Auditorium Conference Agenda

Digital Health Passports are likely to play a crucial role in the future, not just to unlock international travel but also to help return people back to offices, concerts, sports events, inside dining and universities. However, there are big challenges and questions around standards, interoperability, privacy & educating passengers before they can be deployed effectively by air transport stakeholders to help rebuild public confidence in travel and provide many other benefits along the way. We will bring together first movers, and key players, in this space to share the big lessons learned so far, and their recommendations to the industry in effort to ensure we make crucial fast progress.

Each speaker will first give a brief overview of where they are in their digital health passport efforts, and what they are doing next to get to where they need to be, before the session moves to a fast-moving panel discussion led by our moderator.

• What do we feel is the key role and benefit of digital health passports for travel now, and what are their limits?
• What are the key challenges that have been faced by stakeholders rolling out digital health passports, and how are they being overcome?
• How do we educate and successfully provide relevance and incentive to passengers so they don’t bring paper based vaccine certificates to the airport which will cause operational chaos?
• How can we as an industry better encourage our governments, and related stakeholders, to adopt more harmonised approaches to health passports and the travel requirements they are putting in place?
• What more can the vendors involved do to streamline and accelerate this scale-up effort of adoption?
• How can the industry ensure all digital health passes work together across borders and are interoperable?
• What progress has been made so far to put in place necessary standards for the development and use of digital health passports?
• What is the role of airport operators, ground handlers and government agencies on the airport in the rollout of digital health passports, and how might they impact daily operations?
• How can we protect passengers’ health data and privacy at all points of the process?
• Shouldn’t these health passport apps just be integrated into airline apps ASAP to streamline efforts and power adoption efforts?
• Are digital health passports just the first step to the industry establishing a new digital identity to travel for the long-term and if so do we need to be more careful about the choices we are making now?

FORMAT

A large number of new airlines are launching around the world to take advantage of the disruption and opportunities created by COVID-19.  In an honest and fast-moving discussion, our renowned moderator will quiz a panel of C-level executives behind these new startup airlines to ascertain their ideas, and insights, on why they believe they can be successful and what the future holds for the industry at large.

The COVID-19 crisis has forced all air transport industry stakeholders to embrace transformation to future-proof their businesses and help to create a stronger, more resilient industry for the long-term. The Transformation Honours List recognises the organisations that have embraced innovation and transformation, and taken on a leadership role in helping to prepare the industry for a brighter future post-pandemic. In this session, you will get to hear the most inspirational stories from the Airline, Airport and Sustainability categories. Meanwhile, the OnDemand Speaker Zone will also host inspiring presentations from the Vendor, Startup, Airline and Airport categories.

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