Two Weeks To Go! Deadline for eVTOL Insights’ Global AAM Awards is Fast Approaching

There are only two weeks until the entry dead­line for eVTOL Insights’ Glob­al AAM Awards, which will once again recog­nise and cel­e­brate indi­vid­ual, team and com­pa­ny excel­lence in Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty.

The entry por­tal will remain open until 23.59 ET on Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 27th and after this date, no more entries will be con­sid­ered.

Each entry costs £299 and the win­ners will be announced at eVTOL Insights’ North Amer­i­ca Con­fer­ence on April 30th, which is tak­ing place at the Nation­al Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty Cen­ter of Excel­lence (NAAMCE) near Spring­field, Ohio.

To sub­mit an entry, please reg­is­ter an account via the offi­cial Glob­al AAM Awards web­site below:

https://globalaamawards2026.awardsplatform.com/page/XRgQkvzM

Please note: Once you have sub­mit­ted an award entry, you will need to pay the entry fee via our Eventbrite page. Fail­ure to do so will result in your award entry not being judged.

For any infor­ma­tion relat­ing to the awards pro­gramme, please email jason@evtolinsights.com

The full award cat­e­gories, with new ones high­light­ed in bold, are as fol­lows:

TEAM

Start­up of the Year - For an ear­ly-stage com­pa­ny (<2 years) demon­strat­ing inno­va­tion and mar­ket poten­tial.

Small Mar­ket­ing Team of the Year (<50 employ­ees)

Large Mar­ket­ing Team of the Year (More than 51 employ­ees)

Small Design Team of the Year  (<50 employ­ees)

Large Design Team of the Year (More than 51 employ­ees)

Small Engi­neer­ing Team of the Year (<50 employ­ees)

Large Engi­neer­ing Team of the Year (More than 51 employ­ees)

COMPANY

Best Place to Work

Best Com­pa­ny Cul­ture Award

Bat­tery or Propul­sion Inno­va­tion of the Year - For advance­ments in pow­er­train tech that mean­ing­ful­ly boost per­for­mance, safe­ty, or range.

Infra­struc­ture Inno­va­tion of the Year — For progress in ver­ti­ports, charg­ing sys­tems, air­space inte­gra­tion, etc.

Reg­u­la­to­ry Leader of the Year — For a com­pa­ny or pub­lic body shap­ing safe, for­ward-think­ing AAM reg­u­la­tion.

Autonomous Flight Inno­va­tion Award — Recog­nis­ing lead­ing work in autonomous flight con­trol, nav­i­ga­tion, and AI inte­gra­tion

Glob­al Ecosys­tem Part­ner of the Year — For excel­lence in cross-bor­der part­ner­ships, sup­ply chain, or net­work devel­op­ment

Diver­si­ty & Inclu­sion in AAM Award — For ini­tia­tives pro­mot­ing greater rep­re­sen­ta­tion and oppor­tu­ni­ty across the indus­try.

Train­ing & Work­force Devel­op­ment Award — Recog­nis­ing efforts to build AAM-relat­ed skills pipelines, pilot train­ing, or tech­ni­cian pro­grams

AAM Soft­ware Inno­va­tor of the Year — For a devel­op­er or archi­tect of crit­i­cal soft­ware relat­ed to flight automa­tion, UTM, or sim­u­la­tion.

Best Aware­ness Rais­ers of AAM

Com­pa­ny of the Year (under 50 employ­ees)

Com­pa­ny of the Year (50 — 100 employ­ees)

Com­pa­ny of the Year (100+ employ­ees)

INDIVIDUAL

Com­mu­ni­ca­tor of the Year

Tech­nol­o­gy Leader of the Year

Engi­neer of the Year

The Under 30 ‘Ris­ing Star’ Award

Leader of the Year

Out­stand­ing Con­tri­bu­tion Award

STEM & Edu­ca­tion Impact Award — Hon­our­ing out­reach or edu­ca­tion efforts sup­port­ing AAM-relat­ed STEM fields

Test Pilot of the Year — Recog­nis­ing a pilot con­tribut­ing to safe­ty, inno­va­tion, or first-flight mile­stones in eVTOL test­ing.

Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Pio­neer Award — For an indi­vid­ual instru­men­tal in achiev­ing key reg­u­la­to­ry or cer­ti­fi­ca­tion break­throughs.

OVERALL

Medaille d’Or (Best over­all entry)