Silke Wobken is the Senior Director of Sales for the Eastern U.S. and Leisure Sales at Lufthansa Group Airlines, based in New York since June 2021. She manages corporate and agency sales across the U.S. East Coast and oversees all U.S. leisure sales. Additionally, she leads an initiative focused on Lufthansa Group’s sustainability efforts in the U.S. Ms. Wobken joined Lufthansa’s Miles & More loyalty program in 2005 and later held roles in business development, marketing, revenue management, and market steering in London, Frankfurt, and Moscow. In 2014, she became Country Manager for Russia, driving NDC distribution, which positioned Russia as a leader in the new technology. Later, as Director of Sales for North Germany, she oversaw corporate sales, worked with major Travel Management Companies and also served on the advisory board for Lufthansa City Center International. Her most recent role was Senior Director Sales for North Africa, Near East, and Turkey, where she managed commercial development in 12 countries and coordinated repatriation flights during COVID-19 bringing thousands of people home. Silke Wobken holds a degree in International Business and Management from Hanze University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands and a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Helia Business Polytechnic in Finland.

Mark Rumizen is currently leading Air Company’s efforts to develop and qualify their evolutionary carbon conversion sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) pathway.  He is chairman of the ASTM International Aviation Fuels Subcommittee and was formerly the chairman of the subcommittee’s Emerging Fuels section. He was previously employed as the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) regulatory and technical expert for aviation fuels for over three decades, where he played key roles in the emergence of the SAF industry and in the oversight of aviation fuel.  He has held leadership roles at the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI), ASTM International, and the Coordinating Research Council (CRC).  Prior to the FAA, he was employed at aircraft engine manufacturers Pratt & Whitney Aircraft and GE Aviation.

Pierpaolo Cazzola is the Director of the European Transport and Energy Research Centre of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, and also a Global Research Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Pierpaolo is also an independent author of targeted analyses on transport, energy, sustainability, technology and innovation for public institutions.

Pierpaolo spent more than 20 years working internationally at the intersection of transport, energy and environmental sustainability. He was advisor on energy, technology and environmental sustainability for the International Transport Forum (2019-2022), transport lead in the Energy Technology Policy Division of the International Energy Agency (2014-2019), coordinator of the Electric Vehicles Initiative of the Clean Energy Ministerial (2016-2019), Secretary of the Working Party on Pollution and Energy of the World Forum for the Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WP.29) of the United Nations (2011-2014), amongst other roles. In 2022, he also supported the Italian Government, during the Draghi tenure, to elaborate policies on transport decarbonisation. Pierpaolo has a Master degree in energy economics from the Institut Français du Pétrole et Énergies Nouvelles, a Master in Aerospace Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino and a Bachelor of Engineering in Aeronautics from the University of Glasgow.