Our guest Jérémie Bayle is the head of the STARSim project at DSNA. We discussed the following topics:

• The guest's personal career path and current position.
• The reasons behind StarSim and decentralized training.
• The project's scale, number of airports, timing, current status.
• Is a mix of engineering and operations the key to success?
• The guest's vision of ATC training in 5 and 50 years.

Our guest Anna von Groote is the director general at EUROCAE. We discussed the following topics:

• The guest's personal career path and current position.
• What a virtual center is, and the technical difference between a virtual center versus existing air traffic management (ATM) systems.
• Whether air traffic control could ever be done from home.
• What the benefits of a virtual center are, and the obstacles to realizing virtual centers.
• What can EUROCAE bring to the table with regard to virtual centers.
• Timing of standardization.
• The guest's vision of virtual centers in 5 and 50 years.

Our guest Andy Foxhall is the head of International Business Solutions at NATS. We discussed the following topics:

• The guest's personal career path.
• What it's like working with the Red Arrows and as an air traffic controller at Gatwick airport.
• How it is to move partly away from the microphone to training, supervising, and leading air traffic controllers.
• The decision to become a consultant and work with other air navigation service providers (ANSPs), and advice for others contemplating the same.
• ATC differences around the world.
• The guest's vision of air traffic management (ATM) in 5 and 50 years.

Our guest Silja Guðmundsdóttir is the Director Of Business Development at Tern Systems, a company that designs and builds air traffic management (ATM) solutions. We discussed the following topics:

• What makes air traffic management in Iceland different from other countries.
• The ATM system Polaris' scope, history, and next steps.
• The different usages of Polaris outside of the local ANSP and working with other customers.
• How to attract young talent, and improve diversity and inclusion in the air traffic control industry.
• Vision of air traffic management in 5 years, and 50 years from now.

Our guest Josef Anschau has flown over almost every part of the world as a commercial pilot and is now the Chief Operating Officer at PVS aero. We discussed the following topics:

• Guest's professional background
• Procedure Validation Solutions aero offering and history
• The necessity for procedure validation, and whether simulator flights are the way to go
• Solving mistakes in procedure designs
• Stakeholder collaboration in procedure designs
• How does the guest view ATC from a pilot's perspective and whether ATC is different in other parts of the world
• Evolution of ATM in the next 5 years and also in the next 50 years?

Samuli Suokas founded Lektor Consulting which trains air traffic controllers worldwide. We discuss the following topics:

• The guest's journey from being an ATCO to now, and the purpose of Lektor Consulting
• The type of training offered and receiving training certification
• What Lektor Consulting does differently to improve the training process
• What are the type of skills required by ATCOs now and in the future
• Whether remote training continues after COVID
• ATCO training  in 5 years and 50 years from now

Our guest Alberto Quintana works in digital transformation for ATC while also coming from an operational background and he joins us to discuss the following topics:

• Personal introduction of the guest
• Applying AI to radar and flight plan data
• The future implementations of AI in the coming years and the current implementation status
• The workflow changes for ATCOs working with AI
• How AI is implemented in safety critical situations
• Explainable AI
• The evolution of ATM in the next 5 years? And in the next 50 years?

Lyne Moreau, the VP and Chief Strategy Officer of NAV CANADA, joins us to discuss the following topics:

• The personal career path of the guest and current role scope
• The 'new' strategic direction and its time horizon
• How NAV CANADA is regulated and the importance of common understanding
• Challenges and opportunities of moving ahead with the strategic direction
• Partnership and similarities between ANSPs
• Commercial ventures and future philosophy
• Importance of visibility to improve the gender balance in ATM
• The vision of ATM 5 years from now and 50 years from now

Norbert Haslacher, the CEO of Frequentis AG, joins us in this episode to discuss the following topics:

• Personal introduction of the guest.
• The heritage and vision of Frequentis AG.
• The cross‐industry innovation from the diverse safety-critical industries to improve Frequentis AG products and services.
• The transformation that Frequentis AG underwent from a hardware-centric company to a software company.
• The mergers and acquisitions strategy since the IPO. 
• The viable systems organizational model, and future growth plans.
• Future of ATM industry for the next 5 and 50 years from now.

In this episode, our colleague Stojanche Gjorcheski is debuting as host with our guest Mr. Hari Iyer.  Hari is a software engineer and followed his passion to work in the ATM industry as a research engineer and currently as a PhD at ASU. His company worked on projects most notable with the FAA and NASA. The following topics were discussed:

• Hari's personal journey from software engineer to the ATM industry and how an international can work in the United States' Aerospace sector.
• The projects Hari has worked on as a research engineer and his current work as a PhD for human systems engineering in aviation.
• The way ATM works in the US and how to work as a private company for the FAA/NASA.
• How NASA and the FAA work together with regard to the development of new ATM systems.
• A vision of ATM technology 5 years from now and 50 years from now.