Spaces filling up for first ‘Final Friday’ virtual networking event of 2022, still time to register and hear from Rolls-Royce and Airborne

There’s less than one week to go until our first ‘Final Fri­day’ vir­tu­al net­work­ing event of 2022, and only a few spaces are avail­able for those want­i­ng to con­nect and net­work with indus­try pro­fes­sion­als across the world.

Tak­ing place from 4pm‑5.30pm GMT on Jan­u­ary 28th, the 90-minute ses­sion will also fea­ture two 15-minute indus­try pre­sen­ta­tions from Rolls-Royce Elec­tri­cal and Air­borne. Our guest speak­ers will be Ste­fan Bre­unig, Head of Strat­e­gy at Rolls-Royce, and Jamie Snud­den, Air­borne’s Busi­ness Devel­op­ment Man­ag­er for the UK.

There is no charge to attend and all atten­dees will receive a PDF doc­u­ment with con­tact details to con­tin­ue mak­ing con­nec­tions after the event. A record­ing of both pre­sen­ta­tions will also be sent the fol­low­ing week.

Enthu­si­as­tic about both new avi­a­tion and help­ing to reduce glob­al emis­sions, both Jamie and Air­borne sup­port Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty busi­ness­es to devel­op their air­frames from ini­tial con­cepts through to ser­i­al pro­duc­tion.

With a PhD in aero­space engi­neer­ing look­ing at recy­cling of com­pos­ite mate­ri­als and an MBA, Jamie’s inter­ests lie in both the tech­no­log­i­cal aspects of nov­el aerostruc­ture devel­op­ment and the entre­pre­neur­ial and strate­gic aspects of a rapid­ly grow­ing mar­ket.

Air­borne is mak­ing good progress in the mar­ket and Jamie will talk about com­pos­ites indus­tri­al­i­sa­tion, as well as the chal­lenges of scale-up and indus­tri­al­i­sa­tion, and some solu­tions.

Ste­fan is dri­ving strat­e­gy def­i­n­i­tion and exe­cu­tion for Rolls-Royce’s elec­tri­fi­ca­tion efforts in new emerg­ing mar­kets like Urban and Region­al Air Mobil­i­ty. He joined the Rolls-Royce team in 2019 with the acqui­si­tion of Siemens eAir­craft where he pre­vi­ous­ly worked as inno­va­tion man­ag­er. He holds a master’s degree and PhD in engi­neer.

Ste­fan will be talk­ing more about what the com­pa­ny is doing in the mar­ket. In par­tic­u­lar, the company’s tech­nol­o­gy is set to pow­er Ver­ti­cal Aerospace’s flag­ship eVTOL air­craft, the VA4.

A Rolls-Royce elec­tri­cal pow­er sys­tem will be inte­grat­ed into the pilot­ed all-elec­tric ver­ti­cal take-off and land­ing (eVTOL) vehi­cle, which will car­ry up to four pas­sen­gers for 120 miles at cruise speeds of over 200mph and is on course to cer­ti­fy in 2024.

Rolls-Royce will design the sys­tem archi­tec­ture of the whole elec­tri­cal propul­sion sys­tem, the elec­tric pow­er sys­tem that includes our lat­est 100kW-class lift and push elec­tri­cal propul­sion units, the pow­er dis­tri­b­u­tion and the mon­i­tor­ing sys­tem that will sup­port oper­a­tions.

You can reserve your place at Fri­day’s event by click­ing here. For more infor­ma­tion or if you would be inter­est­ed in pre­sent­ing at a future Final Fri­day event, please email eVTOL Insights edi­tor Jason Pritchard, at editorial@evtolinsights.com