AUVSI's Unmanned Systems 2016

Gur Kimchi
Board Member and Technical Fellow at Ascent AeroSystems, Chairman and Co-Founder at a stealth middle-mile techops startup, Advisor at New Vista (NASDAQ: NVSA), HyPoint, North American Wave-Engine, GSI Technology (NASDAQ: GSIT), Vickers Aircraft, Opteran Technologies, Weel Autonomy, The Building Machines Company, and Bartini Aero



Mr. Kimchi is a technology veteran and an industry pioneer. After joining Amazon.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) in 2012, he co-founded the Amazon Prime Air delivery-by-drone project and led the organization for the next seven years to its FAA certification as a Part 135 commercial airline. Prior to Amazon, Mr. Kimchi spent ten years at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) where he was integral in the development of key technologies including Virtual Earth & Bing Maps, Contextual & Geosocial search, Cloud Infrastructure, Augmented and Virtual Reality, and Enterprise Communications. A veteran of five early stage companies, Mr. Kimchi served on the board of Waze (acquired by Google) and was one of the early developers of VoIP technology and IP-based telecommunications interoperability standards. Mr. Kimchi is a founding member of the Federal Aviation Administration Drone Advisory Committee, and worked in collaboration with the FAA, SESAR, NASA, and ICAO on the development of the Federated Airspace Management Architecture, enabling the safe integration of UAS and UAM into the airspace around the world.

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