Are you ready for the revolution?


WHAT IS REVOLUTION.AERO?

Where the people reshaping, rethinking and revolutionising business and personal aviation meet.

Running for the second time in San Francisco and following the success of Revolution.Aero Europe 2019, the event will bring together new start-ups disrupting the market with companies that have been leading the industry for decades. It will help investors, analysts, journalists and other opinion formers understand this uniquely regulated industry and help regulators plot the future.

To register as an attendee or as a partner please email agnieszka@corporatejetinvestor.com for more information.

If you are interested in speaking at the conference, please email hannah@corporatejetinvestor.com

Agenda

With a mixture of 15 minute (TED-style) presentations and in-depth panels, Revolution.Aero San Francisco will bring you new insights you can use. 

There will also be lots of opportunities for you to shape the debate with live and electronic Q&A at the end of each session - as well interactive polling and the opportunity to post anonymous comments. You do not just sit and listen, you lead the content.

All attendees will also vote for the winners during the Pitch@Revolution competition (find out more about Pitch here)

If you are interested in speaking please email: hannah@corporatejetinvestor.com

(Please note that the agenda timings and sessions can change so do keep checking back for updates)

Day one - Monday 23rd September

07.15 Refreshments & registration

08.00 Welcome to the Fourth Aviation Revolution

Alasdair Whyte, Revolution.Aero

8.10 How the inability to raise capital could hold the revolution back

Kirsten Bartok, AirFinance

08.30 The bizjet tech arms race
Changing the industry from the inside
Is there enough data for one company

Moderator: Alasdair Whyte, Revolution.Aero
Andrew Collins, Sentient Jet
Greg Johnson, One Sky Flight
Per Marthinsson, Avinode Group

9.10 Disrupting private aviation for passengers
Democratising business aviation
How big can the market get?

Kenny Dichter, Wheels Up

09.30 Why air traffic control is key
Will airspace become just as congested as roads?
Managing the space in the sky
Are new technologies a help or a hindrance?

Moderator: Starr Ginn, NASA
Jon Damush, Boeing NeXt
Ali Husain, SkyGrid
Michele Merkle, FAA
Jessie Mooberry, Airbus UTM

10.10 How do you forecast a market that does not yet exist?
What industries can you compare VTOL to?
Regulation and other black swans?

Moderator: Edward Gross, Vedder Price
Brian Foley, Brian Foley Associates
Jeffrey Lowe, Asian Sky Group
Doug Reinart, Porsche Consulting
Dean Roberts, Rolls-Royce
Tobias Strobl, Business Models Inc.
Kenneth Swartz, Vertical Flight Society

10.50 Morning coffee

11.10 Micromobility to Air Taxis: Investing In The Next Generation of Mobility

Jim Adler, Toyota AI Ventures

11.30 Fireside chat: Regulating innovation

Tim Arel, FAA

12.00 Can aerial urban mobility fly over all the obstacles facing adoption?
Are the biggest challenges physical (gravity), chemical (batteries), legal or psychological?

Moderator: Cyrus Sigari, jetAVIVA
Ryan Doss, Karem Aircraft
Joseph Segura-Conn, Hoversurf Inc.
Wyatt Smith, Uber
Senior representative, Joby Aviation

12.40 Lunch hosted by CharterPad

13.40 Connecting aviation

Sacha Wetzel, Avfoil

14.00 Aerial ridesharing at scale
Can Uber hit its 2023 deadline?

Nikhil Goel, Uber

14.20 Why certification is just one hurdle: Operating innovative aircraft
How does flying work today - Part 135 & Part 91 for beginners
How to make sure regulators can keep up with new aircraft and business models
Starting the dialogue early - what worries regulators

Moderator: David Norton, Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton
Patrick Hansen, Luxaviation
David Hernandez, Vedder Price
Michael Whitaker, Whitaker AirSpace

15.00 CharterPad

Armando Antonini , CharterPad

15.20 Afternoon tea

15.40 Blockchain in aviation
How it fits aviation
Getting regulators onboard
Selling to different stakeholders

Moderator: Ford von Weise, Citi Private Bank
Aiham Bader, Click Aviation Network
Sandra Ro, Global Blockchain Business Council
Todd Siena, Block Aero
Richard Steeves, TrustFlight

16.20 Eye in the sky: NASA’s solution to the future of airborne traffic management

Joseph Rios, NASA

16.40 Why electric aircraft are the future of flight training
The pilot challenge
Why training fits electricity

George Bye, Bye Aerospace

17.00 Pitch@Revolution.Aero

Judges: Jim Adler, Toyota AI Ventures
Kirsten Bartok, AirFinance
Adam Twidell, PrivateFly

18.30 Cocktail reception hosted by Avfoil

Day two - Tuesday 24th September

08.00 Refreshments

08.30 Welcome remarks
Alasdair Whyte, Revolution.Aero

08.35 Finding early-stage investors
Cash versus connections
Finding Angel investors

Moderator: Katerina Barilov, Sparkplug Capital+
Gwen Lighter, GoFly
Peter Shannon, Levitate Capital
Angela Shi, Plug & Play Tech Center

09.15 Bringing virtual reality to aviation
The changing face of flight training

Ryan Pulliam, Specular Theory

09.30 Keeping leadership in disruptive times
Are airlines and OEMs the right organisations to disrupt aviation?
Can large organisations pivot?
Is aviation biased towards larger organisations?

Moderator: Alasdair Whyte, Revolution.Aero
Mark Cousin, A^3 by Airbus
Brian Schettler, Boeing HorizonX Ventures
Andre Stein, Embraer X

10.10 Aviation Title: from handwritten documents to Blockchain
Aircraft title vs property title issues
How do you get stakeholder buy in?

Clay Healey, AIC Title Service

10.30 A century of flying

Erik Lindbergh, The Lindbergh Foundation

10.50 Morning coffee

11.20 The latest developments in urban air mobility

Cyrus Sigari, jetAVIVA

11.40 Why building aircraft is hard work
How fast can the sector grow?
Lessons from the last 100 years
How the OEM supplier relationship is changing who is driving innovation
New technologies: additive manufacturing

Moderator: John Stack, Canaccord Genuity
Ron Epstein, Bank of America Merill Lynch
Jonathan Raviv, Citigroup
Shawn Vick, Global Jet Capital / AE Industrial Partners
Rolland Vincent, JETNET iQ

12.20 The changing face of urban air mobility

Bonny Simi, JetBlue Technology Ventures

12.40 Building a fixed-wing (business) model
Rethinking regional flight
Can new technologies change the economics of short haul flight

Moderator: Dean Donovan, DiamondStream Partners
Tom Hsieh, FLOAT Shuttle
Robert LaBelle, XTI Aircraft
Rob McKinney, Mokulele Airlines

13.20 Lunch

14.30 Updating business aviation Breaking down silos
Is the total addressable market too small for tech companies?
Where are the easy wins

Moderator: Brian Flynn, DiamondStream Partners
David Fox, Stellar Labs
Paolo Sommariva, FL3XX

15.10 Financing the Fourth Aviation revolution
The dangers of being too early
Are too many companies targeting the same areas?Mining for gold versus selling shovels  

Moderator: Alasdair Whyte, Revolution.Aero
Srini Ananth, Intel Capital
Brian Flynn, DiamondStream Partners
Damineh Mycroft, Boeing HorizonX Ventures
Paul Willard, Storm Ventures

15.50 Afternoon tea

16.20 Urban aerial mobility in 2020
Why it is too early to write-off helicopters
Lessons from existing operators

Moderator: Alasdair Whyte, Revolution.Aero
Tim Arel, FAA
Bill Goodwin, Skyryse
Rob Wiesenthal, Blade
Senior representative, Voom Flights

17.00 How soon will electric aircraft become widespread?
Hybrid electric vs. fully electric
eVTOL vs. fixed wing

Moderator: Dean Donovan, DiamondStream Partners
Eric Bartsch, VerdeGo Aero
Roei Ganzarski, magniX
Kevin Noertker, Ampaire

17.40 Closing remarks

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