The Global Connected Aircraft Summit brings together the world’s largest airlines and companies from all across the aerospace and avionics industries to assess market lessons, potential demand and best practices in global connected solutions for the passenger, airline efficiency, and cutting edge services.
Bill Milroy
William (Bill) Milroy currently serves as Chairman and CTO of ThinKom Solutions, Inc., located in Torrance, CA and focused on the design, development, and manufacture of innovative antenna access solutions for the Fixed and Mobile Broadband Wireless Communication markets.
Prior to co-founding ThinKom, Mr. Milroy held the position of Senior Engineering Fellow within the Electromagnetic Systems Department of Raytheon’s Electronic Systems (ES) Segment. During his tenure at Raytheon (Hughes Aircraft), Mr. Milroy managed and led the RF antenna design, development, and manufacture of a wide range of antenna array implementations and products for radar and communication applications in both the commercial and military marketplaces including 1-D and 2-D Electronically-Scanned Arrays (ESA’s).
Mr. Milroy is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles, earning BSEE, MSEE, and Engineer (Ph.D. course, field, and examination requirements) degrees. He is the author or co-author of nine journal and symposia papers in the fields of Network Analysis, Circuits, Antennas, and Microwaves. He is the inventor or co-inventor of thirty-five awarded and pending patents in the fields of Electromagnetic Scattering, Materials, Microwave Devices, and Antennas. Mr. Milroy is a past Chairman of the Los Angeles Chapter of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (APS), a periodic Guest Lecturer at the UCLA Anderson School of Business Management, and a Technical Reviewer for both the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the IEEE APS Transactions Journal.
Ashi Hoseini
Currently with SAS in the position of Manager Mobile Solutions and EFB Administrator. Has overall responsibility for operation and support of the EFB (Electronic Flight Bag), and SAS Crew applications joined SAS in March 2008 as Flight Operations Engineer. Prior to joining SAS, worked as a Project Manager on a project of the design and development of a drilling system planned to be used on the wing to fuselage assembly under production conditions within Airbus FAL (Final Assembly Line). Ashi has a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Royal institute of technology, KTH, in Stockholm.
Jon Merritt
Jon Merritt currently heads up the development and implementation of United Airlines’ Flight Operations mobility initiatives. Launched with a Class 1 Electronic Flight Bag (Apple iPads) to over 12,000 pilots, the mobility venture is the largest airline deployment of tablet electronic flight bags to date. United Flight Operations continues to explore additional ways for mobility to drive efficiency, productivity and accessibility for pilots and the airline. Jon has been with United Airlines 16 years, the last seven with Flight Operations managing information technology programs. A distinguished speaker; Jon has presented at Mobile Con, Gartner CIO ITXPO, Forrester Research Webinar, VM World, and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona discussing the mobile cloud, mobility solutions for the airline industry and mobile content management. Jon earned his Bachelor of Arts in public relations from Marshall University in Huntington, WV and his Master of Arts in Instructional Design from Governors State University, in Illinois.
Ken Munro
Ken is Partner and Founder of Pen Test Partners, a firm of ethical hackers. He regularly blogs on everything from satellite communication hacking to maritime security and the Internet of Things. This has led to regular appearances on BBC TV and BBC News online as well as the broadsheet press. He also writes for various newspapers and industry magazines in an effort to get beyond the unhelpful scaremongering put about by many security vendors. Ken has become a voice for reform and legislative change in the largely unregulated IoT, briefing UK and US government departments as well as being involved with various EU consumer councils. He has also spoken about satellite communication security at various maritime events such as Digital Ship Rotterdam/Oslo/Limassol and CMA Shipping.
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