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12 COMMUNICATING FOR SAFETY Q 2022 Spotlight: The Alliance The Global Air Traffic Controllers Alliance, known more informally as "The Alliance," was founded in March 2018 by a coalition of like-minded labor unions representing aviation safety professionals from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Since its inception our work has been focused on building relationships with ANSPS, CANSO, and with established and new entrant industry suppliers. For obvious reasons the global pandemic adversely affected our ability to build on the work we had started but the Aviation sector returns to normal we have reengaged and started to build on those foundations created before CV19. As the Aviation Industry returns to normal following the CV19 pandemic, members of the Alliance recently attended the World ATM in Madrid. Our presence there was to re-engage with industry partners, to enhance and build on our existing relationships and to forge new ones, particularly with the latest industry entrants of Space and UAVs. Our attendance at the World ATM was highlighted by two panels, the first discussing the Future and Integrating Emerging Technologies from the ATC Perspective. Facilitated by Tom McRobert from Civil Air Australia, the panel discussed the integration of technologies, what lessons have been learnt and what we need to do to achieve successful integration in the future. The second panel titled ATC and You – Integrating the Workforce into Tomorrow's Vision facilitated by Paul Rinaldi from NATCA, concentrated on future entrants and CANSO 2045 vision. The panel included representatives from the Alliance, NASA, CANSO, and Eve Air Mobility UAVs. The panels were a huge success and our presence at the WATM saw industry stepping forward to develop relationships with unions understanding that we are a key stakeholder in ATM technology. Additionally, our stand hosted a meet and greet with industry - Aireon, Raytheon, L3Harris, Skyguide, SkySoft, and CANSO joined the Alliance members discussing the impact of technology in the ATM environment. Conversations centered around what were our issues, what we needed to do collaboratively to achieve successful application of technologies into the operational environment and to ensure that success can by measured from the perspectives of the supplier, the ANSPs and the workforce. It provided a unique

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