Australian Association for Uncrewed Systems to host AAM Summit 2022

The Aus­tralian Asso­ci­a­tion for Uncrewed Sys­tems (AAUS) is to host its advanced air mobil­i­ty (AAM) Sum­mit 2022 on 30–31 August 2022 as a hybrid event com­pris­ing a live con­fer­ence with a vir­tu­al par­tic­i­pa­tion option.

Fol­low­ing the inau­gur­al AAM Sum­mit last year as a vir­tu­al event, it will attract a diverse range of speak­ers to explore Australia’s oppor­tu­ni­ties and chal­lenges in adopt­ing this inno­v­a­tive mode of trans­port.

The sum­mit will include a range of pre­sen­ta­tion for­mats as well inter­ac­tive pan­el dis­cus­sions and Q&A ses­sions pro­mot­ing audi­ence par­tic­i­pa­tion. There will be time to net­work through­out the event, dur­ing ful­ly catered breaks and the Sum­mit Din­ner.

Atten­dees will include key per­son­nel from fed­er­al, state and local gov­ern­ments; civ­il avi­a­tion safe­ty author­i­ty and inter­na­tion­al reg­u­la­tors; Airser­vices Aus­tralia and key eVTOL plat­form devel­op­ers and man­u­fac­tur­ers, as well as the aero­space and trans­port indus­tries, infra­struc­ture own­ers, prop­er­ty devel­op­ers, dig­i­tal ser­vice providers and the insur­ance sec­tor.

Day 1 on Tues­day August 30 will include a ses­sion on set­ting the scene for AAM in Aus­tralia by sum­mit chair Dr Reece Cloth­ier of AAUS fol­lowed by a keynote address from Tim Pal­las MP, trea­sur­er for the Vic­to­ri­an Gov­ern­ment, and then an AAM Sum­mit scene set­ter from Dr Reece Cloth­ier and Natasha San­tha.

Fol­low­ing the morn­ing tea break the Sum­mit will include a ses­sion on AAM Invest­ment Oppor­tu­ni­ties, chaired by Clem New­ton-Brown of Sky­portz, after which time there will be pre­sen­ta­tions and an inter­ac­tive pan­el dis­cus­sion with Michael Dyment of Nexa Cap­i­tal Part­ners, Kevin Cox of Fer­rovial Ver­ti­ports, Justin Portel­li of Mel­bourne Air­port and Bien­na Chow of Break­through Vic­to­ria.

After lunch, there will be a pre­sen­ta­tion on Aus­tralian AAM ecosys­tem dri­vers chaired by Natasha San­tha of LEK Con­sult­ing, fol­lowed by pre­sen­ta­tions and an inter­ac­tive pan­el dis­cus­sion with Peter Smith of Bar­ton­va­le Tech­nolo­gies, Sara Hales of Green­bird, Yun Yuan Tay of Sky­ports and Hei­di Hauf of Boe­ing.

Sub­se­quent to after­noon tea, there will be a ses­sion enti­tled “AAM — A New Vehi­cle or Avi­a­tion Sec­tor?” chaired by Rob Weaver of Eve Air Mobil­i­ty, and then an inter­ac­tive pan­el dis­cus­sion with Steven Camp­bell of the Region­al Avi­a­tion Asso­ci­a­tion of Aus­tralia, Lea Vesic of RMIT Uni­ver­si­ty, Rod­ney Hig­gins of Microflite and Aaron Shaw of Syd­ney Sea Planes.

Day 2 will include a ses­sion on Air­craft Updates Part 1 chaired by Reece Cloth­ier of AAUS, fol­lowed by a Q&A ses­sion host­ed by Cather­ine Mac­Gowan of Wisk, Patrick Buck­les of Beta Tech­nolo­gies and Diana Siegel of Elec­tra.

Fol­low­ing morn­ing tea, there will be a ses­sion on Air­craft Updates Part 2 chaired by Natasha San­tha fol­lowed by a Q&A ses­sion host­ed by Andrew Moore of AMSL Aero, Rob Weaver of Eve Air Mobil­i­ty and Tony Laws of V‑STAR Pow­ered Lift Avi­a­tion.

After lunch, there will be a ses­sion on Infra­struc­ture & Inte­gra­tion chaired by Clem New­ton-Brown (Sky­portz), as well as pre­sen­ta­tions and and inter­ac­tive pan­el dis­cus­sion by Phil Owen of To70, Ronan Delaney of Arup, Dr Ron­ny Kutad­i­na­ta of the Aus­tralian Road Research Board, and James Good­win of the Aus­tralian Air­ports Asso­ci­a­tion.

Fol­low­ing after­noon tea will be a ses­sion on Reg­u­la­tion, Air­space and Com­mu­ni­ty chaired by Rob Weaver, fol­lowed by an inter­ac­tive pan­el dis­cus­sion with Chris Mon­a­han of the Civ­il Avi­a­tion Safe­ty Author­i­ty, Bruce Dow­dall of Airser­vices Aus­tralia, Eli­ta Huynh of Archer­field Air­port and Maria Catan­zari­ti of Wing.