Amsterdam Drone Week to be postponed
Due to the increasing uncertainty regarding the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic, the organizers of the Amsterdam Drone Week have decided to postpone the event to March 29-31 2022. ADW will maintain its hybrid set-up. GUTMA looks forward to taking centre stage and...
GUTMA to Take Centre Stage at Amsterdam Drone Week
We are pleased to announce that our association will attend the Amsterdam Drone Week taking place on 18-20 January 2022. The hybrid event will focus on Urban Air Mobility, Integrated Skies and Digital Infrastructure, as well as Policy & Regulations and Use-cases...
GUTMA to set up the Standards Harmonization Working Group
GUTMA is thrilled to announce the constitution of the Standards Harmonization Working Group. The purpose of this new members-only Working Group is to liaise with Standards Development Organizations (SDOs); the Group will also be entrusted with promoting standards...
GUTMA UTM Timelines Now Available for Download
Being aware of the future plans of governments and regulators in drone legislation is extremely important for companies, as it helps programme their activities in advance and set up smart and far-sighted business plans, keeping pace with the markets of their interest....
Meet our member – Jon Hegranes, Aloft
We talked to Jon Hegranes, Founder & CEO of Aloft (formerly Kittyhawk) about the role of his company in GUTMA and the challenges ahead for the drone industry. What is Aloft and what is its role and involvement within GUTMA? Aloft is the market leader in drone...
GUTMA to attend 5G Techritory
The Global UTM Association will take part in the 5G Techritory hybrid event to be held in Riga, Latvia, from 22 to 25 November. Co-President Sebastian Babiarz will address the audience digitally on 22 November with a speech titled “5G drones: state of the industry by...
GUTMA to participate to the World ATM Congress 2021
GUTMA is thrilled to announce its participation in the World ATM Congress and Expodronica taking place 26-28 October 2021 in Madrid, Spain. The Congress will feature exhibitions, product demonstrations and conference sessions attended by the leading aviation...
Meet our member – Sebastian Babiarz
We talked to Sebastian Babiarz, Co-President of GUTMA, about his responsibilities within the board and his work at Dronheub. You have recently renewed your mandate as Co-President, now representing Dronehub. Can you tell us more about your role at GUTMA? As a...
GUTMA’s Harmonized Skies Webinar Series: That’s a Wrap
GUTMA’s Harmonized Skies webinar series consists of six webinars that took place in the period May – June 2021. The webinars focus on harmonizing unmanned traffic management (UTM) systems for the global drone services market. After all, these are truly global...
GUTMA Publishes UTM Standards Report
GUTMA is thrilled to announce the publication of its latest UTM Standards Report [members-only]. The document features up-to-date information on the development of UTM standards and includes the work schedules of the world’s top leading Standards Developing...
Meet the GUTMA Standards Lead – Ajay Modha, ANRA Technologies UK
We talked to Ajay Modha about his role as GUTMA Standards Lead and how his work as Business Unit Head at ANRA Technologies complements the role. Growing up, Ajay was very inquisitive and enjoyed solving problems, so getting into maths and engineering was inevitable....
GUTMA Announces New Board Composition
We are excited to announce our association’s new board member composition, which now includes Sebastian Babiarz (Dronehub) as Co-President, and Heidi Schubert (Amazon) and Marcel Kägi (FOCA) on the Board of Directors. Their experience in the drone and UTM industry...
GUTMA Welcomes New Member Dronehub
We are happy to welcome Dronehub as a new member of the Global UTM Association. Dronehub is a European leader in comprehensive drone-in-a-box solutions, which include drones, drone infrastructure and AI powered software. We are looking forward to our collaboration for...
Introducing Koen DE VOS – new Secretary General of GUTMA
Koen DE VOS, the new Secretary General of GUTMA We are delighted to welcome Koen DE VOS as the new Secretary General of GUTMA. By way of introduction, we talked to Koen to gain some insights into his time at the European Commission and to find out why he decided to...
GUTMA and EUROCAE signed a collaboration agreement
The Global UTM Association (GUTMA) and EUROCAE have come together to support one another in creating a greater contribution to the development and promotion of industry standards for UTM and U-Space. GUTMA is a non-profit consortium of worldwide Unmanned Aircraft...
GUTMA published its first public paper “Designing UTM for global success”
The document is the result of several months of collaboration among GUTMA members and marks a significant milestone in the association’s history. The paper underpins the need to develop a global infrastructure and regulatory paradigm that work in harmonization with...
“Drones need cellular networks for full-service autonomous operations and UTM” – GUTMA Connected Skies webinar
Mobile network operators (MNOs) will not only be able to provide connectivity but integrate UTM services such as geofencing and alerts, dynamic ground-risk determination, virtual “human-eye” piloting, drone tracking and positioning, real-time data analytics, weather...
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