Review of Aircraft Finance & Commercial Aviation 2010 that took place in March 2010


Highlights at this year's Number One Aircraft Finance Conference Included:

  • Bertrand Piccard, in his last public speaking engagement prior to the inaugural test flight of Solar Impulse, energised the audience with his commitment to renewable energy and the drivers behind setting up this ambitious project, from ideas via funding to execution.
  • Will Whitehorn, President of Virgin Galactic, continued the space tourism story where Mike Melville and Burt Rutan left off with an engaging presentation culminating in footage of the first successful “captive carry” test flight by VSS Enterprise which took place during the previous week.
  • Gordon Bethune, former CEO of Continental Airlines gave his perspective on the formula for survival and recovery for airlines during the most recent industry crisis in characteristically unbashed style.

  • Wednesday’s high level panel discussion between Airline CFOs and Financiers who debated solutions to the liquidity issues in the lending market, giving the audience a unique perspective.

  • The Geneva Forum annual interactive audience polling session proved yet again to be the only real-time barometer of sentiment across the industry.
  • Leading industry analysts Brian Pearce (IATA), Adam Pilarski (Avitas) and Julian Lee (Centre For Global Energy Studies), gave their prognoses for aircraft finance and fuel prices respectively, while leading Economist Douglas McWilliams (Centre For Economics & Business Research) presented his predictions for global economic recovery.

120+ Outstanding Speakers at Geneva Forum 2010 Include:

Bertrand Piccard
Bertrand Piccard Record Breaking Round The World Balloonist and Initiator The Solar Impulse
Gordon Bethune
Gordon Bethune Former CEO & Chairman Continental Airlines
Doug McWilliams
Doug McWilliams CEO Centre for Economics and Business Research
Normal Liu
Normal Liu President & CEO GECAS
Marc Verspyk
Marc Verspyk SVP, Finance Air France
Dr. Adam Pilarski
Dr. Adam Pilarski SVP Avitas Aviation
Prof. Rigas Doganis
Prof. Rigas Doganis Non-Executive Director Easyjet & Hyderabad International & Consultant
David Arendt
David Arendt Executive VP & CFO CARGOLUX

What Made 2010 Geneva Forum The ‘Must-Attend’ Meeting For The Global Aircraft Finance Industry?

  • The largest number of airline CEOs, Chief Financial Officers, Treasurers and Fleet Planners anywhere in Europe this year.
  • Unrivalled networking opportunities including lunches, cocktail receptions, roundtables and speed-networking spread over the duration of the conference.
  • A peerlessly comprehensive conference agenda covering all the major developments, opportunities and questions within the aircraft finance industry.


Coming at a time of considerable upheaval and uncertainty within the aviation industry, the 2010 Geneva Forum proved to be an essential opportunity for exchanging ideas and business propositions, with over 300 high level aircraft finance professionals in attendance.

A combination of hard-hitting industry insight and analysis, interactive voting and debate, as well as leading-edge thinking from beyond the industry, ensured that participants returned to the office with fresh ideas and business prospects.


TESTIMONIALS:

“I value The Geneva Forum for the networking opportunities it affords, the quality of the speaker faculty and the breadth of subject matter on offer.
Paul Stirling, EVP - Asset Management
 

“This is the second year I have attended the Forum, which once again had interesting content and new insights – I found it very valuable.”
Paul Flood, Trowers & Hamlins LLP

 

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