DBTB INT Nicholas Pilkington r
Recording: DBTB INT Nicholas Pilkington r
my name is Nicholas Pilkington I'm the CTO of drone play I think it's about sharing the state of the nation on the drone economy three years ago drones weren't really a thing you may be see one occasionally flying in the park whereas nowadays it's not unusual to see an article about them in the new york times or the wall street journal so we're really exciting to share that with everyone show that this technology is real that it's being used on a daily basis and people are extracting a lot of value from the results I think for us it really helps with kind of product decisions seeing all this imagery seeing this really high resolution highly temporal imagery arriving at the platform it's really exciting to see what people are doing but also what they're trying to do and I think it's what they're trying to do that's most exciting for us because that really helps us build tools that help them succeed if we see somebody who's flying over a bunch of golf courses we see a lot of golf course maps appearing I'll give them a call and say like what are you trying to do like how can we help are you trying to analyze and I think just by pure nature imagery is a lot more exciting the numbers and text so it's fun to work with that comes with its own problems that are obviously I think that probably probably 21 is the hardware it's good enough we shouldn't be waiting we shouldn't be waiting for us to get better you can go out there and generate all this data now with off-the-shelf hardware and the other is that we're going to encourage developers to build off this imagery we really as a company going to be focused on the data acquisition and processing that into nice clean author rectified data sets but we're never going to go very deep into the specific verticals and we're going to look to developers and other companies to build on top of the symmetry and I think that's going to be a very exciting kind of q4 and 2016 for us I think underneath all of these kind of that drive there's got to be a sort of passion there's got to be a passion for problem solving you've got a you've got to kind of want that outcome and everything else kind of falls out of that putting in the time putting in the energy learning the necessary skills it's a relatively new field in the state that it is at the moment so putting in the time to kind of solve problems or having that sort of curiosity and the curious mindset it's really going to help you out it's really going to push you forward when things get difficult and things get challenging I think it's important to have that underneath everything