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Innovation to enhance
the passenger experience

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To improve the travel experience

Lyon Airport - one of VINCI Airports Innovation Centers of Excellence - and H7 are launching a call for startups, to improve the travel experience for airport passengers through innovation and new technologies. 

15 startups will have the opportunity to present their solutions or services to Lyon Airport and VINCI Airports innovation teams in a view of potential collaboration.

Applications are closed. Laureates will be announced in december and will meet the Lyon Airport's Innovation Team in January 25.

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4 key issues for tomorrow's airport

The selected projects develop innovative solutions around four major challenges:

Stress-free
travel

Helping passengers navigate the airport ; 24/7 real-time assistance; communicating and informing travelers, before, during and after their journey.

Manage and occupy waiting time

Optimize passenger waiting time at airport check-in points, security controls, cross-border controls and boarding gates.

Offer a memorable experience

Make the airport experience a pleasant one with disruptive services of relaxation, leisure, work and shopping.

Enhancing airport services

Offering innovative digital services, diversifying commercial and mobility offerings, encouraging decarbonization.

Applications criteria

Selected projects must meet the following criteria:
You are developing an innovative product or service
Your solution can be tested at Lyon Airport
Your solution addresses one of the issues listed above
You would like to meet with Lyon Airport teams with a view to a potential collaboration

The team

César Clary

Head of Digital & Innovation

Anatoli Chernyaev

Innovation manager

Francesco Schianchi

Startup manager

    They worked with Lyon Airport

    With Lyon Airport 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 Airport 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.

    Olivier Vidal
    Acuity Brands
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    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.

    Maxime Boita
    Everial
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    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 destination films on offer. This genuine medium, available all the time, on all screens and without subscription, has been a great success since its launch in May 2024.

    Marc Bechet
    FrancePlay
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    During our time 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.

    Hugo Frering
    Tshoko
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      A partnership for innovation in the region

      Since 2019, Lyon Airport has been one of VINCI Airports' Innovation Centers of Excellence, dedicated to improving the customer experience. To imagine and build the airport of tomorrow, Lyon Airport tests and implements innovative solutions for passenger flow, customer care, development of new services, and contributes to their deployment in the network’s airports.

      To achieve this, the airport uses innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence, digital and Web3, robotics and automation and new forms of mobility and energy.

      This call for application is part of a long-standing partnership between Lyon Airport & H7, which work together to promote innovation in the region.

      Major players in the airport and innovation sectors

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      The leading airport in the VINCI Airports network in France, with 10 million passengers by 2023, Lyon-Saint Exupéry offers 120 direct destinations and is connected to the main international hubs. It offers state-of-the-art infrastructure, operational excellence for airlines and an innovation strategy focused on a high-quality passenger experience (VINCI Airports network center of excellence). Certified Level 4+ by ACA (Airport Carbon Accreditation), ISO 14001 and ISO 50001, Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport is developing in total control of its environmental impact.
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      H7 - the tech accelerator - has been helping France's most innovative startups for over 5 years, and knows what it takes to succeed. Last year, H7's startups tripled their revenues and increased their workforce by 80%. The average first raise was around $500,000. Each week, they welcome startups among the best in the industry to share their secret sauce with founders: Ledger, Brut, Happn, Sorare, and many more.
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      The world's leading private airport operator, VINCI Airports manages more than 70 airports in 14 countries. Thanks to its expertise as a global integrator, VINCI Airports develops, finances, builds and operates airports, bringing its investment capacity and know-how in optimizing operational performance, modernizing infrastructures and leading their environmental transition. VINCI Airports was the first airport operator to commit to an international environmental strategy in 2016, with the aim of achieving zero net emissions across its entire network by 2050.

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