Michael Westhagemann, born in 1957 in Beckum, Münsterland, has been a nonpartisan senator of the Department of Economic Affairs and Innovation since June 2020. Previously, since November 2018, he was Senator of the Authority for Economic Affairs, Transport and Innovation.
After training as a high-voltage electrician and then studying computer science, he worked for Nixdorf Computer AG, which was later acquired by Siemens AG. At Siemens, he headed the North Region until 2017, among other things.

Frank Wernecke is the founder and CEO of DroneMasters Boost GmbH, a consultancy focusing on vertical mobility and drones. He is also the founding partner of the DroneMasters Academy, which inspires kids and young adults to become tomorrow's inventors, developers, and entrepreneurs.

Friederike Fechner is the project manager and deputy managing director of SOPHIA.T gGmbH and proTechnicale. Since 2020, she has been involved as a juror for the Hamburg Aviation Young Talent Award. proTechnicale offers technical study orientation programs for young women at the Center for Applied Aviation Research in Hamburg. What is special about the program is the combination of theory, practice and personality workshops, which allows participants to immerse themselves deeply in the world of technical studies and careers.

Christian Bahr is responsible for automation and mobile sensor technologies at the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) in the Port Process Solutions unit. As part of the DaaS (Drone as a Service) project, the focus is primarily on the operational launch of the teleoperated drone service, as well as licensing and approval.

Helge Hackbarth, Executive Consultant at Lufthansa Industry Solutions, graduated from the University of Hamburg in 1994 with a degree in business mathematics and then entered management consulting. Since 2002, he has held various IT consulting roles at Lufthansa Industry Solutions, since 2015 increasingly with a focus on IoT, robotics and unmanned aerial systems. In parallel, he is currently completing his doctorate at the Institute of Air Transport Systems at the TU Hamburg Harburg.

Prof. Dr. ir. Maarten Uijt de Haag hat zum 15. April 2019 die Leitung des Fachgebiets Flugführung und Luftverkehr an der Technischen Universität Berlin übernommen. Zuvor lehrte Prof. Uijt de Haag an der Ohio University in Athens, Ohio und hatte dort die Edmund K. Cheng Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science inne. Das Fachgebiet Flugführung und Luftverkehr ist damit seit dem Jahr 2013 wieder mit einer regulären Strukturprofessur besetzt.

Markus Engelhart coordinates the activities in the field of drones and urban air mobility at the consulting company umlaut. He is mainly concerned with the scaling of drone applications and their integration into corporate processes.

Christian Janke is an instructor with Embry-Riddle's Worldwide Campus and an Assistant Professor in the College of Aeronautics. He instructs at courses about Unmanned Systems in multi-domain-environments and their applications. Christian has been in military service for 14 years as air operations officer and helicopter pilot. Christian's research focus is on Unmanned Systems, robotics and autonomy. Especially in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) he focuses on their capabilities, protection against misuse, business models, and regulatory environment.