PODCAST: Dave Pankhurst of Etc. BT Group talks about the UK’s growing drone industry

Our next pod­cast episode is live! This week, we talk to Dave Pankhurst, Direc­tor of Drones at Etc. BT Group.

Dave is an accom­plished senior leader with 20 years of expe­ri­ence in the telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions sec­tor. Dave has built and grown BT’s drones’ team over the last four years, cre­at­ing the foun­da­tions for BT with­in the UK drone indus­try and con­tin­u­ing to devel­op capa­bil­i­ties through in-house devel­op­ment and mar­ket lead­ing part­ner­ships.

In this episode, we dis­cov­er more about Etc.‘s jour­ney, espe­cial­ly as it was only launched in May 2022.

Dave talks to us about the projects Etc. has been work­ing on in the UK and beyond, and shares more details about BT’s Future Flight Pro­gramme, where he led Phase 2 and part of Phase 3.

We also talk about this role as one of the found­ing mem­bers of the Future Avi­a­tion Indus­try Work­ing Group and Etc.‘s work with Alti­tude Angel to scale up the UK’s drone indus­try.

Click on the Play but­ton below to lis­ten to the episode, which is also avail­able of whichev­er pod­cast plat­form you use.