DATA AND AI FOR OPERATIONAL SAFETY:
OPPORTUNITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

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Tuesday, June 30, 2026
8:30 AM - 9:15 AM

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9:15 AM - 9:30 AM

Presenter: Tzvetomir Blajev, Director Europe and Global Operational Safety, Flight Safety Foundation

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Moderated by: Dr. Hassan Shahidi, President & CEO, Flight Safety Foundation
 

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Dr Alisdair Wood, 
President Royal Aeronautical Society 2025 - 2026, 
SMS and Aviation Risk Manager, Aviation Safety - Leonardo Helicopters Division

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
 
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

 

➥ EASA AI Roadmap: Implementation Status & Rulemaking Priorities
Presenter: Guillaume Soudain, Programme Manager – Artificial Intelligence, EASA

➥ Introduction of AI at British Airways
Presenter: Michael Cox, Flight Data Safety Manager, British Airways

➥ United Airlines Data Journey and AI Enablement for Operational Safety
Presenter: Paul Rizzolo, Senior Manager – Safety Data and Advanced Analytics and Akin Akinlawon, Senior Manager- Strategy and Advanced Analytics, United Airlines

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
 
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

➥ Modeling Approach Profiles: How Machine Learning Discovers Outliers in Flight Paths
Presenter: Birgit Klempert, Lead Data Scientist and Simon Hess, Investigator, Lufthansa

➥ Operational Results of Destination‑specific Anomaly Detection Advisories for Risk Mitigation of Unstable Approaches
Presenter: Francisco Mena, Senior Data Scientist and Ricardo Castro, Lead of Safety Data, LATAM Airlines 

➥ Data analytics for aviation safety enhancement: A study of throttles management at landing
Presenter: Lionel Bompart, Aviation Safety Specialist, Airbus SAS

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
 
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

➥  Safety Data Analytics for Resilient Pilots
Presenter: Hester Morrissey, Senior Manager, Safety Data Analytics, Boeing

➥ Data‑Driven Insights from Commercial Aviation Training: A Symbiosis of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Analysis
Presenter: Richard James Kennedy, Head of Learning Science & Human Performance, CAE

➥ Predictive safety, Human authority: Why AI must serve, not replace, the Pilot
Presenter: Juan Carlos Lozano, Technical Affairs Board Director, European Cockpit Association

5:00 PM - 5:15 PM
 
Wednesday, July 1, 2026
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

➥ AI‑Enhanced Safety Reporting and Decision‑Making
Presenters: Chrysanthi Tsimitri, TL Data Insights & Analytics, Protection Management and Marina Giannoukou, Data Scientist Swiss International Air Lines

Easy Safety Reporting, Powered by AI—Validated by Humans
Presenter: Yoni Malka, Head of Safety Risk Assessment and Analysis, DSAC, France

➥ Leonardo – Hazard Identification and Risk Management and Voluntary Occurrences Report
Presenter: William Avossa, Safety Analytics & Data Insight, Leonardo Helicopters Division

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
 
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

➥ Combining a range of AI techniques with human expertise to enhance performance across the NATS operation
Presenter: Kathryn Barker, Lead Analyst, NATS

➥ Safety Artificial Intelligence Use Cases in the FAA
Presenter: Donald “Britt” McNeill, Safety Analysis Group Manager, ATO, FAA

➥ Measuring Situational Awareness in ATC using Automatic Speech Recognition and Eye Tracking
Presenters: Frederick De Cock, Simulator Coordinator, MUAC, EUROCONTROL

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
 
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

➥ Use of an AI‑powered speech recognition tool to benefit our safety assurance process

     Presenters:

  • Muriel Broussy, Safety Manager
  • Paul-Emmanuel Thurat
  • Jocelin Greiner
  • Fabien Betouret-Candau, DSNA, France

➥ Data‑Driven Aviation Safety: From Insight to Action
Presenter: Edickson Santamaria, Senior Safety Manager, IATA

2:30 PM - 2:50 PM