

Invited Speakers

Dr. Martine Rothblatt
CEO & Founder
United Therapeutics

Dr. Anita Sengupta
CEO & Founder
Hydroplane

Dr. Eva Maleviti
Faculty, Sustainable Aviation
Embry-Riddle

Karl Samuelsson
Technical Business Development Director
PowerCell Group

Chris McWhinney
CEO
Millennium Reign Energy

Dan van Dijk
Zero Emission Aviation
Rotterdam/The Hague Airport

Vadim Lvovich
Hydrogen Aircraft Technology
NASA

Dr. Neel Sirosh
CTO
PowerCell Group

Charlie Aguilar
Power Systems Lead
Aurora Flight Sciences (Boeing)

Ryan Naru
Aviation Policy Lead
Joby Aviation

Albert Gil Esmendia
PhD Candidate
University of California	

Jason Damazo
Director of Safety & Airworthiness H2
Boeing

Dr. Jack Brouwer
Director
UC Irvine / National Fuel Cell Research

Arnab Chatterjee
Managing Director, Hydrogen & Fuel Cells
NEOM

Val Miftakhov
CEO & Founder
ZeroAvia

David Smith
CEO
Robinson Helicopter Company

John Piasecki
President & CEO
Piasecki Aircraft Corp.

Gerben Groothuis
Business Director
Twente Airport

Ryan Sookhoo
Energy Transition Sustainability
EKPO Fuel Cell Technologies

Mike Hirschberg
Principal
H2 Advisors

Steve Ross
Adjunct Instructor
University of Cincinnati

Ryan Kerr
Fuel Systems Engineer
JetZero

Dr. Andreas Bodén
CTO
PowerCell Group

Jos Buitenhuis
Program Manager
KLM / Zero Emission Aviation Program

Matt Gregori
Cleantech Funding Manager
Sustain SoCal Board

Colin Hancock
Dept. Head, Policy & Innovation
EASA

Dr. Alejandro Block Novelo
Manager, New Technologies
IATA

JR Hammond
Executive Director
Canadian Advanced Air Mobility

Ben Marcus
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Up.Partners

Irwin Kerboriou
Lead H2 Airport Operations Manager
Beyond Aero

Cullen Hall
VP of Product Development
GenH2

Dr. Ben Emerson
Principal Research Engineer
Georgia Institute of Technology

Phil Robinson
CTO, UAS & AAM
Honeywell

John Geriguis
VP, Powertrain & Energy Systems
Joby Aviation

Paul Gloyer
President
Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories (GTL)

Dr. Khaled Alsamri
Assistant Professor
UAE University	

Bentzion Levinson
CEO
HevenDrones

Jessica Nelson
Principal
New North Ventures

Helen Leadbetter
Zero Emissions Flight Lead
UK Civil Aviation Authority 

Sara Mitran
CEO & Founder
NatheMC

Sajjad Rezaei
PhD Candidate
Clean Energy institute, University of California, Irvine

Dr. Catalin Fotache
Chief Scientist & Technical Advisor, Propulsion Systems (AIR-20)
FAA

Mikael Cardinal
VP Program Mgmt & Flight Ops
Unither Bioelectronics

Josh McMorrow
CEO, Path2 Hydrogen
Executive Chairman, GenH2

Daimon de Bruyn
H2 Safety & Airworthiness
Sagentia Aviation

Serge Markoff
CEO & Founder
Sea Cheetah

Bill Spellane
Ex-Alaka’i COO
StarCube CEO

Rich King
Director Government Affairs
SAE

Gad Shaanan
CEO
Unmanned Aerospace

Mark van Wyk
CEO
FlyH2 Aerospace

Alexis Williams
Researcher, Advanced LH₂ Fueling
Washington State University

Raffaele Russo
Founder & CEO
Otter Stone, Inc.

Mike Petouhoff
Senior Hydrogen Aviation Consultant
ARUP

Dr. Josef Kallo
Co-Founder & CTO
H2FLY

Dr. Monterey Gardiner
Senior Scientist
National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nick Borer
Aeronautics Research Scientist
NASA






























