DAY 1 & 2
Roundtables
Take part in our hosted roundtables to gain insights, exchange solutions and strengthen networks. Places are by invitation but you can apply for a place on a particular session using the email links in the descriptions below
DAY 1
Tuesday 29th September
Balfour Beatty
13:15 - 14:30 (Platinum Room 5)
Meeting Aviation's Capacity Challenge: Developing Skills, Strengthening Supply Chains and Creating Local Opportunity
As aviation demand grows, delivering future capacity will require more than infrastructure investment. This discussion will explore how industry can develop skilled workforces, strengthen resilient supply chains, support SMEs, and create lasting social value, ensuring airports can expand while delivering economic opportunity and benefits for local communities.
Jacobs
13:15 - 14:30 (Platinum Room 6)
Technology as an Enabler of Airport Excellence
Technology is increasingly central to shaping operations, aimed at improving efficiency, experience, and asset performance. This interactive roundtable will bring together airport and technology leaders to explore challenges and opportunities through 2035, focusing on the strategies needed to achieve greater efficiency, resilience, and safety through effective implementation, performance measurement, and data-driven decision-making.
Pascall + Watson
13:15 - 14:30 (Platinum Room 7)
Lounge to Boarding: The Next Generation of Piers and Satellites
What’s required to successfully design and deliver tomorrow's airport piers and satellites? The roundtable will bring together a range of experts from the built environment and airport operators for a candid cross-industry conversation on the decisions shaping the future of airside infrastructure. The roundtable will question how passengers are best moved from terminal to aircraft, weigh the trade-offs between Day 1 capacity, flexibility and commercial ambition, and confront the practical realities of building satellites within live operational airfields, from airside logistics and safety to programme and phasing. An honest, wide-ranging discussion on designing and delivering the next generation of resilient, adaptable and passenger-focused airport infrastructure
Arcadis
15:30 - 16:45 (Platinum Room 5)
From Ambition to Action: Creating an Industry Playbook for Sustainable Airport Infrastructure.
Airports are setting clear ambitions across net zero, circularity, resilience, nature and social value, but approaches to translating these commitments into capital project delivery remain fragmented. This interactive roundtable will explore the opportunity to develop a practical, proportionate and industry-led Sustainability by Design Playbook for airport infrastructure. Bringing together airport operators, designers, delivery partners and adjacent sectors. The discussion will test how a shared framework could translate sustainability commitments into consistent project briefs, design decisions, procurement requirements, gateway evidence and KPIs - while retaining flexibility for different airports, asset types and levels of organisational maturity. The ambition is to raise the bar across aviation, enabling leading airports to share good practice while giving smaller and less-resourced airports a clear, scalable route to stronger sustainability outcomes. Participants will be invited to help shape the proposition and consider how the industry could collaborate to develop, test and champion it beyond the event.
AECOM
15:30 - 16:45 (Platinum Room 6)
Expanding Airports in Constrained, Operational and Complex Environments
Airports are increasingly faced with the twin challenges of rising passenger demand and ageing infrastructure, requiring expansion, upgrade and in most cases both, often within significantly space constrained environments. As a result, many airports must find a way to optimise their existing assets and facilities and expand within active and complex operational environments. Through a collaboration between AECOMs market leading subject matter experts and a selection of the UKs leading airport operators our roundtable seeks to understand this challenge and identify solutions combining real life success stories with innovative engineering solutions from around the world.
DAY 2
Wednesday 30th September
Genetec and Securitas
11:00 - 12:15 (Platinum Room 5)
From Security to Operational Intelligence: How Airports Can Do More with the Data They Already Have
Airports generate vast amounts of operational and security data every day. How can leaders leverage connected intelligence across their existing infrastructure to drive resilience, operational excellence and sustainable growth?
How security systems, video, access control, analytics and sensor data can combine to support:
Faster operational decision-making
Passenger flow optimisation
Airside and landside efficiency
Incident response
Investment prioritisation
Wilson James
13:00 - 14:15 (Platinum Room 5)
Improving Expansion and Development Through Strategic Construction Logistics
As airports expand and modernise, strategic construction logistics become essential to successful infrastructure delivery. This roundtable will explore how early logistics integration improves programme certainty, operational resilience, safety, sustainability and collaboration, enabling complex projects to be delivered efficiently while maintaining safe, secure and effective airport operations.
UK Power Networks Services
13:00 - 14:15 (Platinum Room 6)
Rethink Energy: Powering the Next Generation of Airports
As airports expand, decarbonise and adopt new technologies, energy is becoming a strategic enabler of growth, resilience and profitability. This roundtable will explore how airports can rethink the way they source, manage and utilise energy to create more sustainable, resilient and commercially successful aviation hubs.
AtkinsRéalis
13:00 - 14:15 (Platinum Room 7)
Can airports build the resilience needed to grow sustainably in an increasingly uncertain world?
Join us for a working lunch as we bring together aviation leaders to explore the interconnected challenges of capacity, climate adaptation, digital integration and investment confidence. We’ll be debating how greater collaboration and data utilisation can build resilience to create adaptable, efficient and future-ready airports.
Corgan
15:00 - 16:15 (Platinum Room 7)
Can Modern Methods of Construction Support the Delivery of More Resilient Airport Infrastructure?
Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) can accelerate the delivery of airport infrastructure, reduce disruption and improve productivity. Yet resilience is about more than programme certainty. It is about an airport's ability to adapt, recover and continue performing under changing conditions. As airports invest in major infrastructure upgrades, can MMC support the delivery of more resilient airport assets and systems?