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Annual meeting of the Drone Community of the Digital Catalonia Alliance (DCA-Drons)

Event details

With the community’s new identity, recently integrated into the Digital Alliance Catalonia, we take stock of the activity of 2021 and present the news and action plan for this new year.

In addition, we have the presence of different members of the DCA-Drones, who will present outstanding projects in which they are involved. We also learned about upcoming opportunities in areas such as U-Space and Urban Aerial Mobility from the UPC and EIT Urban Mobility.

EIT Urban Mobility Innovation Hub South director, Daniel Serra, will participate as a speaker presenting the “Opportunities in the field of Urban Air Mobility”.

Programme

  • 10:00 – 10:10 h: Institutional welcome
    Mr. Daniel Marco , Director General of Innovation and Digital Economy, Generalitat de Catalunya
  • 10:10 – 10:20 h: DCA-Drons 2021 balance sheet
    Ms. Cristina Ramos, project manager of the DCA-Drons technical office, i2CAT Foundation
  • 10:20 – 11:20 h Presentation of projects of the DCA-Drons members:
    • Drones and High Performance Projects
      Mr. Conrad Delgado, CATUAV project coordinator
    • REALITY: Empowering drones with EGNOS
      Mr. Pere Molina, advanced applications programme manager of Geonumerics
    • Drones in the factory of the future
      Mr. Julián Cayero, principal researcher in the area of Aerial Robotics at Eurecat
      Ms. Alba Gavilán, process digitalization for manufacturing, SEAT
    • State of the art of drone technology and U-Space projects
      Dr. Enric Pastor, researcher and associate professor at ICARUS research group (Intelligent Communications and Avionics for Robust Unmanned Aerial Systems), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
  • 11:20 – 11:40 h Opportunities in the field of Urban Air Mobility
    Ms. Marta Álvarez, Communications & Engagement Manager, EIT Urban Mobility Innovation Hub South
  • 11:40 – 11:50 Activities and objectives of the 2022 programme of the drone community
    Ms. Cristina Ramos, project manager of the technical office of the DCA-Drons, i2CAT Foundation
  • 11:50 – 12:00 Questions and answers

 

1 February 2022 - 10:00 to
1 February 2022 - 12:00