Oct 7th 2009

7:30 PM - Reception and Free Public Lecture

Welcoming Remarks - Wayne Cao, MLA, Deputy Speaker, Alberta Legislature

The SkyHook HLV - An Airship Answer to the Transportation Gaps of Northern Canada's Resource industry - Kenneth Laubsch, Project Mgr & Chief Engineer, Boeing SkyHook, Philadelphia, Pa.

Oct 8th 2009

7:45 AM - Opening Remarks

Welcome

8:00 AM - Logistical Challenges in Remote Areas

Chair - Jeff Ashcroft, Strategic Logistics Partners

Doing The Best With What We Have, Won't Cut it Anymore - Stewart Russell, V. P. Business Development, BBE, Calgary, Ab.

Moving Heavy Equipment to Remote Locations: An Analysis of Transportation Cost, Service and Sustainability - Paul D. Larson, PhD, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB.

9:15 AM - Promising Ideas for Cargo Carrying Rigid Airships

Aluminum Monocoque Structure: A New Beginning for Heavy Lift Airships - Alan Handley, President, Varialift Airships PLC, United Kingdom

ATLANT: The Future Technology for Northern Areas Development - Gennady Verba, President, RosAeroSystems, Russia

10:30 AM - Networking Break

11:00 AM - Promising Ideas for Cargo Carrying Hybrid Aircraft

Hybrid Airships: a Green Solution to Canada's Transport Challenge - Gordon Taylor, Dir. of Sales and Marketing, Hybrid Air Vehicles, United Kingdom

The SkyHook HLV - A Heavy Lift, Short Haul Vertical Transportation System - Kenneth Laubsch, Project Mgr & Chief Engineer, Boeing SkyHook, Philadelphia, Pa.

12:15 PM - Lunch Keynote Speaker

The business of getting an Airship Business off the ground - Brian Hall, Airship Ventures Inc., San Francisco, Calif.

2:00 PM - Commercial Applications for Small Airships

Unmanned Blimp for Monitoring and Maintenance of High Power Electric Lines - Adrian Pena Cervantes, Avionics & Telemetry Manager, CIDEP, Mexico

Remote Aerial Tripods - Unmanned Blimps for Advertising and Photography - Stephen Barkley, President, RATS, Lac La Biche, Ab.

3:30 PM - Networking Break

4:00 PM - Promising Ideas for Future Lighter-than-Air Developments

Concept of an Unmanned Lighter-than-Air Cargo Transportation System for Northern Canada - Juergen Bock, DGLR, and Prof. Uwe Aapel, Hochshule Bremen, Germany

Airborne Tethered Wind Generators - Nykolai Bilaniuk, PhD, Consultant, Ottawa, Ont.

5:30 PM - Reception

6:30 PM - Banquet

Conference Dedication to Airship Pilots: - Delton Gates, retired World War ll Airship Pilot

Keynote Speaker

Sustainable Humanitarian Air Service for Emergency Relief - Jacques Collignon, Sr. Reg. Logistics Officer,West Africa Regional Bureau, World Food Programme, Rome, Italy

Oct 9th 2009

7:45 AM - Opening Remarks

Welcome

8:00 AM - Passenger and Surveillance Roles for Airships

Chair - Jim Thomson, Hybrid Aircraft Canada

Future possibility of World Airship Transportation as New Business - Hiroyuki Watanabe, President, Nippon Airship Corp., Tokyo, Japan

Ready To Go: A Proven Approach and a Deliverable Airship for the North - Brandon Buerge, PhD, Aerodynamicist, Guardian Flight Systems, Elizabeth City, NJ

The Right Approach - Edward Pevzner, Business Development, Aeros Corp., Montebello, Calif.

10:00 AM - Networking Break

10:30 AM - Arctic Sovereignty and Transportation

Arctic Sovereignty and Airships - New Ideas for new Problems - Rob Huebert, PhD, University of Calgary, Calgary, Ab.

Getting beyond the Tipping Point: The Story of how the Canadian Army's small UAV went from an idea to flying over 1000 hours every month - saving Canadian lives in Afghanistan in the process. - Ian Glenn, MSEE, P. Eng., Chairman and CEO, ING Engineering Inc., Ottawa, ON. and Founder, UVS Canada

12:00 PM - Lunch Keynote Speaker

Slate's Metal Monocoque Structure Dirigible - Captain Tom and his Pioneering Family Airship - Albert Robbins, U. S. Navy (Retired) Indianapolis, Indiana

1:30 PM - Helium and Hangars - Developing an Airship Industry in Canada

Chair - Fred Petrie, Accountable Executive, First Nations Transport, Gimli, Mb.

Airship Transportation System - Helium Handling and Storage - David Limb, David Limb and Associates, Calgary Ab.

Building large Airships in Canada - Engineering Considerations - Rick Chale, President and CEO, and Brad Thompson, FWS Construction Ltd., Winnipeg, Mb.

2:30 PM - Networking Break

3:00 PM - Panel Discussion - Is the Airhip Industry at a Tipping Point

- Igor Pasternak, CEO, Worldwide Aeros, Montebello, Calif.

- Dr. Carl von Gablenz, Head of Board, CL CargoLifter, Berlin Germany