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FLY AI Forum 2025

From Machine Learning to Generative AI
FlyAI Forum 2025

In partnership with the FLY AI group members

FlyAI Forum 2024 partnerships

The third edition of the FLY AI Forum will be held on 22-23 April 2025 at our Brussels Headquarters, gathering key stakeholders to explore the transformative impact of AI in the aviation sector.

Organised on behalf of our FLY AI partners—including the European Commission (EC), the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), Aerospace and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD), Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO), European Defence Agency (EDA), International Air Transport Association (IATA), International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers' Associations (IFATCA), International Federation of Air Traffic Safety Electronics Associations (IFATSEA), ACI EUROPE, NATO, and the SESAR Joint Undertaking—this Forum will showcase cutting-edge AI applications in aviation.

The 2025 FLY AI Forum will cover the latest trends from research to operations, with a focus on AI applications in air traffic management (ATM), air operations and airports. These will be complemented by live demonstrations in the exhibition area.


New features include:

  • AI induction session: An online session on 26 March (10:00-12:00) designed to help participants understand the basics of AI techniques used or expected to be used in the aviation domain. [Register here]
  • FLY AI members’ deliverables: A brief overview of key milestones and deliverables from FLY AI members, highlighting efforts to accelerate AI development in aviation.
  • EASA Concept Paper: Concrete applications of the EASA concept paper, with a focus on various use cases and lessons learned.

To encourage more in-depth discussions, we are introducing a new format for the final Forum session. There will be six break-out sessions covering management, technical and operational aspects. Each panel will feature a brief presentation of challenges and solutions, followed by an open floor for participant interaction.

Participation

Our FLY AI Forum focuses on the practical application of artificial intelligence in aviation and is ideal for:

  • Engineers and experts already actively working in the domain of AI
  • AI project managers and data scientists
  • Everyone with a vested interest in AI for aviation.

Due to high demand, registrations have now closed.

Agenda

Download the agenda and exhibition floor plan in PDF format.

08:30

Registrations

09:00

Welcome coffee

Moderated by:

10:00-11:00

Introduction

Matters Arising: Summary of key developments

Speakers

  • European Comission (To be confirmed)
  • Guillaume Soudain - EASA
  • Alessandro Prister - SJU
  • Paul Bosman - ECTL
  • Serafeim Loukas - IATA

Keynote speech:
Setting the scene: AI future main challenges

Speaker:
Juliette Mattioli - THALES

11:00 – 17:00

Session 1: Machine Learning in aviation: Where are we?

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AI Trends

Romaric Redon ANITI

Project Bluebird

Richard Cannon NATS

SESAR JU Artificial Intelligence Work Programme

Alessandro Prister SESAR Joint Undertaking

ASTRA - AI-enabled tactical FMP hotspot prediction and resolution

Jason Gauci University of Malta

Hypersolver

Aurélie Peuaud ENAC

An AI-based Vision Framework for a safe Drone’s Operations in restricted and urban area - AI4HyDrop

Aurélie Aurilla Arntzen University of South-Eastern Norway

HUCAN

Gabriella Gigante CIRA (the Italian Airspace Research Centre)

From Ideas to Ops Room: Leveraging AI R&I for Operational Benefits

Camille Anoraud and Benjamiin Cramet EUROCONTROL
11:00 – 12:30

Research and innovation

Moderator:
Alessandro Prister - SJU

  • Probabilistic Constraints Prediction with Uncertainty Quantification in Trajectory Based Operations
    Mehtap Karaarslan & Paolino De Falco – EUROCONTROL
  • Observational Data and AI to Detect Contrail Formation
    Rudiger Ehrmanntraut & Philippe Very – EUROCONTROL
  • ATC – Tactical Opportunities Recommender
    Álvaro Quintanar Pascual – INDRA
  • Presentation to be confirmed

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Session 2: AI regulation, standardisation and application

Guillaume Soudain EASA

The AI Act and its impact on the aviation sector

Antoine-Alexandre André European Commission

AI trustworthiness guidelines

Francois Triboulet EASA

A sneak peek into ML certification using EASA First Usable Guidance for Level 1 AI/ML applications

Hugo Silva DAEDALEAN

CEN-CENELEC JTC 21 (artificial intelligence) activities in the context of the AI act

Patrick Bezombes CEN/CENELEC

WG-114 AI Standards in Aviation

Anna Guégan EUROCAE
11:00 – 12:30

Lunch break – tour of exhibits & networking

13:30 – 15:00

Compliance demonstration: Why does it impact data scientists?

Moderator:
Francois Triboulet - EASA

  • The BEACON project (Boeing & EASA IPC on AI/ML Certification)
    Matthew Jahn - BOEING
  • Enhancing VFR Safety with AI: Progress Towards Certifying Ailumina Vista for Robinson R44
    Hugo Silva - DAEDALEAN
  • An Airbus Framework for Surrogate Model Verification & Validation
    Stéphane Grihon - Airbus
  • ISOBAR Compliance
    Cosmin-Mihai Ogica & Benjamin Cramet - EUROCONTROL
  • Certification of Reinforcement Learning: Challenges per Safety Criticality and Autonomy
    Marta Ribeiro - TU Delft

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AI4CNS

Emilien Robert EUROCONTROL

Digital Twin Sector Performance Optimizer (DT-SPO)

Shavin Fernando NAV CANADA

STORY (Speech Transcription fOR safetY)

Alessandro Longobardi ENAV

SEN4Airports

Dirk Zinkhan, Anneliesa Greisbach, Björn Zurmaar, Christina Klüver Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD)

NOTAM WINGMAN: AI-driven Optimization of Operational NOTAM Management

Sergiu Cristea FREQUENTIS
15:30 – 17:00

Getting into operations

Moderator:
Bart Nicolai - CANSO

  • Presentation to be confirmed
  • Machine Learning Predictions in Real-Time Airport Operations: The implementation of the OpTT model at Prague Airport
    Vladimir Kuran - Prague Airport
  • DFS - Flow & Performance AI Use Cases
    Christoph Czech - DFS
  • Forecast of ATFM delay evolution – Behind the scene of a NM operational AI tool
    Hannes Staudacher - Austrian Airlines & Camille Anoraud - EUROCONTROL
17:30 – 19:00

Networking drink offered by Microsoft & tour of exhibits

08:30

Welcome coffee

09:00 – 11:00

Session 2: Societal and Human Aspects

Moderator:
Benjamin van der Sanden - IFATCA

  • ASTAIR - Towards more automated airport ground operations project
    Mathieu Cousy - ENAC
  • JARVIS – Building AI-Enabled Digital Assistants for Pilots, ATC, and Airports
    Dmitrii Kirov - Collins
  • Adaptive systems for improving Human AI teaming
    Raquel Garcia – CRIDA
  • TOPSKY Sequencer & CDR
    Jules Tevissen & Joseph Machrouh - THALES
  • Human vs. Algorithmic Decision-Making: Rethinking Regulatory and Policy Approaches for a Changing Paradigm
    Sébastien Colmant - ACI Europe
  • Maintenance concept for AI hybrid ATM applications
    Theodore Kiritsis – IFATSEA

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NEFELI - Automatic non-cooperative aircraft detection and collision estimaion for autonomous aircraft

Dr Christos Skliros Hellenic Drones

SESAR Darwin Project - Developing scalable human-AI collaborative systems for advanced operations

Hicham Atassi Honeywell

Where we come from, where we are & where we go - AI in our production

Dr Nima Barraci Lufthansa

AI-Enhanced Operations Shift Assitance – AIRMIND Module

Oğuzhan Doğan Albayrak & Emre Koyuncu SunExpress Airlines & ITU Aerospace Research Center

Contrail Detection and Modelling using Deep Learning

Gabriel Jarry EUROCONTROL

Contrail Segmentation With Deep Learning - Part II

Junzi Sun TU Delft
11:30 – 13:00

Session 3: Going Beyond Machine Learning with GenAI

Moderator:
Dirk Withake - FREQUENTIS

  • Large Language Models for Aviation
    Ivo Naranjo - IATA
  • Running Gen AI in production
    Sofiane Chami - Sopra Steria & Denis Djembi – Microsoft
  • Data acquisition using AI for AIXM5.1.1
    Maxime Jumelle - Blent.ai & Jean-Michel Varon – DSNA
  • Decoding NOTAMs with GenAI: Enhancing Aviation Efficiency
    Everton Oliveira - Ryanair
  • Transforming NOTAMs to Digital NOTAMs: An AI-Powered Approach to Enhance Aeronautical Information Management
    Catalin Roman - Frequentis

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Scribe - ATC Speech Recognition

Thomas Roques & Jérémi Carol DSNA

Haiku - Overview of the project

Simone Pozzi Deep Blue

JARVIS - Just A Rather Very Intelligent System

Dmitrii Kirov, Anne Papenfuß, Elena Rankova Collins Aerospace, DLR

Human-AI teaming from an ATC perspectie - joint cognitive human machine systems

Benjamin van der Sanden IFATCA
13:00 – 14:00

Lunch break – tour of exhibits & networking

14:00 – 16: 00

Session 4: AI Challenges and Solutions – Let’s Discuss

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Counter Drone Systems

Dr. Ender Çetin Barcelona Technical University (UPC)

The ATSEP Role in CNS/ATM Cybersecurity events

Theodore Kiritsis IFATSEA
14:00 – 15:00

Breakout Sessions

Regulatory Panel: How to regulate AI in the aviation sector?

Moderator
To be announced

Panelist

  • European Comission (To be confirmed)
  • Francois Triboulet – EASA
  • Isidoros Monogioudis – EDA
  • James Bell - UK CAA

Trustworthy AI standard: Diving into AI standards for aviation

Moderator
Fateh Kaakai – Thales

Panelist

  • Joseph Machrouh – Thales
  • Fateh Kaakai - Thales

Human AI Teaming in action: What does Human AI teaming look like in aviation?

Moderator
Veronika Takacs - Deepblue

Panelist

  • Andrew Kilner – EASA
  • Miguel Villegas Sanchez - Skyway
  • Jaime Diaz-Pineda - Thales
  • Veronika Takacs - Deepblue
15:00 – 16:00

Breakout Sessions

Innovation Panel: Is AI an innovation accelerator for aviation ?

Moderator
To be announced

Panelist
To be announced

Trustworthy AI - the toolbox

Moderator
To be announced

Panelist
To be announced

Assessing human competency with AI

Moderator
To be announced

Panelist

  • Marco Lavorgna (Alphabot) - ENAV,
  • Frederick de Cock - EUROCONTROL MUAC
16:00 – 16:30

Wrap-up & Closing Remarks

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