Join us tomorrow at 3.30 pm for first session of our 3-day virtual cargo drone conclave
August 25, 2020: The STAT Media Group is organizing a three-day marathon virtual cargo drone conclave under the topic "Cargo Drones: Redefining the future of logistics" on August 26, 27 & 28, bringing best of the leaders, innovators and regulators to discuss, debate and ideate.
In April 2020, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) shortlisted 13 out of 34 consortia to carry out %u2018beyond visual line of sight%u2019 (BVLOS) drone pilots.
August 25, 2020: The STAT Media Group is organizing a three-day marathon virtual cargo drone conclave under the topic "Cargo Drones: Redefining the future of logistics" on August 26, 27 & 28, bringing best of the leaders, innovators and regulators to discuss, debate and ideate.
Starting tomorrow at 3.30 pm IST, the first-day session is managed by Indian Transport & Logistics News (itln.in) under the headline "India – building the story of delivering beyond the visual line of sight." Day 2 & 3 will be managed by Logistics Update Africa and The STAT Trade Times respectively.
Keynote (3.30 to 3.50)
Amber Dubey, joint secretary, ministry of civil aviation, India
First person view (3.50 to 4.30)
Rishabh Gupta, co-founder, Redwing Labs
Yeshwanth Reddy, co-founder, F-drones
What's your pitch? (4.30 to 5.30)
Nagendran Kandasamy, founder & CEO, Throttle Aerospace Systems
Prashant Pillai, co-founder & CMO, Indian Robotics Solution
Pavan Ananth, business development lead, Zipline India
Panel discussion (5.30 to 6.30)
Smit Shah, director – partnerships, Drone Federation of India
Vikram Singh, CEO & founder, TechEagle
Mrinal Pai, co-founder, Skylark Drones
Ankit Kumar, managing partner, Alternative Global
Mitul Kumar, head of operations, ANRA Technologies
Vignesh Santhanam, India lead, drones and tomorrow's airspace, World Economic Forum
Drone regulations in India
In April 2020, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) shortlisted 13 out of 34 consortia to carry out 'beyond visual line of sight' (BVLOS) drone pilots in designated airspaces in different parts of the country.
This includes Dunzo Air Consortium, Throttle Aerospace, Saubika Consortium, Asteria Aerospace, ShopXOmnipresent Consortium, ANRA Consortia A and B, Spicejet, Dhaksha Unmanned Systems, and ClearSky Flight Consortium. Since India doesn't allow BVLOS operations right now, this exercise is to create 'evidence-based regulatory requirements to enable commercial BVLOS operations in the near future'.
DGCA recently appointed Quality Council of India (QCI) asthe program partner. The draft certification manuals have been developed and are likely to be finalised by September 10, 2020.
