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Brendan J. Reed

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...

Colleen Reiche

Senior Director
EY-Parthenon

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...

Kerry Rohrmeier

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.

Pricila Roldan

Partnership Strategist
San Diego Association of Governments

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...

Michael Rucinski

Industry Engagement Manger
Transportation Security Administration

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...

Raja Sengupta

Professor
University of California, Berkeley

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...

Susan Shaheen

Professor - Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of California, Berkeley

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...

Shivanjli Sharma

Aerospace Research Engineer
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...

Ravi H. Singh

Vice President, Integration & Infrastructure
Crown Consulting, Inc.

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...

Abby Smith

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).


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