Maintain the strategic direction for Inflight WiFi and Entertainment as it pertains to Customer and Commercial impacts. Provide the Customer perspective for select self-service initiatives throughout implementation and responsible for continued improvement. Leverage Customer data and industry trends to identify new opportunities to enhance the Customer Experience. Tara began her career at Southwest Airlines as an Intern on the Customer Experience Team.  Recognizing that focusing on the Customer was an area of passion for her, she continued to grow within the role and her time on the Team consistently impacts her work today. Being able to work on WiFi/IFE gives Tara the opportunity to bring this passion for the Customer and a desire for operational efficiency together into one outcome. Tara grew up in the great state of Texas, graduating with a BS in Marketing and a BS in Management from Oklahoma State University. She rounded out her education with an MS in Logistics and MBA concentrated in Operations Management from the University of Texas at Arlington.

Captain Jason Brown is the Manager, Flight Technical for Air Canada Flight Operations with almost a decade of experience in Advanced Flight Deck Programs. As a captain, Jason regularly operates the Boeing 767-300 to overseas destinations. He has played an instrumental role in developing Air Canada’s EFB Program for pilots and has worked closely with other Air Canada operational groups to harmonize mobility applications.  In addition to the EFB Program, Jason also manages the Aeronautical Data and Connected Flight Deck programs.

Max began his career as a software engineering graduate, specializing in mobility.  Always being engaged in mobility, travel has never been far away and this has increasingly become a focus area.  Max is now working with a number of travel partners enabling Google integration throughout the full passenger journey.

Mike Garman Manager Avionics Engineering Allegiant Airline Owner Air Charter USA FAA Systems and Equipment DER 17 years at Universal Avionics, as FMS, AHRS and Autopilot product manager also Flight Test Engineer Previously worked for Rockwell Collins, British Aerospace, Eastern Airlines and US navy Been in the Airplane business for 38 years

Lead the Digital Transformation of aircraft engineering and maintenance teams for airlines in Europe, Middle East and Latin America. Ashi has a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Royal institute of technology, KTH, in Stockholm.

Angela Vargo is the Head of Brand Marketing for Breeze Airways. 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.