Guests of Tartu Geo Podcast
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Romeo Durscher
Romeo Durscher is the Vice President of Public Safety at Auterion, the premier end-to-end operating systems for commercial drones, based on open-standards, flexibility and choices. Born and raised in Switzerland, Romeo came to Auterion after 6 years at DJI, where he built the public safety vertical and has become one of the most trusted global leaders and evangelists in small Unmanned Aircraft Systems integration and deployments. Prior to joining the drone industry, he spent 13 years at NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.
Part of his work is advising first responders and humanitarian organizations on proper drone use and data integration, collaborating with R&D teams on hardware and software solutions, and expanding the drone ecosystem to enhance fully integrated end-to-end solutions and workflows.
Romeo has actively participated in drone missions for search and rescue operations, natural disasters, such as the Tubbs, Carr and Camp Fires in California, emergency responses, and various training exercises. He has led global partnerships, such as European Emergency Number Association (EENA), to develop protocols, standards and best practices for public safety officials to integrate drones into their workflows. Commercial UAV News named Romeo “One of the 25 Most Influential People in the Commercial Drone Industry”, as well as “One of the Top 7 Drone Visionaries in Emergency Response & Public Safety”. The non-profit global organization DRONERESPONDERS awarded him with their first “Public Safety Drone Leadership Award” and the Unmanned Tactical Applications Conference awarded Romeo with the “The Supporting Those Who Serve” annual award, as a recognition of his exceptional leadership advancing the implementation of public safety drone programs across the globe.
Romeo has appeared in media forums from ABC’s Good Morning America, New York Times, Wired magazine, to Forbes and held keynote presentations, panels, workshops and webinars across the world, sharing success stories, use cases, lessons learned, and his vision of the drone industry. Romeo can be found on Twitter at []@RomeoCH](http://www.twitter.com/romeoch).
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/romeodurscher/
- Auterion: www.auterion.com
Jaak Laineste
Jaak Laineste is the Director of Research at Sixfold. Sixfold is Europe’s leading provider of visibility services. Their technology integrates transport management systems, truck telematics, mapping data, and predictive analytics. Sixfold help the world’s biggest companies, their carriers and customers to get accurate delivery estimates and see where their shipments are in real time.
In the episode Jaak also provides us with an overview of his impressive and diverse background and career path. For more info check out Jaak’s LinkedIn profile.
Gaspar Anton
Gaspar is the founder & CEO at EyeVi Technologies. EyeVi provides on-demand mapping technologies for transportation infrastructure consulting, management and services companies. EyeVi’s mission is to make 3D mapping more accessible and infrastructure management more sustainable.
Erki Saluveer
Erki is the CEO of the location and mobility data analytics company Positium from Tartu, Estonia, which is the leading company in the world specialising in mobile positioning data for official statistics. Erki graduated the Geography curriculum in Tartu and is currently also finalizing his PhD studies.
Kaupo Voormansik and Tanel Tamm, KappaZeta
KappaZeta is Estonian Earth Observation company founded by four people (Kaupo Voormansik, Tanel Tamm, Kalev Koppel & Karlis Zalite) as Tartu Observatory spin-off in 2015. We concentrate on radar remote sensing technology and agricultural applications. Today we are a team of 10 people with 5 PhDs with offices in Tartu and Kuressaare. We believe in open approaches and would like to make EO data easily available and useful for everyone.