Building a Resilient Drone Program Workflow

Today’s drone industry is ever-changing, and keeping a workflow resilient to these changes is not a simple task. Regulations shift. Fleets age out. Vendors' product availability changes. If your drone program's workflow can't flex with those realities, you end up rebuilding your process every time something outside of your control moves, which becomes expensive, slow, and frustrating for everyone who depends on your program.

This webinar is for drone project managers running a program within a larger company, the ones responsible for keeping operations compliant, aircraft flying, and stakeholders confident, even when the ground shifts underneath them.

We'll cover:

• Designing for change, not around it: building workflows with built-in flexibility points instead of rigid, single-path processes
• Regulatory resilience: how to structure documentation, training, and approval processes so a rule change doesn't mean starting over
• Aircraft availability contingencies: reducing single-platform dependency and building fallback paths into your ops planning
• Communicating workflow health upward: how to show leadership that your program is stable and adaptable, not just busy

Between producing a program from scratch or trying to future-proof one that already exists, you'll leave with a practical framework for building a workflow that holds up, not just today, but as the landscape around you keeps changing.

Moderator

Erin Williams, Content Specialist, Commercial UAV News

Erin is the Content Specialist for Commercial UAV News and Expo. Prior to joining Diversified Communications, Erin contributed to news sources for a major outdoor retail company. Erin graduated from the University of Maine with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, horseback riding, and reading. She is a Maine native and currently resides in Portland, Maine.