Aeronnovation

This Open to Public full day summit aims to bring together aviation professionals, corporate executives, entrepreneurs, investors and the creative minds from academia the to focus on the key innovation themes of ‘improvements in passenger experience’ and ‘improvements in aviation safety & security standards’.
Conjoined with the summit is an exhibition offering an opportunity to stimulate creative minds as well as a platform for individuals and organizations to showcase their innovations. The summit will also witness the prize distribution ceremony for the most creative and practical innovations related to the themes.

Date: 28th Feb 2018
Time: 8:30 AM – 2:00 PM
Location: Dubai World Trade Center - Zabeel Hall 4

The ‘Innovation in Aviation’ course aims to harness the incredible value of youth and innovative thinking industry professionals by exposing them to various technical, regulatory and service functions of a civil aviation authority.
Experts in the fields of Air Transport, Air Navigation Services, Aviation Safety & Security and Air Accident Investigation share their knowledge and present the future state of their respective areas.
The curious minds are given the challenges to come up with innovative ideas to resolve the issues that these experts foresee.

Date: 26th Feb 2018
Time: 8:30 AM – 2:00 PM
Location: Dubai World Trade Center - Al Ain A & B

Elias Nikolaidis

Instructor Profile: Brief Introduction
Subject: Innovation in Accident Investigation.
Summary: Accident investigation is the reactive approach to safety. Traditionally accident investigators gather information, which they analyse, in order to find the causes of a mishap and propose safety recommendations in order to avoid reoccurrence. Nowadays, investigators are utilising technological developments in order to perform their tasks faster, more accurate and advanced.
The presentation will describe the tools and technics the UAE GCAA Air Accident Investigation Sector is currently using, depending on the terrain and the investigation requirements.

Ms. Mouza Al Sawafi

Instructor Profile: Bachelor in E-Commerce, Higher Colleges of Technology.
Master in Quality Management.
Intelligent & Threat Assessment Senior Officer – Aviation Security (5 Years)
Subject: Drones (regulations, utilizations, challenges etc.)
Summary: In the day’s bygone, we were used to unrestricted freedom for transportation, even the airports were not that restricted.
That is no longer the case, we go through one form or the other of security checks almost on daily basis. However, it is the airports where this experience tends to irk more individuals than any other point.
The session will tackle the everlasting conflict between facilitation and security in view of innovative ideas related to passengers and hand baggage.

Capt. Nasir Iqbal

Instructor Profile: Capt Nasir Iqbal started his aviation career in 1987 with Pakistan Air Force and joined commercial aviation in 2006.
He currently works for UAE General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) as Chief Safety Risk Specialist. He has been manager for UAE State Safety Program as well as manager for enhancement of safety reporting systems projects.
He developed an innovative model for Safety Performance Measurement (SPM) in 2012 which he successfully implemented in UAE and Kenyan Aviation Industries.

He also implemented GCAA occurrence and hazard reporting systems at the Kenyan CAA as part of UAE support for development of their State Safety Program.
Subject: Innovative Developments in State Safety Program
Summary: Development of UAE State Safety Program (SSP) started in 2009.
This five year project transformed UAE GCAA into a modern and forward looking CAA through innovative solutions for carrying out State regulatory functions. One of the prime innovation was development of reporting systems to suit the pertinent requirements of UAE aviation industry.
The systems were purely in-house developments utilizing the direct inputs of experts working on the management of occurrence and incidents reports in collaboration with the industry stakeholders.
The development also laid the foundation of e-Services at GCAA which now has over 180 such services available for its various functions.

Another innovative development was related to safety performance measurement methodology at UAE. This innovation helped GCAA to complete the State Safety Program Development effectively and establish itself as one of the leading CAAs in the world.

Urban Blaznik

Instructor Profile: Joined the civil aviation industry as a cabin crew member with Adria Airways in 1997 and stayed with the airline for 20 years holding several position as Flight Ops Officer, Station Manager, Ground Ops Manager and Facilitation & Aviation Security Manager.
Later worked at EU commission as the Aviation Security Inspector.

Joined UAE GCAA two years back as the Security Inspector and now as the Regulation Specialist in the field of Aviation Security.
Certified ICAO and IATA instructor and auditor.
Subject: Innovation in perspective of Facilitation and Security in Aviation.
Summary: In the day’s bygone, we were used to unrestricted freedom for transportation, even the airports were not that restricted.
That is no longer the case, we go through one form or the other of security checks almost on daily basis. However, it is the airports where this experience tends to irk more individuals than any other point.
The session will tackle the everlasting conflict between facilitation and security in view of innovative ideas related to passengers and hand baggage.

Air Carriers in UAE are well aware and integrated into the innovative measures taken for the enhancement of risk management at the State level.
The objective of this workshop is to enhance the risk management by the air transport and training segment of our industry though sharing of analysis and hazard management practices. The participants will be briefed on the advancements in the trend analysis at the State level and how they have been developed utilizing the submitted data with regards to the incidents, occurrences and hazards.
They will also be involved in the sharing of experience to capture the best practices leading to discussions on development of the risk management capability through a collaborative approach.
The workshop will also assist in highlighting the areas of greater concern for subsequent risk assessment and analysis. Another objective to be achieved in the workshop revolves around the hazard identification and reporting culture which forms one of the foundation for improvement of reporting culture.
The participants will be briefed on the voluntary reporting of hazards and its benefits to promote the hazard identification across the industry. The innovative development in the reporting and processing of hazards at the Authority level will also be briefed to the participants for their benefit and future use.

Date: 25th Feb 2018
Time: 8:30 AM – 2:30 PM
Location: Dubai World Trade Center - Al Ain A & B

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