Reinaldo Negron

Reinaldo Negron is the Head of UTM for Wing, leading product development for UTM and Operator applications; UTM integration activities in the U.S., Australia and Europe, including how UTM services can provide SORA mitigations reducing operator risk; standards development including at ASTM; and fostering industry collaboration such as the InterUSS Open Source project. Reinaldo brings the perspective of an operator, service provider and manufacturer, and engages regularly with a broad range of stakeholders including ICAO, CANSO, CAAs and ANSPs, Federal, State and Local law enforcement as well as hobbyist and commercial UAS pilots and operators. He is a passionate advocate for the emerging UAS ecosystem and the role that UTM can play in accelerating access to the sky.
Prior to Wing, Reinaldo developed technical solutions for large scale advertising clients at Google. He also spent nearly a decade designing air traffic management systems at Lockheed Martin – including integrated Arrival, Departure and Surface Management; Airport Collaborative Decision Making; and R&D in Collaborative Air Traffic Management focused on airspace constraint management and airline planning strategies.

Emmie Derbäck

Emmie Derbäck is a member of the InterUSS Platform Outreach Committee and leads communications for global airspace and EMEA at Wing. In her work for the InterUSS Platform, she works to advance awareness and implementation of open source, collaborative interoperability approaches and solutions. Prior to delving into uncrewed aviation, Emmie led communications and PR for a number of robotics and autonomous vehicle companies and worked on the legal communications side of several highly-regulated industries. She is a graduate of Georgetown University.

Michael Barroco

Michael Barroco is an experienced contributor to the evolving U-Space ecosystem, both in his home country of Switzerland and internationally. Alongside his membership of the InterUSS technical steering committee, he was actively involved in the U-Space implementation programme of the Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation, leading its UAS Flight Authorisation Technical Working Group. He managed the successful first trial involving the full ASTM-compliant strategic coordination implementation of the DSS and has been also the architect for the initial SCD automated testing functionality integrated into the InterUSS codebase. Michael is founder and CEO of Orbitalize, a Geneva-based start-up offering solutions for local airspace management, most recently working with Skyguide on its DSS deployment and the Swiss U-Space web and mobile applications.

Matt Satterley

Matthew Satterley is a member of Wing’s Policy & Government Relations team. Matthew supports a global government affairs team with a particular interest toward airspace integration policy. He has worked for a decade to help shape UAS Traffic Management in the United States and Europe, and supported development of policy and regulatory frameworks across several continents.

Prior to his work with drone policies, Matthew worked in the U.S. House of Representatives where he last served as Deputy Chief of Staff and Legislative Director to Congressman Frank A. LoBiondo during his Chairmanship of the Aviation Subcommittee.

Brendan Hillis

Brendan Hillis is a UTM Product Manager at Wing, an Alphabet company focused on drone delivery and operator services. In this role, Brendan leads Wing’s RPAS Platform product, which focuses on providing regulators with tools to manage an ecosystem of USSs. He also contributes to the InterUSS project helping to refine the automated testing suite of products to better address the needs of regulators and USSs.

Prior to joining wing Brendan held multiple positions at Lockheed Martin and Leidos, focused on design, development, and implementation of Air Traffic Management (ATM) systems for the FAA and for other international ANSPs. With over a decade of experience in air traffic flow management and system architecture, Brendan is passionate about using technology to solve real-world problems.

Brendan holds a Master’s degree in Systems Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rowan University.

Sebastian Babiarz

Sebastian Babiarz is Head of Airspace Innovation for Europe at DroneUp. DroneUp makes drone delivery services suitable for everyone; our mission is to be the industry’s most open and flexible flight delivery services partner — an integrated platform that makes drones the most simple, efficient way for businesses to reach their communities.
Sebastian advises and collaborates with Global and European regulators and standards organizations as they work to build regional regulatory frameworks to enable safe and scalable drone operations.
Before DroneUp, Sebastian was the COO of DroneHub, a drone-in-the-box company that builds automated hangars for autonomous drones.
Between 2017 and 2020, he was Head of Strategic Business Development at AirMap, successfully creating AirMap business across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).
Prior to DroneHub and AirMap, Sebastian held various positions in mobile networks for Nokia, Siemens, Ericsson, and Alcatel-Lucent for more than ten years. During this time, he focused on driving drone innovation within the mobile telecom industry and its role in a connected society and within the Internet of Things (IoT) solutions.
Sebastian is the co-founder and Executive Board Member of the Global Uncrewed Traffic Management Association (GUTMA).
He also held a board member position of the GUTMA & GSMA joint working group ACJA.

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Cristian Pradera

Cristian Pradera is an aeronautical engineer specialized in rocket engines, graduated in the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 2008. He started his professional career as a consultant in ENAIRE, working for 5 years in the Planning and Strategy division, where he contributed to the development of ENAIRE’s business plan and also to the elaboration of the European ATM Master Plan under the SJU. He then joined EUROCONTROL for 3 years, working in the ATM Master Plan Unit and then he moved to the SESAR Deployment Manager in 2017, where he became the Planning Manager, in charge of the planning activities related to the implementation of the Common Projects, DataLink Services and ADS-B Out.

Karsten Stoye

• Joined the German Armed Forces 42 years ago
• Studied Economics and Administrative Sciences in Hamburg
• 3,000+ hours flying, mainly on the TORNADO jet
• Base commander of the Tactical Air Wing 51 from 2007 to 2010
• Flew 70 operational missions in various missions, including an ISAF-assignment as Base Commander in Afghanistan
• 10 years of experience in NATO assignments, including NATO E-3A Component Commander of the AWACS fleet
• previous assignment as Chief of Staff at NATO’s Headquarters Allied Air Command in Ramstein
• head of the Civil-Military Cooperation Division at Eurocontrol since 2021

Steven Truxal

Full Professor of Air and Space Law and Director of the International Institute of Air and Space Law at Leiden University. He is also Programme Director for Leiden’s award-winning Advanced Master of Laws programme in Air and Space Law. Steven’s research focuses on economic and environmental regulation of air transport. He worked previously for University of London, Humboldt University of Berlin and Deutsche Lufthansa AG.