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The conference program includes:

Keynotes, including:

• Koen de Vos
  • Building the European Drone Services Market by 2017
  • DG Mobility and Transport, European Commission

Plenary Discussions, including:

Europe’s Future Regulatory Landscape

• An international panel of experts discusses regulations, successes, challenges and a vision for the future.
• Representatives from RPAS associations in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, The Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom

Commercial UAVs: Safety & Legal Considerations for Protecting Your Enterprise

• Discussion about the importance of and methods for properly documenting drone flights to verify legality, and options for ensuring safety for operators and data handlers.
• Participants include Morwen Williams, Head of Newsgathering Operations, BBC News; Daniel Rubio, Chief Technology Officer, AirMap; Steve Flynn, CEO, Sky Tango

Breakout Sessions

> Civil Engineering & Infrastructure

• UAVs in GPS-Denied Tunnels for Crossrail Project
  • Ravi Kugananthan, Project Engineer, Tunnels and Platforms, Laing O’Rourke (UK)
• Inspection of Critical Infrastructures: Lessons Learned from Inspecting More than 1000 Bridges
  • âNicol Marietti, Founder, Aiviewgroup (Italy)

> Utilities & Inspection

• A Drone Can Automate Putting up a Ladder; Can it Automate Doing an Inspection too?
  • Colin Hickey, Head of Product, Sky-Futures (UK)
• BVLOS Mapping of a Pipeline Corridor
  • Sébastien Fleury, Section infrastructures, GAZNAT SA (Switzerland) and
  • Francois Gervaix, Product Manager-Surveying, senseFly (Switzerland)

> Process & Power; Renewable Energy

• What Does it Take to Operate BVLOS for Power Line Inspections
  • âMantas Vaskela, CEO, Laserpas UAB

> Construction

• Construction Site Planning with UAVs and Mixed Reality (MR)
  • âSpeakers to be announced
• Realisation to Reality
  • âPeter Slater, Aerial Solutions Manager, Costain Group LLC (UK)

> Mining & Aggregates

• Terrestrial Lidar vs. UAV for Mining Volume Calculatio
  • Dr. Khaled El Nabbout, GM, Mena3D GmbH (Germany)
• Metric Mapping with Low Cost Drones
  • âLewis Graham, CTO, GeoCue Group (USA)

> Security, Law Enforcement, Emergency Response, Search & Rescue

• The Day a Fireman Became a Drone Pilot
  • Romeo Durscher, Director of Education, DJI, Inc. (USA)

Product Previews

Vendors share product highlights in brief presentations. Learn about the latest innovations from these market leaders: Acecore | Aerial Imaging Saudi Arabia | Aerialtronics | AgriSens | Agrowing | Aibotix GmbH / Leica Geosystems AG | Airobot bvba | ALX Systems | A-techSYN | BlueMarble Geographics | C-Astral d.o.o. | Datumate | Italdron | Orbit GT | Pix4D | Pythagoras BVBA | RIEGL Laser Measurement Systems GmbH | Septentrio | SpotScale AB | Topcon Europe Positioning B.V. | Trimble / Applanix | Virtual Surveyor NV

Drone Hero Contest

Drone Hero Europe finalists throughout Europe will present their innovations before a panel of judges and the Commercial UAV Expo audience. Winners will be announced on the final day of the event.

This is just a taste of the programming you’ll find at Commercial UAV Expo...you’ll also find industrial-grade airframes, components, software and services in the exhibit hall...hundreds of drone professionals to network with...and much more, at Europe’s drone event of the year.

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