Elevating Agriculture – Unlocking the Potential of Drones

While routinely deployed to visualise hedgerows and margins, we’ve only just begun to unlock the potential of drone technologies on-farm. Regulation has so far hampered many of the opportunities for drone deployment, but that is changing as we will hear today.

More than crop spraying, to planting, harvesting and crop management, inspection and cleaning, drones can potentially revolutionise the way land is managed and decisions are made, if done in partnership with industry and supporting an ROI for the farmers themselves.

Join us to learn more about how this can be achieved, meet the drone pioneers ready to support the industry, and discover how farm tasks are taking to the air in a way which can benefit all parties, both now and in the future.

The webinar will foster a deeper understand by all parties, through support networks where aviation can make agriculture more effective for the benefit of us all.

About speakers

• Aleks Kowalski - Project Director SEAD Artists. Aleks has been involved within aviation for 20 years, as an airline Captain but more recently for 10 years as a SME within drones.  He is currently a Director of the UK Drone Trade Assocation (ARPAS-UK) and has supported multiple operators and capabilities in the UK.  With SEAD Artists he is leading their Paludiculture Exploration Fund project “Drone Re-Peat” Natural England, and also part of a Co-Op Foundation project with the Great Fen looking at harvesting Typha via drones.  He sits at the Apex between regulation and technology.
• Andrew Sproson, Co-Founder of Autospray Systems and Project Lead for Project Drone RePEAT. AutoSpray Systems are experts in uncrewed aviation and their use in traditional agriculture. Bringing together this expertise into Paludiculture not only allows the aerial application of seeds / spores / fertilisers / nutrients but also works towards the UK wide scalability of this farming technique.
• [Chair] Jon Williams, Public and Governmental Affairs Manager, Agricultural Solutions, UK and Ireland at BASF

Cost

All online events are free for Agri-TechE member organisations (including students and staff of universities). Members need to login or register for an account to access the free ticket. 

Event price for non-members is £30 (ex. VAT). Learn more about the benefits of Agri-TechE membership.

Related news

AutoSpray Systems secures CAA approval for Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) agricultural drone operations. Click here to read more >

Watch this video to explore the details of the BVLOS breakthrough and what it means for agri-tech in our conversation with SEAD Artists.