
Invited Speakers

Dr. Martine Rothblatt
CEO & Founder
United Therapeutics

Dr. Anita Sengupta
CEO & Founder
Hydroplane

John Piasecki
President & CEO
Piasecki Aircraft Corp.

Dr. Ben Emerson
Principal Research Engineer
Georgia Institute of Technology

Dan van Dijk
Zero Emission Aviation
Rotterdam/The Hague Airport

Steve Ross
Chief Consulting Engineer
General Electric

Ryan Kerr
Fuel Systems Engineer
JetZero

Ryan Naru
Aviation Policy Lead
Joby Aviation

Helen Leadbetter
Zero Emissions Flight Lead
UK Civil Aviation Authority

Dr. Josef Kallo
Co-Founder & CTO
H2FLY

Dr. Monterey Gardiner
Senior Scientist
National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nick Borer
Aeronautics Research Scientist
NASA

Val Miftakhov
CEO & Founder
ZeroAvia

David Smith
CEO
Robinson Helicopters

Cullen Hall
VP of Product Development
GenH2

Serge Markoff
CEO & Founder
Sea Cheetah

Mike Hirschberg
Principal
H2 Advisors

Paul Gloyer
President
Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories (GTL)

Charlie Aguilar
Power Systems Lead
Aurora Flight Sciences (Boeing)

Jos Buitenhuis
Program Manager
KLM / Zero Emission Aviation Program

Mike Petouhoff
Senior Hydrogen Aviation Consultant
ARUP

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

Arnab Chatterjee
Managing Director, Hydrogen & Fuel Cells
NEOM

Ben Marcus
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Up.Partners

Josh McMorrow
CEO, Path2 Hydrogen
Executive Chairman, GenH2

Daimon de Bruyn
H2 Safety & Airworthiness
Sagentia Aviation

Ryan Sookhoo
Energy Transition Sustainability
EKPO Fuel Cell Technologies

John Geriguis
VP, Powertrain & Energy Systems
Joby Aviation

Gad Shaanan
CEO
Unmanned Aerospace

Dr. Andreas Bodén
CTO
PowerCell Group

Jessica Nelson
Partner
New North Ventures

Jason Damazo
Director of Safety & Airworthiness H2
Boeing

Dr. Alejandro Block Novelo
Manager, New Technologies
IATA

JR Hammond
Executive Director
Canadian Advanced Air Mobility

Mikael Cardinal
VP Program Mgmt & Flight Ops
Unither Bioelectronics

Dr. Eva Maleviti
Faculty, Sustainable Aviation
Embry-Riddle

Gerben Groothuis
Business Director
Twente Airport

Phil Robinson
CTO, UAS & AAM
Honeywell

Rich King
Director Government Affairs
SAE

Dr. Neel Sirosh
CTO
PowerCell Group

Alexis Williams
Researcher, Advanced LH₂ Fueling
Washington State University

Matt Gregori
Cleantech Funding Manager
Sustain SoCal Board

Colin Hancock
Dept. Head, Policy & Innovation
EASA

Sajjad Rezaei
Research Scientist
UC Irvine / National Fuel Cell Research

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