This might be of interest to folks in Bay Area, CA:

IEEE chapter will have a speaker from local AUVSI chapter giving a presentation titled:
"Challenges Impeding the Application of Unmanned Air Systems (UAS)"

Event is free and will be held at Carnegie Mellon's campus (well building) at NASA AMES
more info at:

http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/ras/