The goal of the conference is to create more conversation and promote communication around the use of drones in Alaska.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Global Autonomous Systems Conference, being held in Anchorage this week, is welcoming more than a hundred industry experts to the Dena’ina Center over three days.
“I originally came from a military UAV background, where everything was hush-hush, everything operated very strictly, and completely outside of the way we do business here,” ACUASI’s director of operations John Robinson said. “This is important to me because it allows me to bring that passion, that progress, for everybody.”
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