Learning Lab Recording

Join us for a special edition ISTAT Learning Lab, featuring the 2023 ISTAT DEI Award recipient, SMBC Aviation Capital. During this session, Gillian Cooney, head of HR, shares insights on what the organization is driving with their DEI initiatives.

Hear from Rob Morris of Cirium as he provides a summary of 2023, including how supply and demand are driving values and lease rates. He also offers his outlook for 2024 with a focus on traffic and yields.

ISTAT legends Gerry Butler and Jep Thornton return to the ring to battle it out in the fourth Rumble Over Aviation’s Recovery (ROAR).

Andrea Wilson of Wilson Consulting Group gives an overview on aviation insurance, how the market functions, cover types and what lessors, owners and financiers need to be concerned with when it comes to lease and financing compliance.

In this ISTAT Learning Lab, JetZero founder and CTO Mark Page discusses the evolution of blended wing technology, and JetZero Advisory Board member Warren Willits discusses the market for such an aircraft.

Niklas Lund of Rockton provides a high-level overview of the peculiarities of investing in the sustainable aviation sector.

In this ISTAT Learning Lab, we once again hear from Evan Wallach of Global AirFinance Services and John Mowry of Alton Aviation Consultancy with an aviation ABS market environment update.

In this discussion, Hal Calamvokis of Aviation Finance forms a standardized framework for measuring and disclosing the 1.5°C alignment of financial institutions’ aviation portfolios.

In this discussion, Alison Weal from Watson Farley & Williams LLP takes a deep dive into the arguments raised by the lessors and the defenses submitted by the insurers in respect to the litigation arising out of the Russian/Ukraine conflict. Her discussion points include an analysis of the judgments received to date.

Savi Syth from Raymond James presents an overview of the emerging eVTOL sector, including a review of leading operators and technologies.

David Rushe of Aergo Capital and Kane Ray of AviationValues attempt to make sense of current challenges facing the engine market, given production delays, reliability issues and constraints in shop visit capacities and supply chains.

Ben Chapman, senior manager of aircraft valuation, asset management and sustainability at ICF and ISTAT Certified Appraiser, and Haldane Dodd, executive director at Air Transport Action Group, discuss the benefits of SAF, emphasizing its ability to reduce GHG emissions in the pursuit of net zero by 2050.