Chris Urmson

Chris Urmson

Chris Urmson is the co-founder and CEO of Aurora, a company that is building self-driving technology to deliver the benefits of the future of transportation safely, quickly, and broadly. Before founding Aurora, he helped build Google’s self-driving car program and served as chief technology officer. Urmson was also previously a faculty member of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He has been instrumental in instigating and advancing the development of self-driving vehicles and the industry for the last 15 years.