With 450 participants, 40 exhibitors and high-level speakers from across European aviation and EU institutions, this year's conference brought together the European aviation community for a day of lively debate, insightful discussions and valuable exchanges. Under the theme “Europe's skies, Europe's future”, the event explored the key challenges and opportunities facing European aviation and the role of innovation in shaping its future.

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A look back at the highlights:

Engaging panel discussions

Throughout the day, policymakers, industry leaders and research stakeholders explored how Europe can build on its global leadership in air traffic management, accelerate the transition from research to deployment and respond to emerging challenges and opportunities. Playback the sessions.

Digital European Sky Marketplace

Beyond the discussions, our Digital European Sky Marketplace, featuring 40 exhibition stands, brought SESAR innovation to life through demonstrations, exchanges and presentations of the latest SESAR research results. View the digital posters

Digital European Sky Awards

We celebrated outstanding achievements through the Digital European Sky Awards, recognising projects making a difference to the future of European aviation. Congratulations to ORCI (Exploratory Research), ATC-TBO (Industrial Research) and HERON (Digital European Sky Demonstrators), which also received the People's Choice Award!
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From innovation to deployment

The Conference also served as the backdrop for the official handover to the European Commission of the proposal for Common Project 2, marking an important step towards the next phase of coordinated ATM modernisation in Europe.

Read the conference Press Release