2019 Speakers
Keynote Presentations included
Jim Bridenstine
Administrator
NASA
Bridenstine was elected in 2012 to represent Oklahoma’s First Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served on the Armed Services Committee and the Science, Space and Technology Committee.Bridenstine’s career in federal service began in the U.S. Navy, flying the E-2C Hawkeye off the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier. It was there that he flew combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan and accrued most of his 1,900 flight hours and 333 carrier-arrested landings…Read more here.
Bala Ganesh
Vice President, Advanced Technology Group
United Parcel Service (UPS)
Bala Ganesh leads the Advanced Technology Group at UPS. He joined UPS in 2012 as the Program Manager for UPS My Choice. Thereafter he had stints in UPS Marketing, Global Retail Strategy and the Advanced Analytics & Revenue Management groups. Prior to joining UPS, Bala was a consultant with McKinsey & Co. He has also worked as an Aerospace Engineering researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Early in his career, Ganesh served as a pilot in the Indian Air Force…Read more here.
CEO Panel Discussion: UAS Insights and Strategies for Success in the Current Marketplace
While various reports continue to highlight the billions of dollars that commercial drone technology will eventually be worth, we’ve also seen headlines that claim the drone bubble has burst, contributing to market softness that will not allow the technology to truly take flight. Given these disparate narratives, people are wondering about the reality of the technology in the present and in the future. We heard from an esteemed panel of industry leading CEO’s on where they have found success (and perhaps made some missteps) in the current market along with their vision of future challenges and opportunities.
2019 Speakers
Greg Agvent
Senior Director, CNN Aerial Imagery & Reporting - CNN Worldwide
Eric Allison
Head of Elevate - Uber
Keith Aubin
GIS Manager - Enel Green Power North America
Dusty Birge
President UAV Recon - President VOLTu2122
John Blackmore
Survey and Mapping Supervisor at Luck Stone Corporation - Luck Stone
Michael Blades
Vice President, Aerospace, Defense, and Security - Frost & Sullivan
James Bridenstine
Administrator - NASA
Adam Bry
CEO - Skydio
Matthew Burgess
Mission Operator & Geospatial Analyst - U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National UAS Project Office
Philip Butterworth-Hayes
Editor & Publisher - Unmanned Airspace
Matt Clark
Senior Associate - Hogan Lovells
Greg Davis
Founder and CEO - Overwatch Imaging
Karen DiMeo
Head of Policy and Government Affairs - AiRXOS
Luke Dixon
Founder - Civil Tracker
Matt Edwards
Technology Analyst - State Farm Insurance
Lisa Ellman
Executive Director (Commercial Drone Alliance) & Partner (Hogan Lovells US LLP) - Commercial Drone Alliance & Hogan Lovells
Scott Farber
Operations Manager - McCook Public Power District
Philip Finnegan
Director of Corporate Analysis - Teal Group
Luke Fox
CEO - WhiteFox Defense Technologies, Inc.
Bala Ganesh
Vice President, Advanced Technology Group - United Parcel Service (UPS)
Amit Ganjoo
Founder and CEO - ANRA Technologies
Dyan Gibbens
CEO & Founder - Trumbull Unmanned
Shayne Gill
Program Director for Multimodal Transportation - AASHTO
Mike Glasgow
UTM Architecture and Standards - Wing
Michael Goldschmidt
Assistant Director of Security - Port of Long Beach
Todd Graetz
Director, UAS Program - BNSF Railway
Matthew Grassi
Technology Editor, U.S. Horticulture Group - PrecisionAg, Meister Media Worldwide
James Grimsley
Executive Director, Advanced Technology Initiatives - Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
Jeremy Groeteke
U.S. Digital Ag Lead - Corteva
Brendan Groves
Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General - U.S. Department of Justice
Sanjay Gupta
Advisor - Technology Practice - BIS Research
Michael Hartnack
Research Analyst - Navigant Research
Dave Henderson
Director of Sales, Geospatial Solutions - Topcon Positioning Systems
Corey Hitchcock
UAS Standardization Pilot - Southern Company
David Hose
CEO - AirMap
Cynthia Huang
Director of Business Development - DJI
Melvin Johnson
Deputy Director, Policy & Innovation Division Aircraft Certification Service - Federal Aviation Administration
Grant Jordan
CEO - SkySafe
Jesse Kallman
President - Airbus Aerial
Curtis Kayton
General Manager - Southwest Public Power District
Marc Kegelaers
CEO - Unifly
Philip M. Kenul
Chair - ASTM Committee F38 on UAS
Todd Knapp
Vice President - Hanging H Companies
Sarah Kohlsmith
Remote Sensing Coordinator - SunCor Energy
Toby Kraft
Founder and CEO - SolSpec
Jarrett Larrow
UTM Program Manager, UAS Integration Office - Federal Aviation Administration
Nynke Lipsius-Mulder
Exhibition Director - RAI Amsterdam
Richard Lopez
VDC Manager - Hensel Phelps
Travis Mason
VP of Public Policy and Government Affairs - A^3 by Airbus
Robert McCoy
Manager, Quality Assurance - Crown Castle
Jonathan McKenzie
Surveyor - Rio Tinto
Michael McVay
CEO - Sky Source Aerial
Jay Merkle
Executive Director, UAS Integration Office - Federal Aviation Administration
Bradley Middlemiss
Project Manager - Global Raymac Surveys
Robert Moorhead
Director - Northern Gulf Institute, Mississippi State University
Lisa Murray
Group Director - Diversified Communications
Todd Petersen
Los Angeles Department of Transportation
Seleta Reynolds
General Manager - Los Angeles Department of Transportation
Joseph Rios
Aerospace Research Engineer - Technical Lead for UTM - NASA
Jason Rolfe
Chief UAV Pilot and Photogrammetrist - Nevada Department of Transportation
Sharon Rossmark
CEO - Women And Drones
John Rygg
Technology Strategist - KIEWIT Technology Group
Matthew Satterley
Policy Team - Wing
Gregory Saunders
Photogrammetrist - Nevada Department of Transportation
Todd Schlekeway
Executive Director - National Association of Tower Erectors (NATE)
Mariah Scott
President - Skyward, A Verizon company
Peter Shannon
Investor in Advanced Aerial Mobility - Radius Capital
Douglas Spotted Eagle
Director of Educational Programming - Sundance Media Group, LLC
Christian Stallings
Research & Development Manager - McKim & Creed
Ken Stewart
CEO - AiRXOS, a GE venture
Angela Stubblefield
Deputy Associate Administrator for Security & Hazardous Materials Safety - Federal Aviation Administration
Rob Sweet
Manager, Strategic Operations Security - Federal Aviation Administration
Brandon Torres Declet
CEO and Co-Founder - Measure
Suzanne Van Cooten
Hydrologist in Charge - National Weather Service
Carissa VanderMey
Senior Advisor - U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Chris Walach
Executive Director - Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems (NIAS)
Tom Walker
CEO - DroneUp
Randall Warnas
Global sUAS Segment Leader - FLIR
Gretchen West
President & CEO - Schiebel Aircraft Inc.
Herbert Williams
Strategic Policy Fellow, Office of Science and Technology Policy - Executive Office of the President
Mike Winn
CEO/Co-Founder - DroneDeploy
Basil Yap
UAS Program Manager - North Carolina Department of Transportation
Joshua Ziering
Founder - Kittyhawk
