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Mr. Juan Carlos Salazar is the Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). He was first appointed for a three-year term starting August 2021. On 11 March 2024, the ICAO Council renewed his appointment for a second consecutive three-year term, which began in August 2024.

His career in international civil aviation spans over 27 years in various advisory and leadership roles. Prior to his appointment as Secretary General, Mr. Salazar served as Director General of Aeronautica Civil of Colombia – Aerocivil. For the twelve years previous to joining Aerocivil, Mr. Salazar was a Senior Advisor to the UAE General Civil Aviation Authority.

His professional experience also includes terms as the President of Latin American Civil Aviation Commission (LACAC), Secretary of the Colombian Civil Aviation Board and Director of its Air Transport Office, Director General of Air Transport at the Colombian Ministry of Transport, Corporate Secretary and Director of the Legal Department of Tampa Cargo (currently known as Avianca Cargo).

Aviation is a technology-enabled business. Changes to the technology landscape produce change in everything from how airlines conduct their operations, sell their seats or interact with their passengers. This panel will bring together technology suppliers, third party experts and airlines to explore how shifts in technology can make aviation safer, more predictable and improve the experience for passengers.

CAPA returned to North America in 2025 with the CAPA Airline Leader Summit - Americas. The two-day regional summit was held in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands across 3-4 April 2025. The lead-off event in CAPA's 2025 Airline Leader Summit series, the gathering brought global and regional aviation leaders to analyse the key trends in aviation across North and South America, as well as dived deep into the developing regional outlook.

Aviation is a force for change in Latin America, with the industry's rapid growth connecting the continent like never before and bringing traveller, trade and tourism. Yet, the region faces underlying and deep-seated challenges, including limits around infrastructure, policies around taxes and protectionism and the difficulties of building connections to regions with small populations and limited economic development. This panel will take a whole-of-region overview and consider key questions such as:

• How can Latin American airlines build connectivity with the rest of the world?

• What does airline consolidation mean for intra-regional and intercontinental connectivity?

• How do airlines go about building connectivity to smaller regional population centres?

• What models of airport ownership/operation best support regional infrastructure development?

• How do regional carriers support liberalisation and mitigate government moves around aviation taxes and other charges?

• Will the LCC revolution continue at the same pace in Latin America, or is the market starting to see more differentiation and segmentation?

• What are the regional hot spots for growth within Latin America?

Recently named as Forbes Travel Guide's first Hotel Ownership Group of the Year, Dart appreciates the critical impact of aviation trends and market dynamics on the success of the places and experiences the company creates.

Director Jackie Doak will share how the privately held group of companies founded by Ken Dart is:

• Building on its 30-year investment Cayman's growth

• Demonstrating continued confidence in both the Cayman jurisdiction and the strength of the travel industry

• Innovating and improving to help properties and destinations increase demand and earn consideration from aviation leaders

Tourism to the Caribbean is thriving, with the region expected to attract close to 30 million visitors from the Americas in 2025. Having achieved remarkable recent growth, the Caribbean is now looking to build on this success while also overcoming problems of rapid growth.

• Should the Caribbean be taking a pan-regional approach to tourism marketing, or is each destination for itself?

• How do tourism destinations in the region build resilience into their operations, balancing growth in arrivals with protecting the region's prized environmental attractions?

• Are there options to build better intra-regional air connections and more capacity into developing Latin American source markets?

• What do trends around personalisation, luxury travel and sustainability mean for Caribbean destinations?

The Cayman Islands Government, in partnership with CAPA - Centre for Aviation, hosted the CAPA Airline Leader Summit Americas 2025 and the Global Airport Development (GAD) Americas Summit in Grand Cayman from April 3-4, 2025. This event brought together global and regional aviation leaders to discuss key trends and strategic issues facing airlines, airports, and the broader travel industry.

Join CAPA - Centre for Aviation, the world's most trusted source for aviation intelligence, for a comprehensive snapshot of the state of commercial aviation across North America. Featuring exclusive insights generated from CAPA's extensive data and aviation knowledge tools, this session will not only examine key performance metrics for aviation, but will examine implications for major trends in regional aviation that are shaping the industry's outlook.

The travel sector continues to battle with supply chain challenges, which have slowed crucial aircraft deliveries and forced airlines to revise network plans and slow growth. With these issues expected to persist into 2025 and 2026, how does the industry deal with capacity shortages, adjust forward plans and other uncertainties that supply chain disruptions are producing?

With a trade war potentially looming with Canada's largest export partner and travel market, what is the outlook for Canadian airlines in the next few months and beyond? Join this expert panel comprised of Canadian air transport leaders as they contemplate an unprecedented threat to their businesses and potentially the biggest disruption to Canadian aviation since the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond this short-term threats and how operators are mitigating the upheaval, the panel will also look at big picture issues and how Canada can create a commercial airline industry that is more competitive, more resilient and better able to withstand sudden macroeconomic shocks.