International Drone Show 2025 expands and highlights the use of drones in security and defence

Fol­low­ing a record atten­dance at its 2024 event, organ­is­ers of this year’s Inter­na­tion­al Drone Show expect anoth­er strong gath­er­ing of par­tic­i­pants this year, reflect­ing grow­ing indus­try inter­est and the increas­ing role of drones in crit­i­cal sec­tors.

The event returns to HCA Air­port in Odense, Den­mark from June 18th to 19th and this year’s con­fer­ence will focus on Defense, Secu­ri­ty and the Arc­tic, Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty, Inte­grat­ed Air­space and Indus­try Use Cas­es & New Tech­nolo­gies.

Søren Elmer Kris­tensen, CEO of Odense Robot­ics, said: “The Inter­na­tion­al Drone Show has become a key plat­form for the glob­al UAS com­mu­ni­ty. This year’s pro­gram will offer invalu­able insights into how drone tech­nol­o­gy is advanc­ing across industries—from
defense and secu­ri­ty to logis­tics, agri­cul­ture, and urban air mobil­i­ty.

“With an expand­ed pro­gram and an increas­ing num­ber of par­tic­i­pants, the event pro­vides a unique oppor­tu­ni­ty to engage with the lat­est inno­va­tions and con­nect with key play­ers shap­ing the future of drones.“

Address­ing UAS in defence

As mil­i­tary and secu­ri­ty forces increas­ing­ly rely on drones and unmanned sys­tems for sur­veil­lance, recon­nais­sance, coun­tert­er­ror­ism, and Arc­tic oper­a­tions, the need for advanced autonomous capa­bil­i­ties has nev­er been more press­ing.

Michael Larsen, Head of UAS Den­mark Test Cen­ter, added: “Drones are a key com­po­nent of both the infra­struc­ture and defence of tomor­row. At the Inter­na­tion­al Drone Show, we want to help bridge the gap between those who devel­op drones and those who will use them — for exam­ple in the defence indus­try, where there is huge poten­tial for drone tech­nol­o­gy due to the grow­ing glob­al focus on secu­ri­ty pol­i­cy.”

This year’s Inter­na­tion­al Drone Show will thus fea­ture key insights from two of the most sig­nif­i­cant users of mil­i­tary drones —Denmark’s Min­istry of Defense (DALO) and NATO (NSPA).

Major Aske Nerup, Chief of the Dan­ish Defence Indus­tri­al Office at DALO, will out­line how companies—including those with­out pri­or defense experience—can engage with DALO to intro­duce new drone solu­tions into mil­i­tary oper­a­tions.

Ster­gios Isaakidis, Pro­gramme Man­ag­er for Alliance Ground Sur­veil­lance and Uncrewed Aer­i­al Sys­tems at NSPA (NATO Sup­port and Pro­cure­ment Agency), will dis­cuss NSPA’s role in multi­na­tion­al UAS ini­tia­tives.

His talk will explore cur­rent drone sys­tems, key oper­a­tional plat­forms, and trends shap­ing UAS development—from micro and mini drones to tac­ti­cal, MALE, and HALE sys­tems. He will also address indus­try engage­ment and busi­ness oppor­tu­ni­ties with­in NATO’s expand­ing drone ecosys­tem.

Addi­tion­al­ly, expert pan­els will exam­ine the lat­est advance­ments in mil­i­tary drone tech­nol­o­gy, includ­ing Arc­tic secu­ri­ty, bor­der sur­veil­lance, and defense logis­tics, rein­forc­ing the crit­i­cal role of drones and unmanned sys­tems in mod­ern mil­i­tary strat­e­gy.

The Inter­na­tion­al Drone Show is organ­ised by Odense Robot­ics, Denmark’s nation­al clus­ter for robot­ics and drones, and UAS Den­mark Inter­na­tion­al Test Cen­ter, an inter­na­tion­al­ly renowned test cen­tre for drone tech­nol­o­gy.

The annu­al con­fer­ence and expo take place at HCA Air­port near Odense, Den­mark. For more infor­ma­tion, vis­it www.internationaldroneshow.dk