DUBAI AIRSHOW 2025: Jia Xu of SkyGrid on How its Autonomy Technology Is Shaping Future AAM Operations

At this year’s Dubai Air­show, eVTOL Insights’ Exec­u­tive Edi­tor Jason Pritchard spoke with Jia Xu, CEO of Sky­Grid and heard more about the com­pa­ny’s work in the Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty mar­ket.

Jia goes into detail about the next tech­ni­cal or reg­u­la­to­ry mile­stone the com­pa­ny is tar­get­ing, to enable large-scale autonomous oper­a­tions. He also talks about how Sky­Grid sees itself when con­nect­ing drones and eVTOL air­craft to broad­er ecosys­tems.

Addi­tion­al­ly, Jia shares more infor­ma­tion about Sky­Grid’s work­ing rela­tion­ship with Wisk, after the com­pa­ny became a sub­sidiary in June 2025.

He deep dives into the poten­tial of the Mid­dle East region, build­ing dig­i­tal flight cor­ri­dors or real-time decon­flic­tion for AAM auton­o­my and how tech­nol­o­gy can inte­grate with tra­di­tion­al air traf­fic man­age­ment sys­tems.