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On the Ground at the IATA World Data Symposium in Singapore. Kim Macaulay left a career in banking to take on one of the most important roles in aviation you have probably never heard of. As IATA's Senior Vice President of Information and Data, she built the World Data Symposium from nothing and is now leading the charge to make AI actually work in an industry sitting on mountains of untapped data. The catch: only 3% of most aviation manuals are usable by AI models today. Kim breaks down why clean data is the foundation, how IATA's Turbulence Aware product is shifting from forecasting to nowcasting in real time, and why the next generation of aviation talent should come from Google and Apple, not just flight school.

In this episode of The Bryan Air Podcast, Bryan Roseveare speaks with IATA's Kim Macaulay about aviation data strategy, AI implementation, the Turbulence Aware product, and attracting tech talent to the industry.

⏱ TIME-STAMPED FLIGHT PLAN

00:00 Podcast intro and Kim Macaulay's IATA role

01:42 First impressions of aviation after leaving banking

03:00 What data actually means and why most of it is untapped

04:36 Why AI cannot work without clean, structured data

05:36 From WDS Dublin to Singapore and what changed in 12 months

07:56 Turbulence Aware: real-time sensor data and nowcasting explained

09:11 Why AI must be business led and elevated to the boardroom

11:55 Advice for young talent choosing aviation over big tech

14:06 Event wrap and thanks from Singapore

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