BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260730T121517EDT-1956GzoLz9@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260730T161517Z DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce that the 16th 91 Aviation Liabil ity\, Insurance and Finance Law Conference will take place on 10–11 Septem ber 2026 at the 91 Faculty Club in Montréal\, Québec.\n \n Hosted by the 91 Institute of Air and Space Law\, this annual conference brings tog ether leading practitioners\, academics\, and industry professionals to ex plore the most pressing legal\, regulatory\, and financial developments in the aviation sector.\n \n Whether you work in aviation law\, insurance\, or finance\, this is the premier gathering you won't want to miss.\n \n 📅 10–1 1 September 2026\n 📍 91 Faculty Club\, Montréal\n\n🔗 Secure your spot:  https://event.fourwaves.com/iaslconference/registration\n\nThis year’s pro gram brings together world-leading experts to cover the latest development s across the aviation industry.\n\nPlease note that the Early Bird Registr ation ends on the 31st of July 2026!\n\nWe are thrilled to announce Cliffo rd Law Offices as a Diamond Sponsor and Studio Pierallini as a Silver Spon sor of the 16th 91 Annual Conference on International Aviation Liabili ty\, Insurance and Finance!\n  \n\n\n \n \n Category\n Fee in CAD\n \n \n \n \n Gene ral-Early Bird\n 995\n \n \n General- Regular\n 1095\n \n \n Sponsor/IASL Graduate - Early Bird\n 895\n \n \n Sponsor/IASL Graduate- Regular\n 995\n \n \n Academic/G overnment/Speaker- Early Bird\n 795\n \n \n Academic/Government/Speaker- Regul ar\n 895\n \n \n IASL Student (standby basis\, no dinner)\n 50\n \n \n Student (wi th ID)- Early Bird- no dinner\n 345\n \n \n Student (with ID)- Regular- no din ner\n 445\n \n \n Accompanying Meal Guest\n 145\n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n Preliminary Pro gram on Day 1\n\n \n \n 08:00-08:30 Registration\n\n \n Our team will be ready to assist with your registration\, provide conference materials\, and answ er any queries.\n \n\n 08:30-08:50 Welcoming Remarks\n\n \n Dean of the Facult y of Law and IASL Co-Directors.\n \n\n 08:50-09:00 Keynote Speech\n\n \n Micha el Gill - ICAO Legal Bureau.\n \n\n 09:00-10:15 Geopolitical Challenges and the State of the Aviation Industry\n\n \n Sanctions\, airspace closures\, su pply chain fractures\, and shifting alliances are redrawing the map of com mercial aviation. Industry leaders assess how airlines and their advisers are managing legal and operational risk in a world where geopolitics incre asingly dictates route networks\, fleet strategy\, and commercial relation ships.\n\n Moderator: Michael Gill\, ICAO Legal Bureau\;\n\n Speakers\;*\n\n \n Anita Mosner\, Holland & Knight\;\n Michael Carbone\, JetBlue\;\n Don Gray \, WestJest/Onex\;\n Thomas Reynaert\, IATA\;\n Sophie Hayashi\, Crowell & M oring.\n \n \n\n 10:15-11:30 Air Carrier Liability - Recent Developments\n\n \n Courts worldwide continue to test the limits of the Montreal Convention — expanding the meaning of 'accident\,' redefining 'bodily injury\,' and g rappling with mental harm claims. Leading practitioners dissect the most s ignificant recent rulings and ask whether judicial creativity is strengthe ning or undermining the treaty's uniformity.\n\n Moderator: Rainer Amman\, Urwantschky Dangel Borst\;\n\n Speakers:\n\n \n Steven Truxal\, Leiden IIASL\ ;\n Mark Makreel\, Norton White (Sydney)\;\n Jaime Thornback\, Camp Fiorante Matthews\;\n Bart Banino\, Condon & Forsyth\;\n Jean-François Bisson-Ross\, Air Canada.\n \n \n\n 11:30-12:00 Refreshment Break\n\n \n Please enjoy a brea k with refreshments.\n \n\n 12:00-13:15 Focus on Manufacturers\n\n \n The 737 MAX aftermath\, the rise of China's C919\, and Boom's supersonic ambitions are reshaping the manufacturer landscape. This panel examines product lia bility exposure\, certification challenges\, and supply chain accountabili ty as the industry moves beyond the Airbus-Boeing duopoly into uncharted t erritory.\n\n Moderator: Tony Payne\, DLA Piper\;\n\n Speakers:*\n\n \n Steve Marks\, Podhurts Orseck\;\n Jennifer P. Griffin\, AAR\;\n Mildred Troegeler\ , Boeing.\n \n\n *more speakers to be added.\n \n\n 13:15-14:45 Lunch Break\n \n \n Please enjoy a lunch break.\n \n\n 14:45-16:00 Beyond Airlines: Airports \, Ground Handlers\, Air Navigation & Other Service Providers\n\n \n When a bag is lost\, a runway is icy\, or a controller errs — who pays? This pane l unpacks the complex web of contractual and tortious liability among airp orts\, ground handlers\, air navigation service providers\, and other acto rs whose failures can ground operations or endanger lives.\n\n Moderator: L aura Pierallini\, Studio Pierallini\;\n\n Speakers:*\n\n \n Sophie Prégent\, Aeroports de Montréal\;\n Francis Schubert\, 91 IASL\;\n John Frame\, Me nzies\;\n Darryl Dowd\, ACI World.\n \n\n *more speakers to be added.\n \n\n 16 :00-16:30 Refreshment Break\n\n \n Please enjoy a break with refreshments.\n \n\n 16:30-17:45 Intersection of Military & Civil Aviation\n\n \n From the do wnings of PS752 and MH17 to GPS jamming and conflict-zone routing\, the co llision of military operations and civil aviation raises urgent questions of State responsibility\, intelligence-sharing\, and victim compensation. Practitioners and policymakers confront the legal grey zones.\n\n Moderator : Dan Barks\, Spieser Krauss\;\n\n Speakers:*\n\n \n Brian Alexander\, Kreind ler\;\n Ken Quinn\, International Aviation Law LLC\; \n Simon Ellis\, Hugh J ames.\n \n\n *more speakers to be added.\n \n\n 17:45 Cocktail Dinner\n\n \n Ple ase enjoy a night of mingling with other participants.\n \n \n\n  \n \n\n\n\n P reliminary Program on Day 2\n\n \n \n 08:55-09:00 Moment of Silence to Commem orate the 25th Anniversary of 9/11\n\n \n Please join us in a moment of sile nce to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of 9/11.\n \n\n 09:00-10:00 Artifici al Intelligence\, eVTOL & Emerging Technologies\n\n \n AI-assisted cockpits\ , autonomous air taxis\, and predictive maintenance systems promise transf ormation — but who is liable when the algorithm gets it wrong? This panel stress-tests existing legal frameworks against the realities of eVTOL cert ification\, AI decision-making\, and the automation of safety-critical fun ctions.\n\n Moderator: Urban Olson\, Advokatfirman Urban Olson AB\;\n\n Spea kers:*\n\n \n Eric Oehy\, DLA Piper\;\n Stefan-Michael Wedenig\;\n Raphaëlle D esgagné\, Air Canada\;\n Jason Lorenzon\, Gertsburg Licata/Kent State Unive rsity\;\n Stefan Eriksson\, Astra Advokater.\n \n\n *more speakers to be adde d.\n \n\n 10:00-11:00 Criminalisation of Liability\n\n \n Prosecutors in Franc e\, Brazil\, and beyond are increasingly treating aviation accidents as cr imes. This panel debates whether criminalisation deters negligence or dest roys safety culture\, examining the chilling effect on reporting\, the ero sion of just culture principles\, and what practitioners can do to protect their clients.\n\n Moderator: Martine De Serres\, Air Canada\;\n\n Speakers :\n\n \n Gregory Laville de la Plaigne\, Clyde & Co\;\n Erin Applebaum\, Krei ndler\;\n Cyril-Igor Gregorieff\, Bournonville Grigorieff\;\n Kara Greene\, ESI.\n \n \n\n 11:00-11:30 Refreshment Break\n\n \n Please enjoy a break with r efreshments.\n \n\n 11:30-12:30 Managing Capital Risk: Financing and Leasing \n\n \n With 70% of the commercial aircraft fleet being leased and most of t he remainder being financed\, aviation lawyers need to keep up-to-date wit h the main legal developments in aircraft leasing and finance. This panel of leading private practice lawyers and in-house counsel will discuss what you need to know\, regardless of what area within air law you practice.\n \n Moderator: Donal Hanley\, 91 IASL\;\n\n Speakers:\n\n \n Andrea Sepinwa ll\, McMillan\;\n Marie-Aude Gagnon-Rosseau\, Air Canada\;\n Carlos Sierra\, Sierra y Vasquez\;\n Heather Diver\, Aviation Capital Group.\n \n \n\n 12:30- 13:45 Lunch Break\n\n \n Please enjoy a lunch break.\n \n\n 13:45-14:45 Managi ng Liability Risk: Insurance\n\n \n War-risk exclusions\, cyber exposure\, s anctions complications\, and emerging aerospace operations are straining t raditional aviation insurance models. Plaintiff and defence counsel join i nsurance professionals to examine coverage gaps\, policy disputes\, and wh ether the market is keeping pace with the risks.\n\n Moderator: Andrea Harr ington\, 91 IASL\;\n\n Speakers:*\n\n \n Ricardo Martinez-Cid\, Podhurst Orseck\;\n Christoper Loxton\, 3 Hare Court\;\n Amy Karnikian\, Crowell.\n \n \n *more speakers to be added.\n \n\n 14:45-15:45 Consumer Liability\n\n \n Fro m EU261 to Canada's APPR and new regimes emerging worldwide\, airlines fac e a patchwork of overlapping — and often conflicting — passenger compensat ion obligations. This panel maps the regulatory landscape\, examines enfor cement trends\, and asks whether harmonisation is achievable or merely asp irational.\n\n Moderator: Julius Dunton\, Air Canada\;\n\n Speakers:\n\n \n Cl audia Hess\, Urwantschky Dangel Borst PartmbB\;\n Lydia Johansson\, SAS\;\n Diego de Olmedo\, PionAir Law\;\n Isah Byarugaba\, RwandAir.\n \n \n\n 15:45-1 6:15 Refreshment Break\n\n \n Please enjoy a break with refreshments.\n \n\n 1 6:15-17:30 Debate: Is it time to revisit the Aviation Liability Regime?\n \n \n Twenty-seven years on\, does the Montreal Convention still serve the n eeds of a transformed industry? Two teams of leading advocates go head-to- head on whether the regime's liability limits\, jurisdictional rules\, and scope remain fit for purpose — or whether it's time to go back to the dra fting table.\n\n Moderator: Vincent Correia\, 91 IASL\;\n\n Speakers:\n \n Team Yes\n\n \n Pete Neenan\, Stewarts\;\n Tracy Brammeier\, Clifford Law\; \n Sara Prager KC\, Deka Chambers.\n \n\n Team No\n\n \n Andy Harks\, Clyde & C o\;\n Paul Dempsey\;\n Louise-Hélène Senecal.\n \n \n\n 17:30-17:45 Closing Rem arks by IASL Co-Directors & Conference Chair\n\n \n The conference's closing remarks will be given by the IASL Co-Directors & the Conference Chairs.\n \n\n 17:45 Farewell Reception\n\n \n Please enjoy a final night of mingling t o say goodbye to your fellow participants.\n \n \n\n  \n \n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260910 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260911 SUMMARY:16th 91 Aviation Liability\, Insurance and Finance Law Conferen ce URL:/iasl/channels/event/16th-mcgill-aviation-liabilit y-insurance-and-finance-law-conference-372263 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR