by Jessica Brownlow | Jul 14, 2025 | AI & ML, Innovation, Video
As the industry accelerates its digital evolution, Lufthansa Systems is positioning artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud technology at the core of it’s strategy. At Aerospace Tech Week, Stefanie Neumann, CEO of Lufthansa Systems outlined the company’s tech outlook stating:
“Our strategy is about transforming of the industry, not more, not less. And with that I mean we want to really increase the optimisation capabilities that AI can offer to all of us and make sure that this supports the growing scale that we are all observing.”
The conversation looked in more detail at Lufthansa Systems’ strategic investment in technologies with a view to driving optimisation. Given air traffic is due to double by 2045 and the industry must navigate scarce resources, efficiency and optimisation are essential drivers of progress. Lufthansa Systems is already applying AI in operations and maintenance and is calling on more players across the industry to unlock shared value.
Supporting this, Neumann also emphasised the importance of collaboration across the ecosystem through global partnerships. The goal is to tap into diverse talent pools and foster cross-border innovation.
To learn more watch the full interview below. To hear live from industry experts join us at Aerospace Tech Week 2026 in April!
Questions asked include:
- Where are we seeing the highest levels of investment in aerospace’s digital landscape?
- You recently announced a number of large partnerships. How are these pioneering change in the industry?
- How would you describe Lufthansa Systems’ strategy for the coming 12 months?
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by Jessica Brownlow | Jul 7, 2025 | AI & ML, Flight Ops IT, Video
At Aerospace Tech Week, Rob Galbraith, Director of Flight Operations at United Airlines reflected on the airline’s flight operations progress looking at the technology driving change, opportunities for AI/ML integration, and the greatest challenges to seamless real-world operations.
Galbraith picked out the electronic flight bag (EFB) as one of the most impactful areas of progress due to its more flexible regulatory status. This offers flexibility for airlines and developers to innovate and respond to changing demands.
Acknowledging not every aspect of the industry is keeping pace with desired progress, Galbraith described the greatest challenge to achieving seamless flight ops as:
“Working with our training teams to actually train how we expect the pilot to operate. Right now we do a great job with simulators training how we would like to actually fly the airplane, but not operate the airplane. The next step is that we can use it in the simulator and mirror exactly how the crew would use it on the line flying a real flight. And currently that’s not possible in a lot of cases.”
AI and ML also sit at the heart of the industry’s optimisation strategy. Galbraith shared how the technology is being leveraged to help flight crews make better real-time decisions as well as streamline backend processes like updating manuals and ensuring compliance across global regulations.
To learn more watch the full interview below. To hear live from industry experts join us at Aerospace Tech Week 2026 in April!
Questions asked include:
- Which technology do you believe is currently driving the most progress in flight ops?
- Are there any emerging technologies that, although they are still in their infancy, you expect will have a major impact in the future?
- How is United integrating AI & ML into flight ops systems and to what end? Can you share any specific examples?
- What do you understand as the greatest challenge to achieving seamless flight ops, and what’s United’s strategy for overcoming this?
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by Jessica Brownlow | Jun 23, 2025 | AI & ML, MRO IT, Video
Onsite at Aerospace Tech Week Europe, five winners of the Aerospace Tech Review (ATR) Awards were announced for the first time. The awards celebrate individuals and companies for their outstanding contributions to the aerospace industry in 2024. Each category featured three deserving finalists and the winners were selected by an expert panel.
Among the winners were Kquika, whose ground breaking Trakt System won the prize for Most Creative Product Applying AI. Kquika’s Trakt System is an AI-powered predictive maintenance platform designed specifically for the aviation industry. Using a proprietary multi-model AI architecture, it achieves 92-95 per cent accuracy in predicting component failures, significantly outperforming industry standards.
In this interview, Victor Oribamise, CEO, Kquika shared deeper insight into the technology that is helping airlines anticipate issues well before they occur. Explaining the company’s goal, Oribamise said:
“We are an AI powered aviation technology company that my co-founder and I founded in 2021. Our mission is very simple but very, very transformative: we want to make air travel enjoyable, stress-free, without any cause of delays, maintenance problem for airlines, and ultimately their passengers.”
The system applies multiple AI models to analyse aircraft data and predict potential faults before they occur. To find out more about the technology powering Trakt System and how it achieves accuracy scores of between 92 and 95 per cent, watch the full interview below.
Questions asked include:
- Can you tell me about Kquika Inc and what the company does?
- Could you talk me through the Trakt System and how it works?
- I understand the system achieves 92–95% accuracy in predicting component failures, significantly outperforming industry standards. How is this level of accuracy achieved?
- How does the Trakt System transform reactive maintenance into proactive fleet optimization?
- What kind of real-world results have you seen from implementing the Trakt System?
- What’s next for Kquika Inc, and what are your personal goals moving forward?
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by Jessica Brownlow | Jun 20, 2025 | AI & ML, Flight Ops IT, Innovation, Video
The European Organisation for Civil Aviation Equipment (EUROCAE) develops standards ensuring safety, reliability, and innovation in aviation. As the industry landscape evolves rapidly, it is imperative standards keep pace with both the technological advancement and changing operational, environmental, and human factors that come too. At Aerospace Tech Week, Anna von Groote, Director General, EUROCAE explored this and more in this five-minute interview.
The conversation looked at the importance of addressing human factors to support safe, effective AI adoption with von Groote adding, “we in aviation know well how to deal with technical things but now the human factor is a really important topic as well.” Here, she explored the dedicated Working Groups that have been set up with this focus, shifting away from purely technical standards.
Towards the end of the discussion, von Groote unpacked the challenges of an increasingly congested airspace, and explained:
“IATA predicts growth of passenger traffic by 2.7 times in the next couple of years […] So we have to again be very holistic and look at the innovation pipeline – bringing technology to market, ensuring we give industry a framework, a regulatory framework, including technical standards, so the industry can safely deploy and bring these technologies to market.”
For more on this as well as taking a holistic approach to sustainability, watch the full interview below.
Questions asked include:
- AI is a critical part of the sector’s evolution. How should the industry tackle human factors around AI-decision making? Or broader integration?
- The journey to net-zero will involve embracing new technologies, aircraft, such as hydrogen. How can we ensure these are integrated into the ecosystem without safety being compromised?
- As airspace becomes more congested, how can we advance air traffic management to accommodate this growth?
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by Jessica Brownlow | Jun 9, 2025 | Connectivity, Video
At Aerospace Tech Week, Joel Klooster, SVP at Viasat gave his analysis of the industry’s communications infrastructure. The conversation looked at how modernised connectivity can support the industry’s future, especially with air traffic predicted to double within 20 years.
Reflecting on the state of the current communications infrastructure, Klooster explained that foundational technologies were developed and put in place over the last five years. However, the focus must now be on accelerating the pace of adoption. Here, Klooster gave the examples of well developed cybersecurity measures, and the shift from legacy systems like AARS to modern, IP-based protocols like the Aeronautical Telecommunications Network (ATN).
A key focus of the discussion was the movement towards data link communications, supporting real-time transmission of data enhancing situational awareness for both pilots and air traffic controllers. The potential efficiency and accuracy gains of this technology will be fundamental in managing growing air traffic volumes while improving current safety standards through a seamless flow of information:
“We need to maintain and improve the levels of safety […] and that requires situational awareness improvement and information sharing between the pilot and the air traffic controller, making sure they have the exact same information and that this can be exchanged in a timely manner. It can just be loaded directly into the flight management computer that’s connected to the autopilot and flying that aircraft.”
The five-minute discussion also tapped into artificial intelligence (AI) and the safe integration of emerging technologies to advance the industry. Watch the full interview below.
Questions asked include:
- What changes need to happen to the connectivity infrastructure to allow next generation aircraft to be integrated into the airspace with minimal disruption?
- How can higher capacity communications drive operational efficiency in ATM, especially as the industry prepares for the number of aircraft in operation to grow rapidly?
- Where are we seeing AI and other emerging tech make the greatest difference in connectivity, and how can we ensure its integration enhances safety rather than compromises it?
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by Jessica Brownlow | Jun 2, 2025 | AI & ML, Innovation, Video
At Aerospace Tech Week, Airbus’ Grzegorz Ombach discussed the next wave of transformative technology. As Group Head of Disruptive Research, Technology & Innovation & Senior Vice President at the largest aeronautics and space company in Europe, Ombach is uniquely well positioned to understand and speculate on cutting-edge breakthroughs and how they will shape the industry for decades to come.
During the interview, Ombach selected and unpacked the three technologies he is most excited by and explained their relevance to the industry: Agentic AI, microfusion energy, and quantum sensors. Speaking on potential use cases of quantum sensors, he explained:
“And the new sensors are coming from the industry like automotive for example. We are talking about radars, lighters and also the one interesting sensor which we see coming as a next, next, next generation is all about the quantum to measure the position of the aircraft in aerospace. If, for example, you don’t have available GPS and you would like to use this sensor for smart automation parallel to the computer vision which is going to be the eyes for the aircraft as well.”
The conversation also touched on Airbus’ ongoing projects as well as the critical industry challenges that they are responding to. For the full conversation, watch below.
Questions asked include:
- You’re at the cutting edge of disruptive tech in aerospace. Where are you seeing the most innovation and how do you think it will reshape the industry in the next decade or so?
- Talk me through some of the ongoing Airbus projects – how are these changing the landscape?
- If you had to pick one, which technology in aerospace excites you the most right now and why?
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