Thursday, June 6, 2024

Transportation by air continues to evolve in the face of today's transportation challenges. As uncertainty faces the supply chain and countries and organizations are taking a closer look at carbon emissions, air carriers work to adapt nimbly to meet their customer's needs. 

This expert panel will give you an inside look at the most important issues in transportation by air - including the pressing need to service remote communities and innovations in environmentally friendly airships. Of course, look forward to market and cargo volume discussion.

Panelists:

Pierre-Yves Fouillen
Business Development, North America
Flying Whales

As a Sales Manager for North America, Pierre-Yves is in charge of sales and marketing activities for FLYING WHALES QUÉBEC in North America, with a focus on Canada, to deploy FLYING WHALES’s cargo airship solution, the LCA60T (Large Capacity Airship 60 Tons). Pierre-Yves is particularly developing multiples activities to serve Northern Canada whether it is to serve remote communities, particularly for housing needs, to help developing the critical minerals sector by delivering heavy equipment to the most isolated mines, or to help mines and communities transitioning to renewables energies by enabling the delivery of large wind turbines components.

Prior to this role, Pierre-Yves was a market manager for FLYING WHALES, based in their headquarter in France. This position enabled him to study the potential of the LCA60T solution for multiple sectors and in different regions and initiate commercial developments on those markets while gaining extensive knowledge on various industries. As a graduate in both fluid mechanics (from ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France) and in innovation management (from Toulouse Business School), Pierre-Yves is proud to use his technical background to better understand FLYING WHALES’s clients needs in diverse sectors.

Jacob Taylor
CEO
Indigenous Aerospace

Jacob Taylor, of Curve Lake First Nation- Otter Clan, is the CEO of Indigenous Aerospace and is working to ensure that Indigenous Peoples benefit from drone technology and retain the revenues from drone businesses in their communities. Jacob studied Aboriginal Health Policy as an undergraduate, and then First Nation Policy Leadership for his graduate degree; both programs were at Western University. Jacob was awarded Western's Faculty of Health Sciences Young Alumni Award in 2021. Jacob is a PhD candidate at the University of North Dakota in the faculty of Medicine and Health Science studying the impacts of drones on Indigenous Health.

Janet Wallace, CCLP
Managing Director, Cargo Operations & Transformation
Air Canada

Janet Wallace is an experienced senior transformation Director with a demonstrated history of working in the airlines/aviation industry. Skilled in operations management (Call Centres, Airports, Inflight & Cargo), she graduated from McGill with a BA, and the University of Denver Transportation Institute with a Master of Science in Transportation Management and Supply Chain Logistics. Janet is currently responsible for Air Canada Cargo's global operations and key transformation programs.

Moderated by:

Pina Melchionna, BA, PFP, LL.B, MBA, TEP, ICD.D, GCB.D
President & CEO
CITT

Pina has served as CITT's President and CEO since 2017. She has a Juris Doctorate Law Degree from Osgoode Hall Law School and a specialized Master of Business Administration in Financial Services from Dalhousie University. She completed the ICD-Rotman Directors Education Program and was awarded the ICD.D designation in 2015. Pina is a member in good standing of both the Ontario and Saskatchewan Bar Associations and is also a member of the Professional Financial Planning Council and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.

Pina has several volunteer board positions, including director for St. Paul's Hospital in Saskatoon, the Saskatoon Community Foundation and The Learning Disabilities Association of Saskatchewan and is Chair of the Society of Tax and Estate Practitioners (STEP). She is currently a professor of Transportation Law at CITT's academic partner, Centennial College, and a member of the Board of Directors for The Royal Canadian Mint, Raymond James, and Emmanuel Health.