VOL × ForIT · Inaugural · Montréal · September 2028

Business aviation technology
finally has a home.

One day, one room — every vendor in business-aviation technology running live demos, a pitch stage, and an AI hackathon. The people who build, buy, and run it, all in the same place.

The mandate

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.

01 — Convene

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.

02 — Benchmark

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.

03 — Advance

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.

The inaugural program · one day, all vendors

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.

01 · Demo rooms

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.

02 · Pitch stage

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.

03 · Build

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.

04 · Take it home

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.

Membership · transparent by design

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.

Venue cost basis
Locks with the venue
Montréal Science Centre · tentative
Founding members
and counting
Your share
Lower as we grow
published when the venue locks

Run at cost · books open to members · exact figures publish once the venue and date are confirmed.

Founding cohort

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.

Where & when · tentative

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.

VenueMontréal Science Centre · King Edward Pier
Where2 de la Commune St. W., Old Port, Montréal QC
WhenTentatively September 2028 · one day
FormatGlass demo rooms · pitch stage · AI hackathon

Dates firm up with the founding cohort — become a member to lock your invite.