
Together, let’s take a new take off!
All of the aerospace’s mobility fields are coming together against climate emergencies.
Big groups, supply-chain, start-ups, and all of the actors of the sector have put ecology matters at the top of their to-do lists for the Paris Air Forum’s 10th edition, which is matching the 59th anniversary of the Paris Air Show. A shared goal : to conceive a new generation of carbon-free mobility in order to enable the whole world to take-off again. This scientific, technological and industrial revolution – awaited by all – is highly expected by developing countries. For a large majority of our planet’s inhabitants, it is not about a choice but more about an absolute necessity to ensure the future of its territories or maybe just the survival of sheltered-from-all-solidarities areas. A situation aggravated by the climate crisis, and for which aeromobilities are the only solution. This key and tangible evolution of the players of the field has been made possible thanks to the widespread awareness that the Paris Air Forum, edition after edition, led every step of the way.
For ten editions, the Paris Air Forum gathers, figures out, analyses, debates; turning the ‘PAF’ into a major rendez-vous for everyone involved in the field like the press and the speakers as well as the public. As a real meeting and interaction place, it enlightens the role of aerospace as the backbone of international industrial dynamism thanks to its capacity to innovate, to create sustainable solutions which will spread and benefit all of our societies.
This is the breath of fresh air that we wanted to bring center stage on the occasion of this 10th anniversary, about a ‘manifesto’ theme: ‘together, let’s take a new take off’. With the firm belief that in order to overcome the continuous crisis, a thoughtful convergence is needed between technology and consciousness, between progress and emergency. All of this forms the anniversary substance of the 2023 Paris Air Forum that will be held at ‘Maison de la Mutualité’ in Paris on June 16th, the Friday before the opening of the largest aerospace event in the world : the Paris Air Show.
Max ARMANET – President of the scientific council of the Paris air forum

Program & speakers
VP HR Avionics at Thales
Head of DGA's Industrial Affairs and Economic Intelligence Department
Chief Executive Officer of Air France
European Space Agency astronaut (Thales Alenia Space)
Vice-President of Artificial Intelligence at Helslng
Director of Strategy and Public Affairs, Airbus
Chairman of ESTACA
Former French Minister of the Economy, of Productive recovery and in charge of Digital
Chairman and CEO of ADP and President of Paris Europlace
Doctor of Digital Science and Managing Director of In Silico Veritas
Chief Executive Officer of Air France-KLM
Partner Bain & Company
Former Prime Minister
Founder and CEO of Norse Atlantic Airways
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, Air India.
Ancienne ministre et Présidente de la Région Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée
Managing director of Engie
Chief Sustainability Officer, Boeing
Chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defense and Armed Forces Committee and Senator of Val-de-Marne
Mayor of Nice
Chief Commercial Officer and Head of Airbus International
Minister delegate for the Minister of Ecological Transition, Territories and Transports
Present of Coriolis Composites and President of the Aero-PME committee
Director General of Civil Aviation
ATR SVP Head of Engineering
Co-Founder and CEO of Isar Aerospace
ESA - Director of Space Transportation
Co-founder of Exotrail
Head of Strategy and Coordination of Human Spaceflight and Robotic Exploration (ESA)
Executive director of ADP
Director for Space Development and Innovation at the European Commission
Co-Founder & CEO at Beyond Aerospace
Director of the Defense Innovation Agency at the Ministry of the Army
Chairman and CEO of MBDA
Chairman and CEO of Dassault Aviation
Chairman of the Management Board - CEO of Aéroports de la Côte d'Azur
Advisor to the President and Deputy Director of Strategy at CNES
Co-founder of Defense Angels
Director General of IFOP
Defence Advisor to the Chairman of Airbus Helicopters Bruno Even
Director of the Command Doctrine and Teaching Center
Commander of the Gendarmerie in cyberspace
Space commander
Chief of Staff of the Air Force and Space
Second in command of the ALAT in the Army
CEO at AVIO
Chairman and CEO of Airbus and Chairman of Gifas
President for Africa and Middle East of SITA
Senator and Secretary of the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Armed Forces Committee
Chairman and CEO of Thales Alenia Space
President of the Regional Council of Normandy
CTO & Co-founder at UnseenLabs
Vice-President for the Sales & Technical sustainable aviation of Nesté
Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA)
Co-founder of ISAR Aerospace
Executive Vice-President, Communications, Sustainable Development and Corporate Affairs, Airbus
Member of the European Parliament and Chair of the European Parliament's Transport Committee
Chief Sustainability Officer at Collins Aerospace
Executive Vice President, Secure Information and Communication Systems, Thales and Chairman of GICAT
CEO of Air Caraïbes and Chairman of French Bee
General Manager of the Industrial Association of Moroccan Aviation Companies (GIMAS)
President Private Equity Tikehau Capital
Investment Director, Aerospace at Tikehau Capital
Partner onepoint and chairman for Defense & Security
CEO Airbus Defence and Space
Vice President Sales & Marketing for Europe & Central Asia
CEO of Hispasat
French MP
Managing director of Liebherr Aerospace Toulouse
Economist
CEO of Nexter
Managing director of Safran
President and founder of Prométhée
President of FNAM and Corsair
Chairman and CEO of Thales
General Armaments Engineer and Director of the Defence Innovation Agency
General Commissioner of the Paris Air Show and Chairman of the DAHER Group
Chairman and CEO of CNES
Commander of Air Defence and Air Operations at the French Air and Space Force
Naval Group Chairman and CEO
Chief Financial Officer of CMA CGM
Co-founder and Director of Operations of PLD Space
Head of Sustainable Strategy, KLM
President of Rolls-Royce Civil Aerospace
Chief Technology Officer of SES
Executive Secretary of the Union of West and Central African Airport Managers
Executive Chairman of Arianespace
Director of Major Projects at SNCF Gares & Connexions
President and chairman of the Haropa Port board
President and CEO of Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS)
European Commissioner for Internal Market
Chairman of DGE
President of the Union of French and French-speaking Associated Airports and of La Rochelle Airport
President of Emirates
Senator
Managing director at International Air Transport Association
Deputy General Manager Avionics and member of the Thales Executive Committee
Jean-Christophe TORTORA – Chairman of LA TRIBUNE
Max ARMANET – Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Paris Air Forum and Chairman of Forum Media
Augustin DE ROMANET – Chairman and CEO of ADP Group and Chairman of Paris Europlace
Frédéric DABI – Director General of IFOP
Josef ASCHBACHER – Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA)
Thierry BRETON – European Commissioner for the Internal Market
Willie WALSH – Director General of the International Air Transport Association (IATA)
Rob WATSON – President of Rolls-Royce Aerospace
Campbell WILSON – Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, Air India
Christian SCHERER – Chief Commercial Officer and Head of Airbus
Tim CLARK – President of Emirates
Moderator : Jens FLOTTAU – Managing Editor of Aviation Week
Bernard BIRCHLER – Partner at Bain & Company
Yannick ASSOUAD – Deputy General Manager Avionics and member of the Thales Executive Committee
Moderator : Max ARMANET – Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Paris Air Forum and Chairman of Forum Media
Ted COLBERT – President and CEO of Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS)
Patrice CAINE – Chairman and CEO of Thales
Bernard CAZENEUVE – Former Prime Minister
Moderator : Daphné BENOIT – AFP Defence Correspondent – President of the Association of Defence Journalists
Christian ESTROSI – Mayor of Nice
Franck GOLDNADEL – Chairman of the Executive Board – CEO at Aéroports de la Côte d’Azur
Moderator : Max ARMANET – Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Paris Air Forum and Chairman of Forum Media
Anne RIGAIL – Chief Executive Officer of Air France
Catherine MACGREGOR – CEO of Engie
Ramon FERNANDEZ – Chief Financial Officer of CMA CGM
Clément BEAUNE – Minister attached to the Minister for Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, with responsibility for Transport
Moderator : Philippe MABILLE – Editorial Director of La Tribune
Augustin DE ROMANET – Chairman and CEO of ADP Group and Chairman of Paris Europlace
Maria EL FILALI – General Manager of the Industrial Association of Moroccan Aeronautical Companies (GIMAS)
Moderator : Max ARMANET – Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Paris Air Forum and Chairman of Forum Media
Stéphane ISRAEL – Executive Chairman of Arianespace
Moderator : Michel CABIROL – Editor-in-Chief Industry/Services at La Tribune
Patrick DAHER – General Commissioner of the Paris Air Show and Chairman of the Daher Group
Hervé MORIN – President of the Normandie Region
Carole DELGA – President of France Regions
Moderator : César ARMAND – Journalist in charge of local authorities, urban development and Greater Paris at La Tribune
Chris RAYMOND – Chief Sustainability Officer, Boeing
Jonathan WOOD – Vice President for the Sales & Technical Sustainable Aviation of Nesté
Remona VAN DER ZON – Head of Sustainable Strategy, KLM
Julie KITCHER – Executive Vice-President, Communications, Sustainable Development and Corporate Affairs, Airbus
Moderator : Tim HEPHER – Aerospace Editor, Reuters
Maya DE PASSORIO PEYSSARD – Partner, Managing Director onepoint defence & security
Général Marc BOGET – Commander of the Gendarmerie in cyberspace
Moderator : Max ARMANET – Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Paris Air Forum and Chairman of Forum Media
Marwan LAHOUD – Chairman and CEO Tikehau Capital Private Equity
Arnaud MONTEBOURG – Former Minister of the Economy, Productive Redress and the Digital Economy
Patrick AUFORT – General Armaments Engineer and Director of the Defence Innovation Agency
François MATTENS – Co-founder of Defense Angels
Moderator : Philippe MABILLE – Editorial Director of La Tribune
Guillaume FAURY – Executive Chairman of Airbus and Chairman of Gifas
Moderators : Léo BARNIER – Civil aeronautics and transport journalist at La Tribune and Michel CABIROL – Industry/Services Editor at La Tribune
Patrick DAHER – Commissaire général du salon du Bourget et Président du Groupe Daher
Moderator : Max ARMANET – Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Paris Air Forum and Chairman of Forum Media
Stéphane RAISON – President and Chairman of the Haropa Port board
Edward ARKWRIGHT – Executive Director of ADP
Stéphane LERENDU – Director of Major Projects, SNCF Gares & Connexions
Moderator : Léo BARNIER – Civil aviation and transport journalist at La Tribune
Daniel CUCHET – Vice President Engineering of ATR
LeAnn RIDGEWAY – Chief Sustainability Officer at Collins Aerospace
Michal NOWAK – Vice President Sales and Marketing Europe and Central Asia, Embraer
Nathalie DUQUESNE – General Manager of Liebherr Aerospace Toulouse
Yannick ASSOUAD – Deputy General Manager for Avionics at Thales
Moderator : Helen MASSY-BERESFORD – European Air Transport Editor
Pascal DE IZAGUIRRE – President of FNAM and Corsair
Damien CAZE – Directeur général de l’aviation civile
Thomas JUIN – President of the Union of French and French-speaking Associated Airports and of La Rochelle Airport
Vincent CAPO-CANELLAS – Senator
Moderator : Léo BARNIER – Civil aviation and transport journalist at La Tribune
Bjørn TORE LARSEN – Founder and CEO of Norse Atlantic Airways
Karima DELLI – President of the European Parliament’s Transport Committee
Marc ROCHET – CEO of Air Caraïbes and Chairman of French Bee
Moderator : Gesche WUPPER – Business correspondent and President of AJPAE (Association of Professional Journalists in Aeronautics and Space)
Clémentine GALLET – President of Coriolis Composites and President of the Aero-PME Committee
Alexandre GENTOT – HR Director of the Avionics activity of Thales
Adrien TREILLE – IPSA student
Christine LIN – Member of ORAje, intern at Pratt&Whitney Canada and student at ETS & UTC
Arnaud MARFURT – Chairman of ESTACA
Moderator : Olivier JAMES – Leading aero-defence reporter at L’Usine Nouvelle
Hani EL-ASSAAD – President for the Middle East and Africa of SITA
Simon KABORE – Executive Secretary of the Union of West and Central African Airport Managers
Moderator : Gesche WUPPER – Business correspondent and President of AJPAE (Association of Professional Journalists in Aeronautics and Space)
Général Stéphane MILLE – Chief of Staff of the Air and Space Force
Hélène CONWAY MOURET – Senator and Secretary of the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Armed Forces Committee
Natalia POUZYREFF – French MP
Moderator : Michel CABIROL – Editor-in-Chief Industry/Services at La Tribune
Benjamin SMITH – Chief Executive Officer Air France-KLM
Moderator : Tim HEPHER – Aerospace Editor, Reuters
Eric BERANGER – Chairman and CEO of MBDA
Nicolas CHAMUSSY – CEO of Nexter
Pierre-Eric POMMELLET – Chairman and CEO of Naval Group
Alexandre LAHOUSSE – Head of DGA’s Industrial Affairs and Economic Intelligence Department
Moderator : Jean-Michel BEZAT – Journalist at Le Monde
Éric TRAPPIER – Chairman and CEO of Dassault Aviation and President of the UIMM
Olivier ANDRIES – CEO of Safran
Thomas COURBE – Director General of the Direction Générale des Entreprises
Christian CAMBON – Chairman of the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Armed Forces Committee of the Senate and Senator for Val-de-Marne
Moderator : Dominique GALLOIS – Journalist at Le Monde
General TALARICO – Deputy Commander of the ALAT in the French Army
General 2S Patrick BRETHOUS – Defence Advisor to the Chairman of Airbus Helicopters Bruno Even
Général Emmanuel BOITEAU – Air Force Brigadier General and Director of the Centre for Strategic Aerospace Studies at the French Air Force
Général de division Pierre-Joseph GIVRE – Director of the Command Doctrine and Training Center
Moderator : Helen CHACHATY – Independent journalist
Aurélie JEAN – Doctor of Digital Science and Managing Director of In Silico Veritas
Nicolas BOUZOU – Economist and Founder and Managing Director of Cabinet Asterès
Maxime TEULON – Aerospace Investment Director at Tikehau Capital
Eloa GUILLOTIN – CEO, Beyond Aerospace
Moderator : Florine GALERON – Journalist and Editor at La Tribune
Hervé DERREY – Chairman and CEO of Thales Alenia Space
Miguel Angel PANDURO – CEO of Hispasat
Ekaterini KAVVADA – Director for Space and Innovation at the European Commission
Jonathan GALIC – Co-founder and Chairman of Unseenlabs
Ruy PINTO – Chief Technology Officer of SES
Moderator : Peter de SELDING – Editor-in-Chief of SpaceIntel Report
Anthea COMELLINI – European Space Agency Astronaut (ESA, Thales Alenia Space)
Didier SCHMITT – Head of Strategy and Coordination of Human Spaceflight and Robotic Exploration (ESA)
Moderator : Michel CABIROL – Editor-in-Chief, Industry/Services, La Tribune
Marc DARMON – Executive Vice President, Secure Information and Communication Systems, Thales and Chairman of GICAT
Antoine BORDES – Vice-President of Artificial Intelligence at Helslng
Philippe MORALES – Commander of Air Defence and Air Operations at the French Air and Space Force
Moderator : Pierre JULIEN – Journalist and former RTL deputy editor-in-chief
Giulio RANZO – CEO Avio SpA
Daniel NEUENSCHWANDER – Director of Space Transportation ESA
Daniel METZLER – Co-Founder and CEO of Isar Aerospace
Antoine BOUVIER – Director of Strategy and Public Affairs, Airbus
Antonin FERRI – Director of Future Programmes Ariane Group
Moderator : Stefan BARENSKY – Editor-in-Chief, Aerospatium
Philippe BAPTISTE – President of CNES
Emmanuel CHIVA – Director of the Defence Innovation Agency at the Ministry of the Armed forces
General Philippe ADAM – Space Commander
Moderator : Michel CABIROL – Editor-in-Chief Industry/Services at La Tribune
Olivier PIEPSZ – President and founder of Prométhée
François ALTER – Advisor to the President and Deputy Director of Strategy at CNES
Raúl VERDÚ – Co-founder and Director of Operations of PLD Space
David HENRI – Co-founder and CEO of Exotrail
Josef FLEISCHMANN – Co-founder of ISAR Aerospace
Moderator : Jean-Jacques DORDAIN – Former Director General of ESA
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How to participate in One to One Meetings?

1. Register online
After opening your participant area, choose your One to One Meetings package and complete your profile.
This information given will allow us to propose a list of contacts adapted to your objectives in order to organise your meetings.

2. Identify your key targets and submit your meeting requests
When the participants’ catalogue opens, 3 weeks before the event, you select and request the contacts you would like to meet.

3. Validate the requests received
Each participant has the possibility to submit a request for a meeting: you just have to accept or decline their request.

4. Consult your meeting agenda
A few days before the event, you will receive your optimised meeting agenda, including the meetings validated by both sides, as well as the conferences you wish to attend.

5. On June, 16th
You attend your programmed meetings, conferences, do informal networking to feed your network at the VIP area and at the lunch/dinner.


1. Register online
After opening your participant area, choose your One to One Meetings package and complete your profile.
This information given will allow us to propose a list of contacts adapted to your objectives in order to organise your meetings.

2. Identify your key targets and submit your meeting requests
When the participants’ catalogue opens, 3 weeks before the event, you select and request the contacts you would like to meet.

3. Validate the requests received
Each participant has the possibility to submit a request for a meeting: you just have to accept or decline their request.

4. Consult your meeting agenda
A few days before the event, you will receive your optimised meeting agenda, including the meetings validated by both sides, as well as the conferences you wish to attend.

5. On June, 16th
You attend your programmed meetings, conferences, do informal networking to feed your network at the VIP area and at the lunch/dinner.
