The Vertical Flight Society's 80th Annual Forum & Technology Display was held May 7-9, 2024, in Montreal, with some 1,150 attendees. The world's leading international technical event on vertical flight technology, the meeting included 275+ technical papers on every discipline from acoustics to uncrewed systems, plus 65 exhibitors and the annual short course on electric VTOL technology. Forum 80 also featured some 45 invited speakers from the military, government agencies and industry.
- Proceedings Papers for Forum Registrants:
- If you were a paid Forum 80 full registrant, you can download the Forum 80 papers for free! Go to the Forum 80 Proceedings page and log into your VFS account at the top of the page to download the individual PDFs.
- The entire proceedings and the user interface is also available for download
- Proceedings Papers for Non-Registrants
- All of the technical papers and have been posted for individual purchase and download
- You can also purchase a downloadable set of all of the techical papers at a sizeable discount
- Special Sessions Presentations:
- Presentation PDFs are available for download for Forum 80 attendees for free on the VFS Hover Community!
- Presentation PDFs are available for purchase as individual files
- You can also purchase a downloadable set of all of the presentations at a sizeable discount
- Photo Galleries (Note: to download photos, click the picture, then click the download icon on the bottom right underneath the image)
- Grand Awards Banquet
- Opening General Session: Keynote, CEO Panel & Nikolsky Lecture
- Technology Display
- Special Sessions — coming soon!
- Other events and photos — coming soon!
- Videos:
- All of the special sessions and general sessions were video recorded. These are available to attendees and VFS members for free! (Not a member? Join today!)
- Forum 80 keynote: MGen Jamie Speiser-Blanchet, Royal Canadian Air Force — available to the public
- 80th Annual Grand Awards Banquet — available to the public
- Forum 80: History Session presentations — available to the public
- Short Course on eVTOL Technology — avaible for purchase through our Vimeo channel
Save the date: The Vertical Flight Society's 81th Annual Forum & Technology Display will be held May 20-22, 2025, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA. Plan now to attend as we continue to explore "The Future of Vertical Flight"! The Forum 81 Call for Papers will be released in July with techincal paper abstracts due Oct. 11.
Posted May 21, 2024; last updated July 15, 2024