Overview

The promise of a new generation of flexible aerial vehicles, within a system known collectively as Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), replacing noisy and polluting helicopters and light aircraft that provide urban and regional services across a few global cities today, has been in the air for a long time. During this decade this promise is poised to become reality, offering a new form of affordable, electric, autonomous and shared transportation for people, places and things in three dimensions which will help ease urban congestion, boost regional connectivity and challenge conventional operating models, whilst helping to deliver Net Zero.

New aircraft designs, propulsion systems and power sources have been developed by a number of existing aviation players as well as a plethora of new start-ups, with significant funding from capital investment funds and strategic partners, running in parallel with other disruptive transportation technologies such as Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, Digital Highways and Electric Micromobility.

Meanwhile, the equally important aviation infrastructure, air traffic control, policy and regulatory components are taking shape in countries and cities across the World. It is vital now that we understand how this all fits together. Industry and regulators are moving to match the pace of eVTOL and other aircraft development, to connect AAM with existing airspace and ground transport networks and ensure it meets the needs of its future users. AAM must also integrate with existing infrastructure, sectors, and industries with which it will intersect and upon which it will depend.

Many challenges and questions – and a few doubts – remain in developing a viable future roadmap towards commercial certification, early adoption and eventual technological and service model maturity. This topical and informative online seminar, hosted by CIHT Dubai, will seek answers and reassurance from leading players on the feasibility of AAM on urban and inter-urban routes, and the types of operators, aircraft, airports and services we can expect to see emerging and in operation by the end of the decade.

We will also hear about the specific potential of AAM for Dubai and wider UAE, and the steps that are, and could be, already being taken to prepare the ground (and air) for this.

Speakers

Jay Latta – Emerging Technology Strategist, StINT

Georg Zembacher – Head of Technology Innovation, Toyota Nexty

Dr Stefan Breunig – Head of Strategy, Rolls-Royce Electrical

Gloria Bouillon – Airport Director, Beverly Regional Airport, USA

James Walker – Senior Manager, Aviation Advisory, Atkins, UAE

Lilium – Speaker invited and to be confirmed

Help and Support 

THIS IS AN ONLINE EVENT. Attendance at this Seminar is free, but registration is mandatory. Sign- up here at Advanced Air Mobility

Registered attendees will be sent joining details shortly before the event.

For further information, e-mail us at ciht.dubaigroup@gmail.com