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Day 1: Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Registration 12:00 - 13:00
13:15

OPENING   |  Conference room

Mirko Hornung, Bauhaus Luftfahrt
Klaus Schneider, Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg
 

PLENARY  
Economics of our Transition to Climate Neutrality
Aviation´s pathway to climate neutrality will not only require novel technologies and enhanced operations, it will also put a massive economic challenge to all stakeholders. Together we will explore the economic impacts of this transition and discuss possible levers to lower the financial burden.  
14:00 IMPULSE  The Path to Net Zero – An Airline Perspective   Lars Kröplin, Lufthansa              
14:30 IMPULSE  Pioneering Sustainable Aerospace: The Role of Partnership and Regulation   Andreas Hermann, Airbus      
15:00 COFFEE BREAK
15:15 IMPULSE  Mobilizing Capital and Technology for a Clean Aviation Industry   Thomas Conlon, University College Dublin
15:45 IMPULSE  The Economics behind the Transition to a Climate Neutral Aviation   Mirko Hornung, Bauhaus Luftfahrt

16:30
 

WELCOME ADRESS  State-Minister Florian Herrmann, Free State of Bavaria

PANEL DISCUSSION   
17:30 BREAK

18:00
22:00

GET TOGETHER & FOOD (FOR THOUGHTS)
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Day 2: Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Registration 8:30 - 9:00
09:00 WELCOME & IMPULSE   |  Foyer
Mirko Hornung, Bauhaus Luftfahrt  
Enabling Sustainable Aviation – The Airport Perspective  Jost Lammers, Munich Airport
 
 

SESSION 1   |  Conf 1
Impact of Climate Neutral Aviation
To drive aviation's transition, we need to combine technology,
fuel and financial levers. The impact of the transition will be multidimensional – environmental, economic and social.

SESSION 2   |  Conf 2
Enablers of Ultra-Efficient Aircraft
To achieve aviation's ambitious goals of climate neutrality,
ultra-efficient aircraft are required to use the available
sustainable energies as economically as possible. New technologies in future aircraft concepts and propulsion systems as well as their combination will be the enablers for these ultra-efficient aircraft.
09:30 SETTING THE SCENE   Ram Kamath, Bauhaus Luftfahrt SETTING THE SCENE   Jochen Kaiser, Bauhaus Luftfahrt
09:45

S1.1  Sprints to Synthesis: Architecting an Integrated Aviation Future
Fabian Peter, Bauhaus Luftfahrt

 S2.1   Recursive Sequential Combustion: A Disruptive Approach for Improving both Performance and Emissions in Aeroengine Design
Fabrice Giuliani, Combustion Bay One
10:15

S1.2   Challenges and Opportunities of Scaling Alternative Fuel Production
Christoph Falter, Synhelion

S2.2   System Thinking Beyond the Horizon 
Tjaard Sijpkes, TU Delft
10:45 NETWORKING BREAK
11:15 S1.3   Impact of Climate-Neutral Aviation – Case Study of an Investment in an e-SAF Project in Denmark
Thomas Engelmann, KGAL Real Investments 		 S2.3   Beyond Aero – Engineering the World’s First Hydrogen-Electric Business Jet
Anaïs Habermann, Beyond Aero
 
11:45

S1.4  Impact of Climate Change: Understanding Mechanisms and Social Costs of CO₂ and non-CO₂ from Air Transportation
Florian Allroggen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

S2.4   Bauhaus Luftfahrt's Blueprints for the Sky: Two Decades of Concept Crafting
Jochen Kaiser, Bauhaus Luftfahrt
12:15 LUNCH
 

SESSION 3   |  Conf 1
Policies and Operations for Sustainable Aviation
The tension between growth, efficiency, and sustainability demands fresh academic inquiry and critical debate on both technological solutions and the political realities of implementation. How can operational optimisation, airport capacity management, airline strategies, and policy choices be brought together to create viable paths to sustainable aviation?

SESSION 4   |  Conf 2
Transformative Role of AI: Potential and Pathways 
AI is accelerating paradigm shifts in science, technology and
society – reshaping innovation pathways, decision-making structures and intersectoral coordination toward a climate-neutral aviation future. Critical enablers include cross-domain integration, AI-enabled transformation throughout the aviation life cycle, strategic foresight and frameworks for safe, trustworthy and certifiable AI.
13:15 SETTING THE SCENE   Eric Tchouamou Njoya, Bauhaus Luftfahrt SETTING THE SCENE    Lily Koops, Bauhaus Luftfahrt
13:30

S3.1  Global Aviation Decarbonisation Roadmaps and their Realisation
Thomas Rötger, ENV-ISA

S4.1   From Prototype to Flightline: Operationalising AI Safely and at Scale
Dimitris Drikakis, University of Nicosia
14:00 S3.2   Will Expansion of Airport Capacity be Sustainable?
Hans-Martin Niemeier, Univ. of Applied Sciences Bremen
 		 S4.2   Accelerate Aircraft Design through Physics AI
Peter Lyu, Luminary Cloud
14:30 NETWORKING BREAK
15:00 S3.3   The NetShAir Project – Reducing CO₂ Emissions from Aviation by Aircraft Sharing and Passenger Bundling
Thomas Hagspihl, Bauhaus Luftfahrt

S4.3   Using GenAI to Project Futures for Aviation 
Ram Kamath, Bauhaus Luftfahrt
15:30 S3.4   The Political Economy of Sustainable Aviation
Peter Forsyth, Monash University

S4.4   Challenges of Certifying AI Embedded Systems – MLEAP Project
Jean-Baptiste Rouffet, Airbus Protect
16:00

PLENARY   |  Foyer
Wrapping-up our Journey to 2070

Bauhaus Luftfahrt Session Leads
17:00 END

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