Duncan is co-founder and CEO of Skyports, that designs, builds and operates take-off and landing infrastructure for electric air taxis, as well as providing drone delivery within the medical, e-commerce and logistics sectors. Duncan has 20 years of commercial real estate experience. He was a Main Board Director at Helical plc, a FTSE listed investment and development company. 

Recognised as a Global 100 Irish Business Leaders, Michael is the CEO of Atlas Crest Investment, leading over 1,500+ Accenture consultants worldwide as they help drive transformational growth and technology led innovation for investment banks, asset and wealth managers, and exchanges. With over 23 years’ experience as a leader, investor and advisor, he is recognised for a global perspective of the capital markets sector, keen insight into the evolution of market segments, and the ability to envision, map and activate technology-led transformation, business growth and innovation.  

Ian is an award-winning UAV specialist and developer with a particular interest in air taxis, eVTOL and drone connectivity. Ian was recently an adjudicator for the Galileo Masters and is working with the EU on the future of drone technologies.

Lizann Tjon is the program manager smart mobility of the City of Amsterdam. Her professional career started at 2010 the City of Amsterdam, where she worked as strategic policy advisor for in the social department. In 2012, she switched to the Economic Department in the role of project manager, specifically to stimulate knowledge and innovation and enhance the role of the creative industries cluster and initiated several projects in public-private partnership. Currently she is responsible for innovation via the smart mobility program at the Chief Technology Office of Amsterdam.

Alban is leading the Innovation and Corporate Venture team of Aéroports
de Paris/ Groupe ADP, the leading international airports management
group. As a former strategy consultant with aerospace engineering
background, he is in particular in charge of ADP roadmap on Urban Air
Mobility (UAM), with Pontoise airfield UAM sandbox and Paris Olympics
2024 as a target, through vertiports development, partnerships and
contribution to new regulations.

Andrew is Director of Safety Transformation at NATS and is leading the safe integration of drones into UK airspace. As well as integrating UTM capability into today's operation, NATS is working closely with drone operators to develop sustainable safety cases for operations alongside manned aviation.

Munish currently works at EUROCONTROL as a Senior Business Development Directorate European Civil-Military Aviation Co-operation and Strategies at Eurocontrol, responsible for developing ATM/Unmanned Traffic Management business with international stakeholders.

Andreas has over a decade of extensive international marketing and communications experience with senior marketing roles in the aerospace industry, government and telecom sectors, including the European Parliament, Telekom Austria Group or FACC.

Darrell is an advisor to NASA’s Transformative Vertical Flight programme, the Advance Air Mobility panel at ADS Group, the Community Air Mobility Initiative and is a board member of the British Aviation Group. Darrell has over 20 years’ experience as an aviation consultant on airport masterplanning projects thru to airport acquisition advisory services.

Mareike is the Market Segment Manger for the Urban and Advanced Air Mobility at Henkel. The company is supplying reliable solutions to the Aerospace and Automotive Industry including Adhesives, Coatings and Electronics, always having the various aspects of sustainability in focus. With these product portfolios and a long expertise in various markets Henkel is taking the step into the UAM. Prior to this, Mareike has worked in product development for the Aerospace Industry as the technical lead for different projects.

Nikhil Sachdeva is a Senior Manger at Roland Berger working on how the aviation sector can transition to more climate-friendly technologies, from electrical propulsion to hydrogen and SAFs, as well as the commercial and technological implications for the aerospace sector. As a consultant, he specialises in strategy projects for aerospace and aviation clients, having worked with major aerospace OEMs, suppliers, as well as major airlines. 

Phoebe Parry-Crooke is a Partnerships Manager at what3words; helping businesses and organisations make use of their technology. Her main focus is around supporting infrastructure and UAV companies to integrate the technology and get their consumers using it. what3words is the simplest way to talk about location. The location technology company is enabling people around the world to identify and share any precise location using just three words. what3words has taken the globe, and divided it into a grid of 3m squares, giving each one a unique 3 word address, made of three words from the dictionary.

Philip, the Head of ATM at Altitude Angel is focusing on creating global-scale solutions that enable the safe integration and use of fully autonomous drones into airspace worldwide. Supporting both U-Space and UTM, its purpose-built cloud platform delivers class-leading services to drone operators, manufacturers and software developers by enabling them to access a rich source of real-time aeronautical, environmental and regulatory data all tailored to the individual operation dynamically.

Kolin is Research & Intelligence Analyst at Lufthansa Hub with the focus areas on Future of Aerial Mobility (e.g. new technologies (electric, hydrogen, SAF), urban air mobility, autonomous flight, space travel, super- and hypersonic flight)

Brenden Hedblom is the program lead for Eve’s Urban Air Traffic
Management business with experience in conventional and emerging traffic
management solutions. Within Eve, Brenden is responsible for the product
development and strategy of the traffic management systems and services
focused on advancing towards a more unified airspace construct. Prior to
the spin-out of Eve, Brenden led the collaboration between EmbraerX and
Airservices Australia to co-publish the Urban Air Mobility CONOPS.
Currently, Brenden is managing the Eve led consortium composed of
world-leading organizations participating in the CAA Innovation Sandbox
to enable the growth of UAM in the UK.

Jack is Chief Commerical Officer at Airpeeder, which is is the world's first electric flying car race series. Found at the confluence of frontier technology and new world entertainment, the Airspeeder race series is traditional Motorsport evolved. The sky is now our playground! The greatest champions, in the fastest eVTOL vehicles, racing head-to-head in three dimensions will drive innovation and adoption of the nascent Electric Vertical Take-Off & Landing Industry through sustained competition at the highest level.

Gökhan is the founder and CEO of A-techSYN. A-techSYN develops and manufactures proprietary Unmanned Aviation System (UAS) solutions including field proven LALE Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) fixed wing UAVs and mid to high speed Target Drones. A-techSYN is vertically integrated and does not only develop and manufacture UAS,Autopilot and key electronic components, but also trains operators and mechanics,
provides MRO and even flight services to customers.
Gokhan is founder and CEO of A-techSYN, which is a significant actor in the VTOL UAV
market and has designed and developed over 6 new UAV platforms, 2 Autopilots and
GCS Software besides 14 UAV Sub Systems since 2013.

Phil is the Director of Birdstrike Management UK, servicing the aviation bird and wildlife management sector. Prior to starting Birdstrike Management, Phil worked at the UK Government’s Fera/AHVLA wildlife management team and was responsible for delivering wildlife control and advice to the aviation industry. Phil is a highly motivated professional responsible for the delivery of birdstrike standards check projects for international airports and airlines. He has specialist skills and expertise in the mitigation of aviation birdstrike risk at airports, ornithological field survey and wildlife control. He has presented at IBSC, Eurocontrol and EASA on European Birdstrike Reduction programmes and has unrivalled experience in assessing bird hazard management programmes within Europe; Phil has also gained a great deal of experience in the Middle East and Africa. Specialities: Training, Safeguarding, Identification, Inspection and Risk Assessment of Aviation Wildlife Management. Field monitoring and control of risk from off-airfield bird and wildlife strike hazards.