As the curtain comes down on Airspace Asia Pacific, here’s a look forward to what CANSO Members and Airspace World attendees expect in 2026.
Airspace World 2026 returns to Lisbon, Portugal 26-28 May. Building on the success of the show’s move to the city last year, Airspace World 2026 is set to be bigger, better, and more impactful than ever before.
Some 200 plus exhibitors from around the world will display their products and services to more that 5,000 attendees, while a packed schedule of debate and discussion is already taking shape for the show’s four theatres.
Over three days in Lisbon, leaders, innovators, and practitioners will share insights, forge partnerships, and shape strategies for safer, smarter, and more sustainable skies. If you are interested in the skies of tomorrow, this is where your next opportunity begins.
And building on the success of Airspace Asia Pacific, the Airspace World portfolio extends to a new region later next year, with the launch of Airspace Africa and Middle East. The show takes place in Abu Dhabi, UAE, from 13-14 October.
Some 100 plus exhibitors from over 100 countries, as well as more than 1,500 attendees, will join global and regional airspace leaders as Africa, the Middle East, and Euro-Asia to accelerate innovation, strengthen collaboration, and implement tomorrow’s ATM solutions—today.
For CANSO Members, 2026 will see the full roster of regional and specialist events too.
The CANSO year kicks off with the CANSO Operations Standing Committee (OSC) Connect 2026, 2-5 February, in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Under the theme ‘Skies in Transition: Forum on Operations, Innovation, and Safety’, the event will feature high-level conversations, interactive roundtables, and integrated workgroup sessions focused on the transformation of air traffic operations through a leadership workshop and dialogue session, an education forum on Trajectory Based Operations (TBO), Safety and Operations: Hand-in-Hand, and and an Advanced Air Mobility integration workshop.
Following the success of the CANSO Global Safety Conference 2025, in Christchurch, New Zealand, CANSO’s safety community will gather again in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, for 2026’s Conference, on 29 March to 1 April. Kindly hosted by Saudi Air Navigation Services (SANS), a full programme of workshops, interactive sessions, and debate and discussion, will further strengthen the crucial work we do through our workgroups, and build inclusive and active safety cultures across all our organisations.
Kicking off Airspace World in May, the CANSO Leadership Summit is set for Monday 25 May, in Lisbon, Portugal. Attendees can expect the usual high quality key note presentations, and insight into the latest challenegs and opoortunities facing the aviation industry.
We return to Asia Pacific in early July for the CANSO Asia Pacific Conference, which will be held in Da Nang, Vietnam, and kindly hosted by VATM. This beautiful coastal city will see three days of workshops, debate, and networking, plus the usual social events kindly provided by our hosts.
As we did here in Hong Kong, China, this week, Airspace Africa and Middle East will start, on Monday 12 October, with the CANSO Africa Conference 2026. The one day conferences will bring Africa’s ATM community together with their Middle East and Euro-Asia colleagues for the very first time, and open up the Airspace World experience for them too.
The CANSO year ends in beautiful Curacao in early December with the CANSO Latin America and Caribbean Conference 2026. Following on from the success of 2025’s conference in Panama City, Panama, and kindly hosted by DC-ANSP, next year’s conference will doubtless be as successful in bringing togther the region’s aviation community again.
You’ll find out more about these events, and CANSO’s regular webinars, throughout the year on CANSO.org/events.