Bobby Healy – Founder and CEO Manna Drone Delivery will be present at Pria Drones Conference & Exhibition Bucharest on March 31st 2020

Bobby Healy – Founder and CEO Manna Drone Delivery will be present at Pria Drones Conference & Exhibition Bucharest on March 31^st 2020

 

PRIAevents, with the support of CAA and ROMAERO, is organizing  the leading event in Romania focused on drones for commercial  use. It will be held on March 31^st 2020 at Romaero. With top education, unlimited networking and an exhibition floor of commercial drones, is the must-attend event if keeping up with the newest regulations, technology and developments is your priority.

The event addresses critical issues commercial users face when it comes to drones: regulatory issues, data management and outsourcing vs. insourcing, systems integration and more.

Today, drones are quickly increasing in numbers and complexity, and becoming a part of our everyday lives.

As from July 1st 2020, national rules will be replaced by a common EU regulation. The purpose of this reform is to create a truly harmonized drone market in Europe with the highest level of safety.

How are we going to apply these regulations in Romania? Are we going to make changes into the aerial code of Romania?  Flying a drone can be really fun but as a drone pilot you are now another user of busy skies. It is important that you know how to fly your drone both safely and legally.

With the challenges of increasing automation with manned flights and plants the seeds for future integration of unmanned vehicles. How it will be done in our country?

With increasing road congestion, air taxis/eVTOLs (vertical take-off & landing) have now formed a new line of business for airports, airlines, railway stations and city authorities, providing a new way for passengers and packages to arrive on time.

The market for commercial drones is growing faster than anticipated, and could triple in the next decades.

The commercial use of drones is one of the reasons why the industry is growing so much and so fast. From creating 3D models of construction sites, to analyzing and determining crop health, drones not only bring efficiency and productivity advantages to various businesses, but also security and safety.

The construction industry is taking great advantage of drone technology, by using them to collect real-time data about projects and understand what’s happening on site. Aside from providing hourly, weekly, or monthly information about a site, drones also increase safety, save time and resources, since aerial insights help catch problems early before they become costly or add weeks to a project’s timeline.

When it comes to environmental disasters, drones are helping responders by providing rapid situational awareness with mapping technology and imagery, identifying hot spots and assess property damage, searching for survivors, assessing utility and infrastructure damage, and more.

This edition benefits of the participation of Bobby Healy – Founder and CEO Manna Drone Delivery.

Bobby is an experienced inventor, investor and technology entrepreneur specialising in travel tech.

He has founded and exited multiple software businesses since he began writing video games for Nintendo at the ripe old age of 17, and now leads Manna where he and his team work on building the drone delivery infrastructure, which will roll out globally in 2020.

Previously to Manna, Bobby was the driving force behind Ireland’s most valuable tech company, CarTrawler, which facilitates airlines, online travel agents and accommodation providers by connecting their customers with car rental, private transfers and rail connections all over the world. Bobby remains a non-exec member till present day.

Before CarTrawler, he founded travel software firm Eland Technologies as a young twenty-something back in Mexico City back in the 1980s. And then he later sold it to airline technology giant SITA and remained as CTO until 2005. His booking solutions are now in use by 80% of the world’s top 20 airlines.

About Manna

Today, Manna Drones Limited continues to be an emerging leader in the drone delivery technology space, keeping its reputation for quality at the top and making customers’ experience as enjoyable as possible.

Manna’s safety culture is paramount to its organisation and technology, this is why they have designed and built the world’s first aviation-grade B2B drone delivery ‘as-a-service’ platform. Their drones would fly at around 100 metres height, make deliveries within a two-kilometre radius and operate at a low noise level.

Manna partners with restaurants, restaurant chains and third-party delivery companies, lease their drones to them for free and charge the outlet a standard delivery fee. Working out cheaper for the outlets than current delivery costs.

The Manna drone fleet will be operated directly from the restaurant or dark kitchen premises and will be accessible via API to food tech providers and online food platforms alike in a channel-agnostic manner. That means you end up with one drone fleet serving all and any of the providers, based on demand.

When a customer orders food online they have an option to select ‘drone delivery’ on their food-ordering app of choice. Manna’s drone will then autonomously deliver their meal, flying at 80 km per hour, completing deliveries in less than three minutes. When the drone arrives at the destination it then descends to about 10 or 15 metres and lowers the food down with a biodegradable linen thread.

Recently Manna have announced their first pilot program, in partnership with Unilever-owned Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, online food delivery platform Just Eat plc as well as local premium food brand Camile Thai. The pilot program will be first tested by 30,000 students and staff from University College Dublin and will commence in March.

Pria Drones Conference & Exhibition is part of PRIAevents series that bring into attention the most important and current issues of debate in each area o business and has a large presence of participants and mass – media. With an extensive experience of planning premium business events, our PRIAevents team is recognized for organizing top events of the most representative sectors of the economy.