Advanced Air Mobility is one of many topics covered at Revolution.Aero Global 2020

Some of the key ques­tions about Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty will be dis­cussed at Revolution.Aero Glob­al 2020, with indus­try experts from com­pa­nies such as Jaunt Air Mobil­i­ty, NASA, Uber Ele­vate, Ver­ti­cal Aero­space and Wisk tak­ing part.

The three-day vir­tu­al event takes place from Decem­ber 8th to 10th and focus­es on the future of flight, with each day address­ing a key theme: Day one — Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty; Day Two — Alter­na­tive Pow­er & Sus­tain­able Avi­a­tion and Day Three — Busi­ness Avi­a­tion — Invest­ing in the Rev­o­lu­tion.

Intro­duc­ing the event on its web­site, it says: “Dur­ing these unprece­dent­ed times when we are unable to meet in per­son in our usu­al venues of San Fran­cis­co and Lon­don, we will still bring every­one togeth­er for qual­i­ty infor­ma­tion shar­ing and net­work­ing through our glob­al vir­tu­al event.

“The event will see new star­tups dis­rupt­ing the mar­ket meet with com­pa­nies that have been lead­ing the indus­try for decades. Help­ing investors, ana­lysts, jour­nal­ists and oth­er opin­ion for­m­ers under­stand this unique­ly reg­u­lat­ed indus­try and help reg­u­la­tors plot the future.

“Through a mix of live and on-demand con­tent, watch pan­el dis­cus­sions, pre­sen­ta­tions, inter­views, fire­side chats and more as well as tak­ing part in net­work­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties through the ded­i­cat­ed event plat­form. The vir­tu­al ‘inno­va­tion room’ will also give all del­e­gates the chance to find out more about the lat­est new ideas and con­cepts.”

Robert Courts MP, the UK’s Min­is­ter for Avi­a­tion, Mar­itime and Secu­ri­ty at the Depart­ment of Trans­port, will give his open­ing remarks on the first day, before the first dis­cus­sion about Part­ner­ships in Urban Air Mobil­i­ty. This will fea­ture Gary Gysin, CEO of Wisk, and Bob Pearce, Asso­ciate Direc­tor at NASA’s Aero­nau­tics Research Mis­sion Direc­torate (ARMD).

Atten­tions will then switch to the infra­struc­ture aspect, with Dar­rell Swan­son of Swan­son Avi­a­tion Con­sul­tan­cy mod­er­at­ing a talk enti­tled ‘Are We Dream­ing About Ver­ti­ports? Talk­ing about whether air­craft or infra­struc­ture will come first, will be Lawrence Blake­ley of Ver­ti­cal Aero­space, Will Fan­shawe, Founder of Halo Avi­a­tion and Yous­eff Hama­di, Staff Research Sci­en­tist at Uber Ele­vate.

Megan Prichard, Launch Man­ag­er for Uber Ele­vate will then give a talk about Com­mu­ni­ty Accep­tance and Equi­ty, before the final ses­sion of day one is called ‘How Elec­tric Air­craft will re-write the eco­nom­ics of flight’.

This will be mod­er­at­ed by Bri­an Fly­nn of Dia­mond­Stream Part­ners, and the pan­el includes Mar­tin Peryea, Jaunt Air Mobil­i­ty’s inter­im CEO, Jeff Engler, CEO of Wright Elec­tric and Lee Human, Pres­i­dent and CEO of AeroTec.

The sec­ond day of Revolution.Aero will focus on Alter­na­tive Pow­er and Sus­tain­able Avi­a­tion, which will begin with open­ing remarks from Tim Arel, Deputy Chief Oper­at­ing Offi­cer, Air Traf­fic Organ­i­sa­tion at the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion (FAA).

Val Mif­takhov, Founder and CEO of ZeroAvia, will then talk about ‘Mak­ing Sus­tain­able Avi­a­tion — 100-seat Zero Emis­sions Jet by 2030’ before the first ses­sion of the day will focus on ‘Mak­ing Flight Green­er Now’. This will fea­ture Dan White, CEO and Co-Founder of Sig­nol, Tom Par­sons, Com­mer­cial Devel­op­ment Man­ag­er for Low Car­bon at AirBP and Niclas Sven­ningsen, Man­ag­er of Glob­al Cli­mate Action at the Unit­ed Nations Cli­mate Change.

Oth­er top­ics on this day include ‘Sus­tain­abil­i­ty in Larg­er Firms’, which will be mod­er­at­ed by Starr Ginn, NASA’s Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty Nation­al Cam­paign Lead, and fea­ture Citi Research, AeroTec and McK­in­sey & Com­pa­ny.

‘The Chal­lenges of Reg­u­lat­ing Urban Air Mobil­i­ty’ will con­sist of Doug Carr, Vice Pres­i­dent of Reg­u­la­to­ry and Inter­na­tion­al Affairs at the Nation­al Busi­ness Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion (NBAA), Finch Ful­ton, Deputy Assis­tant Sec­re­tary for Pol­i­cy at the US Depart­ment for Trans­porta­tion, and John McGraw, Vice Pres­i­dent of Reg­u­la­to­ry Affairs at the Nation­al Air Trans­porta­tion Asso­ci­a­tion (NATA).

As well as the agen­da over three days, there will also be more than a dozen on-demand ses­sions which cov­er a wide range of top­ics, such as the ben­e­fits of eSTOL air­craft in Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty, con­sid­er­a­tions for ground-based based charg­ing and over­all ener­gy needs, and post-COVID inno­va­tion strate­gies.

Tick­ets for Revolution.Aero Glob­al 2020 are $249, reduced from $299. The price includes access to all the ses­sions, use of a ded­i­cat­ed app which allows atten­dees to net­work dur­ing the event, and addi­tion­al resources — such as pre­sen­ta­tions, white papers and arti­cles.

For more infor­ma­tion, and to buy your tick­et, vis­it https://www.revolution.aero/global-2020