Tuesday 25th April
09.00 Opening Remarks
09.05 Welcome to Ireland
Why Ireland is the perfect place to start operations
Declan Fitzpatrick, Irish Aviation Authority
09.15 Drafting out the Fourth Aviation Revolution
What assumptions can we make?
Is it too early to work out the impact new technology will have?
Sergio Cecutta, SMG Consulting
Jay Carmel, Oliver Wyman
Stephan Baur, Roland Berger
Joshua Ng, Alton Aviation Consultancy
09.55 Vertical Aerospace – Revolutionising Urban Air Mobility and electrifying air travel
Stephen Fitzpatrick, Vertical Aerospace
10.15 Morning Coffee
10.45 What role will operating lessors play?
New aircraft versus commercial and helicopter leasing
How can you forecast residual values?
Cargo versus passenger versus urban versus regional
How big a market will it become?
Moderator: Alasdair Whyte, Revolution.Aero
Marc Tembleque Vilalta, Avolon
James Greenstreet, Falko
Gustavo Semeraro, Lobo Leasing
Jaspal Jandu, LCI
11.25 EVE Air Mobility – a start up from an existing leader
Andre Stein, EVE Air Mobility
11.45 The Regional Revolution
Electric-hybrid versus pure electric
How big is the market?
What will new aircraft compete with?
Moderator: Patrick Edmond, Altair Advisory
James Dorris, ODYS Aviation
Claudio Camelier, Heart Aerospace
Nick Rogers, KinectAir
Tine Tomazic, Pipistrel
12.25 Manna from Heaven
Bobby Healy, Manna
12.45 Lunch
14.05 Fireside Chat with Supernal
Matthew Sattler, Supernal
14.25 How the electric aviation revolution is speeding up
What are the main options for aircraft?
Who should own batteries?
Will certification hurdles slow innovation?
Richard Charlton, Electro.Aero
Joshua Stewart, BAE Systems
15.05 Autonomous Aviation: protecting your new technology assets
How can you harness the power of data
Understanding the protection landscape
Moderator: Morag Macdonald, Bird & Bird
Mark Leach, Bird & Bird
15.45 Afternoon Tea
16.15 Build it and they will land
How will Vertiports make money?
How much funding is needed?
Can infrastructure keep up with aircraft?
Moderator: Meghan Eisenstein, NATA
Duncan Walker, Skyports
Clem Newton-Brown, Skyportz
Wouter du Preez, Greenstar Aviation Partners
Brad Miller, Ferrovial Vertiports
17.00 [email protected]
Judges Include:
Nichola Bates, Boeing
18.00 Cocktail Reception
Wednesday 26th April
09.00 Opening Remarks
09.05 Finding early-stage investment
Has appetite changed?
The role of accelerators
Strategic versus return investors
Moderator: Richard Moody, Cranfield Aerospace Solutions
Nichola Bates, Boeing
Oz Eliav, Cockpit Innovations
09.45 Archer Aviation – Are partnerships key to being operational?
Mark Mesler, Archer Aviation
10.05 Whose sky is it anyway?
Managing shared airspace
Working with existing ATC systems
Moderator: Dean Donovan, DiamondStream Partners
10.45 Future of Flight realism: The challenges and opportunities of both decarbonising aviation and AAM
Chris Brown, KPMG
11.05 Morning Coffee
11.35 Overcoming the Hype – ushering AAM into an operational reality
Dave Stepanek, Bristow Group
11.55 Who will fly new aircraft?
How many pilots will AAM need?
Will new operators compete with existing operators?
How can you train thousands of new pilots efficiently?
Stella-Marissa Hughes, CAE
Julie Garland, Avtrain
Christophe Lapierre, Luxaviation
12.35 The autonomous aviation revolution
How to reassure passengers?
Does Urban Air Mobility need autonomy to add up?
Alison Wyrick, Honeywell
12.55 Lunch
14.10 Financing manufacturing and the first deliveries
What options are available for OEMs and customers?
How can governments support new manufacturers?
Moderator: Eddie Gross, Vedder Price
Joshua Ng, Alton Aviation Consultancy
14.50 ZeroAvia – The hydrogen aircraft race
James McMicking, ZeroAvia
15.10 Flying on the public markets: Europe Edition
Moderator: Senior Representative, Raymond James
Dave Stepanek, Bristow Group
15.50 Keynote Presentation: Beta Technologies
Patrick Buckles, Beta Technologies
16.10 Afternoon Tea
16.40 Elroy Air: Rethinking Freight
Grant Newman, Elroy Air
17.00 The rising tide of amphibious aviation
When almost 2/3 of the world’s surface is water, why not use it as a runway?
Do we mean flying boats or amphibious aircraft, which hold greater potential
Are the lessons learnt from the Soviet Union and its Ekranoplan being ignored?
Billy Thalheimer, Regent
George Alafinov, Jekta
17.30 The economics of advanced air mobility
The future versus the history
How low can operating costs go?
Dean Donovan, DiamondStream Partners