The International Conference for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles will officially open on June 30 at the Nation Buildings in Jerusalem. At the conference, which will last until July 2, the latest innovations in the world of drones and drones in the civilian market and the integration of AI in the world of drones will be reviewed, and in addition there will be a special security trek with lectures on the place of drones in war.
The conference will bring together the best experts and practitioners in the field, including Alof (res.) Yitzhak Ben Israel from Tel Aviv University, Daniela Pertam from the Innovation Authority and more. "We are engaged in the development of a technological-economic and regulatory ecosystem for the industry," says Partam in a conversation with "Maariv" ahead of the conference, "We operate on several levels: developing existing subsidiaries, implementing innovative civilian technologies, whether it is enforcement issues or passenger transportation. In addition We promote Israeli technologies abroad and try to prepare an infrastructure for a global market, so that other countries will follow the same path."
Partem highlights one of the most innovative ventures in Israel to transport goods using drones, a joint project of the Innovation Authority, the Civil Aviation Authority (which is the regulator in the field), the Ministry of Transportation and Ayalon routes. "We really want to promote this field in Israel, but there are many challenges along the way that need to be solved," she says, "Our goal is to produce the infrastructure for the market, I allow the public and private sector to use this technology for various needs: if it is transporting blood doses, food And even at some point humans."
"This is a market we established from scratch," she emphasizes, "it was very important for us to establish an infrastructure that would allow the entry of different companies. Unlike countries like the US, where the airspace is divided among different companies, we want to create one airspace and we do this with unique management technologies Airspace that allows us to gradually expand the amount of vessels that will fill the sky."
This project began during the Corona period, when there were fewer people in the public space. "In the first step, we carried out the transportation of medical equipment, such as corona tests. Today we are working to take it to a wider scale with a variety of companies operating in the field, and one of the goals is to focus on heavier tools that move great distances."
The companies supported by the Innovation Authority have been very successful in managing large projects in Israel and abroad. Today they are also conducting pilot flights for an air taxi that in the future will be able to fly Israelis from place to place. "It already exists in a limited form in China," she says, "but today there is a kind of race Civil armaments regarding these technologies. Our goal is to create an ecosystem that will allow local companies to develop advanced tools and technologies. In a few years to a decade from now I believe that the public will derive real benefit from these tools. This will help to financially optimize a lot of companies that depend on the delivery sector and of course will take the load off the roads."