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Mat Winter

• Mat Winter is the President of Winter Strategic Solutions, LLC, a Small Business firm providing technology and business advice to senior defense, private sector companies, non-profits and academic leaders. He retired as a U.S. Navy Vice Admiral, having served as the 24th Chief of Naval Research/Director of Innovation and as the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program Director where he ran the Defense Department’s largest acquisition enterprise in history with $30 billion dollars annual budget. Prior Flag leadership roles also include the Program Executive Officer for Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons, as well as the Commander for Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division.

Yasudha Sahi

Yasudha is the Lead for Air Traffic Management Systems / Communication Navigation and Surveillance (ATM/CNS) and Meteorological Systems in NACO and Special Airport Systems (SAS) Consultant based in The Hague, Netherlands.
Yasudha has been involved in the development of designs and expertise for Air Traffic Management Systems and Meteorological Systems within NACO. She has acted as design coordinator and project manager for multidisciplinary projects.

Philip Hughes

https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-hughes-49887230/

Marco Rueckert

Marco is an experienced technology executive with more than 14 years of experience in building complex, realtime, and mission critical systems for the Air Traffic Management (ATM) industry. As Vice President, Technology, Marco is part of the senior management team of Searidge and accountable for the development and advancement of Searidge’s technology portfolio. Besides ensuring the successful delivery of all operational technology systems, Marco and his team also drive Searidge’s technology roadmap to cement company’s role as an industry leader. With a passion for Artificial Intelligence and its application to ATM, Marco has a proven track record of researching, developing, and commercializing innovative new products and solutions.

Giorgio Camerani

Born in 1983 in Rome, I achieved a Master Degree of Engineering in Computer Science at La Sapienza University in 2007. Involved in ATM domain since 2009 by joining the CoFlight Project first as Validation Engineer then as a System Engineer Manager. Along the years, my focus covered requirements & algorithms concerning 4D Trajectory prediction, ATC Constraints processing and 2D Route extraction. Today CoFlight is one of the most advanced Flight Data Processing System in Europe, realized for DSNA-DTI & ENAV by the industrial consortium (Leonardo & Thales). CoFlight became operative in 2022, within the wider 4F perimeter, at Reims & Marseille ACCs. Planned to enter operation in Paris in 2024 and Brest, Bordeaux and Italy ACCs in 2025.

Vilmos Somosi

Vilmos started his ATM career as military tower and approach air traffic controller, and spent 12 years in operational and senior desk officer positions of the Hungarian Air Force and the Ministry of Defence. Vilmos joined HungaroControl in 2012, where he spent a decade for external relations, FAB CE program management and cooperation with military stakeholders. Since March 2023, Vilmos has been seconded to EUROCONTROL Network Manager Directorate Airspace and Capacity Division. Vilmos holds a PhD from University of Public Services Budapest in military engineering (investigation of the development and application of remote air navigation services in civil and state aviation).

Matteo Carta

Matteo Carta was born in Rome (Italy) in 1992 and currently works as UAS Engineer for Techno Sky (an ENAV Group Company).
He holds a master’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering achieved in 2017 at University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
In 2018 he started working in the field of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) as safety & compliance engineer, taking part in HORIZON 2020 projects. He supported UAS operators and industries in obtaining authorizations and certifications from CAAs.
Since May 2023, he has been employed at Techno Sky, where he contributes to EU projects supporting the implementation of U-Space (e.g., U-ELCOME) and pilots UAS in BVLOS within airport environments.
He has expertise in avionics, aeronautical regulations, and safety.

Hervé Demule

Hervé Demule, navigation engineer at Skyguide, is an engineering graduate of SUPAERO (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l’Aeronautique et de l’Espace, Toulouse/France) and has accumulated extensive experience with ILS troubleshooting, commissioning and optimisation. As project manager of many navaid replacements as well as with development and commercialisation of a mobile bench for ILS measurements (ground and air) he has proven his great expert skill in these fields. The Skyguide CNS Drone is only one of his innovations.

Mattijs Hertsens

Mattijs Hertsens graduated from the Royal Military Academy in Brussels with an M.Sc. in Telecommunications. As Project Manager of Intersoft Electronics Services, channeling 35 years of experience in developing RF measurement equipment and Radar Analysis Support Systems (RASS), he is committed to provide the best support to their partners worldwide – to make the sky safer.

Nick von Schoenberg

A 26-year veteran Air Traffic Controller who began his career in Pitt Meadows tower around the time that the ANSP was transitioning from a government run enterprise to privately run one. After a year in Pitt Meadows, Nick began specialty training in the Vancouver ACC (Victoria Terminal) where he worked for the next 8 years before moving to work in Vancouver Tower until 2020. In 2020, Nick made the transition to a full-time union position in the role of Regional vice-president for the Pacific region of CATCA. In May 2022, Nick assumed the role of interim President of CATCA and on July 1st, he will begin my 3-year term as President of CATCA.