AI and Boeing India leaders line up for Aviation India 2025

Shri Vipin Kumar, the Chairman of Airports Authority of India (AAI) and Salil Gupte, President, Boeing India and South Asia, have joined the line-up of executive speakers at the Summit.

“We are delighted to welcome two such important speakers to Aviation India 2025, which will bring stakeholders from across India and South Asia to Delhi for our second Summit,” said Mark Brown, managing director of Times Aerospace Events, the organiser of Aviation India.

Under the title Aviation India 2025: Shaping the pathway for Indian aviation, the summit will debate and examine how the industry is transforming at pace to unlock growth bringing together leaders from across India and South Asia.

AAI’s Kumar will address expanding and enhancing India’s ground and air infrastructure, capacity and capabilities - a key component of delivering the country’s ambitious air transport goals.

The AAI’s mission encompasses the delivery of an airport network to meet the Indian Government’s Vision 2047 roadmap. AAI is responsible for developing and managing the country’s airport system, as well as managing and operating more than 100 of them.

AAI recently celebrated its 30th anniversary on 2 April. “India’s civil aviation sector is experiencing rapid growth, becoming a significant engine for economic expansion, with increased passenger traffic, infrastructure development, establishing India as the third-largest domestic aviation market in the world and government initiatives driving this surge,” said Kumar in his message on AAI’s 30th Annual Day.

Boeing India’s Gupte will address how the US manufacturer is working at scale within India, across commercial and defence aerospace, MRO, training, manufacturing and IT, to further the country's desire for sustainable aviation growth.

Boeing has been a trusted partner of India’s aerospace sector for more than 80 years, both as the mainstay of India’s growing commercial aviation sector, and in the modernisation and mission readiness of the country’s defence forces.

Today, Boeing’s sourcing from India stands at $1.25 billion a year from a network of more than 300 suppliers. Boeing currently employs 7,000 people in India, and more than 13,000 people work with its supply chain partners.

The Aviation India 2025 event builds on the formula of the successful Times Aerospace Aviation Africa events, which began in 2015 and have been successfully hosted in UAE. Rwanda, Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria and South Africa.