ATI Boeing Accelerator ✈ week 1 done, 11 to go!

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Day two of the #atiboeingaccelerator and we’re at @UKAeroInstitute’s offices for the first of our programme mentoring days 🗣 As always, big thanks ❤️ to all our mentors for spending time sharing feedback and expertise with our startups! https://t.co/IPyHVb0pnh

News from the team:

Programme Director Gabi was featured by LinkedIn for her comment discussing the news of mobility startup Arrival's $100M investment from Hyundai and Kia:

Venture & Ecosystem Director Wil wrote why he thinks investors should be paying more attention to the aerospace industry:

Programme Associate Ksenia (and Gabi) were at the first ATI Aero Guru event of 2020; a pitch event for female founders in aerospace.

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You can follow all 10 teams on twitter here: https://t.co/2UTgyp7Exm https://t.co/QaRi2rT7jw

News from our partners & the ecosystem:

The ATI's CTO, Simon Weeks, is giving the 23rd Templer Lecture in February, where he will discuss themes from the Institute's new national air transport technology strategy.

Boeing will study the certification challenges of its Transonic Truss-Braced Wing (TTBW) ultra-efficient airliner concept as part of a new phase of work following wind tunnel tests that prove the basic viability of the 737-class aircraft design for typical airliner cruise speeds of Mach 0.8.

GKN Powder Metallurgy has officially opened its first self-sustaining residential home in South Tyrol, operating on a CO2-free energy supply system.

How much more efficiency can be wrung out of the jet engine - technology which is over 70 years old?

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The calm before the storm...! 🌪 So excited to welcome our first #atiboeingaccelerator cohort to the @PUBLICHallUK office tomorrow. Onboarding from 10am 🎉 (Big thanks to our sponsors @BoeingUK @GKNAero for providing the goody bags! 🎁) https://t.co/60dxqxg0BJ

If you’re a startup founder (or you know someone who is) interested in applying for our next cohort, please sign up to our mailing list to stay up to date on when applications for programme two (which starts September 2020) open.

We are also always looking to hear from potential partners, investors and stakeholders on how we can create the best programme for aerospace startups in the UK. If you’d like to have a chat, please get in touch!

For more information, please contact the ATI Boeing Accelerator team:

Gabi Matic (Programme Director):  gm@atiboeingaccelerator.com | linkedin.com/in/gabrielamatic

Wil Benton (Venture & Ecosystem Director): wb@atiboeingaccelerator.com | linkedin.com/in/fatkidonfire

Ksenia Kurileva (Programme Associate):  kk@atiboeingaccelerator.com | linkedin.com/in/kseniakurileva