There are hundreds of eVTOL aircraft concepts currently in development, but what about the development of infrastructure to support these aircraft?

SLiNK-TECH is addressing this with their core technology called PORTAL – a deployable vertiport solution that provides integrated flight management at any location.

This talk, with John Goudie, CEO & Founder at SLiNK-Tech, explores the challenges with infrastructure deployments, discusses SLiNK-TECH’s automation first approach with PORTAL, and will share insights around the scaling challenges slowing widespread adoption of drones and air-taxis.

Also, one of the PORTAL project partners, Cambridge Sensoriis, will be supporting the webinar and Mac Exon-Taylor, Sales Director, will be highlighting the need for ground-to-air surveillance monitoring the airspace surrounding the vertiport, and the benefits of using radar as a sensor to address these requirements.  Sensoriis will also be launching an Air-to-Air-Radar which would be integrated onboard a drone and carry out the detect aspect of Detect-and-Avoid (DAA), for avoiding obstacles while inflight.

About the Speakers:

John Goudie, CEO & Founder at SLiNK-TECH

John holds over 14 years of hands-on development experience in aerospace and drone technology sectors.  He’s been involved with several drone development projects, including Facebook’s HAPS Internet Connectivity drone, Aquila, where he led system development.  Holding a degree from The Ohio State University, he possesses deep insights into UAS systems and automation and is particularly enthusiastic about the potential of drones to revolutionise logistics, seeing it as a key area for growth and innovation

His current company, SLiNK-TECH, provides enabling infrastructure for fully autonomous take-off and landing of future flight use cases, including delivery drones, inspection drones and UAM air taxis. SLiNK-TECH have won two UKRI Future Flight Challenge grants (December 2020, July 2022) and are currently leading Project PORTAL, in a consortia of seven organisations. 

Mac Exon-Taylor, Sales Director at Cambridge Sensoriis

Mac is a veteran of B2B technology-led companies in various sectors, with extensive experience in Sales, Consulting and Senior Management throughout Europe and Asia Pacific.

He is an experienced executive with a highly consultative and articulate style, specialising in taking lead roles in early-stage companies, pioneering new markets, and developing a scalable sales process.

He is an Operational Research graduate from the University of Lancaster and a passionate sportsperson.