COMMERCIAL UAV EXPO 2015
Monday, October 5
PRE-CONFERENCE PRODUCT PREVIEWS
1:00 – 2:40pm
20 minutes each – Track 1
1:00
1:20
1:40
2:00
2:20
20 minutes each – Track 2
1:00
1:20
1:40
2:00
2:20
2:50 – 4:30pm
20 minutes each-Track 1
2:50
3:10
3:30
3:50
4:10
20 minutes each-Track 2
2:50
3:10
3:30
3:50
4:10
4:30 – 5:30pm
20 minutes each-Track 1
4:30
4:50
5:10
20 minutes each-Track 2
4:30
4:50
5:10
5:30pm
RECEPTION IN EXHIBIT HALL
Tuesday, October 6
OPENING & KEYNOTE
9:00 – 9:05
9:05 – 9:30
9:30 – 10:00
WELCOME & INTRO
KEYNOTE #1: Patrick Meier, iRevolutions
KEYNOTE #2
10:00 – 10:30
BREAK
GETTING STARTED: SYSTEMS SELECTION, INTEGRATION & WORKFLOW
Moderator: Colin Snow, Founder and CEO, Drone Analyst
10:30 – 10:50
A Sensible UAV Mapping Workflow
Paul Goodman, Business and Product, Mapbox
10:50 – 11:10
Challenges to Implementing a Drone Mapping Program
Landon Blake, Mapping Department Manager, O'Dell Engineering
11:10 – 11:30
Increasing Endurance with Gas Thin Film Solar
Robert Parenti, Product Engineer, Alta Devices
11:30 – 11:50
Tethered UAVs = Unlimited Endurance
Josh Kornoff, President, Allied Drones
11:50 – 12:00
Discussion: Effective Pre-Planning for Long-Term Success of UAV Program
(Moderator: Colin Snow; panelists: above presenters)
12:00 – 1:30pm
LUNCH – Concessions in Exhibit Hall
BREAKOUT A:
BREAKOUT B:
1:30 – 3:00pm
CIVIL ENGINEERING & INFRASTRUCTURE
PROCESS & POWER
Moderator: Jon Amdur, Vice President, Manager
Unmanned Aerial Systems, AECOM
TBD
Curt Smith, Technology Director, BP (invited)
Disrupting the Building Sciences: Assessing
Building Connectivity through Drone
Technology
Chuck Houk, President, Tremco Commercial
Sealants & Waterproofing Division and Michael
Cohen, President, Industrial SkyWorks
TBD
David Wood, Pipeline Control Superintendent,
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) (invited)
TBD
Zac Penix, AES (invited)
Toward Verifying Detection Capabilities and
Performance Testing of UAVs used in Bridge
Inspection
Robert Connor, Associate Prof, Purdue
University
Integrating UAV Data with Data Captured
from Other Sources
Kourosh Langari, Senior Project Engineer,
AECOM
3:00 – 3:30pm
3:30 – 5:00pm
BREAK
BREAKOUT A:
LAW ENFORCEMENT & EMERGENCY
RESPONSE
BREAKOUT B:
SURVEYING & MAPPING
UAVs for First Responders: If the Unmanned
Aircraft Can't Fly this Operating Concept, It
Will Fail
Ed Herlik, Lead Analyst, Aviation, Market Info
Group
High Performance Professional LIDAR
Mapping from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Jimmy Chustz, President, Chustz Surveying,
Inc.
Do Looks Matter? The Effects of UAV
Appearance on Public Attitudes Towards
Visual Surveillance Activities
Joel Lieberman, Chair and Professor, University
of Nevada, Las Vegas
Search and Rescue – A Real Case in Atacama
Desert
Juan Sainz, President & CEO, IDETEC
Unmanned Systems
Precision PPK for UAS Volumetric
Surveys: A Case Study
Lewis Graham, General Manager, Airgon LLC
GPS/GNSS Technology Options for
Commercial UAV
Eric Gakstatter, Contributing Editor, GPS
World Magazine
PLENARY PANEL
5:00 – 5:30
To Buy or Not to Buy? Considerations for Hiring UAV Service Providers Vs. In-House UAV
Program
5:30pm
RECEPTION IN EXHIBIT HALL
Wednesday, October 7
PANEL: UPDATE FROM THE FAA PATHFINDER PROJECT
9:00 – 10:00am
--Michael Huerta, FAA (invited)
--David Vigilante, CNN (invited)
--Gary Grissum, BNSF (invited)
--Thomas Haun, PrecisionHawk
PANEL: INTERNATIONAL LANDSCAPE FOR MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS:
LESSONS FROM OVERSEAS, COORDINATING REGULATORY INITIATIVES
10:00 –
11:00am
--Peter van Blyenburgh, President, UVS International
--Emmanuel de Maistre, Co-Founder and CEO, Redbird
-- Sam Jennings, Senior Solicitor, Legal Services Unit, Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand
(CAA) & Aviation Security Service (Avsec)
11:00 –
11:30am
BREAK
PANEL: INSURANCE CONSIDERATIONS
11:30 –
12:30pm
--Chris Proudlove, Global Aerospace (carrier)
--Terry Miller, Transport Risk (broker)
-- Gabe Dobbs, Director of Business Development and Policy, Kespry
12:30 – 2:00pm
LUNCH
2:00 – 3:30pm
BREAKOUT A: PRECISION AGRICULTURE
BREAKOUT B: CONSTRUCTION
2015: Breakthrough Year for Agriculture?
Chad Colby, Owner, AgTechTalk
Moderator: Joe Betit, Corporate Manager of
Survey and Innovation Bechtel Global
Corporation (Retired)
TBD
Nolan Berg, Precision Systems Agronomist,
Peterson Farms Seed
Turning Aerial Imagery Into Action
Raymond Tilkens, Agri-Business Development
Manager, John Deere
TBD
Atul Khanzode, Director of Construction
Technologies, DPR Construction, Inc.
UAS - Taking the AEC Industry to New
Heights
Grant Hagen, Virtual Design and Construction
Manager, The Beck Group
TBD
William Campbell, Director of Technologies,
Balfour Beatty
3:30 – 3:45pm
3:45 – 5:00
BREAK
BREAKOUT A: MINING
BREAKOUT B: UTILITIES & INSPECTION
Moderator: Iain Allen, Senior Manager-GIS,
Barrick Gold
Automating Visual Inspections of
Industrial Assets with UAVs
Nathan Schuett, CEO, PreNav, Inc.
TBD
Leon Duplessis, Chief Engineer, FreeportMcMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.
UAVs at Pueblo Viejo Dominicana
Corporation: Striking Gold with Key
Partnership
Sean Jefferys, Capital Projects Coordinator,
Barrick Gold, Pueblo Viejo Mine
Seeking Compliance: Lessons Learned at
Barrick Gold
Ben McKnight, Survey Supervisor, Barrick
Goldstrike
TBD
Jeremy Wigmore, CEO, Aerialtronics
Consolidated UAV Patrol: Utility Company
Applications and Feasibility
Tero Heinonen, CEO, Sharper Shape Ltd
SAFETY & LEGAL AND REGULATORY CONSIDERATIONS
5:10 – 6:30
5:10 – 5:30
Automated Collision Avoidance Solutions for Improved UAS Flight Safety
Jason Schwartz, Technical Director, Follow-Me Systems, LLC
5:30 – 5:50
UAV Legislative Landscape
Greg Walden, Small UAV Coalition
5:50 – 6:05
So What if I Operate Anyway?
Kevin Pomfret, Partner, Williams Mullen
6:05 – 6:20
Process for Obtaining “333” Exemption
Eric Andelin, LiDAR Services Technical Director, Michael Baker International
6:20 – 6:30
Q & A/Open Discussion: Safety, Legal and Regulatory Considerations