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Tad Nadolny
Vice President, IT Information Systems
Emirates Flight Catering
Speaker Bio
Tad is VP of Information Systems & Cybersecurity and a board member at Emirates Flight Catering (Emirates Airlines Group), with 25+ years leading enterprise technology transformation at BT, Canon, Pearson, and Nokia. He specializes in modernizing core IT estates and business-facing technology, hardening cyber posture, and scaling AI into mission-critical operations — most recently leading the region's first Gartner-recognized agentic system rebuild in the UAE.
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Session
Tuesday, 15 September, 2026 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM BST
Executive Story: Emirates Flight Catering: Start With the Code - Rebuilding a 25-Year-Old System in Four Weeks
Tad Nadolny,
Vice President, IT Information Systems, Emirates Flight Catering
When one of Emirates Flight Catering’s business-critical application reached the end of life, the vendor quote to modernize it was twelve months. We rebuilt it in four weeks, with two developers and agentic AI. This session covers what we did, the guardrails that made it safe to do, the three things that went wrong, and the six lessons we would give anyone attempting it.
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