| TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2017 | |||||
 1730-2000 | Registration Open - Name Badge Pick Up Available | ||||
| 18:30 - 20:00 | Annual General Meeting | ||||
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| WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2017 | |||||
| 0730 - 1930 | Registration Open | ||||
| 07:30-08:30 | Breakfast | ||||
| 08:30 - 9:00 | Welcome to UnmannedCanada 2017 | ||||
| 9:00 - 10:30 | Transport Canada [More Info] Felix Meunier, Director UAS Task Force, Transport Canada Ryan Johnson, Program Manager, Regulatory Planning & Program Implementation - UAS Task Force, Transport Canada Ryan Coates, Chief, Policy, Regulations & Stakeholder Engagement - UAS Task Force, Transport Canada | ||||
| 10::30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 11:00 - 12:00 | UTM Panel [More Info] Moderator: Paige Cutland, Director Business Development, Kongsberg Geospatial Ltd. Brian Guimond, Manager, Military Operations & Unmanned Aircraft Systems, NAV Canada James Davis, Director of Business Development, Sagetech Corporation Michael Hoodspith, Director, Strategy & Advanced Systems, IDS North America Brenden Hedblom, Associate Business Development Manager, Thales ATM Zlatko Zahirovic, Sr Manager, Bell Mobility WNCE Dr. Marco Tantardini, CEO, DronSystems Ltd. | ||||
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch | Women & Drones Luncheon - Thornhill Room [More Info] | |||
| 13:30 - 14:00 | SMALL BUSINESS FOCUS - Chair: Mike Campbell | TRAINING - Chair: Eric Edwards | CERTIFICATION - Chair: Phil Cole | COUNTER UAS WORKSHOP - Chair: Henry Jaffe | |
| Small Operators Update on Regulations [More Info] Michael Campbell, Chief Photographer, ckmmphotographic | Training [More Info] Eric Edwards, President, Xiphos Systems Corp. Kate Kienapple, Director of Operations, Coastal Drone Co. Frank Brzobohaty, General Flight Standards Inspector UAS Task Force, Transport Canada | Certification [More Info] Philip Cole, VP Business Development, Marinvent John Maris, President, Cert Center Canada Theodore Wierzbanowski, Chairman, ASTM F38 UAS Standards Committee, ASTM Ron Campbell, Aviation Advisor, SGS Aviation Compliance | Drone Countermeasures: Know Your Needs Before Buying a Solution [More Info] Ehsan Monfared, Associate, YYZlaw Dr. David Weinberg, Principal, Practical Risk David Domoney, Blueforce UAV Consulting Moderator: Henry Jaffe, CEO, Periculum Labs | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Smart UAV Operators - Fast Focus [More Info] George Gooderham, Pilot, SceneAereo Unmanned | ||||
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Marketing Magic: 18 Tools & Tips for UAS Industry [More Info] Kristin Kozuback, Director of Communications, AirMarket | ||||
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 15:30 - 16:00 | UAV Success Cases: The Human Element in the Unmanned Industry [More Info] Yifei Zhao, Operations Director, AlteX UAV Technologies | How Implementing the Wyvern Exact Standard Based on ICAO 10019 Can Benefit Small Operators [More Info] Mike Venables, Operations Manager / Chief Pilot, Aero-Photos.ca | Advances in Airworthiness, Safety, and Reliability Testing of Drones [More Info] Don Toporowski, General Manager, University of Ontario Institute of Technology | Drone Countermeasures: Know Your Needs Before Buying a Solution [More Info] Charles Vidal, Aerial Robotics Projects Lead, National Research Council Dr. David Weinberg, Principal, Practical Risk Moderator: Henry Jaffe, CEO, Periculum Labs Garret Warren, Platform Design, Version 2.0 Inc. Dr. Stephen Eisenhawer, Chief Scientist, Periculum Labs | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Close Encounters of the FIRST Kind. [More Info] David Cooke, Chief Pilot, CANDA | Prequalification and Training Site & the Establishment of BVLOS and SOPs [More Info] Marc Moffatt, Director General, UAS Centre of Excellence | Investigation of Virtual Flight Testing and Certification System on UAV design/development at MIMS Laboratory, Ryerson University [More Info] Dr. Joon Chung, Professor, Ryerson Author: YoungJoon Cha, Ryerson | ||
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Enabling Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) into your Commercial Environment [More Info] Ron Campbell, Aviation Advisor, SGS Aviation Compliance | The Establishment of a Quebec UAS Cluster [More Info] Michel Cordeau, Business Development Coordinator & Quebec UAS Cluster Director, Unmanned Aerial Systems Centre of Excellence | BVLOS Around the Globe: How Canadian Regulation Stacks Up [More Info] Aaron Bailey, Head of Business Development, Iris Automation | ||
| 1700-1730 | Panel - SMAO Q&A | Student Three-Minute Thesis Presentations [More Info] | Edmonton International Airport: A Test Case in the Integration of Manned and Unmanned Aviation [More Info] Jordan Cicoria, Managing Director, AERIUM Analytics | ||
| THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2017 | |||||
| 0730 - 1800 | Registration Open | ||||
| 07:30- 08:30 | Breakfast | ||||
| 08:30-09:00 | Honourable Brad Duguid, Minister of Economic Development and Growth Ontario [More Info] Honourable Brad Duguid, Minister of Economic Development & Growth, Province of Ontario | ||||
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Safe Skies, Open for Innovation: How Technology Will Help Solve Policy Challenges [More Info] Brendan Schulman, Vice President, Policy & Legal Affairs, DJI | ||||
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Mr. David Kroetsch - Founder and CTO Aeryon Labs [More Info] David Kroetsch, Founder & CTO, Aeryon Labs | ||||
| 10:00 - 17:00 | Exhibitor Hall Open | ||||
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | TC ADM Safety & Security [More Info] Aaron McCrorie, Director General, Civil Aviation, Transport Canada | ||||
| 11:00 - 12:00 | AI Ontario Panel [More Info] Bill Mantel, Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic Programs Development & Delivery Office, Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Growth Wally Trenholm, Founder & CEO, Sightline Innovation Jeremy Wang, Chief Technology Officer, The Sky Guys | ||||
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch | ||||
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Chair: Diana Cooper | Chair: Frederique Pivot | Chair: Curtis Parks | Chair: Mark Aruja | |
| The Canadian Legal Landscape for addressing Drone Security Threats [More Info] Moderator: Ehsan Monfared, Associate, YYZlaw Edward Marrocco, Lawyer, Stockwoods LLP Nader Hasan, Lawyer, Stockwoods LLP Kevvie Fowler, Partner, Cyber Risk, Deloitte | 3-D UAV Path Planning in a Cluttered Environment using PSO [More Info] Joshua Furtado, Graduate Student, University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies | A Method for Quantifying the Spatial Accuracy of LiDAR Data Gathered on a UAV Platform [More Info] Chris Polowick, General Manager, Technology Development, RME Geomatics | Initial BVLOS Flight Operations at the Foremost UAS Test Range [More Info] Doug Hanna, Range Manager, Foremost UAV Range | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Unmanned Aircraft System Collision Risk Assessment [More Info] Bruno Artacho, Graduate Student, Memorial University of Newfoundland | Operational Guideline Development to Support the Integration of Unmanned Aerial Systems and Geomatics into Search and Rescue (SAR) Operations [More Info] Wade Hawkins, Faculty, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology | The Development of a BVLOS Operation Methodology to Permit Long-Distance Unmanned Surveys of Linear Features [More Info] Chris Polowick, General Manager, Technology Development, RME Geomatics | ||
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada [More Info] Charles Sullivan, Vice-Chair, Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada | A Combined Method for Vegetation Classification Based on Visible Bands from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Images: A Case Study for Invasive Wild Parsnip Plants [More Info] Jingyi Liu, Student, Queen's University | High-performance Computing Architecture for Real-time Image Data Exploitation aboard Unmanned Aerial Systems [More Info] Stephan Blokzyl, Researcher, Chemnitz University of Technology | CE Establishment of BVLOS Operations and SOPs [More Info] Marc Moffatt, Director General, UAS Centre of Excellence | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Chair: Diana Cooper | Chair: Charles Vidal | Chair: Frank Decker | Chair: Duncan Elliott | |
| Regulatory Overview: Canadian & US Perspectives [More Info] Moderator: Diana Cooper, SVP of Policy & Strategy, PrecisionHawk Brendan Schulman, Vice President, Policy & Legal Affairs, DJI Doug Johnson, VP Technology Policy, CTA Kerry Moher, VP of Business Development, Fresh Air Educators Ryan Coates, Chief, Policy, Regulations & Stakeholder Engagement - UAS Task Force, Transport Canada | The Design and Flight Testing of a BVLOS - UAV System for Long Duration Power Line Mapping [More Info] Alastair Jenkins, CEO & President, Aethon Aerial Solutions Inc. | Unmanned Systems for Sub-surface Mapping and the Applications of this Technology [More Info] Dr. Greg Baiden, CEO, Penguin Automated Systems Inc. | BVLOS - An Operational Perspective [More Info] John Saunders, President, Tier 1ISR Inc. | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | The Evolution of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Inspection Program [More Info] Tim Trebilcock, Assoc. Engineer / Scientist / Tech Officer, Ontario Power Generation | Artificial Hype for Artificial Intelligence? Reality and Opportunity for AI and Drone Data Analytics [More Info] Jeremy Wang, Chief Technology Officer, The Sky Guys | Real-time Results from NRC's Investigations into SAA Technologies [More Info] Author: Cyrus Minwalla, Research Officer, NRC Canada Kris Ellis, Senior Research Officer, NRC | ||
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Anatomy of a Crash [More Info] Anne-Sophie Riopel-Bouvier, Vice President, Air Operations, EXO Tactik Air Support | Three Different Ground Control Station Layouts for Military UAS Operations [More Info] Dr. Ming Hou, Defence Scientist, Defence R&D Canada | Evaluation of Icephobic Coatings for Small Unmanned Air Systems [More Info] Dr. Ali Benmeddour, Senior Research Officer, National Research Council Canada | A Review of Testing Results from BVLOS Trials and Industry Requirements Going Forward [More Info] Sean Greenwood, President, Canadian UAVs | |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | A General Energy Based Approach to Preliminary Aircraft Sizing [More Info] Nathan Davidson-Pilon, Systems Engineer EIT, Microdrones LTD | Unmanned Air Systems: A Tool in the Evaluation of Novel Aircraft Configurations [More Info] Afzal Suleman, Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of Victoria - Center for Aerospace Research | Implementing Drone Technology into Existing Business [More Info] Brett Danks, Head UAV Instructor, Class 3 Flight Instructor, Waterloo Wellington Flight Centre | Status Update on ASTM UAS/RPAS Standards [More Info] Theodore Wierzbanowski, Chairman, ASTM F38 UAS Standards Committee, ASTM | |
| 17:30-19:30 | Networking Reception | ||||
| FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2017 | ||||||||
| 07:30 - 16:00 | Registration Open | |||||||
| 07:00 - 08:00 | Breakfast | |||||||
| 08:00 - 08:15 | Remarks from USC Chairman [More Info] Mark Aruja, Chairman of the Board, Unmanned Systems Canada | |||||||
| 08:15 - 8:30 | Defence Policy Review Implications for Unmanned Systems [More Info] Col. Shayne Elder | Personal Airborne Transportation [More Info] Moderator: Barrie Kirk, Executive Director, Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence Sasha Rao, Partner, Maynard Cooper and Airbus outside legal counsel on Project Vahana Travis Mason, Airbus | ||||||
| 08:30 - 9:30 | Army/Navy/RCAF Update [More Info] Simon Nadeau, Naval Officer, DND Capt. Matthew Becker, Project Director Unmanned Aerial Systems Recapitalization Project; Deputy Project Director Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Modernization Project, Canadian Army – DLR 2-5-2 Maj. Mark Shelden, Canadian Forces Aerospace Warfare Centre, 8 Wing Trenton | |||||||
| 09:00 - 11:30 | Exhibitor Hall Open | |||||||
| 0930-1000 | USC Student Competition Briefing [More Info] | |||||||
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |||||||
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Federal Panel: Federal Initiatives Supporting the Unmanned Systems Sector [More Info] Chris Baird, Senior Director, Build in Canada Innovation Program, Public Services and Procurement Canada Vincent Landreville, Procurement Manager, Public Services and Procurement Canada Charles Boisvert, Trade Commissioner , Global Affairs Canada Sivaraj P., Regional Director, Office of Small and Medium Enterprises (OSME) Henrique Santos, ITB Deputy Director - Air and Space, Innovation, Science & Economic Development Moderator: Derek Scott, Vice President, Program Development, PAL Aerospace | Innovative Applications [More Info] Speaker: Barrie Kirk, Executive Director, Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence Moderator: Barrie Kirk, Executive Director, Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence Fahad Khan, City of Toronto Chris Matthews, ITS Technical Advisor, Innovation & Planning Unit, Ministry of Transportation of Ontario | ||||||
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Unmanned Systems Canada Awards Presentation | |||||||
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | |||||||
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Chair: Paul Bennett | Chair: Kris Ellis | Chair: Eric Edwards | Chair: Siu O'Young | ||||
| Assessment of UAS Borne Optical Sensors in Agricultural Applications [More Info] Kim Hodge, Researcher, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Author: Anne Smith, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Science & Technology Branch, Regina, SK Author: Dustin Ostrander, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Science & Technology Branch, Lethbridge, AB Author: Luke Bainard, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Science & Technology Branch, Swift Current, SK | Energy Harvesting for Unmanned Air Systems [More Info] Dr. Jenner Richards, President, Nebula UAV Systems | Use of a Drone to Deploy Sensors on Transmission Power Lines [More Info] Matthieu Montfrond, Engineer - Drone Applications Project Leader, Hydro-Québec Research Institute (IREQ) | Topography Above and Below the Water: USV Bathymetry Combined with UAV LiDAR [More Info] Curtis Parks, General Manager, RME Geomatics | Developing a National BVLOS UAS Cluster, Strategy & Infrastructure [More Info] Moderator: Mark Aruja, Chairman of the Board, Unmanned Systems Canada Moderator: William Jefferies, LOOKNorth Dennis Nazarenko, Senior Consultant, LOOKNorth | |||
| 14:00 - 14:30 | 3D Iceberg Profiling Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Imagery [More Info] Author: Somayeh Yavari, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Electrical Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland Joseph Chamberland, Director of Operations (Ottawa) , C-Core | Applications for Passive Variable Pitch Propellers on Tactical SUAS [More Info] Andrew Kondor, President, Aerovate Inc. | Flying Sensors: The Silver Bullet Solution for Turbine Blade Maintenance [More Info] Jacob Hrycak, Owner/Operator, Sky High Images | UAS to GIS for Timely, Shared and Enhanced Situational Awareness [More Info] Pierre Bilodeau, Defence and Security Industry Manager, Esri Canada | ||||
| 14:30 - 15:00 | A Study of the Potential of Satellite and UAS Based Pipeline Monitoring [More Info] Joseph Chamberland, Director of Operations (Ottawa) , C-Core | UAV Systems Comparison (Planes, Frames and Autopilots) [More Info] Robert Lefebvre, Managing Director, NOVAerial Robotics | EASA Draft Regulation Laying Down Rules as Regards Unmanned Aircraft Operations - One Regulation to Rule Them All ? [More Info] Alexandre Cassart, Lawyer, Lexing Belgium | Terrain Following and Avoidance for Geophysical Survey Missions with Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles [More Info] Salman Shafi, , Carleton University | ||||
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Right to Fly Beacon with Digital Credentials and Collision Avoidance [More Info] Brian Romansky, Product Manager, ESCRYPT | Research Validating Digital Flight Planning Tools: Shaping regulations and perceptions [More Info] Lindsay Mohr, Founder & CEO, Airmarket | Magnetic Grooming and Compensation of UAVs for Aeromagnetic Data Collection [More Info] Tomas Naprstek, Research Council Officer, National Research Council of Canada | |||||
| 15:30 - 16:00 | ||||||||
| Coffee Break | |||||||
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Developing a National BVLOS UAS Cluster, Strategy & Infrastructure [More Info] Moderator: Mark Aruja, Chairman of the Board, Unmanned Systems Canada Moderator: William Jefferies, LOOKNorth Dennis Nazarenko, Senior Consultant, LOOKNorth | |||||||
| 16:30 - 17:00 | ||||||||
| 1730-1930 | Networking Event - 3 Brewers Richmond Hill (Additional Cost) | |||||||
