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Joby Aviation, FAA, UK CAA, UrbanV and MGI Engineering to join eVTOL Insights’ London conference — just four weeks to go!

Jason Pritchard

Joby Avi­a­tion, the FAA and UK Civ­il Avi­a­tion Author­i­ty are just some of the final com­pa­nies con­firmed for eVTOL Insights’ Lon­don con­fer­ence, now just four weeks away.

Tak­ing place at the Leonar­do Roy­al Tow­er Bridge Hotel, a 15-minute walk from the icon­ic Tow­er of Lon­don land­mark, we can now reveal the full agen­da for Wednes­day, April 19th, which once again fea­tures some of the biggest thought lead­ers in the Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty mar­ket.

New addi­tions include Greg Bowles, Glob­al Head of Pol­i­cy & Reg­u­la­to­ry Affairs at Joby Avi­a­tion, Lirio Liu, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of Air­craft Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion at the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion, Kirsten Riense­ma, Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty Chal­lenge Lead at the UK CAA, Mike Gas­coyne, CEO at MGI Engi­neer­ing and Car­lo Tur­si, CEO at UrbanV.

Also con­firmed are Gian­car­lo Sil­vestri, Reg­u­la­to­ry Affairs Man­ag­er for Europe and Mid­dle East at Sky­ports Infra­struc­ture and Michael Hille­meier, Direc­tor of Busi­ness, Mar­kets and Strat­e­gy at Volo­copter. The pair will be talk­ing in more detail about the impor­tance of the com­pa­nies’ col­lab­o­ra­tion and reflect on the poten­tial of Urban Air Mobil­i­ty in our cities.

We do have one final spon­sored speak­ing slot avail­able, so any com­pa­ny inter­est­ed should con­tact Doreen Pupil­lo, our Head of Part­ner­ships, as soon as pos­si­ble via doreen@evtolinsights.com

Tick­ets to the event are priced at £399 and can be pur­chased on Eventbrite. The fee also includes entry to a pre-event drinks recep­tion in the hotel on Tues­day, April 18th, pro­vid­ing excel­lent net­work­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties ahead of the speak­ing pro­gramme the next day.

We are also grate­ful to event spon­sors, Gilmore Group, MGI Engi­neer­ing and Evoli­to for their sup­port in mak­ing this event hap­pen.

Agen­da sched­ule and tim­ings are sub­ject to change (all times in BST)

Time

Top­ic

Speak­ers

  

09.00 — 09.30

Fire­side chat 

Stephen Fitz­patrick, 

Founder and CEO, Ver­ti­cal Aero­space

  

09.30 — 09.50

‘Star­tups, VC & AAM: Strat­e­gy for Suc­cess in the Bear Mar­ket’

Pamir Sevin­cel

CEO, Sevin­cel Con­sult­ing

  

09.50 — 10.10

‘Inno­va­tion as an enabler for Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty’

Andrew Chad­wick

Avi­a­tion Tech­nol­o­gy Lead, Con­nect­ed Place Cat­a­pult

  

10.10 — 10.30

‘The Human Fac­tor in Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty: Assur­ing the Human Expe­ri­ence is Con­sid­ered Holis­ti­cal­ly’

Arthur Gilmore, 

Pres­i­dent and CEO, Gilmore Group

  

10.30 — 10.50

‘Elec­tric is tak­ing off: Key Learn­ings from the Auto­mo­tive Indus­try and how these will accel­er­ate the Elec­tri­fi­ca­tion of Aero­space’

Dr. Chris Har­ris

CEO, Evoli­to

  

BREAK

11.10 — 11.40

Pan­el Dis­cus­sion

‘Under­stand­ing the eVTOL pas­sen­ger expe­ri­ence’ 

Arthur Gilmore

Pres­i­dent and CEO, Gilmore Group

Fred­er­ic Aguet­tant

Founder, Heli­pass

Kolin Schunck

Sr. Man­ag­er, Strate­gic Intel­li­gence, Lufthansa Inno­va­tion Hub

  

11.40 — 12.00

‘The role of the Pub­lic, You and I in Elec­tric Avi­a­tion’ 

Mariya Tara­banovs­ka

Founder, Flight Crowd

  

12.00 — 12.20

‘The Path to eVTOL Com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion’

Adam Gold­stein

CEO, Archer

  

12.20 — 12.40

‘AFWERX 3.0: Accel­er­at­ing the Future of Air Mobil­i­ty’

Dar­shan Divakaran

Air­space Inno­va­tion & Prime Part­ner­ship, AFWERX Agili­ty Prime

  

12.40 — 13.00

‘Zero Emis­sion Avi­a­tion’

Greg Bowles

Glob­al Head of Pol­i­cy & Reg­u­la­to­ry Affairs, Joby Avi­a­tion

  

LUNCH

13.40 — 14.00

‘Blend­ing the World of F1 and eVTOL: The Route to Ultra Light­weight Aer­i­al Vehi­cles for Car­go Appli­ca­tions’

Mike Gas­coyne

CEO, MGI Engi­neer­ing

  

14.00 — 14.30

Pan­el Dis­cus­sion

‘The impor­tance of col­lab­o­ra­tion in Urban Air Mobil­i­ty’

Michael Hiller­meier, 

Direc­tor Strat­e­gy, Mar­kets and Busi­ness, Volo­copter

Gian­car­lo Sil­vestri

Reg­u­la­to­ry Affairs Man­ag­er, Sky­ports Infra­struc­ture

Juliana Rodriguez

Head of Busi­ness Devel­op­ment — Europe, Eve AIr Mobil­i­ty

  

14.30 — 14.50

‘The Path­way towards dual eVTOL Air­craft Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion with EASA and the FAA’

Bhavesh Man­dalia, 

Chief Air­wor­thi­ness Offi­cer and Deputy CTO of Engi­neer­ing

Lil­i­um

  

14.50 — 15.10

‘Aus­tralia: How the coun­try is embrac­ing elec­tric avi­a­tion’

Clem New­ton-Brown, 

CEO, Sky­portz

  

15.10 — 15.30

‘AAM Pilot Train­ing and Oper­a­tional Chal­lenges’

Mar­i­lyn Pear­son

Senior Reg­u­la­to­ry Affairs Spe­cial­ist, CAE

  

BREAK

15.45 — 16.05

‘The UK Region­al Air Mobil­i­ty Index — the future of sub-region­al avi­a­tion’

Dar­rell Swan­son & Jarek Zych

Co-founders, EA Maven

  

16.05 — 16.35

Pan­el Dis­cus­sion

‘Inte­grat­ing Manned and Unmanned Avi­a­tion into our Cities’

Kay Wack­witz

CEO and Founder, Drone Indus­try Insights

Ken Stew­art

CEO, NUAIR

Car­lo Tur­si

CEO, UrbanV

  


16.35 — 16.55

‘Unlock­ing the Poten­tial of Pros­per­i­ty I’

Mark Hen­ning

Man­ag­ing Direc­tor, Aut­oFlight Europe

  

16.55 — 17.15

‘Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty — More than just a Vehi­cle’

Andra Stele­meier 

Direc­tor, Busi­ness Devel­op­ment, Air­bus

  

17.15 — 17.45

Pan­el Dis­cus­sion

‘eVTOL Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion: Where are we now?’

Lirio Liu, Ex. Direc­tor, Air­craft Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, FAA

Kirsten Riense­ma, AAM Chal­lenge Lead, UK CAA

Trevor Woods, Reg­u­la­to­ry Affairs, Ver­ti­cal Aero­space

  
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Jason Pritchard

Jason Pritchard is the Editor of eVTOL Insights. He holds a BA from Leicester's De Montfort University and has worked in Journalism and Public Relations for more than a decade. Outside of work, Jason enjoys playing and watching football and golf. He also has a keen interest in Ancient Egypt.

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