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From Paris to progress: Trends shaping aerospace and defense in 2025
Tuesday, 26 August 2025 11:00 a.m. ET

Past Event

Virtual - Dbriefs

CPE credits | Event language: English

26 Aug. 2025

Tuesday, 11:00 a.m. ET | 1 Hr.

From Paris to progress: Trends shaping aerospace and defense in 2025

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Energy, Resources, & Industrials

Participants will collect insights that can help position their organizations for growth in the evolving aerospace and defense landscape.

Host: Lindsey Berckman, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Presenters: Gabriela Moreno Bitu, partner, Deloitte Consultores                                                                     Ajay Chavali, managing director, Deloitte Consulting LLP
                       John Coykendall, principal, Delolitte Consulting LLP

Key Takeaways

1.0 Overview CPE credit | Specialized Knowledge

The Paris Air Show 2025 showcased the latest innovations, strategies, and partnerships shaping the future of aerospace and defense. Join Deloitte’s industry specialists as we unpack the technologies and trends revealed at this year’s event. We’ll explore how some leading organizations appear to be responding to shifting market dynamics, sustainability imperatives, and evolving geopolitical landscapes. We’ll discuss:

  • Highlights and strategic insights from the Paris Air Show 2025
  • Current market trends, including supply chain resilience, sustainability, and workforce challenges
  • Practical considerations for organizations looking to navigate the next wave of industry disruption

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Lindsey Berckman

Lindsey Berckman

Deloitte - United States
Lindsey leads Deloitte’s US Aerospace & Defense (A&D) practice and is also a Smart Manufacturing leader in Deloitte’s industrial manufacturing sector, with more than 16 years of experience serving at the intersection of production, operations, and technology in our Consulting practice. With a broad range of experience in our aerospace & defense, industrials, and automotive sectors, Lindsey helps our clients shape their digital transformation roadmaps, investing in solutions built for scale, focused on delivering value, and designed to transform legacy manufacturing processes through digital technologies and AI/cognitive insights. Lindsey was a key player in launching Deloitte’s Smart Manufacturing use cases and key assets and is highly engaged with our ecosystem partners focused on the A&D sector. Lindsey works across the Deloitte functions to bring comprehensive thinking to challenges – by leveraging digital technologies and engaging multifaceted teams, she drives transformational change that cuts across all realms of the digital enterprise.
Ajay Chavali

Ajay Chavali

Deloitte - United States
Ajay is a managing director at Deloitte in the Product Engineering & Development practice. Ajay leads Deloitte’s Commercial Aerospace & Defense Advanced Air Mobility market segment. Ajay has led organizational transformations and successfully executed global programs across North America, Europe, Japan & Australia collaborating with Senior Corporate Executives at leading organizations in the Aerospace & Defense, Maritime, Hi-Tech, Semiconductor and Semi-equipment industries. Ajay is a published thought leader and speaker in the areas of Digital Transformations, Innovation & Product Development, Digital Thread and Digital Twin. Ajay earned his MBA in Finance and International Business from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and his MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland.
John Coykendall

John Coykendall

Deloitte - United States
John Coykendall is the leader of Deloitte’s US and Global Aerospace & Defense (A&D) practice. Coykendall has 25 years of consulting experience focusing on global companies with highly engineered products in the A&D, Industrial Products, and Automotive Industries. He advises senior executives on driving impactful and sustained performance improvement, through both top-line growth and margin improvement initiatives. He has led large-scale transformation efforts to help businesses with strategic cost transformation and operations/supply chain initiatives.