26 Programme

We’ll be releasing details of confirmed speakers shortly, but in the meantime, AIR will address the following themes.

DAY 1
Morning plenary

Thought leadership keynotes, guest addresses and panels – high profile and senior representatives from across government, policy, airports, delivery partners, investors and airlines including:

  • Ministerial and airport CEO addresses

  • Airports as economic engines, national assets and global connectors
    Senior government and industry perspectives on aviation’s role in trade, growth, and national resilience.

  • A future vision for airports and taking a systems approach to airport development
    The whole system challenge of airport development - understanding the interdependencies between infrastructure, data, technology, energy and overall

Afternoon parallel streams

Client-led briefings and airport-led success stories covering outcomes-driven approaches to transforming aviation infrastructure.

Stream 1: Resilience in airport systems
How resilience is being built into airport systems, from climate and operational shocks to supply chain and capacity pressures

Stream 2: Passenger experience
How airports are reshaping passenger experience, ensuring smoother, more efficient and more intuitive journeys


DAY 2
Morning plenary

Thought leadership keynotes, guest addresses and panels – high profile and senior representatives from across government, policy, airports, delivery partners, investors and airlines including:

  • Ministerial and airport CEO addresses

  • Aviation decarbonisation – confronting the reality
    Global air travel continues to grow faster than aviation emissions are falling, raising fundamental questions about the sector’s path to net zero.

  • Airspace modernisation
    Progress on rethinking a vital but invisible piece of our national infrastructure

  • Maintaining operational resilience
    Examining the interrelationships between airlines, airports and air navigation service providers as the key to maintaining operational resilience

  • Staying focused on outcomes while navigating the narrative
    How organisations can balance clarity of purpose with the pragmatism needed to move major programmes forward

Afternoon parallel streams

Client-led briefings and airport-led success stories covering outcomes-driven approaches to transforming aviation infrastructure.

Stream 1: Productivity and value
Strategies to improve programme certainty, productivity and control in delivering complex capital projects on time and on budget

Stream 2: Decarbonising airports
How airports are decarbonising operations and infrastructure in practice

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