Keynote at the D-TECT Forum in Brussels
Our CEO, Johanna Holsten, has been invited to give the first keynote at the inaugural D-TECT Forum of the European Commission in Brussels on 11 November 2026. Many thanks to DG CONNECT for the invitation.
D-TECT brings together industry, research and the member states around drone and counter-drone technology. Both sides belong together, especially when it comes to protecting critical infrastructure.
The keynote “Sovereign by Software” focuses on three questions:
- Who really controls the hardware and software of the drones we rely on?
- Where should European industry work together, from a shared picture of the lower airspace to open architectures?
- How do we get from prototype to approved operation faster?
From our daily work at flyXdrive we know that the bottleneck is rarely the technology. It is the path to approval and the lack of test fields with short lead times. That is why testing and certification are at the centre of the talk, together with the Center for Vertical Mobility in Aldenhoven, which RWTH Aachen University is building and where we are involved as a partner.
Thank you to RWTH Aachen University for the close exchange during the preparation. If you are at the forum, we look forward to talking to you.
