Oliver Wyman Velocity Podcast

Explore how technology and innovation are tackling supply chain constraints and labor shortages in industries, with insights from industry experts at RAMCO Defense and Security Inc.

Experts discuss airline and MRO trends and challenges, including managing scarce resources and aircraft capacity, and the growing need for mobile.

Oliver Wyman kicked off SXSW's new Travel and Leisure track with a session surrounding the Oliver Wyman Forum's Rennaisance Report and the consumer personas redefining travel trends. Ana Kreacic, Partner and COO of OWF sat alongside speakers from Azul Airlines, DFW International Airport, and Resy to discuss these new disruptors and how businesses can adapt.

Join Jeff Leavitt, Konstantinos Varsos and Robert Mather from IFS for this episode where they discuss the current system challenges for airlines and the value in modernizing MRO IT.

Join Randy Starr, Jim Cummings and Admiral Pat Walsh for this episode where they discuss the cyber trends and threats facing the aviation industry.

Join Brian Prentice and Sam Sargent for this episode where they discuss the 2022 MRO survey and the labor, cost and sustainability challenges facing the industry.

In this year’s survey, we focused on the continuing challenges of labor shortages, cost management, and sustainability.

Before COVID-19, the global fleet and the industry at large had been on an unfettered positive trajectory for 10 years. That was particularly true in the second half of the last decade when low jet fuel prices also enhanced profitability. As this decade begins, however, the industry faces more uncertainty than it has for more than 20 years, starting with the disruption wrought by the pandemic. In this episode of the Oliver Wyman Velocity Podcast, join Tom Cooper, CAVOK Vice President and Brian Prentice, Partner for a conversation around the implications for the MRO market as we start to see signs of recovery in 2021 and over the next ten years. They will also discuss MRO demand, critical market trends and their corresponding implications for airlines as the aviation industry emerges from the COVID-19 crisis and fallout.

Oliver Wyman in collaboration with the WTTC recently launched a paper which offered global guidelines around the adoption of innovative digital technologies to enable safe and seamless travel. The paper lays out several best practice recommendations for biometric-enabled digital identities and their use across the end-to-end traveler journey. Denver International Airport has been one of the early adopters with their pilot program and are leading the pack with biometric capabilities. In this episode of the Velocity Podcast, Chris McLaughlin, Chief Operating Officer at Denver International Airport joins Oliver Wyman’s transportation experts Scott Boland-Krouse and Lawrence Burka for a unique insight into the success and learnings from the biometric program.

In this episode of the Oliver Wyman Velocity Podcast, join Kristina Gerteiser, partner specializing in transportation, and Philipp Deibert, partner and telecommunication expert as they bring together their expertise and discuss how mobile network and rail operators can collaborate and support the launch of the 5G network.

Join Ken Aso, Jerome Bouchard, Dennis Santare and David Stewart as they continue the conversation in Part 2 of Aerospace's Next Chapter. They will examine the key aspects of a pre- and post-COVID market and which design elements will position aerospace companies to win in 2021 and beyond.

The aerospace industry has faced the most acute shock in its history, as COVID-19 spread across the world, the industry lost over $118 billion in 2020 and saw dozens of airlines seek bankruptcy protection or stop flying entirely. There is more work to do in order to get through to full recovery, as our current forecasts show, the recovery is indeed happening, and commercial aircraft activity is poised to return. Yet, it is now time to design a resilient next chapter for aerospace in a post-pandemic world.

What possible solutions are there to reduce emissions or de-carbonize road transport? Long-haul surface transportation is an integral part of the global supply chain and accounts for 19% of road transport. Sustainable trucking is important, we have seen a growing number of country initiatives and strategies implemented to tackle the challenge. Our latest analysis proposes that green hydrogen has the potential to de-carbonize global greenhouse gas emissions. The green evolution of the heavy-duty transports relies mainly on electric road systems and fuel cell electric vehicles.

This coronavirus is here for the long haul; however, the pandemic is not playing out the same way from place to place. Difference regions and countries are at different points in their recovery, but where are we on the path to aviation industrial revival? Join Jérôme Bouchard and Ken Aso for the third installment of Aerospace Recovery Post COVID-19, where they revisit decisions that suppliers and OEMs will have to make around production and models in order to recover from the inevitable contraction the airline industry faces.

Working from home has now become the norm for many, with stay at home orders and nationwide quarantine measures. New technologies are helping people adapt to a new COVID-19 world, in some ways replacing mobility. How exactly does this impact business travel? COVID-19 has accelerated the adoption of technology, but will these digital substitutes replace business travel in a post-pandemic world? In this episode of the Oliver Wyman Velocity Podcast, join Olivier Fainsilber, Partner specializing in transportation and Moe Kelley, Partner and telecommunication expert with the Oliver Wyman Forum as they bring together their expertise and unpick the findings from two recent surveys measuring traveler sentiment and adoption of new technologies.

In this episode of the Oliver Wyman Velocity Podcast join Anthony DiNota, Vice President Oliver Wyman CAVOK, and Matt Riley, Senior Manager Oliver Wyman CAVOK as they continue the conversation around what challenges may still need to be scaled in order to fully utilize our logistic aviation landscape. Our latest episode offers an industry update with the most recent figures of registered drones vehicles and infrastructure requirements for long-haul delivery. In addition, Matt and Anthony highlight the issue of protecting drones with encryption and cyber security measures - a technical solution which has not yet been fully explored and developed. Then there is the obstacle of public acceptance - a long debated challenge. But how does this issue relate to noise pollution? Listen to our latest episode to learn why Matt and Anthony believe drone operators should be delivering packages before people.

Oliver Wyman was delighted to moderate a panel discussion around Aviation Relaunch and Recovery. In this special edition of the Velocity Podcast, join Oliver Wyman's David Stewart, Mike Delaney from Boeing and LeAnn Ridgeway from Collins Aerospace for a discussion around the recovery for the aviation sector post-pandemic. In this episode, Mike Delaney will offer an insight into Boeing's systematic approach and layers of protection to mitigate the risk to the passenger inflight experience, whilst LeAnn Ridgeway speaks of how biometrics and other new technologies in airports can reduce virus transmission from curb to gate.

Oliver Wyman was delighted to participate in a session the Global Urban & Advanced Air Summit series of virtual events. In this special edition of the Velocity Podcast, join Oliver Wyman CAVOK’S Robbie Bourke for a discussion around the impact of Covid-19 on the urban air mobility industry. In the past twelve months there have been significant progress with technology and regulatory requirements. Urbanisation and time sensitivity were demand drivers pre-pandemic, but is there going to be a changing dynamic in our cities going forward? In this episode we are joined by Bobby Healy, Manna Aerospace and Dan Czerwonka, Zipline as they talk through the challenges and hurdles they have overcome, what advice they would give to companies working in the UAM space, and the 'crawl, walk, run' approach to operationalizing.

The global aerospace industry undoubtedly faces a contraction in a post-pandemic world. How long will it take for the industry to recover? What decisions will OEM's and suppliers have to make around production and models? In this episode of the Oliver Wyman Velocity Podcast, join two of our transportation partners, Jérôme Bouchard and Ken Aso as they continue the discussion around the recovery of the aerospace industry post COVID-19. In this episode, they will delve deeper into new business models and the implications for MRO aftermarket.