David Cole

Biography

Dr David Cole has been actively involved in the uncrewed systems industry for over 10 years. Starting in 2013 with the founding a commercial drone services company in Northern Australia, before pivoting the company in 2018 to focus on developing the FlyFreely Drone Management Platform to support organisations operating RPAS at scale. Dr Cole remains at the forefront of industry developments by being an active member of several international working groups including JARUS, EUROCAE and ASTM. His current focus is on enabling complex operations through the automation of regulatory compliance and implementation of uncrewed traffic management (UTM) systems. The FlyFreely Platform is now connected to 3 national low altitude authorisation systems in Australia, New Zealand and the USA.