Francesc Viaplana Rozman

I love technology since I was a child. I still remember Lego Mindstorm, a programmable lego set my father bought me at 8 years old. I spent hours playing and programming it without even know I was programming. Later in high school, I programmed an interactive chat game learning from an existing one, I still don't know which language it was written on. Then, the university came and I discovered that I could program flying things. It changed my life. I spent my Aerospace Engineering Bachelor’s degree learning about drone programming more than studying, I joined UPC Space Programm, a non-profit student organization dedicated to technology development. There I learned to fly drones, calculate High Altitude Ballon trajectories, build small-sized RC planes, manufacture complex composite-material parts and much more. These ambitions and knowledge lead me to work with Chatu Tech, a telecommunications company that was aiming to incorporate drones for close-range RFID readings in buildings, and with HEMAV in a project in collaboration with the NGO Open Arms, developing a refugee boats detection and tracking algorithm. Now, I’m working in my own company AldoraTech developing drone technology for parcel delivery and healthcare, from hardware to software, from composite manufacturing to artificial intelligence, using all the knowledge I gained in my past, aiming to change how we see things, aiming to transform the world.