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.
Michael Tchao
VP, Worldwide Product Marketing, iPad
Apple
Michael Tchao serves as Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing for iPad, leading the group responsible for product planning, strategy and communications for Apple’s industry-leading iPad product line. Michael has a degree in Engineering Product Design from Stanford University.
Patrick Brannelly
Divisional VP, Customer Experience
Emirates
Supreet Oberoi
VP of IoT and Big Data Applications
Supreet currently serves as the VP of IoT and Big Data Applications at Oracle. In addition to the role being responsible for the development of analytics, Supreet has introduced new technologies such as sound and vision-based analytics, Augmented Reality, big data analytics with Hadoop, integration with industrial robot systems, creating a robust ecosystem of partners along the way.
Prior to this, at American Express, Supreet developed the Hadoop platform from infancy, creating a platform for data asset management, implementing several use cases around recommendation, fraud, and compliance. Prior to American Express, as Vice President of Engineering for RTI, developed real-time middleware for helping create IoT systems-of-systems in A&D and Financial Services . Some of his accomplishments included making the middleware a standard for US Navy, US Electric Grids, sending a robot to Mars, trading 4 percent of NYSE stock volume, helping develop first-generation UAVs. He is also the Lead Mentor for startX, a Stanford start-up accelerator.
Mark Dankberg
CEO
Viasat
A well-known visionary in the industry, Mark D. Dankberg is a co-founder of ViaSat Inc.
Under his leadership, ViaSat has consistently been one of America’s fastest growing technology companies, reaching $1.4 billion in revenue and 3700 employees.
As a start-up, ViaSat was selected to the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing private companies three times. After listing on the NASDAQ exchange in 1996 ViaSat has been recognized multiple times by leading business and industry publications including BusinessWeek, Forbes, Fortune, Red Herring, Space News, and Defense News for its exceptional performance and growth.
Mr. Dankberg is an acknowledged industry expert in aerospace, defense, and satellite communications, and is the leading visionary for a new generation of high-capacity satellite systems. He has co-authored several military standards on satellite networking, and holds a number of patents in communications and satellite networking technologies. He has participated on Department of Defense advisory panels and was invited to testify before a Congressional committee on high-technology growth companies and IPOs.
Mr. Dankberg has received a number of awards for innovation and leadership:
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