This week’s speaker is Chuck Adams, the CEO and founder of 1UP. They sell drones, sensors, provide expert consultation, aerial services, training and development to a range of industries; engineering, commercial real estate, land development, construction, insurance, forensic science, surveying, to name a few.

Chuck is part CEO part certified pilot and part IT veteran.

His company sees the intersection of what leading edge companies can do with unmanned aircraft and the “industrial strength, information gatherers” that drones represent.  Combine drones with aerial inspection, orthomosaic photos, videos, 3D modeling, GIS software, and they see their clients get extremely excited about the opportunity to integrate these new, state of the art, aerial services into their business processes. 
 
HDR Engineering contracted 1UP to provide timely, cost effective, marketing photos for a 9 mile stretch of the I-70 "lid". Historically this would have required an expensive helicopter, fixed wing aircraft, months of scheduling and coordination. 1UP accomplished the mission in 1 week from contract authorization to finished delivery of the photographs. Please come and meet and hear Chuck.
 
We are still trying to get all members to complete our survey. The idea is two-fold. First, we are seeking consensus of the good and not so good about our club. Only members can point those things out to us. Secondly, we want to determine those things which would constitute a member profile for each member. We have about 20 who have not sent their surveys. A few have had difficulty getting the survey to send. If you are experiencing technical difficulties, simply print the survey, bring it in to Keith and we will enter it for you. We will do whatever it takes to maximize the number of members included.
 
This is a Board Meeting week. The meeting is open to all members and will start at 5PM in person and zoom.