Reinventing the travel experience
Lyon Aéroport, VINCI Aiports' Innovation Center of Excellence, and H7 are launching a call for projects aimed at start-upsin order to reenchant the travel experience for airport passengers through innovation and new technologies.
15 start-ups will meet with Lyon Aéroport's innovation teams to discuss potential collaboration.
Applications are now closed. The winners will be announced in early December and will meet the Lyon Aéroport teams in January 2025.
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4 key issues for tomorrow's airport
Travel
with peace of mind
Managing and occupying waiting times
Delivering a memorable experience
Enhancing airport services
Offering innovative digital services, diversifying commercial and mobility offerings, encouraging decarbonization
Selection criteria
The team
They worked with Lyon Airport
Together with Lyon Aéroport and its Innovation teams, we launched the airport's digital map. In just a few months, the solution was integrated into the airport's wayfinding kiosks, website and even mobile application. The Lyon Aéroport teams, who are both experts in their airport and digital domains, challenge us positively, enabling us to continuously improve our product to meet customer needs. This card adds a plus to customer service and enhances the passenger experience. This partnership has also opened up discussions with other VINCI Group airports.
With Lyon airport, our ambition is to revolutionize passenger check-in for more autonomous, fluid and secure journeys. We're bringing them our technological expertise in AI and biometrics. This partnership challenges us in a fast-changing regulatory environment, forcing us to turn constraints into opportunities. We're learning a lot from this first experience with civil aviation.
Lyon Airport's innovation team entrusted FrancePlay with the design and publishing of its streaming platform. Our Lyon-based start-up, a member of the first class of H7, developed an inspirational channel for all airport users, whether arriving or departing. This collaboration has enabled us to implement new functionalities such as a dynamic offer of flights linked to the films of the proposed destinations. This genuine medium, available all the time, on all screens and without subscription, has been a great success since its launch in May 2024.
During our support at H7, we had the opportunity to meet the head of innovation at Lyon Airport. This meeting led to a pilot phase of our technology at Terminal 1, followed by a definitive installation. The visibility of this project has been beneficial for our growing company.
A partnership for regional innovation
Since 2019, Lyon Airport has been one of France's Innovation Centers of Excellence of VINCI Airportsdedicated to improving the customer experience. To imagine and build the airport of tomorrow, Lyon Aéroport reflects on, tests and implements innovative solutions for passenger flow, support and customer relations, as well as the development of new services, and contributes to their deployment in the network's other airports.
To achieve this, the airport relies on innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence, digital, Web3, robotics, as well as new mobility and energies.
This call for projects is part of a long-standing partnership between the two organizations, which work together to promote innovation in the region.
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