eVTOL Insights’ Europe Conference 2026: Toulouse, France

eVTOL Insights can con­firm Toulouse, France, will be the 2026 loca­tion for its Europe Con­fer­ence, which will take place in late Octo­ber.

Ahead of the con­fer­ence, del­e­gates will have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to vis­it Musée Aero­scopia on Octo­ber 14th. Locat­ed adja­cent to Toulouse-Bla­gnac Air­port, the muse­um is home to an excep­tion­al col­lec­tion of his­toric air­craft, includ­ing the icon­ic Con­corde, Air­bus A300B, A380 and numer­ous mil­i­tary and civ­il avi­a­tion exhibits.

French hybrid-elec­tric avi­a­tion com­pa­ny Ascen­dance has been announced as the host of the event on Octo­ber 15th, with del­e­gates also invit­ed to an exclu­sive behind-the-scenes tour of the company’s facil­i­ties the fol­low­ing day.

The part­ner­ship will pro­vide atten­dees with a rare oppor­tu­ni­ty to expe­ri­ence first-hand one of Europe’s most excit­ing Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty inno­va­tors, while gain­ing exclu­sive insight into the devel­op­ment of Ascendance’s ATEA hybrid-elec­tric VTOL air­craft and its STERNA propul­sion sys­tem.

Fol­low­ing a full day of fire­side chats, pan­el dis­cus­sions and keynote pre­sen­ta­tions about the glob­al Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty mar­ket, del­e­gates will be wel­comed to Ascendance’s head­quar­ters on Octo­ber 16th for a guid­ed fac­to­ry tour.

The vis­it will offer a rare look inside the company’s engi­neer­ing, man­u­fac­tur­ing and test­ing facil­i­ties, show­cas­ing the tech­nolo­gies help­ing to shape the future of sus­tain­able avi­a­tion.

The exclu­sive site vis­it will allow del­e­gates to learn more about the progress being made across both pro­grammes, hear direct­ly from Ascendance’s team and gain valu­able insight into the tech­ni­cal and indus­tri­al chal­lenges involved in bring­ing next-gen­er­a­tion air­craft to mar­ket.

Four Key Themes

The con­fer­ence pro­gramme will be struc­tured around four core pil­lars:

1. Com­mer­cial­is­ing Aer­i­al Ser­vices

Explor­ing how new avi­a­tion ser­vices can cre­ate sus­tain­able busi­ness mod­els and deliv­er real-world val­ue.

Pro­posed dis­cus­sions include:

• Who Pays First? Iden­ti­fy­ing the Ear­ly Win­ners in Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty
• Beyond the Hype: Which AAM Busi­ness Mod­els Are Gen­er­at­ing Rev­enue Today?
• Pre­mi­um Ser­vice or Mass Mobil­i­ty? Defin­ing the Future Pas­sen­ger Mar­ket
• From Pilot Projects to Dai­ly Oper­a­tions: Scal­ing Drone Logis­tics Net­works
• Can Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty Trans­form Region­al Con­nec­tiv­i­ty?

2. Scal­ing Auton­o­my

Exam­in­ing how automa­tion and auton­o­my can be safe­ly inte­grat­ed into avi­a­tion oper­a­tions while deliv­er­ing com­mer­cial and oper­a­tional ben­e­fits.

Pro­posed dis­cus­sions include:

• Beyond BVLOS: What’s Still Hold­ing Europe Back?
• Scal­ing from One Air­craft to One Hun­dred
• Human-Machine Team­ing in Avi­a­tion
• The Busi­ness Case for Auton­o­my
• From Automa­tion to Auton­o­my: The Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Chal­lenge
• AI in Avi­a­tion: Hype, Risk or Com­pet­i­tive Advan­tage?

3. Inte­grat­ing Air­space

Address­ing the chal­lenge of inte­grat­ing drones, eVTOLs, elec­tric air­craft and tra­di­tion­al avi­a­tion into a shared air­space ecosys­tem.

Pro­posed dis­cus­sions include:

• One Air­space, Mul­ti­ple Users
• U‑space Moves from Con­cept to Real­i­ty
• Man­ag­ing Mixed Traf­fic at Scale
• Air­ports as Mul­ti­modal Mobil­i­ty Hubs
• Inte­grat­ing Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty into Europe’s Avi­a­tion Net­work
• Civ­il, Com­mer­cial and Defence Users in Shared Air­space

4. Build­ing Europe’s Avi­a­tion Future

Explor­ing how Europe can cre­ate a glob­al­ly com­pet­i­tive avi­a­tion ecosys­tem through invest­ment, indus­tri­al­i­sa­tion, work­force devel­op­ment and inno­va­tion.

Pro­posed dis­cus­sions include:

• Can Europe Lead the Next Gen­er­a­tion of Avi­a­tion?
• Scal­ing Pro­duc­tion: From Pro­to­type to Indus­tri­al­i­sa­tion
• The Future Aero­space Sup­ply Chain
• Build­ing the Work­force for Advanced Avi­a­tion
• Defence, Dual-Use Tech­nolo­gies and Indus­tri­al Resilience
• The Future of Region­al Avi­a­tion in Europe

Speak­er oppor­tu­ni­ties and spon­sor­ship pack­ages are now avail­able, with eVTOL Insights invit­ing inter­est­ed organ­i­sa­tions and indi­vid­u­als to par­tic­i­pate in what promis­es to be one of Europe’s lead­ing AAM indus­try gath­er­ings in 2026.