Sustainability and Environment
EBACE Show Organizers Announce Trio of Keynote Speakers
An aviation pioneer, air traffic management leader, and local politician will address EBACE 2024
EBACE 2023 static display
Static display at EBACE 2023 © David McIntosh/AIN

Aviation pioneer and environmentalist Bertrand Piccard will headline the keynote speakers for this year’s European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition in Geneva. On Monday, the show’s organizers, NBAA and EBAA, announced that the roster for the keynote session on May 28 will also feature John Santurbano, director of Eurocontrol’s Maastricht Upper Area Control Center, and Delphine Bachmann, the Swiss canton’s state councillor for the Department of Economy and Labor.

Piccard is expected to provide details of his plans to fly a hydrogen-powered aircraft around the globe in 2028. The Climate Impulse project is his latest initiative to demonstrate the potential for zero-carbon-emissions flights, following his 1999 nonstop balloon flight around the world and a 2016 solar-powered circumnavigation of the earth.