Our guest Anna von Groote is the director general at EUROCAE. We discussed the following topics:

• The guest's personal career path and current position.
• What a virtual center is, and the technical difference between a virtual center versus existing air traffic management (ATM) systems.
• Whether air traffic control could ever be done from home.
• What the benefits of a virtual center are, and the obstacles to realizing virtual centers.
• What can EUROCAE bring to the table with regard to virtual centers.
• Timing of standardization.
• The guest's vision of virtual centers in 5 and 50 years.