Stay Ahead™ is a first of its kind forum which brought together eminent speakers from the industry and experts from Kale. The summit geared towards tackling the issues of tomorrow in the airline passenger revenue accounting and management domain.

The event was designed to facilitate a thought provoking discussion on the future of revenue accounting and management. The event also proved to be springboard for industry initiatives that promise to drive the requirements of tomorrow while seeking to discuss and collectively build the “thought” process for the next generation solutions in the RA domain.

Stay Ahead™ incorporated discussions involving leading airline representatives, a snapshot view of futuristic “on the horizon” solutions to expand the scope of the RA function.

TIACA’s ACF, held every two years, is one of the leading events for the global Air Cargo industry. This three-day event comprising exhibitions and conferences attracts thousands of air cargo leaders from all geographical regions of the world and exhibitors than any other single industry event, and provides unlimited networking opportunities. The attendees include delegates and exhibitors from airlines, freight and logistics organisations, shippers, airports, GSAs and ground handling agents, trucking companies, technology and equipment providers.

Over its 46-year history, ACF holds a strong reputation for the quality of its delegates, analysis of industry problems and challenges, and far reaching decisions made for air cargo industry through lively conference debates and discussions.

Kale Consultants, a trustee member, has been an active and strong supporter of The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) for many years and has regularly participated in the ACF.

This year too, Kale participated and was an exhibitor at the event.

For more info, please visit www.tiaca.org/2008//

Kale conducted the inaugural APEX User Meet at the world famous tourist city - Agra, India.

This inaugural meet marked the dominating leadership position that APEX® has achieved in the Interline Proration space.

APEX® is Kale’s flagship product for Interline Proration. APEX® today is the only solution powering the Neutral Fare Proration service within AIA’s First & Final™ Billing initiative jointly offered by ATPCO and Kale Consultants.

The APEX User Meet included interactive sessions featuring developments and upcoming requirements in proration, and inputs from APEX users for the future roadmap of APEX®. The knowledge sharing meet also featured a theme dinner with industry peers and concluded with a tour of the world famous Taj Mahal and Agra Fort.

Kale delivered an expert presentation at the 2nd Express Logistics and Supply Chain (ESLC) Conclave 2008.

The objective of the ELSC Conclave was to gather all industry leaders under one roof to discuss and debate latest industry specific trends, issues affecting the industry – find ways to address them, create a networking platform for all attendees, and enable buyer-seller meet through an exhibition.

The event spanning across two days witnessed prominent industry speakers focusing on topics like Express Services, challenges & opportunities in providing Multimodal Logistics Solution throughout India, Supply Chain and Logistics innovations, Emerging Global Trends in Ports & Shipping, Transportation & Rail Operations, and various industry supply chains like Retail, Auto, Pharma & Electronics.

For more info, please visit www.elscconclave.com

As an IATA strategic partner and specialist IT provider to the airline industry, Kale will be part of IATA’s 42nd Revenue Accounting Meeting (RA42) being held in Miami, FL.

The IATA Revenue Accounting Meeting is held annually to deal with the full spectrum of airline passenger and cargo revenue accounting matters. This event provides an ideal platform for mutual learnings and industry improvement initiatives for the entire Airline industry.

Join us at Booth no. 21 as we demonstrate how Kale-MPS® can improve an airline’s operational efficiencies while saving at least 30% of the costs involved in revenue accounting. Also at the RAM, learn how the power of Kale’s world renowned APEX® proration engine can be used by airlines themselves to minimize interline billing errors.

Be sure to meet us there to discuss these and other ways to reduce costs and improve your airline business.

We look forward to meeting you there.

Kale delivered a keynote address on “The Growing Role of IT in Shaping the Future of Containerization in India” at the second annual conference on Developing Container Infrastructure: Progress & Plans, Approaches & Solutions. This speaker for this session was Mr. Amar More, Global Head - Logistics Practice, Kale Consultants Ltd. Kale was the main sponsor at this conference.

The objective of this conference was to evaluate the current state of container infrastructure, highlight the key development needs, and to showcase promising approaches, strategies, projects and solutions. This conference specifically focused on key trends in the container segment, key needs and requirements, container capacity development initiatives at Indian ports, role of IT in business, new value-added services and initiatives, and most promising and relevant IT applications/solutions.

The conference mainly comprised distinct sessions on Key trends and issues; Container Capacity at Ports; Rail Infrastructure & Container Trains; Outlook on Road Transport; ICDs, CFSs & Logistics Parks; Promise of Information Technology; and Multimodal Connectivity. The conference featured presentations from all the major stakeholders and participants, including port operators, rail operators, developers of ICDs, CFSs and logistics parks, road transport operators, government agencies, key customers, private players and service providers.

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Indiasoft 2008 is a major IT global networking event to be held in India. It has been organised by the Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC). This event comprising International IT exhibition and conferences will bring together over 100 Indian software and services companies and delegates from over 50 countries, who will exhibit their innovative IT products and services.

In view of the huge business opportunities that exist for Indian and global software companies, Indiasoft 2008 presents an effective forum for the participants to assess prospective partners for establishing joint ventures and strategic alliances with; and to evaluate the outsourcing needs of global buyers visiting the event.

Indiasoft, in the past has facilitated the participating companies to explore business opportunities by tapping the emerging global markets thereby enabling them to establish a strong foothold globally.

Kale will be participating and exhibiting at the event
(Booth no. 59).

For more info, please visit www.indiasoft2008.com/

Kale takes this opportunity to invite all our airline friends and colleagues to our stand at this year's RA41.

Being IATA strategic partners and StB Partners we hope, as in the past, that we can gain from these mutual learnings and industry improvement initiatives. We also hope to demonstrate the full potential of our Revenue Accounting Suite of Products and Services, tailored for the Airline Industry, ensuring you solutions that think !

We will also be at the First & Final Interline Billing Meeting which will take place at the same venue, on the 7th September 2007, following RA41.

The IATA Revenue Accounting Meeting is open to Member Airlines and IATA Strategic Partners. At the Revenue Accounting Meeting all IATA member airlines may submit revenue accounting specific agenda items, attend the meeting and participate in the discussions. Individual IATA Member Airlines at the RAM are entitled to vote on the proposals put forward for discussion.

For more info, please visit
http://www.iata.org/events/ram2007/index.htm

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Air Cargo Europe is a biennial event which is held in Munich, Germany. The event is organized by Munich International Trade Fairs in co-operation with A-Z Worldwide, supported by Air Cargo Week and Munich Airport International. The event will comprise of a four day exhibition that will include a two day conference and a gala Awards Dinner night. Key issues like Cargo Security, Outsourcing etc will be discussed in the conference.

Kale will be present as a delegate in the conference.

For more info, please visit http://www.aircargoeurope.com/

As a follow up to our successful annual series of Asian Airport Developments Conferences, Asia Business Forum will be staging the single largest Asian Airports Summit for the industry in April this year and like previous years, this mega 3 day Executive Summit cum exhibition will feature prominent CEOs & Directors of leading Airports as well as members of national civil aviation & airport authorities in the Asia Pacific Region, Middle East & Europe!

Kale has booked a Workshop speaker spot and Mr Rajiv Dalal will be speaking on: “Attract more business to your airport using value-based technology solutions”

Synopsis of the topic is:

The airports across the globe today are facing several challenges including the tough competition in ground handling sectors due to liberalization, ever-demanding customers expecting Competitive, Punctual and High Quality Airport Services, Perennial Security threats, dire need of improving efficiency of airport operations, stringent environmental norms and so on.

Next generation technology and wider collaboration are strategic imperatives for the airport’s survival and growth in the future.

The recent advances in technology have huge potential to address the future airport challenges and lend competitive advantages to the airports. Technology innovations are going to shape the future of the airports.

The workshop will evaluate the problems with the existing legacy systems at the airports and their impact on the airport strategies and growth. We will look into the crystal ball to recommend the systems for tomorrow’s airport that would not only help them in improving the internal efficiencies but also attract more and more business to the airport. We believe that it is time to look at the problems of the airports, stakeholder’s expectations and completely redesign the moth-eaten information architecture of the airports.

For more info, please visit
http://www.abf-asia.com

For many years now, Kale Consultants has been an active member and strong supporter of The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) – an organisation that exists to advance the interests of the air cargo industry and strengthen its contribution to world trade expansion.

As a full Trustee Member, Kale will attend the annual TIACA Executive Conference and Annual General Meeting to be held between April 15th and 17th in Cologne, Germany.

For more info, please visit
http://www.tiaca.org/content/AGM2007/

PhoCusWright @ ITB Berlin
7-9th March 2007
Berlin

For over 40 years, ITB Berlin has been a driving force in the worldwide travel industry as the world’s leading international travel trade show – a prime meeting and marketplace for the entire industry. The exhibition area and various segments, along with the comprehensive congress program and supporting events represent the entire product spectrum of the tourist industry. At the same time, they form the basis for the development of new ideas, global approaches and targeted marketing. ITB represents the full spectrum of global tourism at all levels of the value chain.

Kale Consultants Ltd. will be present at the event as sponsor and delegate. This will allow Kale Consultants Ltd. an opportunity to provide and gain considerable insight about simplifying the complex world of travel technology and exploiting industry dynamics for competitive advantage.

For more info, please visit
http://www.phocuswright.com/conferences/itb-info.php

IATA World Cargo Symposium 2007  
5-8th March 2007,
Mexico City, Mexico

An annual global cargo event designed to bring together leading organizations, decision makers, key stakeholders and specialists of the air cargo industry.

This first World Cargo Symposium, Focus on Simplicity! will consist of eleven air cargo industry governing bodies and would feature ten highly topical air cargo tracks.

Kale would be present as delegates.

For more info, please visit
http://www.iata.org/events/cargosymposium/index.htm

The world is looking at strengthening ties with india. India's growth story has become a global opportunity. Global giants from every sector, whether it be services or products, are keen to set up operations in India. Indeed, the country has emerged as the preferred business destination with the GDP growth rate at over 7%. Its merchandise trade has been growing by about 27%, well above the rate of world trade growth. Reflecting this trend, cargo movement into and out of India is at an all - time high, with almost all seaports as well as airports clocking double-digit growth rates.

In this context, Fairplay Exposition Group is organising its prime event CTL - IMEX-2007 - International Expo & Conference, scheduled from February 8-10, 2007, at Mumbai, India, under the Chairmanship of Mr. M. P. Pinto (Ex-Secretary, Ministry of Shipping, Govt. of India). The event aims at providing an excellent opportunity to showcase the latest machinery, equipment & services required by the Cargo and Logistics Industry. It would also be an ideal platform for strengthening relationship and networking.

Kale would be attending this event as delegates

For more info, please visit
http://www.ctl-imex.net/

The IATA Cargo in Emerging Markets Series , is going to be a global gathering that would aim to provide solutions to overcome the various industry challenges in growing air cargo markets like China, India, Latin America and Eastern Europe etc.

The first Cargo in Emerging Market Series is commencing with the Indian Market. The conference would be held in the Indian capital, New Delhi from the 5th to the 6th of December, 06.

Kale is participating and exhibiting at the event. And Kale’s MD, Mr. Vipul Jain would be one of the keynote speakers.

For more info, please visit
http://www.iata.org/events/cem2006/index.htm

Air Cargo India 2006, is the first ever International Air Cargo event in India scheduled to take place at the World Trade Centre in Mumbai, the Air Cargo hub of India from November 16-18, 2006.

The Event is organized by The STAT Trade Times, popularly known as STAT TIMES, an integrated international transport media specializing in air cargo.

The event is an attempt to fulfill the increasing need felt in the Air Cargo industry both in India and abroad for a common platform to come together and deliberate on the prospects in the booming Air Cargo Industry in India.

The event would consist of a Conference and Exhibition. Kale would be participating as a Delegate. And Kale’s Cargo and Logistics Practice Head, Mr. Peter O’Sullivan would be one of the keynote speakers.

For more info, please visit  
http://www.stattimes.com/ACI2006

For over a decade, PhoCusWright events have provided a platform for travel professionals to come together and discuss the latest in the travel industry. The PhoCusWright Travel Conference is a three day event dedicated to fresh ideas, expansive thinking, incredible energy and uncommon community. Senior executives and key influencers from numerous sectors of the travel, tourism and hospitality industry, predominantly in Europe will debate, define and predict the ever-evolving realities of travel commerce.

The PhoCusWright Travel Conference was held in The Plaza Theater.

This year too Kale participated at PhoCusWright Travel Conference to be held in Brussels , Belgium , from September 25th to 27th .

For more info, please visit
http://www.phocuswright.com/Conferences/tc06-info.php

The various participants of the air cargo industry gather biennially to analyze the state of the industry; discuss its problems and challenges; and network together to solve problems and maximize opportunities. Discussions and decisions made at biennial Air Cargo Forums are far reaching, not only into the commercial world but into governmental policy making as well as academia.

For many years now, Kale Consultants has been an active member and strong supporter of The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) and has regularly participated in the ACF.

This year too Kale participated and exhibited at the 23 rd Air Cargo Forum and Exposition held in Calgary , Canada from September 12 th to 14 th .

For more info, please visit
http://www.tiaca.org/2006/

For more info, please visit
http://www.iata.org/events/ram2006/Index.htm

As a full Trustee Member, Kale will attend the annual TIACA Executive Conference and Annual General Meeting to be held between April 9 - 11 in Beijing , China .

For more info, please visit http://www.tiaca.org/content/agm2006/

The World Air Cargo Event will be one of the leading events for the Air Cargo industry in 2006. 
 
It will be held at the Jumeirah Beach Conference Centre in Dubai from the 22nd to the 25th of January, 06 and will include a two day conference and a three day exhibition. 
 
Air cargo media around the world will be taking part and visitors will arrive from around the world The conference includes topical air cargo issues and knowledgeable speakers.2000 visitors to the exhibition and 400 delegates are expected to attend the event in Dubai next year.

Kale will participate as a delegate.  
 
For more info, please visit
http://www.aircargonews.net/WACE.htm

Organized by IATA, this was the first-of-its-kind Strategic IT gathering for IT executive officers and decision makers from the aviation industry. The conference focused on Airlines and Airports, and their present and future strategic IT issues. In addition to presentations by experts, the conference agenda also included case studies and interaction between delegates and speakers as well as 'behind closed doors' discussions.

Mr. Vipul Jain, CEO and MD of Kale Consultants, was invited by IATA to participate in the panel discussion "Sophisticated Sourcing - Does the aviation industry leverage offshore service delivery in a mature way?"

For more info, please visit
http://www.iata.org/ps/events/IT2005.htm

The PhoCusWright Executive Conference is a leading travel industry event. The event encompasses debates and discussions among eminent players of the industry. PhoCusWright is organizing a two-day Executive Conference at Orlando, Florida on November 14 and 15, 2005.  
 
Kale team will be present with the other leading companies for the event.

IATA e-freight is an industry undertaking, led by the International Air Transport Association that targets to move to an industry-wide, simpler, electronic, paper-free cargo environment by the end of 2010. At stake is US$1.2 billion in annual industry savings.

Cargo carriers and other major stakeholders in the air cargo industry (Freight Forwarders, Customs, Shippers, etc.) need to meet and share their best practices, issues and solutions in order to meet the implementation of e-Freight target date of 2007 for early adopters, and 2010 for the balance of the industry, when 95% of worldwide cargo volumes' information will be electronically enabled.

In order to promote IATA e-Freight, and share any issues/solutions related to the cargo industry, a Simplifying the Business Conference is being held in November 2005.

The conference will take the form of a 3-day event including a 1-day e-Freight/RFID Facilitation Workshop. The conference will be a combination of Plenary sessions and Panel discussions based on e-Freight and RFID issues.  
 
Kale was the Premium Sponsor for the event. 
 
For more info, please visit
http://www.iata.org/ps/events/ef2005.htm  
 
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The PhoCusWright Executive Conference was held in Paris this year with a special focus on the European region. PhoCusWright Inc. is an independent travel, tourism and hospitality research firm, specializing in consumer, business and competitive intelligence.

The theme for the conference at Paris this year was dedicated to how travel industry CEOs:

1. Strategize growth in an increasingly dynamic distribution marketplace
2. Get things right in the world's largest industry with historic hurdles, unconventional competition and new rules
3. Connect and engage tomorrow's customers while sustaining relationships with today's customers, and
4. Master the mix of the many things at play inside the executive suite

The event was attended by 300+ qualified executives from all sectors along the travel, tourism and hospitality value chain.

Kale attended this event as participants.

Like in the past years, Kale was one of the main sponsors of IATA's 39th Revenue Accounting Meeting (RA39) held in Vancouver on 13-15 Sep 05. Kale showcased its industry leading solutions REVERA™ and APEX™ as well as outsourced services in the area of revenue accounting, proration and revenue recovery & protection.

This year's Meeting had a record attendance by airlines. The delegates were mainly senior management members responsible for revenue accounting function.

It was clear that airlines' interest in IATA's First & Final (F&F) Interline Billing Service has increased. It is noteworthy that Kale's APEX™ is one of the two proration engines being used for Neutral Fare Proration (NFP) in F&F.

In addition to tabling and passing of resolutions, E-ticketing, DIPV and ICH procedures were the main topics of discussion during the conference. Break-out sessions on special topics such as e-ticketing attracted several participants.

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Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA) is industry's leading Consulting, Advisory, Research, Management and Information services group. CAPA organized a very high profile Investor Summit at Grand Hyatt, Mumbai. On 21st June, 2005, Mr Vipul Jain, MD Kale Consultants gave a presentation at the summit on Travel Technology and BPO. The presentation covered the significant overlap between Travel and IT industry which has enabled the emergence of dedicated BPO players. Mr. Jain highlighted the value these players offer and the opportunities for investment in this space.

Travel Distribution Summit (TDS) is organized by EyeforTravel - a leading global online publisher focusing on distribution, marketing and technology developments in the Travel and Tourism industry. TDS was a two day event providing a key meeting place for high-level executives to network and discuss future strategies in the travel industry. The event is held every year in London, UK, which comprises of several conferences, seminars and exhibitions, thus providing an excellent opportunity for individuals to network & learn about the latest trends in the travel technology industry. 
 
Kale was present as a participant in the conference.

Air Cargo Europe is a biennial event which was held in Munich, Germany this year. The event was organized by Munich International Trade Fairs in co-operation with A-Z Worldwide, supported by Air Cargo Week and Munich Airport International. The event comprised of a four day exhibition that included a two day conference which was the central focus for the event. Key issues like Cargo Security, Outsourcing etc were discussed in the conference.

Kale was present as an exhibitor and a participant in the conference . 
 
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Prorate Agency (IATA) held the 39th General Prorate Meet at Bangkok from 03 to 05 May, 2005. About 175 delegate airlines attended the meeting. Various items discussed during the meeting included 1) “Proviso composer system” as developed by IATA 2) future proration rules 3) Q surcharge.  
 
Proviso composer system - IATA has developed “Proviso Composer System” for airlines to file their provisos using this system. Earlier the airlines used to file provisos in various formats (e.g. word, excel, typed, etc.)

Future Proration Rules - Many airlines voiced their concerns about the current prorate rules which are part of Multilateral Prorate Agreement (MPA). Two path breaking proposals, DIPV and DSB to change proration rules with focus on interline settlement were discussed. The driver for both these proposals is to address one of main concern areas of interline billing amounts for tickets sold on net fares. Declared Interline Prorate Values (DIPV) proposal has been accepted for starting of a project under Prorate Agency budget along with formation of a working group to discuss and iron out all issues. Within a year, the project director will submit the proposal to all airlines and would be tabled in Special Prorate Meeting to be held in 2006. Dynamic Sector Billing (DSB) proposal was based on DIPV concepts, but the implementation aspects were addressed in this proposal. This proposal was rejected. Nevertheless, later on it was discussed and agreed that DSB aspects would be considered in the project mentioned above.

Q Surcharge - A proposal was tabled to determine which coupons, entitled to receive the surcharge, should be based on the tariff applicable i.e. to prorate/ allocate surcharges as per fare rules file with ATPCO. This proposal was rejected. The significant reasons for rejection were cost of development of logic in proration system and Price of fares data. The airlines have taken majority view that GDS/ CRS need to be improved to show the surcharges correctly in fare calculation area (FCA). The proration/ allocation of surcharges must be based on FCA; not fare rules.

Airlines also discussed their queries about the First & Final Billing - Neutral Fare Proration (NFP) with Kale and ATPCO. Kale's APEX™ and ATPCO's CIPS are the only two proration engines selected from AIA's Fist & Final billing initiative.

As a full Trustee Member, Peter O'Sullivan (Vice-President Cargo Solutions, Kale) recently attended the annual TIACA Executive Conference held in Istanbul – a location chosen because of its growing importance as an air cargo hub and its geopolitical importance as a city linking two continents with multiple cultures.

The event was well attended, with over 250 representatives from many airlines, airports, and trade organizations meeting to discuss industry trends and to determine strategies to enable the free and open movement of cargo around the world.

All the speakers at the event agreed that cargo had fully recovered from the 2001 and 2003 disruptions without any lingering effects and that the underlying positive fundamentals, such as the development of traffic from Asia, had reasserted themselves. The event also focused towards the role of IT in the Cargo industry and discussion on liberalization of trade which featured some excellent and high profile speakers.

One of the highlights of the 2005 TIACA Executive Conference was a gala dinner, sponsored by Turkish Airlines. For Kale Consultants, in its role as TIACA Trustee, the event provided a good opportunity to further strengthen its relationship with many industry players and maintain its position as a major influencer in today's cargo IT industry.