Develop a drone policy to make your business fly!

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Registration for this event will shortly be available on Eventbrite.  If you would like to express your interest and be informed of the opening of the registration site please email Steve Fuller.

Ingenuity Centre, University of Nottingham Innovation Park, Triumph Road, Nottingham, NG7 2TU

Friday 20 April  09:00 to 12:30

A FREE WORKSHOP that will help you make informed decisions about the commercial value of drones to your business.

The programme will introduce you to one of the outstanding technology success stories of the last five years.  It will outline the steps necessary to become a drone operator and highlight the responsibilities of using drones.  Finally it will discuss enough ideas to make any entrepreneur’s head spin! 

There will be opportunities to discuss your ideas and to network with other companies.  Just make sure you get there in time to enjoy an amazing breakfast!

No previous experience of drones is required.

Who will benefit from the workshop?

Any business that maps, monitors, measures, or moves things around.

We expect that it will be especially useful to anyone involved in:

• the building and construction industries
• farmers and growers
• sports coaches
• event managers
• companies that develop AI and machine learning tools
• local government
• utility companies
• hobby fliers wanting to use their hobby to make money.

Workshop Programme

09:00  Networking Breakfast

09:30  The Modern Drone - what are drones, and what is their value to the economy

10:00  Drones and the law - the legal responsibilities of pilots

10:30  Becoming a commercial operator - What you need to do and how much it is likely to cost

11:00  Break

11:15  Case Studies - five examples of companies using drones to improve efficiency or to create new services

11:45 The Drone Entrepreneur - at at least 100 ways of making monery from drones

12:15  Q and A

12:30  Close

This workshop is free because we have the support of the University of Nottingham Innovation Park and Enabling Innovation, a European Regional Development Fund initiative to support businesses in the D2N2 region.  Any SME atttending needs to be enrolled on the scheme, this is a free support service.  If your company has not already signed up contact Steve Fuller for more details.