Keith Lawless
Keith Lawless
Speaker
Managing Director

SAVIA

Canada

Keith joined SAF+ in 2022 after more than 20 years working for an airline where he held executive roles in Cost Management, Strategy, the President’s PMO, Fleet Renewal, and GHG Reporting and Compliance. He established and ran the airline’s award-winning sustainability department. Keith also helped to launch the first aircraft recycling and e-SAF industries in Quebec. In 2023 he founded SAVIA Consulting to respond to the need for aviation decarbonization advisory services. Prior to working in the aviation industry, Keith worked as a plant manager for an automobile parts manufacturing plant, as an operations management consultant, and as a process and research engineer. He has worked in Canada, the United States, Europe, Africa, and Australia. Keith has a B.Eng. (Metallurgy) degree from McGill University, an MBA from McGill/Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium and a certificate in Business Leadership Development from Christ Church University of Oxford (UK). Keith received a Clean50 award in 2021 given to the top fifty sustainability leaders in Canada.

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Sessions

  • A recap of the SAF momentum – SAF has been a big topic for a while but what is new?
  • A review and comparison of the various feedstocks: by-product
  • What are some of the knock-on effects of the introduction of the Inflation Reduction Act?
  • Demand signals from both sides of the Atlantic and SAF capacity in planning, can Ishka’s SAF Tracker help shed light?
  • Pathway differences, financing challenges for each one, investment and lending opportunities and scope for ROI
Chris Chaput
President & CFO, DG Fuels
Sarah Ellerby
Chief Executive Officer, Nova Pangaea Technologies
Keith Lawless
Managing Director, SAVIA
Meg Whitty
Vice President, Corporate Relations & Marketing, LanzaJet
Moderator
Paul O'Driscoll
Head of Advisory - Americas ISTAT Appraiser, Ishka