/R E P E A T -- Invitation to Media - Launch of the first paperless cross border travel at YUL/

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/R E P E A T -- Invitation to Media - Launch of the first paperless cross border travel at YUL/

Canada NewsWire

MONTRÉAL, June 25, 2019 /CNW Telbec/ - The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with the governments of Canada and the Netherlands, invites media representatives to the very first demonstration of a new technology that will allow passengers to travel across international borders without paper. Initially conducted as a pilot project, it will allow travel between Canada and the Netherlands without a passport, using e-passport information stored securely in their phone.

 

DATEBOOK



WHAT:

Launch and demo of the first paperless, cross border travel



WHEN:

Wednesday, June 26, 2019 at 11:30 a.m.



WHERE:

YUL Montreal-Trudeau International Airport
Security Checkpoint A
(in front of Burger King restaurant)



SPEECHES:

Christoph Wolff, Head of Mobility Industries, World Economic Forum 
Michael Keenan, Deputy Minister of Transport, Transport Canada
Ankie Broekers-Knol, Minister for Migration, The Netherlands (remarks via video)
Philippe Rainville, President and CEO, Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport
Boubacar Djibo, Director of Air Transport Bureau, ICAO (delivering remarks on behalf of ICAO Secretary General)

 

SOURCE Aéroports de Montréal

View original content: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2019/26/c5673.html

Copyright CNW Group 2019

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