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Our guest Anna von Groote is the director general at EUROCAE. We discussed the following topics:
The guest's personal career path and current position.What a virtual center is, and the technical difference between a virtual center versus existing air traffic management (ATM) systems.Whether air traffic control could ever be done from home.What the benefits of a virtual center are, and the obstacles to realizing virtual centers.What can EUROCAE bring to the table with regard to virtual centers.Timing of standardization.The guest's vision of virtual centers in 5 and 50 years.

Our guest Andy Foxhall is the head of International Business Solutions at NATS. We discussed the following topics:
The guest's personal career path.What it's like working with the Red Arrows and as an air traffic controller at Gatwick airport.How it is to move partly away from the microphone to training, supervising, and leading air traffic controllers.The decision to become a consultant and work with other air navigation service providers (ANSPs), and advice for others contemplating the same.ATC differences around the world.The guest's vision of air traffic management (ATM) in 5 and 50 years.

Our guest Silja Guðmundsdóttir is the Director Of Business Development at Tern Systems, a company that designs and builds air traffic management (ATM) solutions. We discussed the following topics:
What makes air traffic management in Iceland different from other countries.The ATM system Polaris' scope, history, and next steps.The different usages of Polaris outside of the local ANSP and working with other customers.How to attract young talent, and improve diversity and inclusion in the air traffic control industry.Vision of air traffic management in 5 years, and 50 years from now.

Our guest Josef Anschau has flown over almost every part of the world as a commercial pilot and is now the Chief Operating Officer at PVS aero. We discussed the following topics:
Guest's professional backgroundProcedure Validation Solutions aero offering and historyThe necessity for procedure validation, and whether simulator flights are the way to goSolving mistakes in procedure designsStakeholder collaboration in procedure designsHow does the guest view ATC from a pilot's perspective and whether ATC is different in other parts of the worldEvolution of ATM in the next 5 years and also in the next 50 years?

Samuli Suokas founded Lektor Consulting which trains air traffic controllers worldwide. We discuss the following topics:


The guest's journey from being an ATCO to now, and the purpose of Lektor ConsultingThe type of training offered and receiving training certificationWhat Lektor Consulting does differently to improve the training processWhat are the type of skills required by ATCOs now and in the futureWhether remote training continues after COVIDATCO training  in 5 years and 50 years from now

Our guest Alberto Quintana works in digital transformation for ATC while also coming from an operational background and he joins us to discuss the following topics:
Personal introduction of the guestApplying AI to radar and flight plan dataThe future implementations of AI in the coming years and the current implementation statusThe workflow changes for ATCOs working with AIHow AI is implemented in safety critical situationsExplainable AIThe evolution of ATM in the next 5 years? And in the next 50 years?