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UAV
Technology
SMi Group proudly presents the 4th annual …
Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, United Kingdom
Providing a Tactical Edge to the Warfighter Through Unmanned Aerial Systems
30th sept
- 1st oct
2019
SPONSORED BY:
CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN
Lieutenant General Richard Felton, Former Director General Defence Safety Authority &
Former Commander Joint Helicopter Command, UK MoD
MILITARY AND GOVERNMENT EXPERTS INCLUDE:
Major General Borys Kremenetskyi, Defence and Air Attache, Ukrainian Armed Forces
Brigadier General Phillip Stewart, Commander NAGSF Command Group, NATO Allied
Ground Surveillance Force
Colonel Eric Rannow, Military Deputy, Aviation and Missile Research Development and
Engineering Center, US Army
Colonel Christophe Michel, Head of Cross Ministerial Aviation Security Mission,
Directorate General of Defence and National Security, French MoD
Colonel Filippo Trigilio, 1st Office Chief Air Worthiness, Directorate for Air Armaments
and Air Worthiness DAAA), Italian MoD
Colonel Xavier Foissey, Officer in charge of Air Operations Domain, Joint Centre for
Concepts, Doctrine and Experimentation
Wing Commander Judith Graham, Remotely Piloted Air Systems: Programme Manager
(Reaper Protector), Royal Air Force
Lieutenant Colonel Richard Craig, SO1 Robotics and Autonomous Systems, British Army
Lieutenant Colonel Shad Reed, International Programs Officer, European Office of
Aerospace Research Development, US Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Commander Jamie Sayer, Unmanned Air Systems Mini Class TAA Chairman of NATO
AVT-278 Technical Panel, DES UK MoD
Major Ricardo Camilo, Staff Officer, Force Planning Division, Portuguese Army
Professor Antonios Tsourdos, Head of Autonomous and Cyber-Physical Systems Centre,
Cranfield University
Dr Hyo Sang Shin, Reader in Guidance, Navigation, Control, Cranfield University
INDUSTRY SPEAKERS INCLUDE
Mr Rick Stone, Senior Business Development Manager, Black Diamond Advanced
Technology
Senior Representative, Leonardo
Senior Representative, Mynaric AG
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING:
• Explore the current needs and
challenges of NATO-allied nations
and beyond, and here the latest
updates of national UAS procurement
and acquisition programmes
• Meet senior representatives from
leading nations using RPAS and UAS
and learn about the future vision for
unmanned capability development
• Hear the very latest technological
developments from research
and industry, that are enhancing
UAV platforms through innovative
technology and experimentation

2. Register online at www.uav-technology.org
SPONSORSHIP AND EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITIES
SMi offer sponsorship, exhibition, advertising and branding packages, uniquely tailored to complement your company’s marketing strategy. Prime networking
opportunities exist to entertain, enhance and expand your client base within the context of an independent discussion specific to your industry.
Should you wish to join the increasing number of companies benefiting from sponsoring our conferences please call:
Justin Predescu, on +44(0)20 7827 6130 or email jpredescu@smi-online.co.uk
UAV TECHNOLOGY 2019
Day One | Monday 30th September 2019 www.uav-technology.org
8.00 Registration Coffee
8.50 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Lieutenant General Richard Felton, Former Director General Defence
Safety Authority Former Commander Joint Helicopter Command,
UK MoD
OPENING KEYNOTE BRIEFINGS
9.00 Providing Persistent and Comprehensive Ground Situational Awareness
for NATO Allies and NATO Operations
• Allied Ground Surveillance Force - building NATO’s ISR capabilities
through unmanned assets
• Increasing persistent situational awareness in support of NATO ground
operations
• Operational experiences and challenges of the Force
• The future of UAS within NATO air operations
Brigadier General Phillip Stewart, Commander NAGSF Command
Group, NATO Allied Ground Surveillance Force
9.40 Delivering Next Generation Unmanned Aerial Capabilities to the RAF for
21st Century Air Operations
• Outlining the RAF’s vision for future unmanned aerial capabilities
• Protector - the next generation of unmanned asset for RAF ISR
• Assessing lethality options for Protector for CAS and tactical strike
capabilities
• Future requirements for RAF RPAS
Wing Commander Judith Graham, Remotely Piloted Air Systems:
Programme Manager (Reaper Protector), Royal Air Force
10.20 Morning Coffee
COUNTER-UAS
10.50 Developing Counter-UAS Capabilities in Support of Ground Operations
in Multi-Domain Operations
• Increasing effective counter-UAS technology within US Army air
defence systems and for expeditionary warfare
• Current AMRDEC activities in support of C-UAS capability
development
• Coordinating the capability development through working with the
research community, and industry, and Army end-users, to ensure the
most effective surveillance, detect, identify, and track capabilities
• Building an integrated approach to C-UAS for multi-domain
operations
Colonel Eric Rannow, Military Deputy, Aviation and Missile Research
Development and Engineering Center, US Army
11.30 Sponsor Session Reserved for Leonardo
Speaker Name TBC
12.10 Ensuring Counter-UAV Capabilities in Sensitive Sites for Enhanced
National Security
• Current regulation in France regarding civilian UAV use and counter
UAV systems deployment
• Increasing c-UAV capabilities around sensitive locations and events
within national borders
• Future civilian drone capabilities and threats to national security
Colonel Christophe Michel, Head of Cross Ministerial Aviation Security
Mission, Directorate General of Defence and National Security,
French MoD
12.50 Networking Lunch
UAS OPERATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
1.50 Sponsor Session Reserved for Black Diamond Advanced Technology
Mr Rick Stone, Senior Business Development Manager, Black Diamond
Advanced Technology
2.30 Enhancing Autonomy through Innovation and Experimentation
• The role of the Air Force office of Scientific Research in developing
and promoting innovative approaches to autonomy
• Improving command and control and guidance through advanced
algorithmic research
• New approaches to aerodynamics in unmanned systems
• Applying biomimetic technology to future UAS
Lieutenant Colonel Shad Reed, International Programs Officer,
European Office of Aerospace Research Development, US Air Force
Office of Scientific Research
3.10 Sponsor Session Reserved for Mynaric AG
Speaker Name TBC
3.50 Afternoon Tea
UAS AND ISR
4.20 Delivering German Air Force ISR Capabilities through MALE Unmanned
Aerial Systems
• Unmanned reconnaissance systems in use by Tactical Air Wing 51
“Immelmann”
• The future of HALE and MALE UAS in the German Air Force
• Relaying real-time imagery data from the operational theatre for
exploitation in Germany
• Operational feedback from deployments, and assessing the use of
unmanned systems in hostile environments
Session Reserved for Tactical Air Force Squadron 51, German Air Force
SWARM TECHNOLOGY
5.00 Advancements in UAV Swarm technology from Small to Large UAVs
• Increasing the presence and impact of UAV swarm technologies on
the battlefield
• Practical uses for swarm technologies
• Future impacts and challenges in the usage of AI and autonomy for
swarms
Professor Antonios Tsourdos, Head of Autonomous and Cyber-Physical
Systems Centre, Cranfield University
5.40 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
Lieutenant General Richard Felton, Former Director General Defence
Safety Authority Former Commander Joint Helicopter Command,
UK MoD
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UAV TECHNOLOGY 2019
Day Two | Tuesday 1st October 2019 www.uav-technology.org
8.15 Registration Coffee
8.50 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Lieutenant General Richard Felton, Former Director General
Defence Safety Authority Former Commander Joint Helicopter
Command, UK MoD
OPENING KEYNOTE BRIEFINGS
9.00 Small Unmanned Aerial Systems: Delivering a Tactical Edge to the
Warfighter
• British Army approaches to small and tactical UAS in support of
ground operations
• Supporting wide area surveillance and targeting application
of precision effects
• The role of small tactical UAS and manned/unmanned teaming
within the Army Warfighting Experiment
• Future unmanned capabilities for the British dismounted soldier
Lieutenant Colonel Richard Craig, SO1 Robotics and Autonomous
Systems, British Army
9.40 Developing Future Doctrine on the use of UAS within French Military
Operations
• Building FrenchUAS doctrine for joint land and air operations
• The role of UAS in delivering kinetic lethal effects, and the future
of unmanned systems within French air power
• Assessing ‘human in the loop’ needs for the French Armed
Forces in the era of increasing autonomy
• Ensuring future capability development projecs match doctrine
Colonel Xavier Foissey, Officer in charge of Air Operations
Domain, Joint Centre for Concepts, Doctrine and Experimentation
10.20 Session Reserved for Sponsor
11.00 Morning Coffee
SMALL AND TACTICAL UAS
11.30 Tactical ISTAR Capability Development through Soldier-Launched
UAS
• Developing ISTAR capabilities for the Potuguese Army through
small- tactical UAS development
• Assessing requirements and platform options, fixed wing hand
launched UAVs
• Integrating future UAS platforms with C4ISR and battlespace
management tools
Major Ricardo Camilo, Staff Officer, Force Planning Division,
Portuguese Army
INNOVATION AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS
12.10 Assessing the Unmanned Aerial Capabilities of the Ukrainian
Armed Forces, and the Future Vision for Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Ukrainian plans for future Unmanned Aerial capabilities
• Current platforms available to the Ukrainian Armed Forces and
current procurement and acquisition priorities
• The need for greater UAS/C-UAS capacities for Ukrainian
national security and military operations
• The vision of future Ukrainian air power in Eastern Europe
Major General Borys Kremenetskyi, Defence and Air Attache,
Ukrainian Armed Forces
12.50 Networking Lunch
UAS SAFETY AND AIR WORTHINESS
1.50 Ensuring Air Worthiness and Safety for Italian and NATO Unmanned
Air Assets
• Developing effective safety standards for UAS in the age of
increased autonomy
• Building effective frameworks for the refulation of air worthiness
and safety for unmanned systems
• Assessing safety procedures for multinational unmanned assets
operating within Italy
Colonel Filippo Trigilio, 1st Office Chief Air Worthiness, Directorate
for Air Armaments and Air Worthiness DAAA), Italian MoD
2.30 Considerations For Harmonisation of UAS Regulations For Common
NATO Operating Approvals (AVT-278)
• AVT-278: reviewing NATO member state ‘Best Practice’ for
approving UAS operations
• Focusing on risk-based approaches and generating a common
baseline
• NATO will benefit from a mutually acceptable basis for UAS
approval process
• Allowing NATO MS to follow legitimate steps in assuring safe
operational approvals for UAS operations within NATO theatres
• The 9 Item Framework developed by AVT-278 for UAS Ops
Commander Jamie Sayer, Unmanned Air Systems Mini Class TAA
Chairman of NATO AVT-278 Technical Panel, DES UK MoD
3.10 Afternoon Tea
GUIDANCE, NAVIGATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
3.40 Guidance, Navigation and Communications for Small Drone
Systems
• Cooperation of unmanned heterogeneous systems through
effective guidance, navigation and communications
• Decision making for multiple unmanned systems
• Demonstrations in a persistent surveillance and monitoring
scenario
Dr Hyo Sang Shin, Reader in Guidance, Navigation, Control,
Cranfield University
4.20 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two
Lieutenant General Richard Felton, Former Director General
Defence Safety Authority Former Commander Joint Helicopter
Command, UK MoD

4. BENEFITS OF SPONSORING
1. Launch new products or services at UAV
Technology and give your company the
opportunity to showcase your unique solutions
to the nations who need it most
2. Educate the market on your company’s
capability and make the business case for
how they can solve your potential customers
challenges and requirements
3. Build your brand so your solutions are front of
mind when your prospects are putting potential
solution providers on their short list
4. Meet and network with active buyers while
there is still a chance to influence their purchase
decision
5. Generate new leads through meeting new
prospects from a variety of new countries and
programmes
Participation at UAV Technology will provide
the opportunity to hear a comprehensive
update on the recent developments
achieved in the realm of UAS and Counter-
UAS technology and capabilities. With a
focus on collaboration between the military,
industry, and research communities, UAV
invites not only key programme managers,
capability directors and operational
commanders from across the world’s armed
forces, but also ensures the participation of
senior engineers, chief scientists and platform
managers from leading solution providers.
The very latest technology innovators and
solution providers will be present to share
their ground-breaking equipment with a
captive audience all looking to advance
their UAS/C-UAS capabilities.
The audience will include, but not be limited to:
Military:
• Heads of RPAS Programmes and Projects
• Operational Commanders of UAV
Squadrons
• Directors of Force Capability Planning
• Counter-UAS leads
• C2, C4i and ISTAR Leaders
• Avionics Researchers
• Optronics Engineers
• System Integration Project Managers
• Electronic Warfare Officers
Industry:
• Chief Engineers
• Product Managers for Air
• Technical Directors
• Heads of Air ISTAR
• System Engineers
Audience Profile

5. SPONSORED BY:
Black Diamond Advanced Technology, LLC is a
Veteran-Owned small business headquartered
in Chandler, Arizona. We are a demonstrated
and recognized leader in tactical computing
and communications systems focusing on the
dismounted Operator. Our products enable and
enhance real and virtual lifelines by integrating
with existing fielded equipment to maximize the
performance and capabilities of the organic tools
the Operator has today.
www.bdatech.com
Leonardo is a world player in Helicopters,
Aeronautics, Electronics, Defence Security
Systems. From advanced components to fully
integrated systems and platforms, Leonardo
masters the full cycle of development of rotary
and fixed wing platforms and of sensors and
effectors to deliver a full range of proprietary
solutions and managed services. With field-proven
tactical fixed wing and rotary wing UAS, optionally
piloted helicopters, a complete range of sensors,
Leonardo is at the forefront of autonomous flight.
www.leonardocompany.com
Mynaric is a laser communication company which
develops and manufactures laser products allowing
for high data rate and long-distance wireless
data transmission between moving objects for
terrestrial, airborne and space applications. Laser
communication can be thought of as optical
fiber for the skies and Mynaric’s products provide
backbone connectivity to link aircraft, unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs), high altitude platforms
(HAPs), satellites and their respective ground
stations. They are designed to meet the demanding
conditions of aerial and space applications and
offer world class performance in terms of data rate,
power consumption, size and weight.
www.mynaric.com

6. UAV TECHNOLOGY
Conference: Monday 30 September - Tuesday 1 October 2019, Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, United Kingdom
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