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DroneTalks' Eszter Kovacs met with David Rovira, RegiTech’s Chief Business Officer, at the Commercial UAV Expo in Las Vegas in September 2023. The Lausanne-based company, RigiTech, has had plenty of new developments since their last interview with DroneTalks back in 2020. David discussed the collaboration with Spright and Rigitech and what it is about RigiTech’s drones that set them apart from...

“We’re proud to be the first oil and gas company to utilise the BVLOS drone services and fly remotely piloted drones in Arkansas from our Nashville center”. Eszter Kovacs, CEO of DroneTalks, interviewed Ido Biger, the CIO and Data Officer DelekUS, at the 2023 Commercial UAV Expo in Las Vegas about the oil and gas user perspective of drone services. Delek US, a Fortune 500 downstream energy company...

Co-founder of DroneTalks Lorenzo Murzilli interviewed ModalAI’s Co-founder and CEO Chad Sweet at the 2023 Commercial UAV Show, in Las Vegas ModalAI, the San Diego-based company was spun out of Qualcomm in 2018 and specialises in research and development in drones and robotics. Lorenzo caught up with Chad to ask him about the latest developments from ModalAI, including information on their smallest...

“Don't look for anybody to invite you because nobody's going to give you a piece of the table. I like to say I go about with a collapsible stool and I just put it on that table.” Our recent interview with Charlotte Essiet, the CEO and Managing Director at Elint Systems, has helped us understand more about the growing drone industry in Nigeria. With the largest population in Africa, Nigeria...

Cyber threats are also more common than ever, and it's no longer a question of if an organisation will fall victim to one, but when that threat will turn into a successful cyber attack. We've had the opportunity to speak with Matthias Gronstedt, CEO of HHLA Sky, the first commercial drone technology solutions provider to receive a cybersecurity certification. In our interview, Matthias exp...

“We have robotic arms that can swap batteries and swap payloads autonomously. So what that means is we can be available for an airborne operation 24 hours a day, seven days a week”. Eszter Kovács the CEO of DroneTalks spoke to Eric Brocks, the CEO of Ondas Holdings at the 2023 Las Vegas Commercial UAV Show. Ondas Holdings is a NASDAQ finance company and a leading technology platform provider that...

“We now have invested more than $18 million into 32 companies that span across eight countries. And, we are truly one of the largest accelerator programmes in the world.” Join us as we speak with Kara Jones, the Director of GENIUS NY, as she explains what the GENIUS NY programme entails and which organisations are eligible to apply. Previous winners include Wonder Robotics, Fotokite, Airtonomy, AV...

When asked about how FlyBy Guys managed to grow sustainably without external investors, CEO Stephen Sutton, explained, “That's something which I think is very important for the industry, knowing that you can survive, that you can pay salaries, that you can pay for your office and not really have to worry.” In our latest interview, we learned more about Flyby Guys, primarily known for their lar...

In 2015, maxon Group began receiving requests to create aviation products that hadn’t yet been developed. It was through these challenging requests that their team began, in the Swiss valley of Obwalden, to prepare for the future engineering demands of the advanced aviation industry. Roger Villiger, the Head of the Aerospace Business Unit, Roman Meier, the Project Manager for Aerospace and Marco S...

“We are not looking for the next cool pilot, but we want to take another approach and plan the lower airspace together with the municipalities in the region and the companies to have a solid and sustainable regional development”, explained Dino Keljalic, the Infrastructure & Transport Strategist for Region Örebro Iäm (Mälardalsrådet). During our interview, he introduced us to one of Sweden’s m...

“No one wants to invest in a business that does a million deliveries a day if you lose money in every delivery. So, we need to get to rational businesses that are always investable. So, that's why our focus is on generating a profit on our operation”, explains Bobby Healy, the CEO and Founder of Manna Drone Delivery in our latest interview. If drone organisations can start to generate profit i...

The advanced air mobility industry is on track to become an entirely new ecosystem within society that will shape a wave of unparalleled innovation during our lifetimes. It will change how we produce our food, how our blue light forces respond to emergencies and how hospitals receive life-saving materials. Still, the drone industry, although relatively young, is overwhelmingly male-dominated. Yet,...

Autonomous advanced air mobility is technologically possible today, and from a business point of view, it makes sense. Is it possible to replace traditional transportation methods like shuttle buses to the airport in the near future? Juliana Carolina Kiraly Thomaz Rodrigues, the Head of Business Development Europe at Eve Air Mobility, explained during our interview how as soon as you can remove th...

Justin Steinke, the SVP of Commercial Business at Spright, explains how their organisation works with drone manufacturers. In the interview, he explains another common problem we've heard about for years, which is the mentality that ‘my organisation can build an end-to-end solution for the drone industry’, which sounds great, but it's simply not possible. Although drones have the potential...

A2Z Drone Delivery, a technology provider that designs and builds hardware for the drone delivery industry and initially gained traction with its drone winch, a mechanical device used in various drone-based applications. CTO Evan Hertafeld mentioned during our recent interview that their customer base consists of those exploring futuristic concepts like commercial food delivery and those focusing...

Jordi Salvador Bernadí, CTO and Business Development lead at Barcelona Drone Center, spoke about his team’s operations and an upcoming course on UAS regulatory and SORA frameworks during Amsterdam Drone Week. The team has recently developed sandboxes for 4G and 5G communication and BVLOS testing, enabling autonomous flights through telecommunications connectivity. They've also demonstrated a d...

Thomas Neubauer, the VP of Business Development and Innovations at TEOCO and co-founder of AirborneRF and Han de Glint from KPN, explain in our latest interview how challenging the implementation of any sophisticated BVLOS operations are when it comes to flight approval requests. During the interview, they also cover: - A recent case study utilising connectivity data in the Netherlands - Current i...

Sebastian Törsleff, the director of UTM at HHLA Sky, joined us for the interview to explain how they began to develop its own technology for industrial drone use cases. Their portfolio now comprises different drone types like multicopters of different sizes, VTOLs and autonomous mobile robots. During the interview, he speaks about: - Command and control centres for BVLOS drone operations - Harmoni...

The first edition of the SORA methodology works well in practice, which means the upcoming changes for SORA 2.5 incorporate a number of lessons learned from real-world implementations globally. The first lesson that JARUS learned over the course of SORA 2.0 is that the next version of the methodology needs to increase usability. Joerg Dittrich explained to us that JARUS members will begin by clari...

“Switzerland is kind of the Silicon Valley of drones”, explained Herbert Weirather the CEO of the medical drone delivery start-up Jedsy in our recent interview. He told us how the Swiss mentality and the infrastructure help empower his team to move beyond traditional drone operations like package drop-offs in wide-open, potentially muddy areas (or even when it’s dark outside). Instead, he wanted h...

During the interview, Sascha Oliver Schott talks about how EASA is facilitating a mutual understanding between telecommunications and drone organisations to support them as they look for solutions to enable airborne flight connectivity at scale. He also spoke about recent repetitive eVTOL demonstrations across Europe and how these can foster widescale acceptance. He also spoke about how drone orga...

During Amsterdam Drone Week 2023, we got the chance to sit down and interview EASA’s Drones Project Manager (Open and Specific Category), Natale di Rubbo. DroneTalks Group is a collection of services and platforms dedicated to uplifting the drone ecosystem. That includes our main educational platform  DroneTalks  as well as  specialised trainings  for drone industry professionals, the event  Aeria...

Freefly is one of the leading UAV manufacturers and designers used in the cinema industry with appearances in some of the biggest films in the industry, including the Wolf of Wallstreet as Maxwell describes to us. They specialise in designing, manufacturing and marketing different camera movement systems for drones including stabilisers. DroneTalks Group is a collection of services and platforms d...

During Amsterdam Drone Week 2023, we got the chance to sit down and interview EASA’s Drones Programme Manager Maria Algar Ruiz. During the interview, Maria gave us some exclusive insights into the thought process behind the implementation of new U-space airspaces from EASA’s perspective and what we can do as an industry to begin to come together to make wide-scale U-space airspaces a reality in th...

We had the chance to sit down again with Maria Algar Ruiz, Drones Programme Manager at EASA during Amsterdam Drone Week 2023. During the interview, she spoke about the need to harmonise civilian and military drone certification efforts because of how fast their political importance has grown over time. During the interview, she also talked about the opportunity that harmonisation brings, so milita...