“The 2013 Small Unmanned Systems Business Exposition was the first U.S. commercial drone show; it launched the drone show craze.”
"We just got tired of all of the military hardware mucking up a perfectly good commercial industry. It is still very common for a UAS symposium focus to go straight to the expensive air superiority gray systems. It rapidly became tedious to argue that $5500 to $37,000 an hour operational costs would be hard for a non-DoD business model to support. At the other end of the spectrum, folks think you can do 89 billion dollars worth of work with a consumer grade quad copter. "
"Our goal was to design a program that everyone, including experts, could come and “learn how to earn!” We also wanted something that had a golden ticket sort of networking event feel. It is almost impossible to sidebar with industry experts who have to share limited bandwidth with too many people. And after all, learning and networking are what a business show should be about."
- Patrick Egan, Host and Executive Producer of the sUAS News Podcast Series, Drone TV and the Small Unmanned Systems Business Exposition