Future of Aviation Speaker

As Director of Smart Communities at VHB, Curt is a future-focused leader managing collaborative teams that address complex community and mobility planning issues, including future-ready smart cities, advanced air mobility, community redevelopment, and healthy community design. With nearly 20 years of urban and environmental planning experience, he focuses on using technology and innovation to make our communities more sustainable, resilient, and equitable. He earned a Master of Urban and Environmental Planning degree from the University of Virginia and a Bachelor of Science in Natural...

Lori Pepper was appointed the Deputy Secretary for Innovative Mobility Solutions by Governor Newsom in August 2019. Her mission is to apply technology and best practices to the transportation ecosystem to ease the mobility of people, goods, and services throughout the state.

Prior to her appointment, Lori worked in Washington, DC as the Senior Federal Policy Specialist for Honda North America, Inc. where she focused on technology and innovation including connected and automated vehicles, robotics, artificial intelligence, intellectual property, and spectrum issues.

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Todd is a serial entrepreneur with a background in the technology, aviation, and automotive industries. He is passionate about the momentous technological changes occurring in transportation in cities, and advocates for open source technologies that both empowers cities and creates opportunities for the private sector. He identifies potential solutions to administering and managing public spaces including streets, sidewalks, and curbs, and challenges with operating drones and air-taxis within urban airspace. As a current public sector consultant, leader of a technology company, helicopter...

Dr. Clinton Purtell, a professor of logistics and operations management, serves as Associate Director of the Jim McNatt Institute for Logistics Research at the University of North Texas and is a member of UNT’s Center for Integrated Intelligent Mobility Systems (CIIMS). His career and industry experience span more than two decades in executive leadership roles in a number of Fortune 500 and Euro 50 firms leading global supply chains, strategic sourcing, and corporate development in industries such as airline transportation, consumer goods, medical devices, restaurants and manufacturing. Dr...