• 12 Jun 2019 01:09 PM
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Uber Elevate Summit 2019 News, Photos & Videos

Uber held its third annual Elevate Summit on June 11-12 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC. VFS was there in force, live-tweeting the event (https://twitter.com/electricVTOL) and posting photos real-time on Twitter and Facebook.

VFS has an album of 60 pictures from the event in the Vertical Flight Photo Gallery.

According to the company, "The Uber Elevate Summit brought together 1200+ attendees for 2 days of technical sessions, hands-on demos, and evening networking events." A full listing of the featured speakers, agenda and more is available on their Summit 2019 webpage; this includes a summary of the speakers and the full Uber Elevate agenda and all videos (including hidden videos).

Major announcements from Uber Elevate 2019 are included below.

Uber

• Uber is hiring in NYC to build out its “air operations center” [with helicopters to learn more about flying air taxis], Fast Company, June 5, 2019
• Day 1 Uber Elevate Summit 2019 livestream video on YouTube, June 11, 2019
• Day 2 Uber Elevate Summit 2019 livestream video on YouTube, June 12, 2019
• Highlights: Uber Elevate Summit 2019 YouTube playlist (all), June 11-12, 2019. Individual video links:
  • UBER AIR: The Future of Airborne Travel [1:46]
  • UBER AIR: Delivering Uber Eats with Drones [3:23]
  • UBER AIR: Our Vision [3:33]
  • UBER AIR: 360 Video [4:05]
  • Uber Elevate Summit 2019: Day 1 [3:09]
  • Introducing JUMP Bike 5.8 and JUMP Scooter v2 [0:38]
  • Self Driving Technology at Scale [0:42]
  • Designing for Aerial Ridesharing [0:45]
  • Customer-Obsessed Design for Aerial Ridesharing [16:25]
  • Standing for Safety with Uber CLO Tony West [9:35]
  • Urban Air Mobility - Closer Than You Think [36:06]
  • Announcing the First Uber Air Market Outside the US [0:36]
  • Urban Aviation in the US [29:21]
  • UBER AIR: eVTOL Concepts [0:44]
  • EVP Technology and Innovation [0:38]
  • Announcing Uber's New Vehicle Partner [15:12]
  • Energy Storage for Urban Aviation [0:40]
  • FAA Acting Administrator Dan Elwell Discusses Safety [20:26]
  • Pipistrel Vertical Solutions [8:57]
  • Boeing and the Future of Aviation Innovation [11:36]
• The full Uber Elevate agenda and all videos (including hidden videos)

Jaunt

• Uber adds another air taxi vehicle partner to the mix, June 11, 2019
• Honeywell and Jaunt Air Mobility to Collaborate on Urban Air Mobility Technologies, June 11, 2019
• Jaunt Air Mobility Selects Triumph Aerospace Structures to Provide Engineering Services on eVTOL Vehicle, June 11, 2019
• Tweet: "25% Scale Model of #JauntAir at the #UberElevate summit. Demonstrator expected in 2023!" June 15, 2019

Infrastructure Partners

• AT&T and Uber Working to Boost Commercial Air Service, AT&T, June 11, 2019