Agenda

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What are the GAD Americas conferences about?

GAD is the only conference dedicated to exploring the opportunity for partnership between the public and private sectors in the development, operation and maintenance of airports and how to run world leading airport businesses. We cover all issues that impact airport businesses at board-level as well as maintaining a specific focus on public / private dynamics. Topics include:

Investing in airports:

Managing ESG KPIs in Airport investments
Pinpointing upcoming airport transactions and privatization processes in the pipeline
Latest airport privatization and PPP transaction case studies
Successful PPP, concession and hybrid public / private partnership models
Risk management
Airport valuations
Structuring successful consortium
Delivering ROI from airport assets and concessions
Successfully managing concession partners and stakeholders
Capex models and strategy
Economic regulation and charging

Airport development & finance models

Financial market trends: debt capital markets, bonds, equity, green finance
Airport CFO concerns: managing costs and revenues, analysis and forecasting
Financing capex and decarbonization projects
Hybrid procurement models

Defining airport best practice and strategy:

Delighting the customer – putting the passenger first
Implementing decarbonization and delivering the energy transformation
Impactful non-aeronautical revenue strategies
Operational and strategic innovation, digital transformation and new technologies
Culture and community
Future strategic opportunities: UAM, real estate development, new services

Macro-economic, political and aviation industry trends shaping airport businesses

The geopolitical landscape and global economy
Trends in passenger spend and traffic dynamics
Airline consolidation, fleets and new business models
Aviation market performance