Simon Hocquard, President & CEO, CANSO shared his insights with Claudia Bacco, Editor-in-Chief, Global Airspace Radar. 2025 was the first year to have two events under this umbrella, the marquee Airspace World in Lisbon and the inaugural Asia Pacific event.

What did CANSO learn and how will it impact the 2026 events?

The main show in Lisbon and another new event focussing on the Middle East and Africa coming this fall with the opportunity for new themes, technology discussions and networking.

And don't miss the Seamless Skies Awards. All of this and more in this episode.

Marita Lintener and Vincent Lambercy debrief Airspace Asia Pacific, looking at the show under all angles:

• The venue in Hong Kong and the logistics
• The exhibitors, who was there and who was missing
• The theaters, topics, and programmes
• The attendance
• The feedback from exhibitors

Listen to know how they perceived the three days of Airspace discussions and exhibitions in Hong Kong, learn more about the latest trends and the future of ATM and UTM in the region.

Guy Laor, Vice President Operations and Strategy, Airwayz joined our editor-in-chief Claudia Bacco to discuss the achievements of the Israel National Drone Initiative (INDI) to date and the path forward. Airwayz has recently announced their role as the central orchestrator for phase 3 of the initiative.

Prior to joining Airwayz, Guy actually worked at INDI focussing on UTM, UAS, and urban air mobility projects. He is an operations and airspace expert with a long background in both military and civilian aviation beginning his career as an Air Traffic Controller in the Israeli Air Force - where he still serves in reserve.

Join the discussion to understand how this initiative is helping Israel to progress it's nationwide programmes and identify learnings that can be leveraged not only in this country but others working on these same topics.

Moodie Cheikh, CEO and founder of Searidge Technologies discuss the company latest projects in Doha and how a hybrid digital tower allows air traffic controllers manage new parts of the airport where direct visibility is restricted.

The discussion also covers wider topics:

• the company's history, as it approaches its 20th anniversary
• factors behind a success in different contexts, like the Middle East, North America, UK, Hong Kong, and Singapore
• how software platforms should be the standard and what Searidge's Chorus platform allows
• Moodie's view on interoperability, and a honest and optimistic opinion about what the industry should do next
• the integration of artificial intelligence in air traffic control

For this very technical episode, we revisit our previous signature question about the future of ATM in 5 and 50 years - before asking the new one too.

Smugglers use balloons to illegally carry cigarettes form Belarus to Lithuania and those balloons disturb the traffic at Vilnius airport! Vincent Lambercy discusses this with Saulius Batavicius, the CEO of Lithuanian ANSP Oro navigacija. Is this only smuggling or is there more behind that?

Saulius also discusses how the ANSP works in the Borealis alliance and also with iTEC for the technical side. He explaines how to improve ATCO mobility and get other benefits from such international collaborations.

Finally, Saulius shares his views on how technology and humans work together today and how this could change in the future.

In today's episode Kasia Żmudzińska meets two guests from Airways International: Philipp Zeitel, Training Quality Manager and Jonny Cooke, Head of Products.

A 95% success rate in Air Traffic Control (ATCO) training in New Zealand, was an inspiration for recording this episode. It is a really high number and it raises the question: what is behind such outstanding result?

Jonny and Philipp share their views on how to make the selection process attractive, available and light for a wide pool of potential ATCO candidates, what are the steps of the recruitment process and what makes Airways' approach to Assessment Centres worth the investment.

The guests also share insights into the key skills and personal traits that define a successful air traffic controller, and whether these abilities can be consciously developed and practiced.

If you are interested in Air Traffic Control (ATC) and want to learn more about what makes a selection process successful, don't miss this episode!

Günter Graf, Vice President New Business Development & Innovation, Frequentis and Ralf Irmer, Head of Vodafone Tech Innovation Centre, Dresden joined Claudia Bacco, Global Airspace Radar Editor-in-chief to discuss the role of 5G and drones can play in enhancing public safety.

The two companies have already been working together for quite a while across public safety topics and the use of Mission Critical Services (MCX). Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) continue to play a larger role in providing connectivity and communication for drones.

Both organisations share their work in the ADELE project - Automated drone deployment from the control centre. The project tested the use of drones in a real operational environment with the Rostock fire department, reinforcing how emergency services teams can benefit from the introduction of drones to their first responder teams.

Listen to the discussion and we hope you'll come away with some new ideas for the use of drones.

Alex Bristol and Peter Merz are Vincent Lambercy's guests for this special episode about the CEO transition at Swiss ANSP skyguide. Alex will leave the company after eight years and three months as CEO and Peter will formally take-over in November 2025. Peter is the ex chief of the Swiss Air Force and used to be a user of skyguide's services.

Alex reflects on his time at skyguide and how the company evolved under his leadership, and also on some hard times, including the COVID crisis and a technical issue forcing to "clear the sky" for a few hours.

Peter speaks about his career as a military pilot, squadron, and base leader, as well as in the Air Force's leadership. He explains why he decided to be a candidate and now how the transition runs.