FTE Global Conferences
Multiple conference tracks with unique formats to create new levels of inspiration and engagement
Hear from the most inspirational speakers from inside and outside of the industry, delivering candid and revealing insights to help future-proof our sector
FTE Global conferences are renowned for being the best in the business and in 2025 we will focus all our content around our overarching show theme of “Transforming Air Transport”.
Whilst looking at the best approaches to transformation for organisations individually we will put a lot of focus across the sector as a whole and review transformation strategies for the big industry challenges and opportunities including digitilisation & technology, physical infrastructure & assets, workforce, commercial & collaboration models, passenger experience, sustainability and much more.
Once more FTE Global attendees will get access to the APEX Thought Leadership Conference, and collectively our conference sessions will deliver a memorable learning experience by providing progressive insights from industry leaders, technology giants, disruptors, parallel industries, academia and startups across the multiple conference tracks that will take place across the show.
We make a concerted effort to differentiate ourselves from the crowd and to embrace conference session formats that facilitate the best level of knowledge-sharing and interactivity. With this in mind, FTE Global 2025 will include a raft of formats, including Think Tanks, Guest Sessions, Symposiums, Briefings, Technical Workshops, and CEO interviews.
FTE Global 2024 Conference Features Included:
Discover the latest advancements, insights, and innovations in aviation through our comprehensive conference sessions. Explore the cutting-edge developments and learn from industry leaders, with a premium registration for FTE Global 2024.
Robotics & Autonomous Vehicles Think Tank
Our Think Tank speakers will share how they have worked with robotics and autonomous vehicles and offer insights into the lessons learned to date and where their organisations will go next in this area. Cole Wolfson (Director, xBridge, Pittsburgh International Airport) will present findings from this years’ FTE Aviation & Robotics Summit, which saw robotics industry experts and innovation industry leaders come together for a series of intensive interactive workshops, collectively shedding light on the challenges we are tackling, the progress made in solving this challenge with robotics and AI solutions, and the all-important next steps.
This session will immediately follow our ‘Robotics & Autonomous Vehicles’ Tech & Innovation Briefing on the exhibition floor, touring companies with ground-breaking systems, products and services in this space. Learn more here >>
The FTE Accessibility Symposium
Through the FTE Accessibility Symposium, we hope to showcase the easy adjustments that airports, airlines, and their suppliers can utilise, to make a world of difference to the individuals using their service.
With contributions from Alaska Airlines, CVG Airport, Greater Toronto Airports Authority, and International Airlines Group (IAG) attendees will hear from progressive airports and airlines across the industry exploring tech-focused solutions to enhance accessibility and how they are evolving their approaches to better serve guests who use wheelchairs, white canes, and have cognitive disabilities.
We encourage attendees with an interest in improving their accessibility services, to join the ‘Accessibility’ Tech & Innovation Tour on the exhibition floor, taking place immediately after this session. We will visit exhibitors showcasing autonomous wheelchairs & other exciting new technology & services to improve accessibility for all. Learn more here >>
The FTE Artificial Intelligence Symposium
Artificial Intelligence technology continues to make a lot of headlines, with generative-A.I. apps winning art contests and large language models such as ChatGPT wowing the world with spookily competent essays and even song lyrics. These moments expanded the sense that we’re approaching an era of pervasive A.I., in which these technologies transform our everyday lives in potentially unpredictable ways, including in commercial aviation.
These transformations will affect the passenger experience and airport- and airline operations, and create ripple effects in other areas, including: the physical footprints of airport’s, personal devices and computing interfaces, and interactions with new kinds of aircraft and ground-based transport.
This symposium will see panellists explore and debate the use cases for AI in aviation and how they could deliver transformational benefits for passengers and industry stakeholders, and the best means to introduce the technology into our organisatons, and sector at large.
The FTE Energy & Sustainability Symposium
A panel of industry innovators will present their views, efforts, visions and learnings relating to the ways in which our industry must evolve to meet its environmental responsibilities, and tangible recommendations on what different stakeholders will need to do to play their part and be ready for the revolution coming.
With e-vehicles and robotics playing a central role to reducing ground-operational emissions, why not join the ‘Robotics & Autonomous Vehicles’ Tech & Innovation Tour, conveniently scheduled at the end of this session. Learn more here >>
The Biometrics & Digital Identity Summit
The summit will explore a range of dynamic approaches and learnings on advancing digital identity to deliver next-level customer experiences and efficiencies for industry stakeholders. The speakers will share ideas on how the industry can achieve the vast potential that new digital identity approaches leveraging biometrics can deliver.
Why not join the Tech & Innovation Tour focusing on ‘Security, Digital Identity & Biometrics’ immediately after this session? Learn more here >>
The Private Networks Symposium
Samuel Ingalls (Principal, Barich) will lead a dedicated workshop where experts in the field, and guest speakers, will share insights and learnings on establishing and leveraging private networks at the airport. We encourage attendees to contribute their own thoughts on how managing their own wireless networks can streamline operations and optimise resource utilisation, offering greater control over compliance measures while facilitating adherence to industry standards and regulations.
Technology Leaders Conversation
Air transport leaders from across the globe provide insight into their organisation's passenger experience, business performance, innovation, and sustainability strategies. In this fast-moving panel discussion attendees will hear high-level perspectives on utilising AI, technologies & automation to improving efficiencies and CX efforts, as well as what is the successful formula is for getting more for less with technology.
Showcasing some of the ground-breaking solutions discussed throughout the session, our ‘Self-Service Technology’ Tech & Innovation Briefing, provides a concise and convenient tour of providers already serving the industry. Learn more here >>
The FTE Airport Design & Development Think Tank
With a huge amount of airport expansion on the horizon FTE wanted to help those planning new facilities get their strategies right so we are bringing together a group of industry leaders to tackle “What are the ways in which airport design, and planning approaches, will likely evolve to better accommodate digital, sustainability & human expectations for a new terminal at a major international airport in 2040?”. The team will come together multiple times in advance of the show to forge their recommendations that will be presented exclusively in Long Beach.
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Vital Event Information
Future Travel Experience Global 2025 is a global forum that brings together airlines, airports, government agencies, vendors, start-ups, terminal designers, architects, ground handlers, destination partners and various other travel industry stakeholders to learn, collaborate and be inspired on their next moves to transform their organisations’ passenger experience, business performance & sustainability strategies.
- Event
- Future Travel Experience Global 2025
- Date
- - September 2025
- Location
- Long Beach Convention Center, California, United States