Air Transport IT Summit Speakers

Please click on the names below for full information about each speaker. This page will be updated as more speakers and information is confirmed.


Giovanni Bisignani
Director General and CEO, IATA


Mark Pilling
Editor, Airline Business Magazine


Francesco Violante
CEO, SITA


Paul Coby
CIO, British Airways

Idris Jala
Managing Director/CEO, Malaysia Airlines


Thomas Schnalke
Managing Director, Düsseldorf Airport


Abdul Wahab Teffaha Secretary General, Arab Air Carriers Organization (AACO)

Craig Bradbrook Director Security & Facilitation, Aiports Council International (ACI)

Edward Nicol
Director Information Management and CIO, Cathay Pacific

Mark Pilling
Editor, Airline Business

Mark Pilling is the Editor of Airline Business magazine, the monthly strategic boardroom title reporting on the air transport industry.

He has been a business journalist, specialising in aviation, for his entire career, beginning by reporting on the regional airline business in the late 1980s. He held the posts of deputy editor of Commuter World magazine and Interavia Aerospace Review prior to being appointed editor of Airports International in 1992. In 2000, he joined the editorial team at Airline Business, becoming its managing editor
in January 2001.

For two years from 2002 he also edited Airport World, the official magazine of the Airports Council International. In August 2005 he was appointed editor of Airline Business.

He makes regular appearances on television and radio, such as CNN and the BBCWorld Service and has written for a host of titles on aviation matters, including Flight International, Flight Daily News, The Financial Times and The International Herald Tribune.