GAD Americas is part of the Informa Markets Division of Informa PLC

Informa
Informa

2-3 April 2025

Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands

Agenda

We are currently researching and building the content for the 2025 event.

Please get in touch if you have expertise to share or there are particular topics you would like to see covered at the 2025 event: [email protected]

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