BASID Annual Dinner, September 20, 2019

Peter Shannon, will give a talk titled “Technology is Redefining Flight”. This talk will show you a new vision of the future!

The Bay Area Chapter of SID invites you and your guest to the BASID 2019 Annual Dinner

The Bay Area Chapter of SID invites you and your guest to the BA-SID Annual Dinner. Join your local display industry colleagues for a summer evening full of delicious food, great company, a beautiful location, and an enthralling keynote address!

Sponsored by E Ink and  Silvaco.

Abstract
Technologies such as electric propulsion, composites manufacturing, and increasing autonomy are redefining flight. This is creating a renaissance in aviation. The fundamentally new capabilities in safe, simplified, low-cost, quiet, and vertical flight promise to vastly expand the use cases for flight to drive productivity across the economy, whether moving goods, moving people, or automating tasks. We will look at the drivers of this transformation, its historical context, and survey the broad implications it brings for the future. We will also address the opportunities this is creating today and entrepreneurial approaches to pushing toward realizing this vision.

Speaker Biography
Peter Shannon has built his career as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist focusing on transportation technologies, with current focus on advanced aerial mobility and its application toward positive impact for transportation across the economy.

Peter Shannon is active in the aviation community around regulatory and technology issues critical to enabling high-scale adoption of aerial mobility systems. Peter is helping define a national vision and roadmap for Urban Air Mobility as a member of the Committee on Urban Air Mobility Research and Technology through the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Through the National Academies, Peter is also an appointee to NASA’s Aeronautics Research and Technology Roundtable. Peter is involved in the FAA’s Unmanned Aerial System Integration Pilot Program as an advisor to the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and sits on committees developing standards for unmanned air traffic management, vehicle certification, and urban air mobility.

Prior to his current work, Peter was at Firelake Capital and Atlas Venture, investing across transportation and sustainability-related technologies, with a focus on the intersection of software, autonomous systems, and geospatial data on the automotive sector. Technology domain experience includes manufacturing, electric vehicles, drones, autonomous systems, materials and chemicals processes, power electronics, electric motors and batteries.

Peter’s entrepreneurial experience began while an undergraduate, when he co-founded Eye Response, Inc., a company that pioneered computer eye-tracking systems.

Peter holds an MBA, with High Honors, from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BS, with Distinction, in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. Peter started flying when he was 19 and actively maintains a Private Pilot Certificate with Instrument Rating.

Peter is an Eagle Scout, avid skier, kite surfer, and mountain biker.