Urho Konttori
Co-founder & CEO
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Distance Technologies

Urho Konttori is the Co-Founder and CEO of Distance Technologies and an inventor with a rich background in scaling deep technology across defence, automotive and industrial use-cases. Previously as the CEO and co-founder of Varjo, he significantly advanced VR and XR technologies for professional markets. Under his leadership at Varjo earned acclaim for producing the most sophisticated VR and XR devices globally. Before that at Microsoft and Nokia, Urho led HW, SW and Linux operating system development.
Distance is Europe’s counterpart to the new wave of defence and dual-use technology platforms building computational optics, 3D lightfield systems and visual AI for superhuman perception.