Airbus UTM, Head of Product
Dr. Joe Polastre is Head of Product at Airbus UTM, the group designing the critical infrastructure which will allow new aircraft including air taxis and delivery drones to safely enter and share the skies of our future. Prior to Airbus, he was a Presidential Innovation Fellow at The White House and went on to co-found 18F, the U.S. government’s digital innovation team. Joe was product lead at Medium and founded Sentilla, an analytics startup acquired by Ericsson. Joe holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley where he developed Internet of Things networking standards. In his free time, Joe is an avid sailor and aspiring private pilot.
Airbus is member of the Global UTM Association.