First-time student discounts offered at Vertical Flight Society’s 17th Electric Aircraft Symposium this month

More than 40 of the world’s lead­ing elec­tric air­craft devel­op­ers and tech­nol­o­gy experts will be speak­ing at the 17th Annu­al Elec­tric Air­craft Sym­po­sium (EAS), host­ed by the Ver­ti­cal Flight Soci­ety (VFS).

The event will once again be held online and in per­son in Oshkosh, Wis­con­sin, from July 22nd to 23rd, 2023 — the week­end pri­or to the Exper­i­men­tal Air­craft Asso­ci­a­tion (EAA) Air­Ven­ture 2023.

EAS is the world’s longest-run­ning elec­tric avi­a­tion tech­nol­o­gy meet­ing. It’s organ­ised by indus­try and gov­ern­ment lead­ers who are part of the advanced air mobil­i­ty (AAM) ecosys­tem to pro­vide updates to the com­mu­ni­ty and the pub­lic.

And with a focus on inspir­ing the next gen­er­a­tion of avi­a­tion and aero­space inno­va­tors, the non-prof­it VFS event is offer­ing a first-time dis­count for stu­dents.

Stu­dents com­ing to the event can attend for only $75, after join­ing VFS for $25. There is also a spe­cial vir­tu­al-only option for VFS stu­dent mem­bers of only $25. For oth­ers, the cost of the two-day sym­po­sium ranges from $150 for vir­tu­al par­tic­i­pants to $245 for in-per­son atten­dees.

A spe­cial fea­ture this year is a pan­el organ­ised to sup­port the US government’s AAM Inter­a­gency Work­ing Group.

This ses­sion fea­tures the Hon­or­able Annie Pet­sonk, Assis­tant Sec­re­tary for Avi­a­tion and Inter­na­tion­al Affairs, US Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion (DOT); Peter Irvine, Deputy Direc­tor, Office of Avi­a­tion Analy­sis and Exec­u­tive Lead for Avi­a­tion Pol­i­cy, DOT; Dr. Pari­mal “PK” Kopardekar, NASA Advanced Research Insti­tute (NARI) Direc­tor, Nation­al Aero­nau­tics & Space Admin­is­tra­tion (NASA); and Dar­shan “Dash” Divakaran, Lead for Air­space Inno­va­tion & Prime Part­ner­ships, US Air Force AFWERX.

This year’s EAS will present experts from indus­try and gov­ern­ment, par­tic­i­pat­ing in 12 in-depth mod­er­at­ed pan­el dis­cus­sions cov­er­ing the full spec­trum of top­ics, includ­ing com­mu­ni­ty inte­gra­tion, elec­tric air­craft devel­op­ments, personal/private AAM air­craft, propul­sion (includ­ing hydro­gen-elec­tric), region­al air mobil­i­ty, test­ing and stan­dards devel­op­ment.

Mark Moore, CEO of Whis­per and one of the ear­ly pio­neers of the elec­tric avi­a­tion rev­o­lu­tion, is the keynote speak­er. Oth­er par­tic­i­pat­ing com­pa­nies and organ­i­sa­tions this year include AeroTEC, Archer, Beta Tech­nolo­gies, Com­mu­ni­ty Air Mobil­i­ty Ini­tia­tive (CAMI), Dia­mond Air­craft, Hydroplane, Joby Avi­a­tion, Jet­son Aero, Limosa, Luft­Car, Open­er, Overair, Sky­Drive, Tex­tron eAv­i­a­tion, Wisk and ZEVA.

Just added include exec­u­tives from elec­tric air­craft star­tups Værid­ion (Ger­many), AIR (Israel) and Elfly (Nor­way). Top lead­ers from elec­tric-motor and ener­gy stor­age com­pa­nies Evoli­to (UK), Rolls-Royce Elec­tri­cal (Ger­many), H55 (Switzer­land) and Elec­tric Pow­er Sys­tems (US) will also high­light the lat­est in their devel­op­ments and plans.

Each mod­er­at­ed pan­el ses­sion will include a Q&A dis­cus­sion with pre­sen­ters and atten­dees — a hall­mark of the annu­al Elec­tric Air­craft Sym­po­sium.

The Ver­ti­cal Flight Soci­ety host­ed the world’s first elec­tric VTOL tech­ni­cal meet­ing in 2014, launched the world’s first eVTOL eNewslet­ter in 2016, world’s first ded­i­cat­ed eVTOL web­site in 2017, the world’s first eVTOL short course in 2018, and the world’s first hydro­gen-elec­tric avi­a­tion sym­po­sium in March 2022.

The Soci­ety began spon­sor­ing the Elec­tric Air­craft Sym­po­sium in 2018 and soon took over respon­si­bil­i­ty for run­ning it from the CAFE Foun­da­tion.

Details on the agen­da, reg­is­tra­tion and spon­sor­ships are post­ed at: .