September 2-4, 2025 • Caesars Forum • Las Vegas
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September 2-4, 2025 • Caesars Forum • Las Vegas
Wednesday, September 4, 2024 | 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
The commercial drone industry has seen some positive advancements over the past year and has much to celebrate. Commercial Drone Alliance founders and industry veterans Lisa Ellman and Gretchen West will kick off the Commercial UAV Expo 2024 reviewing the successes over the past year but also highlighting areas where challenges still exist. They will provide an overview of conference content that will help address these challenges and where you can get involved. To unlock the full potential of drones and develop strong market demand, the commercial drone industry needs to take collective action. Lisa and Gretchen will share their insights and provide a call to action to our community to get engaged.
As the airspace continues to evolve, technology that allows drones to more easily take to the sky is similarly advancing, creating opportunities and challenges when it comes to uniting drones with traditional aviation ecosystems. The FAA is responsible for ensuring safe, efficient and secure air traffic services for approximately 50,000 crewed aircraft operating every day across the National Airspace System (NAS), so how is FAA leadership thinking about this unification? Listen in for a candid conversation with a top FAA official to discuss how they’re approaching the operationalization of the airspace as well as integrating unmanned aircraft systems into the NAS. Attendees will better understand what access to the airspace for drones looks like today, tomorrow and in the future.
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Moderated by: Featuring:
Commercial Drone Alliance & Hogan Lovells
Commercial Drone Alliance
Commercial Drone Alliance & Hogan Lovells
Federal Aviation Association
The commercial drone industry is on its way to having defined and published rules and regulations, and once in place, we will have collectively overcome a major hurdle to scaling drone operations. But what additional challenges need to be addressed to guarantee a path to real economic growth and commercial viability? How do we continue to grow market demand to witness the true scaling of this exciting industry? This panel of industry veterans and experts will offer insights on where firms should focus NOW to create greater market demand, and what considerations should be top of mind to ensure your success. Looking at topics through the different lenses of aviation, technology, and financial capital, panelists will explore where market demand truly is today, ask do we really know what our customers want and how do we make a business case for investment, address supply chain issues, competition, standardization and much more. Our industry must work together to drive solutions to accelerate commercial viability and market demand. The lessons learned from this panel will be sure to start many discussions during the Commercial UAV Expo 2024 and leave you with ideas to share with your fellow industry peers.
Moderated by: Featuring:
Commercial Drone Alliance
Ondas Autonomous Systems
uAvionix Corporation
Mitsubishi Electric
NUAIR
Thursday, September 5, 2024 | 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
What’s now and what’s next with commercial drone regulation is top of mind for operators and organizations across the entire drone industry and the FAA has those answers. How are drones factoring into considerations when it comes to how the FAA is setting, overseeing and enforcing safety standards for all aspects of the aviation industry? How could these changes have a direct impact on domestic and international civil aviation safety? Lisa Ellman from the Commercial Drone Alliance will explore all of these questions and more as part of a candid conversation with Jodi Baker, Deputy Associate Administrator for Aviation Safety of the FAA to help stakeholders move forward with commercial drone operations in the short and long term.
Moderated by: Featuring:
Commercial Drone Alliance & Hogan Lovells
Federal Aviation Administration
The value that drones can unlock for large organizations when it comes to performing tasks in faster, cheaper and safer ways have been well documented, but that understanding often is not enough to translate to adoption. How will adding drones impact established processes? If the number of boots on the ground are reduced, how can those same assets be redeployed in a more effective manner? What does it mean to calculate how a sizable investment in the technology today will make sense tomorrow?
Listen to the answers that Chief Operating Officer of Houston Public Works Randy Macchi and Josh Fredriksson from Pacific Gas & Electric has to all of these questions and more. They’ll explore the approach city services and large enterprises need to take when it comes to rethinking workflows, reskilling the workforce and future-proofing investments in the technology. Attendees will come away from this conversation with the insights they need to develop a strategic plan for their drone program, regardless of the current size or use.
Moderated by:
Commercial UAV Expo
Featuring:
Houston Public Works
Pacific Gas & Electric
Official Association Partner
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