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 host city — 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 2028 host city is locked.
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.
Vote on where it lands
The Summit convenes in a different North American business-aviation hub each year. The co-founders' pick for the inaugural: the Montreal Science Centre in Old Port — a one-day venue in the heart of the city, easy to bring family and easy to spill into the evening. The vote's open; cast yours to lock it in.