Officials look to lure Ukrainian drone makers to metro Atlanta

Gwinnett County officials and community development leaders are working to woo Ukrainian drone makers as they try to make the region a major tech hub.

These efforts were on full display Thursday at an event in Norcross aimed at highlighting drone technologies and ways U.S. and Ukrainian entrepreneurs can collaborate. Though current relations between the two countries’ leaders may be frosty, the atmosphere in the room was warm and inviting.

“It will be not about politics or any questions related to that. It is about business,” Valerii Iakovenko, founder of the DroneUA group and its American subsidiary, Futurology, said at the start of the event.