Major players in ATC are meeting in Amsterdam this week for ATC Global, which has long been considered the leading international event for the ATC community. This year’s conference and exhibition will feature more than 200 exhibiting companies and is expected to draw some 5,400 attendees. Air navigation service providers (ANSPs) will be represented there, along with civil aviation authorities, controllers, airports and corporate engineering departments. The Single European Sky ATM Research (Sesar) Joint Undertaking sponsors an annual break-out forum to report on Sesar’s progress, and Eurocontrol has a major presence.
Now in its 22nd year, however, the conference formerly held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, faces direct competition from a new event—the World ATM Congress—which launches next February 12 to 14 in Madrid. The ATM event (ATM being the acronym for air traffic management) is organized by the Netherlands-based Civil Air Navigation Services Organization (Canso), which represents world ANSPs, in association with the U.S.-based Air Traffic Control Association (Atca). ATC Global, traditionally held in March, is organized by London-based UBM (formerly United Business Media), a diversified media company with 2011 revenues of £972.3 million ($1.5 billion) that says it operates the world’s fourth largest events business.
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