Our guest today is Marita Lintener - President-Elect of IAWA (International Aviation Womens Association)  and MD/founder of Lintener Aviation Consultancy, talking about the current struggle of attracting and retaining new talents in the aviation and ATM industry. We listen to Marita's views about how to attract new talents, which skills will be of a value in the future, what skills make great leaders, how to encourage diversity in work teams and design attractive workplaces, the importance of role modelling in Europe and all over the World and how to win the war for talents.   

Learn more by checking the studies mentioned in this episode:

• Lift Off To Leadership 
• McKinsey - Women in the Workplace 2024: The 10th-anniversary report
• IATA 25 Initiative
• World Economic Forum - Equity, diversity and inclusion
• McKinsey - The talent gap: The value at stake for global aerospace and defense
• Women in Transport – EU Platform for change
• Diversity Ambassadors in Transport
• War on the Rocks „Turbulence ahead: The Maintenance workforce dilemma threatening the future of airpower“
  
  

Today's guests Juliette Bonet - Airside Operation Manager at Paris Airport and Pierre Berolatti - Deputy Chief of Operations at DSNA tell us about the "behind the scenes" of one of the biggest events of 2024 - Olympic Games in Paris. We learn about the preparations for the Olympics from the perspectives of the Airport and DSNA, about extraordinary measures in place to make the event run smoothly, how the opening ceremony and the related no-flight zone around Paris was handled and how "the mass departure" of over 11,000 athletes and team officials was managed.

In this episode, Vincent speaks with the CTO of DFS Friedrich-Wilhelm Menge.
Today we will get to know Friedrich-Wilhelm's story of joining DFS, what he does to keep the employees up to date, his opinion about advantages and disadvantages of being such a large European ANSP,  how far is the ATM industry today in terms of leading edge technologies, how easy it is to attract new talents to DFS, what are the ideas behind the Future Delivery Model, how DFS prepares for the future, and at the end, Vincent asks the standard closing question. 

The guest of today's episode is Benjamin Baier - the CEO of Imtradex - provider of communication solutions for ATC and other industries from Germany. In this episode we learn more about Benjamin and the company, what is the reason of having the manufacturing process in Germany, what are the advantages of having so specialised products, what are the new features of the new ATC headset model designed for remote towers ATCOs. We also hear about the most unusual request from customers Imtradex had to deal with and if ATC headsets have wireless connections.  At the end Vincent asks the signature question. 

Vincent's guest in this episode is Jannik Breum - Product Manager at Terma.
In today's conversation Jannik talks about his career path and what is a typical day of a product manager. We learn about what Terma does apart from SMRs, what products does it offer in other industries and what are the benefits of operating in various industries and application areas. Jannik explains what an eSMR is, what are its main features and much more! At the end Vincent asks this season's signature question.   

Today's episode was recorded at the Airspace World in Geneva and Vincent's guest is the CEO of PANSA - Magdalena Jaworska. Magdalena tells her story of joining the ATM industry and re-joining the Polish ANSP, gives updates about the ANSP's current situation, what are the plans for the future as regards the Agency's products and services to be offered to the market, drone traffic development in Poland and about the direction of PANSA after the recent turbulent times. Magdalena talks about gender equality status in Poland and shares her advice for young females considering  a career in ATM. At the end, the discussion turns toward motivating and attracting young talents to the industry and tackling environmental issues. 

This episode opens the new season of our podcast series. Vincent's guest today is Cliona Mimnagh - the Safety Manager Terminal Services at AirNav Ireland. We hear about Cliona's career path,  what are the goals of safety in ATM an how is it managed, how do colleagues with engineering and with operational backgrounds work together, how is the safety unit organised within the ANSP, how are the two sides of safety dealt with - the management of hazards and the project side i.e. safety assessment.
We learn about safety work division in the COOPANS Alliance and how the safety work is devided and managed between the new Irish ANSP and the regulator and what were the main opportunities and challenges to handle in this new set up. At the end, Vincent asks the new signature question of this season. 

In this podcast episode David Perez - the CEO of DataBeacon and MD of Innaxis, talks about what Data Beacon is and what are its offerings, shares his views about data analytics industry in the US and in Europe, certification of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning) tools for ATC. We learn about DataBeacon's recent implementation of the ADS-B based solution for AFIS officers, provided in 6 airports in the UK, and what could the future bring in terms of ADS-B only, AI and ML based tools in ATC.  David also shares his ideas about the ATM in the next 5 and 50 years from now. 

In today's episode Vincent interviews Jouhayna AlMheiri - Senior Air Traffic Control Officer and On-The-Job Training instructor from the UAE. Jouhayna tells her story of becoming an Air Traffic Controller, what skills and abilities are useful in this job, what lifestyle and mode of work the ATCOs have, what has been her experience of being an Emirati woman doing the demanding job of an ATCO and what are her views on the developments in ATM in the next 5 and 50 years. Jouhayna also shares about her YouTube channel on the basics of ATC. 

In this episode Vincent hosts the two guests - Stephan Wollschläger and Dietmar Weishaupt who talk about what T-Systems product has been provided to Berlin Airport, how was it possible to implement the pre-departure sequencer in only 6 months,  what are the lesons learned from that process, what are their visions for the next 5 and 50 years as regards the development of A-CDM and more.