transport Airplane Directorate, FAA
“Lessons learned from Transport Category Aircraft:  A Web-based Library”

1530-1615 Coffee

1615-1745 Session 4 – WATS Maintenance: Personnel Certification
1. David Bowman, Persides
“ Licensing of Military Registered Aircraft Engineers in the UK”
2. Katrina Avers, FAA
“Training Mechanics and their Managers about Alertness at Work”
3. Michael Leroy, Austrian Airlines
“Austrian Airlines: Our Approach to the FAA and Training”

1745 Networking Reception - Sponsored by Airbus Training

Day 2- April 28

0900-10:30 Session 5 – WATS Maintenance: Training Design for Maintenance
1. Laurent Dussillos, Logistics and Training Development Manager, Customer  Training Center,  Snecma
“The Importance of Efficient Specifications in the Development Process of Maintenance Training Courses at Snecma”
2. Bob Maciorowski, Customer Training Center, Pratt & Whitney and James Mazeski, Customer Training Center, Pratt & Whitney
"Total Training Experience"
3. Faten Al-Zoubi, JorAMCO, Jordon
“ Maintenance Training and Certification in the Middle East”

10:30-1115 Coffee

1115-1245 Session 6 – WATS Maintenance: Role of Simulation Technology
1. Michele Asmar, Director Delivery Services,  CAE  
"Virtually Hands-On: The Evolving Technologies of Technical Training."
2. Tim Ropp, Assistant Professor, Purdue University,
“Connecting with the Millennial Generation through “X-Box” Research and Technology”
3. TBD

1245-1415 Lunch - Sponsored by Frasca

1415-1545 MAINTENANCE BREAKOUT 
Mark Lopez, Air Transport Association, will lead a panel discussion on the ATA’s Maintenance Training Network.
1. HansJoerg Loetter, InfoWerk, Austria,  “On European Maintenance Training Committee”
2. Rhonda Cooper, Sikorsky Helicopters,  “The Training Systems Design Chapter of the ATA Manual”

1545-1615 Coffee

1615-1745 Dedicated Exhibition Time

Day 3 – April 29

0900-1030 Session 7 – Simulation Technology Update (all conference tracks)
1.Graeme Olgivie, ALSIM
“How are Advances in Technology Helping in Initial Pilot Training?”
2. David White, Chief Scientist, Thales
“B787 Training Technologies”
3. Brandon Mazzacavallo, Boeing Training and Flight Services
“Simulator Data Improvements in an Era of New Regulations”

1115-1245 Session 8 – Focus on e-Learning for Air Carriers (all conference tracks)
WATS Session conducted by Herbert Schwarz, Chairman of the Aviation Industry CBT Committee (AICC).
1. Brad Cooper, Senior Vice President Research, Plateau Systems
“ROI in Training – Finding the Right Approach and Strategies for Making the LMS Case in Today’s Cost-Cutting Climate”
2. John Alonso, CTO, Outstart
“The Flying Classroom – Mobile Learning for the Mobile Workforce: Can We Afford Not to Do It?”

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