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29.10.2025
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Transforming Aviation Through AI and Data: DataArt at World Aviation Festival 2025

At the 2025 World Aviation Festival in Lisbon, DataArt reaffirmed its role as a trusted technology partner for airlines, airports, and travel-tech providers. Through sessions and hands-on demos, DataArt showcased how AI and data-driven solutions advance sustainability, operational efficiency, and customer experience in aviation.

Transforming Aviation Through AI and Data: DataArt at World Aviation Festival 2025

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Tim McMullen
Tim McMullen

For the fourth consecutive year, DataArt joined the global aviation community at World Aviation Festival in Lisbon as a Silver Sponsor, reaffirming its role as a trusted technology partner helping airlines, airports, and travel-tech providers solve real operational and digital challenges.

This year’s focus was on how AI and data deliver measurable improvements in sustainability, operational efficiency, and customer experience. Through sessions, booth meetings, and partner conversations, DataArt showed how intelligent engineering and practical innovation continue to move aviation forward.

Bringing AI to Real-World Aviation Challenges

At its booth, the DataArt team presented solutions addressing today’s industry’s most pressing priorities:

  • Custom software development
  • Data and analytics and AI/ML solutions
  • Web and mobile platforms for airlines and airports
  • Cloud optimization and legacy modernization
  • Payment and fraud prevention systems
  • Sustainable technology

These capabilities demonstrate how DataArt helps aviation clients modernize systems, improve reliability, and support sustainability without disrupting ongoing operations.

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The aviation industry continues to evolve at a remarkable pace, and it needs partners who understand both the business and the technology. Our goal is to help clients move from exploration to execution, transforming bold ideas into measurable outcomes that deliver real value.

Tim McMullen
Tim McMullen

Sharing AI and Data Expertise for a More Sustainable Industry

A key highlight was the “How to Use AI and Data to Accelerate Sustainability Initiatives” session by Apurva Mathur, VP of Strategic Accounts, and Dmytro Baikov, VP of AI.

The discussion reflected a central theme of this year’s festival: applying AI where it delivers practical, measurable results. DataArt’s experts explained how unified data foundations and intelligent frameworks help airlines and airports meet sustainability and efficiency goals.

DataArt at World Aviation Festival 2025. DataArt Photo Library

For DataArt, sustainability is not a separate initiative but an outcome of better data governance, automation, and transparency. By helping clients modernize their data infrastructure and introduce intelligent decision frameworks, we enable more efficient operations that reduce waste and emissions

Apurva Mathur
Apurva Mathur

To help aviation businesses assess their readiness for AI adoption, DataArt developed the AI Pre-Flight Readiness Checklist, a practical tool for identifying opportunities for improvement and preparing for AI-driven transformation.

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Four Years of Partnership and Progress

Over the past four years, DataArt’s participation at World Aviation Festival has evolved from showcasing individual solutions to shaping global conversations about the future of aviation technology.

The 2025 edition offered a chance to reconnect with long-term partners, including leading cloud and travel technology providers such as AWS, Amadeus, and Sabre, and explore new collaborations that link business strategy with technology execution.

For us, World Aviation Festival is not just an event; it is a checkpoint. Each year we return to share insights and strengthen the relationships that keep innovation moving.

Tim McMullen
Tim McMullen
DataArt at World Aviation Festival 2025. DataArt Photo Library

Looking Ahead: See You in Lisbon 2026

As the festival concluded, DataArt’s message remained clear: Progress in aviation depends on strong partnerships, responsible innovation, and the effective use of AI and data.

Building on this year’s momentum, DataArt will return to Lisbon in 2026 as a Silver Sponsor at Booth 1-168C, ready to share new projects and insights that continue to advance digital transformation across the aviation industry.

If you missed us at World Aviation Festival or would like to learn more about our aviation solutions, contact our team at aviation@dataart.com.