Speakers
Thank you to those who submitted presentation proposals. With your valuable contribution, we have now finalised the program, which includes an engaging and varied line-up of speakers on our 2022 theme of ‘Sharing the skies safely’.
The conference opens with the dinner speaker, Andre Stein, CEO of Eve Air Mobility, and Dr Peter Kearney, CE of the Irish Aviation Authority, whose day one presentation will be on innovation in air traffic management. Also on day one: ‘Leveraging safety standards in advanced air mobility’: a panel of speakers facilitated by Greenbird.
Andre Stein
Andre Stein
Safeskies is delighted to announce that 2022’s Sir Reginald Ansett Memorial Lecture will be given by Andre Stein, CEO of Eve Air Mobility. In keeping with the 2022 theme: ‘Sharing the skies safely’, Stein will talk about Embraer’s e-VTOLs and the future of urban air mobility.
André Stein, CEO of Eve Air Mobility, has 25 years of experience in aviation, and has led Embraer’s urban air mobility initiative since its inception. He was one of EmbraerX’s co-founders and has served in leadership roles at Embraer that span strategy, product development, new business, market intelligence and sales. He led Embraer’s commercial aviation product and market strategy throughout the development and market introduction of the E175+—the absolute leader in regional aviation, the award-winning E-Jets E2 family of commercial jets and sponsoring Embraer’s first R&D initiatives towards electric and autonomous aviation.
Previously, he led Embraer’s strategic marketing efforts in the Asia-Pacific, achieving Embraer’s first commercial and executive jets sales in the region, and later restructuring sales and marketing in Latin America, to win the region’s market leadership.
Stein hails from the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University, Chicago, and gained his mechanical engineering qualifications from one of Latin America’s leading universities, the Brazilian State University of Campinas, more commonly known as Unicamp. He is an avid traveller who is passionate about mobility, and has accumulated considerable multicultural experience from living and working in Australia, Singapore, Silicon Valley and Brazil.
Dr Peter Kearney
Dr Peter Kearney became Chief Executive of the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) in 2018, having held several managerial positions in the IAA’s air traffic management operational division after joining the IAA as an air traffic controller in 1998.
Peter received his PhD in Future Air Traffic Management Systems from Cranfield University in 2020. His PhD research focused on the design and deployment of advanced air traffic management (ATM) systems to ensure their enhanced safety and efficiency by placing the air traffic controller at the heart of the design. Peter holds an MSc in Human Factors and Safety Assessment in Aeronautics (Cranfield University), a BSc. (Hons) Business Management (Trinity College Dublin), and is a Harvard Business School graduate.
As CEO of the IAA, Peter is overseeing the restructure of the organisation into two separate legal entities. The new IAA will solely be responsible for safety regulation, while the air navigation service provider (ASNP) is transferring to a newly incorporated semi-state company to be known as AirNav Ireland. Under the restructure Peter will transfer to CEO of AirNav Ireland.
Peter is a key advocate of the IAA’s successful Remote Towers Project (which won the Single European Sky Award in 2017). The trial involved the testing of remote tower services operated by one controller in Dublin for Cork and Shannon airports.
Peter is involved in the IAA’s interest in Aireon, the world’s first satellite-based air traffic surveillance system. The Aireon ALERT project was awarded the CANSO Global Safety Achievement Award 2020 for its significant contribution to reducing aviation risk and has directly contributed to saving eleven lives to date.
Committed to strategic collaboration, Peter is currently chairman of the COOPANS Alliance, currently Europe’s most advanced ATM system, and the co-operative partnership of ATM systems of six European ASNPs: Austria, Croatia, Denmark, Ireland, Portugal and Sweden.
With a keen interest in aviation, Peter is also a qualified helicopter pilot.
Dr Peter Kearney
Advanced air mobility panel
Greenbird is facilitating a panel on advanced air mobility on day one of the conference, examining the importance of gaining and maintaining consumer confidence for the successful uptake of new technology.
The expert panel comprising Sara Hales, MD Greenbird; and Greenbird members, Tim Ryley of Griffith University; Jia Le Koh of Skyports Asia-Pacific; and Andrew Moore of AMSL Aero, will look especially at how safety standards can be leveraged to foster this confidence.
Regulation and technology panel
The panel comprises three speakers: Dr Reece Clothier, a principal analyst with Boeing, and president of the Australian Association for Uncrewed Systems (AAUS); Dr Rob Weaver, the regulation & public policy global lead for Eve Air Mobility; and Zachary Kennedy, the chief regulatory officer of Australian drone-powered logistics start-up, Swoop Aero.
They will address the challenges new technologies such as drones and advanced air mobility bring for regulators, creating pressure to create fit-for-purpose, flexible regulations meeting safety needs, while allowing such dynamic technologies room to evolve.
The Dr Rob Lee Memorial session
First held at the 2019 Safeskies, the Dr Rob Lee Memorial session honours the memory of a giant in safety systems, human factors and systemic/systematic safety investigation. Dr Rob Lee died in 2018, too early, after a stellar career advancing aviation safety management systems and the role of human factors in aviation. The 2022 session focuses on one of Dr Lee’s enduring passions, safety systems, and it is fitting that the session is moderated by his partner, Sue Burdekin, a visiting senior academic fellow at the University of New South Wales’ Canberra campus.
Two panel speakers will focus on safety culture, and the third on how safety 1 and safety 11 concepts can be integrated into a safety management system.
Dr Rob Lee AO
1943–2018
Dr Rob Lee died in 2018, too early, after a stellar career advancing aviation safety management systems and the role of human factors in aviation. He was inducted into the Australian Aviation Hall of Fame that same year. He was also a longstanding and valued member of the Safeskies Australia board.
Adapted from Dr Lee’s Hall of Fame biography:
In 1974 he completed his PhD in psychology at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His research looked at human performance in complex man-machine systems, with particular reference to aviation. In 1976, Dr Lee was appointed staff officer, Psychological Services at RAAF Headquarters Operational Command, where he became the first RAAF psychologist to serve as a human factors specialist on RAAF accident investigations involving F-111s, Mirages and Iroquois.
In 1983, Dr Lee joined the Bureau of Air Safety Investigation(BASI), the forerunner to today’s Australian Transport Safety Bureau. As the Bureau’s first human factors specialist, he established and developed the human factors, systems safety, data analysis and research capability within BASI. He became the director of BASI in 1989, a position he held until 1999.
Under Dr Lee, BASI became a leading international agency in pioneering the innovative application of advanced human factors and systems safety concepts to air safety investigation and proactive accident prevention, working in partnership with the domestic and international aviation industry, as well as the military. Lee met James Reason in 1989 at a conference in the UK, and in 1991, Reason presented at the International Society of Air Safety Investigators (ISASI) 22nd Annual Seminar in Canberra, Australia.
In 1994, ICAO adopted the Reason Model as a standard for systemic safety investigation, an approach for which Lee was a leading advocate. In July 1994, BASI published the Monarch report, the first systemic aircraft accident investigation, into the fatal June 1993 crash of a Piper Chieftain at Young, NSW.
Fast forward to 2002, the year that Dr Rob Lee and Professor Patrick Hudson develop and conduct the first integrated safety management systems (ISMS) training course at Singapore Aviation Academy. By November 2017 they had conducted 30 ISMS courses (for more than 1,000 pax).
He received many accolades for his work on safety management systems, human factors and accident investigation, including the Order of Australia in 2012, and the Royal Aeronautical Society’s specialist gold medal in 2015.
Themes for 2022
Safety of space travel / exploration
Human factors and human performance
Safety management
Airspace / Space
Training
New technologies
Submit a presentation proposal
Presentation submissions must include the following information:
- Presentation title
- Presentation theme: please select from one of the key topic areas listed
- Author/s names and biography/ies
- An abstract of no more than 250 words, outlining the approach to the topic, and showing clearly how the presentation relates to aviation/aerospace safety
Submissions close on Friday 22 April, 2022.
Note: presenters must accept sole responsibility for the statements made in their abstract
Presentation proposal review and selection
The Safeskies 2022 conference committee will review all abstracts submitted. Decisions made by the committee are final.
Each abstract must specify a presenter, who will be notified of the committee’s decision when the abstract acceptances are distributed.
The presenter of each accepted abstract must register for the entire conference meeting and must be available to present on the day allocated.
Abstracts submitted for presentation to Safeskies 2022 are expected to be original and unique submissions, and not previously presented at other aviation safety conferences or meetings.
Accepted abstracts will be published on the Safeskies 2022 website/conference app/ handbook.
Presentations may comprise part of a themed grouping and involve a panel discussion, or may be stand-alone (stand-alone presentations will run for a maximum of 30 minutes, with 10 minutes for questions.