The 4th ACI EUROPE IT Conference

2009 Conference Theme:

“Using the economic situation as a catalyst to drive new cost savings and efficiencies through IT”

This dedicated IT conference will again bring together industry experts to provide a forum for air transport executives globally to share experiences and solutions on existing and future IT infrastructure and services.

New for 2009 - The IATA StB workshop at Airport Exchange

Experts from IATA will lead in-depth technical sessions in an interactive environment on two of their key initiatives - Bar Coded Boarding Passes (BCBP) and the Fast Travel programme which covers bags ready-to-go (bag registration), document scanning, self-boarding and bag recovery (lost bag registration).

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Confirmed speakers include:

Tuesday 24th November 2009

Opening Session — 09.00 - 10.00

Welcome Address:

Arturo Garcia-Alonso, Manager, Facilitation & Airport IT, Airports Council International

Keynote Addresses:

Since last year the economic outlook has changed radically for airlines with more and more carriers working to reduce costs of airport processes. How have Europe’s leading airports and airlines faced up to the opportunities and threats of the economic downturn and has it led to innovations that may not have otherwise been explored? In addition how do we see the future of passenger processing and passenger services advancing at the airport?

Airline Keynote

Philip Wagnert, Director Product Strategy and Development, SAS Scandinavian Airlines

Airport Keynote

Kees Jans, CIO, Schiphol Group and Chairman of ACI World Airport IT Standing Committee

First working Session — 10.45 - 12.15

Industry Standards Update and other activities

Chairman’s introduction: An overview and update of findings from the Airline IT Trends Survey, Airport IT Trends Survey and Passenger Self Service Surveys

Catherine Mayer, Vice President Airport Services, SITA and Chair, ACI World Business Partners Board

How successful have the Common Use Passenger Processing Systems (CUPPS) trials been?

Samuel Ingalls, Assistant Director of Aviation, Information Systems, McCarran International Airport and CUPPS Chairman

AIDX - What and how?

Yngvar Sundsfjord , Senior Project Manager, COWI

Passenger data exchange opportunities for airports and airlines: towards a win-win solution

Ron Hiscox, Consultant, Airport Process Design (APD) Ltd

Second Working Session — 13.45 - 15.15

Passenger Processing Developments – Landside and Airside

Chairman’s intro – How are the Fast Travel Initiatives progressing?

Stephan Copart, Project Manager, Fast Travel Programme, IATA

What is Austrian Airlines’ perspective on the true impact of their mobile phone check-in roll out on processes at the airport? What other opportunities for innovation does it present?

David Reszner, Ground Product Development Manager, Austrian Airlines

The Lufthansa vision for passenger processing in 2015 : automated check-in, NFC, biometrics and more.

Ulf Lengemann, Senior Manager for Global Gate Processes, Lufthansa German Airlines

Self Service from Tagging to Boarding - Feedback from Recent Implementations

Alexis Hernot, Marketing Vice President, IER

Third Working Session — 16.00 - 17.30

Baggage Processing

Chairman: Stephan Becher, Manager Barcelona T1 Project, Vanderlande

How can the demands of airports, airlines, handlers be met in a Common Bag Drop environment?

Thomas Vogel, Project Leader Terminal Engineering, Zurich Airport

The jury has been out for some time on whether RFID is the answer to reduce baggage costs and improve operation efficiencies. Is there any new real data to support the merits of this technology?

Stefano Dolci, Head of BHS Management, SEA Milan Airports

Wednesday 25th November 2009

Fourth Working Session — 09.00 – 10.30

IT and Innovation, helping the industry during economic uncertainty

Chairman:

Eric Leopold, BCBP Project Manager, IATA

Advantages of Service Oriented Architecture in an airport environment

Jorgo Hoed, Manager Informatics, Schiphol Airport

WLAN (WiFi) solution at ANA Aeroportos de Portugal

Paulo Andrade, ICT Business Manager, ANA, Aeroportos de Portugal SA

Server and workstation Virtualization

Tony Chapman, Senior Director, Integrated Travel Solutions, ARINC

Innovating passenger processing with cutting-edge technologies – how transactional biometry can help

Roberto Tavano, VP European Security Programmes, Technology, Consulting and Integration Services EMEA, Unisys Corporation

Fifth Working Session — 11.15 - 12.45

IT changing airport and airline processes

Chairman’s presentation

Airport expansion projects: Key elements in transitions, both from the airport operational and IT systems side. Lessons learned in Madrid and Barcelona.

Raimon Albiol Rodergas, Airports Director, INDRA SISTEMAS

How Iberia centralised the control of all ground operations at Madrid Airport through a new Operations & Management Control IT platform

Dimitris Bountolos Montabes, Madrid-Barajas Airport Deputy Director, Iberia Airlines

How did Aena’s IT department contribute to the development of Barcelona T1, and the whole system (security, check-in, FIDS, and central airport operations centre)