Category Archives: Events

Drone World Expo in San Jose got off to a cracking start on Wednesday with a fully-packed room of attendees who turned up at 9 am for the Keynote: ‘Avoiding the Traffic Jam: A Government and Industry UTM Update’. The high-powered panel featured David Famolari, Verizon Ventures; Marke “Hoot” Gibson, FAA; Parimal “PK” Kopardekar, NASA and Dr. Dave Vos, Google X, and Gretchen West, Hogan Lovells, moderated the discussion.

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RPAS CivOps 2015 will take place in Brussels, Belgium on 2 & 3 December 2015. It has as purpose to inform the Civil Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems Operators Community on the upcoming regulatory changes in Europe, and is being coordinated with the European Parliament & the European Commission. Continue reading →

To conclude our series of exclusive interviews, our final interviewee is the event organiser himself, Joel Davis Founder & CEO of JD Events. Prior to founding JD Events in January of 2002, Joel spent 16 years as a senior executive in the tradeshow and conference industry. He began his event management career  with Reed Exhibition Companies and left Reed in 1996 to serve as President of Primedia/Intertec Exhibitions (now Penton Media), and subsequently served as President and COO of eMarketWorld and Vice President/General Manager of Imark Communications.

Joel has a genuine passion for the events business combined with a deeply held belief in the value of face-to-face marketing and community building. He has been a member of the Society of Independent Show Organizers (SISO) since 1996 and has served on the SISO Executive Committee. Continue reading →

To find out what inspires their interest in UAS and attracts the Advisory Board Members to support Drone World Expo, we scheduled a series of exclusive interviews. Our eleventh interviewee is Gretchen West, Senior Advisor of Innovation and Technology at Hogan Lovells.

Gretchen has served the unmanned systems industry over a decade and is an industry-leading advocate for commercial robotics. Prior to joining Hogan Lovells, Gretchen was at San Francisco start-up DroneDeploy serving as the company’s Vice President of Business Development and Regulatory Affairs. Previously, for over a decade, Gretchen served as AUVSI’s Executive Vice President, overseeing AUVSI’s global business development initiatives and government relations efforts for the unmanned systems and robotics industry.   Continue reading →

EuropaDrone 2016 is the European event for the GLOBAL Professional Drone Community & Its Supply & Value Chain. Organized by GL events Exhibitions (the largest event organiser in France), in partnership with Blyenburgh & Co, and under the auspices of UVS International. Continue reading →

To find out what inspires their interest in UAS and attracts the Advisory Board Members to support Drone World Expo, we scheduled a series of exclusive interviews. Our tenth interviewee is -Jonathan Evans, CEO, Skyward.

Jonathan is a professional pilot with 17 years of aviation experience and over 3,000 hours of flight time. He possesses an airline transport pilot (ATP) license, and commercial and flight instructor ratings in airplanes and helicopters. In his career as a UH60 Blackhawk pilot, Jonathan flew for the Army’s aviation unit charged with flying presidential cabinet members, congressmen and top Pentagon officials. Continue reading →