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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

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

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 RIDGEWAYChief 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

One to One Meetings

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1. Efficiency: Programmed meetings optimise the time spent searching for interesting prospects.
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3. Pre-scheduling: Scheduling maximises the business opportunity of meetings by the identification of projects, offers and needs.
4. Agreement of both sides: The validation of the meeting by both parties guarantees meetings between concerned and motivated professionals.

How to participate in One to One Meetings?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

picto-demande-bleu@2x

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.

picto-validez-bleu@2x

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.

picto-planning-bleu@2x

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.

picto-rdv-bleu@2x

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.

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