The Meetup starts at 4pm CEST. The Meetup language is English. Registered participants will receive an access link to a Microsoft Teams event and a quick start guide on how to join. Networking afterward is made possible by DroneMasters' instant messenger.
63rd DroneMasters Meetup
60 minutes full "droning" - followed by networking & talks
Online
Program
04:00 pm
Intro. DroneMasters Meetup #063
Frank Wernecke
Founder & CEO
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.
04:15 pm
Actualising the Hope of Deploying Drones for Business Survival in Nigeria
Temitope Abiodun
Lecturer/Research Fellow
Dr. Temitope Francis Abiodun is a renowned scholar of Politics, International Relations, Peace and Security Studies in the Department of Peace, Security and Humanitarian Studies, Faculty of Multidisciplinary Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. He is an expert in the areas of Politics, Intelligence Studies/Analysis, Arms Control/Non-Proliferation, National and International Security, Early Warning/Response Systems; Drone and Robotic Security; and Border Security.
04:30 pm
Getting a drone delivery business off the ground
Bobby Healy
CEO & Founder
Bobby kicked off his career building video games for Nintendo. He then founded Eland Technologies (an airline tech company) which he sold 12 years later to SITA.AERO. He then built CarTrawler (the world’s largest mobility marketplace for airlines) over 15 years and led two successful LBOs for the business. For the last 3 years, he’s been building ‘Manna’ - a “Drone Delivery as a Service” business whose mission is to improve the world by making lightning-fast suburban deliveries affordable, green, and safe.
04:45 pm
Hydraulic Hybrid Drones – Developing an industrial drone
Peter Mc Curry
Managing Director
Peter is one of the Co-founders of Flowcopter Ltd. An electronic and electrical engineer by background he has spent the last 15 years developing the core underlying Digital Displacement® technology. With a number of patents to his name Peter has worked on projects as varied as; 7MW offshore wind turbines, hydrofoiling racing yachts, hybrid trains, power takeoffs for wave power devices and a number of mobile hydraulic vehicles.
05:00 pm
Offshore Logistics Drones – Innovative solution for the offshore wind sector
Jonas Janke
O&M Engineer Wind Offshore
Jonas Janke is operation and maintenance engineer at EnBW’s Offshore Wind Sector as well as project lead of EnBW’s research project “Upcoming Drones Wind Farm”, which started this year. He has gained experience at several wind farm operators and is convinced that the offshore wind sector is an attractive environment for the emerging logistics drones industry.
Prior registration is mandatory. We reserve the right to make changes to the program at short notice and without prior notice - this does not result in any claim for a refund.
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DroneMasters' mission is to accelerate the evolution of vertical mobility. The DroneMasters Meetups provide the leading global cross-industry network around vertical mobility and drones. At the DroneMasters Meetups, experts and enthusiasts from business, science, civil society, administration, and politics share ideas and experiences to shape the sustainable use of drones.
The talks are limited to 10 minutes to keep the event entertaining. The presentation language is English. Members of the DroneMasters Pioneers Club can participate via live stream and interact via DroneMasters' instant messenger service on Mattermost (open source, self-hosted Slack alternative).