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EBACE Opens with Formula for Fast Start
EBACE 2023 keynotes celebrate achievement, technology, and sustainability, headlined by motor sports legends Toto and Susie Wolff
Opening session Ebace 2023
NBAA president Ed Bolen speaks with inspiring motor sports legends Susie and Toto Wolff at the keynote opening session at EBACE 2023. (Photo: David McIntosh)

High achievement, breakthrough technology, diversity, and advances in sustainability took center stage in the inspiring keynote opener of EBACE 2023 on Tuesday featuring motorsports legends Toto and Susie Wolff and entrepreneur and solar power innovator Raphaël Domjan.

After EBAA chairman Juergen Wiese welcomed attendees to “Europe's greatest and largest and most exciting business aviation gathering,” Giovanni Russo, COO of Geneva Airport, a partner in the annual EBAA/NBAA gathering, reported that business aviation comprises 20 percent of the airport’s traffic. The airport is aiming to be net-zero carbon emissions by 2037, he said, recounting investments in sustainability the airport has made that will make that possible.