PODCAST: Charlie Nelson of Vertilink on the promise AAM holds for New Zealand and the role of the Māori community

In this episode, we delve deep into the future of Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty in New Zealand with Char­lie Nel­son, Pres­i­dent, Direc­tor and Exec­u­tive Chair­man at Ver­tilink Infra­struc­ture Group.

He dis­cuss­es his involve­ment in var­i­ous work­shops orches­trat­ed by Ver­tilink across New Zealand, Vertilink’s core val­ues of safe­ty, social respon­si­bil­i­ty and sus­tain­able inno­va­tion, and pas­sion­ate­ly speaks about the promise AAM holds for New Zealand, par­tic­u­lar­ly for enhanc­ing acces­si­bil­i­ty in remote areas.

The con­ver­sa­tion also touch­es on the oppor­tu­ni­ties pre­sent­ed by urban air mobil­i­ty in cities like Auck­land, with anoth­er cru­cial aspect of the dis­cus­sion revolv­ing around the role of the Māori com­mu­ni­ty in New Zealand.

Char­lie high­lights the com­mu­ni­ty’s deep-root­ed val­ues relat­ed to envi­ron­men­tal stew­ard­ship and land guardian­ship.

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