Full Name
Jennie Blumenthal
Job Title
Partner and Travel, Transportation and Hospitality Leader
Company (Please input the full name of your organization)
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Speaker Bio
Jennie leads PwC’s Travel, Transportation & Hospitality practice in the US, where she focuses on counselling hospitality and entertainment executives in Sales and Marketing transformations. She has 20 years of experience across hospitality, technology, entertainment, public sector, and telecommunications industries.
Full Name
Mike Delaney
Job Title
Leader, Confident Travel Initiative and Vice President, Digital Transformation
Company (Please input the full name of your organization)
Boeing Commercial Airplanes
Speaker Bio
Mike Delaney leads Boeing’s enterprise “Confident Travel Initiative” to help the aviation industry safely resume global air travel amid the Covid-19 pandemic. This work includes bringing together Boeing’s vast resources to support customer airlines, test and implement new technologies, and partner with industry associations to amplify work that will keep passengers safe. Delaney draws on his more than 30-year career at Boeing, in which he has led Airplane Development and Engineering for Commercial Airplanes, to guide Boeing’s efforts.
Full Name
Jeff Knittel
Job Title
Chairman and CEO
Company (Please input the full name of your organization)
Airbus Americas, Inc.
Speaker Bio
C. Jeffrey (Jeff) Knittel is the Chairman and CEO of Airbus Americas, Inc. In addition, he is the Head of Region for the Americas and as such reports directly to the Airbus CEO. He is responsible for Airbus’ commercial aircraft business throughout the Americas, as well as for providing leadership for the company’s market leading helicopter business and its space and defense unit in North America.
Full Name
Rick Steves
Job Title
Travel Writer, Author
Speaker Bio
Rick Steves, America's most respected authority on European travel, empowers Americans to have European trips that are fun, affordable, and culturally broadening. In 1976, he started his business, Rick Steves' Europe, headquartered in Edmonds, Washington, near Seattle. There he produces a best-selling guidebook series, a popular public television show, a weekly public radio show, a syndicated travel column, and free travel information available through his travel center and ricksteves.com. Rick Steves' Europe also runs a successful small-group tour program taking 30,000 travelers to Europe annually.