Currently Available Pages
- Plenary Panel I: Global Harmonization – New Opportunities and Unforeseen Issues
- Plenary Panel II: The Future Trajectory for ATC
- Workshop
- Technical Program
- 2021 Bios
View the final agenda below. The agenda is also available as a printable PDF.
Virtual Meeting Support
Registered attendees will receive their credentials to access the virtual platform directly from Conference Catalysts. Along with credentials and basic platform use, registrants will also receive daily emails throughout the conference.
Email Tech Support: support@icns-virtual.org
Last update 16 April 12:00EDT
| Time (EDT) | Tuesday, 20 April | Wednesday, 21 April | Thursday, 22 April |
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| 0700-0800 | Networking Opportunity via Chat | Networking Opportunity via Chat | |
| Sponsor 10-minute commercials | |||
| 0800-0810 | Noblis | Stellar Solutions | Thales |
| 0810-0820 | LS Technologies | MITRE | Mosaic ATM |
| 0820-0830 | INMARSAT | L3Harris | Leonardo |
| 0830-0840 | WiMax | ASRI | Honeywell |
| 0840-0850 | Boeing | Airbus | Frequentis |
| 0850-0900 | Pre-Program Messages | ||
Plenary Program | |||
| Day 1 Global Harmonization New Opportunities and Unforeseen Issues View Detail | Day 2 The Future Trajectory for ATC View Detail | Day 3 Evolving ICNS Technologies for Drones, AAM, and Beyond View Detail | |
| 0900-0910 | Conference Welcome and Announcements Dr. Gregory Woo US DOT/Volpe Center | Conference Welcome and Announcements Dr. Gregory Woo US DOT/Volpe Center | Conference Welcome and Announcements Dr. Gregory Woo US DOT/Volpe Center |
| 0910-0930 | Keynote: The Netjets Story Pascal Lhoest Executive Director, Netjets | (0910 – 1000) Keynote: Solving for Uncertainty A Global Strategy for Agile Development Stephen P. Creamer Director, Air Navigation Bureau International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) | (0910 – 0920) Evolving ICNS Technologies for Drones, AAM, and Beyond Co-Chair Opening remarks Dr. Lance Sherry Center for Air Transportation Research, George Mason University Denise Ponchak, NASA Glenn Research Center (Retired) |
| 0930-0940 | Global Harmonization-New Opportunities and Unforeseen Issues Co-Chair Opening remarks Paul Bosman Head of Infrastructure Division, Network Manager Directorate, EUROCONTROL Donald Ward U.S. Commissioner, ICAO | (0920 – 1100) WORKSHOP: Evolving ICNS Technologies for Drones, AAM, and Beyond Panelists and Topics: Requirements for UTM Andy Thurling Chief Technology Officer, NUAIR UTM/LAANC Amit Ganjoo Founder & CEO, ANRA Technologies CNS Technologies for UTM Virginia Stouffer Aerospace Professional, Transformational Technologies The Future of UAM Avionics Hector Garcia Senior Director of Engineering, Honeywell The Future of sUAS Avionics Christian Ramsey President, uAvionix | |
| 0940-0955 | Preparing the Future Didier Delibes Head of ATM deployment, Airbus | ||
| 0955-1010 | Maximizing Performance and Preparing for the Future in Data Link by Leveraging Existing Equipage Greg Saccone Associate Technical Fellow, Airspace Operational Efficiency, Boeing Research & Technology | (1000 – 1015) The Future Trajectory for ATC Co-Chair Opening remarks Michael Standar Senior Aviation Advisor Steve Bradford NextGen Chief Scientist, FAA | |
| 1010-1025 | Aviation Spectrum: Challenges and Future Considerations Andrew Roy Director of Engineering Sevices, Aviatioin Spectrum Resources (ASRI) | (1015 – 1030) Singapore Future ATC Vision Wei Sean Ho Deputy Director (ATM Integration and Capability Experimentation) Air Traffic Management Plans & Development Division CAAS | |
| 1025-1040 | RF Interference Issues and Complimentary PNT Solutions Ken Alexander Chief Scientific and Technical Advisor for Satellite Navigation Systems, FAA | ||
| 1040-1055 | 1030/1090 MHz Over-Interrogation Eric Potier Head of RF & Surveillance Avionics Section, EUROCONTROL | (1030 – 1045) A European Vision for ATM in the Future Marouan Chida Head of Digital Transformation & Innovation, SESAR JU | |
| 1055-1110 | Geolocating GPS interference Nuno Vilaça International Sales Director, HawkEye 360 | (1045 – 1100) ICAO and Industry Actions on Integrated CNSS – How to kick-start evolution in an over-regulated world Loftur Jonasson Chief/CNSS ICAO | |
| (1100 – 1115) Blue Skies Initiative Gene Hayman Director of Government Services Collins Aerospace | (1100 – 1150) Q&A + Open Discussion | ||
| 1110-1130 | Q&A | (1115 – 1130) NAS Vision 2035 Steve Bradford NextGen Chief Scientist, FAA | |
| 1130-1150 | AWARDS CEREMONY MC: Chiemi Heil US DOT – Volpe Center Student Paper Awards Dr. Lance Sherry George Mason Univeristy | Q&A | |
| 1150-1200 | Sponsor Commercials | ||
| NASA | Avionics International Afuzion | Boeing RTCA | |
Technical ProgramView Details | |||
| 1200-1230 | The following represent twelve outstanding papers (two for each of six tracks) selected for presentation during the virtual technical program. The papers will be presented as a pre-recorded video, BUT the author/presenter will be available during the conference for live Q&A right after the video is played. | ||
| Track 4, CNS: Paper 110 Feasibility of the Frequency Planning for LDACS Air-to-Air Communications in the L-band Miguel A. Bellido-Manganell German Aerospace Center (DLR) | Track 3, ATM: Paper 119 Evaluation of the Four-Dimensional Trajectory Live Flight Demonstration (4DT LFD) Project John Biel-Goebel Concepts Beyond | Track 2, UAS: Paper 112 MALE RPAS Integration into European Airspace: Part 1 Emmanuel Sunil Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR) | |
| 1230-1300 | Track 4, CNS: Paper 104 Performance-optimizing Secure GBAS over LDACS Thomas Gräupl German Aerospace Center (DLR) | Track 3, ATM: Paper 156 Use of Conflict Space Depiction for Detect and Avoid: History, Rationale and State-of-the-Art Erik Theunissen Netherlands Defence Academy | Track 2, UAS: Paper 174 Decentralized Air Traffic Management for Advanced Air Mobility Italo Romani de Oliveira Boeing Research & Technology |
| 1300-1330 | Track 1, Cyber: Paper 146 Anomaly Detection In ATM-Grade Software Defined Networks Philipp Lellek Frequentis AG | Track 6, Special Topics: Paper 125 Urban Air Mobility Demand Estimation For Airport Access: A Los Angeles International Airport Case Study Mihir Rimjha Virginia Tech | Track 5, AI/ML: Paper 169 Geospatial Object Detection using Machine Learning-Aviation Case Study Durga Prasad Dhulipudi IIIT-H, Honeywell |
| 1330-1400 | Track 1, Cyber: Paper 140 Characteristics of IPS Control Plane Data And Security Consideration Madhu Niraula Collins Aerospace | Track 6, Special Topics: Paper 126 Urban Air Mobility: Factors Affecting Vertiport Capacity Mihir Rimjha Virginia Tech | Track 5, AI/ML: Paper 102 Helicopter Track Identification with Autoencoder Liya Wang The MITRE Corporation |
| 1400-1410 | General Chair’s Closing Remarks | General Chair’s Closing Remarks | General Chair’s Closing Remarks | Sponsor Presentations | End of Live Conference Programming |
| 1410-1430 | Boeing | Airbus | |
| Frequentis | WiMax | ||
| 1430-1530 | Networking Opportunity via Chat | Networking Opportunity via Chat | |