Top Products and Solutions Selected by Leading UAV Industry Journalists
Las Vegas, NV – DefendEye, Pants for Birds, and Skyline Nav AIIhave been named the three winners of the annual “Pitch the Press” competition at Commercial UAV Expo, the leading international trade show and conference focused on commercial drone technology.
Each year, Commercial UAV Expo hosts “Pitch the Press,” a unique opportunity for exhibitors to present their products to a group of editors and reporters looking for the unique new technology being showcased at Commercial UAV Expo. Fifteen exhibitors were selected from a large pool of applicants to share their latest product or service during the one-hour event. Each exhibitor gave a two-minute elevator pitch to members of the media, followed by a short Q&A.
This year’s judges included Nathan Roe of Lidar News and Scott Howe of Commercial UAV News. These judges listened to two-minute pitches from company representatives and then evaluated the presentations, looking for innovation and potential for ROI, to select the top three.
The 2025 winners are:
The judges were impressed by Pants for Birds’ ADSBee 1090 series of open-source embedded ADS-B receivers. These low-cost, highly adaptable units, they felt, could be useful in a wide variety of applications involving aircraft and drone detection. Similarly, the judges felt that DefendEye’s small, tube-launched drone system could improve the speed and effectiveness of many public safety and law enforcement operations, and they saw Skyline Nav AI, with its focused public safety mission, as an important addition to the uncrewed systems sector.
“The winners of this year’s Pitch the Press presented innovative business concepts with clearly defined applications and use cases,” Roe said.
“The creativity and ingenuity in all of these solutions is incredible,” said Carla Lauter, Content Manager for Geo Week News, who served as the moderator for the event. “The winners represent some true out-of-the-box thinking and are bringing drone technology to more applications and industries than previously possible.”
Below is a complete list of companies that took part in Pitch the Press:
About Commercial UAV Expo
Commercial UAV Expo, presented by Commercial UAV News, is an international conference and expo exclusively focused on commercial UAS integration and operation. The event will take place September 2-4, 2025, at Caesars Forum in Las Vegas, NV. For more information, visit www.expouav.com.
Commercial UAV Expo is produced by Diversified’s technology portfolio, which also includes Commercial UAV News, Commercial UAV Forum, Geo Week, Geo Week Newsletter, Geo Business (UK), and Digital Construction Week (UK).
For more information about exhibiting at Commercial UAV Expo, visit the exhibitor information page or contact Carmella Perrone, Sales Manager, at [email protected] or +1-207-842-5646. For information on attending, visit www.expouav.com or email [email protected].
