Speaker Details

Pablo Lopez-Loeches
Aena

Pablo Lopez-Loeches

Pablo oversees Aena Ventures, the innovation program, the technological surveillance team, and innovative proofs of concept. With over eight years at Aena, he has contributed to the innovation and customer experience unit, focusing on digital transformation, customer centricity, and sustainable development across Aena airports. He also serves as chairman of the ACI Europe innovation forum. Previously, Pablo worked at Airbus, bringing extensive experience and expertise to his leadership in aviation innovation.
Day - 1 - Future airports - 09:05 - 09:30

Aena Ventures – join the airport revolution!

After launching two editions of Aena Ventures, the open innovation program to collaborate with startups at Aena, we already have several projects born from this initiative being deployed. Aena Ventures, one of the most successful airport acceleration programs worldwide, reinforces Aena's innovative positioning and its internal culture of innovation, and fosters collaboration with startups to address the airport sector's main challenges. In this session, we will explain how the program works and the projects currently being deployed in our airports that have originated from this initiative.

The audience will learn:

  • Aena Ventures: Aena's startup acceleration process
  • Projects of the first and second edition of Aena Ventures
  • From trials to deployment
  • Open innovation strategy in airports
  • Collaboration between large companies and startups


Day - 2 - Technovation - 09:00 - 17:30

Airports for Innovation (A4I) – united to innovate

Airports for Innovation (A4I) is a global alliance of 10 leading airports worldwide, co-founded by Aena and Aeroporti di Roma, that share a common goal: to foster collaboration to improve passenger experience and airport operations, always with a more sustainable and innovative approach. We seek to promote joint innovative solutions that could be standardized and extended to other airports and adopted in the long term by the industry at large. For the first time ever, leading airports worldwide join forces to launch an international call for startups, where projects will have to be developed between several airports of the network.

The audience will learn:

  • Airports for Innovation (A4I) network: Aena, AdR, Athens, Nice, Munich, Dallas, Vancouver, Dubai, Oman and Tokyo airports
  • International collaboration between airports to solve common industry challenges
  • Joint call for startups
  • Pilot projects of the A4I network
  • Open innovation strategy in airports