2025 Agenda

Achieving a truly seamless airspace, a cornerstone of many operational concepts and trials, demands more than just new technology; it requires a globally harmonised approach to airspace design, aeronautical information management, and separation standards frameworks. This foundational approach is essential to enable the next generation of data-driven design, dynamic separation, and equitable airspace access.

This session will explore the critical, yet often overlooked, challenge of developing these frameworks. Leveraging unique expertise in aeronautical information management combined with airspace and procedures design, the presentation will reveal how, even with a rigorous design and validation process, mismatches can emerge between a conceptual design’s intent and its real-world operational experience. Such disconnects could further amplify in a digital environment.

The session will also delve into the nuances of integrating emerging aviation with existing airspace management systems, and explain why a fragmented, inconsistent approach to this is a high-risk strategy.

Key Takeaways
Mindset Shift: Understand why relying on stratified or fixed frameworks will compromise safe, scalable, equitable, and efficient seamless airspace.
Right People, Right Room: Learn why a collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach is non-negotiable and who needs to be at the table to develop the harmonised international frameworks required.
Change Management: Recognise the subtle data and workflow challenges within the aeronautical data chain that could make or break a seamless digital transition.

This presentation will challenge the audience to move beyond a fragmented, localised mindset and embrace a globally harmonised vision for a unified, safe, and truly digital sky.