The ​5th World Financial Symposium 2018 | International Air Transport Association | 17 September 2018 | Madrid Marriott Auditorium, Av. de Aragón, 400, 28022 Madrid, Spain

The World Financial Symposium (WFS) has become the major, not to be missed aviation event tackling global airline financial issues. The event brings together all players within the Aviation Industry to look ahead and address what kind of decision and action that needs to be taken in order to sustain the airline financial health.

The 5th World Financial Symposium is taking place at the Madrid Marriott Auditorium Hotel & Conference Center in Spain.

2018 Speakers

Aleks Popovich
Senior Vice President, Financial & Distribution Services, IATA

Gabriel Perdiguero
Chief Customer & Business Transformation Officer, Iberia

Brian Pearce
Chief Economist, IATA

John Luth
Chairman & CEO, Seabury Consulting & Corporate Advisory (an Accenture Company)

Paolo Gallo
Executive Coach, Keynote speaker & best-selling author

Michael Doersam
SVP Group Finance , Emirates & Chairman of IATA Financial Committee

John Luth
Chairman & CEO, Seabury Consulting & Corporate Advisory (an Accenture Company)

Steve Priest
CFO, JetBlue

Bonny Simi
President, JetBlue Technology Ventures

Thomas Helldorff
Global Enterprise eCommerce, VP Airlines & Travel, Worldpay

Jeremy Dyball
Head of Merchant Services, Sales - Amadeus

Elena Gomez
Global Payments Product Manager, Citi

Olivier Hours
Head of NDC, IATA

Pascal Burg
Director, Edgar, Dunn & Company

Adnan Beig
Head of Payment, Emirates

Alice Hutchings
Senior Research Associate at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Elliot Castro
Independent Fraud Troubleshooter, Elliot Castro Connsultancy

Anca Dolocan
Portfolio Manager, Card and Fraud Services, IATA

Victoria Bany
Manager, Frequent Flyer and Internet Investigations, United

Joao Frias
Head of Fraud Prevention and Payment Solutions, TAP Air Portugal

Werner Decker
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Head of Global Merchant Services International, American Express

Amine Boulaghmen
Head of IATA Settlement Services Product Portfolio, IATA

Christelle Brenin
Payment Fraud Manager, Lufthansa Group

Elizabeth Lumley
Director of FinTech and Content , VC Innovations & FinTECHTalents

Andrea Sottoriva
Group Treasury Director, SITA

Linda Bos
Product Manager – Blockchain - KLM

Bernard Paul
Head of Projects, FDS Projects, IATA

Anis Rahal
CEO, Treasury Xpress

Tarquin Folliss
Innovation Director, Othrys Consulting

Julian Keites
Director – Global Fuel and Energy Price Risk Management, Kinect Energy (WFS)

Craig Fraser
Managing Director, Corporate Ratings, Fitch Ratings

Steve Forrest
Managing Director, Financial Solutions Group Marsh

Chaitan Jain
Assistant Director, External Affairs, IATA

Jim Callaghan
Lawyer, Croon Callaghan Aviation Consulting LLP

Erik Swelheim
CFO, KLM

Antoine Trepant
Managing Director, France, C2FO

Pascal Burg
Director, Edgar, Dunn & Company

Thierry Stucker
Director, Industry Financial Program, IATA

Ray Chesworth
Payment Solutions Business Development Manager, Accelya

Juan Ivan Martin
Head of Innovation, IATA

Diana Robino
SVP Business Development, Mastercard

Benjamin Madjar
Director, Global Head of Cross Product Solutions, Deutsche Bank

Javier Orejas
Head of Banking, GDC and DB, IATA

Benjamin Gilbert
CitiFX Risk Management Solutions, Citi

Paul O’Reilly
Director eFX Solutions, Citi

Nuno Ferreira
Senior Manager, Zanders, Treasury & Finance Solutions

Sebastian Rojas
Global Senior Market Manager, SWIFT gpi

Frances Hinden
VP Treasury Operations, Shell International Ltd

Lamyaa Khattabi
Senior Manager, Treasury Services and Currency Repatriation, IATA

Michael Uebber
Head of External Accounting, Lufthansa Group

John Vierdag
Director Administrative Organization, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

Erhan Yesilkaya
Financial Control Manager, Turkish Airlines

Pablo Londono-Betancur
Manager, Tax Customer Experience, ATPCO

Matt Reynolds
Director, Center of Data Excellence, Ryan

Nathan Bittner
Principal, Fuels and Excise Tax, Ryan

Archana Naik
Indirect Tax Manager, Emirates

Muharrem Unsal
Vice President, Taxation, Singapore Airlines

Altug Meydanli
Manager, Airline Distribution Standards (Pay/Account Vertical), IATA

Natalia Hermida
Head of Revenue Accounting, Indra

Philip Fernandes
Business Head, Revenue Accounting Solutions, Accelya

Gianna Monsch
CEO & Founder, Aerwise Consulting GmbH

Ariyur Thyagarajan Raghunathan
Corporate Senior Vice President , WNS

Michael Herrero
FDS Director Operations Strategy, GDC, IATA

Sergei Martinyuk
Assistant Director, Agency Management, GDC, IATA

Dr. Finn Majlergaard
CEO Gugin, Professor and Author

Etienne Castiaux
Founding Partner & Chief Technology Officer, Motive Partners

Alexander Kemper
Chairman and CEO, C2FO

Carlos Sanchez
CEO and Founder, Ipagoo

Michael Doersam
SVP Group Finance , Emirates & Chairman of IATA Financial Committee

Aleks Popovich
Senior Vice President, Financial & Distribution Services, IATA

2018 Sponsors

PRINCIPAL SPONSOR:
• Accelya

HOST AIRLINE:
• Air Europa

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• American Express
• Indra

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Amedeus
• ChargeBacks
• Citi
• Cyber Source
• Deloitte
• Hitit
• Ryan
• Maureva
• Seabury
• Tata Consultancy Services
• WNS
• Worldpay

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Accerity
• Elavon
• Niit
• Pay Cargo
• pWc
• Riskfied
• Sabre
• Wire Card

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• Bambora
• Miatech
• Msts
• Nethone

MEDIA SPONSORS:
• Airlines
• The STAT