Program

11:00 - 11:15 FAA Regional Office, Fort Worth (Texas)

Opening remarks

Introduction by GUTMA & FAA. – Koen De Vos, GUTMA Secretary General – Jeffrey Vincent, Executive Director, UAS Integration Office, FAA
Koen De Vos

Secretary-General, GUTMA

Jeffrey Vincent

Executive Director, UAS Integration Office, FAA

11:15 - 12:15

Opening session

Reinaldo Negron, GUTMA Co-president and Head of UTM, Wing
Amit Ganjoo, Founder & CEO, ANRA Technologies
Jason Prado, Tech Lead (UTM), Zipline
Jacob Goldsberry, Director of Product Management (UTM), DroneUp

Reinaldo Negron

GUTMA Co-president and Head of UTM, Wing

Amit Ganjoo

Founder & CEO, ANRA Technologies

Jason Prado

Tech Lead (UTM),Zipline

Jacob Goldsberry

Director of Product Management (UTM), DroneUp

13:30 - 17:00 Dallas-Fort Worth Shared Airspace

Site visit

09:30 - 09:40 FAA Regional Office, Fort Worth (Texas)

Opening remarks

Koen De Vos, GUTMA Secretary General

Koen De Vos

Secretary-General, GUTMA

09:40 - 10:50

Keynote speech – FAA

Rob Lowe, Southwest Region Regional Administrator, FAA

Rob Lowe

Southwest Regional Administrator, FAA

10:00 - 11:00 FAA Regional Office, Fort Worth (Texas)

Panel 1 – GUTMA exports around the world

A look at how the global drone ecosystem is emerging, with particular attention to how the pillars of the ecosystem are developing and how applicable Task Force outcomes (data sharing/governance/and many more) have been shaping implementation across different regions.

Moderator:
Koen De Vos, Secretary-General,  GUTMA

Speakers:
– Tomasz Kłosowicz, Vice Director, PwC Drone Powered Solutions
– Shinji Nakadai, CEO, Intent Exchange Inc.
– Joachim Lücking, Head of Unit – Aviation Safety, Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE), European Commission
– Will Whitelaw, Senior RPAS specialist, Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA)

Koen De Vos

Secretary-General, GUTMA

Tomasz Kłosowicz

Vice Director, PwC Drone Powered Solutions

Shinji Nakadai

Founder & CEO, Intent Exchange

Will Whitelaw

Senior RPAS specialist, Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA)

Joachim Lücking

Head of Unit - Aviation Safety, Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE), European Commission

11:00 - 11:30

Wing’s Fireside Chat – Scaling Commercial Drone Operations with UTM

This fireside chat will cover the commercial outlook for drone delivery, the operations happening adjacent to this conference, the efficiencies in digital-first approaches to UAS operations and interoperability, and the commercial impact of coordination across multiple retailers and multiple drone service providers – the end customer as an integral part of the drone ecosystem.  

Moderator:
Reinaldo Negron, GUTMA Co-president and Head of UTM, Wing

Speakers:
Jeffrey Vincent, Executive Director, UAS Integration Office, FAA

Jeffrey Vincent

Executive Director, UAS Integration Office, FAA

Reinaldo Negron

GUTMA Co-president and Head of UTM, Wing

12:00 - 12:15

Keynote speech – INVOLI

Manu Lubrano, CEO & Co-founder, INVOLI

Manu Lubrano

Co-founder & CEO, INVOLI

12:15 - 13:15 FAA Regional Office, Fort Worth (Texas)

Panel 2 – Now operational: data exchange and governance

The operational and technical committee leads share the day to day of what operational data exchange and governance looks like in practice, sharing how the agreement and committee structure work within the Key Site, with its strengths and weaknesses, and how this allows the group to progress on several technical and operational topics each week – highlighting the challenges to run a decentralized system.

Moderator:
Jarrett Larrow,Policy and Rulemaking Lead, FAA

Speakers:
– Peter Sachs, Head of Airspace Integration Strategy,  Zipline
– Amit Ganjoo, Founder & CEO, ANRA Technologies
– Anuja Mahashabde, UTM Product Manager, Wing
– Steve Beier, Senior Vice President of Product, DroneUp

Jarret Larrow

Policy and Rulemaking Lead, FAA

Peter Sachs

Head of Airspace Integration Strategy, Zipline

Amit Ganjoo

Founder & CEO, ANRA Technologies

Anuja Mahashabde

Product Manager - Digital UTM Ecosystem, Wing

Steve Beier

Senior Vice President of Product, DroneUp

14:30 - 15:30 FAA Regional Office, Fort Worth (Texas)

Panel 3 – Approving UTM Services: Global perspectives on deploying digital services

UTM services have been implemented to facilitate strategic coordination here in North Texas. But how are UTM apps and services approved by regulators? Hear from a diverse range of perspectives about approving services, leveraging open source solutions, onboarding to a discovery and synchronization service (DSS), evaluating and leveraging these services as a regulator, and examples in live services around the world.

Moderator:
Will Whitelaw, Senior RPAS specialist, Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA)

Speakers:
Brendan Hillis, UTM Product Manager, Wing
– Jessica Brightman, Manager, Implementation Branch, UAS Integration Office, FAA
– Don Berchoff, CEO,  TruWeather Solutions
– Manu Lubrano, Ceo & Co-Founder, Involi

Will Whitelaw

Senior RPAS specialist, Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA)

Brendan Hillis

UTM Product Manager, Wing

Jessica Brightman

Manager, Implementation Branch, UAS Integration Office, FAA

Don Berchoff

CEO, TruWeather Solutions

Manu Lubrano

Co-founder & CEO, INVOLI

16:00 - 16:30 FAA Regional Office, Fort Worth (Texas)

Panel 4 (part 1) – MNOs enabling the mission critical infrastructure for Digital Airspace

Connectivity is a basic requirement in the digital airspace. Yet MNOs have much more on offer, and operators have many more requirements. What exactly can MNOs offer to support the emerging drone ecosystem? And at what cost?

Moderator:
Sebastian Babiarz, DroneUp

Speakers:
– Kapil Mittal, Global Head Digital Airspace, Ericsson
– Paul Dolejschi, Business Development, Dimetor
James Jones, Associate Director – Technology Strategy & Business Development, Verizon

Sebastian Babiarz

GUTMA Co-president, DroneUp

Kapil Mittal

Global Head Digital Airspace, Co-founder & CEO, Ericsson Drone Mobility

James Jones

Associate Director - Technology Strategy & Business Development, Verizon

Paul Dolejschi

Business Development, Dimetor

16:30 - 17:15

Panel 4 (part 2) – The floor to the end-user

Deep dive into real-life perspectives from an end-user.

Moderator:
Kapil Mittal,Co-chair, GSMA Drone Interest Group

Speakers:
Cody Postier, Head of Product Strategy, FirstNet, AT&T
Carlos D. Gonzalez, VP, Head of Enterprise & Emerging Business, Global Customer Unit AT&T Market Area North America, Ericsson
Walker Robb, Vice President of Engineering, BRINC
David A. Cook, Senior Public Safety Advisor, FistNet

Kapil Mittal

Global Head Digital Airspace, Co-founder & CEO, Ericsson Drone Mobility

Cody Postier

Head of Product Strategy, FirstNet, AT&T

Carlos D. Gonzalez

VP, Head of Enterprise & Emerging Business, Global Customer Unit AT&T Market Area North America, Ericsson

Walker Robb

Vice President of Engineering, BRINC

David A. Cook

Senior Public Safety Advisor, FistNet

17:15 - 17:30 FAA Regional Office, Fort Worth (Texas)

Closing remarks

Amanda Boekholt, Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA) and GUTMA Treasurer

 

Amanda Boekholt

Deputy head of Strategy and Innovation Unit, FOCA

09:30 - 09:45 FAA Regional Office, Fort Worth (Texas)

Opening remarks

Koen De Vos, GUTMA Secretary General

Koen De Vos

Secretary-General, GUTMA

09:45 - 10:45 FAA Regional Office, Fort Worth (Texas)

Panel 5 – Shared airspace at work: digitization enabling increased automation & scale

UTM provides the digital foundations for strategic coordination and efficient access to airspace. Key Site participants have been onboarded through individual and ecosystem automated testing against ASTM criteria, and manual coordination of individual flights was replaced by automatic checks of numerous flights.

As more entities look to operationalize strategic coordination in this way, the foundations built by the GUTMA Task Force on data exchange and the open resources provided by the Key Site make this work easily replicable for expansion and scale. The session digs in and sees what this means for complex BVLOS, one-to-many operations and the system versus pilot responsibilities through the support of UTM/U-space.

Moderator:
Hrrishikesh Ballal, Founder and CEO, OpenSkies Aerial Technology

Speakers:
– Reinaldo Negron, GUTMA Co-president and Head of UTM, Wing
– Chris Lyons, Director of Product Management, Zipline
– Jacob Goldsberry, Director of Product Management (UTM), DroneUp

Hrishikesh Ballal

Founder & CEO, Openskies Aerial Technology

Reinaldo Negron

GUTMA Co-president and Head of UTM, Wing

Chris Lyons

Head of UTM, Zipline

Jacob Goldsberry

Director of Product Management (UTM), DroneUp

11:15 - 11:30

Keynote speech – TruWeather Solutions

Don Berchoff, CEO,  TruWeather Solutions

Don Berchoff

CEO, TruWeather Solutions

11:30 - 12:30 FAA Regional Office, Fort Worth (Texas)

Panel 6 – What’s next? The Key Site learnings to globally support the emerging ecosystem

Discuss the next steps: how to conduct other types of operations? What new businesses to develop? How to extend horizontally & vertically the airspace of the North Texas Key Site Evaluation? How do we use Key Site learnings to export globally and hone business models and economics? How can we contain the costs along the way and keep the services affordable?

Moderator:
Munish Khurana, Eurocontrol, Co-chair EU Network of U-space Implementation 

Speakers:
Neeraj Bansal, Chief Revenue Officer, HHLA Sky GmbH
– Hrishi Ballal, Founder & CEO, OpenSkies
Paul Fontaine, Assistant Administrator, Office of NextGen, FAA
Shinji Nakadai, CEO, Intent Exchange Inc.

Munish Khurana

Co-chair EU Network of U-space Implementation, Eurocontrol

Hrishikesh Ballal

Founder & CEO, Openskies Aerial Technology

Paul Fontaine

Assistant Administrator, Office of NextGen, FAA

Neeraj Bansal

Chief Revenue Officer, HHLA Sky GmbH

Shinji Nakadai

Founder & CEO, Intent Exchange

12:30 - 13:00 FAA Regional Office, Fort Worth (Texas)

Closing remarks

– Jeffrey Vincent, Executive Director, UAS Integration Office, FAA
Reinaldo Negron, GUTMA Co-president and Head of UTM, Wing
– Koen De Vos, Secretary-General, GUTMA

Reinaldo Negron

GUTMA Co-president and Head of UTM, Wing

Jeffrey Vincent

Executive Director, UAS Integration Office, FAA

Koen De Vos

Secretary-General, GUTMA

09:00 - 09:30 Dentsu Headquarters - Tokyo (Japan)

Day 1 – Security check, badge collection, and welcome coffee

09:00 - 09:30 Dentsu Headquarters - Tokyo (Japan)

Day 2 – Security check, badge collection, and welcome coffee