Call for Presentations

The Safety Forum seeks presentations that show how conflicts emerge in real operations, how warning signs can be recognised earlier, where barriers prove effective or fall short, and which practical interventions are making a difference, with a distinctive focus on operational safety.

The Organising Committee invites submissions to present as a speaker. We welcome abstracts (200–400 words) that clearly identify the operational safety issue addressed, the evidence or experience behind it, the practical action taken or proposed, and the demonstrated or anticipated safety benefit.

As a strict selection criterion, submissions should provide fact-based insights or proven practical approaches from operations, frontline experience, implementation or investigation, and must avoid promotional content. Submissions should include a speaker bio (≤200 words) and a high-resolution photo.

Overview

Airborne conflict prevention cannot depend on one actor, one procedure or one safety net. Therefore, submissions should explain, wherever relevant, how the proposed approach strengthens:

  • Anticipation: Recognising changing conditions and weak signals before they combine into a conflict.
  • Detection: Identifying developing conflicts early enough to preserve meaningful options for action.
  • Resolution and recovery: Ensuring that people, procedures and technology support timely, clear and effective intervention.
  • Learning from all operations: Understanding not only why conflict defences fail, but also why they succeed in everyday operations.

The Safety Forum is designed to move beyond describing the problem — we want to hear directly from those doing the work, compare operational experience across aviation domains, and take away practices that can be applied in real operations.

Possible Presentation Topics

SAFE BY DESIGN

  • Present practical work that removes high-risk conflict opportunities from airspace, route, procedure, runway and operational-concept design. We welcome evidence on deconflicted trajectories, resilient operational interfaces, appropriate buffers and equipment, and validation against real operational variability.

  • Show how ANSPs, States, aircraft operators and other actors are safely segregating and integrating traffic with different performance, operating rules or levels of conspicuity, including IFR and VFR traffic, helicopters, drones, military and State aircraft, and space operations.

KEEPING AIRCRAFT ON THE INTENDED TRAJECTORY

  • Share how aircraft operators and flight crews prevent a clearance, data-entry or automation error from becoming an unintended trajectory. Topics may include independent cross-checking, effective pilot monitoring, management of expectation bias, and the interpretation and implementation of voice or data-link clearances.

  • We welcome operational experience with procedures, training and flight-deck support that help detect errors early, protect monitoring during high workload or role changes, and help crews maintain or safely revise the intended flight path when weather avoidance or other conditions change.

DETECTING CONFLICT EARLY AND RESOLVING IT EFFECTIVELY

  • Present how ANSPs and operational teams identify developing conflict while time and options remain. Relevant experience includes pre-clearance conflict probing, trajectory-conformance monitoring, effective safety alerts, surveillance and conspicuity, and early recognition of go-arounds or airspace infringements.

  • Share evidence on effective collision avoidance when prevention has failed: timely and unambiguous controller action, immediate and correct flight-crew response, resilient use of TCAS, and operational approaches that recognise the limitations of visual acquisition and last-minute avoidance.

PEOPLE, PROCEDURE AND OPERATIONAL RESILIENCE

  • Show how ANSPs and aircraft operators sustain conflict-management performance through workload peaks, operational handovers, live controller training, weather disruption, degraded systems and other changing conditions. We seek practical approaches that strengthen teamwork, role clarity, coordination and operational decision-making.

  • Present how ANSPs, aircraft operators, States and regulators turn experience into durable improvement through recurrent training, standardised communication, performance monitoring, coordination and clearly defined contingency arrangements across organisational boundaries.

Submit your Presentation

Complete the online form here
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🛈 Presentation submission deadline:  February 1, 2027

What to Expect

  1. Receipt of your submission will be acknowledged via email.
  2. All submissions will be reviewed independently by a team of reviewers. The outcome of the selection process will be communicated at the end of February 2027.
  3. If selected, your presentation time slot will be 20 minutes plus 8 minutes for Q&A.
  4. If selected, your PowerPoint presentation must be received by April 30, 2027.
  5. All presentations delivered during the 2027 Safety Forum will be video recorded. The purpose of these recordings is to publish them in full length on SKYbrary for the benefit of the aviation community. All speakers will be asked to sign a video recording consent form and a presentation release form.  A PDF of the presentations (that are approved for release only) will be provided to attendees post-event.

🛈 If you experience any problems with this form or have any questions, please contact the Event Organizing Committee: safety.forum@eurocontrol.int or Eleanor Stamper:  stamper@flightsafety.org.