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Two parallel short-course tracks (A & B) distributed across Salons III & IV
Hilton Meeting Room: Salon-III
Instructor: By Dr. Basak Keskin Orese
Description: This course unveils a blueprint for BIM-enabled digital twins that revolutionize smart airport asset management, transforming complex infrastructures into practical, integrated digital replicas that manage data seamlessly across the full airport lifecycle from planning to operations.
Through published case studies from Dr. Keskin’s PhD thesis titled “A Building Information Modeling (BIM)-centric Digital Ecosystem for Smart Airport Life Cycle Management” on Istanbul New Airport, Boston Logan, and Denver International Airport, attendees will explore real-world applications of BIM-driven CAPEX and OPEX management – all analyzed objectively to extract transferable strategies.
Key learning points include designing scalable digital frameworks that help airport owners and operators modularize requirements from asset level to operations level to business level elements, leveraging BIM technology for precision data capture, forecasting maintenance for effective risk mitigation, acting as a glue to all key stakeholders, and empowering owners/operators with full visibility of deliverables and coordination towards enabling next-gen operations & maintenance.
Hilton Meeting Room: Salon-IV
Instructor: David Tamir, Founder & CEO, SMart AiRport Technologies (SMART) Association
Description: David Tamir will share best practices he developed and refined over the past 30 years working from the airport owner's perspective, since starting at Orlando Int'l Airport as their technology applications manager in the mid 1990s. David will share a systematic technology road-mapping matrix approach involving a risk-based inventory, evaluation, prioritization, and programming of all current systems in use at the airport and new ones desired. This approach includes other aspects such as governance, corresponding staffing support levels, and technology disruptors to be planned for.
This short course will also present a refined systems engineering approach to effectively implementing technology innovations, including organizational change management driven by Business Process Modeling (BPM). This approach recognizes that a sustainable airport system involves three foundation pillars: Process - Data - Technology; where "Process" is the most challenging, and "Data" is often the most expensive.
Sponsored by: Mappedin + Safe Software + x-Spatial + EPIC Engineering & Consulting
Located at: Symposium's exhibitor space in front of the presentation salons I - IV
Hilton Meeting Room: Salon-III
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Description: This presentation outlines our digital twin strategy built on an open, standards-based spatial database architecture that serves as the authoritative data foundation for enterprise-scale digital twins. We will explain how a spatially enabled database natively manages geospatial, 3D, temporal, and asset data, allowing complex real-world environments to be represented accurately and consistently across the organization.
The session will highlight how this open architecture supports seamless integration with established industry platforms, including Esri GIS environments and AutoCAD-based design workflows, enabling organizations to leverage existing investments while avoiding vendor lock-in. By separating core spatial data from visualization, design, and analytics tools, the architecture allows multiple platforms to operate in parallel from a single trusted source of truth.
Hilton Meeting Room: Salon-IV
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Description: Airports continue to struggle with underperforming CMMS implementations, even after major digital investments. Drawing on direct airport implementation experience, this presentation examines the root causes of CMMS failures through two lenses: technical realities and human dynamics.
The first-dimension addresses field-level breakdowns such as fragmented asset data, inconsistent standards, unrealistic workflows, misaligned configurations, weak integration, and the absence of a lifecycle strategy. Beneath these lie organizational shortcomings, limited senior sponsorship, insufficient shop-floor involvement, poorly defined processes, outdated data, inadequate training, unclear requirements, and the misperception of CMMS as an IT project rather than a business transformation.
The second dimension explores human factors that quietly erode performance: resistance to change, low digital confidence among frontline crews, poor communication between project teams and maintenance staff, and role ambiguity. Drawing on behavioral insights, this analysis reveals how culture, perception, and unaddressed anxieties shape adoption, data discipline, and sustainability.
By bridging technical and human perspectives, the presentation offers a unified framework for diagnosing risks early, strengthening implementation strategies, and improving asset-management outcomes in airport environments. Ultimately, it argues that successful CMMS deployment requires more than technology, it demands empathetic leadership, robust field engagement, and alignment between organizational culture, human capability, and digital strategy.
Sponsored by: Mappedin + Safe Software + x-Spatial + EPIC Engineering & Consulting
Located at: Symposium's exhibitor space in front of the presentation salons I - IV
Hilton Meeting Room: Salon-III
Instructor(s): Jorge Quiroz, Founder & CEO, PDBM Consulting
Description: Based on real airport experience, such as The Port Authority of NY & NJ, the Port of Seattle, and most recently, with the Miami-Dade Aviation Department at Miami International Airport, this short course explores how airports can build the digital foundations needed for a scalable, accurate, and operationally valuable enterprise digital twin.
The lecture highlights why consistent BIM standards are essential for integrating design, construction, asset management, and real-time operational data across a complex airport ecosystem. It walks through key components of an effective standards framework, such as a mandate, contract language, a manual, and support files, along with identifying critical assets, defining consistent attribute and creating a Unique Asset Identifier based on an Airport Hierarchy.
The session ultimately connects BIM standardization to long-term digital transformation, demonstrating how airports can move from fragmented project data to a unified, intelligent, airport-wide digital environment.
Hilton Meeting Room: Salon-IV
Instructor(s): Sonam Vashist, Cloud and AI Specialist, Microsoft
Description: Airports generate vast amounts of data across operations, passengers, safety, and services—but unlocking its value requires the right intelligence. This session explores how AI can transform airports by turning data into real-time insights that improve efficiency, passenger experience, and decision-making. Learn how the power of Power BI and Copilot in Power BI enables airport teams to easily analyze, visualize, and interact with their data using natural language and AI-driven insights—helping leaders move from dashboards to decisions and truly make data work for their customers.
The potential MIA site visit we hoped to enable has not materialized due to an airport security audit. We recommend taking this opportunity to visit Miami's unique locations including Coal Gables (only 10 minutes away) and Miami Beach.
Those staying into the weekend to enjoy Miami, may informally continue to Happy Hour/Dinner; some of us are heading to Miami Beach!