Tampere Aviation Forum – On the wings of Industry

Tampere Aviation Forum – On the wings of Industry

Wednesday, Oct 1, 2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Europe/Helsinki
Dynamo, Seminaarikeskus 2. krs
English
About

Tampere Aviation Forum will center around aviation’s impact on industrial growth, resilience, and sustainability. Industry experts and stakeholders will come together to explore how regional airports and their development strengthen regional competitiveness, how new innovations like sustainable fuels, electrification, and automation are reshaping the aviation industry, and more.

Tampere Aviation Forum is part of Business Tampere’s ongoing effort to champion the development of the Tampere-Pirkkala airport and position it as a center of passenger transport and logistics in the region. The one-day seminar features a range of keynotes and panels with experts of aviation, regional transportation and industry.

 

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Max Hirsh, Managing Director, Airport City Academy
Keynote: What’s the Future of Aviation — and Why Does it Matter for Tampere?

Mantas Vrubliauskas, VP Network Management, airBaltic
Keynote: The Future of Regional Air Traffic in Europe / The Finnish Market

Aivars Starikovs, member of the Board of Hydrogen Europe and Chairman of the Board of the Latvian Hydrogen Association.
 

Program

Changes possible.

9.00 Coffee and networking

9.30 Opening words, Business Tampere

9.40 Keynote: Mantas Vrubliauskas

10.15 Keynote: Dr. Max Hirsh, Managing Director

10.50 Panel discussion: Regional Airports as Enablers of Industrial Growth

13.00 Keynote: Aivars Starikovs

13.30 Case-speeches: eSAF, hydrogen & the fuels of the future

14.45 Panel discussion: Tampere-Pirkkala – logistiikan kiitotie teollisuudelle? (in Finnish)

15.50 Panel discussion: Syöttöliikenne 2.0 – Suomen sisäinen lentoverkosto 2030 (in Finnish)
 

See further information and register: here