Presenters include leaders from the FAA, Mitsubishi Electric,
NUAIR, Ondas Autonomous Systems, uAvionix Corporation, and
Commercial Drone Alliance
PORTLAND, Maine, July 30,
2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Organizers of Commercial
UAV Expo, the world's leading commercial drone trade show and
conference, have announced their highly anticipated Opening Keynote
lineup for the 2024 event, featuring leaders from the FAA,
Mitsubishi Electric, NUAIR, Ondas Autonomous Systems, uAvionix
Corporation and Commercial Drone Alliance. The Keynotes focus on
the urgent call for cross-industry collaboration, the future of
airspace with the FAA, and the path to accelerate commercial
viability and market demand. Opening Keynote discussions take place
Wednesday, September 4, 2024, at
Caesars Forum in Las Vegas,
Nevada.
The Keynotes focus on the urgent call for
cross-industry collaboration, the future of airspace with the FAA,
and the path to accelerate commercial viability and market
demand.
The Opening Keynote sessions are as follows:
The State of the Drone Industry: Will Better Collaboration
Unlock the Full Potential of Drones?
Featuring Lisa Ellman, Co-Founder and Executive Director of
Commercial Drone Alliance and Gretchen
West, Co-Founder and Membership Director of Commercial Drone
Alliance
The commercial drone industry has seen some positive
advancements over the past year and has much to celebrate.
Commercial Drone Alliance founders and industry veterans
Lisa Ellman and Gretchen West will kick off the Commercial UAV
Expo 2024 reviewing the successes over the past year and
highlighting areas where challenges still exist. They will provide
an overview of conference content that will help address these
challenges and note where industry professionals can get involved.
To unlock the full potential of drones and develop strong market
demand, the commercial drone industry needs to take collective
action, and Ellman and West will share their insights and provide a
call to action for the community to get engaged.
Outlining the Future of the Airspace with the FAA
Featuring Tim Arel, Chief Operating Officer, Air Traffic
Organization
As the airspace continues to evolve, technology that allows
drones to more easily take to the sky is similarly advancing,
creating opportunities and challenges when it comes to uniting
drones with traditional aviation ecosystems. The FAA is responsible
for ensuring safe, efficient and secure air traffic services for
approximately 50,000 crewed aircraft operating every day across the
National Airspace System (NAS); this session will discuss how FAA
leadership is thinking about this unification. Attendees will
listen to a candid conversation discussing how the FAA is
approaching the operationalization of the airspace as well as
integrating unmanned aircraft systems into the NAS. Attendees will
better understand what access to the airspace for drones looks like
today, tomorrow and in the future.
Accelerating Commercial Viability and Market Demand
Featuring Eric Brock, CEO, Ondas Autonomous Systems; Jon Damush, President and CEO, uAvionix
Corporation; Erik Mintz, Director,
Mobility Infrastructure, Mitsubishi Electric; and Ken Stewart, CEO and President, NUAIR
The commercial drone industry is on its way to having defined
and published rules and regulations, and once in place, will have
collectively overcome a major hurdle to scaling drone operations.
This panel will answer what additional challenges need to be
addressed to guarantee a path to real economic growth and
commercial viability, and how market demand needs to grow to
witness the true scaling of the commercial drone industry. Experts
and industry veterans will offer insights on where firms should
focus to create greater market demand, and what to consider to
ensure success. Looking at topics through the different lenses of
aviation, technology, and financial capital, panelists will explore
where market demand truly is today, ask what customers want and how
to make a business case for investment, address supply chain
issues, competition, standardization and much more. The commercial
drone industry must work together to drive solutions to accelerate
commercial viability and market demand. The lessons learned from
this panel aim to start many discussions during Commercial UAV Expo
2024 and leave participants with ideas to share with industry
peers.
The Opening Keynote announcement follows the recent Keynote
preview that outlined what to expect from additional discussions
including Outlining the Future of Drone Regulations with the FAA,
featuring Jodi Baker, Deputy
Associate Administrator for Aviation Safety at the FAA, and The
Secret to Success for Public & Enterprise Drone Programs:
Intentional Implementation for Scalable Adoption, featuring
Randy Macchi, Chief Operating
Officer of City of Houston, and
Josh Fredriksson, Senior Director of
Inspections, Pacific Gas & Electric. View the full Keynote
session details online.
The Keynotes kick off the event's conference program with the
theme of "Drones in Action: Current Regulations and Future
Realities," delivering practical, actionable education developed in
conjunction with industry leaders. The transformative role of UAS
technology will be highlighted across the entire program but will
particularly emphasize strategies for building successful drone
programs in the fast-growing verticals of Construction, Energy and
Utilities and Infrastructure and Transportation, as well as
Surveying and Drone Pilot content and a new dedicated Policy track
providing drone operators with need-to-know information directly
from regulators.
Select sessions are produced with Commercial UAV Expo's Official
Association Partner, Commercial Drone Alliance, an organization
that advocates for the commercial use of drones by reducing
barriers to enable game-changing technology.
Visit http://www.expouav.com for complete event information and
register today for the best rates.
About Commercial UAV Expo
Commercial UAV Expo, presented by Commercial UAV News, is an
international conference and expo exclusively focused on commercial
UAS integration and operation. It will occur September 3-5, 2024, at Caesars Forum in
Las Vegas, Nevada. For more
information, visit https://www.expouav.com/
Commercial UAV Expo is produced by Diversified Communications'
technology portfolio, which also includes Commercial UAV News;
Commercial UAV Expo Europe, Geo Week, Geo Week Newsletter, 3D
Technology Newsletter, AEC Innovations Newsletter, Geo Business
(UK), and Digital Construction Week (UK).
For more information about exhibiting at Commercial UAV Expo,
visit the exhibitor information page or contact Kat McDonald, Sales
Manager, at kmcdonald@divcom.com or +1.207-842-5646 or
Dominique, Caron, Sales Representative, at
DCaron@divcom.com or + (207) 842-5404. For information on
attending, visit https://www.expouav.com/ or email
info@expouav.com.
Questions?
Lora Burns
Commercial UAV Expo Senior Marketing Manager
lburns@divcom.com
Media Contact
Lora Burns, Diversified
Communications, (207) 842-5522, Lburns@divcom.com,
https://www.expouav.com/
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