DesignVerse to Join EUROCONTROL at Airspace World 2026 in Lisbon

AI enterprise software startup DesignVerse will join EUROCONTROL at next week’s Airspace World 2026 in Lisbon, as the aviation industry gathers to discuss the future of air traffic management, modernization and AI-driven transformation across global aviation infrastructure.

CEO and co-founder Andrei Manolache and the DesignVerse team will attend the event alongside EUROCONTROL representatives and other partners following the recent announcement that the AI platform has helped modernize critical aviation software systems used within Europe’s air traffic management ecosystem.

DesignVerse is an AI-based platform that builds and delivers complex enterprise software using an organization’s own documentation and internal rules, ensuring every system is built consistently across teams.

Airspace World, organized by CANSO, is one of the aviation industry’s largest global gatherings focused on airspace management, ATM modernization and digital transformation.

The appearance comes just a week after DesignVerse announced a $5.5 million seed funding round and revealed details of its work supporting EUROCONTROL’s Integrated Network Management (iNM) programme.

Using DesignVerse’s AI-powered enterprise software platform, a legacy aviation application more than 15 years old was modernized in just over a month, compared with an estimated six months under conventional development approaches.

The project forms part of a wider push across the aviation sector to accelerate modernization without compromising the operational reliability, safety and resilience required within mission-critical environments.

Andrei Manolache, CEO and co-founder of DesignVerse, said: “Aviation is one of the most operationally complex and highly regulated industries in the world, which makes modernization incredibly challenging. 

“What we are now seeing is that AI can fundamentally accelerate how critical systems evolve, without sacrificing the consistency, reliability and governance that organizations like EUROCONTROL require.

“Airspace World brings together many of the organizations shaping the future of aviation infrastructure, so it is an important opportunity to continue conversations around how AI-powered software modernization can help the industry move faster and operate more efficiently.”

In a recent statement, EUROCONTROL said DesignVerse had supported the organization in “modernizing our software systems at an accelerated pace, without compromising the reliability, safety and security that remain the highest priority for our sector.”

DesignVerse technology has already been adopted by a range of mission-critical organizations across Europe.

Using AI, DesignVerse technology allows teams to modernize operational software far faster than traditional development processes and is designed for organizations running complex legacy systems, including banks, cybersecurity platforms, and government infrastructure.

In less than five months, the company - headquartered in Bucharest, Romania, with employees across Europe - has exceeded $1.1 million in annual recurring revenue, driven entirely by enterprise customers from highly sensitive sectors.

The platform grounds its AI models in each customer’s design systems, component libraries and technical documentation, allowing software to be generated in line with the company’s existing or target architecture as well as existing or target front-end or back-end technologies.

Robert Dragutoiu, Chief Technology Officerand architect of the AI model pipeline behind DesignVerse, said ““Our technology builds a system-level context layer from each customer’s design systems, component libraries, and technical documentation, enabling software to be produced seamlessly in alignment with existing architecture and engineering standards, without months of custom integrations.”

Airspace World 2026 takes place in Lisbon from 26-28th May and is expected to attract thousands of aviation, air traffic management and aerospace leaders from around the world.