Right here’s a deal for anybody in search of data on drone legislation and coverage, or another skilled growth within the authorized facet of the drone trade. The identical staff that hosts Legislation-Tech Join Workshops at main drone occasions across the nation is making its data simply accessible to the general public in a free authorized webinar format.
Legislation-Tech Join has traditionally been an in-person workshop held in tandem with among the largest drone conferences within the U.S., together with two consecutive years at AUVSI XPONENTIAL and an upcoming energy-focused model being held subsequent week on the seventh Annual Vitality Drone & Robotics Summit in Houston, Texas.
However attending in-person sometimes means not only a registration price, but additionally the price of journey plus effort and time to get to the in-person venue. Fortunately, the Legislation-Tech Join is sharing its trove of information to most of the people without spending a dime (nicely, or for merely simply the low price of handing over a tiny bit of non-public data). The staff taped all of the panels that aired at AUVSI — and now they’re free so that you can hearken to all through the approaching yr.
That’s all as a result of Legislation-Tech Join this week introduced a brand new month-to-month authorized webinar sequence specializing in varied points of drone legislation and coverage, comparable to counterdrone tech, mental property and utilizing business, off-the-shelf drones within the battlefield.
“Our objective is to advance the trade via top-tier techno-legal schooling {and professional} growth,” stated occasion organizer Daybreak Zoldi. “We wish to pay that success ahead to all those that couldn’t make it in individual. These on-line broadcasts will permit of us who couldn’t attend our AUVSI LTC occasion, to profit from the experience of our world-class college and content material.”
The primary of the free authorized webinar sequence kicks off this Monday, June 19 at 11 a.m. ET. It’ll be a replay of what was initially a reside panel led by Lisa Ellman (Hogan Lovells/Industrial Drone Alliance) and contains: Kevin “The Drone Man” Morris (FAA), Grant Guillot (DroneUp), Belinda Nixon (Perkins Coie LLP) and Colby Free (Airspace Hyperlink). Titled “Regulators Delivering the Items? UAS/AAM Authorized, Coverage & Operational Updates,” it’ll dig into real-world drone supply operations and the way they’ve virtually impacted the usand AAM industries.
How are you going to be part of the Legislation-Tech Join free authorized webinar sequence?
Although it’s free to tune in, you’ll have to register upfront at this hyperlink. Upon registering, you’ll get a notification when the stream is up, you’ll have unique entry to rewatch the content material after the stream, and also you’ll get notifications of future streams.
It’ll stream reside on Monday, June 19 at 11 a.m. ET. on Zoldi’s channel on YouTube, nevertheless it’ll be unlisted, so that you’ll have to really register to get the hyperlink. And if you happen to can’t tune in at the moment actual, you’ll be able to rewatch it later utilizing the identical hyperlink (once more, you’ll should register to get the net handle).
Whereas the workshops are nice for attorneys or others who really work within the authorized subject, they’re completely price watching so long as you could have an curiosity in autonomy or the uncrewed trade.
Zoldi’s channel is price subscribing to, because it culminates all of her intensive expertise within the airspace trade, together with 30 yeas with the U.S. Air Pressure as a army officer, and later pivoting into drones together with roles with UAS Colorado and working her personal enterprise P3 Consulting. She’s additionally a stellar communicator, as she additionally hosts the Daybreak of Drones podcast, plus co-hosts two extra: the Full Crew and Full TILT podcasts.
What’s subsequent for the Legislation-Tech Join free authorized webinar sequence?
Since it is a month-to-month sequence, count on extra to return (and most will likely be recordings from the 2023 Legislation-Tech Join Workshop). Precise dates will differ, however will sometimes both be Monday or Tuesdays at 11 a.m. ET.
The Legislation-Tech Join staff additionally gave Drone Lady unique entry to the longer term dates and panel subjects set for the remainder of 2023:
- Monday, July 24: CUAS/Safety
- Monday, August 21: AAM Infrastructure
- Tuesday, September 26: How non-public companies can faucet into alternatives to work with the federal government
- Tuesday, October 24: Industrial drones in battle and their authorized implications in conflict
- Tuesday, November 21: Mental property
- Monday, December 11: Privateness
When you register for one, you’ll get electronic mail alerts to make sure you don’t miss the longer term months of webinars. And sure, Zoldi, who leads the Legislation-Tech Join cost, confirmed to The Drone Lady that they’ll all the time be free.
Register for the Legislation-Tech Join free authorized webinar sequence right here.
So far as future, in-person occasions, the subsequent scheduled Legislation-Tech Join workshop is about for AUVSI EXPONENTIAL ’24 in San Diego, which will likely be held on Monday, April 22, 2024 (the broader AUVSI 2024 convention will span the remainder of the week).
Ought to I nonetheless attend in-person drone Legislation-Tech Join workshops?
The transfer to make recordings of its panels free to most of the people on-line units a main instance of the drone trade democratizing data and making it freely-available to everybody. Small companies may not have sources to journey to in-person occasions. And there are just so many drone occasions in 2023 that it may be unrealistic to attend all (and even most) of them.
However with extra data like these authorized insights freely out there, information is shared with no obstacles, and the collective drone trade will get stronger.
That stated, you shouldn’t simply interpret the free recordings as a cause to skip future workshops. Many attorneys attend in-person to satisfy Persevering with Authorized Schooling requiremens. Nonetheless, these on-line broadcasts don’t qualify for CLE for the attorneys.
For everybody else not particularly in search of to fulfill CLE necessities, the workshops are typically prime networking alternatives for locating mentors, assembly potential shoppers or establishing enterprise partnerships. Plus, in-person attendance means the power to ask your personal questions and get private recommendation and assist. Oh, and also you miss out on the enjoyable, accompanying social occasions (like an elaborate mini golf expertise through the 2023 AUVSI convention. In actual fact, at this yr’s AUVSI convention, the room was full of greater than 175 folks, making for a standing-room solely crowd.