Under the patronage of His Highness General Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, and Ruler of Dubai, and with special support from the UAE Air Force and Air Defense, the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis- INEGMA will organize the Dubai International Air Chiefs Conference – DIAC, at the Dubai Knowledge Village Conference Center on Saturday November 14, 2009. INEGMA will organize DIAC for the fourth consecutive time as the Official Conference of the biennial Dubai Airshow. DIAC will feature high level speakers like:
- Major General Mohammed Bin Swaidan Saeed Al Gamzi, Commander of UAE Air Force and Air Defense
- General Norton A. Schwartz, Chief of Staff of the USA Air Force
- Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton, Chief of Staff, British Royal Air Force
- Air Marshal Mark Binskin, Chief of Staff, Royal Australian Air Force
- Lieutenant General Guisetti Bernardis, Deputy Chief of Staff, Italian Air Force
- Brigadier General Ibrahim Nasir Mohammad Al Alawi, Deputy Commander, UAE Air Force and Air Defense
- Air Chief Marshal Sir Glenn Torpy (R'td), Former Chief of Staff, British Royal Air Force
- General Jean-Paul Palomeros, Chief of Staff, French Air Force
DIAC will be attended by 25 Official Delegations headed mostly by their respective Air Chiefs who will come from various Arab and foreign countries. In addition there will be a crowd of Diplomats and Military Officials as well as Defense Industry Executives. DIAC topics will include:
- UAV in Air Combat: Present & Future Operations
- Electronic Warfare in Modern Air Power Operations
- New Generation Training Aircrafts: Proper Requirements
- Air Power Support to the Land Component: Future Trends
- Air Power: Interoperability and Capitalization
- The Role of AEW&C and Air Defense
- Network Centric Operations, Challenges & Solutions
