PROGRAM
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| | | | |  16:00-18:00 | Registration Open - Name Badge Pick Up Available | |
| | | | | | 0730 - 1930 | Registration Open | | | 07:30-08:30 | Buffet Breakfast | | | 08:30 - 09:00 | Introductions, Icebreakers, Overview of Day | | | 09:00 - 10:00 | TC Perspective on State of the ‘Now’. Update on VLOS NPA, and How it is Progressing. Exemptions/Extensions?
Mark Wuennenberg, Civil Aviation Inspector, General Flight Standards, Transport Canada | | | 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | | | 10:30 - 11:30 | Compliant UAS and Operators Panel Discussion
Mark Wuennenberg, Civil Aviation Inspector, General Flight Standards, Transport Canada
Andrew Carson, Customer Service and Training Lead, DraganFly
Kyle Kivimaki, Product Manager, Aeryon Labs
Chris Polowick, General Mgr Technology Dev, RME | | | 11:00-16:00 | Exhibitor Set Up | | 11:30 - 12:00 | Unmanned Systems Canada’s Best Practices for BVLOS Operation
Eric Edwards, President, Xiphos Systems Corp.
Mark Wuennenberg, Civil Aviation Inspector, General Flight Standards, Transport Canada | | | 12:00 - 13:30 | Buffet Lunch | |
| Hummingbird Drones and Wildfire Operations in British Columbia
Robert Atwood, President / CEO, Hummingbird Drones | BVLOS Best Practices
Kris Ellis, Research Officer, National Research Council | Mexico Opportunities
Cecilia Villanueva Bracho, Consul , Consulate of Mexico in Calgary
Luis Salazar Brehm, Director of Projects, Amacuzac | | | 14:00 - 14:30 | Successes and Failures of UAS Start-ups
Paul Bennett, Aerobotika | Sense and Avoid Performance Standard
Siu O'Young, President , Seamatica Aerospace Ltd | | | 14:30 - 15:00 | UAV Training for Non-Aviation Professionals Utilizing Multi-Rotor Vertical Take-off/Landing UAVs
Yifei Zhao, Operations Director , AlteX UAV Technologies | Example ConOps with Ground-Based Radar
Cyrus Minwalla, Research Officer, NRC Canada | | | 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break | | | 15:30 - 16:00 | TC NPA: What Does it Mean for Small Operators
Mike Campbell, Owner / Professional Freelance Photographer / Videographer / UAV Pilot, ckmmphotographic | BVLOS Integration Testbed
Mark Aruja, Chairman of the Board, Unmanned Systems Canada
Bill Jefferies, Director, Integrated Services, LOOKNorth | Updating TP15263 (VLOS Knowledge requirements)
Eric Edwards, President, Xiphos Systems Corp. | | | 16:00 - 16:30 | Small Operator Panel | Using Scenario-Based Risk Assessment Tools to Accelerate the UAS Economy
Dr. Stephen Eisenhawer, Chief Technology Officer, Periculum Labs
Henry Jaffe, Acting CEO, Periculum Labs | Why Everyone Needs Training
Paul Bennett, Aerobotika | | | 16:30 - 17:00 | Hummingbird Drones and Wildfire Operations in British Columbia (Repeat)
Robert Atwood, President / CEO, Hummingbird Drones | UAS in Controlled Airspace - An ANSP Perspective
Derek Yakielashek, NAV Canada | Objectives for a Training & Education Sub-Committee (discussion)
Facilitator: Eric Edwards, President, Xiphos Systems Corp. | | | 17:00 -19:30 | Opening Meet & Greet - Exhibitor Hall (Cash Bar) | |
| | | | | | 0700 - 1800 | Registration Open | | 07:00- 08:00 | Buffet Breakfast | | 08:00 - 08:15 | Welcome Address
Cynthia Farmer, Assistant Deputy Minister, Economic Development and Small to Medium Sized Enterprises Division, Alberta Provincial Government | | 08:15-08:30 | Keynote Address - Safety and Security, Transport Canada
Assistant Deputy Minister Laureen Kinney, Safety and Security, Transport Canada | | 08:30 - 09:00 | Drones: A Force Multiplier for Hollywood - Our Experience Filming X-Men for 20th Century Fox
Keith Wilson, SmartDrones | | 09:00 - 09:30 | 50 Drone Pilots & Counting
Brent Bitter, Manager, Spacial Information Management and Modeling & Unmanned Vehicle Systems Programme, Technical Resources Branch, Ministry of Environment, Saskatchewan | | 09:30 - 10:00 | Transport Canada Update
Robert Sincenes, Director , Transport Canada | | 10:00 - 17:00 | Exhibitor Hall Open | | 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | | 10:30 - 11:00 | Development and Implementation of Collective Unmanned Systems Initiatives in the State of Nevada
Thomas Wilczek , Aerospace & Defense Industry Specialist , Nevada Governor's Office of Economic Development | | 11:00 - 12:00 | Wildfire Panel
Patrick McIlwaine, Provincial Aviation Specialist, Wildfire Management Branch, Government of Aberta
Joe Eder, Special Projects Coordinator, Aviation Services Section of Aviation Forest Fire and Emergency Services (AFFES), Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
Shawn Lund, BC Wildfire Service | | 12:00 - 13:30 | Buffet Lunch |
| Student Paper Competition: Developing a UAV Navigation System for Indoor and Outdoor Environments
Julien Li-Chee-Ming, York University
Moderator: Frederique Pivot, Athabasca University | Alberta IR Scanning Program
Jamie Badcock, ICS GeoSpatial Lead/Infrared Coordinator, Wildfire Management Branch/Agriculture and Forestry | A Novel Architecture for UAV-Borne Ground Penetrating Radar
Rijesh Augustine, University of Alberta | Cool Tools on the RNAV (GNSS) Z Approach for Runway 20
Mark Hovdestad, CEO, Locked On Solutions | | 14:00 - 14:30 | Student Paper Competition: Visual-Inertial SLAM: Applications to UAVs
Geoffrey Fink, University of Alberta
Moderator: Frederique Pivot, Athabasca University | BC Wildfire Management Experience using UAS
Shawn Lund, BC Wildfire Service | UAVs – Catalyst for Mining Evolution
Trevor Munn, Geologist in Training, Westmoreland Coal Company - Coal Valley Mine | Validation of Nonlinear Time Domain Modeling of Aircraft/Ship Coupled Dynamics using Current Sea Trial Results
James McCallum, Director Engineering, Indal Tech, Curtiss Wright | | 14:30 - 15:00 | Student Paper Competition: Terrain Following and Surface Avoidance for Geophysical Missions with UAVs
Salman Shafi, Carleton University
Moderator: Frederique Pivot, Athabasca University | Hummingbird Drones and Wildfire Operations in British Columbia
Robert Atwood, President / CEO, Hummingbird Drones | The FAA’s UAS Research Center of Excellence – UAS Research Influencing the Future
Marty Rogers, Executive Director, ASSURE Program | Manned or Unmanned: The Right Tool for the Job
Kevin Besler, Principal, Visual Modeling Analysis Inc. | | 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break | |
| Physics-Based Model Identification of the Mosquito UHV-T Unmanned Helicopter
Bryan Godbolt, Flight Control Engineer, Meggitt Target Systems | UAS Operation in Challenging Conditions - Stories from the Alberta Oilfields
Dan Juhlin, Remote Sensing Analyst | Application of Airborne Magnetic Surveying to Mine and Tailing Identification and Modelling Using RME’s Geomatics RenegadeTM Rotorcraft UAS
Madeline Lee, Research Officer, National Research Council Canada | Launching UAVs in First Responder Operations
Richard Podolski, Director of Aviation, Airmarket | | 16:00 - 16:30 | Human Factors Support for the Development and Evaluation of a UAS Ground Control Station
Derek McColl, DRDC - Toronto | Economics of Winter Burn Pile Scanning
Jim Thomasson, Wildfire Researcher, FPInnovations | UAS for Mapping and Monitoring of Northern Permafrost Landscapes
Jurjen Van der Sluijs, Remote Sensing Analyst , Government of Northwest Territories | Foremost UAS Range Update
Doug Hanna, Range Manager Foremost UAS Range, CCUVS | | 16:30 - 17:00 | Traditional Model Aviation – A Gold Standard in Safety
Marc Sharpe, Model Aeronautics Association of Canada (MAAC) | Characterizing Vegetation Structure on Anthropogenic Features in Alberta’s Boreal Forest with UAVs
Shijuan Chen, MSc student, Department of Geography, University of Calgary | Amphibious Robot for Environmental Monitoring
Nicolas Olmedo, System Developer, Copperstone Technology | Vibration Monitoring of Inaccessible Industrial Equipment Using an Unmanned Aerial System
Brennan Undseth, University of Alberta | | 17:15 | Annual General Meeting | | 17:00-19:30 | Networking Reception - Cash Bar |
| | | | | | 07:30 - 16:00 | Registration Open | | 07:30 - 08:30 | Buffet Breakfast | | 09:00 - 11:30 | Exhibitor Hall Open | | 08:30 - 09:00 | Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence
Paul Godsmark, CTO, CAVCOE - Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence | | 09:00 - 10:00 | Military Update
Cdr Simon Nadeau, Director Naval Requirements , Canadian Armed Forces
Capt Matthew Shoniker, Project Director - Family of UAVs - Canadian Army, DND
Maj Rob Clark, RCAF | | 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | | 10:30 - 10:35 | The Trade Commissioner Service and You
Charles Boisvert, Trade Commissioner, Aerospace Team, Global Affairs Canada | | 10:35 - 11:30 | Investor Panel
Tom Hansen, Chief Operating Officer, The Sky Guys
Moderator: Alexander Harmsen, CEO, Iris Automation
Henry Jaffe, Acting CEO, Periculum Labs
Bud Norris, Serial Entrepreneur,
Jim McKillop | | 11:30 - 12:00 | Chairman’s Message and Awards Presentation | | 12:00 - 13:30 | Buffet Lunch | | 13:00-13:30 | DND UAS Requirements - Chairman Room
Cdr Simon Nadeau, Director Naval Requirements , Canadian Armed Forces |
| Sense & Avoid Technology: The Missing Gap and How to Close it.
Alexander Harmsen, CEO, Iris Automation | UAS Related Precision Farming and Environmental Monitoring Research in Finland
Jere Kaivosoja, Research Scientist, Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE) | Enterprise Fleet Management for Unmanned Aircraft: What are my Drones Doing, and Why Should I Care?
Kyle Kivimaki, Product Manager, Aeryon Labs | The Rise of UAVs in Law Enforcement
Andrew Carson, Customer Service and Training Lead, DraganFly | | 14:00 - 14:30 | Experimental Evaluation of NRC’s Passive Intelligent Collision Avoidance Sensor (PICAS)
Cyrus Minwalla, Research Officer, NRC Canada | The Use of UAV-Based Multispectral and LiDAR Data for Studying Wheat and Canola Growth
Chris Polowick, General Mgr Technology Dev, RME | Compliance: The Key to Enterprise Engagement
Lindsay Mohr, CEO, AirMarket | Case Studies for Civil UAS Applications in Canadian Government Agencies
Charles Vidal, Aerial Robotics Project Lead, National Research Council Canada | | 14:30 - 15:00 | Preliminary Assessment of the OPAL LiDAR Capability to Assist Heavy Autonomous Vehicles in Unprepared Terrain
Dr. Phil Church, CTO-Chief Technology Officer , Neptec Technologies
Brett Owens | A Comparison of Aggregate Volumetric Analysis Using UAV-Based LiDAR and Photogrammetry
Chris Polowick, General Mgr Technology Dev, RME | Unmanned Maintenance: An Enabler of Industry Growth
Sean Greenwood, President, Canadian UAVs | Development and Implementation of Enhanced Perception of CBRNE Hazards (EPOCH) robotic system
Bumsoo Kim, Defence Scientist, DRDC | | 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break | |
| Visual Servoing for Target Tracking Using Quadrotor UAVs
Jason King, University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies | High-Accuracy Topographic Mapping in Remote Access on Baffin Island
Steve Myshak, CEO, Ventus Geospatial | The Need for Advanced Science to Support Drone Applications Aross Disciplines
Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa, Prof Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Dept, University of Alberta | Canada’s First BVLOS Flight in Civil Airspace: Moose Aerial Survey by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
Scott Finucan, Aviation Science Specialist, Aviation Services Section of Aviation Forest Fire and Emergency Services (AFFES), Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry | | 16:00 - 16:30 | Design and Control of a Vertical Takeoff and Landing Fixed-Wing UAS
Yasir Malang, University of Toronto | Environmental Scan on the Operational Use of RPAS for Geomatics in Canada
Jurjen Van der Sluijs, Remote Sensing Analyst , Government of Northwest Territories | Aerial Robotics Framework for UAS for Flight Planning and Obstacle Detection
Charles Vidal, Aerial Robotics Project Lead, National Research Council Canada | New Developments in Satellite Communications – Opportunities for Unmanned Systems
Brent Perrot, President, Hunter Communications | | 16:30 - 17:00 | UAV Mounted High-Resolution Three-Axis Digital Fluxgate Magnetometer
Stefan Damkjar, University of Alberta | Professional UAV Mapping Solutions – Design Decisions for a Professional Solution
Adam Zylka, Technical Support Engineer, senseFly | Implementing a Flight Safety Program in your Organization
Anne-Sophie Riopel-Bouvier, Vice President, Air Ops , EXO Tactik | Elm Tree Classification Project
Pietra Shirley, Consultant | | 17:00 - 17:30 | An Open Source Comprehensive System Board for UAVs with Redundant Power
Jorge Marin, University of Alberta | | Technologies to Detect and Mitigate the Threat from Consumer Drones
Mark Espenant, DRDC Centre for Security Science | Alberta Aerospace & Technology Centre
Gerald Skocdopole, Chief Pilot (737) , Canadian North Airlines |
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