Anna Fantoni, Development Planning Manager, Sydney Airport, Australia

Speaker Biograghy: Anna is currently the Development Planning Manager at Sydney Airport. Before moving to Sydney, Australia, four years ago, she was an Airport Management Consultant in the USA, advising airports, airlines and government agencies. She also held a senior planning position at San Francisco International Airport. Anna has over 15 years' experience in airport planning and operations, covering areas such as aviation security, terminal and landside simulation modelling, forecasting, masterplanning and infrastructure development. During this time she has overseen a variety of airport planning assignments, including developing greenfield airport concepts, identifying growth opportunities in a commercially focused and highly constrained airport environment, implementing technology solutions to facilitate passenger processing and contributing to the development of industry-wide airport planning guidelines.


Day 1 - 14 March
Session:
Future Airports


12:00 - 12:30 - E2E Passenger Journey Pilot at Terminal 1, Sydney Airport
Synopsis: Although the technology to fully automate passenger processing exists today, implementations are often fragmented and only address certain segments of the passenger journey. Because of complexities with data sharing, data ownership, lack of industry standards and existing regulatory frameworks, no airport so far has achieved a complete outbound and inbound automated passenger processing integration. Sydney Airport, in partnership with airlines, Australian Government agencies and selected vendors, is now launching a pilot to prove the concept. The implementation will be enhanced by full integration of facial recognition state-of-the-art technology, allowing passengers to travel seamlessly from kerb to gate and back.

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Day 1 - 14 March
Session:
Future Airports


17:05 - 17:35 - Panel Discussion: Airport Fast Forward
Synopsis: The year is 2050! Can you imagine what your end-to-end air travel experience will be like? Come and join us in a robust futuristic panel discussion about the possibilities of technological innovations and the changing social behaviour of the next generation of travellers that will transform the way our airports will look, feel and function. We will look at the winning entries of an international student design competition conducted by Fentress architects, followed by each panelist's views on critical areas of change and how we can prepare for the Airport 2050.