ICNS 2024 Day 2 Overview

Pascal Luciani, Deputy Director ANB, ICAO

Pascal Luciani is an engineer with 25 years of experience in transport in the civil administration of France and international organizations, 15 years of which in civil aviation.

Prior to joining the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as deputy director for air navigation and aviation safety, he served as deputy director for the French Safety Oversight Authority from 2018 to 2022. From 2014 to 2018 Pascal was the aviation counselor at the Permanent Representation for France with the European Union, covering all fields of aviation and was also responsible for shipping. In 2008 he was tasked with creating the Sustainable Aviation Department, DGAC, France, which he headed from 2008 to 2013.

Pascal’s experience in public service before joining the aviation sector includes road infrastructure and road safety (1997 – 2001) and port infrastructure and development (2001- 2005). He also served for two years as technical advisor for the Ministers of Environment and Transport (2005 – 2007). Pascal also headed the modernization mission in charge of supervising the merging of the Ministries of Transport and Environment in France (2007-2008).

Robin Garrity,  Senior External Affairs Officer, SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking

Robin Garrity is the senior external affairs officer at the SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking, based in Brussels, Belgium, where he has worked for 11 years. Robin is a former air traffic controller from the United Kingdom and has been involved with the integration of unmanned aircraft with manned aviation for more than 20 years. As an ATM expert in the SESAR JU, he was instrumental in designing the European Union’s ground-breaking U-space program and has been intimately involved with that program ever since. He is co-rapporteur of the Guidance Development Working Group in ICAO’s Advanced Air Mobility Study Group and is very active in the European aviation standardization community.

Diana Liang, Enterprise Portfolio Manager, FAA

Diana Liang works for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the Office of NextGen as an enterprise portfolio manager. Ms. Liang has successfully provided direction and oversight on the development and fielding of many of the FAA’s NextGen programs and enabling technologies. As the NextGen enterprise portfolio manager, she helps to prioritize all nextgen research and development activities within the FAA to help the National Airspace System recognize many of the planned performance improvements. Ms. Liang is also the U.S. nominated panel member to the ICAO Information Management Panel working on SWIM and information management provisions. She is a technical advisor to the ICAO ATM Requirements and Performance Panel working on FF-ICE, connected aircraft and trajectory-based operations (TBO).

Monica Alcabin, Technical Fellow, Global Regulatory Strategy Product & Services Safety, Boeing

Monica Alcabin is a technical fellow in global regulatory strategy, specializing in regulatory activities related to air traffic management, avionics, and autonomous systems. In this role, she evaluates, communicates, coordinates, and integrates technical inputs to proposed regulatory rulemaking across the Boeing enterprise. Prior to joining product & services safety in March 2020, Monica was in Boeing commercial airplanes avionics/systems integration where she was responsible for evaluating operational benefits of avionics and flight deck features on Boeing airplanes, integrating worldwide avionics and airspace mandates used by Boeing commercial airplanes, Boeing defense and Space and Boeing global services to plan for future requirements and ensure customers comply with the latest requirements. She has worked on air traffic management related contracts with FAA, NASA and the Joint Planning and Development Office.

Monica is the Boeing representative on the FAA Research, Engineering and Development Advisory Committee, National Airspace System Operations Subcommittee and the International Coordinating Council for Aerospace Industries Association member on the International Civil Aviation Organization Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection Working Group 2, Airports and Operations. Prior to joining Boeing in 1997, Monica did research in air traffic management at NASA Ames Research Center, airport planning specializing in airport capacity, delay, and noise analysis at KPMG Peat Marwick and TRA Airport Consulting, and airport capacity and delay research at the MITRE Corporation.

Monica has a Bachelor of Science in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master of Science in engineering-economic systems from Stanford University and a certificate in data visualization from the University of Washington.

Jim Murphy, System Architect, AAM Mission Integration Office (AMIO), NASA

Jim Murphy is the system architect for NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Mission, leading the development of a model-based systems engineering approach to capture candidate system-level requirements and architectures for medium density AAM operations. Prior to AAM, Jim led the design and development of a live, virtual, constructive test environment used to test, detect and avoid performance standards. He has been researching and developing air traffic management related software systems for over 25 years.

Amit Ganjoo, CEO, ANRA Technologies

Amit Ganjoo is the founder and CEO of ANRA Technologies with offices in London, Washington D.C, Tallinn, and New Delhi. ANRA is a global provider of end-to-end uncrewed aircraft operations and traffic management solutions for enterprises, operators, and airspace managers. He has over 20 years of aviation, telecom, robotic, and wireless experience in both the federal and the commercial space. He is an engineer and licensed pilot, a board member of GUTMA, co-chairs ASTM Standards Working Group for UTM and co-chairs ASTM UAM Interoperability Working Group. He was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Transportation to the FAA Advanced Aviation Advisory Committee (AAAC).

Jürgen Teutsch, Senior R&D Engineer, Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR)

Jürgen Teutsch has been involved in airport and safety net related research within SESAR for many years. Recently, he’s been involved with activities focused on the validation of innovative technology, such as remote towers and augmented reality devices in conventional tower environments.

After working in the IT sector and as aerospace engineer at TU Delft and Airbus Germany, he joined the Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR) in 2000 as manager for ATM simulation projects. As validation specialist for real-time and fast-time simulations, he participated in international initiatives for harmonization of ATM R&D and was contributing author of the European Operational Concept Validation Methodology (EOCVM). He has also taken leadership roles in validation projects for integration of unmanned air traffic movements into ATC controlled airspace in Europe.

Jürgen studied mechanical engineering with a major in aerospace engineering at the Technical University of Aachen and obtained a degree in space engineering with a final examination on GPS-data post-processing carried out at Delft University of Technology in 1995.

Thomas Lutz, Principal System Architect, New Business Development Team, Frequentis

Tom Lutz is responsible for drone topics in the Frequentis new business development team. His focus is on maturing “things” from research to real operations. Driving technology and domain, supporting international standardization and regulation especially in the area of information management, he was active in many research projects, and successfully delivered several commercial projects.

Tom is currently working on enablers for advanced air mobility as well as the integrated use of UAS in public transport and public safety, building on previous work, teaming up with active partners in the ecosystem to enable safe, efficient, and sustainable operations.

Sherry Yang, Senior Manager of Airspace Operational Efficiency, Boeing Research & Technology

Sherry Yang is senior manager of Airspace Operational Efficiency at Boeing Research & Technologies. Working across technologies and businesses, Yang facilitates public and private partnerships to develop and evaluate new technologies and operation concepts for the aviation ecosystem. She is actively engaged with government, industry, and academia technical committees. Yang is an associate fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), technical advisor to the ICCAIA Members of the ICAO Information Management Panel (IMP) and ATM Required Performance Panel (ATMRPP), and Boeing representative for the CANSO Complete Air Traffic System (CATS) Technical Committee. Yang is a Boeing subject matter expert on trajectory-based operations (TBO).

Dr. Amornrat Jirattigalachote (Amo), Strategic Planning Manager, Aeronautical Radio of Thailand Ltd. (AEROTHAI)

Dr. Amornrat Jirattigalachote is currently working for AEROTHAI in the position of strategic planning manager (engineering). Since 2013, she has been responsible for strategic planning as well as conducting study and analysis on new operational concepts, technologies, and engineering systems for AEROTHAI. Her focus is on modernization planning related to future air navigation concepts such as SWIM (system-wide information management), FF-ICE (flight and flow information for a collaborative environment), and TBO (trajectory-based operations).

Dr. Jirattigalachote is also a Thailand-nominated member of ICAO Air Traffic Management Requirements and Performance Panel, Information Management Panel, and Trust Framework Panel, responsible for developing concepts, policies, and provisions related to FF-ICE, TBO, SWIM, and information security. At the regional level, she is presently A co-chair of ICAO Asia/Pacific SWIM Task Force and a member of Asia/Pacific FF-ICE Ad-Hoc Group.

Dr. Amornrat Jirattigalachote (Amo), Strategic Planning Manager, Aeronautical Radio of Thailand Ltd. (AEROTHAI)

See biography above.

Nabil Sandhu, Deputy Division Manager, FAA

Nabil Sandhu is a deputy division manager (A) in the Federal Aviation Administration’s NextGen and Technology Development and Prototyping Division (ANG-C2). He is currently managing the Multi Regional Trajectory-Based Operations Demonstration (MR TBO) in addition to other research projects in the areas of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) evaluation and artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) applications to legacy separation systems. Mr. Sandhu has extensive experience in project management, development and reengineering of business processes including development and coordination of program tactical and strategic initiatives, development and tracking of financial artifacts, and management of programmatic functions. Mr. Sandhu holds a Master of Science in systems engineering from George Mason University and a Master of Business Administration from The George Washington University. 

David Batchelor, Chief, External Affairs and Communications, SESAR Joint Undertaking (SJU)

David Batchelor is chief, External Affairs & Communication at the SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking (SJU), the European Union’s public-private partnership delivering air traffic management research and innovation. He is responsible for the SJU’s communications activities, stakeholder relations and international affairs. He first joined the SJU in 2012 as liaison to the FAA’s NextGen program based in Washington D.C.

David previously worked in the European Commission’s Directorate General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE) on policy towards aviation and environment and served as the EU’s observer to the ICAO Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP) from 2008 to 2012. Prior to that he worked on air services liberalization, notably the negotiations to conclude the EU-U.S. “open skies” agreement signed in 2007.

David began his career as an economist at the UK Civil Aviation Authority, after graduating from Oxford University with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in politics, philosophy, and economics.

Sherry Yang, Senior Manager of Airspace Operational Efficiency, Boeing Research & Technology

See biography above.

Technical Program

Evening Network Event

Happy hour and buffet starts at 17:30

17:30- 21:00
Rivanna D