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Mobility and Transport

Connecting Europe by Air

The event is organised in collaboration with SESAR Deployment Manager.

The event will take place on 3 April from 8:30-13:30 at Brussels Airport’s iconic Skyhall, located at the departures level.

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Programme:

Time Session Title
08:30 – 09:10 Welcome coffee & side exhibition
09:10 – 09:15

Opening

  • Sylvie Van den Eynde, Chief HR & Corporate affairs, Brussels Airport Company
09:15 – 09:30

Keynote speeches

  • Alexander De Croo, Prime Minister, Kingdom of Belgium
  • Adina-Ioana Vălean, European Commissioner for Transport
09:30 – 10:00

Hot seat debate: Navigating European aviation's present and future

  • Magda Kopczyńska, Director-General, DG MOVE, European Commission
  • Arnaud Feist, CEO, Brussels Airport Company

Moderator: Victoria Moores, Europe & Africa Bureau Chief, Air Transport World

10:00 – 10:45

Panel debate: The role of aviation in EU transport network connectivity

  • Jan-Christoph Oetjen, Vice-President of the European Parliamen
  • Javier Marín San Andrés, Executive Vice Chairman, Aena
  • Dorothea von Boxberg, CEO, Brussels Airlines, Representative of the Lufthansa Group Executive Board to the European Commission
  • Markus Otto, SVP Aviation Europe, DHL Express
  • Brieuc De Meeûs, Deputy President, Union Internationale des Transports Publics

Moderator: Herald Ruijters, Deputy Director-General, DG MOVE, European Commission

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 11:30

Elevator pitch: Skyward shift: Essentials for transforming aviation by 2050

  • Nikhil Sachdeva – Principal, Roland Berger
11:30 – 12:15

Panel debate: Flight to sustainability: Catalysing aviation decarbonisation with collaboration, research, and financing

  • Paloma Aba Garrote, Director, European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency
  • Mariagrazia La Piscopia, Executive Director, SESAR Deployment Manager
  • Pierre Hamelin, Vice-President Hydrogen Energy Partnerships Operations, Air Liquide
  • Glenn Llewellyn, Vice President, Zero-Emission Aircraft, Airbus
  • Leen Vander Kuylen, Director Supplier Management & Procurement, TUI Airlines

Moderator:  Maria De Las Flores Diaz Pulido – Head of Aviation Policy Unit, DG MOVE, European Commission

12:15 – 12:25

Closing

  • Sylvie Van den Eynde, Chief HR & Corporate Affairs, Brussels Airport Company
  • Maria De Las Flores Diaz Pulido – Head of Aviation Policy Unit, DG MOVE, European Commission
12:25 – 13:30 Networking lunch & side exhibition

 

Exhibition:

Explore innovative aviation projects at the on-site exhibition. The exhibition will remain open throughout the event.

See the list of the exhibition partners below.

  1. Brussels Airport Company
Brussels Airport

Brussels Airport is a key European hub, welcoming 22.2 million passengers and handling 701,000 tonnes of cargo in 2023. While enhancing global connectivity with 220 direct destinations, the airport is actively fostering a carbon-free future.

  1. Stargate
Stargate

Stargate is an EU Green Deal project researching and demonstrating innovative solutions that aim at decarbonising the aviation sector. The project also fosters cooperation with local surroundings to improve the living quality and the stimulation of the modal shift.

  1. OLGA
OLGA

hOListic & Green Airports (OLGA) is a Horizon 2020 project that aims to reduce the environmental impact of the aviation sector. It develops innovative and sustainable solutions to reduce CO2 emissions, optimise energy efficiency, preserve biodiversity, and improve air quality and waste management, while involving the entire aviation value chain.

  1. TULIPS Green Airports: Roadmaps towards sustainable airport operations
Tulips

The TULIPS project is innovating on technologies and concepts to accelerate the transition towards net zero airport operations by 2030. The deployment of these technologies will help airports to ensure the role of sustainable and multimodal links in Europe’s transport system under the EU Green Deal.

  1. ALIGHT
Alight

The ALIGHT project paves the way for the sustainable airport of the future with focus on sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) and smart energy.

  1. Brussels Airlines
Brussels Airlines

Brussels Airlines showcases the biggest levers in reducing its carbon emissions, ranging from fleet renewal to the use of Sustainable Aviation Fuel to support the ambitious SBTi certified reduction target.

  1. DHL: Reducing Air freight Emissions through SAF
DHL

DHL has committed to a 30% SAF blend by 2030 to reduce aviation related emissions. Our ambitious GHG reduction goals are in line with requirements of the Science-based Targets initiative and we have committed on additional expenditures of up to €7 billion into sustainable fuels and clean technologies by 2030.

  1. TUI
TUI

TUI Airline will showcase the many initiatives the airline takes for more sustainable aviation, mainly on fleet renewal and adjustments of operational procedures.

  1. European Airports: Showcasing AFIF Supported Projects (Funded by CEF)
Budapest Airport
ADP
SEA Milan Airports
RIGA Airport

Stand coordinated by ACI Europe

ACI Europe

European airports leading the way in decarbonising air transport: Showcasing projects supported by the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Facility (AFIF).

  1. SESAR Deployment Manager & SESAR Joint Undertaking
Sesar

Discover how ATM modernisation in Europe is brought to life through SESAR, improving your flight experience while reducing environmental impact.

  1. RLCF Alliance
RLCF Alliance

The Renewable and Low-Carbon Fuels (RLCF) Industrial Alliance tackles the lack of availability and affordability of renewable and low-carbon fuels for aviation.

  1. Alliance for Zero-Emission Aviation
AZEA Alliance

Alliance for Zero-Emission Aviation: Preparing Europe for hydrogen and electric flights.

  1. SAFRAN
SAFRAN

Safran Aero Boosters designs, develops and produces modules, equipment and test cells for aircraft and space engines.

Fine particles have a growing impact on health and environment. Depollution Mobile Station (DEMOST) project develops a mobile solution to filter a high air flow with a 80% to 100% filtering efficiency, depolluting large areas with high level of fine particles where people are exposed, including areas like airports, motorways interchanges and tunnels.

  1. Smart Airport Systems
Smart Airport Systems

The TaxiBot, currently being the only aircraft sustainable taxiing certified solution available today, will bring a TUI B737 aircraft from the gate to the departing runway or to/from the aircraft maintenance hangar with no main engines running enabling significant emissions and fuel consumption reduction.