International Drone Show 2024 in Odense features drone demo flights and industry discussions this month

One of North­ern Europe’s largest drone event takes place at the end of this month, as the Inter­na­tion­al Drone Show 2024 heads to the Dan­ish city of Odense and fea­tures inter­na­tion­al atten­dees, exhibitors and drone demon­stra­tion flights.

Tak­ing place from May 28th to 29th, the event will fea­ture insights on rel­e­vant drone indus­try top­ics, inspir­ing talks from experts and an elab­o­rate exhi­bi­tion. The pro­gramme is split into five main sec­tions: a Demo Flight pro­gramme, Track 1 (Defense, Secu­ri­ty and the Arc­tic), Track 2 (Leglis­la­tion and Oper­a­tional Safe­ty), Track 3 (Indus­tri­al Use Cas­es and New Tech­nolo­gies) and Track 4 (Drone Basic).

The show also gives you an oppor­tu­ni­ty for del­e­gates to plan and exe­cute onsite B2B meet­ings, gain new con­tacts at our pre- and after-hours net­work­ing events. 

Søren Elmer Kris­tensen, CEO of Odense Robot­ics, says: ‘’We’re real­ly excit­ed about the strong line-up for this year’s Inter­na­tion­al Drone Show in May. The pro­gramme is brim­ming with influ­en­tial speak­ers from Den­mark and abroad fea­tur­ing lead­ing com­pa­nies such as Wing and Man­na.

“It’s not just a recog­ni­tion of the event’s appeal on an inter­na­tion­al scale, but also a tes­ta­ment to Denmark’s posi­tion as an inno­va­tor with­in drone tech­nolo­gies. We look for­ward to shar­ing key insights and kick­start­ing impor­tant con­ver­sa­tions about the oppor­tu­ni­ties and chal­lenges fac­ing the inter­na­tion­al drone com­mu­ni­ty.’’

Drones play a key role in mil­i­tary and secu­ri­ty oper­a­tions, offer­ing enhanced recon­nais­sance, sur­veil­lance, coun­tert­er­ror­ism, dis­as­ter response, and law enforce­ment. Key speak­ers on this theme include Kay Wack­witz, CEO and Founder of Drone Indus­try Insights, who will talk about trends in the drone mar­ket and indus­try use cas­es. This track also includes work­shops with the Dan­ish Min­istry of Defence Acqui­si­tion and Logis­tics Organ­i­sa­tion (DALO) on their drone use and pro­cure­ment, and a pan­el debate on over­com­ing chal­lenges when using drones in the Arc­tic.

Drone leg­is­la­tion and oper­a­tional safe­ty is a piv­otal theme address­ing how to har­nessin­no­va­tion while address­ing pub­lic safe­ty and pri­va­cy con­cerns. Key speak­ers in this theme include Lars Kor­sholm, Head of Divi­sion, the Dan­ish Civ­il Avi­a­tion Author­i­ty, who will present a glimpse of the ongo­ing work in Denmark’s upcom­ing drone strat­e­gy.

Mehmet Key­van, CEO & Founder, Key­van, will talk about their solu­tion that can cre­ate a green oper­a­tion zone with data for each coun­try or state for drone oper­a­tions by tak­ing into account air­ways, pro­ce­dures, spe­cial areas and lim­i­ta­tions.

Drones are increas­ing­ly adopt­ed as a resource-effec­tive tool that also min­imis­es risk and can per­form a range of tasks such as infra­struc­ture inspec­tion, dis­as­ter man­age­ment, envi­ron­men­tal mon­i­tor­ing or even health­care logis­tics. Track high­lights include Tit­ta Ander­s­son-Bohren, Euro­pean Pol­i­cy and Com­mu­ni­ty Affairs Man­ag­er, Wing, who will speak about their pub­lic out­reach guide­lines based on expe­ri­ence with com­mu­ni­ties in Aus­tralia, US, Fin­land and Ire­land.

In addi­tion, Bob­by Healy, CEO & Founder of Man­na, will speak about drone deliv­ery oper­a­tions in Europe. Last but not least, Lau­rent Rou­chon, Sales Direc­tor, Drone Volt, will talk about high volt­age line inspec­tion and pro­vide a world- exclu­sive glimpse of their new LINEDRONE.

The Drone Show will be host­ed by Odense Robot­ics and UAS Den­mark, which offers key test­ing facil­i­ties and Beyond Visu­al Line of Sight (BVLOS) flights.

Odense Robot­ics is Denmark’s nation­al clus­ter for robot, automa­tion and drone tech­nol­o­gy. Its vision is to make the coun­try an even big­ger, bet­ter robot nation. It does this by accel­er­at­ing inno­va­tion and sus­tain­able devel­op­ment in the indus­try.

UAS Den­mark Test Cen­ter is an unmanned sys­tems tech­nol­o­gy test and devel­op­ment cen­ter in Odense. It is a col­lab­o­ra­tion between Hans Chris­t­ian Ander­sen Air­port, Odense Munic­i­pal­i­ty and the Uni­ver­si­ty of South­ern Den­mark. 

Oth­er part­ners for IDS include Invest in Odense, Invest in Den­mark, Enter­prise Europe Net­work and Des­ti­na­tion Fyn.

Tick­ets are now on sale and are priced at 306.25 DKK (Dan­ish Kro­ne) for stu­dents, 1,118.75 DKK for Odense Robot­ics mem­bers, 2,056.25 for non-mem­bers. A tick­et to attend the IDS after-hour event is 530 DKK.

For more infor­ma­tion on the event pro­gramme and sched­ule, please vis­it https://internationaldroneshow.com/