ICAS 2022

Purpose and goal:

The purpose of ICAS 2022 was to gather the world´s aviation elite from academia, institutes, companies and authorities to present and discuss new research results regarding environmental issues, basic aviation technology as aerodynamics, structural engineering and flight dynamics, and new areas as multidisciplinary optimization, cyber security, systems of systems, artificial intelligence, etc. With 600 technical lectures, an exhibition with participation of Saab, GKN, Boeing, Airbus, Clean Aviation, DLR and others and a broad social programme, the goals were well achieved.

Expected results and effects:

The congress gathered some 1000 participants, which is a new record for ICAS, and has received very good evaluation from the participants regarding both technical programme, the congress arrangements and the social program. This gives a good impression of Swedish collective activity and competence in aviation technology.

An overall technical result is agreement on that access to green energy is necessary to solve aviation´s sustainability issues. The two solutions that completely dominate are green hydrogen or SAF (sustainable aviation fuels). Approach and implementation:

The congress was co-planned between local organizers consisting of Innovair and FTF, as well as ICAS. Both ICAS program committee and Swedish organizers invited special keynote lectures as well as full sessions with the intention of raising technical quality. The ICAS program committee evaluated all approximately 850 received abstracts and selected the best for presentation.

A large number of national and international companies/organizations were invited to exhibit products or support the congress financially. The focus was also placed on getting many students involved.