Drone Days 2026: Three days, two locations, one networking event

Drone Days 2026 is over! For three days, the unmanned aviation community—representing academia, business, politics, and government—gathered at Bremen Airport and the Oldenburg-Hatten Airfield. It’s time to look back.

Highlights

A Look Back at Drone Days 2026

Drone Days 2027

2026 Program

9:00 a.m.

Check-in at the Bremenhalle for accreditation and coffee

10:00 a.m.

Opening and Welcome

Harald Rossol,

Managing Director

| b.r.m. IT & Aerospace, LLC

10:05 a.m.

Welcome by the host's representative

Robert Hoffmann,

Representatives of the host

| Bremen Airport

10:10 a.m.

Opening Remarks

Senator Kristina Vogt,

Senator for Economic Affairs, Ports, and Transformation

10:15 a.m.

Introduction to the Partner Country: the Netherlands

Meindert Stolk,

Regional Minister for Economic Affairs and Innovation for the Province of South Holland in the Netherlands

10:20 a.m.

A Message from Our Patron

Uwe Schmidt, Member of the German Bundestag,

Member of the German Bundestag

10:25 a.m.

Opening Presentation & Remarks by the Bremen Economic Development Agency

Andreas Heyer,

CEO

| WFB Bremen Economic Development Agency

10:40 a.m.

Panel 1: Research, Technology & Smart Infrastructure

Hosted by:

Kai Brune, M.S. in Physics,

Department Head

| Fraunhofer IFAM

Johann Dauer, B.S. in Engineering,

| DLR

Dr. Helen Almey,

Head of Security & Resilience Capabilities

| ADS Group Ltd

Prof. Dr. Christof Büskens,

Professor of Optimization and Optimal Control & Head of the Optimization and Optimal Control Research Group

| University of Bremen

Nicholas Balaresque,

Managing Director

| Deutsche WindGuard Engineering GmbH

Alexander Wulf,

Founder

| Aerial Protection Group Project, LLC

12:10 p.m.

Lunch

1:00 p.m.

Opening Remarks

Thomas Röwekamp, Member of the German Bundestag,

Member of the German Bundestag & Chair of the Defense Committee

1:10 p.m.

Panel 2: Security, Resilience, and Critical Infrastructure Protection

Hosted by:

Götz Anspach von Broecker, Dipl.-Ing.,

| AIRBUS Defence & Space GmbH

Thomas Röwekamp, Member of the German Bundestag,

Member of the German Bundestag & Chair of the Defense Committee

Thomas Szczepanski,

Lieutenant Commander

| Naval Air Wing 3 “Graf Zeppelin” Base Group

Dirk Fasse,

Chief of Police

| Bremen Police Department

René Picard,

Head of Corporate Security

| BLG LOGISTICS GROUP AG & Co. KG

Axel Brockmann,

State Police Chief

| Lower Saxony

2:40 p.m.

Partner Country Presentation

Hosted by:

Jannis Balke,

Project Manager

| AVIASPACE BREMEN e.V.

Theo de Vries,

Director of Unmanned Valley

Elwin van Beurden,

Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management

| Partner Country: The Netherlands

Co Petersen,

R&D Engineer / Consultant

| NLR – Royal Netherlands Aerospace Center

3:10 p.m.

Coffee break

3:45 p.m.

Panel 3: Regulation, U-Space, and National Frameworks

Hosted by:

Prof. Rolf Henke,

Aviation Coordinator for the State of Bremen

Sabrina John,

Managing Director

| GLVI Society for Aviation Information Technology, LLC

Florian Vogt,

Flight Operations Division (Bremen Aviation Authority)

| Senator for Economic Affairs, Ports, and Transformation, Bremen

Michael Wieland,

Chair of the Advisory Committee

| UAV DACH – European Association for Unmanned Aviation

Maximilian Beck,

Drone Administrator

| Lower Saxony State Authority for Road Construction and Transportation (NLSTBV)

Mirko Knappe,

Managing Director

| BUVUS – Federal Association for Unmanned Systems e.V.

5:15 p.m.

Evening Lecture

Prof. Dr. Christof Büskens,

Professor of Optimization and Optimal Control & Head of the Optimization and Optimal Control Research Group

| University of Bremen

5:45 p.m.

Wrap-Up & Announcement of the Next Day: “Oldenburg-Hatten Airfield”

Harald Rossol,

Managing Director

| b.r.m. IT & Aerospace, LLC

6:00 p.m.

Please arrive at the "Bremenhalle" at Bremen Airport for the evening event—separate registration required

6:30 p.m.

Opening remarks at the evening event – separate registration required

Dr. Andreas Bovenschulte,

Mayor of Bremen & President of the Bundesrat

9:00 a.m.

Arrival at Oldenburg-Hatten Airport for accreditation and coffee

10:00 a.m.

Welcome

Harald Rossol,

Managing Director

| b.r.m. IT & Aerospace, LLC

10:05 a.m.

Safety Instructions at the Oldenburg-Hatten Airfield and During the Air Shows

Markus Rossol,

Managing Partner

| b.r.m. IT & Aerospace, LLC

10:10 a.m.

A Message from Our Patron

Bastian Ernst, Member of the German Bundestag,

Member of the German Bundestag

10:15 a.m.

A Message from the County Administrator

Dr. Christian Pundt,

District Administrator of Oldenburg District

10:20 a.m.

A Message from the Mayor of Hatten

Guido Heinisch,

Mayor Hatten

| Had

10:25 a.m.

Entrepreneurs' Associations of Lower Saxony (UVN): How Do Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Get Into the Defense Industry?

Dr. Joachim Algermissen,

Head of the Security and Defense Industry Division (Lower Saxony Defense Industry Cluster)

| Lower Saxony Business Associations (UVN e.V.)

10:35 a.m.

M4Com System GmbH: Incident Command 4.0, including Air Situation and UTM

Tim Müller,

Sales Manager

| M4Com System GmbH

10:45 a.m.

Solidtec GmbH: Rapid Tooling for Prototyping and Small-Volume Production Using Plastic Injection Molding

Timo Wittmann,

Technical Customer Service Representative

| Solidtec GmbH

10:55 a.m.

bill-X and b.r.m. IT & Aerospace: decloak – One Airspace. One Picture. All Answers.

Kai Schwermann,

Managing Director

| bill-X GmbH

Markus Rossol,

Managing Partner

| b.r.m. IT & Aerospace, LLC

11:05 a.m.

enviacon, Inc.

Dr. Helen Almey,

Head of Security & Resilience Capabilities

| ADS Group Ltd

11:15 a.m.

Deharde GmbH - Aerospace Experts for Unmanned Systems

Christopher Clark,

Head of Wind Tunnel Models & Prototypes

| Deharde GmbH

11:25 a.m.

Cavemus Systems Association GmbH: Beyond Anti-Jamming: A Layered Approach to Mission Continuity (EN)

Amir Rabinovitz,

Vice President, Customers & Product

| infiniDome

11:35 a.m.

Hottinger Brüel & Kjær: Improving GNSS-Denied Visual-Based Navigation with Inertial Sensors (EN)

Ian Moore,

Field Applications Engineer

| Hottinger Brüel & Kjær (HBK) 

11:45 a.m.

Allied Vision Gilching GmbH: Low SWaP-C Quantum Dot SWIR Imaging for Drone Applications (EN)

Dr. Artem Shulga,

Founder & CEO

| QDI Systems

11:55 a.m.

UAS Competition for Drone Days

Harald Rossol,

Managing Director

| b.r.m. IT & Aerospace, LLC

12:00 p.m.

Lunch

1:00 p.m.

Start of the afternoon with presentations and pitches

Harald Rossol,

Managing Director

| b.r.m. IT & Aerospace, LLC

1:05 p.m.

Atlas Air Service AG: LUMUS - Aircraft-Based Multipurpose UAV System

Jannes Manßen, M.Sc.,

Business Development & Aircraft Sales

| Atlas Air Service AG

1:15 p.m.

Fraunhofer IFAM: Offshore Drone Campus Cuxhaven - Offshore Wind Test Site

Tim Strohbach, B.S. in Engineering,

Group Leader for Maritime Drone Applications at the "Offshore Drone Campus Cuxhaven"

| Fraunhofer IFAM

1:25 p.m.

TRIGO ADR Germany GmbH: With a Passion for Quality

Andrea Piontek-Macht,

Director of Sales, Aerospace & Defense

| TRIGO ADR Germany GmbH

1:35 p.m.

BIMAQ: Measurement Technology on Flying Platforms

Dr.-Ing. Axel von Freyberg,

Group Leader, Optical and Thermographic Measurement Systems

| Bremen Institute for Measurement Technology, Automation, and Quality Science (BIMAQ)

1:45 p.m.

B&W International GmbH: More Than Just Energy—How a Suitcase Became a Mobile Infrastructure.

Joachim Lügtenaar,

Sales Director

| B&W International GmbH

1:55 p.m.

RSI Europe

Sascha Stets,

| RSI Europe

2:05 p.m.

Edneo AG: Resilient and Secure UAV Communications in Electromagnetic Interference Environments

Dr. Faruk Sari, PhD,

Cybersecurity Executive & PQC Innovator & Co-Founder

| Cyber Quanta

2:15 p.m.

Opening Remarks

State Secretary Matthias Wunderling-Weilbier,

State Secretary in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Economic Affairs, Transportation, and Construction

2:25 p.m.

Hamburg Aviation: “Drones and Logistics—A Good Match?”

Lisa Altrath,

Project Manager

| Hamburg Aviation

Gerhard Sells,

Project Manager

| Hamburg Aviation

2:35 p.m.

BAB - The Development Bank

Tim Schmohl,

Innovation Manager

| BAB – The Development Bank

2:45 p.m.

Dutch-German Pitching Session, organized by the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN)

Hosted by:

Niklaas van Hylckama Vlieg,

EEN Liaison Officer for Aerospace & Defense

| InnovationQuarter

Tim Schmohl,

Innovation Manager

| BAB – The Development Bank

3:15 p.m.

Coffee break

3:35 p.m.

Kassel Airport GmbH / Hessian Drone Competence Center

Prof. Dr. Michèle Knodt,

Professor of Political Science

| Technical University of Darmstadt

3:45 p.m.

Parragone - Connecting All the Dots

Chono Nanton,

CEO & Founder

| Parragone

Wouter Elewaut,

CFRO & Co-Founder

| Parragone

Hanno Wiese,

Strategic Business Development

| Parragone

3:55 p.m.

Deutsche Windguard Engineering: “Engineering for Drones: From Components to Deployment”

Nicholas Balaresque,

Managing Director

| Deutsche WindGuard Engineering GmbH

4:05 p.m.

Aerial Protection Group Project: How can drone technology be transformed into a robust capability for protecting critical infrastructure, people, and operational areas?

Alexander Wulf,

Founder

| Aerial Protection Group Project, LLC

4:15 p.m.

OHS Engineering GmbH: Engineering for Safe Drone Technologies—From Development Through Testing Technology and Test Campaigns to Measurement Flights

Dr.-Ing. Carl Hans,

Managing Partner

| OHS Engineering GmbH

4:25 p.m.

AirHub: Drones as First Responders: Live Streaming, Digitalization, and the Work Behind the Flight

Sergey Georgiev,

Senior Business Development Manager

| AirHub B.V.

4:35 p.m.

Helsing, LLC

Sebastian Noack, M.Eng.,

Chief Engineer

| Helsing Germany GmbH

4:45 p.m.

Flight Demonstration: Wingcopter GmbH

5:00 p.m.

Air Show: OptoPrecision GmbH

5:15 p.m.

Flight Demonstration: Fraunhofer IDMT

5:30 p.m.

Air Show: Hanseatic Aviation Solutions GmbH

5:45 p.m.

Air Show: TOPAS Industrial Mathematics Transfer GmbH

6:00 p.m.

Flight Demonstration: Fraunhofer IFAM

6:15 p.m.

Air Show: ZAL GmbH

6:30 p.m.

Wrap-Up & Announcement of the Next Day: “Oldenburg-Hatten Airfield”

Harald Rossol,

Managing Director

| b.r.m. IT & Aerospace, LLC

6:35 p.m.

Evening event “End-of-Season BBQ” with live “Baroque” music at Oldenburg-Hatten Airfield – separate registration required

9:00 a.m.

Arrival at Oldenburg-Hatten Airport for accreditation and coffee

10:00 a.m.

Welcome

Harald Rossol,

Managing Director

| b.r.m. IT & Aerospace, LLC

10:05 a.m.

Panel 4: The Drone Economy: Markets, Mobility, and Business Models

Hosted by:

Matthias Brucke,

Senior Business Development Expert

| Ignite GmbH

Saskia Wegge,

Managing Director

| BAB Investment and Management Company Bremen

Ralf Borchers,

Managing Director

| Lower Saxony Investment and Development Bank – NBank

Dr. Martin Nägele,

Managing Director

| OptoPrecision GmbH

Gregor Müller,

Managing Director

| MD Aircraft GmbH

Sebastian Noack, M.Eng.,

Chief Engineer

| Helsing Germany GmbH

11:35 a.m.

Fraunhofer IDMT: When Sensors Can Hear Around the Corner – Acoustic Drone Detection and Localization for Safe Airspace

Christian Colmer,

Head of Marketing and Communications & Head of the Defense Business Area

| Fraunhofer IDMT

Christian Rollwage,

Group Leader for Audio Signal Enhancement

| Fraunhofer IDMT

11:45 a.m.

Hanseatic Aviation Solutions GmbH: The Connected Drone with Real-World Examples

Michael Schmidt,

Managing Director

| Hanseatic Aviation Solutions GmbH

11:55 a.m.

H18 Defense & Intelligence Products: Advanced unmanned systems designed for real-world missions

Ronald Oostveen,

Founder & CEO

| H18 Defense & Intelligence Products

12:05 p.m.

Lunch

1:00 p.m.

Start of the afternoon with presentations and pitches

1:05 p.m.

Introduction to the SMAS Consortium Meeting

Dirk Jan Hummel,

Project Manager

| Smart Maintenance at Sea (SMAS)

1:10 p.m.

Introduction to the ZIM Innovation Network Dronesky.digital

Matthias Brucke,

| Dronesky Digital

1:15 p.m.

Presentation by the DLR Aviation Research Project Management Office – Networking Initiative for Real-World Labs & Test Centers in Germany

Jonathan Berberich,

Scientific Advisor

| German Aerospace Center (DLR) (Project Management Agency for Aviation Research)

1:20 p.m.

Ignite GmbH: From a funded project to a paying customer: How drone technology is turned into viable business models

Matthias Brucke,

Senior Business Development Expert

| Ignite GmbH

1:30 p.m.

UAV DACH e.V.

Michael Wieland,

Chair of the Advisory Committee

| UAV DACH – European Association for Unmanned Aviation

1:40 p.m.

M&D Flugzeugbau GmbH & Co. KG: Drones – Built Light. Engineered for Speed and Endurance.

Christopher Gardel,

Business Development Manager

| MD Flugzeugbau GmbH & Co. KG

1:50 p.m.

Peli Products / Rolf Schwiering GmbH

Olaf Bethke,

Sales Representative

| Peli Products GmbH

2:00 p.m.

SMAS Project Meeting as a "Smart Maintenance at Sea" Partner Meeting

Dirk Jan Hummel,

Project Manager

| Smart Maintenance at Sea (SMAS)

2:00 p.m.

TOPAS Industriemathematik Innovation gGmbH: Efficient Flight Paths at the Push of a Button: Automated Coverage Path Planning for Complex Applications

Dr.-Ing. Mitja Echim,

Managing Director

| TOPAS Industrial Mathematics Innovation gGmbH

2:10 p.m.

iMAR Navigation GmbH: Four satellites and a little bit of trust are no longer enough.

Oliver Koepke,

Sales

| iMAR Navigation GmbH

2:20 p.m.

Business Models for Collaborative Drones Used in Offshore Wind Turbine Maintenance and Repair

Thierry Tartarin, M.Ed.,

Senior Researcher, Business Models Research Group

| Saxion University of Applied Sciences (NL)

2:30 p.m.

NBank: We Support Lower Saxony – NBank’s Support and Financing Programs for Startups and SMEs

Ralf Borchers,

Managing Director

| Lower Saxony Investment and Development Bank – NBank

2:40 p.m.

Walaris: "Drone Detection and Situation Awareness"

Marco Tietze,

Business Development Manager

| Walaris GmbH

2:50 p.m.

jetvision: Precisely Locating and Tracking Aircraft in Defined Airspaces

Theo Beisch,

Managing Director

| Jetvision (Günter Köllner Embedded Development GmbH)

3:00 p.m.

ZIM Network Meeting for dronesky.digital Members

3:00 p.m.

DLR Project Meeting for Participants in the Aviation Research Project Organization - Networking Initiative for Real-World Labs & Test Centers in Germany

Jonathan Berberich,

Scientific Advisor

| German Aerospace Center (DLR) (Project Management Agency for Aviation Research)