Buying technology in business aviation is a season-long chase. It shouldn't be.
Today, evaluating technology means tracking vendors across a dozen aviation shows over a dozen months. BAT Summit compresses that into one room for one day. You walk in, see everyone who matters, and walk out with a shortlist instead of a calendar full of follow-ups.
The industry runs years behind the rest of the world on technology, and most of the people buying it aren't engineers. So the whole day is built to be readable — real demos, plain language. If a vendor can't explain what they do without a glossary, that's on them.
One room, one day
The entire business-aviation technology market in a single hall — not spread across a season of trade shows.
Built for buyers
Demos in plain English, so an owner, a chief pilot, or a director of ops can compare options without a translator.
A vendor showdown
Vendors demo head-to-head in front of the buyers who actually sign. The market gets benchmarked in real time.
A demo day, not a trade-show floor.
BAT Summit runs like a demo day. Glass demo pods ring the room; you schedule the demos you care about in advance. In the middle sits a central pitch stage where vendors take the whole room — a shameless, no-slides sales pitch with live audience Q&A and polls between sets. Around it, open networking.
Pick your vendors
Browse the directory ahead of time and choose who you want to see.
Schedule demos
Lock in your time slots before the day so nothing overlaps.
Sit the pod
Glass pods, a round table for ~4–5, one screen, one vendor — with shameless pitches in between.
Hit the center stage
Between demos, the central stage runs live vendor pitches to the whole room — open Q&A and audience polls, no slides to hide behind.
Compare & leave
About four hours of back-to-back demos. You leave with a shortlist, not a tote bag of brochures.
The pods are small on purpose. A demo for four is a conversation. A demo for forty is a presentation — and you came here to shop.
A summit worth flying in for.
The demos are the point — but they're not the whole day. BAT Summit is built to be the one event in business aviation you actually want to be at, not the one you get sent to — a day for moving the industry forward in tech. Build something real, win something, and stay for the night the industry lets its guard down.
Build something real, in a day.
Mixed teams of operators, vendors, and builders take a live business-aviation problem and ship a working prototype against it — judged on stage, winners crowned at the fun night. The industry runs years behind on technology; this is where it catches up in an afternoon.
Play between the pods.
A running vendor-showdown leaderboard, demo-floor challenges, and quick head-to-head games between sessions. Points, prizes, and bragging rights that carry over to next year.
A night to remember.
When the demos end, the Old Port comes out to play. Drinks on the water, hackathon winners crowned, and a bat-signal theme worth dressing for — wear your capes. One night a year the whole industry is in the same room, off the clock.
Every business-aviation tech vendor, in one place.
The BAT Summit directory is a searchable map of the technology market in business aviation, sorted by what each vendor actually does. We're building it in the open, ahead of the summit, so it's useful long before the doors open.
The directory is being built right now, category by category, from public information about the vendors we know. Listings open shortly — if you build technology for business aviation, get yours in first.
You're listed. Make sure it's right.
We're seeding the directory with the vendors we know, from public information — very possibly incomplete. Claim your profile, fix what's wrong, add your categories, and make sure the buyers searching this directory see the real you.
Listing and claiming are free. The directory stays useful long before the doors open.
Get in the room.
The inaugural BAT Summit lands in Montreal in 2027. Tickets aren't on sale yet — register your interest and we'll bring you in when demo scheduling opens, so you can book before the room fills up.
Email only. We'll write when there's something real to tell you.
Montreal's Old Port. A glass hall on the water.
The inaugural BAT Summit is set for the Montreal Science Centre, on the water in the Old Port — an all-glass hall, fitting for a summit built around glass demo pods. Couldn't pick a better room for a technology expo.
You'll spend the day in a glass hall on the water and your evenings in the Old Port — cobblestone streets, the waterfront, and The William Gray a short walk from the hall when it's time to check in.
The timing is deliberate: about a month ahead of the big Las Vegas show, so you can do your technology shopping early and arrive already knowing what you want.
BAT Summit is the annual event of BAT Pros — Business Aviation Technology Professionals, the independent, vendor-neutral organization moving business aviation forward in tech.
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See the whole market in a day. Be in the room when it opens.
The directory is going live now and the summit lands in 2027. Whether you're shopping for technology or selling it, the first move is the same: register your interest.
Independent & vendor-neutral · Montreal · 2027
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