Orca Aerospace and UAVOS confirmed as speakers at eVTOL Insights’ ‘Final Friday’ virtual networking event on February 25th

eVTOL Insights’ next vir­tu­al net­work­ing event, held on the final Fri­day of the month, will be held on Feb­ru­ary 25th with indus­try pre­sen­ta­tions from eVTOL air­craft devel­op­er Orca Aero­space and UAVOS.

The 90-minute ses­sion will be from 4pm‑5.30pm GMT and starts with 30 min­utes of net­work­ing before the two 15-minute pre­sen­ta­tions, and a final 30 min­utes of net­work­ing to fin­ish.

Rep­re­sent­ing Orca will be co-founder and CEO Soma Var­ga. The com­pa­ny’s goal is to save more lives with the help of cut­ting-edge avi­a­tion tech­nol­o­gy. It says it can pro­vide a safe, fast and effi­cient alter­na­tive for today’s HEMS oper­a­tions, with the Orca com­bin­ing the advan­tages of heli­copter and fixed-wing air­craft.

Soma will talk about the com­pa­ny’s back­ground, which began in Novem­ber 2020 after he led the team’s con­cep­tu­al design to third place in the Inter­na­tion­al Gen­er­al Avi­a­tion Air­craft Design Com­pe­ti­tion by the Roy­al Aero­nau­ti­cal Soci­ety. His main role next to gen­er­al aero­nau­ti­cal engi­neer­ing top­ics are fundrais­ing and com­pa­ny devel­op­ment.

Before Orca, Soma stud­ied vehi­cle engi­neer­ing at the Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty of Budapest-Hun­gary and received his aero­space engi­neer­ing MSc at the Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty in Munich.

Dur­ing his stud­ies, he worked for Air­bus, RUAG and Bauhaus Lufth­fahrt and was also select­ed to be among 50 inter­na­tion­al stu­dents invit­ed to the BUAA Uni­ver­si­ty in Bei­jing for a grad­u­ate sum­mer school regard­ing air­craft design. Still dur­ing his stud­ies in Munich, he was part of a team of three engi­neers that won the 2017 NASA/ DLR sub­son­ic air­craft design chal­lenge with a hybrid propul­sion air­lin­er con­cept.

As a mas­ter the­sis, he devel­oped a pre­lim­i­nary design tool ded­i­cat­ed to fight­er air­craft and gained hands-on man­u­fac­tur­ing expe­ri­ences at a small LSA com­pos­ite air­craft man­u­fac­tur­er. Soma also holds a PPL licence for sin­gle pis­ton engine air­craft.

UAVOS Inc. is a devel­op­er and man­u­fac­tur­er of secu­ri­ty and com­mer­cial solu­tions based on advanced Unmanned Sys­tems with an inter­na­tion­al investor base. It spe­cialis­es in com­plex pay­load inte­gra­tions and in con­ver­sions of full — sized manned air­craft to UAV.

We’ll be speak­ing to Vadim Tarasov, who is Chair­man of the Board at UAVOS. He is the found­ing part­ner of Advanced Autonomous Solu­tions Fund, a fund invest­ing in unmanned solu­tions glob­al­ly, fea­tur­ing some unique tech com­pa­nies such as UAVOS with its unique HAPS APUS Duo solu­tion or Glob­al Ener­gy Trans­fer offer­ing unique in-flight wire­less drone charg­ing.

He is also a man­ag­ing direc­tor at Pine Peak Cap­i­tal Group, a Hong Kong based asset man­age­ment com­pa­ny, focus­ing on late stage invest­ments in tech and infra­struc­ture. 

Reg­is­tra­tion is now open and com­plete­ly free to attend. After the event, all atten­dees will receive a PDF doc­u­ment with con­tact details and a video record­ing of both pre­sen­ta­tions.

If you would be inter­est­ed in pre­sent­ing at a future event, please email edi­tor Jason Pritchard at editorial@evtolinsights.com.

From L‑R: Vadim Tarasov, Chair­man of the Board at UAVOS, and Soma Var­ga, CEO of Orca Aero­space.