Kevin Kajitani

Kevin Kajitani

Originally from Seattle, Kevin graduated from the University of Washington in 2006 with a degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics and began his career at Boeing Commercial Airplanes working on the development of the 787 Dreamliner. In 2010, he joined ANA where he assisted with the introduction of the 787 as part of the flight operations performance engineering team and later developed an AI-powered demand forecast system while working in ANA’s Marketing Department. A founding member of ANA’s Digital Design Lab, he also developed and launched the airline’s original crowdfunding platform, “WonderFLY.” In 2016, he worked with the XPRIZE Foundation to design the next global competition where he, together with Akira Fukabori, proposed the ANA Avatar XPRIZE concept which is now an active prize. Kevin co-founded avatarin Inc. with Akira Fukabori in April 2020 and the company was selected as a Harvard Business School case study in June 2021.

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28 May 2019
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