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Bret is a Boeing 737 Captain and former 737 Check Airman. He is the Director of Fleet Technology at Alaska Airlines where he leads the airline’s Technical Pilots and RNP and ACARS engineers. Bret currently oversees the EFB program, the proprietary RNP program, DataComm, and ACARS for Flight Operations and he maintains the Alaska Airlines avionics roadmap. Along with program management, Bret is charged with evaluation of emerging flight deck technologies. He is a retired US Air Force Reserve pilot who has worked for Alaska Airlines for nearly 18 years.

Angela Vargo is Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for JetSuiteX. For nearly two decades, Angela has been innovating new products and services within air travel to enhance the passenger experience while generating millions of dollars in revenue for airlines. For seven years, Angela served as the project lead for Southwest Airline’s inflight WiFi program. In that time, Angela developed the industry’s first personal device-driven entertainment platform and introduced “TV Flies Free” on over 550 aircraft, giving customers access to live streaming sports, news and other television content. Angela was also responsible for spearheading Southwest’s interiors program including “Evolve” and the newest interior, “Heart” incorporating cutting-edge materials and design aimed at reducing weight and improving passenger comfort. Angela left Southwest in 2015 to pursue her passion for building new and disruptive forms of air travel outside of commercial flying. She helped build RISE, a membership-based air travel provider, and saw through the successful acquisition to Surf Air in July 2017. Angela soon joined JetSuiteX, a rapidly growing air carrier that offers public flights from private terminals in the Western part of the U.S., and is energetically championing the development of IFEC solutions that will meet the evolving business models and needs in the industry. Angela is a graduate of Texas A&M University and lives in Dallas, Texas with her husband of 19 years and their two young sons.