Future of Aviation Speaker

Marc Ausman

Chief Product Officer
Electra.aero

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...

Riley Beaman

UAS Program Manager
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...

Vince Bertoni

Director Planning
City of Los Angeles

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...

Ryan Biziorek

Associate Principal
Arup

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...

John Cavolowsky

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.

He also supports the ARMD...

Adam Cohen

Senior Researcher
Transportation Sustainability Research Center

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...

Doug Coleman

Chief Legal Officer
Reliable Robotics

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...

Jacques Coulon

Transportation Planning Projects Coordinator
City of Orlando

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...

Carlos Cruz-Casas

Chief Innovation Officer
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.

Anderw Cummins

Director of Strategy and Business Development
Archer Aviation

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...