speakers – AITS Bremen

Val Miftakhov

Founder & CEO, ZeroAvia
Val Miftakhov is a Founder & CEO of ZeroAvia, Inc, a California company developing the World's first practical zero emission aviation powertrain. Val is a serial entrepreneur in EV space - his previous company eMotorWerks has developed the World’s leading platform for EV battery aggregation to provide grid services, and was acquired in 2017. Prior to that, Val held a number of senior business and product positions at Google and McKinsey & Company, and was a nuclear researcher at Stanford Linear Accelerator. Val holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University, Masters in Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and was a two-time winner of Russian Nationwide Physics competitions. In his spare time, Val makes good use of his airplane and helicopter pilot licenses.

Christoph Doerr

Founder Innoteque Solutions and Director European Office Alabama Department of Commerce
Founder, Innoteque Solutions
Head of the European Office, Alabama Department of Commerce
More than 20 years’ experience in machine tool building, die casting and the mechanical engineering industry. Round about 15 years as Managing Director. The experience includes startup and operation of companies in America as well as in Europe.
In 2017 I started "Innoteque Solutions". Our goal is to bring great engineering developments on the market. An important part of our work is Additive Manufacturing. We worked among others for TRUMPF, the world market leader in laser technology.
Since August 2019 I am also the Head of the European Office for the Alabama Department of Commerce.

Yann Barbaux

AEROSPACE VALLEY
Executive President, Aerospace Valley
Senior Vice-President, Airbus
Yann Barbaux, born on 24 August 1958, is since 2017 the Executive President of Aerospace Valley, a cluster of more than 800 members, OEMs, SMEs, Universities & Research Centers, from the Aerospace sector. He is Senior Vice-President at Airbus. He is married and has 3 children.
From 2013 to 2017 he was Chief Innovation Officer for Airbus Commercial Aircraft. Prior to assuming this position, Yann Barbaux created in 2007, and served as SVP Head of Airbus Group Innovations (former EADS Innovation Work), the Corporate Research Organization of AIRBUS.
Yann Barbaux began his career in 1982 at Aerospatiale, in the Corporate Quality Organization. He was associated to the development of new programs, such as the Airbus A320, as an expert in metallic materials. In 1987 he was appointed as head of the Metallic and Thermo-structural Materials Department in the Aerospatiale Common Research Centre. In 1996, he was promoted as Head of Strategy, Research Coordination and Cooperation of the CRC.

Beginning of 2000, Yann Barbaux was appointed as Vice President in charge of R&T and Defence in the Corporate Merger Integration team, tasked to prepare and accompany the creation of EADS. In 2004, he was appointed as Vice President – Chief Executive Officer of GIE EADS CCR.

Yann Barbaux published and contributed to a high number of technical publications in International Scientific Reviews and hold a patent on Structural Concepts for a Supersonic Aircraft. He has been a member of various engineering and technology societies, and of the Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development (AGARD) of NATO; in acknowledgement to his contribution as chairman of the Materials Panel of the French Association for Aeronautics & Space (AAAF), he has been elected to the rank of Emeritus Fellow of this Society.

Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur et de l’Ordre National du Mérite, Yann Barbaux is member of the French Association for R & T (ANRT), of the board of the Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris Saclay and of the board of the Federal University of Toulouse.

Graduated from Ecole Centrale de Paris in 1981, he also earned a Master’s degree in Metallurgy at the University Paris VI Pierre & Marie Curie.

Dr. Jens Lassmann

Head of Sites Germany and Head of Launcher Environments and Control, ArianeGroup
More than 25 years of experience in Space Launcher Development in ArianeGroup and its originating companies.
Following a PhD in Space Technology at the University of Technology in Berlin, Jens Lassmann started his career in launcher pre-projects. He then took over the development of the Ariane 5 cryogenic upper stage as Project Manager. This stage is today still delivering reliably large Satellites into space as part of the European space transportation work horse Ariane 5.
In 2005 he took over the Ariane5 Development Program Management in Paris. During the last 12 years Jens Lassmann lead several Launcher Engineering teams in Bremen, Turin, Paris and Bordeaux in the fields of System Engineering, Mechanics, Electrics, Propulsion and GNC.

Gaby Soehner

ME Industrial Architect, AIRBUS
Degree in industrial engineering.
Multi- Program experiences in Aircraft Industry; Qualification & industrialisation of new technologies, e.g. Laserbeamcutting, Thermoplastics Pressforming; Dry Fibre Composites.
Industrial Lead for Wing Moveables in several Research Programs.
Well connected to a transnational industrial & institution partner landscape.
Today, as an Industrial Architect, focusing on the Industrial System of the Future, e.g. Collaborative Robotic; Industrie 4.0, Digital Continuity.

Enrico Casale

Advanced Technology Operations – EU Programs & Research Network, Avio Aero
Leader of the Avio Aero New Technology Introduction portfolio, related external funding and research network. Avio Aero representative in Clean Sky, EIMG (Engine Industry Management Group), EFFRA (European Factory of the Future Research Association), EIT Manufacturing, ASD (AeroSpace and Defense) and ACARE (Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe). 15+ years of experience in the Aviation research field at National and European level.