Saskia Horsch

Dr. Saskia Horsch is Head of Global Regulatory & Public Affairs at the German electric air mobility company Lilium. In this function, she is responsible for all political and regulatory matters pertaining to urban/regional air mobility. Saskia works with governments, regulators, aviation agencies as well as airports and partners at a global level on the establishment of an adequate regulatory framework for the future operations of eVTOL aircraft. She is also in charge of securing required approvals to enable the launch of Lilium’s services.
Saskia represents Lilium in various industry associations and chairs the working group on Advanced Air Mobility of the German Trade Association BDLI. She also represents the international aviation industry body ICCAIA as an advisor to ICAO Study Group on AAM.
Prior to joining Lilium, Saskia worked at Amazon for over 10 years in European and country leadership roles across the External Affairs, Public Policy, Internal Communications, Employee Relations & HR functions. During her tenure at Amazon, Saskia built the company’s Public Policy function in Germany, developed corporate reputation management and community engagement strategies and led pan-European public affairs campaigns in the areas of data protection, consumer rights, copyright and competition law. In addition, Saskia provided political and regulatory support for the successful establishment of over 50 logistics locations in Europe, building up extensive expertise in urban mobility and infrastructure projects.
Before her employment with Amazon, Saskia spent seven years with the Brussels-based consultancy firms Interel and Cambre Associates providing public policy advice to clients in various industry sectors. She has also previously worked at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Competition in Brussels and as a competition lawyer in Germany.
Saskia is a fully qualified lawyer and holds a PhD in European competition law from the University of Cologne. She is married and has two children.

Eduardo Garcia

Dr. Eduardo García González serves as the CANSO Senior Manager for Future Skies, overseeing the advancement of CANSO’s vision for future ATM services and driving the necessary innovations to realize this vision. In addition, he coordinates the efforts of the CATS Global Council to ensure a cohesive approach towards achieving their objectives.

Michael Frater

Dr Michael Frater has more than ten years experience in the development of communications systems and services, including videoconferencing and video and image surveillance. He was the Rector Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA), University of New South Wales and was involved in an number of collaborative projects, investigating image and video communications. Dr Frater holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering and a Doctor of Philosophy in Systems Engineering. He is the author of a number of articles on communications systems and communications services, and is the co-author of books on tactical communications architectures and electronic warfare. Dr Frater joined Skykraft as the Chief Executive Officer in February 2022.

Sean Patrick

Sean is currently the General Manager Oceanic Services at the AirNav Ireland North Atlantic Communication Centre (NAC) where he is responsible for the strategic and tactical delivery of Oceanic air traffic communications to all aircraft operating in the Shanwick FIR – over 505,000 flights in 2019.

He is also the chair of the ICAO NAT Implementation Management Group (IMG) which is responsible for the identification, development and coordinated implementation of safe and efficient strategic initiatives supporting the aviation system within the ICAO NAT Region – a group of 9 key States whom control and regulate the world’s busiest oceanic airspace.

Jonas Envall

Jonas Envall (M.Sc.) work as Business Development Director for the UAS segment at Carmenta. He is also part of the Carmenta Product Management group that shapes the future of the company’s products. Jonas has a background as a senior project director with a special focus on the aviation domain. He has over 20 years of experience leading advanced agile software development projects around GIS, planning and optimization.

Urs Lauener

Urs Lauener has been Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Skyguide Executive Team since 2017. He trained as an air traffic controller and went on to serve as a Skyguide procedural expert before moving to the Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation as an air navigation services specialist. He returned to Skyguide in 2003 and subsequently performed a number of executive roles in both military and civil air traffic management. He holds an executive MBA and an Advanced Certificate in Aerospace & Aviation from HEC Paris.

Benoit Fonck

Graduated from the Belgian Royal Military Academy in 1989, Benoit Fonck held initially different ATC operational and managerial positions within the Belgian Air Force. In 2001, he joined the former Eurocontrol Central Flow Management Unit. He was responsible for defining and implementing the Air Traffic Flow and Capacity Management Strategy together with the development and implementation of enhanced civil-military coordination procedures. He joined the SESAR Joint Undertaking in January 2010 where he is currently Chief Programme. His main responsibilities cover the design of the Digital European Sky Programme and the management of its execution in order to deliver the SESAR Solutions according to the European Master Plan.

Maria Sciannelli

Maria Sciannelli, graduated in Computer Science Engineering Minored in AI, since 2016 participates in both national and international projects related to UTM/U-Space topics (e.g. SESAR, EUROCAE, GUTMA), becoming the focal point for Leonardo. She participated in the World ATM Conference in 2017/21/22 as expert for UTM and AAM topics. Actively involved in the definition of the Italian AAM Roadmap led by National Authority ENAC, and since 2020 in the Leonardo ‘Drone Contest’, an initiative to promote the development of AI applied to UAS. Currently, she is involved as AAM/IAS Technical Authority in the development of the Italian national UTM platform and in several SESAR3 projects related to U-Space topics (e.g. Eureka, Ensure).

Andrea Cosmi

I joined Leonardo in 2010 and until 2016 was involved in SESAR programme as project manager within several projects related to airport management. From 2016 to 2017 I was appointed as System Engineer for Turkey Project (Design phase). From 2018 to 2019 I was appointed System Engineer for Malaysia New KL ATCC, (Design & Validation phases, Training for controller relevant to AMAN/DMAN applications). From 2018 to 2019 I was appointe ad System Requirement Analysis (SRA) Manager for ENAV 4 Flight From 2019 to 2022 I was appointed Project Engineering Manager for Qatar Automation Upgrade, technical management of the project, planning and monitoring of tasks activities.
Currently I am leading Engineering Management of Far East ATM Contracts.

Antonio Strano

Since 2008 in ATM R&D and in several SESAR projects designing & specifying SWIM profiles technical specifications, services & solutions. SESAR1 P14.01.04 covering different roles for design & specifying SWIM Blue, Yellow & Purple profiles. 2016 contributed as European technical head to SWIM Global demo for demonstrating global interoperability between SWIM enabled ATM from different regions (Europe & USA). Since 2016, part of air-ground SWIM for enabling Aircraft to be integrated in SWIM (SESAR W1 PJ.17-01, SESAR W2 PJ.14-100 & SESAR3 MIAR solution 1). Currently SWIM expert in several SESAR3 projects related to TBO including MIAR, MITRANO & NETWORK TBO & SESAR3 projects related to U-space & U-space/ATM including EUREKA & ENSURE.