Speakers & Participants
- Melinda Z. Pagliarello | Airports Council International - North America
- Benjamin Emerson | Georgia Tech
- Elizabeth Qian | Georgia Tech
- Michael Balchanos | Georgia Tech
- Josiah Hester | Georgia Tech
- Tim Lieuwen | Georgia Tech
- Valerie Thomas | Georgia Tech
- Urvashi Betarbet | Georgia Tech
- Mike Buiocchi | Georgia Tech
- Xi Wang | Georgia Tech
- Howon Lee | Georgia Tech
- Dayoung Kang | Georgia Tech
- Andy Tan | Georgia Tech
- Jeremy Seeyave | Georgia Tech
- Nicholas Bojdo | University of Manchester
- Dan Rotherham | University of Manchester
- Alex Covarrubias | Zensors
- Carly Shannon | Linx Strategies LLC
- Jen Wolchansky | Mead & Hunt
- Sangita Sharma | Delta Air Lines
- Jack Semrau | Delta Air Lines
- Asteris Apostolidis | KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
- Rajan Gupta | Centelli
- Kevin Staples | Salt Lake City Airport
- Quinta Warren | Hartsfield Jackson Airport
- Douglas Rao | North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies
- Shashank Yellapantula | National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Brian Kim | Pratt & Whitney
- Sebastian Eastham | Imperial College London
- Emily Dallara | Boeing
- Tejas Puranik | Boeing
- Chris Markou | IATA
- Dinesh Sanekommu | Google
Registration
Registration is now closed.
Location
1280 Price Gilbert Library Bldg.,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Sponsors
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- United Kingdom Science & Innovation Network
Agenda (1.5 day workshop)
NOTE: Please visit the workshop page for more information.
June 4th 2024
| Time | Activity | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Registration, coffee and pastries | |
| 9:30 - 09:40 | Introductions | P. Seshadri & C. Jones-Parr |
| 9:40 - 10:00 | Airport decarbonization landscape & existing challenges | J. Wolchansky & C. Shannon |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | The Road to Netzero: Challenges, Strategies and Solutions | K. Staples |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Airport sustainability panel discussion | M. Pagliarello |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | AI takes flight: Google’s approach to support sustainable aviation | D. Sanekommu |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Digital engineering and AI-enabled solutions for sustainable infrastructure planning: The ATL aerotropolis | M. Balchanos |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Sustainability and aircraft decommissioning; challenges with AI | C. Markou |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Foundation AI models for mission critical verticals in airports | A. Covarrubias |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Sustainable fuels research at Georgia Tech | B. Emerson |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Sustainable Aviation: Is SAF the solution? | S. Yellapantula |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee and breakout session I | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Using flight tracking data and atmospheric weather to estimate aviation emissions | N. Bodjo |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Data-driven weather and climate application development | D. Rao |
| 16:30 - 18:30 | Break for the day | |
| 18:30 - 21:30 | Dinner |
Dinner venue
June 5th 2024
| Time | Activity | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Coffee and pastries | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | AI for airline sustainability | A. Apostolidis |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Delta’s sustainability strategy* | S. Sharma |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Accelerating contrail avoidance through machine learning | S. Eastham |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Breakout session II & next steps |