Aviv Shapira

CEO & Co-Founder, XTEND

Speaker Bio

Aviv is an Aerospace Engineer, mastered in Rocket Propulsion. He served as a Lieutenant in the Israeli Air Force, as Satellite launch manager.


Holds two Emmy Awards for the best broadcasting technology of 2013 and 2015.


Aviv Shapira co-founded Replay Technologies, which invented a new volumetric video format that has been used at major sports events around the world.  Replay Technologies was acquired by Intel in 2016.


With a background in aerospace and over 10 years in the space and drones’ industry, Aviv is now combining his passion, expertise and hobbies as a co-founder and CEO at XTEND.


XTEND provides revolutionary human-guided autonomous machine systems that enable any operator to perform extremely accurate manoeuvres and actions, in any environment with minimal training.


The company’s patented XOS operating system fuses the best of human intelligence and machine autonomy to enhance the operator’s abilities.