FeaturedNews

Agenda Topics Released for eVTOL Insights’ North America Conference; SkyGrid, EHang, Evolito Among First Confirmed To Attend

Pre­lim­i­nary dis­cus­sion top­ics for eVTOL Insights’ North Amer­i­ca Con­fer­ence have now been released, as prepa­ra­tions for its 2026 event in Ohio start to gath­er pace.

It will take place from April 29th to May 1st at the Nation­al Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty Cen­ter of Excel­lence (NAAMCE), which is based near Spring­field-Beck­ley Munic­i­pal Air­port near Spring­field, Ohio.

Among the com­pa­nies which have con­firmed to par­tic­i­pat­ing include Sky­Grid, EHang, SMG Con­sult­ing, NAAMCE, Ser­aph, Wisk, Ver­ti­port Chica­go, Future Flight Glob­al, ANRA Tech­nolo­gies and AeroX.

Top­ics to be dis­cussed in Ohio (sub­ject to change):

Ohio’s Role in Advanc­ing Air Mobil­i­ty

Indus­try Readi­ness: How Close are We to Com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion?

Chi­na’s Low Alti­tude Econ­o­my: Strat­e­gy, Scale and Glob­al Impli­ca­tions?

Air­space Inte­gra­tion and ATM/UTM

Elec­tric Propul­sion & Bat­tery Devel­op­ment

Build­ing the AAM Work­force of the 2030s

Man­u­fac­tur­ing & Sup­ply Chain

Flight Test­ing: Expec­ta­tions for 2026

Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion & Reg­u­la­tion

As well as the con­fer­ence, eVTOL Insights is organ­is­ing two site vis­its and also host­ing its Glob­al AAM Awards which will cel­e­brate and recog­nise indus­try achieve­ments across indi­vid­ual, team and com­pa­ny cat­e­gories. Entries are now open and the final date to sub­mit nom­i­na­tions is Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 27th.

Tick­ets to attend eVTOL Insights’ North Amer­i­ca Con­fer­ence are on sale and priced at $950. This includes entry to both the con­fer­ence and awards, plus the two site vis­its and net­work­ing recep­tions planned. Stu­dent con­ces­sions are also on sale for $200. You can buy yours here.

There are still speak­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties avail­able and any com­pa­ny inter­est­ed in par­tic­i­pat­ing should email jason@evtolinsights.com

Addi­tion­al­ly, there are only a few spon­sor­ship slots left for com­pa­nies want­i­ng to ben­e­fit for addi­tion­al brand­ing and aware­ness in Ohio. To find out what pack­ages are left, please email sam@evtolinsights.com

Locat­ed at the Springfield–Beckley Munic­i­pal Air­port, the NAAMCE opened in Sep­tem­ber 2023 and is a pre­mier research and devel­op­ment facil­i­ty ded­i­cat­ed to advanc­ing the field of Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty.

Span­ning 55,000 square feet, the cen­ter com­pris­es 30,000 square feet of admin­is­tra­tive, lab­o­ra­to­ry, meet­ing, and col­lab­o­ra­tion spaces, along with an addi­tion­al 25,000 square feet of air­craft hangar space.

NAAMCE serves as a col­lab­o­ra­tive hub, bring­ing togeth­er key stake­hold­ers from the U.S. Air Force Research Lab­o­ra­to­ry, NASA, the Ohio Unmanned Air­craft Sys­tems Cen­ter, aca­d­e­m­ic insti­tu­tions and pri­vate indus­try.

The facil­i­ty sup­ports a wide range of activ­i­ties, includ­ing the devel­op­ment and test­ing of eVTOL air­craft, high-speed VTOL air­craft and oth­er AAM tech­nolo­gies.

FULL EVENT PROGRAMME (tim­ings sched­uled to change)

Wednes­day, April 29th 2026

4pm to 6pm ET: Two-hour pri­vate site vis­it of NAAMCE

6pm to 8pm ET: Pre-event Drinks Recep­tion at NAAMCE

Thurs­day, April 30th 2026

9am to 5pm ET: eVTOL Insights’ North Amer­i­ca Con­fer­ence (reg­is­tra­tion from 8am ET)

5.30pm to 6.30pm ET: eVTOL Insights’ Glob­al AAM Awards 2026

Fri­day, May 1st 2026

10.30am to 12.30pm ET: Sec­ond site vis­it (loca­tion TBC)

Avatar photo

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.

eVTOL Insights is part of the Industry Insights Group. Registered in the UK. Company No: 14395769