Industry event

World Aviation Festival 2025

07
9 October 2025

Lisbon, Portugal

The World Aviation Festival is the premier aviation technology conference and exhibition. In 2025, World Aviation Festival returns to Lisbon, Portugal, bringing together 4,500+ attendees and 600 speakers over three incredible days of insights, innovation, and networking. Bringing together the world’s airlines, airports, and their top executives in charge of software, services, marketing, and distribution, this is where the future of aviation is shaped.

ATPCO is excited to be at World Aviation Festival 2025 in Lisbon! Stop by Booth 1-105C and enjoy complimentary gelato while connecting with our team. Join us for a sweet treat and even sweeter conversations about the future of modern airline retailing.

Speakers / attendees

Speaker
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Zachary Wynne
Regional Director, EMEA

Zachary has 15 years’ experience leading commercial transformation projects at airlines around the world. In his current role, Zachary facilitates dialog with ATPCO’s airline and technology partners, helping to make modern airline retailing a reality. His special focus areas include deployment of airline rich content, pricing and revenue management automation, and distribution modernization. Before this role, Zachary filled several roles at ATPCO in account management, consulting services, analytics, and marketing. As an American based in Europe, Zachary is an avid traveler who enjoys discovering new destinations with his family. In addition to his native English, Zachary also speaks fluent German and conversational Russian, Spanish, and Hungarian.


Session Details

Thursday, 9 October  | Offer optimisation panel: Modernising airline IT for offers & orders – What’s the roadmap?

  • What IT and process shifts are needed to deliver Offers & Orders?
  • Moving beyond EDIFACT and legacy PSS towards flexible, order-driven architectures
  • What does order management transformation mean for airline operations and servicing?
  • Leveraging AI and dynamic pricing to deliver offers without booking classes and fare rules
  • Looking ahead – what will airline IT need to enable the next era of Offers & Orders?
Speaker
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Chris Phillips
Chief Commercial Officer

Chris joined ATPCO in 2019. Leveraging more than 30 years of commercial airline and consulting experience, he assists ATPCO’s partners in achieving their financial objectives by optimizing their use of the ATPCO solution suite. His background in supporting effective commercial strategies along with his passion to de-commoditize the airline shopping experience complement the airline pricing and retail models enabled by ATPCO. Before joining ATPCO, Chris held leadership positions at Delta Air Lines and Four Corners Consulting Group.


Session Details

Wednesday, 8 October | Panel: The transformation to holistic retailing – What are the key drivers and how can we harness them?

  • Exploring the challenges in NDC adoption, including standardisation, OTA integration, and industry collaboration
  • How can airlines collaborate with tech partners to accelerate modernisation?
  • What’s holding back the transition from legacy systems to agile, real-time retailing?
  • Strategies for moving beyond outdated, fragmented distribution systems
  • Managing macroeconomic risks while balancing revenue expansion
Speaker
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Marcos Alsina de Freitas
Retailing Sales Director, Europe, Middle East, Africa & Central Asia

Marcos has worked the last 25 years in several commercial positions at GDSs and ATPCO. His experience ranges from running the pricing and data distribution department at Transbrasil and working in the pricing platform at Sabre, to teaching all ATPCO products, to running the EMEA & Central Asia Sales and Customer Marketing division, to developing retailing activities in the same region. His current focus is transforming offer presentation to unlock true airline retailing, where clear, well-articulated, visually presented offers are made available to passengers wherever they are shopping. Marcos holds an MBA degree on Information Technology and Management from the University of California UCI, Irvine and FGV.


Session Details

Wednesday, 8 October | Roundtable: How do we manage data in an offer-order world

In this roundtable hosted by ATPCO, explore the practical challenges of managing data in a retailing-driven environment. From aligning on global standards to investing in flexible architectures, the discussion will focus on unlocking value while reducing complexity. Join us to share experiences, hear diverse perspectives, and co-create ideas for building a data foundation strong enough to support the future of airline retailing.

Attendee
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Megan Humphries
Global Head of Corporate Communications

Megan grew up in the most isolated capital city in the world, Perth, Western Australia, which led her to the wonder of travel and visiting over 40 countries. This passion for travel steered her to a career in the aviation industry. At ATPCO, Megan leads external and internal communications. She works closely with media and industry analysts on shaping cohesive communications strategies that showcase ATPCO’s key priorities with all external stakeholders. Previously, Megan was the Director of Marketing at Routehappy, which ATPCO acquired in 2018. She also held various positions as a publicist at multiple PR agencies in both New York City and Australia.

Attendee
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Graham Wareham
Director, Business Development and Partnerships

Graham has over 25 years of experience in the airline industry, including more than eight years with ATPCO. His most recent experience as an aviation executive included strategic development, cost/revenue management, and market analysis. Before joining ATPCO, Graham worked as a Senior Director, Distribution and Consumer Direct for Air Canada. In his current role, Graham leads ATPCO’s Business Development and Industry team, developing strategic business partnerships and relationships that will help to evolve standards and solutions that help solve evolving industry issues.

Attendee
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Asma Raja
Partner Success Director, EMEA

With over two decades of experience at ATPCO, Asma currently serves as the Partner Success Director, focusing on airline and system partners across Europe, Middle East, and Africa. In this role, her primary responsibility is to support customers by providing ATPCO’s products and solutions, ensuring strong and lasting customer relationships. Additionally, Asma is dedicated to introducing new airlines to the ATPCO family, expanding their network and fostering growth.

Attendee
Darie Dreptate
Director, Product

Darie is leading the Routehappy and Merchandising product portfolio at ATPCO. He has a vast experience in lean product development and is obsessively aiming to decrease time to value. He is passionate about Web3 potential and how it can transform the airline industry.

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