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Title: Inside the Air Mobility Revolution

Speaker: Matthias Meiner, Co-Founder and Head of the Autonomous Flight Control, Lilium Aviation

Rapidly increasing urbanization and our daily growing need for mobility are pushing our transportation systems and the global ecosystem more and more towards the limit. Clean and affordable on-demand air transport offers a way out by making use of the third dimension. For the first time in history, the overdue promise of flying taxis above our cities is about to become a reality. At the top of this revolution, Munich-based Lilium are working on the world’s first Electric Transition Jet. In his talk Co-Founder and Head of Autonomous Flight Control Matthias Meiner speaks about the future of a world where everyone can fly anywhere, anytime, and the challenges to be mastered along the way.

Matthias was born in 1987 in Stuttgart and moved to Munich to study robotics at the Technical University of Munich. After graduation he started a PhD, which he quit in favor of founding Lilium, where he serves as Head of Autonomous Flight Control. Matthias is also an alumnus of the German National Academic Foundation. He has always been fascinated by control engineering and aviation, which is reflected in his research at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) during his studies. In 2004, he won Europe’s biggest youth science and technology competition “Jugend Forscht”. In 2017, Matthias was chosen as one of the European 30 under 30 leading innovators by Forbes magazine for his achievements with Lilium.

Recorded at the Big Techday 11 of TNG Technology Consulting GmbH / https://www.tngtech.com on May 18, 2018, in Munich / Germany