8th Annual GRCon
GRCon is the annual conference for the GNU Radio project & community, and has established itself as one of the premier industry events for Software Radio. It is a week-long conference that includes high-quality technical content and valuable networking opportunities. GRCon is a venue that highlights design, implementation, and theory that has been practically applied in a useful way. The conference has grown in size every year, and we are once again expecting significant growth this year. GRCon attendees come from a large variety of backgrounds, including industry, academia, government, and hobbyists.
GRCon18 was held at the Henderson Convention Center in Henderson, Nevada, a suburb of Las Vegas, Nevada.
With an annual program that has broad appeal, GRCon attracts people new to Software Radio just looking to learn more, folks that want to keep their finger on the pulse & direction of the industry, and seasoned developers ready to show off their latest work.
Diamond Sponsors
Ettus Research
Ettus Research™, a National Instruments (NI) company since 2010, is the world’s leading supplier of software defined radio platforms, including the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP™) family of products. By supporting a wide variety of development environments on an expansive portfolio of high performance RF hardware, the USRP platform is the SDR platform of choice for thousands of engineers, scientists and students worldwide for algorithm development, exploration, prototyping and deployment for next generation wireless technologies across a wide variety of applications.
Skysafe
SkySafe provides world-class drone defense and airspace control solutions. Founded in 2015 in San Diego, CA, our team consists of drone experts from MIT, UC San Diego, the Air Force Research Lab, and more. Our industry and intellectual experience includes leaders from the fields of security research, RF engineering, academia, and the military. We are a collection of diverse, capable, and hard working professionals who enjoy attacking the hardest challenges–we also have a lot of fun.
Platinum Sponsors
Analog Devices
About Analog Devices Analog Devices (Nasdaq: ADI) is the leading global high-performance analog technology company dedicated to solving the toughest engineering challenges. We enable our customers to interpret the world around us by intelligently bridging the physical and digital with unmatched technologies that sense, measure, power, connect and interpret. Visit www.analog.com.
Nuand
Nuand has been developing and maintaining the bladeRF, an open source Software Defined Radio, since its original Kickstarter campaign in 2013. With the release of the latest bladeRF 2.0 micro, Nuand is focusing on the needs of MIMO OFDM modems such as 802.11ax and 5G LTE. With its decades of combined experience in software defined radios, enterprise networking equipment, and defense, Nuand is pushing the envelope of what is possible with low-cost SDRs.
Gold Sponsors
CyberRadio Solutions
CyberRadio’s mission is to deliver rugged hardware solutions that combine wideband RF tuners with embedded FPGA-based signal processing and standard network data interfaces for worldwide connectivity. CyberRadio Solutions GNURadio modules provide seamless open-source software development on all CyberRadio products. The addition of GNURadio modules enable the CyberRadio Solutions product line to support SDR applications. For More information on our GNU Radio Modules please visit us at www.cyberradiosolutions.com
Silver Sponsors
DeepSig
DeepSig is pioneering the use of deep learning for signal processing and radio systems, developing fundamentally new methodologies for the design and optimization of wireless communications. Our approach uses AI to learn optimized models directly from data rather than manually designing specialized algorithms, creating communications systems that excel in complex environments and are optimized end-to-end. By creating new tools, algorithms, and approaches for signal processing systems, DeepSig is able to achieve unparalleled results in system performance. DeepSig’s engineers have published many of the seminal scientific papers in this area, and are the technical leaders in building real-world practical systems with this technology.
Leonardo DRS
Leonardo DRS is a leading provider of high-performance software-definable radios designed with an unsurpassed ability to detect very weak signals in dense and noisy signal environments. DRS is a strong supporter of, and active participant in, the SDR communities and is focused on developing SDR software that runs in open source frameworks such as GNU Radio. In addition to SDRs, DRS designs HF through SHF tuners, receivers, transceivers and data recorders that are driven by cutting-edge mechanical packaging that yields the best in size, weight and power reductions.
Great Scott Gadgets
Great Scott Gadgets makes open source hardware for innovative people.Everything we produce at Great Scott Gadgets is open source, including all our hardware designs, software, and educational content. Our goal is to enable you to do things nobody has done before. We do that by building innovative hardware and software tools and by educating the community both online and through industry events. Most importantly, we support the community by releasing all of our work under open source licenses.Follow @GSGlabs on Twitter.
