UAV Theatres
Curated to give you the knowledge and advice to transform your organisation, our speakers will give you, without any doubts, the tools to maximize your professional success. Whether you want to nurture an existing or build a new business, attending these sessions will put you directly at the top of the Drone industry!
Led by expert professionals and industry leaders, these sessions will run throughout the two days with a specific focus on a particular sector in each session. We even have our dedicated seminar theatre to take you through a deep dive into each sector including so much more!
- Surveillance
- Inspection
- Future of Flight
- Emergency Service
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Surveillance
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Tuesday
11.00 - 11.30
Kristofer Skantze
UAV Development Sweden ABLaunching XER heavy-duty drones; 4hr flight time with 20kg payload
At XER we have flown drones for 1000s of hours since 2012 and come to realize shortcomings of the low payload and short flight time of standard drones. This has led us to develop and launch an entirely new breed of drones with up to 20kg payload capability and up to 4 hours flight time, useful for heavy-duty services including inspection, S&R, public safety and more.
11.45 - 12.15
Stuart Keenan and Graham Brown
ARPAS-UK – The UK Drone AssociationDrone Professionalism means real business benefits now and the future
Drone usage is really taking off, and there are diverse uses across multiple industries, from whale snot-sniffing to air taxis, all being driven by the real business benefits they can bring. This session will discuss and answer the challenges of freeing the societal and business advantages of drones, to realise the immense economic and operational benefits of increased efficiency, increased productivity, and increased safety, underpinned by drone professionalism.
14.00 - 14.30
Alex Kehoe
VIZGARDMitigating the Threat Posed by Hostile and Nuisance Drones
The exponential increase in drone adoption globally has borne witness to several high-profile disruptive incidents and a heightened interest in mitigation technologies to protect against malicious or nuisance drones and their pilot. In this talk, Alex offers his unique insight into the counter-drone industry from five years developing market-leading counter-UAS solutions to now providing AI that automates drones and the systems tasked with detecting them.
15.30 - 16.00
Shay Levy
FlightOpsCEO, FlightOps.io – Autonomous Air Mobility
The challenges and technological aspects of certifying long distance BVLOS flights including energy management, handling communication and GNSS loss, autonomy and edge computing, AI and smart decision making through real – life examples of the certification process that FlightOps has performed.
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Wednesday
11.00 - 11.30
Yago Osset
UAV WORKSTaking advantage of a drone for surveillance tactical missions.
Most police departments use standard multicopter drones and currently have a trial and error based learning process. After 2 years developing we know, what final users want. We have high expertise in tactical missions with specific drones, designed for police and defence purposes. We’ll show in this seminar, how we squeeze all technology possibilities into the drones, to give security professionals a real eye in the sky.
11.45 - 12.15
Mick Davidson
Nexus NineA Successful Operator? A view from below..
Entering the sector as a Remote Pilot and growing into a successful Operator. What should you look towards to operate successfully in any given scale of UAS operations? A breakdown of the requirements, potential barriers, bottlenecks, and risks to look out for. Including a look at where and how to find the right people.
12.30 - 13.00
Amar Missoum
SAMTECH LtdElectrical propulsion for air vehicles
Overview of recent development in air vehicles electrification, from manned to unmanned, and the motivation behind aircraft electrification, as well as, R&D focus and challenges nowadays. In addition, the trends and the transition expectation to all-electric Aircraft, followed by implication and contribution of the airframe aerodynamics to this new generation of air vehicles.
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Inspection
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Tuesday
11.00 - 11.30
Gokhan Celik
A-techSYNPotential of Larger Fixed Wing UAVs and How To Realize It
The Seminar focuses on the many potential uses of 25-150 kg MTOW Fixed Wing UAVs. Most use cases of Drones consider the use of multirotor. Which of these applications can be scaled up and performed by fixed wing UAVs at greater distances and larger areas and how? What are the technical and regulatory requirements ? Which seem to be possible and which need a lot more effort and a shift in paradigm?
11.45 - 12.15
Denis Ilnitski
United Vehicle RoboticsDevelopment and application of unmanned aerial vehicles of various payloads for civil purposes
We brought high lifting capacities into the world of unmanned aircraft. Our full-scale unmanned helicopters of different sizes and weight capacities came to be safer, more reliable and functional than manned ones. Now our mission is to make them accessible for a wide-scale use as a new mode of cargo transport.
13.15 - 13.45
Ronald Schultz
FIXARDifferent UAV categories and their field of application
Today are available a lot of different UAV solutions – quadcopters, planes, fixed-wings etc. and customers can get confused by the wide range of UAVs. We will shortly explain field of application for each drone category, to provide some clarity in this drone jungle.
14.00 - 14.30
Eyal Regev
GadfinTurning Drone Delivery to a Physical Network
Presenting the next generation of drone delivery – a fully autonomous B2B aerial delivery system that can create a physical internet between Wearhouse's hospitals and clinics around the world with a 24\7 AI managed grid, to supply on demand delivery in a super-fast and cost effective manner, that will revolutionize the logistic supply chain and connect the peripheral to city centres and make critical goods available everywhere.
15.30 - 16.00
James Wardlow
Phase One GeospatialUsing drones successfully for Inspection: The need for a high-quality sensor
Drones in remote asset inspection applications, and to explore the reasons and importance of using a quality remote sensing solution.
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Wednesday
11.45 - 12.15
Katharina Kreitz & Paul Crowhurst
Vectoflow GmbH & Evolution Measurement LtdIntelligent Flight Test Instrumentation using 3D-Printing and pressure scanner technologies
We take a glimpse into innovation in the measurements with latest technical advances. In conjunction with the EU H2020 CleanSky project, we are using advanced 3D printing technologies to improve flow field resolution capture and measurement and developing high capability pressure instruments to augment this.
13.15 - 13.45
Joerg Schamuhn
Airial RoboticsGyrocopter as solution for BVLOS operation in densely populated areas
Commencing UAS operation in densely populated areas is challenging and requires solid answers for flight safety, noise emission, productivity, elimination of downtimes. The Gyrocopter architecture with hybrid drive system technology is potentially an answer for these questions allowing operators to maximize services under a wide range of weather conditions. The principle offers easier access to permissions and certifications of these complex operations. This will be an insight into the system architecture.
14.45 - 15.15
Philipp Amon
RIEGLLaser Scanning and Applications from Drones
With the development of compact and lightweight laser scanners data acquisition using drones has revolutionized the surveying market. RIEGL’s Ultimate LiDAR Technology used in their broad portfolio of UAV LiDAR sensors allows the acquisition of highly accurate and informative data for most diverse applications, from power line monitoring to topo-bathymetric coastline mapping. We present sensors and systems, their special features, give an insight into diverse projects and the technology in use
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Future of Flight
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Tuesday
11.00 - 11.30
Simon Masters
UK Research and InnovationDelivering a revolution in aviation
Introducing the Future Flight Challenge from UK Research and Innovation. A £125 million programme designed to kick-start the third revolution in aviation by developing the wider aviation system to transform how we connect people, deliver goods and provide services. This session covers what the Challenge has achieved so far and considers what needs to be done to bring innovative air vehicles into service safely and practically by 2030.
11.45 - 12.15
Dr Dennis Majoe
Motion Robotics LimitedIntelligent Drone Ports for Autonomous Cargo Handling and Drone Garaging
The Innovate UK funded project OSPREH (Optimizing Speed, Productivity, Resilience and Efficiency in Healthcare) will be presented with the results achieved at this half-way point in the project. Aerial drone delivery of medical pathology, goods and equipment using autonomous robotics and advanced Artificial Intelligence. Intelligent drone ports equipped for drone garaging and parcel lockering.
12.30 - 13.00
Kevin Duckers
IDU GroupWhy We Need to Be Thinking About Drone Infrastructure Today
We are at a critical period in history, faced with urgent climate impacts. Drones and aerial vehicles can be part of a profound rethink of the urban environment, supporting decarbonization of the logistics and transport sectors. The rate of disruptive innovation transforming the last mile of drone delivery is rapid, with several global companies already trialling drone delivery services. Existing buildings (like warehouses and hospitals) will need to be adapted to accommodate these new drone networks, and new design principles will have to be implemented in future ones. This will drive sustainability through smart infrastructure that is embedded into its environment, in ways that are convenient and meaningful to the way we live our lives. Enabling safe, secure, scalable, and autonomous drone delivery as a reality of daily life.
13.15 - 13.45
Vidyut. Jacob
BellwetherEnvisaging the Future of Aerial Mobility.
Sharing the vision and philosophy of Bellwether with relation to the UAM Industry and how collaboration will beget change in the future. Further will be delving into the different verticals and challenges this industry presents to us as well as how we at Bellwether approach these critical aspects. The verticals would be subsets of the flying ecosystems within cities i.e. infrastructure, flight management, commercialization etc. Will open the floor to questions about the industry and about the company as well
14.45 - 15.15
Tom Verbruggen
IDRONECTStaying in Control while your drone business takes off.
Starting and growing a professional drone business can be challenging. Many processes to take care of, a lot of administration and regulations to follow. Flying drones should be the main focus, and flying more will make your company grow. But how do you stay in control of your flight operations and business?
15.30 - 16.00
Robert Garbett
Drone Major GroupThe Phoenix Programme – The logical next step to drone commercialisation
A family of interconnected projects working with key industry stakeholders and Government to deliver commercially viable, scalable and environmentally sound services using drone technology across all environments (land, maritime, air & space). Delivering drone services built by industry, funded by industry and delivered by the best suppliers from around the world...
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Wednesday
11.00 - 11.30
William Barnes
Frazer-Nash ConsultancyBVLOS and autonomy - how can you get there?
Operating drones Beyond Visual Line of Sight and with high levels of autonomy is seen by many as the ''holy grail'', enabling a breadth of high benefit use cases. There are a huge number of projects and programmes across the industry exploring different routes to this goal, but which is right for you and where should you focus your efforts? Join Will to gain industry insights on these questions and more.
11.45 - 12.15
Dr. Hans-Peter Thamm
aeroDCS GmbHUse of VTOLS in Africa – present state and future perspectives
VTOLS UAS have proven to be very useful for manifold tasks especially in Africa. But for many business cases most of the concepts are too complex, to unreliable and far too expensive. To penetrate the market as is could be, new concepts are necessary which offer a high degree of security and reliability, high robustness, long range, high payload and that for a low total cost of ownership.
12.30 - 13.00
Guillaume JANDIN
Pyromeral SystemsCeramic composites for fire resistance and high temperature applications.
Pyromeral Systems has developed 2 kind of mineral composites. One material is a glass-ceramic matrix reinforced with Carbon or SiC fibre that can resist to heat (applications up to 900°C) and to fire (applications batteries casing). The other technology is an O-CMC that can withstand temperatures up to 1200°C and has satisfactory RadioFrequency properties to be used as Radome, even at elevated temperature. Both technologies will be presented.
13.15 - 13.45
Marek Alliksoo
SKYCORPFrom Hydrogen drones towards forming a Sustainable Aviation ecosystem
Overview of the latest in the industry where the segregation between manned and unmanned is shrinking as multimodality grows and where a humble venture towards novel hydrogen drones can lead to the formation of future Sustainable Aviation Hubs. In addition to providing technological insights, followed by cross-industry insights and the latest in U-Space development through the eyes of Hydrogen Ecosystem builder.
14.45 - 15.15
Dr Sabyasachi Mondal
Cranfield UniversityAn Insight into Autonomous Drone Operations
This talk gives an overview of modules that enable a drone or a group of drones to execute complex tasks autonomously in a constrained environment. These modules are designed using bio-inspired optimization, cooperative guidance and control, AI-based mission planning and can be customized for specific applications like inspection, delivery, agriculture, and other BVLOS operations.
15.30 - 16.00
James Fairbairn
AeroSpace CornwallSpace to Fly: UAV Activity in Cornwall
Welcome to the Cornish Skies. James Fairbairn shines a spotlight on Cornwall’s current UAS activity. With airspace for UAS flight trials, Cornwall can provide the infrastructure and access to restricted airspace you need to operate flights beyond the visual line of sight. We can also provide you with a platform to safely operate your UAS; offering the full range of testing, demonstrating and training facilities required, including access to restricted airspace.
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Emergency Service
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Tuesday
11.00 - 11.30
Barry Koperberg
Wings For AidA humanitarian internet - using cargo drone aircraft
Why do some of us receive parcels we need within 24 hours, and others do not? This seminar addresses a key issue in humanitarian logistics: the ‘last mile’ of 50-250km. Barry Koperberg, founder and GM of Wings For Aid, outlines how drone technology, partnership and persistence power up a ‘humanitarian internet’ for package delivery. In action shortly: a 650kg aircraft in a BVLOS circuit, to drop 20kg self-landing boxes. Just where they are most needed.
11.45 - 12.15
Ricky Sandhu
Urban Air Port LimitedAir One
Urban-Air Port | "Air-One" [Rapidly Deployable Vertiport For Drone-Delivery, Air-Taxi, Disaster Management]
13.15 - 13.45
Kenneth Geipel
RobottoThe New Normal of Wildfires and the Need to Innovate
This masterclass will highlight how the climate crisis have caused an increase in wildfire frequency and severity, to the modern-day mega fires. How current wildfire operations are being done, and why these methods are unequipped to deal with the current situation. Lastly why firefighters need innovating their procedures and equipment used, for the benefit of the local communities, the environment, and global health
14.45 - 15.15
Nick Sharpe
Modini LimitedRealising the potential of BVLOS drones – Regulation, innovation, use-case.
Delivering a regular BVLOS operation in UK airspace with large (100+kg) UAS is a case-by-case challenge. This seminar will explore our experience of delivering a large VTOL UAS platform in UK Airspace. We will offer a real-world view on the challenges we faced, how we overcame the initial barriers to entry, and how some of the most challenging issues faced today may be solved tomorrow.
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Wednesday
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Partners
