Highlights from the 2020 PX4 Developer Summit

The Ultimate guide to the Summit.

The 2020 edition of the PX4 Developer Summit was a huge success, made possible by the amazing community who came together for the two-days of content and interactions.

The Dronecode Foundation is incredibly proud to have had the opportunity to virtually host the event and provide a platform for our global community to learn together.

📌 Brought to you by Dronecode

The PX4 Developer Summit 2020, was produced by Dronecode, and made possible thanks to the contributions of community volunteers, and the great effort by the Content Committee.

📼 Recordings

All of the sessions for both days are now up on the PX4 YouTube channel, all LIVE & PRE-RECORDED presentations are now available.

✨ Can’t miss Moments

• Get an overview of the current state of all of our open source projects by Dr. Lorenz Meier on our Day 1 Keynote
• Live MAVSDK demo, live builds, tests, and pull request submissions (live!)
• Pixhawk SIG members share the latest from the Pixhawk Standards, for next-gen FMU, Payload, BMS, and the UAVCAN SIG.

📈 Top Rated Talks by our Community

• Keynote: Setting the standards in the drone industry for a decade
• Towards a Lightweight Software Architecture for PX4 Computer Vision
• An In-depth Look at the Multicopter Control System Architecture
• Simulated Workflows using Software-In-The-Loop Simulations
• Embedded machine learning in practice
• The BVLOS future of drone software and industry standardization

What’s your favorite so far? Let us know on social media

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🤳 Community Feedback

Our awesome community shared some feedback with us through a post-event survey that we launched last week, and we had a total of 116 responses, here’s what some of them had to say.

75% are using PX4 for work

What did you like the most about the event ❤️ ?

Variety of highly qualified speakers in their specialties and easy access to the event

Community Member, submitted through the post event survey.

There were many speakers with deep knowledge of what they were presenting. I surely learned a lot just watching their presentations. And the list of presentations with automatic adjustment for other timezones in the Sched website was fantastic.

Community Member, submitted through the post event survey.

96% are likely to attend another PX4 event in the future

Where can we improve? 📌

What I would like to see more would be tutorial sessions and workshops.

Community Member, submitted through the post event survey.

KEEP DOING IT ONCE IN 6 MONTHS AND VIRTUALLY FOR THE WHOLE WORLD

Community Member, submitted through the post event survey.

94% would recommend the Summit to a friend or colleague

How can we make this event better? (Recommendations / Suggestions)

More live demos or simulations of current projects

Community Member, submitted through the post event survey.

I’m actually satisfied with this event. One of the most insightful summit i’ve attended. Thank you for organizing this!

Community Member, submitted through the post event survey.

Please keep it online and free as this time

Community Member, submitted through the post event survey.

💬 Live Chat

The community followed the event through the PX4 slack channel #px4-dev-summit where our awesome team of volunteers ran fun surveys and collected questions some which got answered live on stream.

🗞 News during the summit

Here’s what some of our members had to say during the summit.

🎉 After Party

The not-so-secret after-party was held as promised, we were joined by more than 20 community members (🐶 and at least four dogs). It was the perfect way to end the Summit, chatting with friends and sharing PX4 stories.

👀 See you soon.

We are excited about the PX4 Developer Summit 2021. We are hoping to host the event at ETH Zurich again next year. We will have more news as soon as the global situation calms down, and once travel restrictions have been lifted.

We want to bring you the best of both events and will be looking at more opportunities for the community to get access to the Developer Summit in the future.

👏 Thank you, Sponsors & Partners

This event was made possible thanks to the enormous support from our Sponsors and Partners.