aviation-tech
(2)
Arimac Digital
Arimac Digital is a full-stack digital product engineering company founded in Sri Lanka in 2011 and now operating out of Colombo, Dubai and beyond. It builds enterprise-grade web, mobile, AI, immersive and robotics products for global brands across fintech, telecom, aviation and consumer sectors - clients include Emirates, Etihad, Coca-Cola, Tesco, Visa and Ooredoo. With 400+ specialists, 850+ solutions delivered and a claimed 330 million+ digital lives reached, Arimac positions itself as one of South Asia's leading engineering-led digital studios, and made headlines building Diyazen, Sri Lanka's first humanoid robot.
Jia Xu
Jia Xu is CEO of SkyGrid, the Austin, Texas company building high-assurance airspace integration software for autonomous and unmanned flight. With a PhD from Stanford, dual master's degrees from Imperial College London and the London School of Economics, and career stints at the RAND Corporation, Airbus, General Atomics, and Honeywell Aerospace, Xu brings rare cross-disciplinary depth to one of aviation's hardest problems: teaching machines to share the sky. Under his leadership since August 2023, SkyGrid pivoted from generic airspace software to become a specialized third-party services provider for advanced air mobility - and was acquired by Wisk Aero (a Boeing subsidiary) in June 2025.