Francois Auque of Airbus Ventures went head to head with Jason Ball of Qualcomm Ventures Europe to discuss the relative prospects of each technology at the Global Corporate Venturing Symposium 2017

The first debate of the symposium focused on the relative potential of flying cars versus autonomous vehicles. GCV contributing editor Tom Whitehouse moderated, while the combatants were Francois Auque, chairman of the investment committee at Airbus Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of the aerospace company, and Jason Ball, managing director at Qualcomm Ventures Europe, which invests on behalf of the mobile chipmaker.

Auque contended we were likely to see flying cars become commercialised and hover around…

Kaloyan Andonov

Kaloyan Andonov is head of analytics at Global Corporate Venturing.