Aircraft Electric Propulsion: Transforming Aviation

• Andrew R. Gibson, President, Business Development, Aerospace Engineer, Empirical Systems Aerospace (Moderator): slides (pdf)
• Mike Hirschberg, Executive Director, AHS International — The Vertical Flight Technical Society: slides (pdf)
• Amy Jankovsky, Subproject Manager, Hybrid Gas-Electric Propulsion, NASA Glenn Research Center: slides (pdf)
• Matt Knapp, Founder and Aero CTO, Zunum Aero 
• Joseph Oldham, Director, San Joaquin Valley Clean Transportation Center, CALSTART: slides (pdf)

On Tuesday, June 6, the AIAA AVIATION plenary keynote presentation was also livestreamed (1 hour):

Innovation in the Age of the Third Revolution

• Paul Eremenko, Chief Technology Officer, Airbus (starts at the 3:15 minute mark in the livestream)

On Friday, June 9, the AIAA AVIATION plenary keynote presentation was also livestreamed (1 hour):

Urban On-Demand Aerial Ridesharing—The Next Commercial Aviation Market

• Mark Moore, Director of Aviation, Uber Engineering (starts at the 6:00 minute mark in the livestream)

On Thursday, June 8, two panels (not livestreamed) covered aircraft development:

Electric Aircraft Prototyping

• Tine Tomažič, Director of R&D, Pipistrel: slides (pdf)
• Sean Clarke, Principal Investigator for NASA's X-57 Maxwell experimental aircraft and Advanced Systems Development Engineer, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center: slides (pdf)
• Geoffrey Bower, Chief Engineer, A³ by Airbus: slides (pdf)
• Francesco Giannini, Aircraft Designer, Advanced Concepts, Aurora Flight Sciences: slides (pdf)
• David Josephson, Engineer/CEO, Josephson Engineering, Inc.: slides (pdf)

Urban VTOL Panel Discussion

• Brian J. German Associate Professor, Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (Moderator)
• Jon Rimanelli, CEO, Detroit Aircraft
• Geoffrey Bower, Chief Engineer, A³ by Airbus
• Gregory J. Bowles, Vice President of Global Innovation & Policy, General Aviation Manufacturers Association
• David Josephson, Engineer/CEO, Josephson Engineering, Inc.
• Mark D. Moore, Director of Aviation Engineering, Uber Technologies
• Tine Tomažič, Director of R&D, Pipistrel

5th Transformative Vertical Flight Workshop 

The next workshop will be held in conjunction with the AHS International Technical Meeting "Aeromechanics Design for Transformative Vertical Flight," Jan. 16 - 19, 2018, Holiday Inn at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, California: www.vtol.org/aeromechanics