Jason Chua

Jason Chua serves as the executive director of advanced projects at United Technologies Corporation where he is building a brand new organization dedicated to rapidly piloting ambitious and disruptive product demonstrators.

Prior to this, Chua was an executive at Airbus leading Transpose, a program completely rethinking the way aircraft cabins are experienced by passengers, and built by manufacturers. Their physical test platform is a full-size, fully engineered modular airplane cabin in Silicon Valley, where they conduct simulated flights and host industry workshops.

Chua co-founded the maker education initiative SparkTruck at Stanford’s d.school which brought hands-on exploration to standardized test-driven classrooms, led the MAKEwithMOTO research pilot at Motorola which brought mass customization tools to staid consumer tech products, and developed a variety of physical and digital retail experiences for Google’s early forays into smartphone manufacturing. Jason also led consumer experience and marketing at Knit Health, a startup focusing on pediatric health feedback through passive biometrics.

Jason Chua completed his undergraduate and Master’s degrees in product design and mechanical engineering at Stanford University, and hads spent time on campus as a lecturer at the d.school.