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As MAX Return Nears, Do Air Framers Face More Production Cuts?
October 1
10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST
New data suggest Airbus and Boeing may have been approaching peak production before the COVID-19 crisis. The debate now is whether their already drastic production cuts are enough. And with the 737 MAX’s return to service in sight, how quickly will Boeing ramp up output of its most popular airplane?
Veteran aerospace analyst Charles Armitage joins Aviation Week editors to delve into the numbers, the outlook for 2021 and the ramifications for suppliers.
Moderated by Joe Anselmo, Editorial Director, Aviation Week Network
Panelists:
Charles Armitage, European Aerospace and Defence Analyst, Citi Research
Jens Flottau, Executive Editor, Aviation Week Network
Sean Broderick, Air Transport and Safety Editor, Aviation Week Network
Michael Bruno, Senior Business Editor, Aviation Week Network
Preparing Workforce Strategies For A Post-Pandemic World
September 11
10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST
Strategies for a 21st century workplace were blown apart by the arrival of COVID-19, forcing the aerospace and defense industry to pivot to a work environment reliant on connectivity, fewer workers and accelerated automation and virtual teaming. Now companies must figure out how to cut costs without inflicting long-term damage on workforces that will be vital to their success when better times return.
PwC Partner John Reing joins Aviation Week’s Michael Bruno and Carole Hedden for a discussion on how COVID has changed workforce strategies and how the aerospace industry is faring on diversity.
Moderator: Joe Anselmo, Editorial Director, Aviation Week Network
Panelists:
John Reing, Partner, Workforce of the Future, PwC
Michael Bruno, Sr. Business Editor, Aviation Week Network
Carole Hedden, Project Lead-Workforce, Aviation Week Network
Engine OEMs: Changing Captains in the Storm
August 26
10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST
GE Aviation President and CEO David Joyce will hand the reins to former Embraer Commercial Chief John Slattery on Sept. 1, capping a storied 12-year run that saw the unit’s revenue double and backlog rise tenfold. But Slattery takes the helm as the aircraft engine industry endures an unprecedented downturn from the COVID-19 crisis.
Aerospace analyst Sash Tusa joins Aviation Week Senior Propulsion Editor Guy Norris and Executive Editor Jens Flottau for a look at what to expect from Slattery and how GE, Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce are being affected as mass retirements of older airplanes reduce their crucial aftermarket revenues.
The panel also will discuss how engine OEMs are positioning for the future, including new turbofans, sustainable operations and the possible adoption of hybrid-electric and hydrogen technology.
Moderated by Joe Anselmo, Editorial Director, Aviation Week Network
Panelists:
Sash Tusa, Aerospace Analyst, Agency Partners
Guy Norris, Senior Propulsion Editor, Aviation Week Network
Jens Flottau, Executive Editor, Commercial, Aviation Week Network
A&D: Getting Back To Work
July 1
10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST
As furloughs and layoffs have made the headlines, it’s the work behind the scenes — to get as many people back to work as possible — that is keeping aerospace and defense leaders busy. From reshaping the physical workspace to updating training and certifications, the tasks have been endless.
In this webinar, three industry executives will discuss what they have done to ensure employee safety while at work and get back to some form of efficiency. They’ll also share lessons learned and trends from across multiple industries.
Moderator: Carole Rickard Hedden, Executive Editor, Aviation Week Executive Intelligence and Program Excellence
Panelists:
Doug McCrosson, President and CEO, CPI Aerostructures
John Reing, Partner-Workforce of the Future, PwC
Michelle Murphy, Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Administration, BAE Systems
Byron Green, Vice President, Operations, L3Harris Technologies, Inc
Advantage Airbus?
June 26
10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST
As it deals with fallout from the COVID-19 crisis, Airbus must define a plan to lower production over the coming years. There is also renewed government pressure for more sustainable aircraft, including research into a carbon-neutral A320neo successor. But with Boeing grappling with the MAX crisis and struggling to blunt the phenomenal sales success of the A321neo, could Airbus emerge from the crisis in a stronger position vis-à-vis its chief competitor?
Join us as Aviation Week editors delve into the details.
Moderator: Joe Anselmo, Editorial Director, Aviation Week Network
Panelists:
Jens Flottau, Executive Editor, Commercial Aviation, Aviation Week Network
Guy Norris, Senior Propulsion Editor, Aviation Week Network
Thierry Dubois, France Bureau Chief, Aviation Week Network
Could the U.S. Military Lose a War to China or Russia?
June 19
10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST
Christian Brose, a former majority director of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee and author of the provocative book “The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare,” joins Aviation Week editors to discuss America’s failure to pursue advanced technologies needed to maintain its military edge. The U.S. is now reaching for new networking tools that would allow its joint force to fight as one. But can the Pentagon retool fast enough to match China and Russia?
Moderator: Joe Anselmo, Editorial Director, Aviation Week Network
Panelists:
Christian Brose, Head of Strategy, Anduril Industries
Steve Trimble, Defense Editor, Aviation Week Network
Bradley Perrett, Beijing Bureau Chief, Aviation Week Network
Jen DiMascio, Executive Editor, Defense and Space, Aviation Week Network
5G: A Threat To Aviation Or The Future?
June 12
10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST
The U.S. has found itself in bind after bind over the issue of 5G networks. It needs faster, secure communication networks. But a recent FCC decision to allow Ligado Networks to build an L-band ground-based 5G cellular networks is under fire from industry groups, airline pilots and even the Pentagon over the potential for its signals to disrupt GPS devices.
Ligado Networks CEO Doug Smith will join us to discuss how Ligado’s 5G network will benefit the U.S. aviation industry. And we’ll want to know how it can do so without harming the efficacy of GPS - the world’s most ubiquitous positioning, navigation and timing satellite.
Moderator: Jen DiMascio, Executive Editor, Defense & Space, Aviation Week Network
Panelists:
Doug Smith, CEO, Ligado Networks
Dana Goward, President, Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation
Bill Carey, Avionics and Safety Editor, Aviation Week Network
Michael Bruno, Senior Business Editor, Aviation Week Network
Airbus, Boeing And Embraer: Flight Paths Forward
June 5
10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST
The drastic effects of COVID-19 on aircraft demand have been well reported. But what is the long-term structural impact on airline networks, and how does that change which type of aircraft will be in demand when better times return? With Boeing’s NMA dead for now, what key product decisions will air framers face to remain competitive in the long run? And can Embraer survive on its own?
London-based aerospace analyst Sash Tusa joins Aviation Week editors to discuss the paths forward for commercial aerospace.
Moderator: Joe Anselmo, Editorial Director, Aviation Week Network
Panelists:
Sash Tusa, Aerospace Analyst, Agency Partners
Jens Flottau, Executive Editor, Commercial Aviation, Aviation Week Network
Guy Norris, Senior Propulsion Editor, Aviation Week Network
Aviation and COVID-19: The Next 3 Months
May 29
10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST
It has been nearly three months since the coronavirus forced much of Europe and North America into sudden lockdowns and grounded the lion’s share of airline traffic. What will the next three months bring – for airlines, aircraft manufacturers, suppliers and MRO providers? And what happens if government bailouts start to run out?
Aviation Week’s writers have been on the front lines throughout the crisis and share their views of where the industry is heading in the coming months.
Join our free, interactive webinar, watch, and ask them your questions.
Moderator: Joe Anselmo, Editorial Director, Aviation Week Network
Panelists:
Sean Broderick, Air Transport and Safety Editor, Aviation Week Network
Michael Bruno, Senior Business Editor, Aviation Week Editor
Jens Flottau, Executive Editor, Commercial Aviation, Aviation Week Network
Lee Ann Shay, Chief Editor, MRO, Aviation Week Network
Aerospace Supply Chain: The New Superpower Battleground?
May 22
10:00 EDT/ 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST
The COVID-19 cash crisis has added a new wrinkle to the race between the U.S. and China to achieve strategic superiority by harnessing discriminating technologies.
Will Beijing leverage the crisis by using “adversarial capital” to take stakes in suppliers and startups that are critical to the western defense industrial base? Can the U.S. and its allies thwart such efforts by creating a “trusted capital” ecosystem of venture capitalists, private equity and funds to invest in crucial suppliers desperate for cash?
Moderator: Joe Anselmo, Editorial Director, Aviation Week Network
Panelists:
Kirsten Bartok Touw, Managing Partner, AirFinance
Tom Mayor, KPMG partner and Industrial Manufacturing Strategy practice leader
Graham Warwick, Executive Editor, Technology, Aviation Week Network
Michael Bruno, Senior Business Editor, Aviation Week Network
Can the U.S. Air Force Help Save UAM?
May 15
With the impact of COVID-19 on private investment and corporate R&D alike, can the nascent electric VTOL industry survive to inaugurate the age of urban air mobility? Can a U.S. Air Force program called Agility Prime help the industry get through this interregnum and attract investment? And why was VTOL such a hot topic before COVID-19 hit. Can it regain that heat?
Vertical Flight Society Executive Director Mike Hirschberg joins Aviation Week editors to discuss this glimmer of hopeful news in hard times.
Moderator: Joe Anselmo, Editorial Director, Aviation Week Network
Panelists:
Col Nathan Diller, USAF - Agility Prime Team Lead
Mike Hirschberg, Executive Director, Vertical Flight Society
Graham Warwick, Executive Editor, Technology, Aviation Week Network
Sustainability in the Era of COVID-19
May 7
The aviation industry’s efforts to improve sustainability have been put on the back burner as the COVID-19 crisis has forced airlines and commercial aircraft manufacturers to focus on survivability. How will the crisis set back electric propulsion and other efforts to lower aviation’s contribution to climate change? Will accelerated retirements of older, less efficient aircraft help offset those delays? And should governments be mandating cleaner and quieter airplanes in exchange for billions of dollars in economic aid to the industry?
Industry experts from Airlines for America and the International Council on Clean Transportation join Aviation Week editors to discuss what aviation leaders should be thinking about now to be positioned for a greener future when the industry recovers.
Moderator: Joe Anselmo, Editorial Director, Aviation Week Network
Panelists:
Dr. Daniel Rutherford, aviation program director, International Council on Clean Transportation
Nancy Young, Vice President, Environmental Affairs, Airlines For America
Graham Warwick, Executive Editor, Technology, Aviation Week Network
Helen Massy-Beresford, Airline Editor and Paris Bureau Chief, Aviation Week Network
Aircraft Demand: Is Smaller Now Better?
May 1
10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST
Airlines have been increasing their average aircraft size for years, but will small aircraft be better positioned when the industry begins to emerge from the COVID-19 groundings?
John Slattery, President and CEO of Embraer Commercial Aviation, joins Aviation Week editors in a free, interactive webinar on May 1 to discuss how the crisis could bolster demand for regional jets and smaller narrowbodies at the expense of larger aircraft.
Moderator: Joe Anselmo, Editorial Director, Aviation Week Network
Panelists:
John Slattery, President and CEO, Embraer Commercial Aviation
Jens Flottau, Executive Editor, Commercial Aviation, Aviation Week Network
Guy Norris, Senior Propulsion Editor, Aviation Week Network
AEROSPACE: The Next Frontiers
April 24
As the world grapples with COVID-19, great minds continue work on technologies that could change life as we know it.
But will today’s economic troubles and a slowdown in venture capital investment alter the future by reshaping which innovations come out on top?
On April 24, our panel of experts will spend an hour answering your questions about autonomy, electric propulsion, hypersonics, digitization, machine learning and other game-changing technologies.
Moderator: Joe Anselmo, Editorial Director, Aviation Week Network
Panelists:
Dr. John S. Langford, president, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and founder of Electra.aero and Aurora Flight Sciences
Graham Warwick, Executive Editor, Technology, Aviation Week Network
Steve Trimble, Defense Editor, Aviation Week Network
Guy Norris, Senior Propulsion Editor, Aviation Week Network
Thierry Dubois, France Bureau Chief, Aviation Week Network
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COVID-19, Airbus And Boeing: How Bad Will It Get?
April 17
10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST
New order and delivery figures for commercial aircraft are coming in and they’re grim. How long will it take for production rates to get back to “normal,” and what will that look like in the face of the COVID-19 crisis? What are the implications for suppliers? How about future product strategies?
Join Aviation Week Network's senior editors and our new data partner AVITAS for a wide-ranging, interactive discussion on the new crisis in commercial aviation and its ramifications for the future of aerospace. Register for free and submit your questions.
Moderator: Joe Anselmo, Editorial Director, Aviation Week Network
Panelists:
Adam Pilarski, Senior Vice President, AVITAS
Jens Flottau, Executive Editor, Commercial, Aviation Week Network
Guy Norris, Senior Editor, Aviation Week Network
COVID-19 And "The New Normal"
April 9
The coronavirus pandemic swept over Europe and North America, causing economic chaos and changing life as we know it almost overnight. But as the shock wears off, manufacturers and suppliers across the global aerospace industry face the reality of having to navigate the difficult weeks ahead.
Join our thought leaders as we discuss “the new normal” and offer strategies for companies to ride out the storm and position themselves to thrive when the industry recovers.
Moderator: Joe Anselmo, Editorial Director, Aviation Week Network
Panelists:
John Schmidt, Managing Director, Aerospace & Defense Global Lead, Accenture
Michael Bruno, Senior Business Editor, Aviation Week Network
Graham Warwick, Executive Editor, Technology, Aviation Week Network
COVID-19 And Workforce: Protecting Our Best Assets
April 3
From working to protect the hard-fought gains in attracting top talent to the A&D workforce to planning for the first day after, today’s leaders face a multitude of complex choices.
Join Aviation Week Network, our workforce partners from PwC and the Aerospace Industries Association to learn more about working through near-term challenges and setting the stage for post-coronavirus.
Moderated by Carole Rickard Hedden, Executive Editor, Aviation Week Executive Intelligence
Panelists:
Michael Bruno, Senior. Business Editor, Aviation Week Network
Scott Drach, Chair, Workforce Policy Council, Aerospace Industries Association
John Karren, People and Change Partner, PwC
Aviation And COVID-19: Preparing For The Long Haul
March 27
The novel coronavirus is wreaking havoc on the aviation industry. Each day brings a new round of fleet groundings, layoffs and order deferrals or cancellations, which in the coming months will rip through the manufacturing industry. How long could this last? How will it play out?
Join Aviation Week Network and Oliver Wyman to learn what the likely scenarios for economic recovery will be, and how the global aviation industry will be approaching these in the short and long-term.
Moderated by Joe Anselmo, Editorial Director, Aviation Week Network
Panelists:
Michael Bruno, Senior Business Editor, Aviation Week Network
Dan Williams, Fleet Analyst, Aviation Week Intelligence Network
David Marcontell, Partner, Oliver Wyman