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Prof. Lourdes Vega participated as an invited speaker in a panel session, titled “How to control risks introduced by new sustainable technologies, hydrogen case study” during the Aviation Sustainability Conference, held on 25 November 2020. Dr. Vega discussed the role of hydrogen as a promising technological enabler on the path towards sustainable aviation. As the Director of the Research and Innovation Center on CO2 and Hydrogen (RICH), she contributed valuable insight into how hydrogen-based technologies can be leveraged to power aircrafts, as well as the technological challenges and opportunities for the development and implementation of green hydrogen at the scale needed for aviation, in a sustainable and safe manner.