UVID Dronetech 2024: Shaping a New Security Landscape
Alon Kloss, CEO of T.A.S. by Cando Drones, discusses the ever-evolving defense needs in urban settings, and how drones and UAVs come into play
| 22/02/2024 
Photo: Gilad Kavalerchik
“On October 7th, we saw how military and civilian needs converged in the urban sphere, and the important role drones played,” says Alon Kloss, CEO of T.A.S. by Cando Drones and the IDF’s former Chief Artillery Officer.
Speaking at the UVID Dronetech conference held in Tel Aviv this morning, Kloss discussed how drones have been shaping the defense landscape in urban settings and spoke about their evolution. “In the past, it was forts. Now, it’s fences and towers, incorporated with technology. We are starting to see how military-developed technology gets to the defense and civilian landscape. Looking ahead, UAVs and drones are what the future predicts – we don’t even understand yet to which extent.”
“We are experiencing an era of changes, not in the drones themselves, but in the security and defense environment,” Kloss explained. “It’s more than just technology – one needs to organize everything properly in order to provide the added value to the system. This includes training methodology, interacting with regulation and its needs, and so much more.
Kloss stressed the importance of drone activity extracting all of its abilities without inflicting any harm on the area it is covering or creating a disturbance. He also spoke about the human-drone interaction, providing the example of a drone used by a police force to identify criminal activity, then track the perpetrator from the air as he attempts to flee until the security forces physically arrive at the scene to apprehend him, all the while guiding the ground forces. Similarly, drones can aid firefighters, local communities, and any other law and order establishment in the urban environment.
“Just like birds in the sky, drones are going to be part of our urban landscape,” Kloss concluded.
UVID Dronetech 2024: SMASH Counter-UAS Capabilities: Eliminating Combat Stress for Higher Precision
Doron Levi, Regional Director B2B & Marketing at Smartshooter, spoke at the conference and presented the company’s innovative solution
| 22/02/2024 Israel Defense
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Doron Levi, Regional Director B2B & Marketing at Smartshooter, spoke at the UVID Dronetetch 2024 conference held in Tel Aviv this morning and presented the company’s solutions including the Smash - a precision fire control system, which increases the effectiveness of the dismounted combatant’s fire capability and redefines their boundaries.
Smash is an effective disruptive technology, carried by the combatants, which helps reduce human errors committed due to combat stress by assisting in the decision-making process. The system carries out the ballistic calculations, taking into account all necessary data. Thus, it reduces the combatants’ stress, which inevitably leads to mistakes and enables higher precision.
By increasing the combatant’s fire precision, the system is not only more lethal against a wide array of targets, including UAVs, but it also helps prevent collateral damage and keep uninvolved populations out of the line of fire.
UVID Dronetech 2024: The Evolution of Advanced and Unmanned Civil Aviation
From engineering and regulation challenges to a brand new ecosystem and the changing position of the human factor
| 22/02/2024
Dekel Noyhous. All photos by Gilad Kavalerchik
Making advanced air mobility a reality: Dr. Simon Hancock, Head of eVOL, Expleo Group – Stirling Dynamics UK, spoke remotely at the UVID Dronetech conference held in Tel Aviv this morning, about the major steps taken in this realm.
“We’re really starting from zero, learning to create lots of new technologies that haven’t existed before,” Hancock said, when comparing air mobility tech to the conventional models of passenger aircraft. He referred to various challenges: mechanic, electrical, aerodynamic, software and electronics, modeling and simulation, and more, posing the question of how they can all be tackled with no prior experience and no preexisting models to draw from or lean on.
Hancock also referred to the challenges of scale in terms of people, the process, and manufacturing, as well as to new regulations and air traffic considerations that must be taken into account.
Gur Cohen, VP, Sales and Business Development at Expleo Group, discussed the company’s ability to provide engineering solutions to all relevant problems. “If there is an engineering challenge you are facing these days – please come see us,” he said.
Alon Abelson, CEO & Co-Founder at High Lander, spoke about the evolution of aviation and how to manage air traffic in the digital airspace.
“Have we really brought the aviation world to the edge? Is air travel really accessible?” Abelson asked, and answered: “For most of us, the road is still king. 90% of traffic is conducted in vehicles.” Abelson discussed the previous attempts to separate ground and air traffic and the shifts in this paradigm, noting that thanks to the evolving overlap, air traffic and UAV traffic can grow and expand.
For the first time in history, UAV technology has opened the possibility of flight to anyone and everyone – for personal use, commercial, military, intelligence, and more. High Lander creates solutions that drone users to use this new technology easily and safely, regardless of past experience, while providing authorities with the tools to manage all of this new air traffic safely.
Abelson spoke about the help provided by drones on October 7th, following Hamas’ brutal surprise attack, where many communities along the Gaza border launched drones in the air for defense, surveillance, and data-gathering purposes. This is something never done before in such a scope.
Alon Abelson
More than 70% of air accidents occur due to the human factor, Abelson said, adding that the more autonomous aircraft technology develops – the less one will need to rely on the human factor. “The technology that gave us wings will take us to the next phase of air mobility, and as technology companies, we must enable this,” he concluded.
Dekel Noyhous, VP of Business Development at AGL, spoke about human-machine balance in airspace management, in a lecture called “The human pulse in a digital sky.” He referred to Abelson’s thesis of “no humans in the loop,” saying that “we are not there yet, but we’ll get there, it’s an evolution process. Just like any new process, there is quite a bit of uncertainty here.”
The vision, according to Noyhous, is an ecosystem that relies on automation. However, the human factor is still in the loop – a person who can always examine the situation and think of problems as solutions, as part of this new ecosystem. “We’re in the very first phases of this new ecosystem evolution, and it will take quite a bit of time,” Noyhous said.
So what will be the new job of the human factor? People, according to Noyhous, will be “U-space supervisors,” there to solve complex problems and issues. They must have the proper background and training to manage their environments. “In the near future, all blockages will be removed, and then it must be necessary to examine the human factor’s position within this realm,” he concluded.
UVID DRONETECH Opens in Tel Aviv for 11th Time
The conference’s founder & CEO, Alon Unger, discussed the challenges and importance of holding a UAV conference during these turbulent times
| 22/02/2024
Alon Unger. Photo: Ziv Barak
UVID Dronetetch 2024, Israel’s largest UAV/drone event, opened this morning at the Expo Tel Aviv Convention Center for the 11th time. The conference’s founder and chairman, Alon Unger, dedicated his opening remarks to the 134 Israelis still held hostage in Gaza and to the difficulties of holding a conference during this time of war, turmoil, and uncertainty. UVID is much more than a professional conference, Unger stressed. It is a place for coming together, being among friends, and connecting.
Unger went on to discuss the importance of drones in the current Swords of Iron War and their growing space in the public discourse, in addition to the developing civilian drone patrol. Drones have also entered public discourse following Russia’s war on Ukraine. Recently, it was reported that the EU will manufacture one million drones for this war.
Photo: UVID Dronetech
Since the end of 2022 we have entered a new era for the UAV/drone reals, Unger says, an era characterized by the fact that the public understands the importance of drones and the challenges, threats, and opportunities they present.
In addition to many panels and talks, UVID attendees will be able to enjoy a sprawling exhibition hall in which the top solutions of this realm will be presented.
UVID Dronetech, Israel’s Largest Drone Event
UVID Dronetech seeks to create a platform for dialogue and shared knowledge within the community dedicated to advancing the capabilities and operations of drone technology
| 21/02/2024
Illustration. Photo: IDF SpokeIDF spokesperson’s Unit
Israel’s largest drone/UAV event, UVID Dronetech, in collaboration with IsraelDefense, will take place tomorrow (Thursday) in Tel Aviv for the 11th time. The conference, chaired by Mr. Alon Unger, seeks to create a platform for dialogue and shared knowledge within the community dedicated to advancing the capabilities and operations of drone technology.
The major topics covered during this year’s conference will include innovation and smart unmanned solutions, drones-as-a-Service; drone autonomy, AI, swarms, and big data transformation; urban use of drones; drone education; counter-UAS systems; and much more.
Due to the ongoing war in Gaza, the conference will also discuss the threat posed by drones and ways to counter them; war as a catalyst and accelerator for technological advancements; and drone systems’ central role in both spatial and homeland security missions.
Keynote speakers from Israel and abroad will be joined by experts from multidisciplinary domains, investors and VCs, government officials, drone SMEs, defense and law enforcement members, scholars, and leading industry executives.
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In Photos: UVID Dronetech 2024
Israel's largest UAV/drone conference was attended by thousands of visitors who came to learn about the latest innovations in this fascinating realm
| 22/02/2024
Alon Unger, UVID Founder & CEO. Photo: Ziv Barak
UVID Dronettech, Israel's largest and leading conference dedicated to UAVs/drones, took place yesterday (Thursday) in Tel Aviv. Despite the ongoing war in Israel, thousands of visitors attended the conference, listened to various lectures about the latest innovations in this ever-evolving realm - both in the military/defense and he civilian world - and visited the sprawling exhibition hall, in which leading companies showcased tomorrow's top solutions.
Photos; Gilad Kavalerchik
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