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We had the opportunity to talk with Kai Bauer, the Principal Advisor for Sustainable Mobility at EASA, who explained the various sustainability initiatives and research at EASA that are aimed at scaling the drone industry while also prioritising societal acceptance. Kai emphasises that societal acceptance is crucial to the drone industry's new economy, and it's essential to engage with cit...

We had the chance to sit down with EASA’s Drones Project Manager (Certified Category) Giuseppe Scannapieco, who told us about the shift from crewed to uncrewed aircraft at scale. He began by mentioning how the simple shift from taking the pilot from the air to the ground isn’t a substantial one, but you’re still missing an important element when it comes to the chain of safety. That’s why EASA is...

We had the chance to interview Peter Kistler, who explained to us why Switzerland is an incredible place for innovative drone organisations to get their foot in the door to the exciting and developing European market. He explained to us that, in terms of revenue potential, Bern is a diverse urban environment that allows drone organisations to go beyond UAV-supported deliveries, encompassing indust...

Cristiano Baldoni has played an instrumental in the development of the Italian U-space implementation efforts through his work at the ENAV Group. ENAV is heavily involved in the international air traffic management system in Italy and plays a key role in creating the Single European Sky, which is an initiative aimed at harmonising air traffic management across Europe. Cristiano Baldoni has directl...

What will change for the Swiss drone market now that Regulations 2019/947 and 2019/945 have been adopted to harmonise with the European Union regulatory framework? Lorenzo Murzilli, CEO of Murzilli Consulting, highlights the outcomes of regulatory harmonisation for Swiss and European drone companies, including operators and manufacturers. He also explains what commercial drone organisations can do...

We interviewed Okeoma Moronu, Head of Global Aviation Regulatory Affairs at Zipline. She talks about how Zipline operates distribution centres in various African countries, Japan and the United States. She emphasises that while they're most famous for blood deliveries in Rwanda, they transport much more to serve communities worldwide and reduce reliance on wheel-based transportation. Okeoma also s...

During Commercial UAV Expo, our CEO, Eszter Kovacs, sat down to talk with Wes Ryan, a Program Manager at NASA's NARI (or the NASA Aeronautics Research Institute). Together, they discussed the public's view of advanced air mobility, why regulations are so important to implement as the industry grows and matures, how regulators are keeping the public safe while speeding up regulatory processes to su...

Our Co-Founder Lorenzo Murzilli interviewed Armin Ambühl, CTO of Wingtra. Armin explains how Wingtra helps customers answer crucial questions to solve core business problems by constructing digital twins thanks to aerial imaging for example. Armin also shares his thoughts on the regulation and adoption differences between the U.S. and Europe. He also stresses the importance of BVLOS operations in...

Get an inside look at the innovative solutions of Fixar in this interview with Co-Founder Yulia Druzhnikova. Discover her passion for the industry and her unique perspective as a female leader driving strategic decisions. Learn more from her about how the value proposition and client-focused approaches led the company to sign international partnerships. Their success story is not only about the te...

SkyGrid is a leading provider of solutions such as Airspace awareness and flight operations and fleet management. The company's main focus is to enable drone flights in a safe way powered by artificial intelligence. In this interview, Chief Strategy Officer Zehra Akbar discusses the company's work with partners such as NASA, Wisk, and Lift Aircraft. Skygrid's goal is to enable the safe operation o...

In this video, we sit down with Joshua Ogden, Co-Founder and CEO at AVSS. They develop unguided parachutes for the impact reduction and safe recovery of failed drones with integrated automatic trigger systems and flight termination systems. They're also progressing with the next step: guided parachute systems for precise GPS landing. This enables pilots to fly over populated areas or beyond the li...

Justin Steinke, the SVP of Commercial Business for Spright, sat down to talk with us about medical drone delivery and why Spright is currently developing its operations in Europe as opposed to in the United States, where they’re based. A bit about Spright: they were founded to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing ground-based operations teams today. That’s why they focus on providing unman...

Based in Zurich, Switzerland, Wingtra is an innovative leader in VTOL drone production with a team of over 100 professionals. The Wingtra drone produces high-quality data with unparalleled speed and efficiency. We talked with Alexander Craig to better understand why such company decided to set its headquarters in Switzerland. For drone specialized marketing, PR email us at info@dronetalks.online F...

Our Co-founder and CEO, Eszter Kovacs, recently connected with Stas Mozolyuk, founder and CEO at Avision. Having opened a subsidiary in Switzerland's Ticino region, they specialize in integrating drones into business operations and managing fleet operations.  Through the development of their concept for corridors and designated airspace volumes that are AAM application compatible, alongside i...

The success of Flyability, a company that makes confined space inspections safer, faster and cheaper with 3D lidar technology, is owed to the hard work done by their team over the past eight years. In this interview, Eszter Kovacs, our Co-founder, and CEO talks with Flyability's Senior Communications Manager, Zacc Dukowitz, about how they've grown to more than one hundred employees with four offic...

GUTMA and GSMA collaboration (LINK), ACJA Work task #2 has recently released the 'Reference Method for assessing Cellular C2 Link performance and RF environment characterisation for UAS'. AirborneRF Co-founder and TEOCO Vice President of Business Development and Innovation Thomas Neubauer leads the initiative and explains the essential concepts to take into consideration:   •The need for a re...

Eszter Kovacs, our co-founder and CEO, and Brendan Groves, Skydio's VP of Regulatory & Policy Affairs, have a fascinating conversation. Skydio has discovered a crucial use case in infrastructure inspection as they are expanding quickly and becoming a big participant in the market. In places like power plants, the work can be risky, expensive, or inefficient; however, employing drones helps to...

Wonder Robotics is looking to revolutionise the market with enhanced autonomy capabilities and enabling drones to be more aware of their environment. Our co-founder Eszter Kovacs had a very interesting talk with Idan Shimon, the Co-founder and CEO at Wonder Robotics. His strategy is to focus on safety which in turn it will facilitate regulations implementations. Once drones are more autonomous, th...

It was our pleasure to interview Glen Lynch, CEO of Volatus Aerospace, at the Commercial UAV Expo. Volatus is a publicly traded global player in the drone industry, serving both civil and defense markets. One of the important challenges highlighted by Glen is the fragmented state of the industry and the lack of standardization and consolidation. However,  adoption is growing tremendously, and...

Diversity in the drone industry is critically important and something we're passionate about at DroneTalks. In 2021, our co-founder Eszter Kovacs created a webinar series Women Behind The Drone Revolution, to give a voice to talented and influential women leading the drone industry: The series started online during the pandemic and, based on its successes, in 2022, in collaboration with leading Dr...

Is the drone sector only for men? The answer is quite the opposite actually: women leaders continuously grow in number when it comes to investing, planning, directing and acting with drones! Join our live session at Amsterdam Drone Week, where DroneTalks Co-Founder and CEO Eszter Kovacs is moderating an innovative, eye-opening and courageous talk with legendary female leaders of the drone industry...

Our CEO and Co-founder Eszter Kovacs interviewed Jordi Salvador, the CTO of Barcelona Drone Center. Testing is essential for drone companies to prove they are safe and obtain regulators' approval. BCN covers all aspects of testing and uses their premises to train and evaluate operational procedures to comply with authorisations. They are focusing on safety and new applications such as delivery and...

Drone deliveries will change our everyday lives, and safety is critical in enabling scalability. Our co-founder and CEO Eszter Kovacs had a fascinating talk with Bobby Healy, who is the CEO and co-founder of Manna Drone Delivery. Manna is already delivering goods to communities, and the responses have been very positive. Interestingly, the demand is driven by the young generation, followed by thei...

At the World ATM Congress, Eszter Kovacs our co-founder met with Lukáš Brchl, the co-founder and CEO of Dronetag. Have you ever wondered how drones avoid mid-air collisions? How are they automatically aware of other drones flying near them? Lukáš and his team developed a solution to solve this problem. Dronetag created a small piece of hardware connected to cellular networks converting simple dron...

Our co-founder Eszter Kovacs met Carlos at the World ATM Congress in Madrid and had an interesting discussion about why an initially ground robotics-focused company started to open up for AAM (Advanced Air Mobility) business. They also discussed Carlos's experiences regarding social acceptance. How will this mode of transport help with reducing the congestion in cities as they are growing? This ne...