Keynote de Catherine Jestin (Executive VP Digital & Information Management at Airbus)

Catherine Jestin has been Executive Vice President Digital and Information Management at Airbus since 1 July 2021 and is a member of the Company’s Executive Committee.

The main focus of Catherine’s organisation is to foster digital innovation across Airbus' industrial ecosystem and its products and services portfolio, accelerating data analytics, artificial intelligence, automation and services for customers as well as digital security for the Company.

Catherine works to reinforce the transversal cooperation across Airbus functions company-wide in order to continue the successful deployment of the Digital Design, Manufacturing & Services (DDMS) programme, established to enable co-design capabilities and digital continuity system-wide.

Catherine had previously held the position of Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Airbus since March 2020. In this role, she was responsible for driving state-of-the-art Information Technology systems and solutions in support of Airbus employees, customers and suppliers.

Prior to this position, Catherine was Chief Information Officer at Airbus Helicopters, a role that she held from July 2013 to February 2020.

Before joining Airbus, Catherine held a variety of positions, between 2007 and 2013, at Rio Tinto in Montreal, Canada within the field of Information Systems & Technology (IS&T).

Catherine also spent 17 years at Accenture and was nominated Partner in 2002, a position that she held for five years.