Antonio Licu

Tony is cumulating Head of Digital Transformation Office and Head of Operational Safety, SQS and Integrated Risk management Safety (NMD/SAF) Unit within Network Manager Directorate of EUROCONTROL (European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation). He leads the deployment of safety management and human factors programmes of EUROCONTROL. He has extensive Air Traffic Control operational and engineering background (master degree in avionics).

Tony’s role as head of DTO (the organisational vehicle driving the Digital Transformation of Eurocontrol Network Manager) is to manage technology, innovation and Digital Transformation for iNM (integrated Network Manager Programme) in close cooperation with EUROCONTROL organisational entities and the industrial partners.

Safety Culture and Just Culture are two key areas, where Tony’s aim is to clarify and promote the concepts. In this respect, he leads the initiative to bring together the aviation and judiciary domains. He has particular technical personal developments e.g. safety tools and methods to investigate aviation incidents and accidents, how to mitigate and work under degraded modes of operations and development of contingency plans etc.

In the past years together with his team, Tony is pushing a paradigm change in Safety management thinking. Safety management should move from ensuring that ‘as few things as possible go wrong’ to ensuring that ‘as many things as possible go right’. This perspective is termed Safety-II or rather System Thinking and relates to the system’s ability to succeed under varying conditions. The foundation for that is System focus. Safety must be considered in the context of the overall system, not isolated individuals, parts, events or outcomes.

Rob Weaver

Rob is the Urban ATM Global Business Development Lead for Eve Air Mobility, the Embraer backed startup dedicated to accelerating the global Urban Air Mobility (UAM) ecosystem. He also leads Entry Into Service planning for Eve’s eVTOL aircraft in Australia.

Rob has worked with EmbraerX and Eve on new ATM concepts to support Urban Air Mobility since 2018. Previously he was Executive General Manager Safety, Environment & Assurance at Airservices Australia, where he was a member of the Executive for six years. He has also worked for the UK’s Air Navigation Service Provider and holds a PhD in safety critical systems from the University of York.

Midori Tanino

Ms. Tanino currently leads the CADENA initiative as the FAA Program Manager. CADENA implements the regional ATFM/CDM and airspace optimization in the Latin Americas and Caribbean region. She also serves CANSO Aviation Data Exchange Network for Cooperative Excellence (CADENCE) Task Force as a co-chair. In the past, she led the initial deployment of Flight Information Exchange Model (FIXM) and FAA Traffic Flow Management System (TFMS). She is the original creator of many ATFM decision support tools such as Flight Schedule Monitor (FSM), Flight Schedule Analyzer (FSA), Route Management Tool (RMT), Airport Arrival Demand Chart (AADC), and OpsNet. She also leads the ICAO’s Aviation System Block Upgrade (ASBU) implementation efforts in FAA and ICAO North America, Central America, and Caribbean (NACC) region.

Swaminathan Subramanian

Mr. Subramanian has an extensive career in aviation, serving as the Executive Director Administration at AAI CHQ and an Ex-Officio Board Member at NFTI, Gondia since September 1, 2023. Prior to this, he held the position of General Manager Air Traffic Services at AAI CHQ from November 2, 2020, to August 31, 2023. His experience includes technical expertise in the Indian Delegation at ICAO, where he served as an ANC State Observer and Alternate ICAO Council member. Swaminathan Subramanian has played key roles in drafting significant documents such as the “AAI Training Policy” and the “Manual on Flexible Use of Airspace, India Version 1.0.” His leadership extends to various committees and conferences at both national and international levels, showcasing his contributions to civil-military cooperation, fatigue risk management, and project management.