17th Annual Electric Aircraft Symposium to Highlight AAM Progress

More than 40 of the world’s lead­ing elec­tric air­craft devel­op­ers and tech­nol­o­gy experts will be speak­ing at the 17th Annu­al Elec­tric Air­craft Sym­po­sium (EAS), host­ed by the Ver­ti­cal Flight Soci­ety (VFS). The event will once again be held online and in per­son in Oshkosh, Wis­con­sin, on July 22–23, 2023.

EAS is the world’s longest-run­ning elec­tric avi­a­tion tech­nol­o­gy meet­ing, organ­ised by indus­try and gov­ern­ment lead­ers of advanced air mobil­i­ty (AAM) to pro­vide updates to the com­mu­ni­ty and the pub­lic.

A spe­cial fea­ture this year is a pan­el organ­ised to sup­port the US government’s AAM Inter­a­gency Work­ing Group. This ses­sion fea­tures the Hon­ourable Annie Pet­sonk, Assis­tant Sec­re­tary for Avi­a­tion and Inter­na­tion­al Affairs, US Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion (DOT), and Peter Irvine, Deputy Direc­tor, Office of Avi­a­tion Analy­sis, and Exec­u­tive Lead for Avi­a­tion Pol­i­cy, DOT. Oth­er pan­el­lists include speak­ers from DOT, NASA and the US Air Force AFWERX unit.

Oth­er par­tic­i­pat­ing com­pa­nies and organ­i­sa­tions this year include AeroTEC, Archer, Beta Tech­nolo­gies, Com­mu­ni­ty Air Mobil­i­ty Ini­tia­tive (CAMI), Dia­mond Air­craft, Hydroplane, Joby Avi­a­tion, Jet­son Aero, Lil­i­um, Limosa, Luft­Car, Open­er, Overair, Sky­Drive, Tex­tron eAv­i­a­tion, Wisk, Whis­per Aero, ZeroAvia and ZEVA.

The focus of EAS is on tech­no­log­i­cal advance­ments and address­ing major issues like cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and infra­struc­ture for the indus­try as a whole.

“Many of the world’s lead­ing elec­tric avi­a­tion devel­op­ers spoke or attend­ed the Elec­tric Air­craft Sym­po­sium over the past 16 years before they became wide­ly known,” observes Yolan­ka Wulff, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the Com­mu­ni­ty Air Mobil­i­ty Ini­tia­tive (CAMI) and one of the event organ­is­ers.

EAS is a hybrid event, held at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wis­con­sin Oshkosh cam­pus and online. This year’s EAS will present experts from indus­try and gov­ern­ment, par­tic­i­pat­ing in 12 in-depth mod­er­at­ed pan­el dis­cus­sions cov­er­ing com­mu­ni­ty inte­gra­tion, elec­tric air­craft devel­op­ments, personal/private AAM air­craft, propul­sion (includ­ing hydro­gen-elec­tric), region­al air mobil­i­ty, test­ing and stan­dards devel­op­ment.

“The elec­tric air­craft indus­try is gain­ing momen­tum with invest­ments top­ping $10 bil­lion in the past five years,” said VFS Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Ange­lo Collins. EAS pro­vides an oppor­tu­ni­ty to get com­pre­hen­sive updates on the state of the indus­try and hear from top AAM thought lead­ers.

The Ver­ti­cal Flight Soci­ety last week announced the win­ners of its third annu­al Design-Build-Ver­ti­cal Flight Stu­dent Com­pe­ti­tion. Auburn Uni­ver­si­ty took first place, Uni­ver­si­ty of Mary­land took sec­ond and McGill Uni­ver­si­ty took third.

To reg­is­ter for next mon­th’s Elec­tric Air­craft Sym­po­sium,

VFS announces win­ners of Design-Build-Ver­ti­cal Flight Stu­dent Com­pe­ti­tion