Speakers

Sun Kim is a consultant focused on development and implementation of, and compliance of products to international standards for non-sewered sanitation for global application for customers that currently do not have access to safe, affordable, and aspirational sanitation systems & services and in aviation safety. He is the chair of ISO Project Committee PC305 & Working Group convenor as well as supporting Boeing 777-9 certification. Most recently, Sun was a Senior Program Officer on the WSH team at the Gates Foundation, working as a product development and compliance manager. He joined the foundation in 2014 and for more than 8 years supported the effort to help enable access for billions of people without safely managed sanitation. As a member of the Transformative Technology Commercialization team, Sun managed philanthropic investments in the area of international standards development, implementation, testing, and certification as well as reinvented toilet development and commercialization working with R&D organizations and commercial entities. Prior to the foundation, Sun was an Associate Technical Fellow at Boeing Commercial Airplanes working for 28 years on pressurized doors structures, mechanisms, and systems design, analysis, build, test, and validation. His areas of focus were safety, certification, reliability, functionality, ease of production, reduced weight, reduced costs, and value to the customer. He was also an Authorized Representative of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration interfacing with regulators from the U.S, European Aviation Safety Agency, United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority, Russian, Chinese, and other national aviation authorities