The Big Drone Show: Canada’s Biggest, Baddest Drone Event

We are pumped to announce The Big Drone Show as our newest neighborhood sponsor.


Why are we pumped?

The Big Drone Show is Canada’s premier drone occasion and it’s chickening out in Toronto, Canada September 27th and 28th. The staff behind it are wonderful innovators and are doing spectacular work to push the drone trade ahead.

Interested in attending? Register on The Big Drone Show web site now, and ensure to make use of the code UAVCOACH for a hefty low cost of 25% off of what’s already a really low value at $90. (Scroll to the underside of the web page to seek out the registration hyperlink.)

What Is The Big Drone Show?

The Big Drone Show units the stage for what’s to return in the way forward for UAV/UAS methods. It is a two-day occasion that may present an all-encompassing view of the trade from the know-how itself to the varied purposes, showcasing the immense worth drones can deliver to industrial companies.

The convention is co-produced by Cambridge House International and The Sky Guys, and options:

  • 50+ exhibitors, with thrilling product releases promised
  • 40+ invited audio system
  • A B2B Meeting Zone for connecting trade professionals
  • A 2 day Hackathon
  • The Toronto Drone Film Festival
  • Attendance by the highest gamers within the drone trade, together with these in industrial, authorities, and protection sectors, in addition to lecturers interested by drones and drone know-how.

The objective of The Big Drone Show is to attach the worldwide drone neighborhood with native drone industries and drone professionals inside Canada.

Canada is an unlimited nation and there’s lot of potential for drone use. Those drones will enable Canada to entry beforehand untapped sources.

The Big Drone Show goals to be a conduit to attach these interested by utilizing drones and people who present drone companies. This could possibly be an aerial cinematographer or producer like DJI, one of many largest drone producers on the planet.

The Big Drone Show can even serve to introduce these in Canada’s industrial sector to the potential purposes drone have for his or her enterprise. By highlighting drone purposes which can be flourishing—like inspections and surveying—those that present these companies enable Canadian industries to discover drone use in an hands-on setting.

“This sector is providing an unmatched opportunity in both cost savings and service potential for every major Canadian industry. We’ve built a conference for anyone considering the use of UAV technology in their business. If you’ve been curious about the drone space, now is the time to get educated.”

– Jay Martin, Cambridge House International.

Want to Connect? Check Out the B2B Meeting Zone

The Big Drone Show isn’t simply speaking about drones and reside demonstrations. They are dedicated to participating attendees to community at their B2B Meeting Zone.

All registered attendees on the convention can arrange one-on-one enterprise conferences and all exhibiting corporations have entry to set-up conferences with convention audio system and certified patrons. All of those conferences will happen within the Big Drone Show’s non-public VIP lounge.

This is an unbelievable alternative for corporations to attach with potential purchasers, or for these corporations in search of drone companies to seek out the proper match for his or her wants.

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One emphasis right here is on offering giant entities, like mining operations or railroad corporations, with the prospect to discover using drones into their every day operations. The drone trade has grown to some extent the place many corporations are actually interested by how they may use drones to enhance their operations, however don’t know the place to get began.

As conferences aren’t only for giant corporations, these ‘solo-prenuers’ doing work in aerial cinematography who wish to develop their shopper base can even have the chance to satisfy potential clients on the Toronto Drone Film Festival, which takes place through the convention.

As a part of the movie pageant, The Big Drone Show is bringing collectively those that are in search of specialists in pictures and movie with those that can present these companies. Aerial cinematographers may have the prospect to community and to indicate their reels, along with with the ability to meet trade leaders from high film manufacturing corporations in Canada.

Looking to fund your startup? The Big Drone Show can be a spot the place VCs in search of locations to put money into the drone trade will probably be looking for conferences with potential startups, so be sure to get setup within the B2B Meeting Zone if in case you have an organization or product to pitch.

Who Attends and Who Speaks?

Many drone conferences focus both on industrial or protection, however The Big Drone Show has a broad focus, which attracts attendees, exhibitors, and audio system from all sectors within the drone trade.

Those completely different sectors who attend, and who communicate, can typically be damaged into these teams:

  • Industry Professionals
  • Government and Policy Makers
  • UAV Experts and Academics
  • Students and Young Professionals
  • Drone Enthusiasts and Solopreneurs

Regulatory updates are positive to be a scorching subject on the convention. Recently hobbyist restrictions have been eased in Canada, and there have been some loosening of Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) restrictions—we may even see some massive bulletins made on the present, and people who attend will probably be there on the bottom for these updates.

Transport Canada will probably be internet hosting a sales space the place corporations can sit down and be taught extra about navigating Canadian rules, which must be vastly helpful for these corporations simply getting began, or trying to break into work in Canada.

We also can anticipate to see professors and college students who research drone know-how and potential purposes.

And lastly, if these weren’t spectacular sufficient for you, army and protection practitioners from NATO will host a panel about drone purposes within the protection sector.

The Location . . .

Is simply unbelievable.

Toronto is the 4th largest metropolis in North America, simply after Mexico City, New York City, and Los Angeles.

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The Big Drone Show is happening in downtown Toronto, the guts of Canada’s monetary district, on the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, one of many greatest occasion venues in one of many greatest cities on the planet, not to mention North America. To offer you some thought of what we imply by BIG, the exhibition corridor accommodates 55,000 sq. ft—that’s huge!

If you’re into drones and also you’ve at all times needed to go to Canada, or in case you reside in Canada and have at all times needed to go to Toronto, now’s the time to do it.

The Toronto Drone Film Festival

Love drone movies?

So can we. And the Toronto Drone Film Festival (TDFF) guarantees to showcase a few of the high expertise on the planet.

Submissions to the pageant will open August 1, 2017 and shut September 15, 2017.

The Grand Prize winner will probably be introduced at The Big Drone Show on the Toronto Drone Film Festival reception, on September 27.

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A prize pool of over $5,000 CAD and DJI Phantom Four is up for grabs.

“We are offering an international platform for filmmakers from around the world to showcase their work in front of industry professionals, the drone community and an extensive media network.”

– Adam Sax, President and CEO of The Sky Guys

Live Hackathon

The Big Drone Show’s reside Hackathon is an thrilling side of the occasion, and this yr it’ll deal with how synthetic intelligence might help with drone inspections.

Teams of coders will probably be given a mock energy line inspection state of affairs, over which they’ll fly their drone to seize pictures to allow them to determine cracks, corrosion, and different structural issues.

After taking the pictures, groups should practice AI that they’ll code to acknowledge varied varieties of information factors within the state of affairs offered. The staff that may develop software program to acknowledge the failings that have been put into the ability line will win the hackathon.

Prizes are nonetheless being finalized, however we all know that the highest three groups will obtain a money award in addition to (we will solely think about) potential job presents from software program builders.

The Hackathon will happen in its personal part of the exhibition corridor, with 5-6 groups of Three-Four college students every competing. The college students are present school/college undergraduates, grasp’s, and PhD candidates.

Major Announcements

We’ve heard rumors about some enormous bulletins and releases which can be slated to happen at The Big Drone Show.

For the second we’re sworn to secrecy, however we will say that one of many massive corporations concerned is DJI . . . extra on that quickly!

Want to attend The Big Drone Show? Register now on The Big Drone Show web site, and don’t overlook to make use of the code UAVCOACH to avoid wasting 25%.

Zacc Dukowitz

Director of Marketing

Zacc Dukowitz is the Director of Marketing for UAV Coach. A author with skilled expertise in training know-how and digital advertising and marketing, Zacc is obsessed with reporting on the drone trade at a time when UAVs might help us reside higher lives. Zacc additionally holds the rank of nidan in Aikido, a Japanese martial artwork, and is a extensively revealed fiction author. Zacc has an MFA from the University of Florida and a BA from St. John’s College. Follow @zaccdukowitz or take a look at zaccdukowitz.com to learn his work.

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