CANSO Executive Summit Programme 2020

Through the Looking Glass Today’s ATM industry faces complex challenges - the rise in air traffic, the rapid pace of technological change, new airspace entrants and increased consumer expectations to provide ‘green’ services, to name but a few. Tackling these issues requires innovation and collaboration - across the aviation industry and beyond.

Many of the challenges we face are not unique to our industry. With that in mind, CANSO’s 2020 Summit will offer an outside-in perspective. We will hear from some of the world’s foremost experts on innovative approaches in their industries and discuss the adoption of similar strategies in ATM. 08:30 – 09:30 Registration and Coffee Foyer Patios, Ground Floor 09:30-10:15 Opening Remarks Patios, Ground Floor  

Rudy Kellar, CANSO, Chair and Executive Vice President, Service Delivery, NAV CANADA Simon Hocquard, Director General, CANSO

10:15-11:15 Landscapes of the Future Patios, Ground Floor The worldwide need to create more intelligent and sustainable systems, services and technologies are not only drivers for change in ATM. Across the globe, new and imaginative approaches to find solutions for shared issues and to expand capabilities are successfully being deployed by leveraging knowledge and resources outside their home industries.

In this session we will discuss cross-industry collaboration and how it could benefit ATM with social designer Daan Roosegaarde. Working with parties such as NASA, the European Space Centre, BMW, governments, universities and museums, his projects contribute to clean air, clean energy and even clean space by merging technology and human behaviour. This includes upcycling the 8.1 million kilo of space waste into new applications such as sun reflectors, and using positive ionisation technology to reduce air pollution in cities by introducing purifying towers, bicycles and billboards in South Korea, China, the Netherlands, Mexico and Poland.  

Speaker: Daan Roosegaarde, Studio Roosegaarde (NL) Facilitator: Conor Mullan, CANSO, Associate Member Representative and Managing Director, Think Research Ltd

11:15-11:45 Networking Break Foyer Patios, Ground Floor

11:45-12:30 Smart & Sustainable Solutions Patios, Ground Floor The advent of digitalisation, robotic and drone technologies and other potential market disruptors are redefining mobility across the board. The new mantra is to be ‘smart’- digitising mobility and the environment in which people live and work - to improve its safety, accessibility, efficiency, sustainability and quality.

This trend is being embraced by partnerships in high-dense areas. Automotive companies and other vehicle manufacturers, cities, scientific communities and digital platform enterprises are co-creating and co-operating to build the infrastructures of tomorrow; reducing congestion and CO-2 emissions through autonomous transportation systems and connected transportation systems across land, air and water.

In this session, the General Director of NLR – Netherlands Aerospace Center Michel Peters will offer leading examples of future-focused, integrated, multi-modal strategies delivering ‘smart’ solutions, and consider the role of ATM in an intelligent, highly connected low-carbon mobility future.  

Speaker: Michel Peters, General Director, NLR- Netherlands Aerospace Center Facilitator: Don Thoma, CANSO, Associate Member Representative and CEO, Aireon

12:30-13:15 Digital Innovation amidst Non-Stop Operation Patios, Ground Floor In the age of big data, the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), blockchain and 5G there are unprecedented possibilities to construct digital bridges and interactions between people, departments, organisations or even industries. Companies such as Amazon and Uber have become wildly successful by basing their business models on the availability of these technologies: using a variety of digital platforms to create ecosystems in which huge amounts of data are being sourced, analysed and redistributed across all stakeholders- supplier, enabler and customer. The unique exchange of intelligence fosters learning, decision-making and performance improvements, and supports the development of services and products.

Yet companies like Amazon and Uber are ‘born digital.’ What if you are an organisation looking to adopt digital? In this session Isabelle Mauro, Head Digital Communications Industry at World Economic Forum will be looking at the telecoms journey towards digitisation. What can we learn from their evolution from a traditional industry to one which embraces digital?  

Speaker: Isabelle Mauro, Head Digital Communications Industry, World Economic Forum Facilitator: Captain Gilbert Kibe, CANSO, Member at Large and Director General, Kenya Civil Aviation Authority

13:15-14:15 Lunch Cervantes, Ground Floor 14:15-15:00 Navigating Human Capital Patios, Ground Floor As the environment in which we operate is transforming into a tech heavy, platform- and networkbased environment where technology takes care of learning and efficiency, how does that impact our human capital? What do we need, expect, encourage?

How do we engineer an environment that addresses competency gaps, identifies and acquires highpotential talent, facilitates engagement and drives growth, without knowing exactly what new demands might shake up the system next?

Futurist Gerd Leonhard – a specialist in future leadership and the debate between technology and humanity, will consider the digital technologies that make it possible for us to outsource our thinking, our decisions, and our memories to devices and the intelligent clouds behind them. He will share insight on how these “external brains” impact the man-machine dynamic and the required human skill set of the future.  

Speaker: Gerd Leonhard, Futurist, Humanist, Author of ‘Technology vs. Humanity, CEO The Futures Agency Facilitator: Martin Rolfe, CANSO, Member at Large and CEO, NATS

15:00-15:30 Closing remarks Patios, Ground Floor