“UTM and ATM are going to be one, and much more” – Simon Johnson, GUTMA
Simon Johnson is the acting Secretary General of the Global UTM Association What is GUTMA’s mission statement? As the website says, GUTMA’s purpose is to foster the “safe, secure and efficient integration of drones in national airspace systems. Its mission is to...
Visionaries and Doers from Mobile Telecommunication and Unmanned Aviation Industries Come Together at GUTMA’s Connected Skies Conference, part of MWC Barcelona 2020
GUTMA Connected Skies – Barcelona aims to cross-pollinate the two industries and drive a harmonious integration of manned and unmanned aviation in the skies. Following the success of the first edition of GUTMA’s Connected Skies conference in Portland (OR) in...
“5G is key to making drone operations possible at scale” Sebastian Babiarz, AirMap
Sebastian Babiarz is Head of Strategic Business Development at AirMap & Co-President of GUTMA Why are you supporting the Connected Skies event? Connectivity is essential to drone enablement. Going forward, mobile networks won’t just serve users on the ground—they...
GUTMA and the GSMA Announce Collaboration to Help Define the Future of Aerial Connectivity
We’ve already featured the many ways in which the Global UTM Association (GUTMA) is working to unlock the full value of connectivity in drones by the telecommunications industry. Those efforts are ongoing and ultimately about creating...
“Bridging the Worlds of Telecoms and Aviation” Barbara Pareglio, GSMA
Why did you decide to become involved in the Connected Skies event with GUTMA? As the skies become ever more digital, the need to consider the role of mobile technology in aviation grows. UAS traffic management (UTM) is an opportunity for us to explore how we...
“…will be a perfect opportunity to show cellular network operators how aviation can take them into new business areas” – Chris Kucera of OneSky
Why is it important to bring together the worlds of UTM and telecommunications? We were at the first Connected Skies event and I thought it was a gamechanger for what we’re doing within the UTM industry, bringing together two key industry organisations – GUTMA and...
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