Frank Wernecke is the founder and CEO of DroneMasters Boost GmbH, a consultancy focusing on vertical mobility and drones. He is also the founding partner of the DroneMasters Academy, which inspires kids and young adults to become tomorrow's inventors, developers, and entrepreneurs.

Shubh and Jan left Chicago and Harvard after founding Arda, recognizing that full-stack outsourcing and high-barrier-to-entry hardware were impeding drone delivery's mass adoption. Arda enables traditional delivery operators to become drone delivery operators and is working with West African government and healthcare providers to deliver critical medical items.

Dan Ahrens is Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of AdvisorShares, an investment firm that specializes in actively managed exchange-traded funds (ETFs).  Dan is the Portfolio Manager for the AdvisorShares Drone Technology ETF (UAV). Dan’s twenty-plus years of experience in the investment management industry has spanned portfolio management, sales and administration. His extensive expertise has also overseen operations, finance and compliance, which has helped lead AdvisorShares to offer more actively managed ETFs than any other fund sponsor.

Founded in 2018, blueflite provides a drone-based logistics platform for faster and more cost-effective deliveries. The company has just successfully completed a funding raising campaign through an equity crowdfunding platform. Frank Noppel, serial entrepreneur and aerospace enthusiast, will talk about his experiences with this funding raising tool.

Csaba Singer studied aerospace engineering at the University of Stuttgart and deepened his knowledge in the field of thermodynamics at the University of Exeter. Since then, he has devoted himself to explosive issues concerning the energy transition, especially solar thermal energy, at the Institute of Solar Research of the German Aerospace Center. He is currently active in the field of management and business development.