Symposium Agenda
Location: Edgewater Hotel, Seattle, WA, December 5 and 6, 2011
Conference Dedication:
Modern Founders - George Spyrou and Roger Munk
Dec 5th 2011
7:30 AM - Continental Breakfast - Sponsored by Lockheed-Martin Skunk Works
7:45 AM - Opening Remarks
Welcome Conference Chair: - Dr. Barry Prentice
8:00 AM - Alaskan Needs for a Game Changer
Chair - Oliver Hedgepeth, Ph.D. Program Director, Reverse Logistics Management
(American Public University System)
Logistics of Mineral Exploration in Alaska - Dr. Paul Metz
(University of Alaska)
Airships: Get ready for the future - Hardy Giesler
(Business Development Director, Hybrid Air Vehicles - UK)
AND - Stephen Newton
(Director, Business Development, Discovery Air Innovations)
Operator's Perspective on Transport Airships - Brian Hall
10:00 AM - Networking Break
10:30 AM - Game Changers - Bouyancy Control
Chair - Stuart Russell
(VP Business Development, BBE, Calgary, Alberta)
Varialift: A New Horizon - Alan Handley
(President, Varialift Airships PLC, UK)
AND - Ernesto Kronenburg
(Varialift Airships PLC)
Innovative Approaches to the logistics of remote areas - Michael Talesnikov
(VP Marketing and Sales, RosAeroSystem Intl. Russia)
12:00 PM - Lunch - Keynote Speaker
Northern Transportation Gaps - Matt Morrison
(Executive Director, PNWER)
1:30 PM - Game Changers - Cargo Airships
Chair - Ian Glenn, MSEE, P.Eng.
(Chairman and CEO, ING Engineering)
P-791 Hybrid Game Changer - Dr. Robert Boyd
(Hybrid Lift Portfolio Mgr., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Advanced Development Programs (or Skunk Works))
2:30 PM - Networking Break
3:00 PM - Economic Applications for Buoyant Air Transport
Chair - Ruth Sol
(President, Westac)
Ice roads on the James Bay Coast - community and mining challenges - Guy Ginter
(Acting IBA Director - Moose Cree First Nation,)
Mineral occurrence revenue estimation and visualization (MOREV) tool and its application in a Northern Transportation Environment with Airships - Helen Kourous-Harrigan
(Michigan Tech Research Institute, Ann Arbor, Michigan)
5:00 PM - First bus to Museum of Flight
6:00 PM - Second Bus to Museum of Flight
7:30 PM - Banquet - Museum of Flight
Conference Dedication to Modern Airship Founders:
George Spyrou and Roger Munk
9:30 PM - First Bus to Edgewater Hotel
10:30 PM - Second Bus to Edgewater Hotel
Dec 6th 2011
8:00 AM - Continental Breakfast
8:15 AM - Opening Remarks - Welcome
8:30 AM - Hangars and Envelopes
Chair - Peter Wallis
(President, Van Horne Institute, Calgary, AB.)
Airship Flight Simulator and Pilot Training - Francis X Govers III
(Special Missions Manager, Airship Ventures)
Manufacturing Considerations of Large Lighter Than Air Softgoods Structures - Tim Miller
(ILC Dover, LTA Principal Engineer)
10:00 AM - Networking Break - Sponsored by Discovery Air Innovations and Hybrid Air Vehicles
10:30 AM - Weather and Piloting
Chair - Peter Wallis
(President, Van Horne Institute, Calgary, AB.)
Airships and Weather - Dr. Ananthakrishna Sarma
(Senior Scientist, SAIC)
"Airship Safety in Northern Weather Conditions" - Richard Van Treuren
(Author)
12:00 PM - Lunch - Keynote Speaker
Airship Design Considerations for Cold Weather Operations - Dale George
(Chief Technology Officer, BASI)
1:30 PM - Game Changers in Cargo Airship Design
Chair - Ruth Sol
(President, Westac)
All Weather Airship based on the New Propulsor - Konstantin Kolpakov, Project Manager and Vladimir Ivanov, Chief Engineer
(AIRSHIP GP - Russia)
Mav6, Big Traditional Airship for the North - TBA
Carangifoil Vertical Airship - Micah Warren, Director Sales/Marketing
(Windcrafter)
2:30 PM - Networking Break
3:00 PM - Panel Discussion - What would the Airship mean to the North?
Chair - Dr. Barry Prentice
- Dr. Harvey Brooks, Deputy Minister of Yukon Economic Development
(Government of Yukon, Whitehorse, Yukon)
- Dr. Allan Weston
(Director of Programs and Projects, NASA Ames Research Center)
- Nicholas Mastrodicasa
(Project Mgr. Dept. of Transporation and Public Facilities, State of Alaska)
