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Policy, Regulation & Governance, People, Skills & Next-Gen, Safety, Security & Resilience in ATM

As aviation systems become more complex, the greatest emerging risks are no longer only technical, they are human. Fatigue, cognitive overload, mental health stigma, and fear of disclosure continue to undermine safety, decision-making, and workforce sustainability across aviation operations.

This session explores how safety-critical organisations can move beyond awareness campaigns and peer-support models toward structured, evidence-based systems that enable early detection, safe disclosure, and effective return-to-work pathways, without compromising operational integrity.

Drawing on global aviation case insights and operational risk data, the session will examine where current approaches fall short and what leading organisations are doing differently to embed psychological safety, fatigue risk management, and human sustainability into their safety frameworks.

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Innovation to Enable Future Skies

As Europe moves from AAM trials to early commercial operations, success will depend on how well operators, UTM service providers and vertiport developers align around a shared operational and commercial model.

This panel brings together leaders from across the AAM ecosystem to examine what is needed to move beyond concept validation and enable scalable, viable services.

Panellists will explore the commercialisation of the digital and operational infrastructure required to support safe, automated and interoperable AAM operations – from dynamic airspace management and real-time deconfliction to performance monitoring at a network level to enable scale and volumes needed for ROI. Vertiport developers will share practical insights on urban integration, passenger experience, turnaround processes and the importance of harmonised interfaces with ATM and U-space services to also enable sustainable and scalable commercial operations

The session is a chance to learn how coordinated, cost-effective delivery across the ecosystem can accelerate AAM commercialisation and build confidence for investors, regulators and the travelling public.

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Innovation to Enable Future Skies, Drones & UTM

We would like to give a presentation on the ongoing joint work between SkyGrid and MIT Lincoln Laboratory to develop high resolution weather forecasts in support of AAM operations.

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Safety, Security & Resilience in ATM

This session will present a project focused on the implementation of the Model-Based Safety Analysis (MBSA) methodology for Air Traffic Management (ATM) safety studies, leveraging the SimfiaNeo tool. We will showcase a demonstrator model developed for an ATM system within the tool.

The core advantage of this approach lies in SimfiaNeo’s ability to perform an in-depth analysis of the system and the propagation of failures within it. The traditional methodology relies on fault trees, requiring the safety engineer to manually imagine all potential failure scenarios. This manual process is inherently time-consuming and error-prone. Conversely, SimfiaNeo exhaustively and automatically analyzes all failure propagation paths that can lead to a failure condition.

Furthermore, MBSA and SimfiaNeo provide benefits that extend beyond mere time and cost efficiency. By being integrated with the design, the safety model provides a more concrete approach than a classic fault tree. This proximity to the system design significantly facilitates exchanges with both design teams and operational personnel, which in turn accelerates system adoption and technical discussions. The model itself therefore becomes a powerful presentation and communication support tool.

The objective is to highlight and showcase the significant advantages of this approach and the specific gains offered by a dedicated tool like SimfiaNeo in ATM safety assessments, leading to improvements in both rigor and efficiency.

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People, Skills & Next-Gen, Innovation to Enable Future Skies

Technology is aggressively redefining the boundaries of what can be built and operated within Air Traffic Management (ATM) software and services. We are witnessing a fundamental paradigm shift: while humans have traditionally built and operated systems with machines serving as passive verifiers, a new era is emerging. In this model, Generative AI (GenAI) and automated systems take on the heavy lifting of production and operations, empowering human experts to ascend to a higher-level role: controlling and optimizing system-wide performance.
The core of this is simple yet transformative: The more machines operate, the more humans can elevate performance.
This shift raises critical questions for the industry:
Autonomous Production: Can GenAI autonomously translate complex requirements into natural language into prototypes, components, and ready-to-use ATC system code?
Certification & Standards: What new certification frameworks are required to validate AI-generated code in a safety-critical environment and to be securely deployed in cloud infrastructure?
Sovereignty: How can we leverage generic European technology, control depedencies and institutional guarantees to fulfill certification requirements at a lower cost and within a shorter timeframe?
This talk explores the value of “technology-driven crafting.” With Cloud, AI, and data architectures reaching maturity, the capability to accelerate ATM modernization through GenAI-produced code is no longer a theoretical exercise—it is a matter of adoption and integration at scale. We will discuss how moving toward open architectures and AI-driven code production creates a human-centric service orientation that is faster, more resilient, and ready for the next generation of airspace.

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Innovation to Enable Future Skies

For decades, critical airside and air traffic management operations have relied on legacy technologies that delivered reliability—but at a significant cost. Data became fragmented, interoperability was limited, and both airports and ANSPs grew increasingly dependent on a small number of vendors. As operational needs evolved, change was often slow, complex, and expensive—constrained more by architectural rigidity than by operational ambition.
Today, the industry is once again in a period of transformation. Digitalisation, automation, and data-driven operations are central to future performance. “Platforms” are widely promoted as the solution. Yet many proprietary platforms risk recreating the same structural limitations of the past, this time with modern interfaces and new terminology.
In this joint session, NATS and Searidge share how the UK’s ANSP has adopted an open, platform-based ATM architecture to break this cycle. The speakers will explain why legacy approaches are no longer sufficient, what is driving the move to an open platform model, and how this shift is enabling greater flexibility, resilience, and innovation.
Using real-world examples, the session will demonstrate how a shared digital foundation supports faster deployment, improved situational awareness, and new operational services.
Attendees will gain practical insight into what defines a strong ATM platform, why ANSPs should own their foundational architecture, and how this approach supports NATS’ long-term vision for future UK tower operations.

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People, Skills & Next-Gen

Digitalisation promises measurable gains in safety, efficiency, and lifecycle traceability across Air Traffic Management (ATM), particularly in the Communication Navigation Surveillance (CNS) domain. Yet the transition from analogue to digital—preceded by decades of digitisation—has also introduced an unintentional capability gap in the CNS technical workforce.
While modern systems deliver higher reliability, signal processing performance, and comprehensive Built In Test Equipment (BITE), sensor embedded monitoring alone cannot assure performance across the full coverage volume or under varying environmental conditions.
This discussion highlights the need for a harmonised, measurement driven approach that couples organisation wide digitalisation with independent performance monitoring, standardized methodologies, and renewed fundamentals based training. Drawing on operational practice and standards (e.g., ICAO Doc 8071 and ATSEP guidance), we show how global statistics (e.g., Pd and azimuth bias) can mask local performance shortfalls that directly affect separation minima. We outline a framework that integrates unified measurement and analysis toolsets from product qualification, factory testing, commissioning and through life monitoring, with centralized, time stamped data for traceability, multi-stakeholder support, and a proactive and predictive maintenance regime.
Case examples using Intersoft Electronics Surveillance Monitoring System (SMS) and Radar Analysis Support System (RASS) illustrate how sensor systems, including legacy, can be performance tracked and re-baselined to meet modern performance targets, and how emerging techniques (e.g., drone based measurements) can accelerate compliance while reducing cost.
For the industry, a standardised measurement and enhanced training framework—aligned to international standards—can strengthen safety assurance, restore and uplift knowledge, and ensure that digitalisation enhances, rather than further erodes, CNS technical expertise.

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Policy, Regulation & Governance, People, Skills & Next-Gen, Collaborative Operations for Sustainable Skies, Innovation to Enable Future Skies, Seamless Skies for All, Safety, Security & Resilience in ATM

The Center for Air Transportation Resilience (CATRes), a NASA University Leadership Initiative, conducts data-driven research to strengthen the resilience of the air transportation system. CATRes is led by academic researchers from University of California, Berkeley; University of Michigan; University of Pennsylvania; and the University of Maryland, in close collaboration with industry partners (airlines, airport authorities) and the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). This presentation provides a technical overview of ongoing CATRes research, including cluster analyses of historical disruptions, generative models for synthetic disruption training, and airline–air traffic collaborative optimization. Now in its second year, CATRes has made substantial technical progress; we will dive deep into results most relevant to airline operations and system resilience.

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Safety, Security & Resilience in ATM

GNSS interference in the European airspace has increased dramatically. Reports of GPS disruption rose over 400% between 2022 and 2024, with Eastern Europe experiencing particularly sustained interference. When aircraft leave GPS spoofing zones, the interference stops, but in many cases, the navigation system doesn’t immediately recover, and residual effects can persist. We call this the “GPS Hangover,” and it’s a bigger issue than previously recognized.

Spoofing differs from jamming in a critical way: it provides false position data that appears valid and passes standard integrity checks without triggering alerts. While jamming accounts for roughly 80% of reported GNSS interference incidents, spoofing presents disproportionate operational challenges because even when crews recognize the issue, they often have few immediate options beyond turning off the impacted systems. Moreover, systems may not recover until reset on the ground.

Monitoring the situation with European ANSPs for more than 4 years, SeRo Systems has observed and documented thousands of cases where spoofed GPS leads aircraft to report ADS-B positions tens of nautical miles off for hours after leaving interference zones. In high-interference regions, extended exposure periods can corrupt the internal state of the GPS receiver of some aircraft, for example, by downloading false ephemeris data. As a result, essential parts of the avionics remain affected until the avionics components are reset on the ground.

The consequence is that interference in one location can affect operations hundreds of kilometers away. To combat this problem, EASA has called for enhanced GNSS monitoring capabilities and operator awareness programs, while ICAO recommends developing comprehensive PNT resilience strategies and implementing robust interference detection systems. Both organizations emphasize the critical need for coordinated monitoring efforts and systematic reporting mechanisms across ANSPs, operators, and regulatory bodies.

Using operational monitoring data through 2025, we’ll examine how these carryover effects manifest in the European airspace. We’ll share monitoring architectures deployed in high-interference environments that provide ANSPs with actionable operational intelligence beyond basic pilot reporting. The session also offers practical insights into what sustained GNSS interference means for European airspace and what monitoring capabilities can help ANSPs support safer operations.

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Collaborative Operations for Sustainable Skies

Air traffic management is entering a period of profound transformation driven by automation, digitalisation and the emergence of new airspace users and operational models. While technological innovation is accelerating, the success of ATM modernisation ultimately depends on how organisations design and manage change.
This panel will explore how the ATM community can adopt a more human-centred approach to transformation, ensuring that operational roles, decision-making processes, workforce competencies and organisational structures evolve alongside technology. Bringing together perspectives from across the ATM stakeholder community, the discussion will examine how to co-design change in a way that strengthens safety, operational resilience and workforce confidence, while enabling the successful implementation of future ATM concepts.

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Innovation to Enable Future Skies, Seamless Skies for All

Aireon will present updates to its strategic plan and assessments for Space-Based VHF. Aireon currently operates the only continuously global and safety-certified Space-Based ADS-B service that integrates with over 25 CANSO ANSPs. Leveraging this experience and its partnership with Iridium, Aireon seeks to expand its offerings to include VHF services in its next satellite constellation. Additionally, Aireon will describe the safety approach that was applied similarly to its current EASA certification. This presentation will include Aireon’s global perspective on the analysis and planning it has conducted for SB-VHF and continue to gather inputs from the community on the approach.

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Innovation to Enable Future Skies

Across Europe, ANSPs are accelerating digital transformation through remote and digital towers, centralised data platforms and service-oriented architectures. While these capabilities are modernising conventional ATM, they are also laying the foundations for integrating new airspace users and operating models.

This panel will explore how next-generation digital ATM can enable and accelerate UTM services, BVLOS drone operations, AAM networks and vertiport development. Speakers will examine how digital and remote towers support more scalable, flexible and cost-efficient service provision, and why enhanced, data-rich situational awareness is critical for safely accommodating new entrants into the airspace.

Delegates will hear how digital ATM enables ANSPs to evolve towards multi-modal traffic management service providers, the new services this unlocks for drone operators, AAM providers and vertiport operators, and the importance of robust data governance, cybersecurity and interoperability in delivering this future.

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Policy, Regulation & Governance, Innovation to Enable Future Skies, Drones & UTM

As airspace systems evolve to accommodate drones, advanced air mobility and increasingly diverse aviation activity, traditional approaches to airspace safety and access are reaching their limits. Regulatory and operational decisions are often still based on qualitative judgement and static classifications, limiting the ability to assess risk consistently, transparently and at scale.

This joint presentation by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), its project partners (Boeing and FlyFreely), and Aireon presents a data-driven framework that enables airspace collision risk to be assessed in a consistent, repeatable and operationally meaningful way across national airspace systems. Developed through the government-funded Australian Digital Airspace Characterisation (ADAC) project and based on more than four years of development, the approach represents a shift from descriptive airspace categorisation to quantified, spatially resolved risk assessment.

At the core of the framework are data-driven and data-informed probabilistic collision risk models for regions with good and limited surveillance coverage, respectively. Collision risk is quantified at fine spatial and temporal scales using a combination of established and novel aviation risk modelling techniques, innovative data management approaches, and high-performance computing. Risk metrics are visualised using standard geographic information systems and custom online applications, in a manner that is interpretable and customisable for regulatory, operational and policy decision-making. Crucially, this approach provides a bridge between quantitative analysis and qualitative judgement, supporting defensible, evidence-based and unbiased risk categorisation across most airspace environments.

The presentation will highlight the unique and distinguishing features of these models compared to existing approaches, before focusing on national-scale results and real-world case study applications with additional partners. It will demonstrate how robust, quantitative, high-resolution risk models can support a wide range of applications for uncrewed aviation (for example, risk-based assessments and approvals), crewed aviation (such as airspace change assessment, safety intervention prioritisation and evaluation of emerging operational concepts), as well as policy and regulatory development.

This collaboration illustrates how research capability and operational surveillance infrastructure can be combined to move from analysis to implementation at high technology readiness levels. While demonstrated in an Australian context, the underlying framework is jurisdiction-agnostic and can be adapted to other national and regional airspace systems by adjusting data inputs, thresholds and governance settings.

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Policy, Regulation & Governance, Collaborative Operations for Sustainable Skies, Innovation to Enable Future Skies, Drones & UTM

The low-altitude economy in the Middle East is transitioning from controlled pilots and isolated demonstrations toward operational deployment across public safety, infrastructure inspection, logistics, environmental monitoring, and emerging autonomous services. This session examines what it actually takes to move from vision to scale in a region characterized by complex airspace governance, mixed civil–military environments, rapid urban development, and strong national digital transformation agendas.

Drawing on real-world deployments and operator experience, the session will analyze the practical challenges shaping low-altitude operations in the Middle East, including airspace integration below controlled airspace, authorization bottlenecks, fragmented regulatory maturity, command-and-control resilience, data sovereignty, and human–automation interaction under high-tempo operations. Particular attention will be paid to policy gaps where existing aviation frameworks struggle to accommodate automation, persistent operations, and one-to-many oversight models.

The discussion will also present concrete regional use cases that have moved beyond proof-of-concept—such as automated inspection, emergency response, and urban monitoring—highlighting what enabled scale, what failed, and which technical or governance design choices proved decisive. Rather than proposing one-size-fits-all solutions, the session explores modular approaches to regulation, infrastructure, and technology that align with Middle Eastern operational realities.

The session concludes by outlining a pragmatic roadmap for regulators, operators, and municipalities to accelerate safe deployment of low-altitude systems, close policy gaps, and unlock measurable economic value—positioning the low-altitude economy as a functional layer of national infrastructure, not an experimental aviation niche.

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Policy, Regulation & Governance

Civil High Altitude Platform Systems (HAPS) are rapidly evolving from experimental concepts to operational reality, challenging existing assumptions about airspace design, regulation, and safety oversight. This panel uses the first authorised civil HAPS operation in Spain, which conducts regular flights, as a case study to explore the real-world requirements for integrating platforms operating at the boundary between aviation and near-space into controlled airspace.

Led by Juanjo Sola and Rafael Pecos Macías of Murzilli Consulting, and with the participation of operational and infrastructure partners such as CATEC, Telespazio Ibérica, and the Fuerteventura Technology Park (Canarias Stratoport for HAPS & UAS), the discussion will examine regulatory strategy, airspace structuring, coordination with authorities, challenges, and lessons learned. The session will provide practical information for regulators, air navigation service providers (ANSPs), and industry stakeholders preparing for the next phase of high-altitude operations in Europe.

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Seamless Skies for All, Policy, Regulation & Governance, People, Skills & Next-Gen, Collaborative Operations for Sustainable Skies, Innovation to Enable Future Skies, Drones & UTM

This session will explore how scaling BVLOS drone operations requires bridging technological innovation with people, procedures, and training.

It will present last-mile medical drone delivery in Malawi as a high-reliability BVLOS model and demonstrate how safe operations are achieved through structured procedures, defined crew roles, and training non-technical personnel, while community engagement builds trust and awareness. The session will also highlight approaches that ensure practical, economically sustainable operations in low-resource environments.

Participants will gain insights into maintaining regulatory confidence and safe operations in shared airspace with manned aviation, and see how this integrated model supports climate monitoring, agriculture, and next-generation workforce development.

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Seamless Skies for All, Collaborative Operations for Sustainable Skies

Severe weather and capacity constraints have long been major disruptors for Europe’s air traffic network, but new solutions are changing the game. Yolanda Portillo, Head of the EUROCONTROL Network Manager Operations Centre will share insights on how the EUROCONTROL Network Manager – together with aviation partners – has introduced innovative capacity and weather-based procedures that significantly improved operational stability and performance in Summer 2025. Pre-agreed rerouting scenarios applied under the scope of a well-established Cooperative Decision-Making (CDM) process have become a key enabler for safe, efficient, and predictable operations across the network. By limiting last-minute changes and reducing volatility, this stable operational framework allows both airspace users and service providers to plan with greater confidence and to optimise the use of available capacity, resulting in cutting en-route delays by 31% and slashing weather-related delays by an impressive 41% compared to the previous summer. The presentation will also include an update on the evolution of the procedures for summer 2026.

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Doc 4444 was designed to provide globally harmonized procedures, and in many respects it does that very well. However, wake turbulence is treated in a relatively contained and time-based way, reflecting the operational environment and knowledge available when those provisions were developed.

Today’s airspace looks very different. We have denser traffic, mixed aircraft performance, enhanced surveillance, and a much better understanding of wake vortex behaviour. As a result, many States now manage wake turbulence as a dynamic operational hazard, rather than purely as a separation minimum.

The question, then, is not whether Doc 4444 is wrong, but whether its wake turbulence provisions still reflect how wake turbulence is actually managed in modern airspace, and whether they should evolve to better support contemporary operations.

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People, Skills & Next-Gen, Innovation to Enable Future Skies, Seamless Skies for All, Safety, Security & Resilience in ATM

Air traffic controllers have long operated at the limits of human cognitive performance through simultaneously managing separation assurance, trajectory anticipation, traffic sequencing, inter-sector coordination, and time-critical decision-making under uncertainty. While artificial intelligence has transformed many areas of aviation, its benefits have yet to be consistently realized in everyday air traffic management operations.
This session will demonstrate how that gap can be closed by positioning AI as practical decision support rather than as a replacement for human expertise. The focus is on AI capabilities designed to reduce cognitive load, enhance situational awareness, and support controllers incrementally within existing workflows. Emphasis is placed on solutions that are operationally validated, transparent, and scalable beyond a limited number of high-investment initiatives.
The session will highlight concrete operational applications, including earlier conflict prediction with actionable resolution options, improved demand–capacity balancing and sector load forecasting, smarter AMAN/DMAN sequencing to reduce delays, and trajectory and route optimization to lower fuel burn and CO₂ emissions. Additional use cases include anomaly detection to strengthen safety nets and digital-twin simulations to support controller training and procedural validation. The lessons learned while coding and developing AI and LLM–based capabilities for air traffic management automation systems will also be shared in this session.
The central message is clear: when AI delivers measurable, usable, and trustworthy capability directly within the controller’s workflow, it becomes a genuine operational enabler for the ATC community.

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Safety, Security & Resilience in ATM, Collaborative Operations for Sustainable Skies

The Data4Safety initiative, led by EASA, continues to transform aviation safety across Europe by setting new benchmarks in collaborative, data‑driven safety intelligence. This ambitious programme unites Member States (National Aviation Authorities) and industry stakeholders—air operators, ATM organisations, aircraft manufacturers, and now more actively Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs)—in an unprecedented effort to identify and mitigate systemic safety risks. Through advanced analytics and large‑scale data integration, Data4Safety enables the aviation sector to take a proactive, intelligence‑led approach to strengthening safety performance.
At the heart of this initiative lies a cutting‑edge data platform developed by Paradigma Digital and ALG. Engineered to process over 500 terabytes of diverse aviation data, the platform leverages state‑of‑the‑art cloud technologies to deliver advanced analytics, predictive safety models, and systemic risk detection capabilities. This modern infrastructure underpins safety benchmarking, vulnerability assessment, and in‑depth studies, generating actionable insights that support decision‑making across all segments of the industry.
This year, the programme expands its impact through deeper collaboration with ANSPs, whose operational expertise provides critical context for understanding real‑world risk dynamics in European airspace. By contributing their data, perspective, and domain knowledge, ANSPs help enhance the granularity and operational relevance of Data4Safety insights—closing the loop between safety intelligence and day‑to‑day traffic management practices.

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Collaborative Operations for Sustainable Skies

The session will develop the evaluation of operational mitigation options for Contrails and non-CO2 emissions reduction.
The CICONIA project is arriving to an end in 2026, this session will provide insight of evaluation exercises and trials.

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People, Skills & Next-Gen

The major transformations currently affecting ATM stakeholders are far-reaching, and sometimes full of paradoxes. They go well beyond the technical modernization of systems, involving a global transformation of operating modes and professional practices. In a safety-critical, high-reliability operational environment, the challenge is to do more and faster—in terms of capacity, performance—without ever compromising safety, under increased requirements for justification of decision-making, and production of evidence.
This growing tension between performance and safety represents a genuine challenge, above all a human one.
As European carries large ambition to transform the industry , as the new master plan brings strategic deployment objectives to be implemented by 2035, what can be done to translate those ambitions into concretes actions in the field, what can leverage from existing experience, which kind of methodologies can be applied …?
It is essential to connect ambition with best practices and change management.

These transformations take place within organizations characterized by rare expertise, built through experience, practice, and repetition. The retirement of key populations, the arrival of automation and AI raise critical questions around skills management, the transmission of tacit knowledge, and the redefinition of the human role within the production loop : trust in tools, the ability to regain control or understand decision pathways, acceptance of new forms of cooperation with machines, and more…

Strategy, operations and technical directorates play together a decisive role here: leading by example, providing meaning, taking responsibility for choices, and embodying the expected changes.

• What types of pilot applications should be launched as part of a Cloud transformation? What impacts does such a transformation generate, and how can they be anticipated? How can ATSEP accept, endorse responsibility while delegating hardware management?
• How can organizations and the all value-chain move from an individual, permanent safety concern to a collective culture built around the Safety Management System (SMS), thereby ensuring compliance with the new framework?
• How can suitable “sand boxes” be created and well used to foster creativity, collaboration and innovation, demonstrate the value of certain technologies through operational use cases, and turn experimentation into a true design lever?
• Why is a managerial transformation indispensable to foster collaboration, break down silos, steer projects, give meaning to teams, and explain the “why”?

Change management in the ATM sector is not only about accelerating transformation but about ensuring that modernization strengthens — rather than destabilizing system reliability and confidence.
Mastering change becomes a fundamental condition for both safety and performance.
Our dear customers and partners will share with you their own concretes experiences and lessons learned enriching, confirming or challenging our Sopra Steria Change Management convictions for the High Reliability Organizations such as ATM ecosystem.

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Collaborative Operations for Sustainable Skies, Innovation to Enable Future Skies, Seamless Skies for All

Innovation in Air Traffic Management is defined by how effectively we share information. This talk highlights LEONARDO’s recent milestone in validating OLDI modernization over SWIM Yellow Profile within the SESAR framework, in collaboration with EUROCONTROL, BULATSA and ROMATSA, with cross-border connectivity to Türkiye.
This solution provides a standardized, high-performance environment for real-time data exchange with sub-second data sharing across EUROCONTROL and three ANSPs. It demonstrates a practical first step toward Network TBO, supporting the SESAR Deployment Manager, EUROCONTROL’s Network Strategy, and 4D Trajectory vision, while paving the way for more advanced trajectory-driven operations in a digitalized European airspace.

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