Ken Yoshioka, Assistant Director, New Kansai International Airport Company Ltd, Japan

Speaker Biograghy: Since joining the company in 2004, Ken has gained experience in airport airside operation, customer service and aviation sales. Since April 2013 he has been in charge of international relations and business development. In this post, he is engaged in public relations on environment issues in Japan and internationally, and is responsible for internal management related to environmental issues.


Day 2 - 16 March
Session:
Energy, Environmental Issues & Sustainability


10:40 - 11:10 - To be the world's largest and Asia's first hydrogen-grid airport
Synopsis: Kansai International Airport (KIX) opened in 1994 and was located and designed to resolve the severe environmental issues at Itami Airport. In addition to the conventional environmental measures such as noise abatement, water recycling and waste management that were implemented since the startup, we have recently been working on next-generation system such as utilisation of renewable energy and hydrogen as a source of power at the airport. In this presentation we will discuss our plan using the latest hydrogen grid, which is already being used at KIX.

Audience will learn: