Future of Aviation Speaker

Antony Evans

Traffic Management System Architect
Acubed

Dr. Antony Evans is the traffic management system architect for Airbus UTM, at A Cubed, the Airbus Innovation Center in Sunnyvale, California. Tony has 16 years of research experience in air transportation, and has published widely on air traffic management, aviation and the environment, unmanned traffic management, and urban air mobility. He has two Masters degrees from MIT and a PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Thea Ewing

Chief Regional Development Officer
Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission

Thea Ewing leads the transportation planning, economic development and innovative initiatives at the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission as the Chief Regional Development Officer. She is a 20-year public servant that has worked at the county, regional, and state levels of government. Thea has a BA in Public Administration and Urban and Regional Planning from Miami University and a Master of Public Administration from Wright State University. She is in the American Institute of Certified Planners, in the Ohio Association of Commodores, and is the current President for Clean Fuels...

Chris Fernando

Advisor and Advanced Air Mobility Consultant
EY Parthenon

Chris is an experienced leader, mobility technology researcher, and management consultant with more than 20 years of professional experience in the aviation industry. His primary background is in airport operations and airspace with a focus on research efforts in the integration of emerging aviation technologies, related policy development, and airport/environmental planning. He is a recognized subject matter expert in these fields and his expertise in Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) has resulted in multiple engagements with Federal clients and airports in the U.S. to support integration...

Addison Ferrell

Head of Americas
Skyports

Addison is Head of Americas for Skyports, leading the company’s commercial efforts in the region to acquire, design & build, and operate vertiports for air taxis. His team addresses real estate agreements, local stakeholder engagement, regulatory approvals, airport planning, operational procedures, and enabling technology required to develop and operate a safe, efficient, passenger-friendly vertiport. He began his career as a mechanical engineer designing jet engines at GE Aviation in Cincinnati. Following that, he joined McKinsey as a management consultant, serving clients in...

Nicholas Flom

Specialist Leader
Deloitte Consulting, LLP

Nicholas Flom is an aviation professional who has been focusing on the UAS industry for the past 10 years. Mr. Flom spent the early part of his aviation career flight instructing, flight management, and obtaining a Part 135 Air Carrier Certificate for a start-up company to provide on-demand air taxi operations. During this time Mr. Flom acquired over 4,000 flight hours and earned his Airline Transport Pilot certificate.

Mr. Flom is a Specialist Leader for Deloitte Consulting where he is the market lead for state and local governments focused on US Drone Services. This offering...

James Foltz

Strategic Policy Manager for Emerging Aircraft
Federal Aviation Administration

James D. Foltz is the Strategic Policy Manager for Emerging Aircraft in the FAA Aircraft Certification Service, Policy and Innovation Division. In this role, he works to inspire creativity, innovation, and out of the box thinking to develop airworthiness solutions to safely integrate new technologies and emerging aircraft into the national airspace system utilizing a risk-based approach. James leads, envisions, and directs efforts to establish the strategic direction for certification policy of emerging aircraft, which have radically novel features differentiating them from...

Kenneth Freeman

Secure Airspace Project Engineer
National Aeronautics and Space Administration

After completing his undergraduate at UC Berkeley and master’s degree at San Jose State University, Kenneth joined NASA Ames Research Center. At NASA, he worked in local and wide area networking and network research.
He has played major roles in several engineering and research projects.

Examples include development of the Next Generation Internet Exchange West; development of quality of service,and IPv6 technologies on NASA networks; and prototyping of a wide range of high-performance networking applications, from remote echocardiography to air-traffic management.

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Daniel Friedenzohn

Professor, Aeronautical Science and Associate Dean, College of Aviation
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Daniel Friedenzohn (J.D., M.A., Economics) is Associate Dean and Professor in the College of Aviation at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida.

He obtained his law and master’s degree in Economics from Syracuse University and practiced law representing clients on various aviation, criminal, and land use matters. Dr. Friedenzohn also has airline management experience. He worked in the revenue management and international route planning departments at United Airlines.

Dr. Friedenzohn teaches aviation law and conducts research on various legal...

Maxime Gariel

Chief Technology Officer
Xwing

Maxime Gariel is the Chief Technology Officer at Xwing, an aviation company on a mission to radically improve human mobility through the use of fully autonomous airplanes. Maxime is a pilot whose lifelong dream is to make airplanes fly themselves. His work on autonomous flight systems includes fixed-wing to rotary-wing aircraft ranging from small to large aircraft. Prior to Xwing, Maxime was the Principal GNC (Guidance, Navigation & Control) Engineer at Rockwell Collins where he built autonomous aircraft systems like the AgustaWestland SW4 Solo autonomous helicopter. Maxime is a...

Geoffrey Gosling

Principal
Aviation System Consulting, LLC

Geoffrey Gosling is an independent consultant providing aviation system planning, analysis and research expertise on a broad range of air transportation topics. He has a Ph.D. in transportation engineering from the University of California (UC), Berkeley. From 1979 to 1987 he was an Assistant Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at UC Berkeley, responsible for teaching undergraduate and graduate courses on a range transportation subjects. From 1987 to 2002 he was a member of the research staff of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Berkeley, responsible for the...