Farnborough Aerospace Global Forum provides spin-off forums in aviation communities around the world

The Aero­space Glob­al Forum (AGF) at Farn­bor­ough from 18–22 July 2022 pro­vides the spring­board for a suite of spin-off forums in avi­a­tion com­mu­ni­ties around the world, work­ing with indus­try and part­ners to cre­ate thought lead­er­ship oppor­tu­ni­ties.

Joby founder & CEO JoeBen Bevirt will give a head­line Talk at the AGF Main Stage on Tues­day 19th July, fol­lowed by a talk on ‘Decar­boniz­ing avi­a­tion – bring­ing togeth­er an ecosys­tem’, mod­er­at­ed by McK­in­sey Cen­tre for Future Mobil­i­ty co-lead Robin Riedel.

These will be fol­lowed by talks by HSBC Head of ESG Solu­tions Man­ag­ing Direc­tor Far­nam Bid­goli, and Bank of Amer­i­ca Mer­rill Lynch senior equi­ty ana­lyst Ronald Epstein, as well as Heathrow Air­port CEO John Hol­land-Kaye and The Boe­ing Com­pa­ny senior VP for Glob­al Enter­prise Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Chris Ray­mond.

JoeBen Bevirt, A Keynote Speak­er (Tues­day 11.50am-12.50pm)

The Prince of Wales will be wel­com­ing glob­al indus­try lead­ers, chief exec­u­tives, gov­ern­ment, cli­mate change experts and aero­space pro­fes­sion­al to the forum, which will see pio­neers dis­cuss and debate future-focused top­ics and shar­ing best prac­tices and insights across sev­en core themes: Space, Future Flight, Secu­ri­ty, Sus­tain­abil­i­ty, Inno­va­tion, Future Work­force and Financ­ing The Future on the main stage.

Advanced air mobil­i­ty (AAM) is gain­ing momen­tum and becom­ing main­stream, espe­cial­ly as com­pa­nies devel­op­ing elec­tric ver­ti­cal take­off and land­ing air­crafts con­tin­ue to receive sub­stan­tial invest­ment from sources rang­ing from tra­di­tion­al aero­space com­pa­nies to pri­vate equi­ty investors. Com­pe­ti­tion in fields such as urban air mobil­i­ty (UAM) is like­ly to be intense, and there­fore com­pa­nies in this ecosys­tem should gain an edge by being first movers.

Of par­tic­u­lar inter­est to our sub­scribers on eVTOL Insights will be the ‘future flight’ themed ses­sions at The­atre 4, start­ing on the first day Mon­day 18th July on the top­ic of ‘Deliv­er­ing the third avi­a­tion rev­o­lu­tion’, to be mod­er­at­ed by UK Research and Inno­va­tion (UKRI) Future Flight chal­lenge direc­tor Gary Cutts.

First to speak will be Joby Avi­a­tion head of prod­uct Eric Ali­son, fol­lowed by Eve CEO André Stein, Urban-Air Port founder & exec­u­tive chair­man Ricky Sand­hu, Ver­ti­cal CEO Stephen Fitz­patrick, and Super­nal CEO Mike Whitak­er.

The sec­ond day Tues­day 19th July, will explore ‘Tech inno­va­tion and bring­ing AAM from promise to real­i­ty’, mod­er­at­ed by The Air Cur­rent senior edi­tor Elan Head, with pre­sen­ta­tions from Rolls-Royce cus­tomer busi­ness direc­tor Matheu Parr, Reac­tion Engines CEO Mark Thomas, Lil­i­um CTO Alas­tair McIn­tosh, and Hon­ey­well Pow­er Sys­tems VP David Shill­i­day.

The full pro­gramme may be down­loaded from the fol­low­ing link:
https://www.aerospaceglobalforum.com/media/3s4df1bk/agf-pdf-programme-2022-v14.pdf

Busi­ness­es of all sizes, from indus­try lead­ers and mil­i­tary del­e­ga­tions to start-ups and SMEs will con­vene at the Air­show as an oppor­tu­ni­ty to show­case the tech­nolo­gies and cre­ate the part­ner­ships that will shape inno­va­tion in the aero­space and defence sec­tor for decades to come.

Ricky Sand­hu, Founder/CEO of Urban-Air Port (Speak­ing on Mon­day 11.30am-12.30pm)

Mark­ing 2022 as the pin­na­cle for the indus­try to come togeth­er to recon­nect, inno­vate, and col­lab­o­rate to dri­ve pos­i­tive change that will shape a bet­ter future for aero­space and the plan­et, AGF is the plat­form to tack­le impor­tant top­ics and col­lab­o­rate on an ele­vat­ed lev­el.

Lever­ag­ing the con­ven­ing pow­er of Farn­bor­ough Air­show, Farn­bor­ough Inter­na­tion­al and ADS are bring­ing glob­al lead­ers togeth­er, help­ing to dri­ve action­able change across aero­space, defence and oth­er trans­for­ma­tive indus­tries includ­ing tech­nol­o­gy, finance and ener­gy.

The pro­gramme is curat­ed to bring broad­er ecosys­tems togeth­er in head­line pan­el dis­cus­sions to com­ple­ment the sched­ule dur­ing the Air­show, includ­ing more inti­mate unpack net­work­ing ses­sions in AGF and around the Air­show that pro­vide a deep­er dive into the top­ics dis­cussed.

The sus­tain­able, dig­i­tal era con­tin­ues to trans­form the aero­space sec­tor — always the bas­tion of inno­va­tion. The new era demands a reimag­ined cus­tomer jour­ney, as new ecosys­tems emerge around sup­ply chains and inte­grat­ed trav­el. Com­pa­nies are for­mu­lat­ing new busi­ness strate­gies for suc­cess­ful com­mer­cial oper­a­tions in these new fields of avi­a­tion.

The glob­al aero­space ecosys­tem is evolv­ing and adapt­ing to chal­lenges nev­er faced before. While the entire world is now focus­ing on the crit­i­cal health and sus­tain­abil­i­ty of the plan­et, the aero­space ecosys­tem is at the most impor­tant junc­tion in its his­to­ry.

Aero­space Glob­al Forum will be the epi­cen­tre of the pro­gres­sive inno­va­tions and part­ner­ships that will take the sec­tor for­ward for years to come. AGF allows finance, gov­ern­ments, cli­mate experts, start-ups, OEMs and their sup­ply chains, share, debate and ener­gise col­lab­o­ra­tion for the new action-dri­ven plan to achieve net zero econ­o­my.

Under­stand­ing how the aero­space ecosys­tem is evolv­ing is thus essen­tial to pre­pare opti­mal con­di­tions, not only to nur­ture its growth, but do it in a tru­ly sus­tain­able way. This is why AGF is bring­ing glob­al lead­ers togeth­er, across all sec­tors and geo­gra­phies, con­nect­ing aero­space, finance, ener­gy, tech­nol­o­gy and man­u­fac­tur­ing with the com­mon goal — future of the plan­et and peo­ple.

Stephen Fitz­patrick, Founder/CEO of Ver­ti­cal Aero­space (Speak­ing on Mon­day 11.30am-12.30pm)

Deloitte Glob­al will host a pan­el dis­cus­sion explor­ing the oppor­tu­ni­ties that Indus­try 4.0 and advanced man­u­fac­tur­ing can bring to the aero­space indus­try.

At the inau­gur­al Aero­space Glob­al Forum at the upcom­ing Farn­bor­ough Inter­na­tion­al Air­show, the 20th of July pan­el ses­sion: “Indus­try 4.0: The need for speed,” will see a pan­el of indus­try spe­cial­ists explore emerg­ing trends and chal­lenges in the aero­space sec­tor.

Mod­er­at­ed by Beth McGrath, Deloitte Global’s Gov­ern­ment & Pub­lic Ser­vices Leader, the ses­sion will bring togeth­er lead­ers from aero­space and defence and oth­er lead­ing exec­u­tives to dis­cuss how the ben­e­fits of advanced man­u­fac­tur­ing can dri­ve faster turn­around times, more sus­tain­able busi­ness prac­tices, and bet­ter per­for­mance across the aero­space sec­tor.

Under­stand­ing Indus­try 4.0 and, more broad­ly, dig­i­tal­i­sa­tion could enable aero­space man­u­fac­tur­ers gain com­pet­i­tive advan­tage in deliv­er­ing new capa­bil­i­ties to cus­tomers, reduce costs and waste, improve oper­a­tional effi­cien­cy, and enhance reg­u­la­to­ry com­pli­ance.

McGrath said: “As a spon­sor of the inau­gur­al Aero­space Glob­al Forum, we are proud to con­tribute to indus­try dis­cus­sions on sus­tain­able man­u­fac­tur­ing and the role it can play in the tran­si­tion to net-zero. There is a need for speed to address sus­tain­abil­i­ty chal­lenges and doing so can accel­er­ate inno­va­tions and improve per­for­mance across the aero­space indus­try.

“The Aero­space Glob­al Forum will see indus­try lead­ers come togeth­er and dis­cuss the chal­lenges and oppor­tu­ni­ties faced by the sec­tor”. It encour­ages the build­ing of action­able steps toward bet­ter per­form­ing and more sus­tain­able busi­ness prac­tices for a cli­mate resilient future.”

John Coyk­endall, Glob­al Aero­space & Defence Leader, Deloitte, com­ment­ed: “This is arguably one of the most dynam­ic peri­ods in avi­a­tion his­to­ry, as the aero­space ecosys­tem tries to man­age fluc­tu­at­ing demand and advanced air mobil­i­ty entrants start to build oper­a­tions from the ground up. All this, as the entire indus­try strug­gles with sup­ply chain short­ages, work­force chal­lenges and becom­ing more sus­tain­able.”

Gareth Rogers, CEO of Farn­bor­ough Inter­na­tion­al

Gareth Rogers, CEO of Farn­bor­ough Inter­na­tion­al, added: “Deloitte Glob­al joins a num­ber of inter­na­tion­al organ­i­sa­tions as spon­sors and part­ners of this glob­al plat­form, which will set the agen­da for indus­try in the years ahead, dis­cussing the new dig­i­tal work­force and future lead­ers of the aero­space and defence indus­try, and prepar­ing organ­i­sa­tions for the accel­er­a­tion to a net zero econ­o­my. I look for­ward to con­tin­u­ing our rela­tion­ship and col­lab­o­rat­ing as an ecosys­tem to make vital, action­able change.”

AGF is designed for the dis­rup­tive and exis­ten­tial chal­lenges of the 21st Cen­tu­ry and col­lab­o­ra­tion with a broad spec­trum of inter­ests is crit­i­cal if avi­a­tion, defence, and space exploits are to address cli­mate pri­or­i­ties, har­ness dig­i­ti­za­tion, mar­shall advanced automa­tion and mate­r­i­al sci­ence in strained sup­ply chains with resource and skill short­ages.

The world-class Farn­bor­ough Inter­na­tion­al Air­show has been pro­vid­ing an unri­valled bien­ni­al glob­al plat­form for busi­ness­es from across the world of aero­space and defence for many years, to share their expe­ri­ence, exchange knowl­edge and devel­op vital com­mer­cial rela­tion­ships.