Event

CANSO/EUROCONTROL Global Resilience Summit

In collaboration with
CANSO
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EUROCONTROL and CANSO are organising a joint virtual Global Resilience Summit.

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that resilience of the air traffic management (ATM) system is fundamental to ensuring that ATM can plan for, manage, and recover quickly from difficult conditions. 

Together we will attempt to demystify what resilience means to ATM, discuss its important role in the successful delivery of safe and efficient ATM services and consider the lessons learned from the impact of COVID-19 on our industry.

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CANSO/EUROCONTROL Global Resilience Summit

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Making Adaptation Possible, Making Software Operable

John Allspaw Adaptive Capacity Labs

Resilience Insights from Across Different High Performance Worlds

Dr Cath Bishop @thecathbishop

Resiliency, Recovery and Learning: Role of culture, leadership and human element in Maintaining safe and Resilient Operations

Dr. Hassan Shahidi Flight Safety Foundation

Organisational resilience

Ben Stanley Egis

Resilience: Setting the Scene

Dr Steven Shorrock EUROCONTROL

Lessons Learnt from COVID Crisis

Razvan Bucuroiu EUROCONTROL

Resilience is Personal

Carol Quinn QDM Limited

Industry Lessons Learned

Michelle Bishop CANSO

Personal Resilience

Dai Whittingham UK Flight Safety Committee
About the summit

EUROCONTROL and CANSO organised this joint hybrid Global Resilience Summit.

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that resilience of the air traffic management (ATM) system is fundamental to ensuring that ATM can plan for, manage, and recover quickly from difficult conditions. 

Together we demystified what resilience means to ATM, discussed its important role in the successful delivery of safe and efficient ATM services and considered the lessons learned from the impact of COVID-19 on our industry.

Resilience is a ubiquitous term ….

From an organisational perspective

Resilience can be expressed as the capability of a system or organisation to respond to, or recover from, a crisis, a disruptive process, or any other unexpected event.

From a human perspective

Resilience can be defined as adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, or other significant sources of stress and how people bounce back from these experiences.

From a technological perspective

Resilience can be described as an organisation’s ability to maintain acceptable service levels through, and beyond, disruptions to its critical processes and systems.

What about ATM?

The CANSO/EUROCONTROL Global Resilience Summit brought together key stakeholders in our community to clarify what resilience means to ATM and to discuss the important role resilience plays in the successful delivery of safe and efficient ATM services.

We took a deeper look at how the interdependencies of human, technological and organisational resilience come together to position service providers for success. We then applied those three elements to what we learned during the COVID-19 pandemic, and identified the key lessons for our community.

Over the course of the two days we:

  • examined the resilience of our personnel;
  • investigated how to improve organisational resilience;
  • explored how to design and build resilience and agility into the ATM network;
  • explored the technologies that can support resilience;
  • examined what COVID-19 taught us about resilience.

Agenda

09:00 - 10:30

Registrations and Welcome coffee

10:30-10:40

Opening Session

Antony Licu
Antonio Licu
Head of Safety Unit
EUROCONTROL
Shayne Campbell
Shayne Campbell
Safety Programme Manager
CANSO
10:40 - 11:10

Opening addresses

Eamonn Brennan
Director General
EUROCONTROL
Simon Hocquardo
Simon Hocquard
Director General
CANSO
11:10 - 12:00

Keynote speech and Setting the scene

Cathy Bishop
Catherine Bishop
Olympic rower & Diplomat
Steve Shorrock
Dr. Steve Shorrock
Senior Expert Safety & Human Factors
EUROCONTROL
12:00 - 13:30

Lunch break

13:30 - 15:00

Organisational resilience

From an organisational point of view, resilience can be expressed as the capability of an organisation to respond to, or recover from, a crisis, a disruption, or any other unexpected event. Organisational leaders make decisions about resources and constraints that affect how their organisations adapt to unexpected challenges. This session brings together senior leaders from different parts of the industry to take a deeper look at how organisational resilience interplays with personal and technological resilience to better position service providers for success.

Panelists

Tim Arel
Tim Arel
Deputy Chief Operating Officer
FAA
Hassan Shahidi
Dr Hassan Shahidi
President and CEO
FSF
Ben Stanley
Ben Stanley
Associate Director
EGIS Group
15:00 - 15:30

Coffee break

15:30 - 17:00

Technology/Technological Resilience

As the industry continues to shift towards digital and more automated operations, technology is increasingly critical to resilient performance. Technological resilience, described as an organisation's ability to maintain acceptable service levels through, and beyond, disruptions to its critical processes and systems, is becoming an increasingly higher priority for ATM. Ensuring business continuity when unexpected events occur is significant for every ANSP. This session will focus on the role that technology plays in resilient performance and discuss possible solutions that can enhance ATM delivery.

Panelists

John Allspaw
John Allspaw
Capacity Adaptive Labs
Alex Bristol
Alex Bristol
CEO
Skyguide
Sarah Sharples
Prof. Sarah Sharples
Chief Scientific Advisor
UK Department of Transport
17:15 - 19:00

Networking event

09:30 - 11:00

Resilience of Personnel (Individual Resilience)

The people who ensure the overall resilience of an organisation, whether in operational, technical, support or management roles, can find themselves personally affected by chronic conditions and specific events. Personal resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant sources of stress. This session takes a deeper look at the importance of developing core skills to get through, recover and learn from difficult experiences.

Panelists

Carol Quinn
Carol Quinn
ATCO and Trauma Specialist
QDM Limited
Martin Bromiley
Martin Bromiley
Clinical Human Factors Group
Dai Whittingham
Dai Whittingham
Chair
UK Flight Safety Committee
11:00-11:30

Coffee break

11:30-13:00

Lessons Learnt from the COVID Crisis

The pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on the aviation community, exposing vulnerabilities and areas for improvement in the way ATM deals with unexpected events. The session brings together thought leaders from ATM to discuss some of the most important lessons learnt as a result of a prolonged downturn in traffic, as well as initiatives to support the industry's restart and recovery.

Panelists

Razvan Bukuroiu
Razvan Bucuroiu
Head of Airspace & Capacity
EUROCONTROL
Michelle Bishop
Michelle Bishop
Director of Programmes
CANSO
Han Kok Juan
Han Kok Juan
Director General
CAA of Singapore
13:00 - 14:10

Walking Lunch Break

14:10 - 15:30

How to do better and be resilient in the next crisis

An important component of any successful meeting is the ability for participants to interact and discuss key concepts and topics that are important to those present. This session allows the audience to pose real-time questions with Summit speakers on resilience topics covered over the course of the programme.

Moderated panel with speakers from both days and:

  • rapid-fire question and answer for previous speakers
  • input from the participants on resilience
Iacopo Prissinotti
Director Network Management
EUROCONTROL
15:30 - 15:40

Key take-aways from the event

Moderated by:
Antony Licu
Antonio Licu
Head of Safety Unit
EUROCONTROL
Shayne Campbell
Shayne Campbell
Safety Programme Manager
CANSO

Attendance

This global summit will be especially useful for the leaders of the aviation community whose organisation will benefit from a greater understanding of, and appreciation for, resilience in all its forms, and who are able to share their thoughts and experiences with others in a similar position.

COVID-19 measures

To ensure a safe working environment for everyone attending this event*, please note that you will need to present on the day a COVID-19 vaccination certificate, or a negative PCR test completed in the last 72 hours prior to the event, or proof of recent recovery from COVID-19 in the last 6 months. Please note that all visitors must additionally wear a mask at all times while visiting our premises except when they are speaking, or when they are eating and drinking (while observing social distancing).

Learn more about our COVID measures

*Please note that if you are coming from outside Belgium, you will also need to comply with Belgian rules regarding COVID which you can find at https://www.info-coronavirus.be/en/travels/

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