The fifth edition of the CAFE Foundation’s Electric Aircraft Symposium will take place April 29 and 30 in Santa Rosa, California. Picking up momentum every year, the EAS brings together industry leaders to share technological advances and real-world experience developing electric propulsion systems for aircraft. This cross-cultural exchange of ideas is intended to speed development of electric aircraft designs.
Tuition is $399 per person. For more information on the CAFE Foundation, visit the company’s website. A registration form for EAS V can be found here.
Here is the preliminary program. Check this web page for updates.
CAFE Electric Aircraft Symposium V
EAS V PRELIMINARY PROGRAM, FRIDAY, APRIL 29
Brien Seeley, President, CAFE Foundation: Opening Remarks
Dr. Ben Santer, Climate Scientist, LLNL: Update on Climate Change
Dean Sigler, CAFE Blogmeister: Greater Expectations: The Revolution in Electric Aircraft
JoeBen Bevirt, CEO, Joby Aviation: Electric Aircraft That Transform Your Commute
David Calley, CTO, Motor Excellence: Ideal Electric Aircraft Motors
Pietro Perlo, Chair WG Auto EU Tech. Platform: Cross-cutting Technologies for Road and Air Electrical mobility: Smart Systems Integration
Brien Seeley, CAFE: Suburban Air Vehicles: Aviation’s Future
Murry Rozansky, ESA: Soaring into the Electric Future or “ Engines! We Don’t Need no Stinken’ Engines!”
Patrick McLaughlin: Motor Controllers for Electric Aircraft
Yueming Li and Ning Pan, UC Davis: Current State of Supercapacitor Research
Nicholas Roy, MIT: Autonomous Electronic Flight Controls; Making Flying Safe and Easy
Ilan Kroo, Professor, Stanford University: Design Concepts for Small Electric Aircraft
Larry Ford, Vice President, CAFE Foundation, DEBUT: The Amazing Aircraft of the 2011 CAFE Green Flight Challenge
Eric Darcy, NASA-JSC/NREL: Best Extant Global Battery Technologies
David Birkenstock, PressureThrust.com: Goldschmied Propulsion Exploration
Forum: Goldschmied Propulsion, Panel: David Birkenstock, Dennis Bushnell (NASA), Barnaby Wainfan (Northrop Grumman), John Roncz (Gemini Technologies), Sumon Sinha (Mississippi State–Deturbulators)
Karl Young, CEO, X-Cap: 10X Supercapacitor Energy Storage Using Carbon Nanotubes
Richard Glassock, Smart Skies Project, Australia: Hybrid Electric Aircraft and Automated Airspace
Dave Hawes and Gary Gerber, Emoteq: High-torque Wheel Motors For Electric Aircraft
[Continuing on Sunday.]
Dennis Bushnell, NASA Chief Scientist: Emerging Technologies for Electric Aircraft, Frontiers of the Responsibly Imaginable
Robert Englar, Professor, Georgia Tech Univ.: Pneumatic ESTOL Technologies for SAVs
Forum: V/ESTOL Technologies, Panel: Robert Englar (Gerogia Tech), Craig Hange (NASA), Tina Jameson (Cal Poly), Greg Jones (NASA)
Jack Langelaan, Penn State Univ.: Autonomous Energy Capture During Flight
Ken Goodrich, NASA: The Ideal Flight Deck: Rethinking Piloting
Forum: Rethinking Piloting; The Quest For 7 Sigma Safety, Panel: Ken Goodrich (NASA), Richard Glassock, Steve Williams (CAFE), Jack Langelaan, Penn State Univ., Damon Seeley, Nicholas Roy (MIT)
Steve Visco, CTO, PolyPlus: New High Energy Density Lithium Chemistries
Krish Ahuja, Professor, Georgia Tech Univ.: Quiet Propulsion Technologies
Forum: Quiet Propulsion Forum, Panel: Krish Ahuja (Georgia Tech), David Calley, Casey Burley (NASA), Feri Ferassat (NASA), Bill Macy, (Stratasys 3D FDM)
