Drones For Good Podcast

In one of the last episodes of 2022, Andrew interviews Tracy Lamb, CEO of Quantum AI. Tracy has had an interesting pathway to the uncrewed industry, beginning in crewed aviation with over 7000 flight hours. Tracy is also an ISO Certified Aviation Safety & Compliance Lead auditor and has conducted over 100 Audits on UAS operations around the world.

Building upon her experience as an industry leader, Tracy is the founder and CEO of Quantum AI - a soon-to-be launched company leading the implementation of artificial intelligence in the uncrewed sector. In this episode, Andrew and Tracy discuss where the industry is headed and any challenges and barriers that it faces.

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An international guest on the podcast today with Ryan Walsh, Founder and CEO of Valqari. Ryan has a remarkable background and career, from the deserts of Afghanistan and Iraq as a Ranger, to now the Founder and CEO of an innovative organisation looking to reimagine the last mile delivery. 

Since 2017, Valqari has been providing the missing piece in the drone delivery process. Their Drone Delivery Station provides a safe and secure landing area, removing the need for any sender or receiver to actually touch a drone.

During the podcast Andrew and Ryan talk about Ryan's background, where Valqari came from, barriers to adoption, use cases and what the future looks like. 

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A special episode on the Drones for Good podcast this week as Andrew interviews the founder of Royal Robotics and Red Dirt Robotics, Jameson Harvey. Red Dirt Robotics aims to provide STEM opportunities across rural and remote areas of Australia, focusing initially on the Northern Territory and Western Australia. 

Jameson is passionate about providing these opportunities to all student across Australia, regardless of location, to ensure everyone has the same opportunities. At only 18 years of age, Jameson identified this shortfall, bought a car and some robots, and started teaching across these schools.

A fantastic initiative, worthy of our collective support. Please head across to https://royalrobotics.com.au/red-dirt-robotics to check our what Jameson is up to.

Thanks for taking the time Jameson, and good luck on your adventure!

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On this weeks episode of the podcast, we're really lucky to have Paul Wimsett - Chief Remote Pilot for the Western Australia Police Force. With the largest non-federated policing jurisdiction in the world, it's no surprise that WA Police are using drones to great effect. 

During the podcast we talk all things policing and drones, the future of policing and Paul's outlook on the industry.

Thank you to Paul, and WA Police, for taking the time to chat.

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** UK Tour, Leg 2 - Flare Bright **

On this episode on the Drones for Good podcast, we're headed on our second leg of our UK Tour! Today, Andrew speaks with Dr. Kelvin Hamilton (Chief Executive Officer) and Chris Daniels (Chief Commercial Officer) of Flare Bright. 

Flare Bright builds complex simulation models of the entire 3D aerial environment. They model all types of uncrewed aircraft that fly in them and use machine learning integrated with this to solve sensing, navigation, control and optimisation problems. This allows organisations to test and evaluate rapidly and solve problems in a simulator, not in the expensive real world. 

Andrew chats with Kelvin and Chris about all things business and start-ups, coupled with some in depth discussion around their specific products. 

You can find more information regarding Flare Bright at: https://flarebright.com or https://www.linkedin.com/company/flarebright/ 

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Welcome to the Drones for Good - UK Tour 2022

On the first week of the Drones for Good Podcast - UK Tour, Andrew chats with Charles Tavner, CEO of Flylogix. Flylogix is an amazing UK based organisation that is conducting BVLOS operations over hundreds and hundreds of kilometers in support of various industries.

Andrew chats to Charles about his background and how he ended up at Flylogix, current Flylogix operations and where he thinks the industry is heading. 

You can find more information on Flylogix at: Flylogix – Beyond the horizon

We have more guests to come from our UK Tour - keep an eye out!

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In this episode of the Drone for Good podcast, Mirragin's Andrew Crowe catches up with Aviassist's Founder & Managing Director, Ross Anderson. Aviassist is a leading RPAS training provider, with offices across Australia. 

During the episode, Andrew chats with Ross about all things RPAS training, and the future of the industry. Excitedly, this episode was recorded at the AAUS RPAS in the Australian Skies National Conference, in Canberra where Ross and his team took home the Education and Safety Award at the AAUS Gala Dinner. Congrats to Aviassist! 

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WE. ARE. BACK. for 2022! Season 4 is here, and we start with Isaac Palmer from AVCRM. AVCRM provides an online operations platform for business of all sizes to manage their RPAS operations. They also operate a separate platform to manage a tonne of aerodromes across Australia. Pretty neat! 

This episode was recorded live at the Australian Association for Uncrewed Systems (AAUS) National Conference in Canberra, where AVCRM won the Industry Champion award in the Innovation - Operations category at the Gala Dinner.

Andrew and Isaac talk all things AVCRM, RPAS and where the industry is headed. Congrats to AVCRM on your award! Well deserved!

We have so many awesome guests lined up this year, including a 'UK Tour' to kick off shortly!

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Our last episode for 2021, and what a cracking guest!

On this episode of the podcast, Andrew chats with Stefan Hrabar – CEO and and Co-Founder at Australian organisation, Emesent. Stefan has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and he has been adding sensing and autonomy to drones for over 17 years. Stefan has extensive experience in vision and lidar-based UAV obstacle avoidance, UAV path planning algorithms, UAV mission planning tools, and 3D visualisation of UAV-collected data.

For those that don’t know Emesent (and it’s likely not many people), Emesent is a world-leader in drone autonomy, LiDAR mapping, and data analytics. Andrew chats with Stefan about the history of Emesent and the recent contribution to the outstanding efforts of the Data61 / CSIRO team in the DARPA SubT Challenge.

To commence our 2022 year, we will be conducting a ‘UK Tour’ to highlight some outstanding UK organisations. Have a safe and Merry Christmas!

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On the second last episode of the year, Andrew sits down with Aero Leplastrier from GeoScience Australia. Aero is a Marine Geoscientist and his current role is centered on the program design and delivery for the AusSeabed initiative—a national seabed mapping program led by a consortium of government, private, and academic entities. It involves stakeholder management and engagement, strategic program design, strategic communication, logistics, program support, and agile project management. 

Andrew chats with Aero about all things seabed mapping, including the current and future use of uncrewed systems to achieve these outcomes.

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