BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261026T210701Z UID:Pf1xZQ DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181005 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181006 CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20180927T115038 DESCRIPTION: Location: The Vaults (Events Room) \n\n \n\n Moderated by Con all Laverty\, Founder of Wia\, Akhil will talk about the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition &\; the future of transportation. \n\n Akhil Voorakkara \, Head of Electronics and Control Systems for Éirloop \n\n Representing Ireland in Elon Musk’s 2018 Hyperloop Challenge\, Akhil headed a team of engineers building an electric pod that could travel over 500km/h. Workin g to create a viable and efficient solution for terrestrial travel\, Akhil and his team were one of only 5 teams invited to race at SpaceX headquart ers in California. An Electronic &\; Computer Engineering student by tr ade\, Akhil managed the engineering team\, but also personally built\, pro grammed\, and perfected the throttle subsystem which was responsible for g etting two electric motors on the pod to reach peak rpm quickly and safely . In addition to all the above\, and in true startup fashion\, Akhil also served as Marketing Director\, pitching to and liaising with many of Éirl oops biggest sponsors. \n\n About Éirloop &\; The Hyperloop Challenge \n\n SpaceX announced the Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2015. The competiti on’s goal is to support the development of functional prototypes and enc ourage innovation by challenging teams to design and build the best high-s peed Pod for sustainable (&\; fast!) transportation. Hyperloop will all ow for transportation at nearly the speed of sound. At a top speed of 1260 km/h\, passengers will be able to travel from Dublin to Galway city in onl y 11 minutes! Team Éirloop consists of 50 undergraduates and postgraduate s from several colleges and universities around Dublin. Ultimately\, they built a pod that accelerated at almost 1G to complete the fastest ever ext ernal subtrack run in the history of the competition\, for which they were honored with an Innovation award. \n\n Schedule: \n\n \n 12.30 - 12.40 : Intro to Éirloop and the Hyperloop Challenge \n 12.40 - 13.20 : Moderated Chat with Conall on the future of transportation \n 13.20 - 13.30 : Q& \;A \n \n LAST-MODIFIED:20180928T080032 LOCATION:Dogpatch Labs\, The chq Building\, Custom House Quay\, D1\, Dublin \, Ireland ORGANIZER:mailto:jon@dogpatchlabs.com SUMMARY:Fireside Chat: Éirloop and The Future of Transportation URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/dogpatchlabs/first-fridays-for-startups-firesid e-oct-5th-2018 URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/dogpatchlabs/first-fridays-for-startups-firesid e-oct-5th-2018 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261026T210701Z UID:Pf1xZQ1022853 DTSTART:20181005T123000 DTEND:20181005T133000 CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20180927T115042 DESCRIPTION:With Akhil Voorakkara on The Future of Transportation LAST-MODIFIED:20180927T170208 ORGANIZER:mailto:jon@dogpatchlabs.com SUMMARY:[Fireside Chat: Éirloop and The Future of Transportation] Fireside Chat URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/dogpatchlabs/first-fridays-for-startups-firesid e-oct-5th-2018 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:With Akhil Voorakkara on The Future of Transpo rtation URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/dogpatchlabs/first-fridays-for-startups-firesid e-oct-5th-2018 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR