October 12-16, 2026
Orlando World Center Marriott
Reasons to Attend:
Airline & MRO
Greater aircraft availability, faster turnaround, and stronger parts reliability are within reach. Over three days at Unleashed, connect with airline and MRO leaders, customers, experts, and innovators through practical sessions, real-world stories, roadmap discussions, and hands-on experiences. See how leading organizations are using Industrial AI to reduce unplanned downtime, shorten turnaround times, and strengthen reliability across aviation operations.
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Where industry leaders set the agenda
One room. Three days. Every expert in the IFS ecosystem and everything your industry needs to be limitless.
Carlos De Hermoso
Copa Airlines
Brian Kough
Aviation Week
Robert Mather
IFS
Raj Shankar
IFS
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Join your Peers
Three days. One stage. Every industry the world relies on. Here’s what the room looks like when you arrive in Orlando.
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What's on for Airline & MRO
ELEVATE. Taking Aviation Maintenance to New Heights. Unleashed brings together aviation maintenance and MRO leaders to explore The Era of Limitless Industry through sessions on Industrial AI, turnaround performance, and workforce productivity.
Aviation Maintenance: Industry Under Pressure
Join a panel of customer leaders as they discuss aviation maintenance industry challenges being faced today and coming tomorrow.
Aviation Maintenance: Industry Under Pressure
Join a panel of customer leaders as they discuss aviation maintenance industry challenges being faced today and coming tomorrow. Learn more about real practices in the field improving technician productivity and coordination, and define what next-level performance looks like across engineering, line, base, and shop maintenance.
Speakers:
- Rob Mather, IFS
The Future of Aviation Maintenance: an Industry Expert Perspective
Drawing on unmatched industry access, cut through the noise and hear an independent industry expert perspective on the present and future state of aviation maintenance.
The Future of Aviation Maintenance: an Industry Expert Perspective
Drawing on unmatched industry access, cut through the noise and hear an independent industry expert perspective on the present and future state of aviation maintenance. Learn what top-performing airlines and MROs do differently and where the rest of the industry may be falling short. Get an authoritative forecast on where improvement must happen first to stay ahead of the game and meet the challenges of tomorrow.
Speakers:
- Brian Kough, Aviation Week
- Rob Mather, IFS
Aviation Maintenance Roadmap: From Fragmented Activity to Coordinated Operations
A digitalization roadmap for next-generation aviation performance, spanning intelligent planning, supply chain readiness, workforce optimization, and execution for airlines, operators, and MRO providers.
Aviation Maintenance Roadmap: From Fragmented Activity to Coordinated Operations
A digitalization roadmap for next-generation aviation performance — spanning intelligent planning, supply chain readiness, workforce optimization, and execution-layer control for Airlines & Operators, and Independent MRO providers for Airframe and Complex Assemblies. Designed for aviation organizations ready to accelerate from deployment to scale, grounded in operationally proven, mission-critical results.
Speakers:
- Raj Shankar, IFS
Next-Generation Engine & Complex Assembly MRO: The New Frontier
Complex assembly maintenance is entering a new era. MRO leaders are using Industrial AI, connected operations, and CAMRO to improve asset readiness, increase predictability, and execute with confidence.
Next-Generation Engine & Complex Assembly MRO: The New Frontier
Complex assembly maintenance is entering a new era. As engine, landing gear, and APU maintenance grow more demanding, MRO leaders are turning to Industrial AI, connected operations, and Complex Assembly MRO (CAMRO) to improve asset readiness, increase predictability, and execute with confidence in high-pressure maintenance environments.
Speakers:
- Raj Shankar, IFS
Industrial AI for Aviation Maintenance: Real Use Cases for Real Impact
Practical AI use cases delivering real value in aviation maintenance. Discover how Industrial AI is helping MROs and operators improve maintenance performance and successfully scale from pilot to production.
Industrial AI for Aviation Maintenance: Real Use Cases for Real Impact
Practical AI use cases in aviation maintenance driving actual value. Join this session to learn more on how Industrial AI is changing what MROs and operators can do with AI across engineering, line, base, and shop maintenance, and what it takes to move from pilot to production without disrupting throughput.
Speakers:
- Natalie Reesor, IFS
Maintenix to IFS Cloud: Lessons from a Live Aviation Maintenance Transformation
Join leading customers as they share their journey from IFS Maintenix to IFS Cloud for Aviation Maintenance, highlighting key implementation decisions, lessons learned, and business outcomes.
Maintenix to IFS Cloud: Lessons from a Live Aviation Maintenance Transformation
Join leading customers as they take the attendees through their transformation journey from IFS Maintenix to IFS Cloud for Aviation Maintenance, covering the implementation decisions, adoption lessons, and execution outcomes that matter most. A candid look at what the transformation really involved, what changed on the ground, and what the operator would do differently.
Speakers:
- Carlos De Hermoso, Copa Airlines
- Andrew Gendrau, Microsoft
- Rob Mather, IFS
Advancing Airframe MRO Execution: The Future of EmpowerMX and IFS Cloud for Aviation Maintenance
Improving airframe MRO execution with EmpowerMX within the broader ICAM platform direction with practical next steps for operators.
Advancing Airframe MRO Execution: The Future of EmpowerMX and IFS Cloud for Aviation Maintenance
Improving airframe MRO execution with EmpowerMX within the broader ICAM platform direction with practical next steps for operators. A focused session on how EmpowerMX extends execution capability at the hangar floor level and where the platform is headed for line and base maintenance operators.
Speakers:
- Raj Shankar, IFS
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Why Unleashed. Why now.
Expertise is thinning and compliance keeps tightening. This is where you stay ahead.
Insight Engineered for Elevated Performance
Understand the operational and financial cost of extended turnaround times, and how leading MRO operators and airlines are rebuilding fleet reliability with predictive, data-driven maintenance.
AI in Action Across the Hangar
Live demonstrations covering maintenance scheduling, work scope management, parts availability, and how Industrial AI cuts turnaround time without adding compliance risk or workforce pressure.
Keynotes That Set the New Standard
Hear from airline and MRO leaders navigating the hardest operating environment in a generation. Supply chain pressure, tightening regulation, and a shrinking talent pool are defining who comes out ahead.
AI Startup Hall
Discover Industrial AI companies solving airline and MRO challenges with no viable answer until now, from intelligent work scope prediction to automated compliance tracking and parts optimization.
Airline and MRO Breakouts
Build your own agenda around the challenges that matter most to your operation. Sessions are designed around your priorities, from compliance and workforce planning to parts availability and execution at commercial and defense scale.
Hands-On Learning and Training
Expert-led workshops and live demos built around IFS capabilities for airlines and MRO operators. Leave with practical skills, a sharper implementation plan, and the confidence to act on what you have learned.
Training registration coming soon.
Robert Mather, VP – Aerospace and Defense
Insight Engineered for Elevated Performance
Expertise is thinning and compliance keeps tightening. This is where you stay ahead.
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What you'll leave with
What the data reveals about MRO performance under the super cycle and who is pulling ahead
Independent benchmarks and industry expert perspectives on aviation maintenance execution: where planning, materials, labor, and compliance face the most pressure, and what the top operators do to stay ahead.
A sequenced path from faster turnaround and higher availability today to AI-driven MRO operations tomorrow
From ICAM, CAMRO, and EmpowerMX in market today to predictive materials planning and autonomous compliance. See the full IFS aviation maintenance roadmap and shape where your investment goes next.
A live look at Industrial AI applied to aviation maintenance
Applied AI use cases improving diagnosis, planning, materials coordination, and execution control across base, line, and sustainment. See what it looks like to move from pilot to production without disrupting throughput.
A peer network built on zero-downtime ambition
Aviation maintenance and MRO leaders, planners, and operations executives are navigating the same turnaround, workforce, and availability pressures. Relationships built at Unleashed that extend well beyond the event.
Be Part of the Era of Limitless Industry
From first-time attendees to returning champions, Unleashed 2026 brings your transformation into focus and turns vision into action.