Following yesterday's announcement of a comprehensive joint programme of unmanned systems conferences by the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) and Flight International, the partners have unveiled their timetable for 2004-05.
Building on the events successfully pioneered by AUVSI, the world's largest non-profit organisation devoted exclusively to advancing the unmanned systems community, they are offering a total of nine regionally branded events over the next 20 months.
The 2005 edition of Monday's successful Unmanned Systems Asia-Pacific, at the Suntec Theatre in Singapore, will be held in conjunction with the Australian airshow in Melbourne in March next year.
Next on the calendar this year is Unmanned Systems Europe, to take place on 6-7 May at ILA2004 in Berlin. The 2005 edition will be at the Paris salon in June next year.
Unmanned Systems North America (formerly AUVSI's Unmanned Systems) is set for Anaheim, California, on 3-5 August, and for Baltimore, Maryland, in June 2005. This year's event is on course to match its world-beating performance of last year, when it attracted 130 exhibitors and 3,000 visitors. "Most competing unmanned-systems events measure their achievement in hundreds of visitors," comments AUVSI executive director Daryl Davidson.
Unmanned Systems UK for this year will be at Farnborough in July, moving to London's Defence Systems & Equipment International exhibition in September 2005.
Unmanned Systems Japan is slated for the Japan airshow this October, and Unmanned Systems Middle East for the Dubai airshow in November next year.
"As the world's oldest and largest unmanned systems-oriented non-profit organisation, AUVSI is best placed to raise the global profile of unmanned systems," says Davidson.
Source: Flight Daily News
