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BETA Technologies, Bristow Group, Electra.aero, Thales, MightFly and Verdego Aero — all confirmed for next month’s Montreal conference!

We’re less than three weeks away from our Mon­tre­al con­fer­ence and the agen­da for the speak­er pro­gramme is very near­ly com­plete, with rep­re­sen­ta­tives from BETA Tech­nolo­gies, Bris­tow Group, Electra.aero, Thales, MightyFly and Verdego Aero all set to par­tic­i­pate.

The event takes place from Wednes­day, May 1st to Fri­day, May 3rd and tick­ets are on sale. We will start with a indus­try tour of a man­u­fac­tur­er with­in Mon­tre­al in the after­noon of the 1st, with a pre-event drinks recep­tion tak­ing place in the evening. This has been kind­ly spon­sored by CAE.

On Thurs­day, May 2nd will be our main con­fer­ence pro­gramme, fea­tur­ing pan­el dis­cus­sions, keynote pre­sen­ta­tions and fire­side chats about the glob­al Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty mar­ket. This will be between 9am and 5pm.

We will then have our awards cer­e­mo­ny for our very first AAM Awards from 6pm — 7.30pm. The plat­form to sub­mit entries will remain open until Fri­day, April 19th, with 19 cat­e­gories to choose from.

And on Fri­day, May 3rd, we’ve got a tour booked at ICAO’s Mon­tre­al Head­quar­ters. This will be in the morn­ing and last about an hour. Once the tour has fin­ished, this con­cludes our event pro­gramme.

Tick­ets can be bought via our Eventbrite page and include Stu­dent Con­ces­sions, priced at $249.

LATEST CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

(Tim­ings and top­ics are sub­ject to change. GMT — 4)

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1st

3pm — 4.30pm: Indus­try tour (Venue TBC)

5pm — 7pm: Pre-event drinks recep­tion (Spon­sored by CAE)

THURSDAY, MAY 2nd

08.30 —09.00: Reg­is­tra­tion

09.00 — 09.15: Open­ing Address

Stéphane Paquet
CEO and Pres­i­dent, Mon­tréal Inter­na­tion­al

09.15 —09.45: Pan­el Dis­cus­sion
Inte­grat­ing AAM into the wider infra­struc­ture

Eric Cote
Pres­i­dent, Jaunt Air Mobil­i­ty Cana­da

Yan­nick Richard
Exec­u­tive Vice Pres­i­dent, Ver­tiko Mobil­i­ty

Hasan Shawa
Part­ner, SGI Cana­da

09.45 —10.00: Keynote
Top­ic TBC
Com­pa­ny TBC

10.00 —10.15: Keynote
Oper­a­tional Con­sid­er­a­tions for eVTOL Air­craft

Bran­don Robin­son
CEO, Hori­zon Air­craft

BREAK

10.45 — 11.15: Pan­el Dis­cus­sion
Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion & Reg­u­la­tion

Mod­er­at­ed by Phil Cole
Busi­ness Devel­op­ment, 
Cert Cen­ter Cana­da

Adil Chaudhry
Snr. Project Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Man­ag­er, Trans­port Cana­da

Chris Baczyn­s­ki
CEO & Prin­ci­pal Con­sul­tant, BAC Aero­space

Kather­ine Ayre
CEO and Founder, CAYRES

11.15 — 11.30: Keynote
Top­ic TBC

Tim Burbey
Pres­i­dent, Blueshift

11.30 —12.00: Pan­el Dis­cus­sion
Region­al Air Mobil­i­ty

Marc Aus­man
Chief Prod­uct Offi­cer, Elec­tra Aero

David Eich­st­edt
VP, Prod­uct Man­age­ment, Verdego Aero

Yanik Doy­on
Busi­ness Dev. & Sales (Avion­ics), Thales

12.00 —12.20: Fire­side chat
Why Boe­ing has placed its bet on Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty

Mil­dred Troegel­er
Exec­u­tive Liai­son, Boe­ing

Guil­laume Beauchamp
Snr. Direc­tor, Air­craft Devel­op­ment, Wisk

LUNCH

13.00 —13.30: Pan­el Dis­cus­sion
Real­is­ing Canada’s poten­tial for AAM in the Glob­al Mar­ket­place

JR Ham­mond
Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, CAAM

Thomas Bom­baert
Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty Lead, ICAO

Hamid Hami­di
CEO and Founder, Limosa

13.30 — 14.00 Pan­el Dis­cus­sion
What Does Day One Oper­a­tions Look Like? 

Speak­er TBC
Com­pa­ny TBC

Chris Court­ney
Direc­tor of AAM and New Adja­cen­cies, CAE

Mar­tin Cullen
Glob­al eVTOL Lead, TE Con­nec­tiv­i­ty

14.00 —14.15: Keynote

Marek Rakows­ki
Senior Man­ag­er — UAV, Viasat

14.15 — 14.45: Pan­el Dis­cus­sion
How will AAM Net­works Fit into Our Cities

Speak­er TBC
BETA Tech­nolo­gies

Mandy Nel­son
Strate­gic Rela­tion­ships, AAM, Bris­tow Group

Speak­er TBC
Com­pa­ny TBC

BREAK

15.15 — 15.30: Keynote

Top­ic TBC
Gwen Lighter,
CEO, GoAERO Prize

15.30 — 16.00: Pan­el Dis­cus­sion
Address­ing the Sup­ply Chain and Man­u­fac­tur­ing Chal­lenges for AAM

Mike Hirschberg
Direc­tor of Strat­e­gy, Ver­ti­cal Flight Soci­ety

Speak­er TBC
Joby Avi­a­tion

Dana Jensen
Snr. Indus­tri­al Pol­i­cy Ana­lyst, US Air Force

16.00 —16.30: Pan­el Dis­cus­sion
Mid­dle Mile Logis­tics

Speak­er TBC
Com­pa­ny TBC

Man­al Habib
CEO and co-founder, MightyFly

Speak­er TBC
Com­pa­ny TBC

16.30 —17.00: Pan­el Dis­cus­sion
Entry into Ser­vice: The Final Count­down

Mod­er­at­ed by Ser­gio Cecut­ta, Part­ner at SMG Con­sult­ing

Matt Broff­man
Head of Pub­lic Affairs, Lil­i­um

Adam War­moth
Head of Prod­uct, Archer 

Speak­er TBC
Com­pa­ny TBC

6pm — 7.30pm: eVTOL Insights’ Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty Awards

Le Mount Stephen Hotel

Drinks and canapés

FRIDAY, MAY 3RD

10am: Tour at ICAO Head­quar­ters

11.30am: EVENT FINISH

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Jason Pritchard

Jason Pritchard is the Editor of eVTOL Insights. He holds a BA from Leicester's De Montfort University and has worked in Journalism and Public Relations for more than a decade. Outside of work, Jason enjoys playing and watching football and golf. He also has a keen interest in Ancient Egypt.

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