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XI Sectoral Meeting: Airports

Aimed at senior executives in the airport industry worldwide.

Guadalajara, Mexico: November 10-12, 2024

ACI-LAC Annual Assembly Conference & Exhibition.

The XI Airport Industry Meeting held in Guadalajara (Mexico) brings together senior airport industry executives from around the world and brings to the table topics for discussion that will define how the air transport industry will evolve in the future. The sharing of best practices in the industry is a necessary response to the rapidly changing world of aviation and in particular the airport industry.

Meeting Videos

Speakers

Adriana Echandi
Morpho Travel Experience
Aimen Al Hosni
Oman Airports
Almirante Padilla
Mexico City Airport Group (GACM)
Alvaro Leite
OMA
Andreu Carbonell
Flare Aviation Consulting
Audley Deidrick
Airport Authority of Jamaica
Aytan Mastaliyeva
TAV Technologies
Dr. Charles Schlumberger
World Bank
Candace McGraw
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport
Carlos Criado
Centerline Airport Partners
Cuitlahuac Gutierrez
Aeromexico
Daniel Muñoz
GCG Group
Daren Cenac
SLASPA
Ebson Quadros
Collins Aerospace
Eliseo Llamazares
KPMG
Enrique Urioste
AVOLTA
Evans Avedaño
ADP
Ezequiel Barrenechea
Corporación América
Federico Cabrera
Airports of Uruguay
Fernando Yus
AENA Brasil
Ignacio Flores
FAA
Ivan Saco
Exolum
Javier Garcia Bejos
Mexican Airports (AME)
Javier Vanegas
CANSO
Jesús Palacios
S&P Global Ratings
Joan Rojas
ALG
Jorge Goytortúa
CBX
Jorge Gutierrez de Velasco
Querétaro International Airport
Jorge Hernandez
Aerostar
Jorge Roberts
Avports
Jorge Rosillo
ECOGAL
Jose Ricardo Botelho
ALTA
Juan José Salmón
Lima Airport Partners
Juan Pablo Aguirre
MERA Corporation
Julio Siu
ICAO NACC
Justin Erbacci
ACI WORLD
Kurt Menal
BVI Airport Authority
Lorenzo Di Loreto
Munich Airport Int.
Marcelo García
NACO
Mila Jimenez
GESNAER
Mireia Marti
AREAS
Monika Infante
Aerodom
Natalí Leal
OPAIN
Nathalie Sebastien
Martinique Airport
Nicolas Claude
Nuevo Pudahuel
Pablo Monsivais
Barclays
Paloma Gonzalez
REGENT
Paula Santos
KILSA
Peter Cerdá
IATA
Pietrick Voyer
Grantley Adams International Airport – Barbados
Rafael Echevarne
ACI-LAC
Ramon Miro
Corporación Quiport
Raul Revuelta
GAP
Ricardo Cerri
EC Solutions
Ricardo Dueñas
OMA
Ricardo Hernandez
Aeris Holding CR
Sergi Alegre
Airport Regions Council (ARC)
Sergio Parra
NACO
Shane Munroe
MBJ Airport Limited
Susana Romero
GAP
Tiago Pereira
ANAC Brasil
Uriel Torres
SITA

Sunday, November 10

08:00 – 18:00 Registration, Sponsored by Smith & Detection, Place: Hilton Midtown – Lobby level

08:30 – 09:45 ACI-LAC Executive Committee Meeting, Place: Hilton – Papalote

10:00 – 13:00 ACI-LAC Board Meeting, Place: Hilton – Midtown 1

13:15 – 14:30 ACI-LAC Board + ACI World Executive Committee Lunch, Place: Hilton – Midtown 3

14:30 – 18:00 ACI World Executive Committee Meeting, Place: Hilton – Midtown 1

17:00 – 19:00 SSP Opening Cocktail, Place: NEGRONI (located next to Hilton Guadalajara Midtown Hotel)

19:30 – 22:30 ACI-LAC Board + ACI World Executive Committee Dinner (by invitation only), Place: Casa Luna

Monday, November 11

08:00 – 17:00 Registration & Exhibition Area Opens

09:00 – 09:45 Opening by authorities & ACI Chair/DG

  • Keynote speaker: Ing. Enrique Alfaro Ramírez, Governor of the State of Jalisco
  • Raul Revuelta – CEO, Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico – GAP
  • Rafael Echevarne – Director General ACI-LAC
  • Monika Infante – President ACI-LAC / CEO AERODOM
  • Justin Erbacci – Director General ACI-World

Place: Salón Eventos – Expo GDL

09:45 – 10:30 CEOs Panel – Key topics affecting LAC airports

  • Moderator: Eliseo Llamazares – Partner, KPMG
  • Raul Revuelta – CEO, Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico – GAP
  • Juan José Salmón – CEO, Lima Airport Partners – LAP
  • Monika Infante – CEO, AERODOM
  • Natalí Leal – CEO, OPAIN

Place: Salón Eventos – Expo GDL

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break, Place: Exhibition Area – Expo GDL

11:00 – 11:45 Liberalization of Air Transport in LAC: The way forward for traffic growth. ACI-LAC Study and set the scene

  • Introduction and Moderation: Marcelo García – Chief Aviation Regulation, Policy and Strategy, NACO
  • Peter Cerdá, Regional VP IATA Americas
  • Daryl Vaz – Minister of Science, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, Jamaica
  • Tiago Pereira – Director, ANAC Brasil
  • Evans Avendaño – CEO, Aeropuertos del Perú
  • Julio Siu – Deputy Regional Director, ICAO NACC

Place: Salón Eventos – Expo GDL

11:45 – 12:15 New trends in the ATC Business

  • Introduction and Moderation: Javier Vanegas – Director Latin America and Caribbean, CANSO
  • Joan Rojas – Managing Partner, ALG
  • Mila Jimenez – Director, GESNAER

Place: Salón Eventos – Expo GDL

12:15 – 13:00 Tendencies in Airport Commercial Revenues

  • Moderator: Paula Santos – Managing Partner, KILSA
  • Ramón Miró – CEO, Quiport
  • Susana Romero – CCO, GAP
  • Adriana Echandi – CEO, Morpho Travel Experience
  • Mireia Marti – Marketing, Digital & Global Business Development Director, AREAS
  • Enrique Urioste, President & CEO LATAM & Caribbean, AVOLTA

Place: Salón de Eventos – Expo GDL

13:00 – 14:15 Lunch, Place: Desfilia Ballroom – Expo GDL

14:15 – 15:00 Where are we in the fight against climate change

  • Ivan Saco – Commercial Aviation Lead, Exolum
  • Paloma Gonzalez – Data Analyst, REGENT
  • Lorenzo Di Loreto – Managing Director, Munich Airport International

Place: Salón Eventos – Expo GDL

15:00 – 15:40 Panel: Financing the green transition

  • Moderator: Andreu Carbonell – CEO, Flare Aviation Consulting
  • Jesús Palacios – Director, Sustainable Finance, S&P Global Ratings
  • Ricardo Dueñas – CEO, OMA
  • Jorge Rosillo – CEO, ECOGAL
  • IADB -Inter American Development Bank
  • Diana Ruan Hernández – Senior Investment Officer, IFC

Place: Salón Eventos – Expo GDL

15:45 – 16:45 ACI-LAC Annual Assembly, Place: Salón Eventos – Expo GDL

20:00 – 22:00 Dinner Reception, Place: Calaverandia

Tuesday, November 12

08:00 – 17:00 Registration, Sponsored by Smith & Detection, Place: Convention Center – Expo GDL

07:30 – 08:45 WBP Breakfast and CEOs panel (by invitation only)

  • Kurt Menal – Managing Director, British Virgin Islands Airport Authority (BVIAA)
  • David Sandoval Martínez – Subdirector General de Aeropuertos, GAFSACOMM
  • Fernando Yus – President & CEO, AENA Brasil
  • General Isidoro Pastor – Director General, Aeropuerto Internacional Felipe Angeles (AIFA)
  • Almirante Padilla – Director General, Grupo Aeroportuario de la Ciudad de Mexico (GACM)

Place: Desfilia Ballroom – Expo GDL

09:00 – 09:30 CEOs Panel – Global Leaders shaping the future of Airports

  • Candace McGraw – CEO, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport
  • Aimen Bin Ahmed Al Hosni, Advisor to the Board of Oman Airports
  • Nicolas Claude – CEO, Nuevo Pudahuel

Place: Salón Eventos – Expo GDL

09:30 – 10:15 Airport Concessions: moving forward

  • Moderator: Pablo Monsivais – Equity Research Analyst, Barclays
  • Ezequiel Barrenechea – Regional Manager, Corporación América
  • Raul Revuelta – CEO, Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico
  • Jorge Roberts – CEO, Avports
  • Ricardo Hernández – CEO AERIS Costa Rica & CEO Aeroportos Internacionais CCR
  • Jorge Hernández – CEO, AEROSTAR

Place: Salón Eventos – Expo GDL

10:15 – 11:00 Optimizing infrastructure capacity and the passenger experience

  • Moderator: Federico Cabrera, Director of Operations, Aeropuertos Uruguay
  • Ricardo Cerri – CEO, EC Solutions
  • Aytan Mastaliyeva – Vice President Europe, Americas, CIS, Russia, TAV Technologies
  • Cuitlahuac Gutierrez – Senior VP Institutional Relations, Aeromexico

Place: Salón Eventos – Expo GDL

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break, Place: Exhibition Area – Expo GDL

11:30 – 11:45 CBX – Thinking outside the box

  • Jorge Goytortúa – CEO, Cross Border Xpress (CBX)

Place: Salón Eventos – Expo GDL

11:45 – 12:15 The Caribbean passenger experience

  • Uriel Torres – Director Central America and Mexico, SITA
  • Shane Munroe – CEO, MBJ Airport Limited
  • Angeline Flemming – Director Health, Safety and Sustainability, Aruba Airport Authority

Place: Salón Eventos – Expo GDL

12:15 – 13:00 Regional airports

  • Moderator: Sergi Alegre – Director General, Airport Regions Council (ARC)
  • Jorge Gutierrez de Velasco – Director General, Querétaro International Airport
  • Alvaro Leite – CCO, OMA
  • Javier Garcia Bejos – CEO, Aeropuertos Mexicanos (AME)
  • Jose Ricardo Botelho – Executive Director & CEO, ALTA

Place: Salón Eventos – Expo GDL

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch, Place: Exhibition Area – Expo GDL

14:00 – 16:00 Mexican Airport Summit, Place: Salón Eventos – Expo GDL

14:00 – 16:00 Regional and Caribbean Airport Summit State of the Industry, Regional Airports

  • State of the Industry, Regional Airports, CIRIUM

Place: Desfilia Ballroom – Expo GDL

Infrastructure Development

  • Dr. Charles Schlumberger – Lead Air Transport Specialist, World Bank
  • Elbson Quadros – Senior Commercial Director, Collins Aerospace
  • Nicolas Ruggiero – CEO, Aeropuerto de Rosario
  • Ignacio Flores – Director Southwest Region, FAA

Place: Desfilia Ballroom – Expo GDL

Airport Business Planning

  • Carlos Criado – VP & CCO, Centerline Airport Partners
  • Pietrick Voyer – Director of Operations, Grantley Adams International Airport – Barbados
  • Daren Cenac – CEO, Saint Lucia Air and Seaport Authority – SLASPA
  • Juan Pablo Aguirre – VP, MERA Corporation
  • Daniel Muñoz – H.O Airport Concessions, GCG Group

Place: Desfilia Ballroom – Expo GDL

Increasing Connectivity

  • Sergio Parra – LATAM Regional Manager, NACO
  • Nathalie Sebastien – Director General, Martinique Airport
  • Audley Deidrick – President & CEO, Airport Authority of Jamaica

Place: Desfilia Ballroom – Expo GDL