Dr. Stefan Hrabar is the CEO and co-founder of Emesent and has been at the forefront of drone autonomy R&D for nearly 20 years. Following his PhD in Computer Science/Robotics on this topic, he spent 13 years at CSIRO where he continued his work on vision and lidar-based perception and navigation for drones. He led the development and commercialisation of Hovermap in CSIRO, and co-founded Emesent to bring this ground-breaking technology to market for mining and other applications.