Nikos Papagiannopoulos, DB Architect, Athens International Airport, Greece

Speaker Biograghy: Nikos has more than 18 years' extensive professional experience working in the IT department of Athens International Airport. He is an expert in airport IT solutions, and a consultant and implementer of many large-scale information management projects both locally and internationally. He has acquired major international experience in designing, implementing, auditing and commissioning airport-related mission-critical systems. He is an expert in data management and database architecture and is currently working on the Airport’s Service Oriented Architecture transformation initiative. He is a PMP, CISA, CRISC, CISSP, ITIL Certified, MSc and MBA holder.


Day 3 - 16 March
Session:
Management & Operations: Crisis & Disaster


10:05 - 10:35 - Situational awareness guidance and evacuation systems for airports
Synopsis: The presentation will outline a complete system for the provision of efficient support for the application of safe and effective evacuation strategies at large public venues such as airports. It is a resilient and seamless communication platform integrated into the mechanisms already in place, to allow communication with the theatre of the evacuation operations and other civil and military response units. The platform is the outcome of the eVACUATE EU-funded research project.

Audience will learn: