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D'Andre McKinnon is a Chicago native now living in Atlanta, he has been flying drones since 2018. He joined other like minded pilots and Co-Founded Red Tail Aerial Network. (RTAN) RTAN is a group of pilots that come together and share knowledge and experience. Collectively they have experience in Insurance, Security, Construction, Real Estate, Entertainment, Infrastructure, and Education. They help people pass the Part 107 exam and share in big drone projects with pilots in their network. 

Dru Andrews is also a Certified Part 107 Remote UAS Pilot, Photographer, Videographer, Entrepreneur and Founder of Aerialnomics. He is Co-Founder of RTAN.

John Avery is the  Director of the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), is a serial entrepreneur with two successful exits. A hands-on innovation and technology leader with broad experience in both large and small companies and part of four startups, John holds six patents and has broad experience in data and wireless voice technologies.

Prior to joining ATDC, he was engineering group manager of Panasonic Automotive Systems’ Panasonic Innovation Center at the Georgia Tech campus. At Panasonic, John oversaw the innovation center’s development projects in next-generation automotive systems including, infotainment, bio-sensing, machine vision, deep learning, and heads-up displays.

He was co-founder and chief technology officer of Convergence Corp., a maker of software that connects wireless devices to the Internet. John later joined Amazon as engineering manager after the tech giant acquired Convergence in 1999.

In 2001, John became an early employee of Mobliss, a mobile applications and messaging solutions company in the entertainment space. Japan’s Index Corp., a developer of mobile phone content and information and other media services such as video on demand, acquired Mobliss in 2004.

A proud Yellow Jacket, he is a Georgia Tech graduate with a bachelor’s degree in engineering.

www.atdc.org

Twitter: @atdc

IG: @theatdc

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/atdc

Dawn M.K. Zoldi (Colonel, United States Air Force Retired) is a licensed attorney, an U.S. Air Force veteran and the founder and Chief Executive Officer of P3 Tech Consulting, connecting people who have a passion for advanced tech platforms with the plans, programs, policies and information they need to succeed. Ms. Zoldi was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1992 and commissioned through direct appointment in the Air Force in July 1993. In her almost 25 years of active duty as a member of the Judge Advocate General’s Corps as a military attorney, she performed a myriad of duties at various command echelons in the continental U.S. and deployed forward. Upon retirement from active duty in 2018, she spent two years with the Office of the Air Force General Counsel as the Business Matters Attorney for the U.S. Air Force Academy and an additional one on faculty as the Deputy Director of the Academy’s Center for Character and Leadership Development. 

She is an internationally recognized expert on unmanned aircraft systems and advanced air mobility law and policy and a recipient of the Woman to Watch in UAS (Leadership) Award 2019. Her endeavors in the drone law, regulatory and policy arena include roles as a consultant for multiple aerospace companies, legal columnist for Inside Unmanned Systems and Inside GNSS magazines, guest contributor to DroneLife.com, podcaster and conference planner for InterDrone as well as strategic partnerships and leadership roles in multiple aerospace, drone education, non-profit and media-related companies organizations.

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.p3techconsulting.com

Patreon: http://patreon.com/dawnzoldi

Twitter: @DawnP3T

Instagram & Facebook: P3 Tech Consulting

Clubhouse: @dawnzoldip3tech

Vic Moss is the founder of Moss Photography, a full service B2B commercial photography firm. He is also a FAA Drone Pro, FAA Safety Rep and the COO and Vice President of the Drone Service Providers Alliance (DPSA). Vic is also now a member of the FAA Drone Advisory Committee, where he helps steer regulations and considerations for the industry representing the interest of owner/operator service providers.

www.dspalliance.org

www.mossphotography.biz

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vicmoss

Jim Sherman is the Director of Strategic Development at the Vertical Flight Society (VFS), in May 2019, he is responsible for setting and executing the Society’s strategy for promoting membership development and growth. Jim in particular is responsible for supporting the development of the "Electric VTOL Revolution" and expanding the Society’s membership in this fast-growing market segment.

Jim worked for SAE International for more than 8 years as the lead event developer for aerospace and automotive technology, including AeroTech, Convergence, Aerospace Systems and Technology Conference (ASTC), International Powered Lift Conference (IPLC), and the Connect2Car program at CES. He also led many other strategic programs that coordinated SAE Aerospace activities.

Prior to SAE, Jim worked at BAE Systems in Johnson City, New York (now Endicott) for 15 years as a project engineer leading programs targeted at military ground vehicle power systems, hybrid-electric drive for heavy-duty vehicles (transit buses, class 5/6 trucks). As an individual contributor earlier in his career, he developed flight and engine controls, and systems/software test protocols for the V-22, C-17, F-18, Saab 2000, T700, GE90 and CFM56. Jim also worked at IBM for four years developing digital audio and video compression/decompression algorithms.

Jim holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University, a M.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.B.A from Binghamton University.

Social media

Personal

LI - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesasherman/

TW - https://twitter.com/jshermanVTOL (i am not really active here)

VFS

LI – https://linkedin.com/company/vtolsociety

TW - https://twitter.com/ElectricVTOL

https://twitter.com/VTOLsociety

FB - https://www.facebook.com/VTOLsociety

IG - https://www.instagram.com/vtolsociety/

YT - https://www.youtube.com/VTOLsociety

Vimeo - https://vimeo.com/vtolsociety

Ray Adams is the Executive Director of the Urban Low Altitude Transport Association (ULTRA), he brings over 30 years of aviation experience in air traffic management in the New York City metropolitan area in both the terminal and enroute environments. Working in some of the busiest, complex facilities in the world, he has a large base of knowledge and experience in air transport operations.

Through his work with the Federal Aviation Administration, Ray has become a subject matter expert in the development and deployment of a number of aviation modernization systems, ranging from data-link communications to enhanced GPS navigation systems and traffic flow management.

In addition, his over 15 years of legislative and policy experience at the federal and state level help shape the Urban Low Altitude Transport Association’s positions.  He has represented the National Air Traffic Controllers Association in legislative and labor matters, serves as a Trustee of the New Jersey Society for Environmental and Economic Development and is an appointed member of the New Jersey Public Use Airports Task Force

He is the founding principal of Low Altitude Operational Solutions, a consulting firm providing services to the vertical operations space.

www.urbanlowaltitudetransport.org

Twitter: @lowalttransport

Patty Hagen, Ph.D is President/Executive Director of the T-REX Tech Innovation Center in St. Louis, where she directs and manages this world class business incubator focusing on providing the startup IT, new tech and geospatial entrepreneur with flexible enterprise space, quality programming and an inspiration. Patty has a successful track record with non-profit and higher education working with organizations such at The Audubon Society and St. Louis University.

Visit Patty at www.downtowntrex.org and https://www.linkedin.com/in/patriciahagen

Michael Hill is the founder of Cumulus Technologies a UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) consulting company, Michael has become one of the top experts in the areas of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and their industrial applications, Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and their integration as well as helping develop Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) protocols for our National Airspace (NAS). An FAA Part 107 UAS Pilot accumulating over 2,100+ hours of flight time, within 2,500+ incident-free missions flown as Pilot-in-Command, Michael has earned certifications from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Occupational Safety and Health Agency (OSHA 30) and has achieved the highest level of UAS safety certifications, Pro Level III, from the Unmanned Safety Institute (USI). 

Michael’s experience includes using UAS technology for aerial mapping, telecom inspections, wind turbine inspections, oil & gas inspections, thermal Imaging, critical infrastructure inspections, search and recovery, television work as well as industrial progress videos. Michael holds several board positions with technology, aviation, and UAS organizations and regularly speaks at community and industry events on the advancement of technology in the unmanned aviation industry. Serving as a UAS Consultant to companies on integrating UAV, "Drones" into their respective industries, he has helped develop safety training curriculum for workforce development within several organizations and school districts around the country. Michael has introduced high school students, community members, business leaders, and organizations to the unmanned aviation industry and has trained and mentored many of these individuals to become licensed remote pilots. 

His work as Legislative Chairman for the North Central Texas Council of Governments and a committee member of the Texas TDEM UAS Task Force in engaging politicians, government officials, large businesses, and educational institutions in developing their Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) policies and procedures helps change UAS regulations in Texas. Michael is a senior member of the Texas Civil Air Patrol (CAP), and a member of the CAP National UAS Rescue Team supporting FEMA Blue IST and Civil Air Patrol Rescue Missions. He volunteers his drones and his flying abilities to help police, fire depts and emergency management teams for any number of tasks from surveillance, flight training to search, and recovery missions.

Find out more about his company at www.cumulustechnologiesinc.com

Interview with Don Berchoff, CEO, TruWeather Solutions, which synthesizes complex weather data sets into simple decision insight for the Unmanned Autonomous System (UAS), ground transportation and logistics industries.  A retired Air Force Colonel, Don has 35 years-experience in weather, aviation and logistics systems during which he designed and led regional and global aviation weather operations centers supporting over 500,000 Air Force and Army missions, has over 300 hours as an airborne Meteorologist, contributed to development of the NEXGEN Weather CONOPS in 2005, and led all logistics and ground operations at Manas Air Base, Kyrgyzstan in 2007-2008.  A distinguished meteorologist and technologist, he led the National Weather Service Directorate for Science and Technology from 2008-2012.

Xeo Cast is a podcast dedicated to all things unmanned and geospatial. Only six questions per guest so you can get to the essence of their wisdom. Brought to you by Xeo Air - an outsourced AI based drone services and data management company. www.xeoair.com

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