After three long days of flashing smiles, mixing handshakes and pandemic-friendly elbow bumps, and talking about their vision for the future of roofing, John Kiesel and Ryan Resides could finally pause for a minute and take it all in.
Sitting on the top floor of the Ernest M. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, the two roofers by trade and newly-turned tech entrepreneurs could hardly believe the number of people they met and eyes they opened throughout the 2022 International Roofing Expo (IRE). As representatives for their new company, Imagine TechnologiesGroup (ITG), they spent the better part of the previous 72 hours talking about the future of drones in the roofing contractor space, and their unique contribution to the conversation.