page_title: Jani Hirvinen
section_title: Golog First International Plateau Drone Culture Conference
hierarchical_section_title: Jani Hirvinen / Key events / Golog First International Plateau Drone Culture Conference
caption_attribution_description: Location of Golog Prefecture (yellow) within Qinghai province of China Map drawn in september 2007 using various sources, mainly&#160;: Qinghai province administrative regions GIS data: 1:1M, County level, 1990 Qinghai Counties map from "Plateau Perspectives" (the limits of some county-level subdivisions may not be accurate)
context_page_description: Jani Hirvinen is one of the early Finnish IT-technology pioneers. Hirvinen is also one of the first ones developing small private sector professional level UAVs. He is among the top developers of the ArduCopter platform that - together with the included autopilot - changed the way drones are being flown all over the world. He is also the co-founder of famous international unmanned institutions ArduPilot, DIYDrones and DroneCode.
  On top of being a developer, Hirvinen is also a visionary. According to him, we are facing Planet 5.0, an era transforming us to work and live differently in terms of logistics, transportation and human interaction. This will also open doors for us to explore planets far beyond ours.
context_section_description: The first international high-altitude drone culture forum of Guoluo (Golog) was held on 5 August 2019. There organizers of this unique conference and forum were the Party Golog Prefecture Committee, and the Qinghai Province Sports Bureau.
  Jani Hirvinen was invited as one of the key guests to the event.
caption: Golog Prefecture in China.
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