Two operators, building the body the industry never had.
The Summit is convened by VOL and ForIT — an operator and a technologist who kept hitting the same wall: business aviation had no neutral place to benchmark, build, and compare. So they're making one.
Every serious industry has a body that convenes it. This one didn't.
Business aviation's technology community has had no neutral ground — no place where every vendor shows up in one room and gets judged on the demo, not the pitch deck. Not one company's show-and-tell. The Business Aviation Tech Summit is staking that ground — built in the open, starting now.
Every vendor, one room
Neutral ground for the people who build, buy, and run business-aviation technology — operators, OEMs, every vendor, and flight departments — for one focused day. No static aircraft, no parts booths: pure bizav tech, with the person who actually signs in the room.
Set the standard
An honest, repeatable read on where the industry actually stands — so progress is measured against a shared baseline, not a sales deck. The state of play, on the record, every year.
Build & train
Not just talk. We ship working software against live operator problems and put modern tooling in the hands of the people who run the operation — so the gains compound long after the lights go down.
Not a panel you watch. A floor that works.
Glass demo rooms ring the floor — every vendor running live demos on the hour, every hour. At the center, a pitch stage with live polls and open questions, wrapped in a networking floor. One day, all of business-aviation IT, no slideware. And you leave with a credit to test-drive what you saw.
Live demos, on the hour
Glass demo rooms ring the floor. Book your demos in advance — show up and they're expecting you, slot after slot. Real software on real operator problems, judged on the demo, not the pitch deck: the shortest sales cycle in the industry.
The center stage
A pitch stage in the middle of the floor where vendors get the whole room — a sharp, no-holds-barred pitch with live polls and open questions, so the audience decides what actually lands.
The AI hackathon
Teams ship real solutions against live operator problems — scheduling, maintenance, quoting, ops data — and demo working software by close of day. Not slideware. Code.
A credit to test-drive
Every attendee leaves with a month free — or an equivalent credit — to any three vendors presenting on the floor. Try the tools on your own operation once you're home, no sales call required.
You don't pay a markup. You pay a share of the cost.
The Summit is run at cost. The all-in cost of the day — venue, AV, food, ops — is split across everyone who joins. The more founding members, the less each of us pays. No tiers, no early-bird games. We show the math.
Run at cost · books open to members · exact figures publish once the venue and date are confirmed.
Become a founding member
The founding cohort is forming now. Add your name to help define business aviation's technology community — and be first to get the agenda, host city, and dates.
Montréal Science Centre, Old Port
The inaugural is tentatively set for the Montréal Science Centre on King Edward Pier in Montréal's Old Port — a glass-walled hall in the heart of the city, easy to bring family and easy to spill into the evening. One focused day, tentatively in September 2028, about a month ahead of NBAA-BACE.
Dates firm up with the founding cohort — become a member to lock your invite.