Mobile 360 APAC – The Connected Skies – Where are the Commercial Opportunities?

Amit Ganjoo is the Founder & CEO of Washington DC based ANRA Technologies, a leader in integrated airspace management solutions used by commercial and government entities for managing commercial drone operations at scale.

Amit has over 20 years of aviation, telecom and wireless experience in both the federal and the commercial space. He is an engineer and a licensed pilot pursuing his lifelong passion in aviation by building and flying experimental aircraft.

As part of his pursuit to efficiently integrate drones into the airspace, Amit is a board member of the Global UTM Association (GUTMA) that supports the accelerated and transparent implementation of globally interoperable UTM systems. He is also a member of FAA’s Drone Advisory Committee (DAC) working group for UTM.

Prior to founding ANRA Technologies, Amit was co-chair for the FCC Technical Advisory Council (TAC) for 5G and IoT, which included ground and airborne autonomous vehicles. He was the Director of Engineering and Principal Architect at Ericsson, providing telecom solutions to commercial customers and the Federal Government, where he was the recipient of the Athena Award.

Deployed as part of the Expeditionary Strike Group, Amit was chief systems architect for the US Navy 4G LTE Sea Pilot, delivering a one of a kind turn-key, secure, unmanned airborne/afloat autonomous 4G LTE Network with applications to directly support the war fighter. He architected the first ever approved classified security architecture for 4G LTE in line with NSA Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) framework, approved for operational deployment by the DoD in 2012.

Amit is an adjunct professor at George Mason University School of Engineering and volunteers at a local Maker Space in the D.C. area. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science and Civil Engineering from Iowa State University and a Bachelor of Engineering from Punjab Engineering College.

Michael is one of Southeast Asia’s leading experts in digital transformation in the supply chain and energy industries. He leads Fling, a drone and AI platform providing efficient solutions for warehouses and utilities.

He is a guest lecturer in business at Thammasat University and is an advisor to the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand’s Unmanned Aircraft Working Group. Michael is also a public speaker and aims to cultivate an awareness and understanding of automation technologies through his experience, knowledge and innovative approaches. Furthermore, he is a Director in the Thai-Canadian Chamber of Commerce.

After earning his BMath in Mathematical Sciences from the University of Waterloo in 2007, and his CFA charter, Michael worked as a Software Developer and Business Analyst in the Financial Services industry for over a decade.

https://www.fling.asia/

Jiin Joo is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Garuda Robotics, where he currently leads the Regulatory, Product, Cyber and AI Engineering teams. He also served as the Project Director of FutureFlight Consortium of companies including Singtel, to develop Singapore’s first Connected Urban Airspace Management ecosystem for Unmanned Aircrafts. He’s an outspoken supporter of utilising telecommunications infrastructure to enable safe integration or Drones with National Airspace, and is currently helping multiple local governments with drone surveillance, traffic management, and emergency response.

Jiin Joo has 20 years of experience in distributed systems, cloud robotics, telco business, and enterprise software engineering. He started his career in Amazon.com, deployed FTTH services in IDA, and ran Singtel’s largest ever 3rd party developer programme. He has a BSc in Computer Science and Economics from Carnegie Mellon University and a MSc in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Dato’ Lester Tay is the President of the Malaysia UAV Developments Association (MUDA) and World UAV Federation – Malaysia Chapter who has long-term collaboration with government, ministries and educational institutions for the promotion of development in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications in various industries including unammned traffic management (UTM) system, precision agriculture, infrastructure inspection & audit, border security and geospatial application in Malaysia. Dato’ Lester has also established Strat Aero Malaysia for providing professional services mainly in UTM system, UAV operator training courses, trading and merchandisation of the drone-related product, and providing effective solutions to conventional industries by integrating augmented intelligence drone application in the operation and management. He has organised, hosted, and co-organised 12 national and international forum, exhibition, and summit which continuously accelerate development drone industry especially the safety and security awareness among the users. As the highly influencing leader in drone industry, Dato’ Lester Tay always appointed and invited to be spokesperson of Malaysia to share the updated information, opportunities, and knowledge to delegates especially for more than 32 countries delegates who are passionate in drone industry. Lately, he is realising the systematic and effective framework of unmanned traffic management system in Malaysia even in other Southeast Asia countries.

Sanjay is responsible for Skyports’ drone deliveries growth in Asia Pacific, ensuring that our offering matches fast-evolving market and customer requirements.

Sanjay brings with him over 13 years of experience in both military and commercial unmanned aircraft (UA) technologies. Prior to joining Skyports, he was part of the senior leadership team at Nova Systems in Singapore, driving research, test and evaluation in UA technologies. Before that, he served in the military as a flight commander and head of flying operations, developing concept of operations and operationalizing unmanned aircraft systems and technologies for the Air Force.

Sanjay focuses on growing Skyports’ drone delivery business by working closely with our customers and partners to identify, design and execute the most competitive solutions. He then works on integrating these solutions into customers’ existing business models and supply chains to increase efficiency and revenues.

Sanjay has clocked over 1000 flying hours as an operational military UAV pilot and continues to serve in the reserves in Singapore.

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.

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.