Aerospace Advances: Innovation at the Intersection of Tech & Policy

The Wharton Club of DC is proud to launch the Leadership in Innovation Series — a premier platform showcasing the entrepreneurs, executives, and investors who are shaping the future of the Washington, DC innovation economy. Through quarterly events in partnership with Arlington Economic Development, they are bringing together business leaders, founders, investors, academics, and policymakers. Hear directly from industry pioneers, build powerful connections, and strengthen the innovation ecosystem in the DC metro region — all powered by the Wharton alumni network and its partners, including Harvard, Oxford and other top alumni and business groups.

Panelists:

Ricky Freeman, President, Amazon Kuiper Government Solutions, leading the US and International Government business providing broadband satcom and space network solutions across all domains (sea, air, land, space, cyber) with Project Kuiper’s constellation of 3,000+ low Earth orbit satellites.
Kevin Coggins, Deputy Associate Administrator at NASA, is responsible for the development, acquisition, and management of reliable and cost-effective communications and navigation services to meet NASA and other Government Agency requirements for human and robotic space exploration programs in Earth, Lunar, Mars and Deep Space.
Mike Moreno, Vice President of Strategy at Lunar Outpost, is responsible in building a sustainable human presence in space at Lunar Outpost.
Moderator: Ché Bolden, President and CEO, The Charles F. Bolden Group, a Marine Corps veteran with extensive political and international affairs expertise, Ché Bolden has become a thought leader on global advancement of leadership and the Business of Space. As the President and CEO of The Charles F. Bolden Group, he works on cultivating leadership across the four focus areas of space and aerospace exploration; multi-sum security: science, technology, engineering and math plus the arts and design (STEM+AD) education; and health and human performance.
Organizer: Belinda Matingou, Global Partnerships Leader, Amazon Web Services, and Chair of the Wharton DC Leadership in Innovation Committee.