Year in Review with Liz Forro, Kenji Sugahara, and Charles Werner| Dawn of Autonomy Ep. 101

Livestreamed: 2025-12-10T16:00:00.000Z Sponsor of the Month: Truweather Solutions Website: https://truweathersolutions.com/ Episode Description: As the year wraps up, the Dawn of Autonomy podcast presents the “Best of 2025,” sponsored by TruWeather Solutions. For this special year-end episode, we feature three industry leaders who continue to influence the UAS and AAM landscape: Charles Werner, Director/Founder of DRONERESPONDERS, Kenji Sugahara, CEO for the Drone Service Providers Alliance (DSPA), and Liz Forro, Policy Director at Commercial Drone Alliance (CDA). Charles heads DRONERESPONDERS, the largest and leading nonprofit program to advance public safety, UAS, CUAS, AAM and UTM. Next, we have Kenji, who leads DSPA, a non-profit entity that represents over 35,000 small and medium sized drone businesses throughout the United States. Rounding out the panel is an influential voice in commercial drone and AAM policy, Liz Forro. She is the Policy Director at CDA, the leading advocacy organization focused on safely moving the commercial drone and AAM industries forward. Don’t miss this year-end conversation as they look back on the key industry developments that defined 2025 and predict what they expect in 2026.