Speaker Bio

Andres Van Swalm

Unifly NV

Chief Executive Officer

Andres Van Swalm is the CEO and co-founder of Unifly, a software company founded in 2015. He began his career in the aviation industry as an Air Traffic Control Officer in the Belgian Air Force, where he acquired valuable experience in Air Traffic Management (ATM). Using this expertise, he co-founded Unifly with a vision to enable autonomous aviation through its development of UAS Traffic Management (UTM) technology. Andres has played a key role in several drone and UTM projects, including the SESAR Joint Undertaking project CORUS, where he was involved in defining the UTM concept of operations. Additionally, he served as the work package leader in creating the UTM Architecture for the Global UTM Association (GUTMA).