PT World recently caught up with Caspar Baum, global head of aviation, and Thomas Warren, global operations director, aviation, both at SJ Group, ahead of their keynote presentation at the inaugural PTE Asia event in Singapore (September 23-24, 2026), titled The future airport ecosystem: connecting people, places and possibilities

Please introduce yourselves – what are your current roles, and how does SJ Group support airports?

Caspar: I am the global sector lead for aviation at SJ Group, based in Singapore.

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Submissions are now being taken for potential speakers to join the line-up at the PTE World Conference 2027, taking place at RAI Amsterdam in the Netherlands on April 6, 7 and 8, 2027.

Speakers are asked to share unique insights on challenging projects they’re facing; technologies they are trialling, designing or implementing; their expert views on emerging industry trends; and case studies, lessons learned and best practices.

Conference topics will include, but will not be limited to:

• Airport capacity and flexibility
• Airport cities, regions and connections
• Airport design, planning and development
• Airport management, leadership and strategy
• Airside management and operations
• AMEA – accelerating airport development
• Automation, autonomy and robotics
• Aviation security, borders and cybersecurity
• Barrier-free and inclusive travel
• Customer experience
• Data strategy, governance and culture
• Digital identity and wallets in travel
• Environment, sustainability and resilience
• Future airports and innovation
• Future mobility, infrastructure and ecosystem
• Ground handling operations
• Smart facility and asset management
• Technovation: AI, digital transformation and innovation
• Technovation: passenger journey, contactless and seamless
• Technovation: smart baggage handling, tagging and tracking
• Travel retail, F&B, non-aero revenues and creation

Individual (one speaker), deep-dive presentations from airports, airlines, authorities, government agencies and universities will receive priority scheduling.

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Ahead of PTE Asia 2026, which will take place in Singapore on September 23-24, PT World has picked out five sessions from this year’s conference program that are well worth prioritizing.

The PTE Asia Conference will deliver a high-level, content-rich program addressing the most pressing priorities facing airports and aviation stakeholders across the region today. Through keynote presentations, expert panels, case studies and thought leadership sessions, it will explore critical themes including airport design and development, digital transformation, passenger experience, operational resilience, sustainability, cybersecurity and future-ready airport ecosystems.

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Asia and Middle East airports are entering one of the largest infrastructure investment cycles in aviation history, with US$240bn earmarked for new airports, terminal expansions and modernization projects over the next decade, according to Airports Council International.

The investment is intended to prepare the regions for almost 11 billion annual passengers by 2053, requiring airport operators to expand capacity while enhancing security, resilience, sustainability and the passenger experience through technologies such as artificial intelligence, biometrics and automation.

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Fresh from his appearance on the PTE World Conference panel that discussed airport cities connecting multimodality, economic development and community integration, Askin Demir, the CEO of Blaise Diagne International, tells PTW about Senegal’s plans to transform his facility into a role-model airport for western Africa, with excellent transportation links and a wide range of destinations.

The main stumbling block, he reports, is finance, which is more challenging in Africa than in Europe.

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We caught up with Keith Walters, group transformation lead at IAG, and Manuel van Lijf, director of travel and transportation at NLMTD, after their presentation at the PTE World Conference in London to hear more about the Smart Ramp program – an IAG, KLM, ANA, Schiphol Airport, Washington Airports and Miami Airports venture to reinvent the turnaround process through collaborative innovation.

“It’s a very intelligent, respectful environment,” says Walters. “Nobody within that group is more important than anyone else.

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Stansted Airport has big ambitions: to create one of the largest terminals in the world. Its extension plans have been approved and will see capacity grow to 43 million passengers a year.

In this interview conducted after their presentation at the PTE World Conference in London, Chantal Lontay from airport operator MAG and Isabella Leone from Gensler explain how Stansted is using Gensler’s PerformaX, a parametric, data-assisted simulation tool, to bridge the gap between experiential design and commercial strategy, improve the passenger experience and increase revenue at the airport.

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Big changes are afoot at Hong Kong International Airport, as the airport authority’s Steven Yiu and Jacob Cheung tell us in this interview at PTE World 2026.

For starters, the new Terminal 2 will open on May 27, 2026. Meanwhile, over in Terminal 1, they explain that the security screening technology has been upgraded to 3D machines that are quicker and more accurate than the previous x-ray systems.

They also describe how the airport authority analyzes traveler emotions and works to eliminate as many pain points as possible, to improve the passenger experience.

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In our chat with Daniel Ketchibachian, the CEO of Aeropuertos Argentina, following his enlightening presentation titled ‘Argentina: a success story in airport infrastructure investment,’ at the PTE World Conference, it immediately became clear that Argentina has an exciting aviation future in store. Passenger numbers are growing, and Aeropuertos Argentina – which operates 37 airports in the country – has big plans to boost these volumes even further.

“I always say that bricks come before airplanes,” he reported.

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PTE World 2026 returned to Excel London on March 17-19, once again underlining its status as the airport sector’s leading global meeting place. Over three packed days, more than 12,500 industry professionals from airports, airlines, aviation authorities, governments and related businesses gathered to exchange ideas, source new technologies and discuss the strategic direction of the industry.

With 450+ exhibitors on the show floor and 500+ speakers contributing across the conference program, the event delivered both scale and substance.

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