Speaker Biograghy: Ashwini has been Head of Airport Planning for GVK Group at Mumbai International Airport since 2013. She has close to 20 years' experience and is responsible for airport development works for all airports in the GVK Group, focusing mainly on strategic planning, masterplanning and business development. Ashwini has experience in greenfield and brownfield airport developments and has led several airport planning and design projects of various scales and complexity in India and abroad. She uses her wealth of airport knowledge to deliver intelligent and innovative solutions.


Day 1 - 20 March
Session: Airport Design, Planning & Development

09:05 - 09:05 - Conference Chairs

Day 2 - 21 March
Session: Airport Design, Planning & Development

10:55 - 11:25 - The Future-Ready Airport
Synopsis: The future of air travel is both exciting and challenging. One of the greatest challenges is how we get from today’s airport to the future airport – do we have a Future-Ready Airport? Together, Arup and GVK explored this under Arup’s Future of Air Travel initiative and identified nine implementable pilots as the stepping stones to the Future Airport. Equally, these are game-changers for how airports can work in the next one to five years. Passenger Terminal EXPO will be the first time these innovations have been made public, when GVK and Arup take a deep dive into one of those pilots.

Audience will learn:

• Why the future of air travel is not only about blue-sky thinking – we need Future-Ready Airports
• First to market GVK will provide a sneak preview of a game-changer to airport design and operations
• Producing tangible outcomes from an issue as nebulous as 'Future Airport' is possible with a robust methodology

Day 2 - 21 March
Session: Airport Design, Planning & Development - Middle East & Asia

16:10 - 16:40 - Humanising real reality
Synopsis: Airport terminals are mostly designed as architectural marvels that are functional. But the fact is that after commissioning, all terminals remain as functional commodities. The experience we have while travelling through these terminals is the ultimate differentiator. Thus the human side of air travel can no longer be ignored while designing the airports of the future. In the growing world of virtual reality, it's the real reality world that needs to be humanised.

Audience will learn:

• Future airport trends
• Airport planning and design
• Innovation