Speaker Biograghy: Dr Rolf Felkel studied Mathematics before he joined Fraport in January 2000. He started as a Solution Developer Landside Systems. From 2001 to 2004 he was part of the Project Management Group in Fraport's ICT department, before leading a group of in-house ICT consultants from 2005 to 2006. In January 2007 he became Senior Manager Landside Systems and in September 2007 he took over responsibility for the development and support for all airside, terminal and security-related IT solutions. Rolf joined the ACI World ACRIS working group in 2009 and became its Vice Chair in 2010.


Day 1 - 15 March
Session: Technology: Systems Integration & Automating Business Processes

09:10 - 09:55 - PANEL DISCUSSION: Airport Community Recommended Information Services (ACRIS): facilitating web data exchange
Synopsis: Panel Chair: Antoine Rostworowski, Director, Airport Customer Experience and Technology, ACI World, CANADA Data update, data exchange and BI are at the forefront of many industry discussions and debates. The Airport Community Recommended Information Services (ACRIS) provides the required standard to utilise the web to share various information. The ACI ACRIS committee has been working with key industry players and associations to define standards to exchange data and to communicate more effectively and efficiently with each other. Various projects using ACRIS have been deployed at different sites such as: ACDM, baggage drop and seamless travel. This presentation will provide an overview of ACRIS and share examples of best practice.

Audience will learn:

• What is ACRIS? What does it consist of?
• Why is this new standard important?
• Where can it be deployed and be useful? Examples
• What are the tools and support made available to airports to deploy it?
• What is the business case behind ACRIS?