• Jordan Cicoria, Conference Chair
• Michael Cohen, Chairperson of the Board

Cargo Drones leading the pathway for Advanced Air Mobility in Canada

Pulling an International group together for an RPAS state of the union. Let's kick things off with a conversation with those "in the trenches" to give us some insight on where to set our sights and what landmines to avoid.

Moderator: Michael Cohen - AEAC

• Glen Lynch - Volatus
• Genevieve Dacambra  - Suncor
• Ryan Coates - TC
• Steve Magirias - DDC

Gathering together experts from the areas of “what’s next”, we’ll look at where the future of aviation infrastructure may take us and how cities, airports, individuals and organizations can prepare and what to get excited about.

Moderator: Chris Howe - CAAM

• Bill Wimberley - Spright
• Ken Reed - Skyway
• Mammen Tharakan - Edmonton International Airport
• Jordan Cicoria - Aerium Analytics

Moderator: Jordan Cicoria - AEAC

• Alexander Bilyk - From Toys to Tools - How Drones Have Changed the Business of Natural Resources Management
• Timothy Webster - Using RPAS Data in Combination with Airborne Topo-bathy Lidar
• Jurjen Vandersluijs -  Long-endurance BVLOS RPAS missions for arctic infrastructure and environmental mapping: validation of derived elevation and vegetation information
• Saeedeh Madani for Sara Ashoori - Application of the RPAS Multispectral analysis for environmental monitoring

Moderator: Kate Klassen - AEAC

• Steve Magirias - Drone Delivery Canada's Accomplishment over the Last Two Years
• Trevor Bergman - Application of Heavy RPAS for True BVLOS in Energy and Utilities
• Dan Juhlin - So you want to fly airside? Learnings from 5 years of airport operations
• Lindsay Mohr - Deploying Cellular UTM Services in Canada - Learnings from Energy UTM Trails

Moderator: Iryna Borshchova - National Research Council of Canada

Students:

• Boyan Zhou
• Matthew Palmer
• Teresa Krings
• Wylee Squair

Presentations will be judged and awarded at the Awards Lunch - the final lunch of the conference

Moderator: Danielle Gagne, Chief Storyteller and Head of Corporate Communications, Volatus Aerospace

• Ben Ruszkowski, VP of Business Development, Synergy Aviation
• Ali Miri, Director of Field Operations, Volatus Aerospace
• Maude Pelletier, CEO of MVT Geo-Solutions

Moderator: Kathryn McCulloch - AEAC

• Bill Wimberley - UAS as a vital component of full chain-of-custody, multi-modal, hazmat medical delivery
• Wade Hawkins - Utilizing Remotely Piloted Aerial Systems (RPAS) Operating Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) to Deliver Medical Supplies, Devices and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to Indigenous Communities during the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Wade Hawkins for Sara Ashoori - Airborne Ground Penetrating Radar Solutions
• Stephanie Lapointe - Wildlife Detection, Monitoring and Mitigation using Thermal Imaging

Moderator: Ken Whitehead - AEAC

• Mark Aruja - International Standards Organization (ISO) RPAS Standards development and Canadian involvement
• Charles Vidal - NRC's Integrated Aerial Mobility (IAM) Program update
• Dr. Bradley Wallace - Department of National Defence (DND) Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) Program
• Dean Attridge - Drone Lessons from Ukraine. The Challenges for UAS Operators in Complex Military Operations

Together with our founding sponsor COPA & RSMS developer AirMatrix, Aerial Evolutions Flight Safety officer will provide a hands-on demonstration of this latest online incident/accident free reporting tool.

• Anne-Sophie Riopel-Bouvier - Aerial Evolution Canada
• Maxime Lapierre - Flytbox
• Ayaan Haider - AirMatrix

Meet the DDC Team and Learn What’s on the Horizon

MODERATOR - Steve Magirias - Drone Delivery Canada
•    Michael Poma - Drone Delivery Canada
•    Sylvia Kolitsopoulos - Drone Delivery Canada
•    Reno Matthews - Drone Delivery Canada

Product close up: multipurpose FIXAR 007 fixed wing VTOL

MODERATOR - Yulia Druzhnikova, Co-Founder, Director of Global Expansion - FIXAR
•    Ronald Schultz, Head of Sales, FIXAR
•    IlmārsTauriņš, Demo Engineer, FIXAR

Michael Cohen - AEAC

Ideas on how to spark innovation: lessons learned from 75+ years of Lockheed Martin Skunk Works.

Hear about the work being done at Transport Canada to safely integrate RPAS into Canada's modern aviation system.  Key updates will cover various priority areas for the RPAS Task Force, including regulatory strategy, research and development, stakeholder engagement, and more.

Moderator: Ryan Coates - RPAS Task Force

• Jeannie Stewart-Smith - Manager & senior Policy advisor, RPAS Policy, Regulations and Outreach
• Jeremy Fountain - Manager, RPAS Operational Regulatory Development and Implementation
• Josué Morissette - Manager, RPAS Traffic Management
• Cindy Haughton - Team Leader & Safety Inspector, Flight Operations
• Jason Rule - Safety Inspector, Flight Operations

Moderator - Alan Chapman - Director, RPAS Traffic Management (#RTM, #UTM)

• Alexandra Officer – National Manager, RPAS Operations and Solutions     
• Steve Bellingham - Manager, RPAS Solutions Engineering
• Josue Morissette - Manager, RPAS Traffic Management

When the next big hurdle isn’t technological or regulatory but social, how do we adapt? Hear what work is being done now to pave the way for what we know is coming and how you can be a part of the solution.

Moderator: Erika Carrasco - Field Law

• Jeannie Stewart-Smith – TC
• Ryan Walsh - Valqari
• Dean Ervin – Edmonton International Airport

Moderator: Kate Klassen - AEAC

• Shahab Moeini - Autonomous Robotic Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) for Environmental and Industrial Applications
• Patrick Foré - Performing Search and Rescue in a BVLOS scenario: a game changer
• Courtland Penk - Beginning of the Paradigm: Airborne Non-Destructive Examinations
• Nathan Darby - Tasker: UAV Mission, Asset, and Personnel Management Software for Enabling Greater Adoption of UAVs in Canadian Airspace

Moderator: Michael Cohen - AEAC

• Steve "Lux" Luxion - ASSURE Research & Activities Update
• Charles Vidal - Scientific research to support RPAS regulatory development
• Iryna Borshchova - The Canadian Vertical Lift Autonomy Demonstration Project: Full Scale Vertical Lift Autonomy Research and Technology Development in Canada
• Awantha Jayasiri - Multi-sensor based perception and navigation planning of full-scale helicopters

Coffee + Counsel

Join the lawyers from Field Law for an unscripted chat about legal issues pertinent to the RPAS sector in Canada. Your questions guide the discussion, and we provide our legal perspectives. Topics covered could include federal regulations, privacy, corporate finance, intellectual property and more!

Moderator: Erika Carrasco - Field Law

• Richard Stobbe
• Charlene Lipchen
• Graham Martinelli

Lockheed Martin has a vision for JADO where the current hub-and-spoke type sensing and C2 architectures are replaced by fully-distributed, open-architecture networks, connecting all domains to achieve a speed of operation that has not been seen before. In this chat we will share some of our experiences in fielding JADO systems and outline some recommendations for making JADO a reality.

Moderator: Declan Sweeney - AEAC

• Jacob Johnson
• Ryan Hutchinson
• Mike Baker

Moderator: Iryna Borshchova - AEAC

• Mihai Rozsa - Velary - Power Line Inspection
• Cole Rosentreter - Beyond BVLOS - Autonomous DAA
• Mahmoud Abdelraman - BVLOS: Endgame
• Pascal Chiva-Bernard - Anatomy of a level 4 autonomy system for GNSS-Denied mapping, exploration and reconnaissance

Moderator: Trevor Bergman - AEAC

• Ronald Schultz - UAV and AIR TRAFFIC SAFETY: Secure UAV systems, risk mitigation and the best learnings from the big aviation for a safer sky
• Kevin Di Filippo - Northstar: Finding your way in contested environments
• Genevieve Dacambra (Suncor) / Flight Insight (Derek Krivak) - Suncor Airspace Management System: Harmonizing UAV operations into Aviation Operations in the Energy Sector

Moderator: Elliot Hewitt - Prairies Economic Development Canada

• Matthew Lariviere -CCC
• Stephane Krahulec -EDC
• Ronnie Prasad - BDC
• Amanda McNaughton - GAC
• Stefania Schoenert - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

This SAIT Sponsor showcase will outline their DCPL course (Drone professional Pilot License) initiatives, required testing and certification of heavy lifting long endurance RPAS systems, and necessary changes in the certification process to meet market demand

Moderator: Lynda Holden – SAIT

• Shahab Moeini – Centre for Innovation and Research in Unmanned Systems (CIRUS)
• Stephanie Lapointe - Centre for Innovation and Research in Unmanned Systems (CIRUS)
• Alister Schreiber – SAIT

Moderator:        Blair Boyd, Arcfield

• John Molberg, Canadian UAVs
• Doug Hanna, BVLOS Innovation Centre
• Dan Juhlin, AERIUM Analytics

Hear from our indigenous innovators on how aerial technologies are enabling an empowered and equitable future where communities can reclaim autonomy and ownership over their land and livelihood.

Moderator: Kristin Kozubeck, AEAC

• Jo-Anne Tabobandung - FNTI
• Darian Edwards - CAAM
• Jacob Taylor - Indigenous Aerospace
• Kimble McComb - Moose Cree First Nation Economic Development
• Kim McLean - Stinson Aerial Service

A thought-provoking fireside chat around on the usages of BVLOS in municipalities and the barriers, applications and benefits - Alberta Provincial Project

Moderator: Denean Tomlin, Arcfield

• Michael Richard - Sturgeon County
• Bassem Dawoud - Living Labs Calgary Lead
• Sean Greenwood - Canadian UAVs

Moderator:  Michael Cohen / Jordan Cicoria

• Anne-Sophie Riopel-Bouvier and Ayaan Haider -FSAT (10 mins)
• Jacob Taylor - Indigenous Committee (7 mins)
• Dan Juhlin and Iryna Borshchova - Regs Committee  (7 mins)
• Bruno Chapdelaine - Student Competition (10 mins)
• Dominique Chabot - Drone Systems and Apps (5 mins)
• Fireside Chat

Moderator: Erika Carassco - AEAC

• Maude Pelletier - Scaling Drone Capabilities Through Payload Modularity
• Chris Brosinsky - RPAS Airworthiness Requirements: Supporting the Evolution to High Risk BVLOS Approvals
• Dr. Heather Vooys - Airports, Drones, Software Development, machine Learning, Computer Vision... Blending Technology and Safety

Transport Canada Workshop – SFOCs: Tips, tricks & what’s new

Moderator: Jason Rule - Safety Inspector, Flight Operations

Moderator: Declan Sweeney - AEAC

Moderator: Kate Klassen - AEAC

Open to Flight Reviewers, this session brings together TC and industry to help ensure consistency in the delivery of reviews, best practices from experienced reviewers, and updates from TC. A must-attend for Reviewers!

This will be a pre-recorded presentation with a live Q&A

• Frank Brzobohaty - TC - pre-recorded
• Brady Gilchrist - Gilchrist Aeronautics
• Kate Klassen - Q&A Facilitator with TC