# Opening Keynote

- Event: NestGen ’22
- Published: March 8, 2022
- Length: 38:52
- Watch: https://nestgen.org/library/watch/lb4ZyVWXMbo/

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## About this session

Dive into the world of drone autonomy. Understand why focusing on modular drone-in-a-box technology is the way ahead.

## Transcript

**[0:05]** Hi Welcome to NestGen '22 I am truly excited to welcome you all to the first industry summit entirely focused on Drone Autonomy. Over the last 7-8 years, since the start of the commercial drone industry, we have come a long way as a community. Conducting drone flights used to be a nightmare, not kidding. The motors would fail frequently, sensor calibration would be unreliable, and you would need complex piloting skills even to land the drone without a crash. Fast forward to today, millions of drones are being used for a wide-range of commercial applications, day in and day out. Drones are now extremely affordable, sophisticated, powerful, and most importantly, reliable. While the demand for drones is continuing to grow, it is becoming increasingly hard to deploy these at scale - they require just too much human intervention. When we spoke to a large number of Drone Solution Providers,

**[1:07]** we realized how difficult it was for them to conduct even basic routine operations. Especially during the pandemic, where physical movement of personnel was severely restricted in many parts of the world. In most cases, their requirements were actually quite simple - just fly a drone over a remote facility for the purpose of security, or do regular flights over a construction site to monitor the progress, or do periodic inspections of large structures. And if you think about it, just having an automated drone-in-a-box solution could solve these problems. As we dug deeper, we realized that everyone was familiar with DiaB and the promise it holds. In fact, several DiaB systems have been around for more than 7 years, but we have never seen large-scale adoption of these systems. And these are nowhere to be found. Why? These systems are way too expensive, very complex,

**[2:11]** and not very reliable. On further analysis, we understood that all these fall under the category of 'closed DiaB' systems. Here, a single company is trying to do everything: building the box, the drones, the software, and also trying to sell these systems directly to the end-users. They are investing so much in inventing everything from scratch; it's reinvention of the wheel, and they need to ensure that each component is reliable and robust. And it ends up making the entire system very expensive, costing anywhere between 100,000 dollars up to even 250,000 dollars. so only very rich customers are able to afford these systems and for very small numbers. The manufacturers are unable to realize the economies of scale, and are unable to lower the costs for their customers; It's a vicious cycle. Now the question is, what is the need to invest in development of a new drone,

**[3:13]** when we have extremely reliable, powerful, and low-cost drones available in the market today? So, we went back to the basics and said, "why don't we work with partners who are experts in complementary areas and join our forces together to build something that is far better, reliable, and affordable and that can be deployed at scale" - basically, bringing this DiaB technology to the masses. Over the last year, we have partnered with a large number of box-makers, and have built DiaB products around off-the-shelf drones that are highly reliable and affordable, as all these drones are produced in very large quantities. This has helped us bring down the cost of the DiaB systems by an order of magnitude! So now, it is possible to own a DiaB system for just around 20,000 dollars, instead of 200,000 dollars, and get the system that is more compact, simple, reliable and robust.

**[4:18]** It does not stop here; we are also building an ecosystem of app developers, who are building domain-specific applications for security, monitoring, inspections and so on. So, this open DiaB ecosystem allows compatibility with multiple drones, multiple boxes, and multiple software applications at the same time. This makes it easy for various domain experts to play a role in shaping this industry, without having to reinvent the entire stack all by themselves. The resulting integrated system is now far more effective and affordable at the same time. And this, we believe, is the right way to help bring drone autonomy to the masses. Let me now invite Kay to share his insights into the commercial drone industry with you. Based out of Hamburg, Germany, Kay is the founder & CEO of Drone Industry Insights, and is helping create transparency and accessibility for the quickly evolving UAV market.

**[5:21]** Kay, it is great to have you at NestGen! Over to you. Oh, thank you, Nitin, for inviting me over and sharing your vision behind the 'open drone-in-the-box' movement. Hello everyone welcome to NestGen 2022! My name is Kay Wackwitz I'm head of Drone Industry Insights, a market research and consulting company here in Hamburg, Germany. and today I want to give you a very high-level (like a 30,000 feet) view on the commercial drone space. So as you know, our working environment looks a lot like this today. This is a change or this is something that we did not really decide to do or want to do. But this is something that we had to do, right? So remote-ization of work is something we are now forced to do and forced to facilitate. And this is something where drones are actually really good at. Let's start with investments.

**[6:24]** The investment situation last year tremendously improved in the drone space. So we have nearly 7 billion USD of total investments in 2021, which is massive. It's almost three times the amount of the year before. We have a record of 41 mergers and acquisitions. So the market continues to consolidate as well. So this is something that is a fantastic development and as we say, the hype is over, but the trust is real. So this is really what shows, you know, the investors have the trust that now the drone industry is at a point where it can really scale their businesses well, you know, they really generate revenue. Now, market size: how much revenue is being generated in the market. And as you can see, the market is almost, you know, to double in the next five years; compound annual growth rate of nearly 10%. That is strong. And as you can see almost a quarter of it goes into the hardware sector, 4% plus into software,

**[7:27]** and over 73% into services. So this is by far the biggest market segment in the commercial drone space. Now, let's switch to drone applications - like what's happening in this space and here I brought you a really cool metrics showing all the industries that drones are being used in which are all industries, listed by size. So you have the biggest industry on the top-left corner. Energy followed by construction, and so on. And you have different methods on the horizontal axis mapping inspection, photography also sorted by size. So what you can see - a lot of people confuse this. So we wanted to make sense out of this and show you a few highlights here. For example, if you look at the construction, mining and insurance industry, they are you know, very focused on mapping jobs, surveying jobs for various reasons, while inspection, you know, can be found in energy mainly because you have all these assets, also in real estate, in industrial plants.

**[8:30]** So you have, you know, your powerlines or your industrial facilities that need frequent inspection. So there you see, different methods in these different verticals: Localization and detection, of course safety, security, delivery. So here we start with something that is not a flying optical sensor, but this is something where the drone, you know, kind of interacts with the environment, dropping off goods, picking up stuff. So this is delivery. We see you know a lot of projects around the world, where drones are being used especially in food, retail and industrial goods. This is something we will see scaling a lot in the near future. We already see a lot of activity in the healthcare sector: urgent medication, pharmaceutical goods. And we also see, you know, spraying and seeding mainly in agriculture to, you know where drones start to interact with their environment and become the flying robots. But let's move on to the most important point, which is automation.

**[9:33]** Now, I brought you a picture here of a drone base station or a drone-in-a-box solution and the washing machine. Now, why is it here? Bear with me, I'm going to use this just for an analogy. Now the drone-in-a-box solution has a big advantage. You know, you can put it somewhere abroad and you can run missions completely automated. So there's no human in the loop. It's completely, you know, it's these main two things that this whole setup can do. The problem is that we have, you know, certain regulatory restrictions today. So you can't necessarily leverage all of that potential today. And that is a bit like a washing machine because you have to imagine: today, you have to sit in front of the washing machine, always have the hand on the switch, you actively have to switch the programs back and forth. You always have to monitor the washing machine while it is doing its job,

**[10:35]** you can't leave the room, you can't go anywhere, this is the situation we are currently in. So probably an overview here of those different scenarios. So today we have a lot of human involvement and only a little bit of automation. As we change the scenarios, for example, if we switch to, you know, visual on a site but on a pre-programmed flight path, the human involvement goes down because the drone is, you know, flying its way points all the way up to BVLOS and fully automated operation which would be the case for such a drone-in-a-box solution. This of course would be, you know, the Holy Grail. This is something where you can scale drone operation massively. You have almost no human involvement, and the machine does the trick. So you can leave the room while the washing machine is running, you can maybe have five washing machines running in parallel, completely fine. But today we're not there. The perspective however, is that everything that can be automated will be automated.

**[11:38]** So be sure there is a high interest in the industry that these solutions will become more ubiquitous. So drone regulation, I already mentioned it; it's a bit of a break here. It really slows the whole progress a little bit down. But on the other side, of course it takes time to come up with a sophisticated framework. So what are the limits today? The limits today are visual-line-of-sight limitations. You can only fly as long as you can see the drone. This could be until it gets too small or it disappears behind a tree or building. You can extend the radius with a visual observer. So you have an extended-visual-line-of-sight operation. But again, this is also something, that maybe doubles your radius, but it doesn't really do the trick for scaling your drone operation. This would then be BVLOS: beyond-visual-line-of-sight operation and

**[12:38]** "beyond visual line of sight" doesn't necessarily mean "until the drone is too small to see". It could be in a different city or even in a different country - the operations. So this is huge and because it's so huge, it needs a sophisticated framework. Now a lot of applications, a lot of use cases only make sense in the BVLOS scenario. You have drone delivery in there, you have border patrol, search & rescue, the inspection of long, linear infrastructures; all of that falls into BVLOS and needs regulation. So this is this is a very important aspect when it comes to automation. Because again, automation and BVLOS kind of go hand-in-hand. You can only do the one thing. It'll take time. So what does it mean? Obviously, we can't really leverage drone operation in a BVLOS scenario today. So what else can we do then? Well there are a few ways. So you can, on the one side, you can kind of, you know,

**[13:40]** go around that, leveraging roadblock, and try to scale your VLOS operation. There are creative ideas to do that. You could go indoors because, you know, aviation requirements don't apply there. So, also, here we see a lot of really cool solutions flying indoors or underground. And of course, the other way around it would be flying BVLOS on a waiver base or on an exemption basis. So we see, you know, people delivering stuff in the world based on waivers. So, there are ways to get around this roadblock. It will take time until it kind of dissolves and, you know, rules and standards emerge that are valid, you know, around the world, but it will take time. So we make an annual survey in the drone space. In this particular question, we asked people "How do you perceive the last twelve months?" which is shown in grey, and And "how do you expect the next twelve months to be?" which is shown in blue. And as you can see, these two lines kind of

**[14:42]** converge. Our expectation and reality were quite far apart in 2018. And you know, got much closer together in 2020. And now we see something that I mentioned already that in 2021 that kind of shifted to a much more positive view. And you can see that also the investors shared this view. So we are now on a turning point here, which is great. So this is the overall mood or the overall expectation is that we are looking forward in the industry, and that I think is a great way to see the world to understand what the future might bring in this space. So I really hope you enjoyed this very brief introduction in the drone space and this very high-level presentation. It is important to stay on top of the game. It is important to learn from industry leaders, which makes events like this so

**[15:43]** important. The exchange is what drives the market. What drives innovation. And here you have a great speaker line up here. So events like this really help the drone industry, so I thank you so much for having me. I wish you all a great event and let me hand it back over to Nitin. Thanks. Bye! Thanks, Kay. That was super interesting. Let’s now move on to Achal and learn more about our customers and partners and get a better sense of how this open-DiaB ecosystem is gaining momentum. Our mission for FlytNow, since its genesis – has been to build a one-stop drone autonomy platform by collaborating with the best of the world for hardware as well as software. Over the last year, we have expanded our partner network – with several drone solution providers, docking station manufacturers, and enterprise drone teams from around the world.

**[16:44]** Working closely with them, we’ve solved the obvious problems associated with manual drone operations for various applications. Pilots now no longer have to worry about traveling long distances to inspect sites, working in suboptimal conditions, or conducting manual patrols round the clock. Early 2021 saw the release of two amazing DiaB systems – built by our good friends at Hextronics & IDIPLOYER. Based in Miami, Florida, Hextronics builds drone stations with robotic battery-swapping and advanced cooling systems. These stations house & charge multiple batteries and offer a swap time of under 90 secs for minimal downtime. For increased mobility & fast response, Hextronics offers Hextruck, enabling public safety officials to deploy drones instantaneously. All the way from the UK IDIPLOYER manufactures compact & cost-effective drone docking stations with their unique charging mechanism. Their simple and lightweight design makes it the go-to choice for every Drone Solution Provider.

**[17:49]** That very year, we announced our partnership with 3 more box makers, offering their own set of exciting features and unique capabilities. And today at NestGen, we’re super excited to announce 5 more partners, taking the total count to more than 10 drone-in-a-box solutions. We strongly believe that these docking stations paired with reliable off-the-shelf drones and our intelligent and cloud software will drive autonomy in drones. The open-DiaB ecosystem has had a fundamental impact on the drone industry. DSPs across the world now have access to this tech for the first time and this was never possible a year back due to the lack of affordable hardware. Let’s hear the journeys from our partners. Here’s Tariq from Firnas Aero all the way from Saudi Arabia! As-Salaam-Alaikum. My name is Tariq Nasraldeen. I am the founder and CEO of Firnas Aero. Firnas Aero is a drone-in-a-box service provider.

**[18:51]** We use drone-in-a-box solutions to help our customers overcome challenges that are related to inspection and surveillance, mainly. We are slowly also exploring delivery. One of the key components is educating our clients and showing them the benefits of using a drone-in-a-box solution versus conventional methods. And this is usually done by short demos that we do with potential clients We are currently located in Saudi Arabia and we are also expanding to nearby GCC countries with the potential of also expanding into the MENA region and globally. Some of the use cases that we deployed drone-in-a-box solutions were: there was a project that we worked on the environmental impact with the Red Sea Development Company

**[19:52]** where we continuously monitored the beach for the plastic bottles that came with the tidal waves and we were locating these clusters of bottles and helping the environmental team clean up the beach area. Another project we're also working with NEOM to help them in measuring the construction monitoring using a drone-in-a-box Another project is a project that we did with KAUST University where we were doing just everyday regular surveillance around the University campus and all of these three projects depend heavily on the use of a drone-in-a-box and the automation that comes with such a solution. Thanks Tariq! Let's go to Japan to hear from Yuji from AfterFIT Hi I'm Yuji from AfterFIT.

**[20:54]** AfterFIT is a Japanese renewable energy company, making and selling green energy to companies and consumers. We set up this drone box in this solar site for inspection and security purposes. And we've got two big benefits out of it. One: saving travel costs. In order to get to this site. it will take about two hours from our nearest office and this leads to the second benefit, which is quality of the service. Since we can control this drone from the office, we can do inspection more frequently, and it ensures our quality of service. We are excited to set up this system into many other power plants this year. Wow that was great use cases there! Let's now move to France and see how

**[21:54]** they are using docking stations. Bonjour! We are Drone Process from Chapareillan, France We're happy with our cooperation with IDIPLOYER and FlytNow software. IDIPLOYER & FlytNow software provides us and our clients secure and easy-to-use system for automatization. It streamlines and saves us time and cost and provides an additional security for us and our clients. And when I am in France, the terrain is mountainous, windy and hard to control. This system will be able to continue our mission safely and cost efficiently. This is Drone Process. See you! Thanks, Joseph! Let's now visit Ghana, Africa, to see how they are using drone-in-a-box systems. Our company is SKT Aeroshutter We are the leading drone operators in Ghana We are licensed under the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority to fly drones using the same air space as planes. We use manned aircrafts, drones, and AI technology

**[22:55]** to offer our clients aerial data solutions. We have clients in the mining sector, agriculture sector, forestry and construction sector. Our clients are beginning to believe more and more in autonomous drone solutions that is without human intervention to pilot these aircrafts. However, the requirements for pilots to be significantly onsite limit all value of the drone technology. To get to this future of autonomous drone solutions, our clients need to overcome these regulatory tasks This why we have worked closely with our partners and Ghana Civil Aviation Authority to achieve the BVLOS certification, which is the beyond-visual-line-of-sight certification. Our clients in the mining construction and agriculture industry are using our drone-in-a-box solution

**[23:55]** for perimeter surveillance, emergency response, inspection and for scheduled missions and patrols. That's great! Now let's move to Pampa Energia and see what they are doing in Argentina at their power plants. Hi, my name is Marcelo Lopez and I work in the IT area of Pampa Energia Pampa is one of the most important energy-producing companies in Argentina. We participate in power generation and transmission. Pampa generates electricity from more than 4000 megawatts, combining thermal electricity power plants as well as wind farms. The company is engaged in the power transmission through the co-control of Transener that operates 85% of the high-voltage transmission lines of the country. We have developed intense activity at exploration and production of oil and gas, with presence in 13 production blocks and 5 exploration blocks located in the

**[24:59]** country's most relevant basins. As co-controllers of the Transportadora del Gas del Sur we transport 60% of the gas consumed in Argentina. We have been using drones in our operations since 2016 for a large number of tasks related to the inspection, survey, and surveillance of our assets We have our own fleets of drones and pilots to carry out these tasks, including some special equipment for internal inspection, in confidential space. Now we want to take our drone operation to the next level,

**[26:02]** incorporating autonomous flight that allows us to carry out the tasks such as inspections and surveillance in automatic way, even at nighttime. At the end of the project, we plan to have an autonomous drone on each facility Scheduled to fly a prerecorded path and record spots of interest that would be analysed by a specialist in real time or later through the recorded info. When the drone is not being used for inspection, we plan to use it for parameter obedience tasks. To achieve this, we have been working with FlytBase who is our client and collaborator, helping in the integration of stations and sharing ideas to improve the features of the service. Last, but not the least, before we move back to Nitin, let's check out what team Drone Patrol is doing in South Africa. Welcome to NestGen '22! I'm Will and I'm Colin and we Drone Patrol, Africa. We're also the proud distributors of the Hextronics unit. providing autonomous flying 24x7, unmanned with battery swapping technology.

**[27:02]** Just don't find better! Ultimately, we are preventing crime and saving lives. Stay tuned for more from NestGen '22! Thanks, Achal! Wow, we have come a really long way in such a short time. Let’s now move to Dhiraj to learn more about how FlytNow makes all this magic happen. Over to you, Dhiraj! Thanks, Nitin. For the success of the open DiaB movement, FlytNow needs to be compatible with a wide range of docking stations. Given the different hardware designs and features they offer, ensuring reliable operation, with all of them is no easy feat. But, modularity at the heart of FlytNow's design makes it possible. Starting with the standardization of communication protocols, we have abstracted out a number of key features. Hence, manufacturers can now offer a fully automated DiaB system to customers in the shortest possible time. So how do we do that? How does FlytNow make a docking station autonomous?

**[28:02]** 4 things: We’ve helped all our partners by solving a fundamental problem, landing the drone precisely on the docking station. This takes a huge load off the system, quite literally. Working with us, our partners have been able to make their systems much smaller, lightweight, extremely reliable, and easy to operate. We have done thousands of landing tests with the smallest of Mavic drones as well as beasts like the M300. So no matter where you are - be it the hot Saharan desert or the cold Norwegian mountains, your drone will land precisely on your docking station, every time. To help with easy integration of hardware and software, and to ensure consistency and reliability, it is important to design a standard protocol for communication. This is why we built the FNDS protocol. As we started working with our early docking station partners, we noticed that several complex workflows are required to get the drone and docking station to play along nicely.

**[29:09]** And each one of them needed to go through all this complexity, over and over again. For example, simply getting the drone ready for a flight requires a very particular sequence of actions, involving a remote controller, edge, drone power cycle, and so on. Things have to be timed correctly and feedback from multiple systems has to be used to achieve high reliability. And, this is what slows them down. FNDS SDK abstracts all of this complexity and allows our docking-station partners to focus on building high-quality hardware. The SDK takes care of the rest. There are several common software modules that are required by all box-makers for lifecycle management of the boxes. For example, over-the-air updates, accessing logs remotely in case of any issues and receiving detailed diagnostics data for improving the performance and design. FlytNow provides all these capabilities to our partners. On top of all of this, we share system design guidelines and help conduct technical reviews for our partners.

**[30:09]** This helps them bring their boxes to market much faster. The guidelines have been designed based on our years of experience with drone autonomy. Simple things like, designing a reliable charging system, aerodynamic design of the landing pad, and guidelines on integration of weather stations help shave off several months, if not years, from the product development process. This is a win-win situation for all of us and helps us further the goal of the open-DiaB movement. Let us now take a look at the overall FlytNow platform that is at the core of this modular open-DiaB ecosystem. There are three key components of this platform: I’ve already explained FNDS. Let’s talk about the second component Automated workflows Based on the end-user application, it is required that the software manages the entire workflow from launching the drone, following a certain path, capturing the right data and returning to the drone-nest all by itself.

**[31:10]** This also includes managing the functions of the docking-station tray open/close, swapping or charging of the batteries at the right time, etc. All this needs to happen in sync, and the user should have enough flexibility to configure a wide range of automated workflows for security, inspections, mapping, delivery, among others. FlytNow has been designed for this. The final component is the most critical of all. Without reliability and safety, what we do would be of no value. In fact, it would probably be of negative value! FlytNow’s failsafe architecture ensures that appropriate fallback mechanisms are triggered in the event of failures at various levels. For example, FlytNow supports emergency landing locations in the case the drone is unable to land on the docking station. Not just that, all critical functions have been implemented with redundant pathways. An independent parallel system monitors the key aspects of the drone and box operation and in case of any failure,

**[32:13]** it ensures that the drone returns to the failsafe location. Following the same design approach, FlytNow’s cloud platform has redundant nodes for each operation, offering highest levels of reliability and scalability. FlytNow’s communication protocols have been crafted to prioritize critical flight control data over less critical telemetry data. We are continuing to invest in these key components of the FlytNow platform to ensure that we deliver on the promise of the open-DiaB movement and we provide the best possible experience to our partners and customers. While FlytNow supports a wide variety of use cases, we understand that we are not subject matter experts for all applications. We believe it is paramount to empower the domain experts to create value for the end-users of those applications. I am excited to announce that FlytNow will soon be launching an app-store. Domain experts will now be able to connect their custom application into the underlying DiaB autonomy stack and leverage the power of the platform. We will discuss this in more detail in one of the sessions later today.

**[33:17]** Until then, let’s move back to Nitin. Automation has always been a driver of growth and efficiency. What we mean by “automation” has continued to evolve with time. A few centuries ago, automation use to mean, use of locomotive engines instead of bullock carts. Later, it meant use of electric motors and other powered machines instead of physical labor. In today’s world, with the emergence of artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision and so on, automation stands for use of technologies that reduce not only physical labor, but also mental work. When we look at the drone industry, it is not hard to see that we are still in the very early stages of adoption of “automation”. Today, even the most basic physical operations such as, charging a battery and preparing a drone for the next mission, need constant manual intervention. Once we are able to automate these basic physical operations,

**[34:18]** there is, of course, a need to automate various mental jobs, such as, managing/scheduling BVLOS missions, airspace management, collecting, processing and analyzing data, etc. Given that there is so much to do, and there is such a big opportunity for all of us, we believe that “autonomy” is the next big frontier for our industry, and it is essential for scale. There is a huge list of challenges that need to be addressed to help us get there. This can only be done through close collaboration and partnerships, where we leverage each other’s expertise to build effective solutions for these problems. Now this is the reason we decided to organize this event and bring all the relevant stakeholders together.

**[35:32]** With this thought, I would like to invite NestGen's Coordinator-in-Chief, Baisali, to share with us the agenda for the day. Over to you, Baisali! Hello there! At NestGen ‘22, autonomy is at the heart of our universe, and as Nitin pointed out earlier, we plan to reflect that in the upcoming sessions, panel conversations and deep-dives that we have in store for you today. For over a thousand people joining us virtually, from across the globe, well, to be specific 78 countries we have curated 5 different content tracks. Attend the sessions that are relevant to you. With over 25 sessions to choose from, we're sure that you'll have a knowledge-packed experience, in subjects that pique your interest. Our stellar line-up of 40+ speakers are some of the biggest proponents and leaders of the commercial drone industry, and they’re here today to share with you their expertise, vision, learnings, and the path toward realising an autonomous future.

**[36:36]** By the way, you do not want to miss the Demo Arena. Be prepared to be blown away by the demonstrations of over seven different cutting-edge, modular drone docking stations that our partners have been cooking up in their labs. In fact, 3 such drone docks are going to be showcased for the very first time at NestGen! To learn more about these powerful machines, visit the Expo section in the event page. You’ll also find booths of other popular drone-related products & drone-service companies leading the Open-DiaB movement. Throughout the day, we have organized various networking roundtables for you to interact with your peers, get inspired, and take a plunge into the world of drone autonomy. Finally, for all event-related support, updates, and fun conversations with fellow community members, don’t forget to join the NestGen Discord server.

**[37:36]** Thank you for joining us on this journey. It's time to Thanks, Baisali! As we highlighted earlier, the key aspect of the open DiaB movement is collaborations and partnerships between various layers of the ecosystem - the drone makers, box makers, software developers, among others. In order to make this work, we need to really understand the end-users and their requirements very well. It is also important to ensure local compliance with regulations, provide operational support and training to the users and so on. This is where the operational expertise and end-user relationships of Drone Solution Providers is paramount for this movement to succeed. On that note, let’s kickstart NestGen ’22 by inviting Kamarul, CEO of Aerodyne Group, to the stage. Aerodyne, as we all know, is the world’s largest Drone Solution Provider.

**[38:37]** They have presence across 35 countries and have inspected millions of assets. Kamarul will be sharing with us his insights on how drone autonomy is transforming our industry, and what major changes we can expect to see over the next few years. Over to you, Kamarul!