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 DRONE ENABLE, ICAO's Industry Symposium
​22 - 23 September, 2017
DAY 1 – Friday, 22 September 2017

 

09:00 – 9:10

Opening remarks

Dr. Fang Liu, Sectretary General ICAO

 

09:10 – 10:10

Keynote Speeches

 

Mr. Stephen Creamer, Director, ICAO Air Navigation Bureau

 

Mr. Gilberto Lopez Meyer, Senior Vice President, Safety &   Flight Operations, IATA

 

Mr. Brian Wynne, President and CEO, AUVSI

 

Mr. Timothy Reuter, Head of Civil Drones Project, World Economic Forum

 

10:10 – 10:30

ICAO's strategy for addressing unmanned aviation – RPAS and UAS  Two aaproaches/two streams of work

 

Ms. Leslie Cary, RPAS Programme Manager, ICAO Air Navigation Bureau

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 
11:00 – 12:45

UTM - A common framework with core boundaries for global harmonization 

 

Moderator: Mr. Aaron McCrorie, Director General, Aviation Safety Regulatory Framework, Transport Canada

 

Mr. Ben Tally, Co-founder and CIO, GeoNetwork 

 

Dr. Kin Huat Low, Principal Investigator of TM-UAS Programme, Air Traffic Management Research Institute (ATMRI); Professor, Nanyang Technological 

 

Mr. Alessandro Cardi, Dreputy Director, Ente Nazionale [er l'Aviazione Civile (ENAC) and Mr. Christiano Baldoni, Head of the CNS section, Italian Air Navigation Service provider (ENAV)

 

Mr. Gur Kimchi, Vice President, Amazon Prime Air

 12:45 – 14:30

Lunch

Sponsored by Thales

14:30 – 16:30

UTM - A common framework with core boundaries for global harmonization - Continued

  

Moderator

Mr. Aaron McCrorie, Director General, Aviation Safety Regulatory Framework, Transport Canada

 

Mr. Lawrence Ley, Portfolio Manager,The Boeing Company

 

Mr. Christian Ramsey, Vice President of Business Development, uAvionix

 

Mr. Marcello Davide Mannino, Corporate Sales & Mareketing Deputy Director, Ingegneria Dei Sistemi (IDS) and Mr. Valerio Paciucci, ATM & Airport team leader, Ingegneria Dei Sistemi (IDS)

 

​16:30 - 17:00Coffee Break 
​17:00 - 17:30

Mr. Paramil Kopardekar (P.K.), NASA Senior Technologist for Air Transportation, Autonomy Expert, NASA Ames Research Center 

     

Mr. Nikolai Vassiliev, Chief, Terrestrial Services Department, International Telecommunications Union (ITU)

 

 
DAY 2 – Saturday, 23 September 2017
 
                Stream A:  UTM Registration, identification and tracking

Moderator: 

Dr. Hiroko Nakamura, Deputy Director General, Japan Unmanned System Traffic & Radio Management Consortium

09:00 – 10:30

Mr. Walter Stockwell, Director of Technical Standards, DJI

 

Mr. Jared Ablon, Chief Information Security Officer, AirMap

 

Mr. Ken Stewart, Principal Product Manager, AIROS

 

Mr. George Elmasry, Principal Engineer, Rockwell Collins

10:30 – 11:00

  Coffee Break 

Sponsored by Skyward, a Verizon company

11:00 – 12:30

Mr. Amit Ganjoo, CEO, ANRA Technologies

 

Mr. Jonathon Evan, President, Global UTM Association (GUTMA)

 

Mr. Christopher T. Kucera, Director, Air Operations, Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI)

 

Mr. Olivier Rea, Head of UTM Solutions (Thales, representing French Civil Drones Council

 

​ ​Stream B:  Communications systems

 

09:00 – 10:30

Moderator: 

Captain Denis Guindon, Director General, Aviation Oversight and Transformation, Transport Canada

 

Ms. Laura Ponto, Head of Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs, Project Wing, Google X

 

Mr. David Benavente, Founder/CEO, Embention

 

Mr. Craig Marcinkowski, Director, Strategy & Business Development, Gryphon Sensors

 

Mr. Terrance Martin, Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology

10:30 - 11:00

 Coffee Break 

Sponsored by Skyward, a Verizon company

11:00 - 12:30

 

Mr. Walter Stockwell, Director of Technical Standards, DJI

 

Mr. Evan Dill, NASA Langley, Research Center

 

Ms. Alison Ferguson, Director Airpace Research, Precision Hawk

 

Mr. Markus Klopf, Strategic Marketing Manager, FREQUENTIS AG

  Stream C:  Geofencing-like systems ​
09:00 - 10:30
Moderator: 

Ms. Tracy Lamb, Vice President Regulatory and Safety Afairs - Chief Pilot, AUVSI 

 

Mr. Aaron Pierce, CEO, Pierce Aerospace

 

Mr. Jean-Guy Blete, Products Policy and Technical Strategy Director, Thales Avionics

 

Ms. Kelly Hayhurst, Senior Research Scientist, NASA Langlet Research Center

 

Mr. Olivier Rea, Head of UTM Solutions (Thales) representing French Civil Drones Council

​10:30 - 11:00

 Coffee Break 

Sponsored by Skyward, a Verizon company

​11:00 - 12:30

Mr. Sebastien Babiarz, Head of Strategic Business Devekopment, AirMap

 

Mr. Aaron McFayden, Accelerate Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology

 

Mr. David Benavente, Founder/CEO, Embention

 

Mr. George Elmasry, Principal Engineer, Rockwell Collins 

12:30 - 14:00Lunch
​ ​Plenary Session

  23 September, 2017

14:00 -14:30

ICAO Registration System

 

Mr. Stephen Creamer, Director, ICAO Air Navigation Bureau

14:30 - 15:30

Wrap up and Next Steps

 

Moderator: 

 

Mr. Stephen Creamer, Director, ICAO Air Navigation Bureau

 

Panel Discussion: 

 

 

Dr. Hiroko Nakamura, Deputy Director General, Japan Unmanned System Traffic & Radio Management Consortium

 

Captain Denis Guindon, Director General, Aviation Oversight and Transformation, Transport Canada

 

Ms. Tracy Lamb, Vice President Regulatory and Safety Afairs - Chief Pilot, AUVSI 

 

Mr. Yves Morier, Chairman, Joint Authorities on Rule-making for Unmanned Systems (JARUS)

 

Mr. Doug Davis, Chairman of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Advisory Group (UAS-AG)

Special thank you to all our speakers for their time and expertise.

 

 

Sponsors 

 

Thales

Gold Sponsor

 

Skyward, A Verizon company

Coffee Break Sponsor

 

 

Media Partners

 

Airport Suppliers

Air Transport Association of Canada

Air Transport News

MOMBERGER Airport Information

 

 

Exhibitors

 

Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association of China (AOPA)

Drone Complier

GeoNetwork

Gryphon Sensors

International Air Transport Association (IATA)

Thales

Transport Canada, Civil Aviation

Unifly NV

ICAO Global Aviation Training

ICAO Technical Cooperation Bureau

ICAO Drone Registry

End of Symposium​ ​   
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