This detailed agenda is subject to change.


Sunday, 25 August

12:00 PM to 8:00 PM - Exhibitor Setup


Monday, 26 August

8:00 AM     -     Exhibitor Setup

12:00 PM     -     Exhibit Hall Open

12:00 PM     -     Registration and Badge Pickup - sponsored by Textron Systems


1:00 PM to 3:00 PM     -     Session 1

National Anthem - sponsored by University of Alabama in Huntsville

Jerry Hendrix, President, AUVSI Pathfinder Chapter

Mr. Rodney Davis, SES, Deputy PEO Aviation (KEYNOTE)

Chad Tillman, Director - UAS Operations, Huntsville City

Edward Gozdur, Product Director - Small Uncrewed Aircraft Systems, PEO Aviation


3:00 PM     -     Networking Break - sponsorship available


3:30 PM to 5:30 PM     -     Session 2

Travis Potter, UAS/Remote Sensing Coordinator, Response Division, FEMA

COL Nick Ryan, Army Capability Manager - Uncrewed Aircraft Systems

LTC Michael Brabner, Air Branch Chief - Maneuver Center of Excellence Robotics Requirements Division

David Breede, Program Executive Officer - Tactical Information Systems, SOCOM (KEYNOTE)


5:30 PM to 7:00 PM     -     Icebreaker Social - sponsored by Board of Directors (drinks sponsored by Edge Autonomy)


Tuesday, 27 August

8:00 AM     -     Exhibit Hall Open to Exhibitors

8:30 AM     -     Exhibit Hall Open

8:30 AM     -     Registration and Badge Pickup - sponsored by Textron Systems

8:30 AM     -     Breakfast - sponsored by Torch Technologies

10:50 AM - 4:00 PM     -     Tech Track Presentations in exhibit hall


9:30 AM to 11:00 AM    -     Session 3 

Jennifer Kennedy, STEM Specialist - SPARK Academy

COL Danielle Medaglia, Project Manager - Uncrewed Aircraft Systems, PEO Aviation (KEYNOTE)

Dr. Casey Perley, Director Army Applications Lab


11:00 AM     -     Networking Break - sponsored by Wavelink


11:30 AM to 12:30 PM     -     Session 4

Mr. Warren O'Donell, SES - Deputy Director, Rapid Capabilitites and Critical Technologies Office (KEYNOTE)

CPT Morgan Hill, Lead - Innovation Program, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade


12:30 PM     -     Pathfinder Awards Luncheon - sponsored by Deloitte

Tommy Battle, Mayor of Huntsville (KEYNOTE)


2:00 PM to 3:30 PM     -     Session 5

LTC Amanda Watkins, Product Manager - Command Control and Effects, PEO Aviation

Dennis Day, Deputy Program Manager, Accelerating FORCE, Army Research Lab

Geri Michaels, Chief - Asset Protection Branch, Joint Staff J8 (KEYNOTE)


3:30 PM     -     Networking Break - sponsored by CFD Research


4:00 PM to 5:30 PM    -     Session 6

LTC Jeffrey Bess, Product Manager - Tactical Uncrewed Aircraft Systems, PEO Aviation

Jenny Laird, UAS Lead - Engineering Research and Development Center, USACE

LTC(P) Michael Cookey, Deputy Director - Intelligence Survelliance Reconnaissance Task Force (KEYNOTE)


5:30 PM to 7:00 PM     -     Pathfinder Social - sponsored by Auterion (drinks sponsored by Edge Autonomy)


10:40 AM to 11:20 AM     -     Tech Track Session 1

Samuel Briere, Inertial Labs

Mark Valentine, Skydio

Dr. Dylan Stewart, Torch Technologies

Bob Wells/Britt Wanick, uAvionix


11:20 AM to 12:00 PM     -     Tech Track Session 2 

Susan Hoffman, Edge Autonomy

Tom Furey, Sagetech

Rajesh Kommineni, ThinkDeeply

Dustin Hicks, Anduril


12:00 PM to 12:30 PM     -     Tech Track Session 3 

Jason Gunter, Redcat

Kristy Frazier, Kutta Technologies

Christopher Marot, Heka


2:15 PM to 3:00 PM     -     Tech Track Session 4

Glenn Drzewiki/Duane Hill, Fixed Displacement Turbine Engine (Knight Technical Solutions)

Arden Marken, Multi Target Tracking of UAVs using Thermal Camera Network and RFS Filters (University of Alabama)

Zachary Herring, sUAS Operations at the University of Alabama (University of Alabama)


3:00 PM to 4:00 PM     -     Tech Track Session 5

Dr. Sean Freeman, Flying Into and Around Storms with UAS (University of Alabama in Huntsville)

Michael Spratley, Taxonomy for Explicit Communications for Collaborating Entities (Georgia Tech Research Institute)

Jonathan Thomas, Uncrewed Vehicle Systems (UVS) and Human Machine Interface (HMI) (DCS Corporation)

Matt Sloane, Skyfire Consulting (Skyfire Consulting)


Wednesday, 28 August 

8:00 AM     -     Exhibit Hall Open to Exhibitors

8:30 AM     -     Registration and Badge Pickup - sponsored by Textron Systems

8:30 AM to 3:00 PM     -     Flight Demos

8:30 AM     -     Breakfast - sponsored by Auburn University School of Aviation


9:30 AM to 11:00 AM    -     Session 7

Michael Robbins, President & CEO - Association of Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International (KEYNOTE)

COL Guy Yelverton, Project Manager - Deputy PEO Missiles and Space

Michael Torphy, Federal Bureau of Investigation


11:00 AM     -     Networking Break - sponsorship available


11:30 AM to 12:30 PM     -     Session 8

Anand Bahadur - JPEO AA Lethal and Protective SUAS

Sean Tynan, Product Manager - Endurance Uncrewed Aircraft Systems, PEO Aviation


12:30 PM     -     Day 3 Lunch - sponsorship available


1:30 PM  to 3:00 PM   -     Session 9

Craig Riedel, Product Manager - Tactical Avaition and Ground Munitions, PEO Missiles and Space

CW4 Alexandre Druin, Future Vertical Lift Cross Function Team, Army Futures Command (KEYNOTE)

Ben Harding, Acting Product Director - Uncrewed Vehicle Support Systems


8:30 AM to 10:30 AM     -     Freeplay

10:30 AM to 11:00 AM     -     Skydio X10D with Nett-Warrior Integration

11:00 AM to 11:30 AM     -     Kutta KTAC

11:30 AM to 1:00 PM     -     Freeplay

1:00 PM to 2:30 PM     -     Drone Racing

2:30 PM to 3:30 PM     -     Freeplay


3:00 PM to 5:00 PM     -     Exhibitor Teardown


Thursday, 29 August 

All Day     -     PM UAS Golf Tournament

8:00 AM to 2:00 PM     -     Exhibitor Teardown


What do they talk about?

Uncrewed Aircraft Systems and Robotics, Advanced Technologies and Digital Engineering, Counter UAS and Airspace.

See our Past Agendas here.