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Drone World Expo – Exclusive Board Member Interviews – Jesse Kallman, Head of Business Development and Regulatory Affairs, Airware

JesseKallman250To 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 third interviewee is Jesse Kallman, Head of Business Development and Regulatory Affairs, Airware.

Jesse Kallman currently leads Airware’s global business development efforts and regulatory work. Airware is a San Francisco-based company developing flight control systems for commercial unmanned aircraft. Mr. Kallman works with global UAV manufacturers, service providers and major corporations looking to use UAV technology. He also serves as the company’s interface with the FAA and other regulatory agencies domestically and abroad as well as serving as a member on the various committees writing standards for unmanned aerial systems. He is also the President of the Silicon Valley Chapter of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), the leading trade organization for unmanned systems, and is a board member of the Small UAV Coalition. Continue reading

Drone World Expo Announces New Gold Sponsors and Exhibitors

DWEPrecision Integrated and DreamHammer, leading companies in the drone industry, have just been announced as Gold Sponsors for the 2015 Drone World Expo.  They will join more than 100 companies offering a broad range of applications and solutions in the expo hall and will showcase their products to end-users in the heart of Silicon Valley.  The expo and conference will take place at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, CA from Tuesday, November 17 through Wednesday, November 18, 2015.

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Rentokil May use Drones for Bird Control

anthony-meadows-rentokil-web-120x120Pest control firm Rentokil Initial is looking into using drones for bird pest control, according to the firm’s global director of enterprise, Anthony Meadows.

Meadows, who was speaking at Computing‘s Enterprise Mobility and Application Management Summit 2015 , said that the company has to carry out a lot of ‘bird work’, and that it is looking into the use of drones as an alternative control method.

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