SPEAKERS

Keynote Speaker

Aviation Speakers

Steve Kent

Textron Aviation

Steve a Regional Sales Director for Textron Aviation and is the Chair of the LightHawk Board of Directors in addition to being a volunteer pilot. 

Steve started with Cessna Aircraft Company as an Airframe and Powerplant mechanic at the New York Citation Service Center. This led to a variety of positions with increasing responsibilities that have included Propeller, Caravan and Citation Sales. He is currently the Regional Sales Director for Cessna Propeller Products for the Northeast US and Eastern Canada.

Rhon Williams

FAA Safety Team Representative

Rhon is an FAA Safety Team Representative and holds a Commercial Pilot Certificate (Single, Multiengine, Helicopter, Glider). He is also a Certificated Flight Instructor with Airplanes, Instruments, and Glider ratings as well as an Airframe & Powerplant Mechanic.

Rhon will be presenting: “Risk Assessment In Aeronautical Decision Making”
Flying safely is about risk management, and that requires risk identification, assessment, and mitigation. Learn techniques to quantify and mitigate the risk, or decide when not to fly.

WINGS credit available!

Chris Boyer

Kestrel Aerial Services

Chris is a photographer, commercial pilot, and trained natural resources professional specializing in high-resolution digital aerial photography and mapping. After nearly 20 years involved in the restoration and management of natural and agricultural landscapes, he established Kestrel Aerial Services, Inc. to illustrate and communicate important issues about the changing west. He provides high-resolution digital mapping and aerial surveys while also producing fine art and documentary photography which is shown and published throughout the Northern Rockies.

Conservation Speakers

Sinjin Eberle

American Rivers

With a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science from Ball State University, and an extensive background in whitewater rafting, mountain biking, mountaineering, and mountain rescue, exploration of the outdoors is paramount to Sinjin’s life and career. Now, Sinjin is deeply involved in Colorado River issues from the headwaters in Colorado to the border with Mexico and particularly interested in protecting and sustaining the ecosystem within Grand Canyon. He also leads American Rivers film and photography efforts nationwide, including his partnership with LightHawk for production of the Romeo November: A LightHawk Story video.

Rebecca Bose

Wolf Conservation Center

Rebecca Bose is in charge of the well-being of all the Wolf Conservation Center’s Ambassador and Species Survival Plan (SSP) wolves. Rebecca started as a volunteer with the WCC when it first formed and quickly proved invaluable thanks to her animal care skills. She was named Curator in 2003, becoming one of the WCC’s first staff members and was elected to join the Red Wolf Species Survival Plan Management Group in 2009 and the Mexican Gray Wolf Species Survival Plan Management Group in 2010.