Plaid shirts and jeans mixed with suits and ties as farmers, students and educators mingled in an exhibit hall at the Ventura County Office of Education conference center in Camarillo.
At the end of a row of display tables featuring companies showing off their products, a group of Oxnard Union High School District students huddled around a fixed-wing drone belonging to David Alamillo, the chief pilot and flight operations manager at Dronifi, a Westlake Village-based drone technology company.