What are the mobility needs for future cities? - 9 September, 2021

• 01:30 - 01:35 hrs

  Opening

  What are the mobility needs for future cities?

  
  

  Moderator: Arjun Garg former Chief Counsel of the FAA, partner Hogan Lovells
• 01:35 - 01:40 hrs

  Video message

  The future of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) 

  
  

  Speaker: Jay Merkle, Executive Director UAS Integration Office Federal Aviation Administration
• 01:40 - 01:55 hrs

  Keynote speach:

  Elroy Air: world’s first end-to-end automated VTOL aerial cargo system

  ● Safe integration of emerging automated aviation technology

  ● Key challenges: certification and standard development

  ● The importance of collaboration with diverse stakeholders

  
  

  Speaker: Kofi Asante, VP Strategy and Business Development, Elroy Air
• 01:55 - 02:10 hrs

  Introduction to the panel

  Designing the future of urban air mobility in Los Angeles today

  ● The first Urban Air Mobility Partnership in the US

  ● The Principles of the Sky: a joint commitment to safe, low-noise, and sustainable UAM
   

  Speaker: Clint Harper, Los Angeles Urban Air Mobility Fellow
• 02:10 - 02:55 hrs

  Panel discussion

  The mobility needs for future cities: integrated, sustainable and autonomous?

  ● How to integrate AAM into airspace but also into our cities (urban mobility plans) as well?

  ● How can trust and security be guaranteed while growing number of public and
     private organizations rely on drone services for their activities?

  ● What is the role of cities? And how to engage residents around this new technology? 

   

  Interview moderator: Arjun Garg former Chief Counsel of the FAA
  Speakers:  Amit Ganjoo, CEO ANRA Technologies

  Parimal Kopardekar, Director of NASA Aeronautics Research Institute (NARI)

  Andrew Giacini, Regulatory Affairs Lead Skyports

    Clint Harper, Los Angeles Urban Air Mobility Fellow
• 02:55 - 03:00 hrs

  Wrap-up and closing
• 03:00 hrs

  End of session