15th Electric Aircraft Symposium to bring together industry experts for more discussions about eVTOL aircraft market

With just two weeks until this year’s Elec­tric Air­craft Sym­po­sium, the event will once again fea­ture a wealth of expert speak­ers talk­ing about crit­i­cal indus­try top­ics across the advanced air mobil­i­ty mar­ket.

Now in its 15th year, it takes place from July 20th — 22nd. It has been organ­ised by the Com­par­a­tive Air­craft Flight Effi­cien­cy (CAFE) Foun­da­tion and co-spon­sored by the Ver­ti­cal Flight Soci­ety.

The pre­lim­i­nary sched­ule will start with a glob­al overview at 11.20 ET with Willi Tacke and Xin Gou of Fly­ing Pages and Mike Hirschberg, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of Ver­ti­cal Flight Soci­ety. At 12.15pm, there will be a dis­cus­sion about busi­ness cas­es for region­al air mobil­i­ty with Dar­rell Swan­son of Swan­son Avi­a­tion Con­sul­tan­cy.

Ken Swartz will then mod­er­ate an after­noon ses­sion on air­craft con­ver­sions and sup­ple­men­tal-type cer­ti­fi­ca­tions with Lee Human from AeroTEC, Kevin Noertk­er of Ampaire and Glen Drom­goole of Tier One Engi­neer­ing. This will run from 1.40pm until 2.35pm.

The final two ses­sions of the day will con­sist of Elec­tric Air­craft for Pub­lic Ser­vices and Defense (2.35pm to 3.30pm), with con­firmed speak­ers Kate­ri­na Bar­ilov of Jump Aero and John­ny Doo of Inter­na­tion­al Vehi­cle Research. Com­mu­ni­ty Inte­gra­tion is from 3.30pm to 4.25pm and fea­tures Scott Gore from the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion (FAA), Adam Cohen of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Berke­ley, Cal­i­for­nia and Adri­enne Lind­gren from Hyundai Air Mobil­i­ty.

Wednes­day will start at 11am ET with a con­ver­sa­tion about Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty Com­pe­ti­tions, which will be mod­er­at­ed by Yolan­ka Wulff from the Com­mu­ni­ty Air Mobil­i­ty Ini­tia­tive (CAMI), Scott Neu­mann of the NAA and Eric Lind­bergh of the Lind­bergh Foun­da­tion.

Fol­low­ing this will be a ses­sion enti­tled ‘Inte­grat­ing Hydro­gen as a Propul­sion Source’, with speak­ers Tine Tomaz­ic from Pip­istrel, JP Clarke from Uni­ver­sal Hydro­gen and Ani­ta Sen­gup­ta from Hydroplane. The Busi­ness Case for Urban Air Mobil­i­ty and Coastal Com­mu­ni­ty Use Cas­es will be the after­noon ses­sions, before Region­al eCTOL and eSTOL are FAR 23 Fixed Wing cer­ti­fi­ca­tion fin­ish the day.

The final day will focus on grow­ing the work­force and incor­po­rat­ing diver­si­ty, with Hirschberg talk­ing with Danielle McClean from Hap­py Take­off and Mar­i­lyn Smith from Geor­gia Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy. Elec­tric Motor Sys­tems will fea­ture Olaf Otto from Rolls-Royce, Jean Bot­ti from VoltAero and Eric Bartsch of VerdeGo Aero.

Ver­ti­ports and GA Air­ports will be mod­er­at­ed by Rex Alexan­der of Five-Alpha with Paul Stith from Black and Veatch, Tim­o­thy Mid­dle­ton of HMMH and Addi­son Fer­rell from Sky­ports. Oth­er top­ics on Thurs­day include Bat­ter­ies, Car­go — which will fea­ture Beta Tech­nolo­gies, Air­flow and Sabrew­ing Air­craft — and Pilot Pipeline.

As a non-prof­it organ­i­sa­tion, CAFE Foun­da­tion’s mis­sion is to advance the devel­op­ment of low-emis­sion flight by fos­ter­ing and pro­mot­ing ear­ly entry prac­ti­cal mar­ket oppor­tu­ni­ties. CAFE Foun­da­tion accom­plish­es this by bridg­ing dis­ci­plines and indus­tries, help­ing to iden­ti­fy trends and inno­va­tions, build­ing strate­gic col­lab­o­ra­tions and ensur­ing on-going coor­di­na­tion.

For those inter­est­ed in attend­ing, the first day is free while both the sec­ond and third days cost $80. For stu­dents, the fee will be $40. Those who reg­is­ter for both the Wednes­day and Thurs­day will get 20 per cent off, but this offer does­n’t include stu­dents.

Busi­ness­es want­i­ng to be a spon­sor at this year’s Elec­tric Air­craft Sym­po­sium can either choose between Plat­inum (one max for $5,000), Gold (five max for $2,500 and Sil­ver (five for $1,500). For more infor­ma­tion, con­tact Jim Sher­man.

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