Call for Presentations and Technical Papers

Thank you to everyone who submitted an abstract!
The submission deadline has now passed.
We look forward to seeing you at AeroTech 2025 in Vancouver, B.C.

SAE International’s AeroTech is the premier global aerospace technology conference & exhibition celebrating innovation and technical achievements in virtually every facet of modern aerospace & defense, including platform, system, subsystem, component, and material research and development, engineering, manufacturing, assembly, test and validation, certification, integration, deployment, sustainment, safety, security, and sustainability.

SAE International invites the global community to present cutting-edge work, share solutions, celebrate achievements, demonstrate expertise and thought-leadership, collaborate, and network with engineers, executives, regulators, researchers, scientists, academia, and other decision makers from across the global aerospace ecosystem in person at AeroTech.

Presentations and papers invited on myriad topics across commercial, general, and military/defense aviation and space, including:

  • Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS), Urban Air Mobility (UAM), Supersonic/Hypersonic & Disruptive Technology
  • Advanced Manufacturing & Materials
  • AeroFast Fastening, Assembly & Tooling
  • Aircraft & System Safety, including Hardware & Software Development Assurance
  • Automation, Avionics, Aircraft Electronics & Aircraft Systems
  • Business, Economics & Forecasting
  • Electrification, Power, Thermal, Engine, Propulsion, SAF & Hydrogen
  • Engineering, Modeling & Simulation, Testing & Flight Sciences
  • MBSE & Digital Engineering
  • Multimodal Mobility - Air, Space, Land, Sea, Infrastructure, Smart City
  • Security, including Aviation Cybersecurity
  • Students/NEXGENEERS
  • Sustainability, Circularity & Decarbonization
  • Sustainment, Obsolescence & Supply Chain
  • Workforce & Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility & Leadership (IDEAL)

Important information:

  • To present in the AeroTech technical program, speakers/presenters must register and pay a registration fee to attend AeroTech.
    • The Technical Program Participant registration rate is discounted from the full conference price in recognition and appreciation of your technical paper and presentation.
    • No further discounts, reductions, or promotional codes can/will be granted.
  • Offered papers shall not have been published previously. If paper is accepted, contributors will not release paper for publication elsewhere.

Regarding technical papers:

The following information is requested during the online submission process:

  1. Name of presenter/author and co-authors, plus all contact information
  2. Submission type [e.g., oral presentation (no paper), paper & oral presentation, panel discussion, workshop, associated meeting (for a fee), demo]
  3. Topic (most-appropriate technical session); each abstract must be submitted to only ONE session.
  4. Title of presentation/paper
  5. Learning objective (what attendees will learn; short description of talk and its importance/relevance)
  6. Abstract (summary that states the objective of presentation / paper)

Upon submission, you will receive an automatic reply via e-mail. If you do not receive a confirmation, please retry submission. Contact Heather.Smith@sae.org for assistance.

Key deadlines:

  • Abstracts due: November 1, 2024
  • Review-ready manuscripts due: December 13, 2024
  • Peer-review feedback on manuscripts due by: January 10, 2025
  • Revised manuscripts due: January 27, 2025
  • Final manuscripts, copyright assignments, and final presentations due: March 28, 2025
  • Speakers/presenters register to attend AeroTech to present in-person (at a discounted Technical Program Participant rate): April 1, 2025

For more information, visit https://aerotech.sae.org.

 The following conditions apply:

  • Registration is required for speaker attendance and presentation.
  • All presenters must register by April 1, 2025 (4 weeks prior to the start of the event) or speaking time slot and technical paper are subject to cancellation.
  • Manuscripts are subject to cancellation (not published) if author / presenter does not show up for scheduled presentation time.
  • Paper acceptance will be based on organizer-moderated peer review of review-ready manuscript.
  • Author resources, useful in preparing your paper, are provided online at sae.org/participate/volunteer/author

Interested in publishing a technical paper without presenting at AeroTech?  You are invited to submit your technical paper here: https://www.editorialmanager.com/saetechpapers.

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