This year at Aerial Cities 2024 in#London, we kicked off the conference with a compelling panel discussion on the emerging trends and the evolving landscape of aerial#mobility in urban environments.
Key insights from the panel:
➡️ Infrastructure milestones: Hamburg Aviation celebrated the opening of a dedicated#drone port, enabling real-world testing and public demonstrations.
➡️ Regulatory progress: The UK’s CAA highlighted advancements with the#SORA methodology and digitised application processes, enabling new operational possibilities for#drones.
➡️ Urban integration challenges: Dublin and Coventry discussed the critical need to embed drone#technology into urban planning frameworks and shared their approaches to public engagement and collaboration.
➡️ Public acceptance: Hamburg and Coventry emphasised the importance of transparent communication about drones’ public benefits, such as medical deliveries and flood#monitoring.
➡️ Balancing regulations: Madrid outlined the importance of cautious, step-by-step#regulatory development to ensure fair use of urban#airspace while addressing challenges like rogue drone operators and airspace monitoring.
➡️ Collaboration as the key to progress: UK’s CAA also emphasised that aerial mobility is an ecosystem requiring all players to move forward together.
Initiatives like the UK’s Future Flight Action Plan were highlighted as examples of coordinated efforts aligning#regulation, operations, and technology.
Moderated by Lorenzo Murzilli, Co-founder and CEO of Murzilli Consulting, the panel featured key figures such as Denise Braemer (Project Lead, CITYAM, Hamburg Aviation), Sunil Budhdeo (Transport Innovation Manager, Coventry City Council), Thomas Curran (Head of Survey & Mapping Division, Dublin City Council), Ewa Gowers (Head of SARG Operations & Programmes, UK Civil Aviation Authority), and José Javier Rodríguez Hernández (Deputy Director of Traffic Management and Taxi Service, Ayuntamiento de Madrid).
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Eszter Kovács is the Co-founder and CEO of the DroneTalks Group, which is a collection of services and platforms advancing the entirety of the drone industry ecosystem. Currently, members of the DroneTalks Group include DroneTalks, DroneTalks Jobs and Aerial Cities.
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Aerial Cities is an exclusive, invite-only event for decision-makers in the drone and advanced air mobility (AAM) industries. The event enables governments, cities, CAAs, private drone organisations and users to collaborate and strategise the future of urban drone operations.
Eszter Kovács is also a drone industry expert and regularly contributes to major magazines about the latest trends; these include publications such as Commercial UAV News and Commercial Drone Professional. In addition to this, she is an advisor for several start-ups, such as Globhe. Her role as an advisor extends as well to her role on the advisory board of drone-related initiatives like AUVSI Xponential and Commercial UAV while also fulfilling her commitment as a Swiss Drone Industry Association board member.
These roles are backed by her extensive experience as a technical innovation expert where she contributed to the growth of several companies after leading and mentoring the implementation of complex projects in the drone industry. Eszter still continues to advise leaders on strategic planning and operational transformation initiatives. In 2020, she was also approached by the Global UTM Association to become the director of more than 40 UTM leaders through a 6-month restructuring initiative.
Eszter Kovács is also head of one of the largest diversity initiatives in the drone industry called Women behind the Drone Revolution, which was launched in 2020.
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