WORKSHOPS – THURSDAY 27 APRIL 2023 – 10.00 – 12.00

New for 2023: Three exciting workshops exploring three core issues for smaller, regional airports 

By joining us at RACE ‘23, you’ll have instant access to three bespoke workshops which get right to the heart of some the biggest challenges facing smaller and regional airports across Europe.

In a brand new format, we’ve listened to our airport members’ request for more practical working sessions, and will host our second conference day in three concurrent workshop strands. Bringing industry experts as our session leaders and moderators, each two hour session will combine case studies from airports, panel discussion and interactive debate for tangible take-aways.

WORKSHOP 1
Route development: Trends and Best Practices for Regional Airports

Our renowned session leader for the workshop on Route Development is George Karamanos, Managing Director of KPI Aviation Marketing Solutions.  George is a visionary executive with 20 years of international experience in aviation across Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

His session will concentrate on five main areas as he explores the challenge of Route Development with his guests

  • The challenges and opportunities in route development
  • The right data sources to help to build the airport business case
  • Co-marketing activities with airlines versus incentives
  • The creativity of other stakeholders’ joint-support activities
  • Is it time for leisure-driven airports to pass route development responsibility to the local tourism authorities?

Katerina Pollatou, Airline Marketing & Development Manager, Fraport Greece
Haris Filos, Air Service Development Manager, Fraport Greece
Tara Finn, Head of Aviation Business Development, Cork Airport
Piervittorio Farabbi, Chief Operating Officer, Tirana International Airport

WORKSHOP 2
Innovation: technologies supporting accessibility, resilience and environmental sustainability

We’re delighted to welcome the expert voice of the SESAR Joint Undertaking to lead this exciting session looking at transformative, off-the-peg solutions which R&D is bringing to European airports.  Olivier Mongenie, SESAR’s Airports Programme Manager, will lead our speakers in showing how technological solutions are helping Europe’s airports to embrace the next generation of innovation in order to enhance the efficiency of their airside operations and provide a better passenger experience.

Topics covered will include:

  • Emerging trends of automation, virtualisation, big data analytics and drone technology
  • How to prepare and future-proof for a new era in aviation
  • How technology can help in the current context of capacity shortage and ATM disruption
  • How to achieve a better integration of air and ground infrastructure
  • Workshop includes, by popular demand, a deep-dive look at the difference a remote tower has made to London City Airport

Alison Fitzgerald, Chief Operating Officer, London City Airport
John Theophilos, Head of IT & Telecoms Unit, Fraport Greece
Calogero Giammusso, Head of Operations,  Urban V
Pablo Lopez Loeches, Head of Technological Surveillance Aena
Flemming Hølvold, Digital Business Developer Aviation, Avinor

WORKSHOP 3
Employment 2.0

Current workforce challenges have become an increasingly hot topic as airports have struggled with a stop-start recovery.  Staff shortages and recruitment stagnation have hit airports and passengers alike, and made headlines the world over.  Joining us from Montreal, ACI World’s Vice President, Airport Customer Experience, Dimitri Coll will head up this vital topic, bringing his 20 years’ industry experience and leadership of the ACI World Airport Service Quality programme to the table as he steers expert guests through:

  • Employee experience and engagement
  • Management of employee experience
  • Drivers of engagement, through training, communications and beyond
  • How to break through the current challenges of recruitment and retention

Rania Tyril, Head of HR & Training, Fraport Greece
Natasa Iacovides, Senior Manager Human Resources & Executive, Hermes Airport
Anelia Dimova, Chief HR Officer, Sofia Airport