Sessions of 2026 Midwinter Leadership Conference: Nick Langolf
 
          Mr. Langolf, Nick
                  Drones/UAS - Safety & Certification Strategist
                      
Nick Langolf's background and experiences include roles in designing, developing, selling and managing disruptive and innovative technology solutions. For the past decade, Nick has had the pleasure to work with commercial and academic institutions around the adoption of Drone/Unmanned Technology (UAS), advising commercial organizations that want to learn more about adopting UAS technology to those that have adopted the technology, experienced its significant value, recognize its risk and engage with USI on best practices to negate those risks and seek their help in developing a workforce to support their UAS operational needs. That need and insight has resulted in Nick's counseling and empowering of academic institutions around Drone curriculum/training approaches, teacher/staff/SRO professional development, virtual instruction, equipment/safety hardware consideration, simulation and more. Nick is leading students to be commercially licensed at 16, earning college credit, multiple industry certifications and into a workforce development pipeline around this emerging and amazing technology.
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