Two weeks to go until Ohio’s upcoming Air Mobility Symposium, which will explore four key topics with industry experts

Regard­ed by many in the indus­try to be a US state play­ing its part in the emerg­ing Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty mar­ket, Ohio will host its sec­ond annu­al Air Mobil­i­ty Sym­po­sium from April 7th to 8th.

Tak­ing place at Ohio State Uni­ver­si­ty in Colom­bus, the event will address the ques­tion: ‘What does Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty mean for the State of Ohio? Ses­sions will explore the birth­place of avi­a­tion as a hub for research, test­ing, and man­u­fac­tur­ing, in addi­tion to proac­tive­ly shap­ing pol­i­cy and infra­struc­ture plan­ning to inte­grate air mobil­i­ty into Ohio com­mu­ni­ties safe­ly and equi­tably.

Four dis­cus­sions will cov­er air­space inte­gra­tion, sup­ply-chain, nov­el vehi­cle cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, and com­mu­ni­ty inte­gra­tion, with inter­wo­ven net­work­ing. Con­firmed pan­elists include indi­vid­u­als from NASA, Elec­tra Aero, Thales, Crown Con­sult­ing, Ver­ti­cal Flight Soci­ety and the Com­mu­ni­ty Air Mobil­i­ty Ini­tia­tive (CAMI).

The two-day in-per­son event will fea­ture:

• A trip to the Spring­field-Beck­ley Munic­i­pal Air­port and Ohio State Research Cen­ters to show­case flight sim­u­la­tors, vehi­cle view­ings, and tours of the facil­i­ties
• Net­work­ing Night cock­tail and appe­tis­er hours at the Ohio State Fac­ul­ty Club com­plete with stu­dent and fac­ul­ty research show­cas­es
• A full day of mod­er­at­ed pan­els at the Ohio State Faw­cett Cen­ter with four pan­els, a keynote speak­er, and short net­work­ing ses­sions

Robert Pearce, NASA Asso­ciate Admin­is­tra­tor and keynote speak­er, said: “The team would like to extend a huge thank you to our cur­rent and future spon­sors for ensur­ing the over­all suc­cess of this event and we look for­ward to meet­ing you all in-per­son and lis­ten­ing to the wealth of knowl­edge pro­vid­ed by our elite speak­ers and pan­elists.”

Ohio Lieu­tenant Gov­er­nor Jon Husted will deliv­er open­ing remarks on Fri­day April 8th, cur­rent­ly serv­ing as the Direc­tor for Inno­vate Ohio and the Governor’s Office of Work Trans­for­ma­tion. He for­mer­ly served as Speak­er of the Ohio House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, Ohio Sec­re­tary of State, and as a mem­ber of the Ohio Sen­ate. 

In June 2021, eVTOL Insights revealed how the state of Ohio can expect more than $13 bil­lion in eco­nom­ic activ­i­ty over the next 25 years if it takes tar­get­ed steps to sup­port the growth of an advanced autonomous air­craft sec­tor, accord­ing to a new report by Crown Con­sult­ing.

Dr Rubén Del Rosario, Crown Senior Direc­tor of Aero­space Sys­tems, report­ed the find­ings of a new study dur­ing a pub­lic brief­ing host­ed by the Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion, which com­mis­sioned the study and rec­om­mend­ed steps Ohio can take to cap­i­talise on this emerg­ing mar­ket. 

Del Rosario said: “The State of Ohio faces both oppor­tu­ni­ties and chal­lenges with its trans­porta­tion sys­tems. As the sev­enth most pop­u­lous state in the coun­try and cen­tral­ly locat­ed, Ohio has one of the largest high­way net­works in the coun­try.”

The 2020 Ohio Sym­po­sium drew more than 200 atten­dees and fea­tured pan­el­lists from NASA, Hon­ey­well, Siko­rsky, UPS Flight For­ward, Elroy Air, Uber Ele­vate, Ver­ti­cal Flight Soci­ety, Colum­bus Region­al Air­port Author­i­ty, and Air Force Research Lab­o­ra­to­ries (AFRL).

This event is made pos­si­ble through an ongo­ing part­ner­ship between Dri­veO­hio UAS Cen­ter, Job­sO­hio, and The Ohio State Uni­ver­si­ty — Col­lege of Engi­neer­ing, Cen­ter for Avi­a­tion Stud­ies, and Office of Inno­va­tion and Eco­nom­ic Devel­op­ment

Dead­line for reg­is­tra­tions for this year’s event is 11.59pm ET on Wednes­day, March 30th. To reserve your place, click here.