Mark your calendar for upcoming Masters' Lectures

The GoFly Prize is excited to announce several upcoming Masters' Lectures! Mark your calendars and complete your registration today.

Friday, October 5, 10AM ET
Earl Lawrence is the Director of the UAS Integration Office and is responsible for the facilitation of all regulations, policies, and procedures required to support FAA’s UAS integration efforts. He also represents the FAA on the Senior Steering Group of the UAS Executive Committee, focusing on coordination and alignment of efforts among key federal government agencies.

In this session, Earl will be lecturing about Airworthiness Approval: Civil Aircraft Certification & Experimental Categories and will include a question-and-answer session.

Thursday, October 11, 3PM ET

Dr. Marilyn Smith is Associate Director of the Vertical Lift Center of Excellence at the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Smith received her PhD from Georgia Tech in 1994 while working in industry from 1982 to 1997. She joined the School of Aerospace Engineering in 1997, and is currently a full professor and Associate Director of the Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence (VLRCOE). Dr. Smith performs research in the areas of non-linear computational aeroelasticity (using CFD) and the integrated multidisciplinary areas of unsteady aerodynamics and acoustic/fluid/structure interactions across rotating and fixed wing vehicles and systems.

Mike Hirschberg is Executive Director of AHS International; he assumed the duties of the AHS Executive Director on June 1, 2011, after 20 years in the aerospace industry, primarily in vertical flight. He is responsible for the execution of the strategic direction set by the AHS Board of Directors. He was previously a principal aerospace engineer with CENTRA Technology, Inc., providing technical and program management support for over 10 years to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Office of Naval Research (ONR) on advanced aircraft and rotorcraft concepts. Prior to this, Mr. Hirschberg worked from 1994 to 2001 in the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program Office, supporting the development of the X-32 and X-35 vertical flight propulsion systems.

In this session, Dr. Marilyn Smith and Mike Hirschberg will be lecturing about Vertical Flight Technical Resources and will include a question-and-answer session.

Wednesday, October 17, 2PM ET

Roberts Parks is a Senior Boeing Technical Fellow with Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, A Boeing Company.

In this session, Bob will lecture about Ducted Lift Fans and will include a question-and-answer session.

Wednesday, October 24, 12PM ET

Carl Dietrich, Co-Founder and CTO of Terrefugia, received his BS, MS and Ph.D. from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) shortly after receiving the prestigious Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for Innovation in 2006. Carl was also recognized by the Aero/Astro Department at MIT as one of sixteen exceptional graduates under the age of 35. In addition, Carl has received "40 Under 40" awards from the Boston Business Journal and Aviation Week & Space Technology Magazine. Carl has spoken internationally and is generally regarded as the leader of the emerging modern flying car industry. He has been a private pilot since the age of seventeen.

In this session, Carl will share the story of Terrefugia and will include a question-and-answer session.
Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nj7eUzvETlWM0zn78OCd-g

Wednesday, October 31, 12PM ET
Tess Hatch is an investor in Bessemer Venture Partners' Silicon Valley office. She is focused on frontier tech, specifically commercial space, cyber security, and drones. She currently serves as board observer for Iris Automation, Rocket Lab, Spire, Auth0, Endgame, Distil Networks, Team8, Virtru, Claroty, CyberGRX, and Illusive Networks.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan (go blue!) and a master’s degree in aeronautics and astronautics engineering from Stanford (go trees!). She was a mission manager at SpaceX where she worked with the government on integrating their payloads with the Falcon9 rocket. She also worked at Fictiv, a startup using 3D printing and CNC machining to democratize access to manufacturing.

In this session, Tess will be lecturing about pitching to VC's and will include a question-and-answer session.

Tuesday, November 13, 11AM ET

Mourad Yesayan is a Principal at Paladin Capital Group. He is an investment lead for the firm’s Cyber Fund, which focuses on investing in early stage companies in the US and Europe with solutions for cyber security and digital resilience. Mourad is currently actively involved in several of Paladin’s investments including Expel, RiskSense, Ursa, RiskLens, and previously worked with Unitrends (acquired by Insight Venture Partners). Prior to joining Paladin in 2009, Mourad was VP of Finance and a corporate officer at a Nasdaq-listed leading industrial infrastructure company, where he led the build-out of the company’s financial planning and risk management functions during a period of rapid growth in operations and nearly tenfold increase in revenue to over $700 million. He also played a key role in structuring and negotiating over $500 million of equity and debt financing working with major institutional investors and a global lender syndicate. Prior to this, Mourad was a senior consultant at a boutique advisory firm focused on M&A, turnaround, and restructuring assignments for middle market clients. Mourad holds an MBA and BS in Finance from Fresno State University.

In this session, Mourad will be lecturing about pitching to VC's and will include a question-and-answer session.
Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dd84K936ROWWtJKHa03vvw

RESCHEDULED for February 5, 2019, 12PM ET

Dr. Jaiwon Shin is the NASA Associate Administrator for the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate. In this position, he manages the agency's aeronautics research portfolio and guides its strategic direction. This portfolio includes research in the fundamental aeronautics of flight, aviation safety and the nation's airspace system.

Shin co-chairs the National Science & Technology Council's Aeronautics Science & Technology Subcommittee. Comprised of federal departments and agencies that fund aeronautics-related research, the subcommittee wrote the nation's first presidential policy for aeronautics research and development (R&D). The policy was established by Executive Order 13419 in December 2006 and will guide U.S. aeronautics R&D programs through 2020. The subcommittee finished writing the National Aeronautics R&D Plan in December 2007 and is currently writing the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) Infrastructure Plan both of which were called for by the Executive Order.

Between May 2004 and January 2008, Shin served as deputy associate administrator for the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate where he was instrumental in restructuring NASA's aeronautics program to focus on fundamental research and better align with the nation's Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen).

Mark your calendar for upcoming Masters' Lectures

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