Whiting-Turner Lecture - Matt Desch, CEO, Iridium Communications, Inc. - April 5, 2016

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Iridium operates the largest satellite constellation in the world, and is on the precipice of replacing it with a new, more powerful set of satellites over the next year, launching on SpaceX rockets. A 35-year veteran of the telecom industry and CEO of Iridium through its corporate transformation over the last 10 years, Matt Desch will be speaking on the lessons to be learned from one of the biggest initial failures in the space industry in the late 1990s, to one of the fastest growing and most exciting "NewSpace" companies. Space is undergoing a resurgence of investment and new entrepreneurial approaches, and Mr. Desch will talk about the exciting state of the industry and where it will be going in the future.