More Ground To Break: Francesco Violante, Chief Executive Officer, SITA

2014 AIR TRANSPORT IT SUMMIT

2014 AIR TRANSPORT IT SUMMIT

Francesco Violante

Chief Executive Officer

SITA

A NETWORKED WORLDA NETWORKED WORLD

5.2bnMOBILE PHONE SUBSCRIBERS


1bnSMARTPHONES

SOLD EACH YEAR


2bnPEOPLE CONNECTED

TO Internet through

smartphone& tablet


25%INTERNET ACCESS

THROUGH SMARTPHONES


26bn DEVICES

CONNECTED

BY 2020


THE INTERNET OF THINGS IS A

REALITY

800 apps downloaded

every second

...YET to be fully

exploited ... To drive business

intelligence

90% OF THE DATA IN THE

WORLD TODAY HAS BEEN CREATED IN

THE PAST 2-3 YEARS

•Mobile devices provide a powerful means to add value to the passenger

•Wearable technology is poised to have a big impact

•Wearable technology with biometrics in consumer devices

• SITA Lab – working

with Bionym on a new

biometric trial

• See the demo upstairs

on the SITA stand

• Biometrics

• Connected aircraft

• Proximity sensing

10,000 new aircraft will enter service over the

next decade

It will require a radically different

approach to IT & Communications

• Different airline departments look

after the aircraft ...

• ... Often each initiating IT projects

in silos

A coherent IT and communications platform

integrating aircraft and ground systems:

• Enabling better services and more

efficient operations

• Across all aircraft domains (passenger,

crew, cockpit and aircraft operations)

• Enabling the airlines to remain in control

of their destiny

Opportunities to:

• Improve passenger travel experience

• Improve operations

• Provide new business intelligence

• Lead to better allocation of staff and resources

LEVERAGING ANONYMIZED

DATA

American Airlines the

first airline to use the SITA Common-Use

Beacon Registry

PROXIMITY SENSING: LEVERAGING PERSONALIZED PASSENGER CONTACT

PROXIMITY SENSING: LEVERAGING PERSONALIZED PASSENGER CONTACT

Convergence of technologies is pushing the pace of innovation

Our role as IT provider is to:

• Determine the applicability for the industry of

new technologies

• Define standards to enable technologies to work

across the industry

• Ensure infrastructure is not a limiting factor

for innovation

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Source: presentation of Francesco Violante, SITA at the

2014 SITA Air Transport IT Summit, Brussels.

2014 Air Transport IT Summit

More Ground To Break: Francesco Violante, Chief Executive Officer, SITA

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