Aviv Shapira is an Aerospace Engineer mastered in Rocket Propulsion. He served as a Lieutenant in the Israeli Air Force as a Satellite launch manager. Aviv co-founded Replay Technologies, which invented a new volumetric video format used at major sporting events worldwide and earned him two Emmy Awards for best broadcasting technology in 2013 and 2015. Replay Technologies was acquired by Intel in 2016.

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

XTEND provides revolutionary, human-guided, autonomous machine systems that enable any operator to perform highly accurate maneuvers 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.