Joby Aviation to host first Elevate Summit in New York later this year

Joby Avi­a­tion will host the 2022 Ele­vate Sum­mit from Octo­ber 12th to 13th in New York, with the event pro­vid­ing anoth­er oppor­tu­ni­ty for the entire aer­i­al ride-shar­ing ecosys­tem to dis­cuss its progress in the sec­tor.

It will take place at Dug­gal Green­house in Brook­lyn Navy Yard, where atten­dees will be able to envi­sion a near future in which qui­et, elec­tric, emis­sions-free aer­i­al mobil­i­ty opens up new trans­porta­tion pos­si­bil­i­ties in urban areas. It will also be a key net­work­ing cat­a­lyst for city offi­cials and land devel­op­ers to sup­ply chain part­ners, the invest­ment com­mu­ni­ty and oth­er air­craft man­u­fac­tur­ers.

Held in New York City for the first time, the Sum­mit builds on the suc­cess of pre­vi­ous Ele­vate Sum­mits — host­ed by Uber from 2017 to 2019 — before the acqui­si­tion of Uber Ele­vate by Joby in 2020.

Eric Alli­son, Head of Prod­uct at Joby and for­mer­ly Head of Ele­vate at Uber, said: “We launched the Ele­vate Sum­mit five years ago to pro­vide an open forum for this new indus­try to come togeth­er and embrace a shared vision of the future. Since then, the Sum­mit has been estab­lished as the key­stone event for aer­i­al mobil­i­ty, lay­ing the foun­da­tion for the indus­try to make the leap from ren­der­ings to real­i­ty.

“We’re at a key moment in the evo­lu­tion of our indus­try. As well as demon­strat­ing record speed, alti­tude and endurance per­for­mance with our pre-pro­duc­tion pro­to­type air­craft, sev­er­al com­pa­nies, includ­ing Joby, have gone pub­lic and inter­est in the promise of this tech­nol­o­gy has nev­er been high­er. It’s the per­fect time to come togeth­er.”

This momen­tum was recog­nised recent­ly in a seg­ment of CBS’ 60 Min­utes show, pre­sent­ed by Ander­son Coop­er, dur­ing which Bil­ly Nolen, Act­ing Admin­is­tra­tor of the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion, stat­ed: “Clear­ly, we’re see­ing the emer­gence of some­thing that’s fan­tas­tic … We want to be care­ful, we want to be mea­sured, but … this is real, and this is hap­pen­ing.”

Fur­ther details of the Sum­mit will be released lat­er this sum­mer. Pre­vi­ous edi­tions attract­ed more than 1,000 atten­dees and a wide range of speak­ers includ­ing the U.S. Sec­re­tary of Trans­porta­tion, senior FAA and NASA lead­ers, U.S. Sen­a­tors and CEOs of For­tune 100 com­pa­nies. 

Those inter­est­ed in attend­ing the event can sign up for updates at www.elevatesummit.com.