Future of Aviation Speaker

Rubén Del Rosario

Vice President
Crown Consulting, LLC

Dr. Rubén Del Rosario serves as vice president, Aerospace & Advanced Transportation, for Crown Consulting Inc. In this role, he directs Crown services in advanced air mobility and aerospace systems development and engineering with an emphasis on forging research and development partnerships across industry and government agencies.

Del Rosario joined Crown in 2019 after a 29-year career at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) John. H. Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, where he last served as director of aeronautics. He provided executive...

Anna Dietrich

Co-Founder and Director of Industry and Strategy
Community Air Mobility Initiative (CAMI)

Anna is an industry-recognized leader in policy, certification, and government relations for advanced air mobility (AAM), eVTOL aircraft, and autonomous aviation. Her aerospace experiences started with Mars rover testing, and include being the founding COO of Terrafugia, testifying on AAM for Congress, and speaking at TED Global. She has appeared on or been published in a wide range of outlets including CNN, Ms. Magazine, and Good Morning America. Currently, she runs AMD Consulting, serves as Regulatory Lead for Xwing, is the co-founder and Director of Industry and Strategy at the...

Carl Dietrich

Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer
Jump Aero

Carl founded Jump Aero to help first responders get to the scene of an emergency as fast as possible. Prior to Jump, he led the flying car company Terrafugia from founding through acquisition by the Zhejiang Geely Holding Group. He served Terrafugia as CEO, CTO, and as a board director for 13 years. He is the current Chairman of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association committee on Simplified Vehicle Operations. He is the inventor or co-inventor on multiple issued patents and patents pending and has won numerous awards including Aviation Week and Space Technology’s 40 under 40...

Darshan Divakaran

Senior Manager - Strategic Innovation and Partnerships
AFWERX, US Air Force

Darshan “Dash” Divakaran is an aerospace intrapreneur and technology evangelist with expertise in unmanned aviation, aviation development, geospatial analysis, emerging technologies, and program management. His areas of expertise in unmanned aviation also includes Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM), Counter-UAS (CUAS) and Advanced Air Mobility (AAM). He has led efforts to work with federal, state, public safety, industry, and academia to develop, integrate and manage national/statewide programs and initiatives.

In his role with AFWERX, Dash leads efforts to promote innovation...

Johnny Doo

President
International Vehicle Research, Inc.

Mr. Johnny T. Doo is the President of International Vehicle Research, Inc., focusing on autonomous electric-powered flight vehicles envisioned for “Mission for Good” applications. He is the Group Lead of the NASA Transformative Vertical Flight (TVF) Working Group 4 - Public Services. Teaming with over 100 industry leaders and experts to develop the roadmap and use cases for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM)/eVTOL enabled search & rescue, firefighting, disaster relief, emergency/humanitarian response, law enforcement, medical transport, and military operations. He is also the lead...

Toni Drummond

Founder, CEO & Partner
Global Aerial Group/Prestige Air Group

Toni is a highly recognized leader and 25 year specialist in the private & general aviation industry. She is the Founder & CEO of Global Aerial Management Group, an emerging technologies company & UAS company based in Arizona. In addition, she is a Managing Partner at Prestige Air Group, a private jet charter and management company based in Henderson, NV.

Her roles over the years incorporated new business development, advanced aviation logistics, aircraft management, outside sales, project implementation, client retention and international flight planning for top-...

Arthur Dubois

Director of Engineering
Xwing

Arthur Dubois is the Director of Engineering at Xwing, an aviation company on a mission to radically improve human mobility through the use of fully autonomous airplanes. An experienced aerospace leader, Arthur has worked on several ground-breaking aerospace projects, from eVTOL aircraft design at Joby and Kitty Hawk, to Unmanned Aircraft Systems at Xwing. A strong advocate for Urban and Regional Air Mobility, he is a believer that aircraft autonomy and electrification will fundamentally reshape the way people move. Arthur holds an MS in Aerospace Engineering from Stanford University and a...

John S. Eberhardt III

Chief Technology Officer
ATA, LLC

Mr. Eberhardt is the Chief Technology Officer ATA, LLC. Mr. Eberhardt has over 25 years of experience in Solution Architecture, Systems Engineering, Data Science, and Analytics, managing teams of scientists and engineers to rapidly create customer-centered solutions in the Aviation, Defense, Healthcare, Security, and Biotechnology sectors.

Mr. Eberhardt has delivered data sharing systems in federal agencies, streaming data processing systems in commercial aviation, clinical decision support systems for cancer treatment, and logistics analysis systems, including award winning...

Edward Espiritu

Senior Manager
United Airlines

Edward Espiritu is a Senior Manager at United Airlines and currently leads the aerospace and aircraft technology vertical for United Airlines Ventures (UAV), having led the group’s transactions in Archer Aviation, Heart Aerospace and ZeroAvia. The company officially launched UAV in June 2021 as a corporate venture capital fund focusing on opportunities among three main pillars of sustainability, aerospace and technology. In addition to UAV, Edward also is part of the company’s Corporate Development team, where he led the company’s acquisition of its wholly owned flight training school and...

Jared Esselman

Director of Aeronautics
Utah Aviation Transportation System

Jared Esselman began his career in aviation in the United States Air Force as a Loadmaster in the 15th Airlift Squadron serving on over 300 combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan and is a decorated combat veteran.


During his military service, Jared also earned his FAA pilot certification and is an IFR-rated private pilot and certified Part 107 UAS operator.
Jared earned his Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.


Focused on aviation policy, Jared served as Director of State Government Affairs for the Aircraft Owners...