Dubai Airshow – Panel Discussion – What 5G will mean for the future drone operations

Dubai Airshow – Panel Discussion – What 5G will mean for the future drone operations

Start: Thursday 18 November 2021

End: Thursday 18 November 2021

Venue: DWC, Dubai Airshow Site

Location: Dubai, UAE

5G promises to transform drone operations by adding new levels of IoT connectivity – leading to more robust command and control, safer airspace management and huge increases in the amount payload data downloads. A recent study published by the GSMA highlights a minimum of eight different use cases in which drone operators would benefit from connectivity and end-to-end service provision. When and where will these first appear?

Moderator:

Philip Butterworth-Hayes, Director of Strategy and Communications, CIVATAGlobal

Panelists:

  • Gokul Srinivasan, Director of Technology at Robots.Expert, and member of the European 5G! Drones project
  • Dr. Thomas Neubauer, Vice President, Business Development & Innovations, TEOCO CORPORATION
  • Asam Khan, CEO, AstraUTM
  • Barbara Pareglio, Executive Director for Connectivity for Aviation and IoT Technical Director, GSMA
Speakers

Barbara Pareglio

Senior Technical Director, Smart Mobility Lead, GSMA

Since 2014, she has been the technical lead for several areas of focus within the GSMA such as 5G, IoT, automotive, aviation and more. Looking at how to best utilise new technologies and services from the constantly evolving mobile networks, like 5G-Advanced.

Barbara is also leading several activities and communities with the GSMA members, like the activities related to smart mobility, including automotive and advanced air mobility. The latter by leading the GSMA Drone Interest Group and the Aerial Connectivity Joint Activity, to investigate and help the mobile industry to create a trusted solution for commercial unmanned aircraft. Exploring features and capabilities of 4G and 5G needed for the aviation.

Barbara has over 20 years of experience in the mobile industry. Before joining the GSMA, Barbara worked in R&D in several areas of telecommunications. She also participates and actively contributed to, several standards.

Thomas Neubauer

VP of Business Development and Innovations, TEOCO

Thomas Neubauer is VP of Business Development and Innovations at TEOCO.

He has about 20 years of experience in the management of wireless networks. Among other innovations, Thomas is a co-creator and inventor of AirborneRF, a software solution specialized for connecting cellular network operators with aviation (ATM/UTM/FIMS) systems.

On behalf of GSMA and GUTMA (Global UTM Association), Thomas is leading the “Interface for data exchange between Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and UTM ecosystem” Work Group, focusing on global standardization of interfaces between cellular and unmanned aviation systems including 4G, 5G technologies.

He holds a Ph.D. in telecommunications engineering from the Vienna University of Technology.

Philip Butterworth-Hayes

Director of Communications and Strategy, CIVATA Global

Philip Butterworth-Hayes is Director of Communications and Strategy at CIVATA Global

He is also the editor and publisher of EUROCONTROL’s Skyway publication (www.eurocontrol.int/content/skyway) and the editor and publisher of www.unmannedairspace.info and www.urbanairmobilitynews.com

For more than 25 years Philip has specialised in delivering highly complex technical and industrial aerospace information and advice to a

His background includes posts as the director of communications and strategy at the Civil Aviation Navigation Organization (CANSO) in Amsterdam, the launch editor of the European Defence Agency’s European Defence Matters, the Manager of Jane’s Air Transport Division and lead consultant for Jane’s Information Group on civil aviation consultancy studies, founding editor of Jane’s Aircraft Component Manufacturers, Jane’s World Airlines and Jane’s Airport Review, a former editor of Interavia Aerospace Review, Airports International, Jane’s Defence Industries, Jane’s Military Aircraft and several unmanned air system publications. He has been an aviation consultant to BBC Television and Time-Life books.

He has authored a wide number of reports and studies based on future markets and analysis of current aerospace trends. These include The Market for ATC Equipment (Jane’s Information Group) 1997, 1998, 2001; the Market for Civil Aircraft Maintenance and Services (Jane’s Information Group) 1997; The Market for Civil Aircraft (Jane’s Information Group) 1998; The very light jet market (PMI Media Ltd) 2006, 2007, 2008; and The growth of aircraft manufacturing in low-wage economies 2005-2009 (PMI Media Ltd) 2010.

In 2007 he left CANSO to concentrate on developing aerospace consultancy and market report company PMI Media Ltd. Over the next two years he developed the Aviation Supply Chain Intelligence database, to map global trends in aerospace manufacturing.