Revolution.Aero San Francisco 2024

December 4th & 5th | Grand Bay Hotel San Francisco

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Now in its seventh year in existence, Revolution.Aero will bring together over 250 senior attendees who are leading – funding and supporting – the future of flight. If you want to find out how aviation is changing – and meet the people shaping the future of aviation – you need to be at Revolution.Aero San Francisco 2024.

Unlike other Advanced Air Mobility conferences, Revolution.Aero San Francisco 2024 has a strong focus on finance. A large portion of our audience is VCs/Investors, aircraft lessors, investment banks, and customers – making this conference an incredibly effective business opportunity. Attendees have secured investments (eg Elroy Air), signed LOIs (eg ELECTRON and MintAir), signed mandates and formed companies as a direct result of Revolution.Aero events. Revolution.Aero San Francisco 2024 is not your typical industry conference. We’ve designed the event to be highly interactive – through extended Q&A sessions and live audience voting. There are also over 12 hours of networking – giving you the best chance to make long-lasting and powerful connections.

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Pitch

Speakers

Agenda

08.45 Registration and Refreshments

09.30 Opening Remarks

09.35 Challenges of growing new mobility markets
Complexity of Aviation
Jumping through certification hoops
Moving things vs moving people
Yotam Avrahami, New Vista Capital
Marc Ausman, Electra.Aero
Keisuke Yasukochi, Skydrive
Colleen Reiche, Ernst & Young
Matthew Graczyk, Ptero Dynamics

10.15 Seeing the Whole Picture: How AAM Relies on Connectivity for Airspace Awareness
Tamara Casey, AURA Network Systems
Fabrice Kunzi, Avidyne

10.35 The real economics of air taxis
Looking beyond the Uber assumptions
Unpicking operating costs
What cost per mile can early entrants achieve?
What will the economics look like in 20 years?
Kolin Schunck, Lufthansa Innovation Hub
Rob Wiesenthal, BLADE Urban Air Mobility
Stephan Baur, Roland Berger

11.15 Morning Coffee

11.45 The EVE of future air mobility
Megha Bhatia, EVE Air Mobility

12.05 My way or the highway
Horizontal versus Vertical Integration
Where will we see consolidation
Daniel Ateya, RTX Ventures
Karthik Gollapudi, Sift
Richard Wang, Crevasse Consulting
Peter Shannon, Radius Capital

12.40 The Bay of Plenty: realising San Francisco’s AAM network
Nikhil Goel, Archer Aviation

13.00 Lunch

14.15 Preparing for first operations
Integrating vs segregating airspace
Infrastructure, Infrastructure, Infrastructure
Moderator: Paola Libraro, Ernst & Young
Philip Brady, Skyports
Erick Corona, Wisk
Cory Cozzens, Altaport
Chris Rocheleau, NBAA

14.55 Understanding the potential of autonomy
Learnings from military exposure
Understanding the potential of different autonomy levels
Moderator: Lee Moak, Intrepid
Robert Rose, Reliable Robotics

15.15 Supersonic: Back to the future
Ensuring operational efficiency
The potential of the sonic thump
Supersonic vs hypersonic
The challenge of fuel costs
Vik Kachoria, Spike Aerospace
Dr Nick Cardwell, Venus Aerospace

15.55 Afternoon Tea

16.25 Fixing AI adoption in AAM
Freeing innovators to innovate
Emerging from the mountain of paperwork
Ensuring efficiency when capital is scarce
Anthony Mc Loughlin, Better Futures

16.45 Pitch @ Revolution.Aero Judges:
Dean Donovan, DiamondStream Partners

17.45 Cocktail Reception

Sponsors

Lead Sponsors

Used by next-generation manufacturers building world-defining hardware like spacecraft, power plants, and robots, First Resonance provides software to visionary companies where flexibility and quality traceability are critical for success. The ION Factory OS by First Resonance makes it possible for engineers to rapidly move from complex prototypes to seamless production, accelerating the development cycle. With ION Analytics, decision-makers get real-time visibility into bottlenecks in the manufacturing process, empowering them to iterate quickly and at scale, resulting in faster time to market. For more information on First Resonance please visit: www.firstresonance.io

Sponsors

AURA Network Systems is designing and building an FAA-compliant network to provide safety-critical command-and-control (C2) links encompassing command data, telemetry data, and its own air traffic control (ATC) voice solution. The private network will enable crewed and uncrewed aircraft to safely navigate through national airspace, including beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS), using licensed aviation-designated spectrum ideal for secure and reliable communications. AURA’s technology increases the commercial viability of autonomous operations. See auranetworksystems.com for more information.
We help AAM leaders get to market faster by automating up to 80% of certification paperwork with EVA, the first 'Engineering Verification Assistant'. Built by engineers for engineers, EVA leverages the power of generative AI at its core with the control and standardization needed for certification. EVA complements and accelerates existing certification processes, to free up engineering capacity to optimize performance, cost and ultimately accelerate building a better more sustainable future for us all.
Bristow Group Inc. is the leading global provider of innovative and sustainable vertical flight solutions. Bristow primarily provides aviation services to a broad base of major integrated, national and independent offshore energy companies. Bristow provides commercial search and rescue (SAR) services in several countries and public sector SAR services in the United Kingdom (U.K.) on behalf of the Maritime & Coastguard Agency. Additionally, the Company offers ad hoc helicopter and fixed wing transportation services. Bristow currently has customers in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, the Dutch Caribbean, Guyana, India, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Spain, Suriname, Trinidad, the U.K. and the U.S.
Eve is dedicated to accelerating the Urban Air Mobility ecosystem. Benefitting from a start-up mindset, backed by Embraer S.A.’s more than 50-year history of aerospace expertise, and with a singular focus, Eve is taking a holistic approach to progressing the UAM ecosystem, with an advanced eVTOL project, a comprehensive global services and support network and a unique air traffic management solution. Since May 10, 2022, Eve has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange, where its shares of common stock and public warrants trade under the tickers “EVEX” and “EVEXW.” For more information, please visit www.eveairmobility.com.
Jet AI is working towards a seamless experience for aviation operators and customers powered by natural language processing and advanced fleet logistics optimizations.
JetZero, co-founded by aerospace legend Mark Page, is developing the world’s first commercial blended wing body (BWB) airplane. With 50% lower fuel burn and carbon emissions compared to existing commercial airliners, JetZero's BWB offers the aviation industry a clear path to achieving its 2050 net-zero goals. Working alongside the US Air Force, NASA, and the FAA, and backed by decades of investment and research into blended wing technology, JetZero looks to enter commercial service by 2030.
PteroDynamics Inc. is an innovation leader in autonomous VTOL aircraft systems. PteroDynamics’ Transwing® aircraft combine the speed, range, and endurance of fixed-wing aircraft with superior VTOL performance in a highly efficient UAS platform, overcoming the speed, distance, and payload limitations inherent in other VTOL designs. The Transwing’s unique capabilities are ideal for automating time-sensitive delivery of critical high-value payloads to remote, hard-to-reach locations with no runways and in austere conditions, including maritime logistics support, payload delivery to remote locations without airstrips, and reconnaissance and surveillance.

Association Partner

Attendees

Who attended our 2023 San Francisco event:

1200.aero | AAM Institute | Acubed by Airbus | AE Industrial Partners LP | Aerialoop | AeroTEC | AeroTelematics | Aerovy Mobility | AFWERX, U.S. Air Force | AIN Media Group | Airbus Urban Air Mobility | AirFleet Capital, Inc | Alef Aeronautics | Alloy Product Development | ALOFT AeroArchitects | Altair | Altaport | Alton Aviation Consultancy | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics | Ampaire | And Aero | Angel | Apex View | ARC Aerosystems | Archer Aviation | Arup | Atlantic Aviation | AURA Network Systems | Avfoil | Avialex Law Group | Aviation Space Past & Future | Aviation Week Network | Azimuth | Bahrami Aviation LLC | Beacon AI | berkeley college | Beta Technologies | Blackbird Associates | Bluetail | BOLD | Bristow Group | CAE | Cerberus Capital Management LP | CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, University of California | City of Palo Alto | Clay Lacy Aviation | Cosmic Aerospace | Crane Aerospace & Electronics | Crgo | Cru Social Inc | Cuberg | CUSTOMCELLS | Daedalean AI | Deloitte | DeltaHawk Engines, Inc. | Diagnostic Solutions International, LLC | DiamondStream Partners | Dronamics | DropDrone | Dufour Aerospace | Duncan Aviation | EcoCopter | EKase Consulting | Electra.aero | Electric Power Systems | Electro.Aero | Elroy Air | EnerSys | Ernst & Young | European Business Aviation Association (EBAA) | Eve Air Mobility | Eviation | Evolito | Export Import Bank of the US | Falko | Federal Aviation Administration | Fleasy | FlightHouse Engineering | FlightLine Technologies, Inc | FlightSafety International | Fuelogic | Global Aerospace | Goldman Sachs | Greenjets | GTI Aviation | Guardian Jet | gunnercooke | H3X Technologies | Heart Aerospace | Hummingbird Aero International | Hydroplane | ICF International | IDA IRELAND | Innovative Solutions & Support | Ironwindtech | Jaunt Air Mobility | JetBlue Ventures | JetInsight | JetPerfect Foundation | JetZero | Joby Aviation | JPMorgan Chase & Co. | Jump Aero | KinectAir | L3Harris Commercial Aviation | Law Offices of Paul A. Lange, LLC | Limosa | Luminary Cloud | M4 Engineering, Inc. | Macquarie Rotorcraft | MagLev Aero | Magpie Aviation | McKinsey & Company | Merlin Labs | MightyFly | Moya Aero | NASA | National Business Aviation Association | New Vista Capital | Odys Aviation | Opener | Overair | Panorama Aero | Perception A | Piasecki Aircraft Corporation | PlaneWave, Inc. | Pratt & Whitney Canada | PteroDynamics | Reed Smith LLP | REGENT | Reliable Robotics | Renaissance Strategic Advisors | Ricardo | Rotor | RTX Ventures @ Raytheon Technologies | Safe Air Mobility | Seabury Capital LLC | Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton, LLP | Sikorsky Aircraft, A Lockheed Martin Company | Skali, Inc. | SkyGrid | Skyrisks | Skytrac | SMG Consulting | Sol | Solairus Aviation | Sonomaaviation | Southern Sky Aviation | Special Mission Aircraft Support Services, Inc. (“SMASS, Inc.”) | Starburst Aerospace | Sugarmobility | Supernal | Surf Air | Swift Engineering Inc. | Thales Digital Factory | Thales Group | The Air Current | The Flying Car | The Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkley | TransMedics | True-Course | Tucana-Group | U.S. Air Force | United Airline Ventures | United Airlines, Inc | Universal Hydrogen | UP.Partners | Vedder Price | Venus Aerospace | VerdeGo Aero | Volocopter | Wave Engine | Wetterman & Co. | Wingtra | Wisk | XTI Aircraft | Xwing | ZeroAvia | Zeva

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