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MONTREAL 2024: Volatus Infrastructure & Energy Solutions, Ferrovial Vertiports and Moya Aero complete speaker line-up — get your tickets now!

We’re less than two weeks away from our Mon­tre­al con­fer­ence and the agen­da for the speak­er pro­gramme is now full, with Vola­tus Infra­struc­ture & Ener­gy Solu­tions, Moya Aero and Fer­rovial com­plet­ing the line-up.

Tak­ing place from Wednes­day, May 1st to Fri­day, May 3rd, 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 at Le Mount Stephen Hotel, 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. This will also take place at Le Mount Stephen.

And on Fri­day, May 3rd, we’ve got a tour booked at ICAO’s Mon­tre­al Head­quar­ters. This is sched­uled for a 10am start and will 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.

EVENT SCHEDULE

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1st

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

5pm — 7pm: Pre-event drinks recep­tion at Le Mount Stephen Hotel (Spon­sored by CAE)

THURSDAY, MAY 2ND

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

TimeTop­icSpeak­ers
09.00 — 09.15Open­ing AddressStéphane Paquet
CEO and Pres­i­dent, Mon­tréal Inter­na­tion­al
09.15 — 09.45Pan­el 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 — 10.00Keynote
Top­ic TBC
Math­ieu Parr
Rolls-Royce Elec­tri­cal
10.00 — 10.15Keynote
Oper­a­tional Con­sid­er­a­tions for eVTOL Air­craft
Bran­don Robin­son
CEO, Hori­zon Air­craft
BREAK
10.45 — 11.15Pan­el 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 — 11.30Keynote
Top­ic TBC
Tim Burbey
Pres­i­dent, Blueshift
11.30 — 12.00Pan­el 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 — 12.20Fire­side 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 — 13.30Pan­el 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 — 14.00Pan­el Dis­cus­sion
What Does Day One Oper­a­tions Look Like? 
Bryan Wil­lows,
AAM Direc­tor — Amer­i­c­as, Bris­tow Group

Chris Court­ney
Direc­tor of AAM and New Adja­cen­cies, CAE

Mar­tin Cullen
Glob­al eVTOL Lead, TE Con­nec­tiv­i­ty
14.00 — 14.15Keynote
Top­ic TBC
Marek Rakows­ki
Senior Man­ag­er — UAV, Viasat
14.15 — 14.45Pan­el Dis­cus­sion
How will AAM Net­works Fit into Our Cities

Kris­ten Blod­gett
Direc­tor, Cus­tomer Expe­ri­ence & Com­mer­cial Strat­e­gy
BETA Tech­nolo­gies

Mandy Nel­son
Strate­gic Rela­tion­ships, AAM, Bris­tow Group

Grant Fisk
CEO, Vola­tus Infra­struc­ture & Ener­gy Solu­tions
BREAK
15.15 — 15.45Pan­el Dis­cus­sion
Mid­dle-Mile Logis­tics and oth­er Crit­i­cal Mis­sions
Man­al Habib
CEO and Co-Founder, MightyFly

Phil Kel­ly
CEO, Ven­ture Kel

Alexan­dre Zaramela
CEO, Moya Aero
15.45 — 16.00Keynote
Top­ic TBC
Gwen Lighter,
CEO, GoAERO Prize
16.00 — 16.30Pan­el 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
16.30 — 17.00Pan­el 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 

Caryn M. Lund
VP, Gov­ern­ment Rela­tions, Fer­rovial Ver­ti­ports
FINISH

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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