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Local governments bear responsibility for over 80% of the pavement lane-miles in California, which carry 45% of the state’s vehicle miles traveled. Unfortunately, the condition of California’s pavement has worsened over the past 10 years. Recent legislation brings much needed funding to local governments for preserving existing pavement and restoring structural capacity to deficient pavement...
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Ernest Huffman is born and raised in Syracuse New York and received his Bachelors in Aeronautical Science from Dowling College and his Master’s in Aviation from Florida Institute of Technology. With over 20 years in the industry Mr. Huffman has worked all over the country as an Aviation Consultant. Included in that is his work as an Airline Technical Representative and managed the development of the Chicago O’Hare Modernization Program. His current role is the Aviation Planning and Education Program Manager for the North Central Texas Council of Governments. There he has different...
Join us aviation thought leaders and California stakeholders in dialog on issues and trends impacting the future of aviation; identify and understand key areas of concern for California communities with respect to changes in aviation; identify opportunities for the State of California to leverage these innovations for economic development; and aid Caltrans in developing a future of aviation research roadmap.
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...
Marc Ausman is a recognized expert in the fields of next-generation electric and autonomous aircraft. He is the Chief Product Officer at Electra.aero and previously was co-founder and CEO of Airflow.aero, a company that developed electric Short Take-Off and Landing (eSTOL) aircraft. He most recently served as Chief Strategist for the Airbus Vahana urban air mobility project, and before that Eclipse Aviation where he helped develop the world’s first very light jet. Marc served with the US Navy as a Naval Aviator and holds a commercial pilot certificate with multiengine and instrument...
Senior Strategist for Industry and Public Engagement
Federal Aviation Administration Air Traffic Organization
Beth White is currently Senior Strategist for Industry and Public Engagement for the FAA Air Traffic Organization. She is responsible for the coordination of a matrixed effort that develops standards for national and regional engagement efforts with aviation stakeholders as well as communication efforts with local communities.
Prior to her move to the Air Traffic Organization White was the Senior Advisor of Communications for the FAA.
Ravi Singh has 20 years of professional experience in the aviation industry working with airport clients across the U.S. and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Ravi has a deep background in policy development, strategic planning, infrastructure planning, design, and implementation, requirements development, and integration of emerging technologies. He is working with clients to help develop infrastructure solutions that will enable the integration of rapidly advancing technologies into airport operations and regional transportation systems. Through his extensive network and...
North Carolina Department of Transportation Division of Aviation
Riley came to NC Division of Aviation from the NC Community College System where he was employed by Montgomery Community College for 18 years. Overseeing the college’s Public Safety and Emergency Services Department, Riley saw a true need for UAV/UAS education within the public safety sector and formed the NC Public Safety Drone Academy. The Academy worked to train thousands of public safety members across NC from basic flight, search and rescue, natural disaster operations, active shooter, to advanced multi-agency operations. Most importantly, by establishing his Academy within the North...
Josh Metz is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Monterey Bay DART Initiative, which grew out of his tenure as Economic Development Manager, then Executive Officer at the Fort Ord Reuse Authority (FORA). In those roles, Josh worked with multiple public and private sector partners to advance regional recovery from the economic impact of the 1994 Fort Ord base closure. Josh was instrumental in securing the Joby Aviation presence at the Marina Airport, and continues to work to realize a robust DART-related...
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...
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ames Research Center
Shivanjli Sharma has worked as an aerospace research engineer across many disciplines at NASA Ames Research Center for more than ten years. She has performed research and helped conduct studies in real time simulation environments for flight deck automation, operations, and procedures as well as air traffic controller focused simulations for terminal arrival operations. In addition, she has been involved in deploying software and hardware to facilities in the National Airspace System to enable efficiencies in integrated arrival, departure, and surface operations. These last few years...
Doug has over 30 years of diverse legal experience in government and industry. Prior to Reliable Robotics, he served as General Counsel and Executive Vice President of Governance and Compliance for Aerion Corporation and its subsidiaries. Doug began his career as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice Aviation & Admiralty Section, and received numerous accolades for meritorious service, including the FAA Chief Counsel award. Doug worked for Curtiss-Wright Corporation, BAE Systems and Spirit AeroSystems. He is a licensed...
Basil is a founding member and President of AeroX, a non-profit focused on building an AAM ecosystem in North Carolina. AeroX was recently awarded $5 million from the state legislature to build a UAS Traffic Management system in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is a founding member and General Partner in Aero X Ventures, a venture fund focused on AAM.
Basil serves as Vice President of Hovecon Consulting, which provides subject matter expertise and program development for emerging aviation technologies to industry and state/ local governments. He previously served as UAS Program...
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...
Smith has a superior and diverse training background in both military and civil aviation, which made him an ideal leader of the ERHC with its diverse membership of pilots and industry leaders with both military and civil experience. Throughout his career, Jeffery Smith has continually demonstrated his dedication to the industry in his willingness to take on new challenges and broaden his expertise. He has excelled as a pilot, a training instructor, directed operations and managed heliport activities in both New York and Washington, D.C.
Chris serves as chief of staff to the Chief Counsel of the Federal Aviation Administration. He previously managed the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce’s regional issues portfolio – including its transportation needs – before local, state, and federal legislative and executive agencies. Chris likewise assisted on transit issues before local elected officials and special districts as Senior Policy Manager with the Sacramento Downtown Partnership. Other positions Chris has held include district director/co-chief of staff for a member of Congress serving on the House Transportation...
Adam Cohen is a senior researcher in innovative and emerging transportation technologies, has completed more than 35 research projects on advanced air mobility (AAM), urban air mobility (UAM), mobility on demand, mobility as a service, shared mobility, and automated vehicles. He has over 17 years of experience as a researcher with the Transportation Sustainability Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, and 13 years of experience as a researcher with the Mineta Transportation Institute of San Jose State University. Adam currently serves as an expert contributor and...
Lisa Peterson is VP of Business Development for Airspace Link. Lisa is responsible for cultivating relationships with State and Local government agencies, as well as industry solution partners to enable the safe, scalable integration of UAS and AAM into the National Airspace (NAS), as well as into communities. Throughout her career, Lisa has been at the forefront in helping both public sector and enterprise organizations harness new technologies to drive greater efficiencies, environmental sustainability, and economic opportunities. Lisa has significant experience in the areas of...
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...
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...
CAMI’s AAM 101 is a half day workshop specifically designed to provide state and local decision-makers and agency staff as well as urban and transportation...
Axel is a Co-founder and Head of Product at Odys Aviation and has spent his career advancing transportation by bringing together technology, design, and business. At Odys Aviation, his core mission is assuring the product and the company exceed the needs of the customer and the market. Prior to COdys Aviation, Axel held a number of roles transforming vehicles. As Karma's Chief Vehicle Engineer for EV Platforms, he found the perfect balance between technology and beauty, developing the most versatile, low investment platform in the industry. In his previous roles, Axel has electrified...
Pricila Roldan is a Partnership Strategist for the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) where she focuses in developing partnerships with local agencies, private sector firms, academia, and community partners to advance SANDAG’s vision for a fully integrated, world-class transportation system. She leads stakeholder coordination to advance broadband access in the region, efforts related to planning and implementing Advanced Air Mobility services and supports binational planning for the Otay Mesa East Port of Entry II project. Previously, she led planning efforts for the California...
Timothy Middleton, C.M. has fifteen years of airport management, noise abatement, and environmental compliance experience. With a background in Political Science and Public Policy, Tim leverages his technical knowledge and public outreach expertise to effectively communicate to a wide range of clients, including members of the public, airport managers, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and state and local officials.
Tim is a thought leader at HMMH in supporting work with clients in understanding and fostering community acceptance of new aircraft entrants in to the...
Associate Vice President of Global Transportation Initiatives
Black & Veatch
Paul Stith is a recognized leader in the transportation electrification space. At Black & Veatch he is the is associate vice president of global transportation initiatives. With more than 30 years’ experience in technology and business, and active in electrification for over a decade on policy, program development and execution for light, medium and heavy-duty vehicle charging infrastructure in urban, distributed and corridors.
Mr. Stith speaks frequently at U.S. and international events and was lead author of Smart Electric Power Alliance’s...
Susan Shaheen is a pioneer in innovative mobility strategies. She was among the first to research and write about the changing dynamics in shared mobility and likely scenarios through which automated vehicles might gain prominence and is actively working on advanced air mobility and urban air mobility. She is a professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a Co-Director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center of the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS)-Berkeley and Director of the UC ITS’ Resilient and Innovative...
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...
Davis Hackenberg is currently serving the NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) as the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Mission Integration Manager. He performs his duties from NASA Headquarters in Washington DC. Mission Integration Manager duties for AAM include strategic mission planning and leading the development and implementation of the AAM mission spanning all relevant ARMD project and center research activities with the goal of implementing the NASA AAM investment strategy in a manner that accelerates AAM. Davis is responsible for strategic and technical management,...
Andrew Cummins is the Director of Strategy and Business Development at Archer, which is developing an all-electric VTOL aircraft to provide fast, sustainable and safe aerial transportation to people in cities around the world. In his role, Andrew leads the company's Go-to-Market strategy, develops partnerships to build the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) ecosystem and collaborates with cities to seamlessly integrate UAM operations into communities around the world.
Prior to joining Archer, Andrew held numerous leadership roles in both corporate and start-up environments. Most recently, he...
Richard is the Branch Manager of Airworthiness and Engineering at the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA). In this role, Richard leads the Airworthiness and Engineering Branch which is functionally responsible for airworthiness standards development, aircraft certification, continued operational safety, and appointment and surveillance of authorised design and manufacturing organisations. Richard holds regulatory delegations from the Director of Aviation Safety and he is the CASA Head of Airworthiness responsible for compliance to ICAO Annex 8. Richard previously worked...
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.
Yolanka Wulff is Executive Director of CAMI, the Community Air Mobility Initiative, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support the responsible integration of aviation into community transportation through education, communication and collaboration. Yolanka is responsible for CAMI’s programs including the development of topical resources, webinars, conferences and collaborations. This includes the Urban Air Policy Collaborative, a cohort-based curriculum for state and local agencies and airports. Prior to co-founding CAMI in 2019, she was a sustainable aviation consultant...
Senior Aviation Planner & Senior Technical Principal
WSP
Gaël Le Bris, C.M., P.E. is a Senior Aviation Planner and Senior Technical Principal with WSP USA who holds two master’s degrees in aviation. He supervises aviation system and airport planning projects, and provides expertise in aviation engineering, operations, and safety in the U.S. and abroad. Prior to joining WSP, Mr. Le Bris was the Airside Development Manager at Paris-Charles de Gaulle International Airport. He is a committee member of ACC, ACI-NA, SAE International, TRB, and UAF&FA. He has authored over 60 articles and publications.
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...
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...
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...
Dr. Yu Zhang is a Professor with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida. Dr. Zhang leads the Smart Urban Mobility Laboratory at USF and serves as the co-Director of Center for Transportation, Environmental, and Community Health (CTECH), a USDOT Tier 1 UTC. Dr. Zhang applies AI and machine learning, mathematical programming and optimization techniques, and simulation to solve the problems for resilient, efficient, and sustainable transportation systems. Her recent efforts are focused on emerging services and technologies in...
Manal Habib is the CEO and founder of MightyFly. A graduate from both MIT and Stanford, Habib has developed a strong technical background in aerospace engineering. She previously specialized in flight controls and developed the first robust commercial flight controller. Manal is also a private pilot and in the process of building her own airplane. Her passion for aerospace, vision for a better world, and determination make her a motivated and unstoppable entrepreneur and leader.
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...
Steven is the Los-Angeles based Infrastructure Lead for Skyports, which designs, builds and operates vertiports for the emerging advanced air mobility (AAM) industry. At Skyports, he is leading the phased rollout of a multi-nodal vertiport network across the Los Angeles basin and surrounding areas to enable intra-urban aerial transport at scale. Prior to Skyports, Steven split time at the Mayor’s Office of Economic Development on the Mobility Innovation team under Mayor Eric Garcetti and Urban Movement Labs (UML) where he helped evaluate, select, and deploy transportation technology...
Ryan is a senior specialist with Joby Aviation’s government affairs team. In this role, he leads numerous regulatory, policy and standards development initiatives to facilitate the introduction of a new generation of safe, quiet and sustainable electric aircraft. Ryan joined Joby following two years with the Uber Elevate project, Uber's initiative to develop and launch a multimodal air-taxi service called Uber Air.
Ryan studied aerospace engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and also holds a Bachelors in Economics from SUNY Binghamton.
Ms. Gabriela Juarez is the Urban Air Mobility Lead for the City of Los Angeles Department of City Planning analyzing the opportunities and issues that this new mobility can help solve for the City. Her 17 years experience in City Planning has spanned long range/advanced planning, project/current planning, policy implementation, code studies and revisions as well as citywide policy. Prior to working for the City of Los Angeles, she worked for various planning and land use organizations and companies including non-profits and expediting consultants. She attended the University of...
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...
Ben Tigner is founder and chief executive officer of Overair, the Santa Ana, California, based aerial ridesharing company developing Butterfly, a purpose-built electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Ben leads all aspects of Overair's aircraft development and commercialization.
Ben has an established record as a preeminent engineer and executive. Prior to leading Overair, Ben pioneered the development of innovative fixed and rotary wing aircraft, both manned and unmanned. He previously served as the President of Karem Aircraft. Additionally, Ben was the Chief...
Justin Towles serves as the President of Crown Consulting, Inc. In this role, he oversees operations, partnership strategy and overall strategic growth of the organization.
Towles joined the Crown team in early 2022 at the height of a successful career in aerospace. He is widely recognized as a leading expert in advanced aviation policy and a fierce advocate for innovative technologies and systems. He is known for an ability to bring people together from across diverse ecosystems to forge coalitions and drive success. Through his work at the local, state and federal level, in...
Michael Rucinski is the Industry Engagement Manager for General Aviation at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). He works closely with industry stakeholders on a wide range of subject matter comprised of aviation policy, regulatory requirements, and security programs. He represents the TSA on working various groups and serves as the Co-Chair of the General Aviation Subcommittee of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee to the TSA Administrator.
Mr. Rucinski began his career with the federal government in 2002 and has held a variety of positions with the TSA and...
TechTransfer offers agencies a convenient way to purchase training for employees without the hassle of purchasing each class for each employee separately.
Agencies can now purchase prepaid training packages then designate the training funds for a specific individual, multiple individuals, or for all employees at the agency. Prepaid training packages can be purchased in any amount over $1,000. TechTransfer will send one invoice for the training package, then work with your agency to apply it toward the training your employees need. Individual employees and training classes...
Vince Bertoni is the Director of Planning for the City of Los Angeles. With over 30 years of professional planning experience, Vince leads the largest city planning department in the nation. He is charged with developing policies that shape the future of the City and guide development decisions for a diverse and dynamic metropolis of over 4 million people. Prior to arriving in Los Angeles, Vince was the Director of Planning and Community Development for the City of Pasadena where he successfully managed Pasadena’s city planning program through a General Plan update, a comprehensive...
Director - Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
John Cavolowsky is responsible for the overall planning, management, and evaluation of ARMD’s efforts to cultivate revolutionary concepts, tools, and technologies that enable aviation transformation. TACP solicits and encourages ideas, creates the environment for researchers to experiment with those ideas, explores broadly-critical technologies, develops new computational and experimental tools, performs ground and small-scale flight tests, allows failures and learning from them, and drives turnover into future concepts and first-of-a-kind capabilities.
Mr. Robert A. Pearce is the associate administrator for NASA ARMD. Pearce manages the agency’s aeronautics research portfolio and guides its strategic direction, including research in quiet supersonic flight over land, urban air mobility, autonomy, highly efficient advanced air vehicle concepts, electrified aircraft propulsion, advanced materials, airspace operations and safety, integration and flight demonstrations of aviation systems, and the nurturing and development of transformative concepts for aviation.
Pearce served as acting associate administrator from...
Tamara A. Swann serves as the Western-Pacific Region (AWP) Acting Regional Administrator starting April 2022.
As the Acting Regional Administrator, Tamara provides leadership on key agency priorities, such as horizontal integration across the FAA Lines of Business and Staff Offices, to ensure the Agency provides consistent stakeholder support and engagement. The office partners with Federal, state, and local governments and others to promote aviation safety and education across the region. The office is responsible for cross-agency coordination (or horizontal integration) on wide-...
Liza engages with government and industry to prepare the urban infrastructure for accessible and sustainable urban flights. She was a key contributor to Eve’s Urban Air Traffic Management (UATM) concept and applied her human performance and air traffic management expertise to the white paper, Flight Plan 2030. More recently, Liza contributed to several of Eve’s Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Concepts of Operations (CONOPS) that were tailored to different international cities. These CONOPS examined the technological, infrastructural, and regulatory ecosystems needed to launch and scale UAM...
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.
Anuj Totapudi is ZeroAvia's Business Development Director for North America, making zero emission propulsion a reality. Anuj guides Airframer partnerships and Airline customer relationships in support of ZeroAvia's strategic growth as an H2 Electric Leader. With over a decade of Commercial Jet Engine expertise, Anuj worked for the likes of Pratt & Whitney, Frontier Airlines, United Airlines and MTU, spanning from roles in product development, engineering operations and Sales of MRO Services. Anuj attended Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University for a Bachelors in Aerospace Engineering and...
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...
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-...
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...
Toks Omishakin was appointed the Secretary of the California State Transportation Agency (CalSTA) by Governor Gavin Newsom and sworn in February 2022. He previously served as Director of the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) since 2019, where he managed a $15 billion budget and nearly 22,000 employees who oversee 50,000 lane miles of highway, maintain approximately 20,000 bridges, provide permitting of more than 400 publicuse airports, fund three of Amtrak’s busiest intercity rail services and provide transit support to more than 200 local and regional transit...
Miami-Dade County Department of Transportation and Public Works
Carlos Cruz-Casas, P.E. is the Chief Innovation Officer at Miami-Dade County’s Department of Transportation and Public Works. His primary focus is to introduce mobility innovation and plan for a fully integrated transportation system. His career includes both public and private sector experience ranging from conceptual design to implementation of pedestrian, bicycle, transit, and traffic projects. As a professional engineer dedicated to the development of Livable Transportation, Carlos seeks to achieve the right balance between mobility and livability.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Aeronautics Research Institute (NARI)
Parimal Kopardekar (PK) serves as the Director of NASA Aeronautics Research Institute (NARI). In that capacity, he is responsible for exploring new trends and needs related to aviation in the areas of autonomy, aeronautics manufacturing, and advanced air mobility. He also serves as NASA's senior technologist for Air Transportation Systems and principal investigator for the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management (UTM) project. He was formerly manager of the NASA’s Safe Autonomous System Operations Project, which developed autonomy related concepts, technologies and architectures that...
Division Manager of Planning, Policy, and Sustainability
City of San José’s Department of Transportation Speaker
Ramses Madou is the Division Manager of Planning, Policy, and Sustainability for the Department of Transportation in the City of San José. At the City of San José Ramses leads a team of planners, engineers, policy specialists, data and model experts to plan the Citywide transportation system. His team is working to implement the ambitious mode change and VMT reduction goals of the City’s general plan all while proactively dealing with the fundamental disruptions that are currently shaking the transportation world. Before joining the City of San Jose he worked as the Associate...
With a professional career spanning a wide variety of transportation and mobility projects and initiatives across the US, Sam works at the intersection of transportation planning, policy, implementation, and operations. Sam is an innovative, resourceful, passionate, and service-oriented executive and thought leader with demonstrated success in the public sector and local government, focused on addressing complex mobility challenges. He has over 20 years of experience in transportation technologies, planning, and implementation, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), autonomous...
Swanson Aviation Consultancy Ltd. is consulting firm focusing on the infrastructure requirements of electric aircraft (incl. fixed wing and eVTOL) and demand modelling. Darrell has established himself as a subject matter expert regarding electric aviation and how it will lead to a future of distributed aviation. His knowledge encompasses electric aircraft infrastructure requirements as well as defining market opportunities for emerging electric Low Cost Carriers (eLCCs). He is an advisor to NASA’s Transformative Vertical Flight programme, the Advance Air Mobility panel at ADS Group,...
Joe Iacobucci is the New Mobility Practice Leader and West Coast General Manager for Sam Schwartz. He is an internationally-recognized leader in new mobility, guiding clients in cities around the country on how to manage emerging mobility trends to enhance access and quality of life.
Mr. Iacobucci is working on congestion pricing projects for government clients in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Washington D.C., and Southern California. He is responsible for managing several regional studies in connected and autonomous vehicles for Seattle, Los Angeles, Cambridge, San Jose, and...
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...
Mark Hansen is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He graduated from Yale with a Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Philosophy in 1980, and has a PhD in Engineering Science and a Masters in City and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley. Prior to graduate school, Dr. Hansen worked as a physicist at the Environmental Protection Agency. Since joining the Berkeley faculty in 1988, he has led transportation research projects in urban transportation planning, air transport systems modeling, air traffic flow management, aviation systems...
Jasenka Rakas has the following research interests: Availability and reliability of communications, navigation and surveillance systems, airport systems planning and design, airport and airspace capacity and delay analysis, systems modeling and performance analysis, National Airspace System (NAS) infrastructure performance and investment analysis, NAS maintainability, air traffic flow management, cost/benefit analysis, simulation modeling and analysis, human factors and cognitive psychology
Dawn M.K. Zoldi (Colonel, United States Air Force Retired) is a licensed attorney, an U.S. Air Force veteran and the founder and Chief Executive Officer of P3 Tech Consulting, connecting people who have a passion for advanced tech platforms with the plans, programs, policies and information they need to succeed. Ms. Zoldi was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1992 and commissioned through direct appointment in the Air Force in July 1993. In her almost 25 years of active duty as a member of the Judge Advocate General’s Corps as a military...
Julie Lorenz was appointed by Gov. Laura Kelly in January 2019 to lead the Kansas Department of Transportation. With more than 25 years of experience, she is recognized as a national leader in the areas of policy development, collaboration and scenario planning.
Previously, Lorenz directed national engineering firms’ strategic consulting and public engagement services for transportation projects at the local, regional and national levels. She was recently elected president of the Mid America Association of State Transportation Officials (MAASTO) – a...
Assistant Professor, Department of Urban & Regional Planning
San Jose State University
Dr. Kerry Rohrmeier, AICP, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at San Jose State University. Kerry is a cultural geographer whose examines land use policy from regional scale down to site placemaking. She primarily conducts qualitative studies that mix ethnography with geotechnical field methods and GIS. Dr. Rohrmeier earned a doctoral degree from the University of Nevada, Reno where she studied urbanization at the Black Rock desert and advocates for new ways to build sustainably.
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...
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...
Dr. Ying has devoted over three decades to the aerospace industry, with experience at NASA, Boeing, the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC), and most recently an electric aircraft start-up company, Ampaire. She is the SVP of Ampaire, responsible for global partnerships and operations. She is also the VP Aerospace serving on the Board of Directors of SAE, and is a board member of the Lindbergh Foundation.
Demonstrating success both at individual and team levels, Dr. Ying has been the recipient of many honors, including “Top 50 Women Leaders of Los...
Melissa Tomkiel is the President and General Counsel of Blade Air Mobility, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLDE) (“Blade”), a technology-powered, global air mobility platform committed to reducing travel friction by enabling cost-effective air transportation alternatives to some of the most congested ground routes in the U.S. and abroad. Today, Blade predominantly uses helicopters and amphibious aircraft for its passenger routes and is also one of the largest air medical transporters of human organs for transplant in the world. Blade’s asset-light model, coupled with its exclusive passenger terminal...
Anuja Verma is an Aviation System Principal at The MITRE Corporation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to solving problems for a safer world. MITRE works across government and in partnership with industry through public-private partnerships and federally funded R&D centers (FFRDC). Anuja’s is part of MITRE’s Center for Advanced Aviation System Development, the Federal Aviation Administration’s FFRDC. She works with diverse stakeholders across the FAA, industry, and academia on the safe integration of new entrants into the National Airspace System. Her research interests...
Dr. Colleen Reiche is a Senior Director at EY-Parthenon where she manages the Aviation and Weather portfolio as part of the Quantitative Strategies and Solutions Group (QS2), formerly the small consulting firm of Quantitative Scientific Solutions (“QS-2”). She brings extensive technical experience supporting various clients in data analytics, aviation weather research, aviation new entrant assessments, technical program and project management, and stakeholder engagement. She has a broad knowledge of the AAM landscape and challenges, air traffic operations, weather and air traffic...
Dave Merrill is the co-founder and CEO of Elroy Air, where he leads a team of kind, dedicated experts working to expand the reach of express logistics. Dave is a technology executive and startup founder with a background in computer science and robotic, interactive systems. Alumnus of MIT (Ph.D.) and Stanford Computer Science / Symbolic Systems (BS, MS), and TED speaker. Elroy Air is developing advanced, autonomous, safe vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) cargo aircraft systems in collaboration with NASA and the US Air Force. The company has been featured by Wired, Forbes,...
Torrie leads Wisk Aero's vertiport and infrastructure efforts as a Product Manager. She works with standards development bodies and infrastructure partners to define vertiport requirements, both physically and operationally. She also contributes to NASA’s Transformative Vertical Flight Working Group on Intra-City AAM as a vertiport expert. In her graduate work at Northwestern University Transportation Center prior to Wisk, Torrie focused on optimizing vertiport locations.
George Kivork is Head of State and Local Policy at Joby Aviation. He is an attorney with extensive experience in legislative affairs and communications, having advised public advocacy campaigns, business executives, and officials at the local and the highest levels of the U.S government. George has a proven track record of shaping and implementing strategies to achieve policy objectives in highly demanding environments. Most recently, he was Senior Policy Manager at Lyft overseeing CA and the Southwest. Previously he served the City of Los Angeles in numerous capacities on behalf of...
Chief Financial Officer and Head of Corporate Development
Blade Urban Air Mobility
Will Heyburn has served as Blade’s Chief Financial Officer since December 2020 and Blade’s Head of Corporate Development since May 2018. Prior to Blade, Mr. Heyburn served in various capacities at Redbird Capital Partners, most recently as Vice President, from 2015 to 2018. Prior to RedBird, Mr. Heyburn was a member of the U.S. Credit Investment Team at Oak Hill Advisors, L.P., from 2013 to 2015. Prior to Oak Hill, Mr. Heyburn was a member of the investment banking group at Moelis and Company, focused on restructuring transactions, from 2011 to 2013. Mr. Heyburn has an A.B. from...
Christopher A. Hart is the founder of Hart Solutions LLP, which specializes in improving safety in a variety of contexts, including the safety of automation in motor vehicles, workplace safety, and process safety in potentially hazardous industries.
Mr. Hart is also Chairman of the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission, a three-jurisdictional agency (MD, VA, DC) that was created in 2019 to oversee the safety of the Washington area subway system. In addition, in 2019 he was asked by the Federal Aviation Administration to lead the Joint Authorities Technical Review that was...
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...
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...
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...
Ryan is an Associate Principal in the Arup Acoustics, Audiovisual, Theatre and Experience Design discipline team and leads the East Geography. He provides consulting expertise across the aviation sector with experience in terminal buildings, environmental noise analysis, public address and audiovisual systems design, and Urban Air Mobility noise policy and simulations. He has lectured for the Community Air Mobility Initiative's Urban Air Policy Collaborative cohort on noise policy considerations and experiential simulation techniques for community outreach and engagement related to...
Caryn Moore Lund is the Head of Government Relations and Public Affairs – Americas for Lilium Aviation, a company built to advance how the world moves with the latest revolution in sustainable, high-speed regional air mobility. In this role, she oversees Federal, State, local and commercial partnerships that will bring Advanced Air Mobility to the United States. Prior to joining Lilium in September 2020, Mrs. Lund served in leadership roles at the US Department of Transportation and on the US House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Maranda Thompson has over 20 years of experience in the practice of aviation planning and supervises Mead & Hunt’s northern California planning practice. With a background in Urban Planning, Maranda has developed specialized expertise in airport land use compatibility planning in California and has an excellent understanding of the federal, state, regional, and local planning framework. Maranda assists local government agencies in the successful adoption of compatibility policies and regulations aimed at limiting the public’s exposure to excessive noise and safety hazards and...
Deputy Secretary for Innovative Mobility Solutions
California State Transportation Agency
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.
Head of Product Intelligence and Systems Simulation
Wisk Aero
Dr. Pavan Yedavalli is head of product intelligence and systems simulation at Wisk Aero, where he leads the team developing large-scale simulation software and modeling tools to understand deployments, go-to-market strategies, and operational constraints. He completed the Ph.D in urban computing from University of California, Berkeley, with dissertation research focusing on simulation software to understand the impacts of urban air mobility on metropolitan environments. He also has received an M.S. in electrical engineering from Columbia University, and B.S. in electrical engineering...
Paul Wheeler is an internationally recognized AAM/UAS subject matter expert and was recognized by Commercial UAV Expo and InterDrone as one of the world’s top drone visionaries. His background in aviation, highway transportation, and technology has given him a unique perspective on how to innovative solutions across industries. Mr. Wheeler currently serves on multiple national committees to help foster innovation through AAM. He is passionate about the vision to enable a new revolution of aerial innovation and transportation.
Peng Wei is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the George Washington University, with courtesy appointments at Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science. By contributing to the intersection of control, optimization, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, he develops autonomy and certification tools for aviation, transportation and robotics. His current focus is on safety, efficiency, and scalability of decision making systems in complex, uncertain and dynamic environments. Prof. Wei is leading the Intelligent...
Deputy Executive Director - Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Office (AUS)
Federal Aviation Administration, Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Office
Abby Smith serves as the Deputy Executive Director of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration Office, which serves as the FAA's focal point for all matters related to civil and public use of drones in U.S. airspace and is responsible for coordinating the integration of advanced air mobility (AAM) operations into our aviation system. Within this role, Abby supports the Executive Director in leading FAA's efforts to safely integrate drones and AAM operations into the National Airspace System (NAS).
Raja Sengupta is Professor in the Systems Engineering Program, Civil & Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. He holds a Systems Phd from the University of Michigan. His research has spanned automated & connected cars, drones, smartphones, urban air mobility, wireless networking, and control theory. He likes to do research with industry and get it into the marketplace. He holds car-to-road networking patents with Toyota, a UAV patent with BAE Aerospace, and has car-to-car networking contributions standardized by the SAE into J2945. He created technology for the successful...
Director of Airport Planning and Environmental Affairs
San Diego County Regional Airport Authority
Brendan Reed is the Director of Airport Planning & Environmental Affairs for the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, which owns and operates the San Diego International Airport. As a senior member of the Airport’s Development Division team, he is responsible for guiding the organization’s policies concerning airport master planning, corporate sustainability, environmental compliance, and noise abatement. Brendan spearheads numerous enterprise-wide initiatives including the integration of sustainability principles into capital projects and business strategies, ongoing...
Mineta Transportation Institute, San Jose State University
Karen Philbrick is the executive director of the Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI) at San José State University. MTI leads two competitively selected multi-university consortia: the California State University Transportation Consortium (CSUTC) which unifies the surface transportation research and workforce development efforts of the 23-campus California State University system and the Mineta Consortium for Transportation Mobility (MCTM).
Prior to joining MTI, Dr. Philbrick shaped the field of transportation in a variety of roles, including as assistant director of the...
Chris Musei-Sequeira’s mission is to radically elevate the authenticity of transportation community engagement to meet the challenges of environmental justice and climate change. His passion lies at the intersection of transportation justice, community engagement, and environmental policy. At this intersection, Chris builds relationships across a wide range of stakeholder groups to improve environmental outcomes. Chris has practiced this passion in multiple leadership roles, including leading improvements to nationwide noise and air emissions policies at the Federal Aviation...
Suzanne Murtha is the Global Lead for Connected and Automated Technology at AECOM. She is based in Alexandria, Virginia and Punta Gorda, Florida. She is on the Board of Directors of the OmniAir Consortium, a trade association that advocates for the development and promotion of certification for the intelligent transportation industry as well as the Board of Directors for AUVSI. Suzanne is the Chair for the ITS America eVTOL Task Force and the AUVSI AV Goods Movement Task Force.
A 25-year veteran of the transportation industry, Suzanne has a background in ITS and advanced...
Benjamin is a director and senior economist supporting NEXA Advisors’ work with market and economic research, due diligence, financial analysis, and other functions supporting Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) projects. He has authored AAM economic impact assessments for a number of cities and regions, including Toronto, Vancouver, the state of Ohio, and the state of Arkansas, among others. This original research uncovered 25 years of economic growth potential in the form of new jobs, GDP growth, and tax revenues for each case study. Additional project roles include literature review,...
Amber Woodburn McNair, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning in the Knowlton School at the Ohio State University and holds an affiliated position with the Center for Aviation Studies. Dr. McNair’s research topics encompass "aeromobility" and “smart mobility” systems and infrastructure. She is most interested in studying the planning processes and power structures that facilitate the deployment of transportation services and facilities, as well as researching the resulting environmental, land use, and community outcomes. Specifically, she has written on...
Nick is a former naval aviator and served multiple overseas tours as a maritime patrol and reconnaissance pilot and mission commander. A graduate of UCLA, he also holds an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business where he focused on energy and mobility. At Supernal, he's helping make urban air mobility a reality by leading efforts in autonomy, energy & infrastructure, operations, and R&D. He holds a commercial pilot license with instrument and type ratings and lives in San Francisco.
Federal Aviation Administration Great Lakes Regional Administrator
Federal Aviation Administration
Rebecca MacPherson is the Regional Administrator for the Great Lakes Region. She was appointed on January 8, 2018. As Regional Administrator, MacPherson serves as the principal executive representative of the FAA Administrator in the region, providing corporate leadership in cross-organizational matters and represents the FAA with industry, the public and governmental organizations. The Great Lakes Region encompasses the geographical area of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.
Adrienne is a dynamic professional with a mix of skills and expertise spanning program management, project management, partnerships, and business development and success in industries including electric vehicles, consulting, banking, and municipal government. She brings proven ability to drive planning and execution for complex multi-disciplinary projects, gain consensus and alignment across diverse stakeholders, and navigate the ambiguity of new programs, roles, and technologies. A skilled communicator, her experience includes leading high-profile public/private partnerships and...
Vice President - Aeronautics Strategy and Analysis
Crown Consulting Inc.
Shahab Hasan is Crown's Vice President, Aeronautics Strategy and Analysis, leading research of concepts, technologies, and markets to inform client strategy development and portfolio management. He holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering and an MS in Mechanical Engineering, both from Virginia Tech. He started at NASA working in conceptual aircraft design and air traffic management, then led the civil aviation practice at Logistics Management Institute (LMI) before joining Crown. He is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and is certified...
Clint's diverse 23-year career began in the military with practical experiences in aviation planning, airport & heliport operations, remotely piloted aerial vehicle facilities planning, airspace management, emergency management, and education & training. After military retirement, he pursued his passion for cities with a Master of City and Metropolitan Planning and a Graduate Certificate in Urban Design. His focus today is to link transportation and land use decisions to maximize aviation infrastructure and create new opportunities through collaboration. As Los Angeles’ Urban...
Executive Director - Advanced Technology Initiatives
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
James Grimsley serves as the Executive Director for Advanced Technology Initiatives with the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and serves as an Oklahoma Transportation Commissioner with oversight and governance responsibilities for the Oklahoma Department of Transportation. Mr. Grimsley currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Commercial Drone Alliance (CDA) as well as a variety of other boards and advisory groups. As part of Mr. Grimsley’s Choctaw Nation duties, he currently manages the FAA BEYOND Program (the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma is the only tribal lead participant in the...
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...
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...
Jacques Coulon has had the pleasure of working with the City of Orlando since 2015. He currently leads the City’s efforts on preparing for Advanced Air Mobility and emerging transportation technologies and works on a variety of transportation planning efforts including the City’s planned Lake Highland/Alden Road realignment project and Virginia Dr. corridor study. In his current role with the City’s Transportation Department Jacques also serves as the primary interface and reviewer on Transportation focused issues and items for all major proposed developments within the City. Jacques is a...
Nick is a former naval aviator and served multiple overseas tours as a maritime patrol and reconnaissance pilot and mission commander. A graduate of the University of California...
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The Smart Infrastructure Seminar Series will tapped world leading experts to explore developments around Engineering Resilient, Sustainable and Equitable Infrastructure. Sponsored by the Center for Smart Infrastructure, the College of Engineering, and the Institute of Transportation Studies.
Back in 2020, we thought the break from in-person training would be for just a brief period, but now It's been almost two years since we've been able to offer some of our most popular live classes. We remain hopeful that this is the year we finally get to return to the classroom! In the meantime, we're continuing to offer many classes online and will be introducing a few new ones this Spring. We encourage...
We have a few exciting openings at the Institute of Transportation Studies and TechTransfer. Please consider the opportunities below and forward this information to anyone you think might be interested and a good fit. PATH Associate Director The Associate Director works alongside a Faculty Director to lead a long-standing and highly respected transportation research program focused on the research, development, and deployment of transportation innovation to improve transportation mobility, safety, equity, and the environment. The program includes the...
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In-person training classes have returned at TechTransfer. While we are happy to be able to offer these courses again, they are traditionally some of our most popular course, we are expecting them to fill up fast and recommend that you enroll as soon as possible. For those interested in registering for one of these classes please follow the links below.
TechTransfer is happy to announce, we are making plans to offer some in-person, open enrollment classes beginning in Fall 2021. We will be scheduling a few of our most in demand and requested classes, starting with those that were cancelled last year at the start of the pandemic. Find all currently scheduled classes here and watch for updates in the weeks ahead.
We will also continue to offer hosted in-person...
Applications of Data Science and AI to Equity, Race, and Inclusion in Mobility and Transportation
June 21, 2021
Laura Melendy
In Spring 2021, Berkeley's Institute of Transportation Studies, the College of Engineering, and the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute hosted a Zoom seminar series on "Applications of Data Science and AI to Equity, Race, and Inclusion in Mobility and Transportation." Our aim was to reflect on and raise awareness of applications, opportunities, and potential misuses of AI and Big Data Science in the mobility and transportation space, specifically as it refers to race, equity, and diversity.
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October 27, 2019
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The professional practice of Transportation and Urban Planning in California requires practitioners to stay abreast of the legislative, policy, and regulatory developments that come from the State and Federal governments, as well as developments in technology that drive the private sector in the transportation space. California has a uniquely challenging environment given the multitude of statutory requirements -- many of which have been enacted only in the last ten years -- and the rapid deployment of new technology often birthed in the Silicon...
Continuing Education Units (or CEUs) are the nationally recognized standard for quantifying time spent in the classroom during professional development or training activities. Ten hours of face to face instruction equals 1 CEU. Thus, a class valued at 0.8 CEUs will have 8 hours of contact time (lunch breaks are not counted).
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TechTransfer is the California transportation community's source for training, continuing education, and professional development. We provide training in classrooms and online, including open enrollment and contracted training, host workshops and conferences, and can customize training to meet your needs. Our programs span the transportation-related areas of planning and policy, traffic engineering, project development, infrastructure design and maintenance, safety, environmental issues, complete streets, active and multimodal transportation, rail, and aviation. We serve more than 25...
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Asphalt Pavement Materials, Design, Construction and Maintenance (IDM-03)
Description
This three-day course is aimed at covering the full range of topics related to asphalt concrete pavements from materials and mix design to construction, maintenance, and rehabilitation. Asphalt concrete pavements are a vital part of an agency's assets and constitute about 90% of the local streets in California. The numerous topics in this class will be presented in sufficient detail to assist the local agency engineer when dealing with contractors, consultants, and specifications. It is expected that the information presented will be very useful to those that design, specify,...
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This is a completely-updated and revamped course on in-place asphalt recycling, which will explore in more detail the most common recycling methods, while providing an insightful look on selecting the most appropriate method and stabilization strategy based on a project's and site's specific characteristics. The soil stabilization portion of the course will expand on Caltrans Highway Design Manual Chapter 614 by providing guidelines on the selection of an appropriate stabilization method, design of stabilized subgrade, and construction considerations. This is...
Inspectors are key members of the construction project team. Inspectors ensure that public agencies produce quality projects and help reduce potential liability caused by poor engineering performance. The administrative and technical responsibilities of the inspector continue throughout project delivery and are critical for effectively maintaining a project's compliance with contract requirements. This course provides an introduction to all of the basic skills needed by the field inspector for most traditional highway construction projects.
Introduction to Pavement Engineering and Management (IDM-31)
Description
This is the introductory course for the ITS Tech Transfer/CCPIC program of professional training in pavement engineering and management. The class provides an introduction to the different functional requirements of pavement for different purposes, including streets, roads, highways, and bicycle/pedestrian paths, and different types of pavement that can meet those functional requirements. The class provides a basic understanding of how pavement materials, structural design, construction, and asset management interact to affect pavement performance for each pavement type....
Pavement Management Systems and Preservation Strategies (IDM-28)
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Pavement networks are often the most valuable asset that an agency owns. This asset is not only expensive to replace, but it is an essential component to the traveling public's safety. Agencies are looking for more cost-effective ways to perform engineering, maintenance, management, and rehabilitation of roadways more than ever before to stretch funding allocations. A pavement management system is an essential tool to assist in cost-effective roadway maintenance planning.
The SUPERPAVE mix design method is designed to replace the Hveem method. California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) started implementing the national SUPERPAVE standard for designing, specifying, and accepting pavement projects for all state jobs. The new mix design accounts for traffic loading and environmental conditions and includes a new method of evaluating the asphalt mixture. This course provides an overview of the SUPERPAVE mix design for local agencies and adjustments needed to start transitioning to the new mix design.
Asphalt pavement is a major component of our transportation system. Transportation agencies at the city and county level can maximize the value of their huge investment in streets and roads by using proper pavement maintenance strategies. This course provides a solid working knowledge of the most common pavement maintenance and preservation practices. Basic principles, best field practices and safety issues are covered. This course is based on Day 3 of the ...
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In 1978, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) approached the State of California to encourage the State to present statewide Work Zone Safety training. A partnership between Caltrans, the University of California, and the California Office of Traffic Safety was formed. This partnership reached out to the major traffic engineering agencies, State–County–City, to volunteer their experienced engineers for the formation of a statewide course on Work Zone Safety patterned after the FHWA training program. Over the next six months, a course development team of 19 traffic engineers...
How do you decide which training courses to develop and deliver? How can I propose a new course?
Our goal is to provide California's transportation professionals with the information and training needed to plan, design, build, maintain, and operate a state-of-the-art, multimodal transportation system that is safe, efficient, and sustainable. We develop new courses every year and are always looking for new topics. If you have suggestions for us, please contact us at courses@techtransfer.berkeley.edu. We want to hear from you!
Tech Transfer holds classes in classrooms across California. From the fundamentals of traffic engineering to the advanced methodologies for multimodal transportation planning and analysis, from surface roadways to aviation, from overarching policy-making to on-the-ground maintenance, we’ve got your transportation training needs covered.
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California Traffic Engineering License Exam Review; a new instructor and updated reference materials
June 26, 2018
Jay Johnson
The California Department of Consumer Affairs has updated the official list of reference materials for the California Traffic Engineering professional engineering (PE) examination to now include the following materials:
The 2016 Highway Capacity Manual, updated edition from 5th (2010) to 6th (2016)
The Caltrans Highway Design Manual Edition 6, to include revisions adopted 11-20-2017
Caltrans Standard Plans, updated edition from 2010 to 2015
Use it or lose it? Spend expiring Spring funds on Summer and Fall Training
June 4, 2018
Jay Johnson
As June 30th approaches, many of California’s public agencies are approaching the end of their fiscal year. Many of these agencies will be losing any unspent training funds, and their future budgets can be diminished by these unspent funds. To help agencies get the most out of their remaining budgets, Tech Transfer has released our Fall training schedule early.
Our Fall 2018 training schedule includes the return of some of our most...
Vision Zero action plan helps reduce bicycle collisions
May 9, 2018
Jay Johnson
The May 2018 issue of the ITE Journal includes a great article, by Tech Transfer’s very own Nazir Lalani and his co-author Kristopher Gunterson, entitled Countermeasures Prove Effective in Reducing Bicycle Collisions. Within the article they explore the Vision Zero action plan created by the City of La Quinta, how it accomplished this plan, and the effectiveness of the plan as it relates to bicycle collisions. For anyone looking to find ways to help reduce bicycle collision this article is a great place to start.
Fall 2018 Traffic Signal Operations courses now open for enrollment, get a spot in these high demand courses while you can.
April 23, 2018
Jay Johnson
We've just opened up our Traffic Signal Operations: Isolated Intersection (TE-04) and Traffic Signal Operations: Coordination for Corridors (TE-10) courses for registration. TE-04 is a must take course for anyone new to traffic signal timing or people who need a refresher on the fundamentals of traffic signal operations. While TE-10 is a more advanced course for those who have experience or knowledge of signal coordination but want to further develop their skills. For more information and to register see the links below.
Held over two days, this eight hour online training course is designed to aid transportation professionals in understanding SB 743 implementation and the fundamental changes...
Many of our most popular classes will be offered this Spring and are now open for enrollment. For most classes starting in January 2018 and after, you will now see the return of our special, lower pricing for California public employees. These reduced prices are offered in partnership with the California Department of Transportation, Division of Local Assistance. Registration fees are subsidized by the Cooperative Training Assistance Program to help local agencies get the training they need. Reduced rates are available to employees of California's city, county, regional, and other public...
Going, Seeing, Showing, and Doing: Low-Tech Technology Transfer Works by Laura Melendy and Ann Brody Guy
October 10, 2017
Jay Johnson
Here is a great article, from TR News, by Laura Melendy (Director of Tech Transfer) and Ann Brody (former Communications Director, ITS Berkeley) on low tech modes of technology transfer.
Abstract: Person-to-person tools—on-site demonstrations, peer exchanges, and more—are low tech but effective modes of technology transfer. These on-the-ground collaborations enable in-depth exploration and low-risk assessment of new technologies and are augmented easily by high-tech knowledge sharing methods.
TR News is copyright, National Academy of Sciences, Engineering,...
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