Room: Indigo

Room: Indigo

Event: Conference

Speakers: David Bradbeer and Pierre Molina, Cochairs

Room: Indigo

Event: Conference

Speaker: Devon Harris, Wildlife Specialist

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Room: Indigo

Room: Indigo

Event: Conference

Speaker: Marcella Mondin

Presented by Marcella Mondin, Professional Biologist at Calgary Airports and Founder of Climate Shield Canada, this opening keynote will explore how climate change is reshaping wildlife behaviour and creating new challenges for aviation safety. Drawing on her experience in airport wildlife management and climate resilience, Marcella will highlight how shifting weather patterns, changing migration timelines, and evolving habitat use are impacting wildlife risks around airports. This forward-looking presentation will invite participants to consider adaptive, evidence-based strategies to strengthen wildlife hazard management and build safer, more resilient airport operations.

Room: Indigo

Room: Indigo

Event: Conference

Speaker: Jason Botting

Presented by Jason Botting, Manager at Falcon Environmental Inc., this session will examine wildlife strike prevention through the lens of Safety Management Systems (SMS), with a focus on the regulatory gaps and human factors that influence day-to-day decision-making. Unlike other aviation hazards, wildlife risks often lack standardized operational thresholds or clear “go / no-go” criteria, leaving many decisions dependent on human judgment, communication, workload, and organizational culture. Using the “Dirty Dozen” human factors framework, the presentation will explore how issues such as complacency, fatigue, pressure, and lack of communication can weaken wildlife management programs. A facilitated panel discussion will follow, inviting participants to share practical strategies to strengthen execution, accountability, and safety assurance in wildlife strike prevention.

Room: Indigo

Event: Technical Workshop

Speaker: Jason Botting

Wildlife hazard management at Canadian airports sits at the intersection of two frameworks that don’t always align. Safety Management Systems set risk-based goals and acceptable levels of safety performance, while operators rely on performance indicators – strike rates, observation counts, dispersal metrics – to show those goals are being met. But one question remains unresolved across the industry: against what standardized tolerance are these indicators actually measured?

Without a common reference for acceptable wildlife strike risk, each operator, regulator, pilot, and consultant defines “good enough” on their own terms. This workshop invites wildlife managers, airport operators, regulators, and safety professionals to examine the gap between performance measurement and SMS objectives, where standardized tolerances are missing, why they are hard to establish, and what a shared framework might look like for the Canadian community.

Room: Indigo

Room: Indigo

Event: Conference

Speaker: Maxime Allard 

Presented by Maxime Allard, Director of Science, R&D and Innovation at Falcon Environmental Inc., this presentation will examine how rapid environmental and land use changes are creating new wildlife hazards at José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Through long-term strike data, aircraft movement analysis, and field surveys, the case study highlights the growing risk associated with Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks near critical runway approach paths. The presentation will explore how climate change, urban expansion, river sedimentation, and changing habitat availability are influencing bird behaviour, while outlining adaptive, ecosystem-informed strategies to strengthen airport wildlife risk management.

Room: Indigo

Event: Conference

Speaker: Sára Nožková

Presented by Sára Nožková, CEO and Co-Founder of Flox Intelligence, this presentation will share early operational results from the deployment of an adaptive bioacoustic deterrence system at Mora Airport in Sweden. Combining real-time wildlife detection with species-specific acoustic signals, the system aims to deter birds and other wildlife from entering critical airfield areas. The session will highlight practical lessons learned since its implementation in 2025, including system integration, behavioural considerations, and the role of non-lethal, adaptive deterrence in supporting safer airport operations under evolving wildlife risk conditions.

Room: Indigo

Event: Fire place

This closing session opens the floor to the audience for a collective look back on the day’s discussions. Share what stood out most, what challenged your thinking, and what you feel may still be missing from the conversation so far.

Room: Indigo

Speakers: BSAC’s BOD

Room: Indigo

Room: Indigo

Room: Indigo

Speakers: Pierre Molina and David Bradbeer

This session presents the ongoing revision of BSAC’s foundational white paper, Rediscovering Leadership by Advancing Safety at Canada’s Airports, first published in 2017. That original document called on Transport Canada to resume a hands-on leadership role in airport wildlife management and laid out the major gaps in Canadian standards, training, data collection, and strike reporting. Nearly a decade later, much of the landscape has shifted, and so has BSAC’s voice.

This presentation introduces a preliminary draft of the updated paper, recalibrating tone and priorities to reflect today’s regulatory environment and the evolving relationship between BSAC, Transport Canada, and the wider industry. Attendees are invited to weigh in on the direction of the revision and help shape a renewed strategic vision for wildlife hazard management in Canada.

Room: Indigo

Event: Conference

Speaker: Ronald DuJohn from Alpa 

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Room: Indigo

Event: Conference

Speaker: Andrea Brown

Presented by Andrea Brown, Project Manager – Analyst at Falcon Environmental Inc., this presentation will explore how land uses surrounding airports can influence wildlife–aircraft collision risks. As climate change alters habitat suitability, food availability, and migration behaviour, hazardous bird species may become more abundant near airports, appear in new areas, or remain present for longer periods of the year. The session will present a land use risk assessment approach that combines observed wildlife data with surrounding land use characteristics to help airports identify emerging wildlife patterns, monitor changing risks, and support adaptive planning and regulatory decision-making.

Room: Indigo

Room: Indigo

Event: Conference

Speaker: Tim J. Nohara

Presented by Tim J. Nohara, Founder & CEO of Accipiter Radar Technologies Inc., this presentation will explore how radar-based decision support can help mitigate the growing risk of damaging off-airport bird strikes during aircraft climb and approach. The session will highlight the need for a shift from managing birds to managing aircraft by providing timely, radar-derived bird congestion information to air traffic control, pilots, and airlines. Drawing on avian radar data and work with key aviation stakeholders, the presentation will examine how real-time alerts and improved information sharing can support airspace deconfliction and help reduce wildlife strike risks beyond the airport perimeter.

Room: Indigo

Event: Conference

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Room: Indigo

Room: Indigo

Event: Conference

Speaker: Sean Boyd

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Room: Indigo

Event: Roundtable

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Room: Indigo

Room: Indigo

Event: Conference

Speakers: Shel Graupe & Fabio Masci

Presented by Shel Graupe, Technical Manager, Wildlife Services at SGS Canada Inc., and Fabio Masci, Founder and CEO of The Edge Company S.r.l., this presentation will explore how emerging technologies are transforming bird and wildlife detection and deterrence at airports. The session will introduce the Bird Control Management System (BCMS®), an AI-powered platform that uses real-time optical detection to identify, track, count, and classify birds, wildlife, and drones. By providing 24/7 situational awareness and event-based data, the system offers new insights into species-specific movement patterns and behaviours, helping airport wildlife managers move from a reactive approach to a more proactive, data-driven strategy for reducing bird strike and wildlife collision risks.

Room: Indigo

Event: Technical Workshop

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Room: Indigo

Speakers: David Bradbeer and Pierre Molina, Cochairs