Participants need to submit their project videos to compete in one or more of six categories: ‘Best drone show 3D animation’, ‘Best drone show up to 100 drones’, ‘Best drone show over 100 drones and up to 1000 drones’, ‘Best drone show over 1000 drones’, ‘Best integrated drone show’, ‘Best drone show business promo video’. The application period is September 30 – November 30, 2021, with the winners to be announced on December 21, 2021. They will be granted diplomas and included in the event promo campaign. Authors of drone show animations will also compete for MacBook Pro 13, while other nomination participants will compete for drone show operator kits (a set of items that an operator always needs for a comfortable process of organizing a drone show). Noticeably, the kit for “Best drone show over 1,000 drones” includes a DJI FPV drone.

‘The first competition was established to create global awareness for artists that there is the industry of drone shows that can open up opportunities. The big idea behind it was to start building up a community of like-minded people passionate about drones and modern art. Within a year, we have observed a rapid growth of drone shows as an event form and decided to expand the concept into a multidisciplinary contest of both animations and real performed drone shows’, comments Alexey Dobrovolskiy, CTO at SPH Engineering.

The competition is initiated and organized by SPH Engineering, the company behind the first commercially available Drone Show Software to manage swarms of light drones. The international judging panel consists of Alexey Dobrovolskiy, SPH Engineering (Latvia); Angelito Diaz Jadormeo, 2020 Competition winner (Philippines); Hyon Lim, Uvify (USA); Luke Carothers, Civil+Structural Engineer Media (USA); and other event and drone industry entrepreneurs, hardware manufacturers, experts at international organizations and educational bodies.

Apply for the 2d Drone Show Competition now at https://www.droneshowsoftware.com/competition

To learn more about the competition watch the video!

Stay tuned – follow the event in social media #droneshowcompetition and global drone show practices on youtube and instagram!

About SPH Engineering

SPH Engineering (sph-engineering.com) is a multiproduct drone software company and UAV integration services provider. Founded in 2013 in Latvia (EU) as a UAV mission planning and flight control start-up, the company has evolved from a developer of a single flagship product UgCS to a market leader of multiple drone solutions. Today the company has created a rich global customer and reseller network in 150+ countries while over 45% of partners are located in North America. In 2021 the company organised the 1st International Drone Show Choreography competition. There were 6 winners out of 153 registrations from over 50 countries.

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Smart Crutch Tips are the industry’s first offline, wireless devices with a storage capacity recording up to 1 million steps and battery life of 850 hours of active use, to be attached to any universal round crutches. The technology allows electronic communication with the doctor and provides an overview of the patient’s walking recovery progress. Patients have crutch tips that work together with a smartphone app, where they have rehabilitation programs set by their doctors. The app helps patients to be regular with exercises and keeping the load on the injured leg under the set program while consistently receiving doctor’s recommendations. The medical professional has a web and/or mobile app that contains data about all his or her patients and makes it possible to remotely monitor how the patient loads the injured leg, addressing the patient’s concerns, and adapting the program to their needs.

Weight bearing (WB) in rehabilitation is essential for bone healing in patients with fractures and when following orthopedic surgery. Low-intensity weight bearing exercise has shown to be beneficial in bone healing over non-weight bearing exercises. Yet, according to studies, 6 out of 10 patients don’t follow their doctor’s advice during rehabilitation after their lower limb injury. To completely transform this reality, ComeBack Mobility invented the industry’s first Smart Crutch Tips – a reusable, dynamic feedback device that works together with an application shared by a patient and their doctor.

Smart Crutch Tips Key Benefits:

• Offline, wireless – the device can track and store patient gait data for up to 10 days without a smartphone
• Storage capacity recording up to 1M steps (the equivalent of 760 km/470 miles)
• Battery life – 850 hours of active use; simple and cheap to install
• The doctor can set an individual weight bearing (WB) program in less than 2 minutes, and can modify the patient’s WB status per presentation of signs and symptoms
• Smart Crutch Tips track, record, and provide real time feedback (light, vibration, sound) for every step taken during crutch gait
• The patient quickly learns how to apply the smart crutch tips instant feedback to their prescribed WB status – on average, from the 10th step if have prior experience walking on crutches
• Once connected to the smartphone, Smart Crutch Tips instantly sync the patient’s gait data (daily steps and WB load) with the Patient app and doctor’s digital dashboard
• The doctor can view the patient’s gait data and compliance to the WB program in real time. The
• Digital dashboard displays gait data in daily, weekly, and monthly formats.
• The patient can communicate concerns and changes in symptoms with the doctor, or medical care provider, via the SOS button. Telehealth capability.

Smart tips automatically calculate the patient’s current weight bearing on the injured or surgically operated leg while the patient is walking, analyze it and immediately provide feedback to the patient and the doctor on whether any adjustments need to be done — all in real-time. Fitting all popular round crutch brands, the tips are set by the patient on crutches and synced via Bluetooth to smartphones. The patient starts receiving instant feedback on their mobile device, consisting per choice of voice, sound or vibration and from the attached crutch devices per choice of light and/or sound, whether too little or too much load on the leg when they exceed or subceed their medical professional’s prescribed weight bearing status. The device communicates each patient’s rehabilitation results to their physiotherapist and lets them monitor a patient’s daily activity level through the app.

Michael J. Chin, DPM, the medical director of the Running Institute and Windy City Foot and Ankle Physicians LLC, evaluated Smart Crutch Tips and said: “A lot of people don’t know how much pressure they’re putting through their feet when they’re trying to rehabilitate. You can use scales, you can use the weight of their body minus how much pressure they’re putting through it. But this device gives you a kind of instantaneous feedback, which I think for rehabilitation purposes can be very helpful. I like the concept, I like the idea of being able to give feedback – obviously to the patient, but also to the clinician. You take a few steps and already it is logging the steps being taken, the pressure, the feedback. I could hear the actual vibrations so it’s impressive as to how quick that response is.”

It’s not only the physical but also the psychological factor that often hinders patients in properly adhering to the correct rehabilitation process. After surgery, nurses and physiotherapists have the responsibility to encourage the patient to participate in early ambulation. According to the latest clinical study, “nurses are challenged by patients who are not confident enough to mobilize following a lower extremity joint surgery or fracture stabilization. This situation leads to decreased weight bearing, which can hinder the recovery process and future mobility of the patient. If the patient does not comply, the nurse can communicate that to the physician who could provide re-education to the patient on the need to mobilize to improve recovery. The nurse could also communicate ambulation issues to the physical therapy team, who could then work with the patient to increase knowledge and confidence.” The entire process leads not only to an inferior rehabilitation process for the patient, but also to immense medical expenses, along with a greater healing time factor for both the clinician and patient.

Even those patients who feel confident to start with early ambulation, often do not succeed in doing it properly because many use home scales for WB distribution. “The static method of instruction of PWBPs (Partial Weight Bearing Protocol), using bathroom scales, does not seem to translate accurately to dynamic motion, and therefore affects adherence to medical instruction. Practitioners should be aware of the potential errors in reproducing these loads and the potential effect on rehabilitation. These results suggest that practitioners should be cautious when using bathroom scales to teach PWBPs and not rely on them to assess reproduction accuracy during gait,” according to the latest study by Physiotherapy and Sport Rehabilitation School of Health Studies at University of Bradford. ComeBack Mobility has run a similar experiment proving that such a technique does not work. It is not possible to take even 5 steps in a row in the recommended load of +/- 10% of the patient’s weight. For example, if the patient weighs 80 kg (175 lbs) and the recommended 50% of his weight equals 40 kg (88 lbs), then 10% of his weight would be 8 kg (17 lbs), correspondingly the range is 40 kg +/- 8 kg = from 32x to 48 kg (105 lbs).

ComeBack Mobility was co-founded by CEO Ilya Popov, following his own injury that inspired him to create such a tool. Popov raised a $1M seed round through his own efforts during the lockdown by inventing a unique health technology that helps doctors rehabilitate patients remotely. Ilya Popov is one of the leaders in the MBA space and a true entrepreneur, demonstrating a remarkable ability to turn life experiences into startups. For example, being a professional fighter, Popov launched his previous startup SmartSport for sports teams – and now, it’s an international business operating in 36 countries. In September 2017, this project became one of the best among Ukrainian start-ups and represented the Ukrainian pavilion at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco.

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With over 65 million people suffering leg injuries each year, controlling the rehabilitation process has traditionally been a hit-and-miss affair. The problem is simple – patients are wary of placing too much pressure on their affected limb, while doctors and nurses can’t accurately measure how much weight the patient is placing on their legs – until now.

The right amount of pressure is important, as it can help bone growth, but too much or too little weight on a fracture or surgical implant can do more harm than good. Without any way to inexpensively, instantly and accurately measure the patient, beyond what a patient feels, the rehabilitation process can set up a patient to fail at healing quickly, and correctly.

A bigger problem emerges when you realise that the correct amount of pressure a patient should apply changes during the healing process, further hindering optimal healing. How does a patient quantify putting 30% of their weight on an affected limb? How much attentiveness can a patient truly place on their feelings when dealing with the realities of life, such as children, pets, stairs, work, home or busy city streets?

While a clinical setting may feature equipment to measure how a patient feels and how much pressure they are applying when in that setting, such equipment doesn’t help in the real world.

Until now, existing technologies to deal with these situations have each had their own drawbacks and complications, ranging from high costs, multiple sensors, shoes, soles, wristbands, cables and more.

Finally, a simple solution has emerged, providing both real-time and highly accurate data while at a very affordable low cost. Smart Crutch Tips by ComeBack Mobility (CBM) simply attach to existing crutches and share their data with patients and clinicians, and it’s an absolute game changer.

Smart Crutch Tips provide immediate feedback and not only help improve compliance but also give more meaningful feedback to patients and medical practitioners so they can better determine how much weight to place on the injured site.

ComeBack Mobility is a Ukrainian medtech startup, and raised $1M seed investment for its “Smart Crutch Tip” orthopedic devices that work together with an app, shared by a patient and a doctor, bringing the rehabilitation industry to a whole new level.

Smart Crutch Tips are the industry’s first offline, wireless devices with a storage capacity recording up to 1M steps and battery life of 850 hours of active use, to be attached to any universal round crutches and that come with an accompanying app for both the patient and the medical professional to help with the rehabilitation following lower limb injury or surgery.

The technology improves the quality and efficacy of doctor-patient interaction. It allows electronic communication with the doctor and provides an overview of the patient’s walking recovery progress. This innovative technology is your ‘insurance’ against unwanted lawsuits and gives peace of mind to both – the treating doctor/ PT/ATC/rehabilitation professional and the patient.

ComeBack Mobility brings doctors and patients together for a more transparent, efficient, and measured rehabilitation process.

Previously, patients have relied only on their feelings when the doctor says to load the injured leg with 30% of the patient’s weight. Now, the availability of detailed information about weight bearing allows healthcare professionals to provide better guidance and make recovery faster, while avoiding complications and even do so at a distance. Aside from the necessity to properly adjust and control weight bearing on the injured or surgically operated leg, there is also a psychological aspect to consider, as many patients do not trust themselves when on their own, and without the guidance of their doctor. The device and app provide instant feedback, giving patients the confidence and information they need as and when required, at all times.

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Essential Takeaways from the Thought Leadership Discussion:

• COVID-19 was a crisis of speed and accuracy for risk management models.
• The pandemic featured previously unseen levels of market turbulence and government intervention.
• Backward-looking risk management models rapidly became obsolete, yielding inaccurate results.
• Expert human judgment proved key to managing risk, yet current modeling tools left the experts overwhelmed.
• The crisis highlighted the need for banks to accelerate the development of forward-looking models, including new sources of information, using new tools and techniques.
• Automation is essential to allow experts to focus more on using their knowledge, experience, and judgment.

Quotes:

“As with previous crises, expert judgment played a crucial role during the COVID-19 pandemic, and risk management technology must keep human risk management experts at the center and in control.” Frankie Phua Peng Yeo, Head, Group Risk Management, UOB, and Chairman of The Singapore Chapter of the Risk Management Association.

“Singapore is at the forefront of innovation in the financial sector, and the RMA plays a vital role by raising awareness in the use of new technologies in areas like Model Risk Management, and by discussing potential challenges around the use of AI in risk-related processes.” Gautam Mukharya Chief Risk Officer, HSBC Singapore, and Director of The Singapore Chapter of the Risk Management Association.

“Solving the speed and accuracy crisis in credit risk modeling requires new tools which go beyond statistical modeling to cover the multiple dimensions of credit risk including data preparation, regulations, documentation, and expert judgment.”Julian Phillips, COO, and Head of Data Science, SPIN Analytics

Founded in 1914, The Risk Management Association (RMA) is a not-for-profit, member-driven professional association, whose sole purpose is to advance the use of sound risk principles in the financial services industry. RMA promotes an enterprise approach to risk management that focuses on credit risk, market risk, and operational risk. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, RMA has approximately 1,900 institutional members that include banks of all sizes as well as nonbank financial institutions. They are represented in the association by 18,500 risk management professionals who are chapter members in financial centers throughout North America, Europe, and Asia/Pacific.

SPIN Analytics SPIN Analytics helps regulated banks and other credit providers improve credit risk management with its next-generation explainable AI-based platform, RISKROBOT.

To learn more, visit http://www.SPIN-Analytics.com.

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Essential Takeaways from the Roundtable:

*The COVID-19 pandemic introduced unprecedented levels of market turbulence and government intervention, leading to a “credit model accuracy crisis”. Banks rely heavily on models for estimating credit risk to make lending decisions and manage risk, but current approaches to modeling credit risk based on naïvely extrapolating historical trends produced dangerously inaccurate results in the crisis. Expert human judgment proved critical, yet current modeling tools are inefficient tools and left the experts overwhelmed.

*Banks have spent several years exploring the use of standardized statistical packages and machine learning tools for developing and maintaining Credit Risk Models, but the process remains manual, time-consuming (up to 6+ months per model for regulated models), labor-intensive, and costly (0.25-1million €to build, plus more for maintenance). Each Bank uses hundreds or even thousands of models, requiring support from hundreds of internal experts across multiple functions.

*Navigating through the COVID-10 crisis required exploring many different possible scenarios, so banks want to get much faster at credit risk modeling and integrating new sources of data much more quickly and efficiently. Critically, they also want to achieve this speed, efficiency, and flexibility while keeping human experts in the loop, fully in control, and spending their time on interpreting the results and applying expert judgment.

*Faster, more accurate, more forward-looking credit risk modeling remains a priority, and digitization, automation, and AI remain important components of any solution. However, the crisis has reinforced that credit risk management is about more than just historical data and statistical modeling. The next generation of tools for credit risk modeling must also integrate human judgment and credit experience.

Participants in the Roundtable included some of the biggest banks in France:

Société Générale, Crédit Agricole, October, Crédit MutuelArkea/ Financo, NatWestand other ecosystem players like EIFR, CapGemini Invent and others.

Quotes:

“The Covid crisis has shown that the ability to make forecasts on credit risks is context-dependent, which increases the importance of scenario analysis and more intensive use of analytics to better explain the decisions made in credit risk management.”

 Vivien Brunel, Head of Risk and Capital Modelling, Société Générale

“Critical to improving credit risk modeling during the Covid crisis has been combining sophisticated modeling, including AI, with expert judgment. Automation is essential to support and leverage the work of experts, allowing them to focus more on tasks requiring their knowledge, experience, and judgment.”

 Xavier Bocher, Head of Credit Risk Internal Models and Operational Research, Crédit Agricole

“October has achieved instant loan underwriting decisions by creating automation tools, specialized for credit risk, to use much more of the available data and accelerate the process, while leaving our experts fully in control. This gives us an advantage against established banks where credit models do not always take full advantage of the data available.”

Olivier Goy, CEO, October

“Continuing improvements in credit risk models are dependent on understanding that code is not the law and software is based on assumptions Black-box AI creates entirely new risks, with an associated tension between humans and technology. Resolving this tension requires Explainable AI in which experts remain in control and can use expert judgment to influence decisions, but also that there is trust between regulators and regulatees in integrating this new context to regulation.”

 Edouard-Francois de Lenquesaing, Président European Institute for Financial Regulation

“Key success factors for financial institutions in credit risk modeling include a single data lake, improved data quality, the use of explainable AI tools to automate processes and leverage as much as possible the credit experts.”

 Omar Megzari, Senior Manager at CapGemini Invent

“The Covid crisis has been a timely reminder that credit risk is about more than statistical modeling: human expertise and judgment remains more critical than ever, and by combining human expertise with automation we can go from raw data to credit models in hours or minutes instead of months.”

 Julian Phillips, COO and Head of Data Science at SPIN Analytics

“The consensus from the roundtable is clear – improving data preparation and management will be key to improving the credit risk modeling process and leveraging the time of expert credit resources, and explainable AI tools will support the experts and improve their contribution, not replace them!”

Andrew Stott, formerly Head of Western Europe for Oliver Wyman and board member at BBVA, currently Senior Advisor to SPIN Analytics

The Department for International Trade (DIT) is a United Kingdom government department responsible for striking and extending trade agreements between the United Kingdom and foreign countries, as well as for encouraging foreign investment and export trade.

SPIN Analytics SPIN Analytics helps regulated banks and other credit providers improve credit risk management with its next-generation explainable AI-based platform, RISKROBOT.

To learn more, visit http://www.SPIN-Analytics.com.

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On February 24th, 2021the United Kingdom’s Department for International Trade (DIT) and SPIN Analytics convened a Thought Leadership Roundtable to discuss the upheaval in Credit Risk Management with key players from Spain and Portugal’s banking ecosystems (bankers, associations, management consultants, and system integrators). The DIT and SPIN Analytics invited industry experts to share their experience, discuss the key challenges, and explore potential solutions. The round table was moderated by Andrew Stott, Senior Advisor to SPIN Analytics.

Essential Takeaways from the Roundtable:

*Credit risk management is the foundation of banking, yet it has never been more difficult. Banks were already under intense pressure to speed-up credit decisions and reduce costs without compromising risk management. The COVID-19 global pandemic introduced unprecedented market turbulence and government intervention and provided many examples of hownaïvely extrapolating credit risk experience from the recent past to forecast the future is dangerous in a crisis. Expert human judgment proved critical.

*Banks have spent several years exploring the use of standardized statistical packages and machine learning tools for developing and maintaining Credit Risk Models, but the process remains manual, time-consuming (up to 6+ months per model for regulated models), labor-intensive, and costly (0.25-1million €to build, plus more for maintenance). Each Bank uses hundreds or even thousands of models, requiring support from hundreds of internal experts across multiple functions.

*The pandemic highlighted how during a crisis, backward-looking models can quickly become out of date and dangerously inaccurate, or even fail entirely. By the time enough new data were available to rebuild the models, events had usually moved on once more. Unexplainable AI models and automation tools were not the solutions: it was essential to supplement historical data with expert judgment.

*Faster, more accurate, more forward-looking credit risk modeling remains a priority, and digitization, automation, and AI remain important components of any solution. However, the crisis has reinforced that credit risk management is about more than just historical data and statistical modeling. The next generation of tools for credit risk modeling must also integrate human judgment and credit experience.

Participants in the Roundtable included some of the biggest banks in the Iberia Region:

Abanca, Bankia, BBVA,Millenium BCP Bank, Caixa Geral de Depósitos, ING Spain, Credibom,Crédito Agricola, Natixis, Barclays Portugal, Haitong Bank Portugal, Unicre – InstituiçãoFinanceira de Crédito, S.A., Eurobic Bank, kutxabank, Montepio and other ecosystem players like Accenture, Bluecap, APB – Associação Portuguesa de Bancos.

Quotes:

“The Covid crisis highlighted the need for banks to accelerate the development of forward-looking models, including new sources of information. These sources include both internal information, such as transactional data e.g. related to credit card usage, or device-related information; as well as external, industry-related, or based on partnerships with 3rd parties. There are two main challenges to doing this – the time is taken to incorporate and update new types of data and the willingness of the regulators to consider these new types of model.”

Mercedes Morris Muñoz, Managing Director of GRM Retail Credit Risk, BBVA

“The Covid crisis has been extremely disruptive and Millenium BCP has been the leader in supporting the customers in Portugal. It is clear that all banks now have to work on improving and automating credit risk models to ensure those models are quickly adapted to the new context and the information available.”

José Miguel Pessanha, Executive Board Member and Chief Risk Officer, Millennium BCP Bank

“The Covid crisis has forced all banks to adjust for the moratoria granted to customers and to address the inadequacy of backward-looking credit risk models. At Caixa Geral, we are incorporating new data including feedback from customer surveys and accelerating the digital transformation of our approach to credit risk modeling.”

Vera Cardoso Santos, Deputy Director for Risk Management, Caixa Geralde Depósitos

“It is as much a question of what credit risk models can do for the data, as what data can do for credit risk models. Banks should stop dodging the lack of availability of data or budget and resolve data flows by working across business manager, credit risk modelers and IT.”

Josep Nadal, Lead Partner for Financial and Risk Consulting in Iberia in Accenture  

“Forward-looking models are essential to improving dynamic credit risk modeling, but many banks lack multi-disciplinary teams, accessibility of data and adequate governance around the modeling activity.”

Antoni Vidiella, Partner at Bluecap Management Consulting by Globant

“The Covid crisis provided a dramatic illustration of why automated statistical modeling alone cannot solve the industry’s problems with credit risk modeling. Credit risk is multidimensional, and a new generation of tools are required that integrate automation, statistical modeling, data science, AI, credit modeling knowledge, regulations, and, most importantly, human judgment and expertise.”

Julian Phillips, COO and Head of Data Science at SPIN Analytics

“While Covid has given all of us a stressful last 12 months, one of its “silver linings” has been to highlight the need for banks to accelerate credit risk model development and updating incorporating new data, as many of the roundtable participants confirmed. Ever since we started building credit risk models over 25 years ago, data availability and cleansing have always been the major challenge to model building. Now that, as we heard, explainable AI technology can be teamed with credit experts, hopefully, this challenge will soon be consigned to history.”

Andrew Stott, formerly Head of Western Europe for Oliver Wyman and board member at BBVA, currently Senior Advisor to SPIN Analytics

The Department for International Trade (DIT) is a United Kingdom government department responsible for striking and extending trade agreements between the United Kingdom and foreign countries, as well as for encouraging foreign investment and export trade.

SPIN Analytics SPIN Analytics helps regulated banks and other credit providers improve credit risk management with its next-generation explainable AI-based platform, RISKROBOT. To learn more, visit http://www.SPIN-Analytics.com.

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The Scallium platform consists of systems that cover all main business processes in e-commerce:

• Merchant onboarding and communications
• Product Information Management 
• Order Management
• Billing

The nucleus of this service’s ecosystem is a powerful PIM – Product Information Management. PIM lets companies reduce time to market of goods and content management expenses. It is especially important when a business has a massive amount of SKUs and integrates with different merchants.  

“This is our solution to the global crisis in 2020. We have researched that the majority of regional national and international retailers want to concentrate on their online strategy and become contributing marketplaces. Scallium implements more affordably within several days as compared to the high investments and longer implementation period of our few competitors. Clearly, retailers can test-drive Scallium with less risk to capital and know the results far sooner’’, – claims Andrey Pavlenko, CEO Scallium.

Company info: The Scallium platform is a comprehensive solution for process automation in e-commerce and omnichannel retail. One of our public case studies was for the development of a marketplace for LEROY MERLIN in Russia in 2017. Scallium also created b2b marketplace – HUBBER. This is the largest platform for suppliers and online stores in the Commonwealth of Independent States. 

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The competition task was to create a 50 drone New Year animation with a maximum length of 5 minutes using Blender animation software. Participants were allowed to make any shapes and use any colors. Angelito D. Jadormeo, the winner, estimates the task as challenging: he had to think about the concept which would involve not only a beautiful design ‘as is’ but be applicable once in flight. ‘You have to plan things like if you need to rig your design in your 3D application of choice, will it be a rotating object, a titling one, or something with more than one articulation. Will your design require dynamics and some sort of procedural animation, what light colors should it display etc’, he explains. 

The jury consisted of 9 people and scored each submission from 1 to 10 in 4 parameters: technical correctness of the animation, artistic value, following the “Winter Holidays / New Year” theme, visual impact. ‘I am delighted to get new names of animation designers out to companies operating in the rapidly developing drone show industry. We have received 153 registrations from over 50 countries. Keeping in mind the high quality of submissions we have selected 3 winners as planned and added a few jury’s favorites’, Alexey Dobrovolskiy, CTO at SPH Engineering, comments. 

Marc Loosli, CTO & Co-Founder, Swiss Drone Show Ltd., adds: ‘I am excited about the number of participants in the competition and especially about the creative and exciting shows that were entered. I am happy that there were many participants who created a drone show for the first time and hopefully we could inspire them for further creative shows’. 

In addition to Angelito D. Jadormeo, other top-5 designers are Isabel Caballero Fernández (Mexico, 2d place), Fu Chongyang (China, 3d place), Julien James Davis (United Kingdom), Hein HtetZaw (Myanmar), Oscar Stefanini (France). All designers are granted with certificates, free Drone Show Software training (worth EUR 12’000 each), and marketing support. The first and second prize winners will also receive complimentary iPhone 12 and Apple Watch Series 6 accordingly.

The International Drone Show Choreography Competition was established to create a global awareness for artists that there is the industry of drone shows that can open up opportunities. The goal was to start building up a community of like-minded people passionate about drones and modern art. More information about the competition is available at https://www.droneshowsoftware.com/competition#winners. The full recorded winner’s animation is available at https://youtu.be/ihFutJCFceU. Editors and design lovers may contact the jury members and award-winning designers via SPH Engineering’s PR manager Anastasia at avoronkova@ugcs.com.

About SPH Engineering / Drone Show Software

SPH Engineering (sph-engineering.com) is the world’s premier UgCS (ugcs.com) software developer and integration services provider for unmanned aerial systems. Founded in 2013 in Latvia, the company has created a rich global customer network while over 45% of customers are located in North America. Its developed UgCS, UgCS CC, UgCS Mapper, ATLAS, Drone Show Software, and Industrial Integration Solutions for UAV with Echo Sounders, Ground Penetrating Radars (GPR), Magnetometers, Metal and Methane detectors, enriched with radar/laser altimeters, are applied across a wide range of industries worldwide.

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What does onboarding mean?

Onboarding refers to the actions you take on your way to receiving a service. To open a Bilderlings account and make use of the fintech platform’s other advantages, you should sign up, submit the necessary documents, and access the system. The entire journey is now much simpler, faster and more convenient than ever before.

What advantages does online onboarding provide?

• Immediate system access upon registration. This is a demo version of your current account – familiarise yourself with the interface before an account is opened.
• In demo access mode, you can already start receiving internal payments.
• The main advantage of online onboarding is the speed with which your account is opened. If there are no issues with your documents, we will automatically grant account access in just a few minutes.

What affects the time it takes to open an account?

Here are a few suggestions to speed up your account opening process:

1) It is better to take a photo than to scan a document. Scanned images unfortunately often happen to be in poor quality, which means we will have to ask you to resubmit the affected document.

2) Identical spelling of your name and surname in each document. Your personal data should be spelled out in Latin script and perfectly match the spelling indicated in your passport.

3) The address on your utility bill should correspond to the address of your place of residence, and the personal data in the invoice should match the spelling on your identity document (passport or ID card).

If all data have been provided without issue, you will be able to use the current account within minutes! If you have not been granted account access immediately, don’t worry – some information just needs to be double-checked. We will set up your account within 1-2 days.

What about online onboarding for legal entities?

This will also be available soon. Businesses do require more documents than individuals, so we want to take time and get our automatic onboarding implementation right. We hope to launch it in several months.

Bilderlings is a British fintech providing financial services since 2015. A current account with Bilderlings is available to individuals and legal entities. With a dedicated IBAN it enables GBP, EUR and USD transfers to 150+ countries, supporting SWIFT, SEPA, FPS and Chaps, currency exchange, Mastercard, and you will have a dedicated manager assigned to your account.

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A COVID-19 pandemic has caused a freeze in the event market, however, surprisingly it has not created pent-up demand for drone light shows.  Self-isolation pushed a global wave of drone art shows enjoyed from the distance. For example, Wuhan, Dubai and Seoul performed huge shows  to say ‘thank you’ to healthcare and essential workers who sacrifice their lives on the pandemic frontline. There were, in fact, dozens of smaller scale shows devoted to frontliners and performed by SMEs globally with no limitation to language and creative goals. In the medium and long term, upon the pandemia completion and economic recovery, the drone show market is thought to continue growing, supported by new event trends and the adoption of laws in favor of UAVs.

Early in September the team of Drone Show Software by SPH Engineering, a Riga based UgCS software developer and integration services provider for unmanned aerial systems, conducted a couple of small working level surveys: in Baltics for potential clients to launch drone shows and globally among existing 50+ clients. As usual, people are observed to keep looking for creative ideas for seasonal greetings for the upcoming 2020-21 winter holidays. Based on these polls, new segments of potential customers who are ready to order a drone show in addition to regular outdoor event planners have been identified. The leading prospective segment has turned to be ‘drone shows for marketing purposes’. A drone show is believed to become a new WOW-trend in brand communication . This way of outdoor promotion, including logos made of drones,  may push the global interest to night sky as a new unexplored marketing space.. Another prospective application for drone shows could be that for extreme sport sites, moto and drag race openings, surf, kite and yachting spots, ski resorts, both mountain and cross-country. Such shows can increase brand awareness of a place, secure media coverage of non-standard performance and social media ‘word of mouth’ organic promo.

It is worth mentioning that the first winter drone show high in the mountains took place in 2018. It was powered by Intel and was devoted to the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Games. Even though the show was prerecorded, it became the record-setting aerial spectacle of that time with a gyrating snowboarder made of 1000+ drones being included into Olympic-themed animations. A year later on Jan. 1, 2020 Swiss St Moritz ski resort became the first ever mountain resort to perform a drone show for New Year celebrations. Swiss Drone Show, Switzerland, as a company focused on drone show solutions, demonstrated a real tech innovation introducing a festive show with 100 drones at 1800 m high in mountains in severe weather conditions (-15 degrees). Probably ski season 2020-21, if not limited with pandemic, will be lightened up with drone shows as light show providers in Europe and North America demonstrate particular interest in the solution.

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